Originally posted by Dulgrim Grudgebearer:

sneaking allows you to approach the target without them seeing you so then you draw the arrow and shoot them for the sneak crit thats what i mean sneaking is for positioning for a crit shot

It doesn't matter where you shoot from, if there's no red exclamation point above the enemy it's a "crit shot". As I said you exit sneak as soon as you draw the bow anyway, so if they don't see you while you're drawing, they wouldn't have seen you approach either.

Originally posted by Dulgrim Grudgebearer:

Sneaking is less of a play style and more of a situational skill it's very strong when combined with a great bow sneaking up on trolls and fuling berzerkers i found is not so hard but all the smaller ones tend to check behind there backs a lot for some reason

I feel like if I were a small being living in Valheim, I'd be checking behind my back a lot lol it feels like it fits in with having to survive in an unpredictable and brutal world where things can seem peaceful and yet have sudden terrible deadly danger lurking close by and minor gods with fickle tempers at large.

in mountains and plains sneak attack with knife is some useless because group monsters ( wolves and fulings ) makes the letal blow nearly impossible to do , only is good with the bow in these biomes , maaaaybe with loxes but their hitboxes are a little weird , im stiking in their furry bu/tt and the jump attack sometimes fails

Originally posted by Latcady:

Originally posted by Dulgrim Grudgebearer:

Sneaking is less of a play style and more of a situational skill it's very strong when combined with a great bow sneaking up on trolls and fuling berzerkers i found is not so hard but all the smaller ones tend to check behind there backs a lot for some reason

I feel like if I were a small being living in Valheim, I'd be checking behind my back a lot lol it feels like it fits in with having to survive in an unpredictable and brutal world where things can seem peaceful and yet have sudden terrible deadly danger lurking close by and minor gods with fickle tempers at large.

yeah i guess if i were a Grayling ide be spinning constantly looking for danger

Sneaking and bows really have nothing to do with each other, you exit sneak as soon as you draw. Sneak attacks are completely unrelated to the sneak damage multiplier, you get that just for hitting an unaware enemy, regardless of if you're sneaking. Many enemies you can sprint up behind and get a stab attack off before the red exclamation mark appears, granting you your 10x damage bonus.

So it's two extremes, you have to be super slow and sneak up right behind them or super fast and sprint then hit before they react.

Originally posted by Danson:

Sneaking and bows really have nothing to do with each other, you exit sneak as soon as you draw. Sneak attacks are completely unrelated to the sneak damage multiplier, you get that just for hitting an unaware enemy, regardless of if you're sneaking. Many enemies you can sprint up behind and get a stab attack off before the red exclamation mark appears, granting you your 10x damage bonus.

So it's two extremes, you have to be super slow and sneak up right behind them or super fast and sprint then hit before they react.

sneaking allows you to approach the target without them seeing you so then you draw the arrow and shoot them for the sneak crit thats what i mean sneaking is for positioning for a crit shot

i agree sneaking is horribly slow and trying to level up while sneaking would take 4 times longer if not more. i would like to see sneaking increase skill leveling by 33-75% just to compensate for that time lost while sneaking..

Sneaking is less of a play style and more of a situational skill it's very strong when combined with a great bow sneaking up on trolls and fuling berzerkers i found is not so hard but all the smaller ones tend to check behind there backs a lot for some reason