Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-12349789-20160827012021/@comment-12349789-20170119050120

Shade1982 wrote: Dragon Age Awakening also has some interesting warrior archer builds, like the Spirit Warrior in Awakening. And naming all games in a single franchise is not really a valid response, since they will obviously be similar. And on that note, even Elder Scrolls Online has some really valid ranged Dragonknight builds.

But if you want to compare, pretty much every game based on D&D rules (and there's A LOT of them, Baldur's Gate series, Neverwinter Nights, Pillars of Eternity, Divinity, I could go on for a while here) will show you warriors do better ranged damage compared to rangers, simply because of their extra attacks.

As for linking archery to the warrior in Skyrim, that information is rather ambiguous. Bows are created under the smithing tree which is a warrior tree. However, the trainers for archery are thieves or archers. As for your comment about which stone affects archery, that depends on what version you are running. Some people may be running the Unofficial Skyrim Patch, which changed is to the Warrior's Stone. The description of that stone describes it affects ALL combat skills, which archery obviously is. Only in a few very specific situations (like maybe an assassin or something) could it be considered a stealth skill.

As to what sign it's under, it's quite obviously in between. Well i run the OFFICAL besthesda APPROVED version of the game (because i cant run anything else -_-) and seen as this is an OFFICAL wiki, it is affected by the thief stone. GASP! so dose that mean light armour is warrior too because smithing is used? NOPE! its still classed as thief. bethesda put it under the thief stone BECAUSE IT IS A THIEF SKILL!!! you dont go around saying a warrior is not a warrior because he uses potions do you? or that a mage is not a mage because they pick locks? IN SKYRIM! you can mix match your builds. but archery is simply sitting next to the warrior class. alteration is not considred a sneaks by any means is it? ALL IM SAYING! is because its sitting next to the next play style tree, dose not make it part of that stone.... Urgh im so putting this in my letter to bethesda so then i can say that its not a warrior stone skill and put an end to this idiocy.