How do I kill ghosts and skeletons with swords and arrows?

twev

At the very least - They're already dead....

It makes no sense to me.

FinneganFroth

Thoughts and prayers.

thorwyn

Where did the skeleton keep this leggings of eternal uberness, the three bananas and the 150 gold before it died?

phaneub17_ESO

I like that I can one-shot kill punch a monkey, if I ever tried that in real life it would not only not die right away but probably rip my face off.

jainiadral

You're shredding them in the ectoplasm. Sheesh, don't they teach kids anything in school these days?

Druid40

The same way they kill you, Vestige.

redgreensunset

thorwyn wrote: »

Where did the Skelton keep this leggings of eternal uberness, the three bananas and the 150 gold before it died?

Hollow bones.

red_emu

Ghosts might not be made of air as we imagine. They might be translucent and ethereal but how do you know they aren't solid on the inside?

Skeletons. Well.... Once you break the skeleton, it is broken and can't repair itself. There was a really good lorebook in Morrowind about it. Can't remember it's name but it stuck in my head from all those years ago. Reading about the preparation of a skeleton in a dark Dwemer ruin (that must have been the point when I truly fell in love with ES lore)

Ildun

Low level undead is just like low level robot, there are just energy and command flowing through their vessel, whether it is physical form or ethereal form. You found a way to break the right part, the flow severe and whole body cannot function.

High level undead is like Terminator, their vessel can self regenerate and reconnect flow, or they can relocate, so harder to permanently "kill" them.

notyuu

short answer: you kill them very carefully

long answer: you pshyically disrupt their body which inturn would seperate the smaller part from their overall animus rendering it little more than moot bone/ectopalasm, repeating this process over and over as you reduce them in size to the point where they can no longer contain their own animus and thus are rendered "dead"
at least that's the leading theory

as for arrows, just note that arrows in elder scrolls are closer to nerf darts compared to what they can actually do irl

JamuThatsWho

It's a video game. /shrug

AbysmalGhul

You don't! You threaten a life of paying bills and working long hours again. That'll shut 'em down

wishlist14

According to Darien, they were not skellies when you killed them. You just don't know that yet.

Wing

blunt arrows, silver, magic, cold iron, blessed, etc.

Nemesis7884

Yeah, where is my god damn realism in the game about dragons and talking catpeople

The answer is simple, you attack with magic weapons that disrupt the bindings that keep these spirits in our world

Comixfan

twev wrote: »

At the very least - They're already dead....

It makes no sense to me.

How does my werewolf eat ghosts?

(Not only ghosts, but how does my werewolf eat dwarven constructs?!)

VaranisArano

In Oblivion, you needed an enchanted or silver weapon to deal with ghosts. Skyrim didnt have that restriction.

Plus, the vast majority of weapons we get have some sort of enchantment on them, such that it doesnt make much sense to treat weapons without enchantments as a separate category.

TheShadowScout

Have you ever considered the possibility that Molag Bal messed with your mind, and made you percieve inocent civilians as "skeletons" and "ghosts"? And that all this time you might have been mass mursering the people of tamriel instead?

On a more serious note... it used to be in prior TES games you could not kill ghosts with normal weapons, and needed to carry a inferior silver sword/arrows to do that in addition to your steel weapons, at least until you got those "mystic metal" weapons that could be effective against both... sadly... the powers that be thought this too involved for an MMORPG I guess?

Of course... pretty much all the weapons you fight with are rune-enchanted anyhow, so there is that...

Comixfan wrote: »

twev wrote: »

At the very least - They're already dead....

It makes no sense to me.

How does my werewolf eat ghosts?

(Not only ghosts, but how does my werewolf eat dwarven constructs?!)

Lazy coding.
The "devour" function should not work on those...

bearbelly

Stick 'em with the pointy end.

Bigevilpeter

How do you summon fire with a wooden staff? how do you fire arrows one time to the sky and keeps raining arrows for 10 seconds? how does a piece of armor give you poison attack?

the answer is that its a game

mikemacon

twev wrote: »

At the very least - They're already dead....

It makes no sense to me.

You’re playing a game where you can fire a bow once hand have it drop hundreds of arrows into an area doing damage every .5 seconds, where you can summon a cloud of blades to swirl around you, where you can toss...something...up in the air, have it explode, and drop caltrops the relative size of your thigh over a large area, and a host of other things, and killing skeletons which are moving around (with no musculature to be able to do so, BTW) is what you fixate on.

::turns and stares into camera::

IsharaMeradin

In direct answer to the topic question...

Shoot it in the knee.
See adventurer like you.
Swap to your sword bar
And quickly sever its head.

srfrogg23

twev wrote: »

At the very least - They're already dead....

It makes no sense to me.

Mostly you just have to left-click on them or press the corresponding number buttons to use spells and skills. Just make sure you're aiming at them. The targeting reticle turns red when you're going to connect with an attack.

Ri_Khan

You use enchanted weapons and magic, yes?

DocFrost72

Comixfan wrote: »

twev wrote: »

At the very least - They're already dead....

It makes no sense to me.

How does my werewolf eat ghosts?

(Not only ghosts, but how does my werewolf eat dwarven constructs?!)

I can actually answer this. Werewolf teeth and claws are enchanted weaponry. They cannot dull and can carve through anything with enough force and time, even things regular blades cannot cut.

Just, you know, chew very carefully.

. I had the opportunity to look at the monster's steaming body out in the snow before it was carried away to be burned. The teeth, clotted with the flesh of the beggars, were horrifying, but the claws shocked me even more. I have since seen live lycanthropes battle golems, atronachs, and other beings not harmed by mundane weapons, and concluded that they act as naturally enchanted weapons.

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:On_Lycanthropy

Reverb

Where was that mudcrab hiding a battle axe?

Pops_ND_Irish

Is this really serious?

Amanuensis

You suspend your disbelief. Kind of like how you are a loser in real life yet capable of brave heroic deeds whilst in Tamriel.

Coggage

twev wrote: »

At the very least - They're already dead....

It makes no sense to me.

1) Suspension of disbelief
2) It's just a computer game so I find it very hard to care.

Tasear

thorwyn wrote: »

Where did the Skelton keep this leggings of eternal uberness, the three bananas and the 150 gold before it died?

The aren't skeletons but gifts from divines to support us.

twev

Reverb wrote: »

Where was that mudcrab hiding a battle axe?

I always assumed it was why they were so mean.
It turns out it was just because of something they ate....

On another note, how do I get any kind of 'hide' crafting material from a crab, and how do I get the same amount of hide from a crab that I get from a mammoth?