Best Race and Class for Archery

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I'd like to be an archer, I am new to the game and have done little research. What are the best class and race to be for a dedicated archer/bow man. People suggest one of the elves and being either a Nightblade or Sorceror. Please could you help me decide, thank you.

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[Drake]

Do you mean archer as a stamina build with a bow, or the actual bow/bow build. Becasue that's very different. The bow is mainly a support weapon you use to apply aoes while you use your main melee damage set.
However there are bow/bow builds.

About the race : any stamina race will do, redguard get the most damage, khajiits get the stealth and crits, and wood elves are kind of in the middle (stealth and sustain). You can also pick orc, nord or imperial if you want a tankier char.

On classes : any class can do it, butthe choice will depend on how you'll play your bow.

DK : poison, DK have poison passives and skills that will work with the poison morphs from the bow (you get 3 poison skills out of 6 on the bow, so it's worth it).

Sorcerer : for a point blank aoe archer, the stamina sorcerer hasa lot of buffs and passives that help with physical skills and a very good close range aoe that works well with the bow aoes.

Warden : ranger style, your bear will do the melee hitting while you're far away shooting mobs with your summons and arrows. Stamina wardens also have good stamina utilities, starting with a stamina self heal, which is rare among class skills.

Nightblade : sniper, go invisible and shoot stuff from afar, might be the highest single target damage of all bow builds.

Templar : maybe the weakest, but also the safer, you won't get much damage active skills from your class but you'll have access to a lot of sustain and defencive abilities, so you're gonna be hard to kill.

[Wendersnaven]

I really love my Wood Elf archer. It is very fluffy in addition to meta. Best of both worlds.

I switch to 2hander for PvP/fun, but mostly use archery. With the racial stamina and WW in the ultimate when using bow, the sustain is awesome. The weakness of Werewolves is poison, which the Bosmer racial ability counters. I'm very happy with how she has balanced out after using in-game earnings to switch from Dunmer to Bosmer Nightblade.

Wardens make good archers too, but you can only play soo many characters and I decided to go Ice Magic with the Warden and leave the shooting to the Nightblades.

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Thanks, guys!

[firstnamejasonobrien]

i also use a wood elf, i have mainly health and stamina tanked, i have 2 handed for once you cant use the knock back skill , and as a warden like above mentioned it works quite well.

[amapola76]

Others can and will give you more detailed info, but at the end of the day, I have had some of the most fun in this game playing a Wood Elf warden/archer. If that's what you are looking for, rather than a particular end goal or being a top player, then I highly recommend this combo.

[Commancho]

Wood Elf, NB.