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Archery increases player's efficiency when using bows and crossbows(dawnguard). Each skill point grants a +0.5% bonus to the bows and crossbows damage. The Archery tree has a total of 9 perks and it requires 16 perk points to complete. An archer is trained in the use of bows and arrows. The greater the skill, the more deadly the shot.

Archery Skill in Skyrim

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Skyrim Archery Skill Perks

Perk Points in Skyrim

Players gain 1 perk point every time they level up their character. A player will need 251 perk points to get every perk to the maximum level which is achieved at level 252.

Before spending perk points to get the bonuses from the perk, the player must first unlock the perk. Perks can be unlocked on their respective skill trees by having enough levels in the skill as well as the prerequisite perks leading to the perk. All skills have their base perks unlocked with perks further into the tree being unlocked as points are invested and levels gained.

Perks can have multiple levels to them giving increasing bonuses with more perk points invested in them. Different skill trees will need different number of perk points to fully unlock all the perks in each tree. Players may want to check and consider the number of perk points they need for their builds and at what level they will need to be to unlock everything they want to have.

Reclaiming Perk Points in Skyrim

There are 2 ways that players can reclaim the spent perk points in Skyrim that are quite difficult to get to so players do still want to be careful with their perk points. At level 100 players can set the skill to be Legendary. This will refund all perks invested into that tree as well as set the skill back to level 15. This will also allows players to increase the skill experience once again and gain new levels and more perk points.

Alternatively players who have completed the Dragonborn main questline will be able to reclaim points repeatedly by using the Black Book: Waking Dreams. This will require them to have a dragon's soul from hunting a dragon.

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Name	Weapon Type	Weight	Damage	Effects
Ancient Nord Bow	Bows	12	8	Can be found on Draugr and Skeletons in ancient Nordic Tombs
Angi's Bow	Bows	7	7	Can be obtained from the Quest Composure, Speed and Precision
Auriel's Bow	Bows	11	13	20 points of sun damage. Undead targets take triple damage Can block out the sun until the next morning by firing the Bloodcursed Elven Arrows at the sun
Bow of the Hunt	Bows	7	10	Deals 20 extra damage to Animals
Daedric Bow	Bows	18	19	Can be made with the Daedric Smithing perk and Smithing level 90
Dragonbone Bow	Bows	20	20	Can be made with the Dragon Armor perk and Smithing level 100
Drainspell Bow	Bows	6	14	Absorb Magicka 15 points.
Dravin's Bow	Bows	7	7	Can be obtained during the quest Bow to the Master
Dwarven Bow	Bows	10	12	Can be made with the Dwarven Smithing perk and Smithing level 30
Dwarven Black Bow of Fate	Bows	10	13	50% chance for each attribute to absorb 25 pts. of Health, Stamina, and/or Magicka.
Ebony Bow	Bows	16	17	Can be made with the Ebony Smithing perk and Smithing level 80
Elven Bow	Bows	12	13	Can be made with the Elven Smithing perk and Smithing level 30
Falmer Bow	Bows	15	12	Can be found on most Falmer.
Falmer Supple Bow	Bows	20	15	Can be found on boss type Falmer like Falmer Shadowmasters and Falmer Gloomlurkers
Firiniel's End	Bows	12	13	Target takes 20 points of frost damage to Magicka Health and Stamina.
Forsworn Bow	Bows	11	12	Can be found on most types of Forsworn.
Froki's Bow	Bows	5	5	Does 10 points of Stamina damage.
Gauldur Blackbow	Bows	12-18	8-14	Absorbs 10-30 points of Magicka damage.
Glass Bow	Bows	14	15	Can be made with the Glass Smithing perk and Smithing level 70
Glass Bow of the Stag Prince	Bows	14	16	Wielder receives an increasingly powerful blessing for every 20 animals killed by the bow.. The blessing grants an additional 5 points of Health and Stamina at start and increases by 5 for each 20 animals kills. Maxes out at 25
Hunting Bow	Bows	7	7	Can be found throughout Skyrim starting level 1.
Imperial Bow	Bows	8	9	Can be found on Imperial Soldiers Can be found in locations all over Skyrim
Karliah's Bow	Bows	9	25	Can only be obtained through console commands
Long Bow	Bows	5	6	Can be found in bandit camps Commonly sold by merchants and blacksmiths
Nord Hero Bow	Bows	7	11	Can only be crafted at the Skyforge after completing the Companions questline
Nordic Bow	Bows	11	13	Can be made with the Advanced Armors perk and a Smithing level of 50
Orcish Bow	Bows	9	10	Can be made with the Orcish Smithing perk and Smithing level 50
Stalhrim Bow	Bows	15	17	The Frost Damage enchantment is 25% stronger on this weapon.
Supple Ancient Nord Bow	Bows	18	14	Can be found Draugrs and Skeletons in ancient Nordic Tombs
Nightingale Bow	Bows	9-18	12-19	Nightingale Storm: Freezes the target for 10-30 points and shocks the target for 5-15 points.
Zephyr	Bows	10	14	Fires 30% faster than a standard bow.
Crossbow	Crossbows	14	19	All Crossbows have a 50% chance to Stagger targets
Dwarven Crossbow	Crossbows	20	22	All Crossbows have a 50% chance to Stagger targets
Enhanced Crossbow	Crossbows	15	19	All Crossbows have a 50% chance to Stagger targets
Enhanced Dwarven Crossbow	Crossbows	21	22	All Crossbows have a 50% chance to Stagger targets