The most useful parts of the video.
1:05 Guardian Stones
3:30 Riverwood
3:41 Getting Faendal Very Important
4:40 Faendal is follower
5:46 10-50 Archery Method
15:12 Useful perks for quick leveling archery
16:26 Switch to another save file where Alea is available
16:43 Aela the Huntress method
16:50 10-75 Archery Method
17:37 Sneak attacking the Greybeards
21:15 Bound Bow
24:53 Shadowmere Method
25:46 Normal Horse Method (Not as useful
Sorry, the timestamps are not in a pinned comment. YouTube has to verify that it's me.
I'm not as proficient with archery but I did show as many useful ideas as I know and have seen. I tried to cut out as much useless information as possible while still leaving in the useful stuff.
For those not wanting to watch the video here are the most useful things. Faendal in Riverwood can level your archery to 50, you just need to pay for it but you can take all your coins back from his inventory. Aela the Huntress to level you to 75 and has the same method but you can't recruit her until the Companions questline is complete. I do plan on making a guide to that later. The master archery trainers are Niruin in the Thieves Guild, this method cannot be done with her and Sorine Jurard, she is part of the Dawnguard and the method cannot be done with her. The final trainer is Angi and she is located at Angis' Camp south of Falkreath. She can give you six free levels that can be applied to archery at any time, but I would recommend it at level 94. She gives you five free increases by completing her mission and another free one by reading the skill book in her shack called "The Gold Ribbon of Merit".
Archery increases by how much damage you do. This means damage dealt and not potential damage. If your bow does 20 damage and you kill a chicken with 5 health. You don't get the XP for the damage dealt since it all wasn't dealt. You instead get the XP for the damage you did, being 5. That's why I would recommend using the highest difficulty and just sneaking and shooting an enemy to do extra damage. Such as a greybeard, Shadowmere, a giant and mammoth that cannot reach you. In the early game, you will have limited arrows, you can either craft some or dupe some materials to make them. Or you can level your conjuration to 40 and buy Bound Bow from Phinis Gestor in Winterhold. It gives you 100 arrows and a temporary Daedric bow. I already have a duping video on my channel if you would like to see a demonstration. My next video will be a quick leveling guide to Conjuration, which will be much faster to do and explain. I will also soon show how to get an additional XP bonus to maximize XP potential for all future skills.
I will have timestamps as a pinned comment. Feel free to tell me how to improve this or any improvement in general, all is greatly appreciated. I hope this video can give you some sort of usefulness and sorry for the appreciation rant at the end.
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