Apparently it can happen with the one handed skill as well. This worked for me, but I thought I would post about it in case anyone else has the problem. This mentions using the console but also says it can be fixed just by using the skill until it levels again.
Apparently it is one of the many game bugs. They did show up in active effects though.Īfter some searching on Google I found only two references to it and a comprehensive reply here. I couldn't work out what was going on until I looked at my Skills menu and I thought 'Well crap, what's this?' I was also wearing a ring with an archery enchantment and later found gloves of archery, but neither of those changed anything in the skills menu. No wonder my arrows seemed to do nothing and just drop to the ground short of the target, and of course it was alerting enemies to my sneaky presence. It appears to have happened between level ups and as I had no diseases or other negative active effects going to a shrine didn't fix it. I noticed somewhere along the line my Archery skill seemed to be damaged and instead of being at 50+, it was at 20 and in red.
