Talk:Deflect Arrows

Perk no work?
I have found that this perk does not actually do what it says it does. My character takes slightly reduced damage from arrows, perhaps, but still takes damage when arrows hit the shield. I was having an extended battle with a bandit on the top of a tower at Fort Greenwall, he was kindof "stuck" between the chair he was previously sitting on and the parapets/top wall of the tower/whateverit'scalled. Since he was seemingly stuck, he would only use a ranged weapon: his Orcish bow and Orcish arrows. I figured "Hey this would be a good and easy way to get my Block skill increased", so I stood at the top of the stairs of the tower and blocked nearly every shot he fired at me. My Block skill increased, causing me to level up, so I chose this so-called "Deflect Arrows" perk. I continued letting him shoot arrows at me, but, I noticed that I WAS STILL TAKING DAMAGE, so I had to have the Fast Healing spell in my character's other hand. And yes, as I have already said most of the arrows did hit my shield (a tempered Dwarven one, it was Flawless quality at the time), they made that arrow-hitting-shield sound and not the arrow-piercing-flesh sound, and they caused my character to recoil from the hits and the shield moving a bit. Nebenthe (talk) 05:25, January 10, 2015 (UTC)