oon3laststando: Never mind... to anyone who might have been having the same problem... I accidentally discovered that you have to manually activate "eagle eye" while holding a bow by clicking/holding the right mouse button... It does not show this in the controls menu or tell you anywhere else that I could find... that's why I thought it was broken because I thought it would just zoom automatically when drawing the bow... this lead to me experimenting with the right mouse button for other weapons and just fyi, I finally discovered why I could never parry anything... to parry you have to do a brief click (right mouse button) and not try to time clicking and holding block (right mouse button)... you will notice a different animation when you just briefly tap the right mouse button for parry
Thanks for the tips. How do you like parrying vs blocking (assuming both are imprived via their skill trees)? The shield talents are very nice.