bows, arrows, silver, enchanted

I need silver to damage certain enemies.
Will silver arrows work with any bow, or does the bow need to be silver as
well ?
(incidentally, does any other material work like silver ?)

On a more general point I presume you can mismatch bow and arrow materials,
but is there a penalty in terms of performance ?
Also what is the total damage form certain bow, arrow, enchantment mixes ?
Do you get the bow AND arrow damage, or is it whichever is higher ( or lower
!).
Similarly do enchanted bows add the magic damage to that of the arrow/bow or
replace it ?

The manual says that the longer you pull the bow back the more damage it
does.
But how long is that ? There is obviously a cut off point, but where ?

If there is any relevant info on bows that I havent asked above I would
welcome it.



Phypps

phypps wrote:
> I need silver to damage certain enemies.
> Will silver arrows work with any bow, or does the bow need to be silver as
> well ?
> (incidentally, does any other material work like silver ?)

Silver arrows don't need a silver bow. Some of the higher level
materials work also, but I couldn't tell you which. Because ANY arrow
fired from an enchanted bow will work and I havn't upgraded to anything
BUT an enchanted bow since silver.


> On a more general point I presume you can mismatch bow and arrow materials,
> but is there a penalty in terms of performance ?
> Also what is the total damage form certain bow, arrow, enchantment mixes ?
> Do you get the bow AND arrow damage, or is it whichever is higher ( or lower
> !).
> Similarly do enchanted bows add the magic damage to that of the arrow/bow or
> replace it ?
>

No penalty. A bow will fire one arrow just like another. All
enchantment damage is EXTRA on top of what hte weapon would already do.
I believe arrow + bow + echantment is the way it works. I'm not a
number cruncher however. I just use the best bow I can and best arrows
I can currently get/afford.

> The manual says that the longer you pull the bow back the more damage it
> does.
> But how long is that ? There is obviously a cut off point, but where ?

It doesn't really work that way. To get full flight you need to pull
the bow ALL the way. This also gives the arrow its highest velocity
and therefore does more damage. However HOLDING the bow at max pull
won't increase its damage. So the cutoff is whenever your bow reaches
full pull. After that, no reason to hold it longer.