How to make Poisoned Arrows?

[JPSGT40]

I've collected several poisons in my first travels into this game.
How do I apply any of these poisons to my arrows?

Neither the Alchemy workbench nor the Enchanting table seems to give me an option to put poison on my arrows. If I equip my bow and arrows, then drink the poison potion it just poisons me, not the arrows.

Am I doing something wrong? Can this even be done? If I can't make poison arrows can I apply poison to my blade?

[Maloy20]

You click the poision as if you were going to drink it and it will let you pour it on whatever weapon you have equipped.

It only works for one strike then you reapply

[Wolven One]

I don't know about poison arrows, but if you have a sword or axe equipped you can apply the poison to the weapon.

[Supermarine]

Step 1: Equip and activate a bow and arrows
Step 2: Open menu
Step 3: Look for the poison you want to apply to the next arrow shot from equipped bow
Step 4: Press E to use poison
Step 5: A window appears, asking you if you want to apply to weapon. Select Yes (Enter)
Step 6: Shoot. Your next target hit will be affected by the potion

Note: if you miss the shot, you'll have wasted the poison. It is one-shot only. This means it is best used for sniping and finishing or for weakening a strong opponent prior to the real fight.

[VisciousFishes]

I was just about to comment about hotkeying your poison but the above user did so yeah, what they said. ^^^^^^^^

[Mr. Shaggnificent]

I was looking at an arrow crafting mod and it had a link to one that makes arrows with 'effects'. i didn't look, but it might have poisoned or even explosive arrows.

[VisciousFishes]

SkyRe will also allow you to modifiy the arrows but it is a huge mod.

[Trigger]

There is NO such a thing as poisoned Arrows in this game, when you apply poison it will ask if you want to apply the poison to your BOW not your arrows

[Trigger]

There is an awesome mod on Steam workshop and the Nexus called ''Dragon Heartscales'' which has a alchemy reciepe for a poison that when my alchemy is at only 15, i can make a poison potion that is 740 points of poison health damage. It's NOT cheating as Dragon heartscales are already in the game, through a quest somewhere inside the College of Winterhold

[Optiox]

Dawngaurd dlc has crossbows with elemental bolts. fire, ice, lightning. And you do not need to apply via the menu.

[VisciousFishes]

Originally posted by Trigger:

There is NO such a thing as poisoned Arrows in this game, when you apply poison it will ask if you want to apply the poison to your BOW not your arrows

You sir have said the most silly thing of this thread. Of course the poison is put on the arrow it's just the game mechanics with the scripting force the dev's to attribute the buff to the bow because it's easier in code then separating the arrows out to poison one arrow. It's a game mechanic failure that was a compromise between poisoning a whole bushel of arrows or having non poison attributes to attack an enemy. Any hoo the most important part is the pointy bit of the arrow delivers the poison to the intended victim. Therefore your point, while accurate, is actually wrong because the delivery of the poison (going by the logic you are using) means that I have to hit the target with my bow to be effectual. However, it's the point but of an arrow that does the damage.

[Dave]

btw is there more than one kind of crossbow?

[Aryel_Emrys]

Perhaps you would like to install this beautiful mod. The player house is very well done for a archer style build and has a craftstation to poison all your arrows and several special poison recipes

Elisdriel - Bosmer inspired tree house by Elianora[www.nexusmods.com]


If the player home is not your interest, consider installing the mod Eli’s Poison Arrow Crafting[geekdominthenorth.net] by the same author

[pedantic_roc]

Originally posted by Trigger:

There is an awesome mod on Steam workshop and the Nexus called ''Dragon Heartscales'' which has a alchemy reciepe for a poison that when my alchemy is at only 15, i can make a poison potion that is 740 points of poison health damage. It's NOT cheating as Dragon heartscales are already in the game, through a quest somewhere inside the College of Winterhold

Not cheating huh - lol. You're meant to have 90 Alteration? in order to even harvest the Unique Scales, plus you need that special dagger (forgot its name - something fang) to collect them. Do what you like with your own game but, please, don't use cranky justifications for blatantly using well overpowered poisons to overcome your foes. It's too funny :D