Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-60.53.124.171-20130911134007/@comment-36130067-20190406001342

Archery, smithing, enchanting, and alchemy are among my strong skills. With a glass bow improved to legendary and enchanted, and with strong poisons available for even more damage if needed, it doesn't make much difference what arrow you use. So I give daedric arrows to my followers (for whom one or two go a long way) and routinely use iron arrows myself.

As weightless bearers of monetary value, arrows are as good as gold. I've heard that attempting to keep more than 9999 arrows of any one type crashes the program. (Why?  It's a ridiculously inefficient and stupid choice if it's storing numbers in ascii.)   But even with that limit, given time and patience a careful trader can accumulate them essentially for free and to the point where you're carrying a fortune on your person. Then, meet a trader someday with something you want when you have no loot to sell him but plenty of arrows in your inventory? No problem! This is the only reason I don't use even weaker arrows such as falmer. You can't buy them, but you can sell them. So let them build up in your inventory just for that contingency.