Do you scoot into a body of water? It's odd how both Giants and Mammoths refuse to enter water.
I just run past them, and turn around. Wuld works real good for this. I know about safe-spotting, using Water, or High Ground so they can't reach you, but I'd rather use Evasion. It's a lot more fun, and exiting that way, and good training for real battles, where there's not always a safe-spot.
High ground means you have a clear shot on more real estate, which is a vast advantage. It's also defensive, because it's generally easier to shoot them all before they can climb up to you. I don't plan on always having high ground advantage, though, there's too many battles on a flat, and level. Then, there's assaults on fortifications where you have to climb the whole way, while getting attacked, and possibly shot at the whole time. You're just not going to have that advantage all the way through Skuldafn, for instance.
Not all of them have a handy terrain feature either. All the camps do, but there's free range groups that randomly walk across the Plains of Whiterun Hold. Quite often, they're out in the middle of nowhere, you don't Have to kill them, but I hate to pass up the opportunity.
Well, that's the other way to go, isn't it. Instead of actually playing an Archer, using mobility, and evasion to stay alive, you can Smith up to Toothpick of Giant Slaying, and capped out armor. My point is, that's not an archer, it's a blacksmith with a bow.
Sorry, let me put it more politely. The primary advantage of any Ranger Class is Range. You can hit them when they can't hit you, meleers, and even Destruction Mages can't reach as far. To take advantage of this, you need to be able to keep that distance, which is why mobility is so important for Archers. Now, there's no Skill Tree for Athletics, so in lieu of a Character Skill, it really helps to build up your Player Skills. Those you can bring to any fight, any enemy, any where. The same could be said for Armor, and smithed up weapons, but that means starting at the forge, maybe Faendal training, and then getting to the actual gameplay.
I also use Fury, or kite Spriggans so they come to me. There's about 3 Spriggans right by Falkreath, and you can literally sweep the entire hold of game, if you can survive the fight. Deer, and Elk aren't too tough, but if you have 15 of them, +wolves, bears, and maybe the occasional saber cat, it can get pretty rowdy with a quickness. Then, you've got the Spriggans to worry about. Great way to get a pile of hides quick, though, and a lot of weapon/armor experience. You can also use this trick to lay waste to Falkreath/Riverwood, but unfortunately, it doesn't work on Hircine's avatar.My current Nord Berserker was having trouble Hunting, because he only uses a huge two-handed axe (have you tried Hunting Deer in that way? It isn't rewarding.). So I developed a unique Hunting technique just for him:- Ice Form shout, then whack them with a Big Stick
That's another way
i kill giants with ease at level 9 an imperial bow 12 damage and iron arrows 10 damage so is that an unfiar advantage?
i dont run though i stand there and just fire at it and use unrelenting force although my warrior still can only say fus although ive been to high hrothgar and learnt the full thing so i guess i have to get stronger and use it tons of times for it to become stronger or absorb more dragon souls or something and i only move back when it gets too close and do a bit of sprinting and jump around a terrain it cant reach so as it comes around i can load an arrow or 2 into it plus im pretty good at using bows even though im a warrior with aiming because whats happened three times now is ive killed an elk or deer by shooting it in the butt after shooting it before and i didnt even aim for that i aimed for the back of the head.
