If you've jumped into Oblivion Remastered from Skyrim, then you probably went with ol' reliable: the stealth archer. Hiding in the shadows and picking off high-level targets with the loose of a single arrow is an Elder Scrolls staple... right? Well, not exactly.
As players are quickly finding out, especially on higher difficulties, Skyrim's most popular build isn't nearly as viable in Oblivion.
"Even if you get the 3x damage it's basically just a flea bite. With max archery and the best gear it comes down to just luring things out one at a time and onloading [sic] a dozen arrows into each enemy in an endless slog," u/DueOwl912 posted to the game's subreddit. "The only thing that helps a little is if you max alchemy and use a poison on every shot but even then it's still a slow process".
Archery has always been really bad in Oblivion — u/Any_Bill_323.
They are playing on Master difficulty, to be fair, and the remaster's balancing is notoriously uneven, replacing the original game's more fluid slider with arbitrary options that don't quite match up. But even on Adept, people are struggling to make stealth archer work. Just take...
