The classless system is a good one. Now I can really go for my sneaky fighter assassin. I sneaks in heavy armor, your argument is invalid.
I am disappointed they didn't put mounted combat in. It would make horses a little more useful, seeing as how they arn't much faster then running(although fast enough to outrun a Sabrecat) And for those who lost your horse, mine won't leave. He followed me all the way out to an ice floe. (fast travel)
What REALLY annoys me is that Dragons are easier to kill then Trolls
Anvildude wrote:Haven't done that yet, but planning on making a Heavy Sorcerer type soon. Have you taken the 'half Magicka cost' perks for Conjuration yet?
Only for Novice and Apprentice, since I need lvl 50 for Adept and I can't seem to level fast enough, nor afford training.
Spell cost reduction enchants must be pretty rare, because my enchanting is almost level 60 and i'm half way to level 18, and haven't seen anything with that enchantment, i'm stuck with Fortify Magicka and Magicka Regen for now.
Grey Templar wrote:
What REALLY annoys me is that Dragons are easier to kill then Trolls
Wait until you get to Frost Dragons or bigger. I currently two-shot trolls. Higher level dragons can actually give me a run for my money, even in my fully enchanted daedric set.
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Anvildude wrote:Haven't done that yet, but planning on making a Heavy Sorcerer type soon. Have you taken the 'half Magicka cost' perks for Conjuration yet?
Only for Novice and Apprentice, since I need lvl 50 for Adept and I can't seem to level fast enough, nor afford training.
Spell cost reduction enchants must be pretty rare, because my enchanting is almost level 60 and i'm half way to level 18, and haven't seen anything with that enchantment, i'm stuck with Fortify Magicka and Magicka Regen for now.
Start hunting necromancers, etc. Their robes will often carry a combination magicka regen/spell cost reduction enchantment.
If you want to get your conjuration up high, this isn't quite proper gameplay, but it's handy. Find someone, start a fight with them, and get them stuck on a rock or something. Now summon bound weapons, sheath them again, then summon them. Rinse and repeat.
Video games do everything in ones or threes (three hits to take out Bower's kids in the Mario games, Three keys to unlock doors. Two Frost Trolls to flank One Hagraven [makes three] )
Anvildude wrote:Haven't done that yet, but planning on making a Heavy Sorcerer type soon. Have you taken the 'half Magicka cost' perks for Conjuration yet?
Only for Novice and Apprentice, since I need lvl 50 for Adept and I can't seem to level fast enough, nor afford training.
Spell cost reduction enchants must be pretty rare, because my enchanting is almost level 60 and i'm half way to level 18, and haven't seen anything with that enchantment, i'm stuck with Fortify Magicka and Magicka Regen for now.
That's kinda bizzarre. I've been finding robes and amulets and rings and such all over the place. I got Fortify Destruction almost right away, and keep finding (and selling) Fortify Conjuration and such.
Okay, now i did it! Not only does the DB have a contract on me, but now I messed up some elf clans plans. The are to kill me on sight. LOL I was the one doing the killing though.
Had something funny happen. Went back into the dungeon where you learn your first shout to get the more weapons to sell. Went out the back way and -BAM- A dragon attacks me. Kill it and it crashed in to the ground making a nice impact crater. Kinda cool. Fast traveled back to town, sold my stuff and -BAM- that fast, another dragon attacks me. Killed it as everyone went about there business. Matter a fact, had to dance around someone carrying wood.
"Oops. My bad. You are rather busy. I'll take the dragon elsewhere to fight it to the death. Many pardons."
brotherskeeper74 wrote:Okay, now i did it! Not only does the DB have a contract on me, but now I messed up some elf clans plans. The are to kill me on sight. LOL I was the one doing the killing though.
Had something funny happen. Went back into the dungeon where you learn your first shout to get the more weapons to sell. Went out the back way and -BAM- A dragon attacks me. Kill it and it crashed in to the ground making a nice impact crater. Kinda cool. Fast traveled back to town, sold my stuff and -BAM- that fast, another dragon attacks me. Killed it as everyone went about there business. Matter a fact, had to dance around someone carrying wood.
"Oops. My bad. You are rather busy. I'll take the dragon elsewhere to fight it to the death. Many pardons."
It gets better. The further you go in the main quest, the more dragons spawn. I had three dragons assaulting a town and the fruit vendor would NOT leave her stall. Streams of fire, frost, blasts of lightning, crashing dragons... but GODDAMMIT, I'M GOING TO SELL THESE FETHING APPLES.
I wish they'd scripted deaths into people's dialogues. Yesterday a dragon attacked Riverwood and ol' Alvor died (bless him, I remember when he was teaching me how to make stuff I then sold back to him *sniff*) trying to bash its face in, but his wife is either none the wiser, despite his body being in the middle of the place, or gone so mad that she imagines he is still around.
Necros wrote:He's an interesting fella. You can get jester cloths like his a little later if you keep doing the DB quests. I have a full suit, I wish I could have a little mannequin standee thing in my house to hold suits of armor, or force Lydia to wear it.
The house you buy in Riften has two in the basement.
Nerivant wrote:Streams of fire, frost, blasts of lightning, crashing dragons... but GODDAMMIT, I'M GOING TO SELL THESE FETHING APPLES.
Hey, with the economy being the way it is, you gotta sell, sell, sell! Who cares if there are attacking dragons! People get hungry running for their lives.
Nerivant wrote:Streams of fire, frost, blasts of lightning, crashing dragons... but GODDAMMIT, I'M GOING TO SELL THESE FETHING APPLES.
Hey, with the economy being the way it is, you gotta sell, sell, sell! Who cares if there are attacking dragons! People get hungry running for their lives.
The economy started tanking when I flooded the market with 10 gold potions of Cure All Diseases. Seriously, the repercussions of that are immense.
(Notch is the nickname for the owner/creator of Mojang, and Minecraft, their game.)
2) Full Daedric Armor and dual Daedric hand axes. My god, this was a bitch. The amount of hauling that was required to get the Ebony and the hearts was astounding. After 3 hours of searching, questing, and Wikiing, I crafted my massive set of god armor. It's amazing, to say the least.
3) Ice Mages suck balls. I have about 300 Stamina and 250 health, with a 69 Heavy Armor and 90 One Handed Weapon skills. Now, what happens when I see an Ice Mage? He removes my Stamina, making it nigh on impossible for me to run to him without the other god damned Ice Mages forcing me to stagger, basically killing me and shafting my one way of doing things: Tanking. When I get close to them, they die like it's their job, don't get me wrong. But until then, they just spam the hell out of ice spells, and it makes me Rage.
4) Sam and the Drinking contest. You challenge a man named Sam to a drinking contest in
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Markarth
and the next thing you know, you've woken up in a temple, and everyone's pissed at you. You need to piece together what happened last night, and get back the staff you won in the contest.
This is easily my favorite quest of any Elder Scrolls game. It's really tongue in cheek, and the things you did while you were piss drunk are hilarious. Try it. It's got a great reward as well.
5) Daedric Quests. Not all of these start, or even end, at the shrines of the god. Some, like the one I'll describe in the spoiler, start really weirdly.
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You get told to get this man a dog. So you go to the dog, and it talks to you. It's funny as hell, and really good to break the mood of the usually depressing game.
6) This game can be scary at points. Like, really really fething scary.
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See: THe Night Mother. She's fething scary as gak when you first meet her.
Hmmm, rememeber I said that Alvor had died fighting a dragon? Well, a lot of in-game days later (since he died days ago real time, and i've been playing for ages since then), and 3 hired thugs in full steel try to cut me down (with half of Dawnstar's citizens doing the same thanks to a badly placed shout).
One of them had a contract from Alvor calling me a thief and telling them it wasn't necessary to kill me, but it didn't matter if they did.
Either it took them AGES to find me, or Alvor's ghost is pretty pissed off with me.
Chowderhead wrote:So, I've played for 50 hours. What have I found?
1)
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The Notched Pickaxe! Best easter egg ever!
(Notch is the nickname for the owner/creator of Mojang, and Minecraft, their game.)
2) Full Daedric Armor and dual Daedric hand axes. My god, this was a bitch. The amount of hauling that was required to get the Ebony and the hearts was astounding. After 3 hours of searching, questing, and Wikiing, I crafted my massive set of god armor. It's amazing, to say the least.
3) Ice Mages suck balls. I have about 300 Stamina and 250 health, with a 69 Heavy Armor and 90 One Handed Weapon skills. Now, what happens when I see an Ice Mage? He removes my Stamina, making it nigh on impossible for me to run to him without the other god damned Ice Mages forcing me to stagger, basically killing me and shafting my one way of doing things: Tanking. When I get close to them, they die like it's their job, don't get me wrong. But until then, they just spam the hell out of ice spells, and it makes me Rage.
4) Sam and the Drinking contest. You challenge a man named Sam to a drinking contest in
Spoiler:
Markarth
and the next thing you know, you've woken up in a temple, and everyone's pissed at you. You need to piece together what happened last night, and get back the staff you won in the contest.
This is easily my favorite quest of any Elder Scrolls game. It's really tongue in cheek, and the things you did while you were piss drunk are hilarious. Try it. It's got a great reward as well.
5) Daedric Quests. Not all of these start, or even end, at the shrines of the god. Some, like the one I'll describe in the spoiler, start really weirdly.
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You get told to get this man a dog. So you go to the dog, and it talks to you. It's funny as hell, and really good to break the mood of the usually depressing game.
6) This game can be scary at points. Like, really really fething scary.
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See: THe Night Mother. She's fething scary as gak when you first meet her.
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Erm, you didn't do the dog quest to right way then did you? Cause Clavicus the Vile is a dick which send you off to kill a madman who was forced to kill his own werewolf daughter with an axe Clavicus game him as a "cure" to lycanthropy. You finish the quest by re-uniting barnabas with said deadric prince. The dog was his dog, and in it was half of the gods power.
Chowderhead wrote:4) Sam and the Drinking contest. You challenge a man named Sam to a drinking contest in
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Markarth
and the next thing you know, you've woken up in a temple, and everyone's pissed at you. You need to piece together what happened last night, and get back the staff you won in the contest.
That's not a spoiler. And if you want a really good chuckle, I met him in Whiterun and woke up in Markarth. THAT must've been a hell of a night
Right, i'm in the Labyrinthian and i'm in a room with loads of soul gem traps, and I can't get past the fireball one at the end. Two hits and i'm dead, and the Steadast ward + 1/3 of my health is obliterated on the first hit.
Managed to get close enough to spawn a Fire Atronach right in front of the pedastals the gems were on. Naturally it resisted the fire damage, but the blast blew the gems off.
Slarg232 wrote:Unarmed is bad; you can't enchant or poison it, though it does do ridiculous damage right off the bat.
Gloves of the Pugilist, its light armor that gives you +10 damage for unarmed strikes
Going Khajiit gives you a standard +15, and then with Iron Fist (Heavy Armor) you get another +26 (at least, biggest gloves I've found at lvl 14), for a total of 41 Damage per strike.
Nice? Nice.
But there is no upgrade tree, there are no Power Attacks, No Upgrades, and you can't enchant or poison gloves.
So has anyone else noticed that magic is a very potent way of killing things ? My Argonian mage can take down Trolls like they were a bandit outlaw, compared to my first character at the same level found it near imposible to do !
Now have sneak 100 and can finally take off the jester hat. It was annoying how good it was and how dumb it looked. Btw if you let cicero live he becomes a follower/companion style dude.
Having sneak 100 is kinda easy mode btw. I can stealth roll around at nearly running speed and one hit a giant, from the front. I also havent fought a dwarf centurion or Falmer (any rank) 'properly' yet, and i've killed 4 of the former and 50+ of the latter.
My light armour is around 55 and my One handed 80 my lock picking is 55 but i haven't spent a single perk on it. I can kill a 'dragon' on my own but a 'blood dragon' absolutely ruins me.
I am gonna probably redo the game with a warrior. I am also probs gonna turn the difficulty down and enjoy the game on my second character, as i get the distinct impression a straight warrior is pad crushingly difficult on normal+.
Do you guys often use the companions/housecarls/adoring fans much? All of mine have been 'Wait here' from the off.
Have been denying myself any Faqs/wikis as i want to discover everything myself.
Perkustin wrote:as i get the distinct impression a straight warrior is pad crushingly difficult on normal+.
Haven't run into this yet. Mind you, I've only done the High Hrothgar and then went exploring for a very long time, but I haven't had a problem slaying dragons or anything.
I am a straight sword and board character, using Shouts as my magic (Luckily, I found a 20% Shout Recharge Rate amulet right off the bat), and then using a Bow for Flying Dragons.
I've killed five dragons as of yet. First one was the scripted battle outside of White Run, second one was also outside of Whiterun, but that one flew into three Giants and Four Mammoths, so I don't count that one. Second one attacked me in the first town do you go to, so I had the Guards help on that one, so it don't count either. Third, fourth, and fifth ones I tracked down and put Axe to Face.
I've only encountered one blood dragon thus far, and it was fairly simple because I was in a town, and just had to hide next to a building when it flamed, and then pop out and electrocute it. In the middle of nowhere though, I could see it being an issue.
They just seem to be regular dragons as far as I can tell. Although I only encountered one and it was the first dragon I saw that wasn't just "a dragon"
corpsesarefun wrote:Heavy armour looks terrible on female characters, especially the helmets.
I disagree, the helmets actually look decent on Lydia, though you may be specifying the actual player model in which case I haven't seen as I don't currently run a female character.
Speaking of the player character, when you enter 3rd person view, how do you rotates the camera around them?? I still havnt figured this out, im on PCbtw.
Doing the quest where you have to grab Potema's remains from inside the catacombs below the Temple of the Divines in Solitude, but the last room is crazy difficult. She fires lightning at you, all the Draugr are Restless or Wights and my attacks seem to bounce off them until the Wights summon Frost Atronaches to counter the one I throw at them.
Lydia keeps dying to the AoE affect of the lightning, so I can't use companions to any sort of affect, and after the first wave, they're all revived again and thrown back at you; never got past that second wave.
Anyone done this/have any ideas? Was considering the Wabbajack, but honestly can't be bothered running back to where I accidentally dropped it and rummaging around.
I love the way Orcish armor looks, on both males and females. I didn't get a chance to see Daedric or Dragon, but out of everything else, Orcish was probably my favorite graphic (and Dwarven my least favorite). Does anyone else find it strange that platemail armor is in the light armor perk tree?
After 40 hours of play, my ailing desktop finally gave out. At least it died playing Skyrim, right? I ordered a new desktop, but it won't be delivered for two weeks. This sucks, a forced vacation from Skyrim...
I'm just waiting for a mod that improves the look on females.
(By 'improves the look' I do not simply mean 'removes huge chunks of armour until they're left with a tight daedric thong and some daedric nipple tassles which oddly give huge amounts of armour')
Do you guys often use the companions/housecarls/adoring fans much? All of mine have been 'Wait here' from the off.
I've taken the chick from Azura shrine with me everywhere, she has saved my as soo many times. The only thing that i didnt take her on was the DB missions, she gets in the way of assassinations.
Has anyone else noticed that if you are a Nord with the Dwarven set of armor (minus the helmet, though it does sort of fit with the eyeholes and such) you look like a Space Wolf with Artificer Armor?
If it doesn't sell you at first, try crouching in 3rd-person...looks exactly like the guys crouching in the DOW2 intro when they are hunting Eldar.
I really, really don't like these Thalmor guys. As Talos is very similar to Sigmar, I find them unbearable, and make a point to murder them whenever I encounter them.
Karon wrote:I really, really don't like these Thalmor guys. As Talos is very similar to Sigmar, I find them unbearable, and make a point to murder them whenever I encounter them.
The Markarth conspiracy quests were excellent.
If I could, I would join the Thalmor in a heartbeat. It's good to be bad.
I'm pondering making an Altmer to see how Thalmor representatives react to me.
Just the other night, I was away from my desktop computer, so I decided to create an Imperial Female, and I was kinda (not really) surprised that the imperial captain was a complete... meany towards my character at the chopping block.
I really love the look of the Dwarven armour especially the helmet !
Ebony is also very nice, as is Deadric !
I'm not a big fan of dragon bone armour to be honest, I got the full set on my Nord and meh, he doesnt look to cool.
Also, is there any varying robes other than the style of the apprentice and and novice style ones ? I wish we could get ones like the Grey beards wear !
johnscott10 wrote:Currently my fav armour set is the Nightingale set. Its just so dark and mysterious looking. Shame my Imperial is a heavy armour type guy.
I dunno whether I should look at an armour set list or just wait till I get them all in Skyrim to see whats my fav set haha.
Nightingale is also one of the best (if not the best) light armour...
It also makes you look slightly like Batman...
You very rarely actually have a voice in an RPG...
You tend to be the 'nameless hero' despite what you actually name yourself...
I called my Dark Elf, Ernie the Rat King, for instance. No one has batted an eye lid.
corpsesarefun wrote:I don't think your character actually speaks, you simply pick text options and hear the reply.
Alteration also has telekinesis and other fun things.
Actually when hit by something as pathetic as an arrow my bulky male Orc screams like a litle girl. I wish I could change that to something more manly.
Hows the Restoration in this game? In Oblivion I started off using a resto only mage, and quickly became UBER powerful with the drain health spells in that game. Could you potentially pull the same thing off in Skyrim?
You'll need to go combo with Destro to get much done, but with the magicka regen perks you get from the Resto tree, it shouldn't be too difficult until you start becoming outnumbered, and you have to switch to dual-casting destruction spells or dual casting healing spells to outheal what damage you take.
Resto and Conjuration could potentially do well, but some enemies have the ability to take control of your summoned minions.
Points spread through resto, conjuration and destro would create a balance, but you'd likely not need resto at all at that point unless you go solely for the regen perks.
KingCracker wrote:Hows the Restoration in this game? In Oblivion I started off using a resto only mage, and quickly became UBER powerful with the drain health spells in that game. Could you potentially pull the same thing off in Skyrim?
I don't see any drain health spells under Restoration for Skyrim.
I just wanted to drop in and share a quick story with you all.
I picked up Skyrim a couple of nights ago. I was having a blast - got my dragons, got my Norse-inspired guys, got my roman-inspired guys, it's all good. Killing wolves in the forest, chilling in Riverwood, going to Whiterun. Then I get the quests that send me into Bleak Falls Barrows.
Goddamn Bleak Falls Barrows.
It's horrifying. I go up against, what, 3 bandits at a time? They seem to be able to knock 1/3 of my HP off in one hit, and their arrows must have been fired from some sort of magical Beretta .50. I persevere, and eventually get into the actual dungeon. But I literally cannot get past the Bandit in the snake/eagle/whale room. The guy's able to knock me down in 2 hits.
Now, I'm frustrated. I start over, Mage this time. Yum-tee-dum, wolves, Riverwood, Whiterun, Barrows. I'm setting everything on fire, and I manage to kill the Bandit that was frustrating me by a combination of duel-wielding Flames, running away, drinking potions, repeat. Puzzle, done. Spider? Spent a half-hour sniping the thing with Firebolt. Beat the guy in the web down with my bound sword because he was running away from me.
Then? The Druaga. Aaaaaaaugh. I figured I could run right past them and just take the damage from running straight through the swinging-axe trap - only to discover that there's more on the other side.
I'm angry now. I'm supposed to spend 300+ hours on this? Holy crap! I'm pondering whether or not I should return the game, maybe pick up Revelations instead.
Fast forward to tonight. I'm messing around in the settings - changing some light. When I notice a difficulty setting.
Its setting? Master.
So, with the difficulty properly adjusted, I've been enjoying the game. I'll probably go back to playing a warrior-esque class, even though this game does fulfill a life-long dream to be able to duel-wield fireballs.
Well finshed the main quest at lvl 34 as a two sword nord
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really I don't know how a stealth or ranged class could finish kill the final boss really, his fire breath would have killed me in one go if I had not used potions
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killed off the dark brotherhood because they sent a couple of assasins after me and I ain't putting up with that gak
I will get the patch when it comes out.
I had thought about skipping it, so I could exploit the glitches in the game.
But really, on my main guy I never exploited any glitches (unless you count the one where you can get free training from a follower by takeing your gold back out of their inventory). And when I did exploit a few on another character I didn't 'get no' satisfaction from it.
I used the leveling glitch on one character to make him a better at sneaking, I figure I'll use him for the theives and Dark brotherhood quests only.
Well, full Daedric (sans shield) gives 468 with all the armour increasing perks from Heavy Armour, and that's unrefined. Legendary Daedric Armour with Fortify Heavy Armour enchants on stuff could very likely boost it to those sorts of levels.
Avatar 720 wrote:Well, full Daedric (sans shield) gives 468 with all the armour increasing perks from Heavy Armour, and that's unrefined. Legendary Daedric Armour with Fortify Heavy Armour enchants on stuff could very likely boost it to those sorts of levels.
That's what I have (Sans Shield), and with a 86 (70 base) Heavy Armor, I'm only at 400.
Avatar 720 wrote:Legendary Daedric Armour with Fortify Heavy Armour enchants on stuff could very likely boost it to those sorts of levels.
Yup. By combining alchemy, enchanting, and smithing, you can become almost invincible. My 2h character has 1700 armor rating and his greatsword does 608 damage. And that's before potions of fortify heavy armor/ two handed.
1) I leveled up, saved, and then came back to the game to find out that my weapon's damage went from 13 to 11.
2) "Haha, killed a dragon, I'm a boss."... "OMG fething bear is invincible!".
Is it just me or does it seem silly that you can kill the first dragon but then bears can kill you in two hits? Also, the ice troll on the part of the main quest when you have to see the gray-beards killed me three times(each time I forgot to save it while I was on the steps so I had to restart the steps each time) before I just decided to stun him with a shout and then book it to the temple. I'm lvl 7, am I doing something wrong?
halonachos wrote:A couple of things that I've had issues with;
1) I leveled up, saved, and then came back to the game to find out that my weapon's damage went from 13 to 11.
2) "Haha, killed a dragon, I'm a boss."... "OMG fething bear is invincible!".
Is it just me or does it seem silly that you can kill the first dragon but then bears can kill you in two hits? Also, the ice troll on the part of the main quest when you have to see the gray-beards killed me three times(each time I forgot to save it while I was on the steps so I had to restart the steps each time) before I just decided to stun him with a shout and then book it to the temple. I'm lvl 7, am I doing something wrong?
Ice Trolls are level 22. So no, you did nothing wrong.
And yes, I hate bears as well. They swarm you life fething Skeevers.
You are likely clad in nothing but rags, and need to get something better, Halon.
I suggest that, when fighting Bears/Ice Trolls/Giants, you try to stutter them as much as possible, either with a power attack or pommel-bash.
Dance around them and select your hits carefully, and you will come away with a slain beast relatively unscathed.
So, who is siding with the Stormcloaks and who is siding with the Imperials? I'm finding it extremely hard to side with the Imperials at all, and see them as little more as a puppet-kingdom only living because the Aldmeri Dominion allow it to be so.
Skyrim, on its own, under the rule of a immensely powerful Ulfric Stormcloak as High King, would have a better chance at co-existing or warring with the Aldmeri.
Chowderhead wrote:Stormcloaks, because Imperial armor is gak, and I wanted a bear hat.
Stormcloaks just seemed right... ya know. I'm playing as a Nord, and it makes more sense for my guy to be coming into Skyrim to help liberate his land, rather than to be running from Imperial scum...
Chowderhead wrote:Stormcloaks, because Imperial armor is gak, and I wanted a bear hat.
Stormcloaks just seemed right... ya know. I'm playing as a Nord, and it makes more sense for my guy to be coming into Skyrim to help liberate his land, rather than to be running from Imperial scum...
I was a Nord, too.
It also didn't help that the first Imperial camp I walked into everyone started attacking me.
Karon wrote:You are likely clad in nothing but rags, and need to get something better, Halon.
I'm in steel armor with steel everything and my armor is at 100, I just don't get how the dragon could set me on fire twice and do less damage than the bear. So about that ice troll, am I supposed to wait to be a higher level before I go to see the gray beards or what? I already got past it by just running away, but it seems odd to have such a high level baddie that early in the main story.
I'm going with the Imperials on this, I feel bad for them losing some of the other areas they had conquered.
Avatar 720 wrote:Well, full Daedric (sans shield) gives 468 with all the armour increasing perks from Heavy Armour, and that's unrefined. Legendary Daedric Armour with Fortify Heavy Armour enchants on stuff could very likely boost it to those sorts of levels.
That's what I have (Sans Shield), and with a 86 (70 base) Heavy Armor, I'm only at 400.
Easy: get 100 enchanting, enchant as many things as you can with +25% getter upgrade from smithing, then make your armor set while drinkinga blacksmith +50% potion, my armor plate alone has near to 600 armor rating now.
Then, for the hell of it, enchant everything with dual enchants, throwing +heavy armor skill and dmg buffs everywhere.
guys, im probably gonna get it very soon and have a few questions:
1. Whats best race/"class" together, e.g redguard battlemage.
2. Best difficulty to start at?
3. Is it relatively easy?
KingCracker wrote:Hows the Restoration in this game? In Oblivion I started off using a resto only mage, and quickly became UBER powerful with the drain health spells in that game. Could you potentially pull the same thing off in Skyrim?
I don't see any drain health spells under Restoration for Skyrim.
Avatar 720 wrote:Absorb Health was a Resto spell in Oblivion, I don't think it's in Skyrim.
Awwww dammit. Well thats a little bit of a bummer. Oh well, guess there wont be any UBER healers that soul suck things to death. Many thanks....er....Clint Eastwood
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KingCracker wrote:Hows the Restoration in this game? In Oblivion I started off using a resto only mage, and quickly became UBER powerful with the drain health spells in that game. Could you potentially pull the same thing off in Skyrim?
I don't see any drain health spells under Restoration for Skyrim.
Avatar 720 wrote:Absorb Health was a Resto spell in Oblivion, I don't think it's in Skyrim.
Awwww dammit. Well thats a little bit of a bummer. Oh well, guess there wont be any UBER healers that soul suck things to death. Many thanks....er....Clint Eastwoods
I managed to tear myself away from the game for 4 hours to watch the last 2 weeks of Walking Dead and Hell on Wheels.. I had to, my DVR is almost full :(
But I got up to level 40, I got sneak maxed out now, shadow warrior perk really comes in handy especially if you're a sneaky archer like me. I got blacksmithing up to around 70 so I can improve magic weapons now, I won't be crafting stuff though, I don't have the perks points to spare since I want to save them for 1handed and archery. I'm glad the max level is 80, I always thought it was 50.
Got through the DB main quests, I read somewhere that you could marry the DB leader girl, but I guess I can't now. I ended up marrying that big nord lady from riften, I had to go find her lost sword for her first. And now, some guy that always followed her around in Riften is stuck in my house with her too, and he's always telling me she's upset because the city is so bad (Riften, even though we live somewhere else). I wonder if I can murder him and stuff him in one of my chests? What's he doing with my wife while I'm out a-questing for days on end?
I've been kinda all over the place with quests, just doing whatever quests I see nearby on the map. I think now I'm just gonna focus on 1 storyline at a time, I'll probably finish the thieves guild stuff next since I'm prolly about half way done. I've been having a lot of trouble with the silver hand guys on companion quests. I guess my daggers and arrows don't cut through their armor very good :( But I am loving my life-sucking double ebony swords. And I got myself a soul-sucking ebony dagger and glass bow
JohnnoM wrote:guys, im probably gonna get it very soon and have a few questions:
1. Whats best race/"class" together, e.g redguard battlemage.
2. Best difficulty to start at?
3. Is it relatively easy?
1) There are no classes, you just develop skills. Race specific abilities are mostly resistance to some type of damage and an active ability.
2) What you are comfortable with. the default is ok.
3) It isn't a walk in the park but its hardly impossable. Once you get the hang of the combat system you should do fine. fear bowmen and get a bow of your own.
I married the shopkeeper's sister from Riverwood on my mage. Whenever I come home to our house in Whiterun, I keep finding that damn Bosmer who followed her around in RW sneaking around outside my house; I even caught him inside once.
It'd add a whole new level to the game if you could accuse your spouses of adultery.
Avatar 720 wrote:I married the shopkeeper's sister from Riverwood on my mage. Whenever I come home to our house in Whiterun, I keep finding that damn Bosmer who followed her around in RW sneaking around outside my house; I even caught him inside once.
It'd add a whole new level to the game if you could accuse your spouses of adultery.
You're a good man.
That elf would be nine times deader than a doornail if I caught him doing that to my wife.
Then again, my wife is a werewolf, so there's that.
JohnnoM wrote:guys, im probably gonna get it very soon and have a few questions:
1. Whats best race/"class" together, e.g redguard battlemage.
2. Best difficulty to start at?
3. Is it relatively easy?
Can't help with classes since all I've played is my lizard thief/archer/assassin. Honestly, I don't think the racial stuff matters all that much and it's more about flavor and fluff if you're into that. The powers that races have share the same button on my PS3 controller as my shouts, so I pretty much never use my lizard HP regen power that I can only use once a day anyway. The water breathing comes in handy sometimes but I have yet to be anywhere where I really needed it. I would check out IGN or Gamespot and see which race has the bonus skill points on the skills you think you want to use most.
I've always played at the default (adept?) difficulty. I've had some tough fights, and got squashed by too many bad guys to count, but just remember to save often and learn from your mistakes.
Avatar 720 wrote:I married the shopkeeper's sister from Riverwood on my mage. Whenever I come home to our house in Whiterun, I keep finding that damn Bosmer who followed her around in RW sneaking around outside my house; I even caught him inside once.
It'd add a whole new level to the game if you could accuse your spouses of adultery.
Avatar 720 wrote:I married the shopkeeper's sister from Riverwood on my mage. Whenever I come home to our house in Whiterun, I keep finding that damn Bosmer who followed her around in RW sneaking around outside my house; I even caught him inside once.
It'd add a whole new level to the game if you could accuse your spouses of adultery.
You're a good man.
That elf would be nine times deader than a doornail if I caught him doing that to my wife.
Then again, my wife is a werewolf, so there's that.
I think i'm too good sometimes.
I married Aela (assuming that's who you're referring to with the Werewife comment) on my first playthrough, and she's shown almost dog-like loyalty.
Grey Templar wrote: Well, do you need to collect elf blood yet?
you now have the perfect sample
I'm an Altmer myself, but he'd be my first port of call for blood.
That's if I haven't already killed him and raised him as my undead minion.
Avatar 720 wrote:
I married Aela (assuming that's who you're referring to with the Werewife comment) on my first playthrough, and she's shown almost dog-like loyalty.
Yeah. The best thing about marrying her is if you ask her for work, she instantly switches from her "I love you, dear" voice to her "you're damn right I'm giving you a job, now go eviscerate a cave bear" voice. It's fantastic.
Ah, the 'I love you voice'. My aforementioned unfaithful other half yesterday used her 'love' voice before telling me sternly to go away because I accidentally flicked over her whilst crouched and it brought up the pickpocket option.
EDIT: I also have reason to believe her 'shop' is doing better than my meagre share of the profits is telling me.
I like that the wife has her little shop (but how can she be at a shop selling stuff when she's always at home with whats-his-name .. and, Lydia is always in my house 24/7. I wish I could set up a nannycam...
But, it's cool that I can sell her stuff to though, comes in handy for unloading junk when I've drained the cash out of all of the other shop keepers around town.
Well, went Imperial finally and I must say that the Heavy imperial armor looks good. Its not the leather helmet stuff that the standard soldier wears, its actual steel and the uniform itself is a nice shiny metal with bright red. Actual roman legionesque instead of a cross between a roman soldier and a 30's football player. I decided that if I want stormcloak armor they're easy enough to kill.
So far I'm the thane of Whiterun and Morthal, killed some vamps without getting any diseases from them. Got a disease from a standard wolf and went into a shop and the NPC said my character looked sickly (after fighting the vamps). Cured diseases just to be safe because being a vamp in Oblivion sucked.
Love the fact that you can level up without having to sleep, but my weapon damage still fluctuates. Sometimes my steel shortsword will do 10, sometimes it says it does 13. Same with the orcish sword I use, it goes between 12 and 15 for some odd reason.
Also notable is the change in my shield's armor. Does the game switch difficulty levels depending on how well you perform or is his maybe a glitch?
I started doing the companion quests and it seemed like I didn't have much choice if I wanted to continue the questline. I hope there will be an option to cure it later on in the quests. It seemed like it would be cool at first, but I think I'd just prefer to be normal and be able to get the rested bonus and stuff.
Of all of the diseases to catch, lycanthropy is one of the better ones because you don't have to change into a werewolf.
Spoiler:
After you do the companion's quest line you can cure it with another companion's quest. You just have to talk to Aela about it. Just know that once you cure it there's no returning to being a werewolf.
JohnnoM wrote:guys, im probably gonna get it very soon and have a few questions:
1. Whats best race/"class" together, e.g redguard battlemage.
2. Best difficulty to start at?
3. Is it relatively easy?
1. If you want to be a battlemage, you'd prolly want to be Imperial and focus on Destro, Heavy armor, Resto, Block, and One Handed weapons. Imperials get bonuses to all of those skills and you'll want to focus you leveling to be about 60% mana 40% health (gain 60 mana every ten levels and 40 HP every ten levels) With the Mage or Apprentice stone. This is what I run and, while I tend to blow through my mana really quick, Anything that is still alive after a barrage of Dual Ice Storms is usually easy to cut down with my axe.
I only use frost spells (RP choice) so when I fight vamps, or Ghosts (or snowy Sabre cats, or Ice Wolves, or Snow Bears, or anything Dwarven, And any Draug above Restless) so I'll have to switch to sword and board to take them out.
Generally what I've found works with the battlemage though is the old Ork Philosophy " Chop the shooty ones and shoot the Choppy ones". Any Mages? Whirlwind Sprint to them and start hacking away. Any Footsloggers? Turn them into a popsicle. Archers? See mages.
I'm guessing the answer is no, but is it possible to join the stormcloaks and the empire? like play through 1 storyline, and then do the other? Or would I need 2 different characters for that?
I'm staying purely impartial. I do regret, however, the lack of choice of joining Alduin and becoming his vassal, aiding in the destruction of his enemies.
Avatar 720 wrote:I'm staying purely impartial. I do regret, however, the lack of choice of joining Alduin and becoming his vassal, aiding in the destruction of his enemies.
Bethesda, y you no like dragonz?
I feel the same way about Oblivion. Would have been nice to have an option to join the Mythic Dawn Permanently.
They could just call the good guy ending Canon and let us be crazy evil if we want.
I disliked the Legion for trying to kill me. I like me. As punishment i took that nasty lady's hat. The Stormcloaks however are really racist... I figure i'll just kill both sides.
Well, apparently Dragons really hate Dawnstar, as do Giants. Just took a trip there to offload some stuff onto the Blacksmith, and another dragon attacked (seems to be 1 each time I go there), ate half the residents, and a Giant decided to waddle in and help out.
I was left with my Atronach tanking the Giant, Lydia tanking the Dragon, and me throwing spells around depending on how I felt, because everyone else who came close got launched into orbit or eaten.
Avatar 720 wrote:Well, apparently Dragons really hate Dawnstar, as do Giants. Just took a trip there to offload some stuff onto the Blacksmith, and another dragon attacked (seems to be 1 each time I go there), ate half the residents, and a Giant decided to waddle in and help out.
I was left with my Atronach tanking the Giant, Lydia tanking the Dragon, and me throwing spells around depending on how I felt, because everyone else who came close got launched into orbit or eaten.
I happened to be visitin my "children" in the DB santuary, came outside after talking to momma, to be ambushed by what I thought was just a giant and a dragon... The dragon kinda helped me kill the giant, but about the time i got the dragon down to half life, his twin brother dragon popped in to see who was picking on his "younger brother".. I stomped them both, got good scales and bone from them both
Yeah. On my Imperial mage, I was originally going to side with the Imperials. Then I ran into some Falmer, and they insulted me. So I killed them. I think I may have to go with the Stormcloaks on this one, sorry Empire. But hey, that's what you get for working for douches.
Since I'm the Dragonborn, and therefore, the bestest, can't I join the Empire but take it over from Colonel Tigh, and rule the world with a Daedric Armored Fist? It's not like the Emperor is around to tell me no anymore.
Urgh, while climbing up the High Hrothgar, a dragon attacked me. Managed to kill it, but while I was looking it my friend Skyped me at the time and I alt-tabbed, resulting in that odd crash that happens when you do that. I was rather pissed, so I walked back up the mountain. It happened again, same spot, but this time I died. Reload, dragon visits again, but never lands or attacks. ):
I think what irks me about the Empire is that they are heavily trying to control Skyrim, as it is, right now, their most powerful province economically wise.
Losing Skyrim would mean the entire Legion would likely falter, as is hinted when you side with the Stormcloaks, and that they are no threat anymore as a group.
I don't see the Stormcloaks as racist by any means. There are the bad apples that identify with the Stormcloaks that certainly are racist (the two hillbillies in Windhelm harassing the Drow, for example), but you can ask Galmar directly about why any non-Nord would support them.
He tells you that the Stormcloaks support any Skyrim native, not just the Nords, but makes it clear that Skyrim's traditions that lie primarily with the Nords will not be infringed upon by outsiders.
Also, here are two links about some of the happenings regarding the Aldmeri and why the civil war is happening.
Managed to kill a dragon and had the whole 'soul absorbtion' thing happen. Had two shouts that had no soul. Tried to get one, but it said "must have a Dragon Soul to unlock."
Iur_tae_mont wrote:I am displeased with Skyrim now (only slightly, but this makes me sad).
I just figured out there is no button to pick up and hold items.
Now I cannot decorate my house with trophies (as easy as I could in Oblivion).
Hold A on the Xbox as Coolyo said, or it's the same with 'E' on a keyboard (unless you've changed your action button, then it might be that one instead). You don't have as much freedom with manipulating objects (it's a LOT harder to put dead bodies in provocative positions, for example) but you can still pick them up and hold them.
Avatar 720 wrote:(it's a LOT harder to put dead bodies in provocative positions, for example) but you can still pick them up and hold them.
I have a feeling that this was deliberate
However they tend to die much more dramatically and fall in provocative positions now. I end up with alot of kneeling and splaylegged opponents. and the headless ones are always fun.
The one thing I find odd is that the severed heads give you access to the body's inventory. They arn't seperate. its importance when the body goes over a cliff, but the head stays where you are.
Avatar 720 wrote: (it's a LOT harder to put dead bodies in provocative positions, for example) but you can still pick them up and hold them.
Why didn't corpses say that?
But yeah, decorating your house seems to be the thing to do and I quite like the plaques that you can put weapons on. On a side note I was looking at some of the Easter Eggs in the game and there are plenty of references to older characters, in fact one of the most annoying characters from Oblivion is mentioned.
Spoiler:
In the Dark Brotherhood, if you read Cicero's Journal Volume 1, he writes; 27th of Rain's Hand, 4E 187 Completed the Arena contract. I ultimately decided to pose as a starstruck fan, and immediately got into the Grand Champion's good graces. While escorting the arrogant fool through the Great Forest, I slashed his throat and left the corpse for the bears.
Half the satisfcation you got from killing people in Oblivion was the fact that you could make it look as if they all died whilst partaking in a sadomasochistic orgy to the next person that happens upon them.
"Finally! You're dead! Now you're going to be going down on your dead bandit friend here as punishment.... Maybe put this wolf in too..."
I'm currently a Fighter using Shouts for Range, but I've always been a mage at heart. However, I would be lieing if I said "I Like how you can only find certain spells" or "Elves are beautiful in this game....."
Avatar 720 wrote:Half the satisfcation you got from killing people in Oblivion was the fact that you could make it look as if they all died whilst partaking in a sadomasochistic orgy to the next person that happens upon them.
"Finally! You're dead! Now you're going to be going down on your dead bandit friend here as punishment.... Maybe put this wolf in too..."
I remember when Rainbow Six finally added rag doll physics, I shot this one Russian guard and he fell onto a bench just right so that he seemed like he was posing for the swimsuit edition. Of course killing guards in Oblivion and then placing the hand of one guard on the other guard's butt is funny too.
Avatar 720 wrote:
(it's a LOT harder to put dead bodies in provocative positions, for example) but you can still pick them up and hold them.
Why didn't corpses say that?
But yeah, decorating your house seems to be the thing to do and I quite like the plaques that you can put weapons on. On a side note I was looking at some of the Easter Eggs in the game and there are plenty of references to older characters, in fact one of the most annoying characters from Oblivion is mentioned.
Spoiler:
In the Dark Brotherhood, if you read Cicero's Journal Volume 1, he writes; 27th of Rain's Hand, 4E 187 Completed the Arena contract. I ultimately decided to pose as a starstruck fan, and immediately got into the Grand Champion's good graces. While escorting the arrogant fool through the Great Forest, I slashed his throat and left the corpse for the bears.
There is also
Spoiler:
The guy that sends you on the Nirnroot quest. You find his bones deep in a dwarven ruin and discover he was working on Crimson Nirnroot. More shenanigins with that stipid plant!!!
Grey Templar wrote:Does he ever do anything beside just stand in random places? He never seems to do anything.
He just wanders the land spreading "rumors (usually in the form of taking shots at complaints from the bethesda forums or[at least twice in skyrim] taking shots at Oblivion)
I'm not crafting my own gear, but I put the 2 perks into smithing so I can upgrade magic items. My smithing is around 70 something now. I have a ring and necklace to buff smithing and if I take a smithing potion, I can sharpen my blades to be Flawless and some lower level items to be Epic.. you can really add a lot of extra damage that way, or extra armor too.
It's easy enough to raise your smithing too, I'll head to Riften, steal all the iron and steel from the smith house in the basement, then go buy the iron he has, then go to Whiterun and buy all the iron from the 2 smiths right when you enter town, then get tons of leather straps and make like 80 iron daggers. Do a quest to kill time so merchants restock, and then rinse & repeat.
Then you add on some good enchants and you're all set. I was all about daggers for a while, but you need swords for heavy armored folks so now I use 2 ebony swords that steal health, and I have a 3rd that steals souls for charging up your gems to recharge your enchants.
I found myself a quest where I have to bring one of my companions to a temple, and then kill em. But, I just don't know who I want to sacrifice :(
There's Lydia, she was pretty helpful and I think it's funny how she's stuck in my house getting up and sitting down in the same chair over and over to infinity.
There's my wife Mjoll from Riften, who still has that guy wandering around my house telling me how upset she is about Riften, even though we don't live there. I wish I could get him to follow me, he'd be a worthy sacrifice. If my wife dies, can I marry someone else? maybe someone who doesn't roll every R? Her little store does come in handy though...
There's the mage fella from that Dawnstar quest, never really used him other than on his quest.
Then there's an assassin student in the DB hideout that I can have come with me, but the DBs all love me so that wouldn't be nice. Guess I'll have to just hire some guy from an inn.
I found myself a quest where I have to bring one of my companions to a temple, and then kill em. But, I just don't know who I want to sacrifice :(
There's Lydia, she was pretty helpful and I think it's funny how she's stuck in my house getting up and sitting down in the same chair over and over to infinity.
There's my wife Mjoll from Riften, who still has that guy wandering around my house telling me how upset she is about Riften, even though we don't live there. I wish I could get him to follow me, he'd be a worthy sacrifice. If my wife dies, can I marry someone else? maybe someone who doesn't roll every R? Her little store does come in handy though...
There's the mage fella from that Dawnstar quest, never really used him other than on his quest.
Then there's an assassin student in the DB hideout that I can have come with me, but the DBs all love me so that wouldn't be nice. Guess I'll have to just hire some guy from an inn.
I say Lydia because she is always sitting at the table in the master bedroom, watching me sleep.
Here's a tip if you have a melee oriented companion that keeps getting killed: give them two staffs and remove their melee weapons. They'll sit back and sling spells. Even better, get one of the companions that is a pure caster, like Marcurio.
nectarprime wrote:Anyone have a good source for Daedra hearts? I know the guy at the mage college stocks 2 every 2 days, but I can't find any others.
The Orc Stronghold alchemist hs one normally.
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Soladrin wrote:Yeah, I didn't even add alchemy shenanigens to the mix, and I'm toting 1100 armor and 300+ damage weapons.
What did you do perks wise? max Blacksmithing and max enchanting? rest into armours and weapon choice?
Also anyone know if you can redo your perks or is it once done you're stuck with them?
You can use the console commands if you play on the PC to remove them, but otherwise, no other way of changing perks once chosen, which is a little disheartening....
hmm I like that staff idea. My biggest problem with companions is they just can't sneak like I do.. or if I want to snipe with my bow, they charge in as soon as I fire the first shot. So I've been leaving my companions home. I don't even like when you're stuck with one on a quest. I just let them tank and get knocked down over and over and I sit back and shoot. If I hit em, who cares, they're invincible during the quest anyway.
@Karon: The idea that the Stormcloaks support all Skyrim natives is deceptive. What's his definition of "native"? Take a look at how Ulfric treats the Dunmer and Argonians of Windhelm and tell me his movement isn't racist.
Many non-Nords (and even a few Nords) consider him racist for his apparent treatment of non-Nords in his Hold of Windhelm, specifically Dunmer. Some within the city of Windhelm, of which Ulfirc is jarl, even reveal that he refuses to send aid to caravans and towns that have been victims of bandit raids within his hold if the victims were not Nords.
Manchu wrote:@Karon: The idea that the Stormcloaks support all Skyrim natives is deceptive. What's his definition of "native"? Take a look at how Ulfric treats the Dunmer and Argonians of Windhelm and tell me his movement isn't racist.
Soladrin wrote:Yeah, I didn't even add alchemy shenanigens to the mix, and I'm toting 1100 armor and 300+ damage weapons.
What did you do perks wise? max Blacksmithing and max enchanting? rest into armours and weapon choice?
Also anyone know if you can redo your perks or is it once done you're stuck with them?
Yeah, maxed one handed damage and maxed the first heavy armor perk (don't even have the set bonus yet ) Smithing, all perks for the hell of it. And with enchanting just the middle path.
For those of you on the PC version.. since it's a single player game, do you need any kind of steam account or online account mumbo-jumbo to play? Or is it like a stand-alone kinda game?
Manchu wrote:@Karon: The idea that the Stormcloaks support all Skyrim natives is deceptive. What's his definition of "native"? Take a look at how Ulfric treats the Dunmer and Argonians of Windhelm and tell me his movement isn't racist.
This is exacty what i was talking about...
Plus he's a bit of a wuss, lets you do all the fighting and only shows up for the final battle in his quest line... then doesn't have the balls to finish the job himself.
Necros wrote:For those of you on the PC version.. since it's a single player game, do you need any kind of steam account or online account mumbo-jumbo to play? Or is it like a stand-alone kinda game?
DLC or no, once Bethesda releases the Skyrim modding tools, you can bet that people are going to do amazing things with those landmasses. It would be awesome beyond awesome if someone recreated both TES Oblivion and TES Morrowind in Skyrim. Imagine, playing those games all over again with an updated engine and vastly improved graphics...
Not to mention, revisiting the Imperial City of 200 years later, and seeing how much it's grown, either in Bethesda's vision or that of the modding community, would be simply amazing.
yeah, from what i have gathered, all of Tamrial is pretty much gone to pot. Skyrim is in the best shape of anywhere in the Empire, which is why the Rebellion is so serious.
Grey Templar wrote:yeah, from what i have gathered, all of Tamrial is pretty much gone to pot. Skyrim is in the best shape of anywhere in the Empire, which is why the Rebellion is so serious.
In fairness the High Elves seem to be doing fairly well so they're probably having a good time of it...
Finally killed a bear and a blood dragon, more proud of killing that bear though.
I have a nice little house in Riften and when you get the enchanting upgrade you get two mannequins so I have a mannequin wearing Ulfric's clothes, and the other one wearing a Thalmor Justiciar's hooded robes. Can't tell me that I can't talk about Talos...
I had a glitch on the thieve's guild mission when you're supposed to tail that Argonian, instead of just walking he ended up flying into the air never to be seen again. Thank god for console commands.
Riften house has one little spot that I don't think I can upgrade which is really weird and bugging the hell out of me.
It looks to me that perhaps Bethesda is simply showing off that they could include all provinces into one massive map if they wanted. I think it would be epic! and a bit OTTlol. A 300+ hour games suddenly becomes a lifetime game XD.
corpsesarefun wrote:The Imperial city probably won't be in great shape at this point in time.
It wasn't really in great shape back in Oblivion either Still would love to go back and see what's changed in 200 years. Apparently Anvil's grown -huge-, and the plains outside were the site of a major battle during the great war.
Agreed. I've been wondering what they would do with a DLC and a quest to Cyrodil or Morrowind/Vvardenfall would be awesome. Having it on xbox I never would have known this was out there. I really hope it isn't just as a modders tool. Maybe a visit to the imperial city or solsthiem?
Either way the banning of talos and the attitude of the Aldmeri Dominion really ticks me off. I can't stand them and what the empire allowed to happen. I do remember reading a book how that wearing the Amulet of Kings only required the wearer to be dragonborn not actually a Septim. Explains why the bad guy from oblivion (can't remember his name) was able to wear it. Maybe some divine intervention to deal with the seperation of Hammerfell, Aldmeri Dominion, Cyrodil, and Skyrim?
I'm pretty sure talos is a divine since he helps you with the KotN. Gotta give some respect Imperials!
I'm finding most of the guild quests to be fairly easy, its running around and navigating the map that's my largest issue. I'm not going to bother getting a horse because I know that if I do a fething dragon is going to come out of nowhere and probably take it away.
Me: Yay I got a horse, exploring will be so much faster!
Avatar 720 wrote:Was that after you took down the World Breaker? Because to be fair that battle wasn't even a minor skirmish, more an organised kerfufflle.
Which is why Elder Scrolls should be banned on Consoles Bethesda can't do their own series justice. Leave it to modders to make that battle go from a dozen or so to several hundred
In all seriousness though, no that wasn't it - the great war was between the Imperium and the Aldmarri Dominion. You're thinking of the Oblivion Crisis.
Both aren't ideal, but rarely is it any different.
I can see the pros and cons to both, but it seems the canon ending is largely leaning towards Ulfric ruling considering Hamerfell ceceded, and that might be a vibe they want to go with.
The Imperial Legion might only have little Cyrrodil to oppress soon.
Both aren't ideal, but rarely is it any different.
I can see the pros and cons to both, but it seems the canon ending is largely leaning towards Ulfric ruling considering Hamerfell ceceded, and that might be a vibe they want to go with.
The Imperial Legion might only have little Cyrrodil to oppress soon.
That and I believe both Black Marsh and Elswyr joined the Aldmeri Dominion (summerset isle and valenwood). Also hamerfell didn't so much ceceed as it was kicked out since they refused to go by the White-Gold Concordant and the legion was in an extremely weakend state.
Spoiler:
I believe if you stay neutral you can have the two party's meet and work out some kind of peace deal so that both sides are happy
Grey Templar wrote:yeah, from what i have gathered, all of Tamrial is pretty much gone to pot. Skyrim is in the best shape of anywhere in the Empire, which is why the Rebellion is so serious.
In fairness the High Elves seem to be doing fairly well so they're probably having a good time of it...
Well they are the reason for all the issues so it would stand to reason they are doing well.
Is it just me, or is lockpicking ludicrously easy now? The tumbler system of Oblivion was much more about timing, and your skill factored into that, i've not got a single perk in lockpicking, and I can open Master-level locks as if they were Novice-level. Just tap the 'a' button in a few places around the lock (only a select few will instantly break your pick) to check for give, then try with 'd', and gradually move closer to the sweet spot when the lock gives.
This change seems to have ultimately trivialised lockpicking to the point where i've got excessive amounts of picks because they simply do not get broken.
Anyone else found Lucky Lorenz? A laugh in an Elder scrolls game that isnt at the expense of the developers.
EDIT in regards to the landmass AFAIK crude geometry like that isnt exactly time consuming or processor aggreiving to create, i imagine they just did it so you could see 'something' if you got up high enough. I remember the sixth level of halo 2 on the original xbox having a MASSIVE area out with the normal level (just took some cunning exploits involving pelicans to get there).
Perkustin wrote:EDIT in regards to the landmass AFAIK crude geometry like that isnt exactly time consuming or processor aggreiving to create, i imagine they just did it so you could see 'something' if you got up high enough. I remember the sixth level of halo 2 on the original xbox having a MASSIVE area out with the normal level (just took some cunning exploits involving pelicans to get there).
That would make sense to a degree... But the -entire- provinces of Morrowind and Cyrodiil? And that's only what he managed to explore before getting bored. There's no way that, without turning off clipping, you could see the Imperial City from the edge of the game map. The map would fade well before then. My guess is modders' resource, as I can't see them adding an entire game world worth of territory in a $10.00 Adventure DLC.
Avatar 720 wrote:Is it just me, or is lockpicking ludicrously easy now? The tumbler system of Oblivion was much more about timing, and your skill factored into that, i've not got a single perk in lockpicking, and I can open Master-level locks as if they were Novice-level. Just tap the 'a' button in a few places around the lock (only a select few will instantly break your pick) to check for give, then try with 'd', and gradually move closer to the sweet spot when the lock gives.
This change seems to have ultimately trivialised lockpicking to the point where i've got excessive amounts of picks because they simply do not get broken.
Its easier and harder at the same time. No auto-solve button.
The proper positioning can take many picks to get right and you can burn through alot of lock picks on a hard chest.
metallifan wrote:There's no way that, without turning off clipping, you could see the Imperial City from the edge of the game map. The map would fade well before then. My guess is modders' resource, as I can't see them adding an entire game world worth of territory in a $10.00 Adventure DLC.
Actually, you can see the White Gold Tower in some spots without console commands.
Perkustin wrote: In regards to the landmass AFAIK crude geometry like that isnt exactly time consuming or processor aggreiving to create, i imagine they just did it so you could see 'something' if you got up high enough. I remember the sixth level of halo 2 on the original xbox having a MASSIVE area out with the normal level (just took some cunning exploits involving pelicans to get there).
I've used the heightmap editor in FO:NV quite a bit, the following assumption is based off of that. It's a pretty simple and intuitive program, you can make the paintbrush as big or as small as as you want, and it's got a pretty powerful erosion tool. You can make a pretty rough elevation map, then run varying degrees of erosion and smoothing on different areas, and get a good looking area with very little legwork. Making a crude elevation map (no textures, vegitation, rocks, etc) probably took someone between a few hours and a few days, depending on the level of detail.
I'm looking forward to the arrival of my new computer so I can check this out.
Nerivant wrote:Actually, you can see the White Gold Tower in some spots without console commands.
Seeing the silhouette of the White Gold tower off in the distance is very different from seeing the whole Imperial City. That doesn't require the level of detail they put into the OOB map. They could've just done bits and pieces. Looking at those photos, they went way beyond what was needed, hence why I'm thinking intentionally left as modder's resource. Sure, it probably wasn't hard for them to do all of it, but it was far more than what they needed.
ANyone know where I can find the entire title theme? ALl I have been able to find is about a minute of it claiming to be the full version. I want the whole friggin thing, where they are pretty much singing the Morrowind theme, but EPICLY. Ya know?
Well, I've put over 50 hours into the game so far, and am having a real blast.
Best looking armor in the game I think so far, would have to be the Nightingale armor.
I sided with the legion, because I thought Ulfric was a jerk. The guy was a total racist, and his city showed that. It was very satisfying when I took his head off.
Nothing I've fought recently is a challenge anymore, I can pretty much kill everything pretty easy, though I still have a ton more to explore.
Killing them one on one is relatively easy, now when they swarm that's a whole new story. I geeked out a bit when I could chop firewood, don't know why I did it or exactly what its used for, but I chopped firewood.
He did deny resources and help to people, but its in a full on civil war. I probably wouldn't help anyone except those that were most likely to fight for me too.
I think that the Dovahkiin could influence Ulfric to a large degree, so I'm sticking with him.
I just don't like the Legion having their hands in everything, when Skyrim is clearly stronger on their own. The Legion showed how easily influenced it was in the Great War, and the final acceptance of the White-Gold Concordant.
They bowed to the Aldmeri, and I'm thinking Skyrim needs to develop relationships with Hammerfell and the Orsinium.
halonachos wrote:Killing them one on one is relatively easy, now when they swarm that's a whole new story. I geeked out a bit when I could chop firewood, don't know why I did it or exactly what its used for, but I chopped firewood.
You sell it to the owner of the place you chop it for 5 gold a piece, so each time you hit A to go to the block( IM talking on Xbox controller) you get 30 gold, decent I earned 1500 over 40 min. while talking to friends
He did deny resources and help to people, but its in a full on civil war. I probably wouldn't help anyone except those that were most likely to fight for me too.
I think that the Dovahkiin could influence Ulfric to a large degree, so I'm sticking with him.
I just don't like the Legion having their hands in everything, when Skyrim is clearly stronger on their own. The Legion showed how easily influenced it was in the Great War, and the final acceptance of the White-Gold Concordant.
They bowed to the Aldmeri, and I'm thinking Skyrim needs to develop relationships with Hammerfell and the Orsinium.
Had Ulfric aided the non Nord settlements within eastmarch Hold, they probably would have joined him.
And Remember
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the Thalmor lost the great war. I'm still not sure why the While Gold Concordant happened, but the Empire won the great war. They( the Aldmeri Dominion) have Ulfric listed as a Dormant asset because losing the civil war will weaken the Empire. If Banning Talos worship happened when the Empire won, I would hate to see what happens during round two after the Stormcloaks win the Civil War.
Ulfric is an idiot, he goes and kills the high-king and then says that its okay because he did it according to Nord tradition, but when you take that axe from the Jarl of Whiterun he goes against Nord tradition by invading instead of facing him one-on-one.
It doesn't seem like the Imperials are forcing culture changes in Skyrim and its more like they're okay with what they do so much as they pay taxes.
I killed Ulfric. And I loved every second of it. Ave Imperitor!
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Well.. Okay, I didn't kill him. General Tullius the super Canuck did. Ulfric wanted me to kill him. I decided not to give that smug bastard the satisfaction of his final wish.
metallifan wrote:I killed Ulfric. And I loved every second of it. Ave Imperitor!
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Well.. Okay, I didn't kill him. General Tullius the super Canuck did. Ulfric wanted me to kill him. I decided not to give that smug bastard the satisfaction of his final wish.
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Did you still get Tulliu's awesome sword of health drainage?
metallifan wrote:I killed Ulfric. And I loved every second of it. Ave Imperitor!
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Well.. Okay, I didn't kill him. General Tullius the super Canuck did. Ulfric wanted me to kill him. I decided not to give that smug bastard the satisfaction of his final wish.
Spoiler:
Did you still get Tulliu's awesome sword of health drainage?
I Duel Wield that Blade and Chillrend. It's quite awesome. It's even better with my max blacksmithing, I enhanced both of them, and they do double damage now.
halonachos wrote:Ulfric is an idiot, he goes and kills the high-king and then says that its okay because he did it according to Nord tradition, but when you take that axe from the Jarl of Whiterun he goes against Nord tradition by invading instead of facing him one-on-one.
It doesn't seem like the Imperials are forcing culture changes in Skyrim and its more like they're okay with what they do so much as they pay taxes.
Ulfric OFFERED alliegance, or war. How do you expect him to walk into Whiterun when it was blatantly clear what his intentions would be after what he did to the "High King" that was little more than an imperial puppet?
Iur_tae_mont wrote:
Karon wrote:I'm still unsure on Ulfric.
He did deny resources and help to people, but its in a full on civil war. I probably wouldn't help anyone except those that were most likely to fight for me too.
I think that the Dovahkiin could influence Ulfric to a large degree, so I'm sticking with him.
I just don't like the Legion having their hands in everything, when Skyrim is clearly stronger on their own. The Legion showed how easily influenced it was in the Great War, and the final acceptance of the White-Gold Concordant.
They bowed to the Aldmeri, and I'm thinking Skyrim needs to develop relationships with Hammerfell and the Orsinium.
Had Ulfric aided the non Nord settlements within eastmarch Hold, they probably would have joined him.
And Remember
Spoiler:
the Thalmor lost the great war. I'm still not sure why the While Gold Concordant happened, but the Empire won the great war. They( the Aldmeri Dominion) have Ulfric listed as a Dormant asset because losing the civil war will weaken the Empire. If Banning Talos worship happened when the Empire won, I would hate to see what happens during round two after the Stormcloaks win the Civil War.
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Indeed, I read this earlier and just finished the quests where I found those dossiers on Ulfric and such in the Thalmor Embassy. The Empire signed the WGC because they wanted to end the war on a good note, and not just proclaim "We won, you lose!", so they made ridiculous concessions that they expected the rest of the provinces to follow. Hammerfell clearly did not agree, and ceceded, and Skyrim has every right to do the same, and it would have if Imperial roots had dug so deep into it at the time of the treaty.
If you remember, the Thalmor dossier also notes that a direct victory by Ulfric should be avoided at all costs, and is the worst possible thing that could happen. They want him to stay dormant and just keep being a distraction so if the Thalmor attacked, Skyrim soldiers couldn't assist lest the Stormcloaks take control.
I agree about the nightingale armor, love the cloak and stuff. I also found a bug (I think) where I'm able to wear my ancient shrouded hood, which doesn't show up when I wear it but I still get the archery bonus, and then I can wear the nightingale hood and get that bonus too.
One thing that bugs me is the thief and db boots that muffle your footsteps. That's great and all, but I have the Silence perk since I maxed Sneak, so I don't need that on my boots too. Yet all the roguey sets have that on the boots. I'm guessing silence + boots doesn't make me even quieter, so one of em is a waste.
Right now I'm using Childrend, Mace of Molag Bal and Nightingale bow, and a mix of nightingale and ancient shrouded armor, all flawless for now. I was thinking about making some smithing enchanted cloths and drinking up a potion then reupgrading again to try and get it all legendary
halonachos wrote:Ulfric is an idiot, he goes and kills the high-king and then says that its okay because he did it according to Nord tradition, but when you take that axe from the Jarl of Whiterun he goes against Nord tradition by invading instead of facing him one-on-one.
It doesn't seem like the Imperials are forcing culture changes in Skyrim and its more like they're okay with what they do so much as they pay taxes.
Ulfric OFFERED alliegance, or war. How do you expect him to walk into Whiterun when it was blatantly clear what his intentions would be after what he did to the "High King" that was little more than an imperial puppet?
In the Imperial quest line you walk directly into Windhelm to deliver the message to Ulfric. After Ulfric threatens Whiterun the Jarl decides that instead of having a war he wants to settle it in the traditional manner with a one-on-one fight. It would be possible for Ulfric to enter Whiterun because there was no Imperial garrison in Whiterun and the town guards follow the orders of the Jarl so the Jarl could tell them to stand down or he could meet Ulfric in a neutral area, there are ways that it could be done.
Ulfric offered it, but when confronted with the traditional method of dealing with the issue he shirked away from it like a coward. Ulfric murdered the High-king and guised it as a cultural method of solving such issues and then decided not to follow his own culture by denying a challenge from the Jarl. At least the Legion doesn't murder kings and then say "That's how our people do it." and don't follow tradition when confronted in the same manner.
I guess, being an Altmer, I should side with the Imperials, but there's just something about having the Elves on one side of the Imperials, and Ulfric, advised by an Altmer dragonborn on the other, that makes me think it might help the keep the Imperials far more in check than the Elves could do alone. It also leaves the Imperials with one less landmass upon which they can plot to overthrow us.
halonachos wrote:Ulfric is an idiot, he goes and kills the high-king and then says that its okay because he did it according to Nord tradition, but when you take that axe from the Jarl of Whiterun he goes against Nord tradition by invading instead of facing him one-on-one.
It doesn't seem like the Imperials are forcing culture changes in Skyrim and its more like they're okay with what they do so much as they pay taxes.
Ulfric OFFERED alliegance, or war. How do you expect him to walk into Whiterun when it was blatantly clear what his intentions would be after what he did to the "High King" that was little more than an imperial puppet?
In the Imperial quest line you walk directly into Windhelm to deliver the message to Ulfric. After Ulfric threatens Whiterun the Jarl decides that instead of having a war he wants to settle it in the traditional manner with a one-on-one fight. It would be possible for Ulfric to enter Whiterun because there was no Imperial garrison in Whiterun and the town guards follow the orders of the Jarl so the Jarl could tell them to stand down or he could meet Ulfric in a neutral area, there are ways that it could be done.
Ulfric offered it, but when confronted with the traditional method of dealing with the issue he shirked away from it like a coward. Ulfric murdered the High-king and guised it as a cultural method of solving such issues and then decided not to follow his own culture by denying a challenge from the Jarl. At least the Legion doesn't murder kings and then say "That's how our people do it." and don't follow tradition when confronted in the same manner.
See, that's strange, because in the Stormcloak questline, you deliver the axe, bring it back to Ulfric as it was declined, and then you assault Whiterun..there is no response from Balgruuf or whatever is name is aside from that.
I think it will depend on which questline Bethesda decides is canon, but you are wrong on one thing.
Ulfric challenged the High King to their ritual combat, and he had to accept. The High King was simply a puppet prince of the Legion, so he was easily defeated by the Voice and a sword through the chest. He didn't murder him in any sense of the word, that's just how the Legion wants it to look like.
As well, I don't really think I can side with the Legion after they told me I was a criminal scum a thousand times in Oblivion....
I think I read that 50 is a soft cap, and you can keep leveling it's just that XP goes really, really slow after 50.. the real cap is 70 or 80 or something?
Im a staunch Imperial in real life, so I sided with the Empire, proudly swearing fealty to the emperor.
Unfortunately, after crushing the stormcloaks, I have since started the DB questline, It crushed me to kill his niece at her wedding, but I managed it. Poisoning who I thought was the big E was even harder, and now I have to board his boat and kill him in cold blood?!
If I pull it off i think ill go home and beat my wife to death whilst weeping tears of rage....
I can put my amulet back on and get another wife though right?
There's a lot in this game that isn't very heroic. In fact, I'm hard pressed to think of much good you do in the world. Even fighting off dragons is more of a sport than a moral imperative.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Also, Ulfric is no coward or murderer. But he is a racist.
Honestly, after I sacked Solitude with Ulprick (Not a typo, guy's kind of an ass.), I hoped there was an option to challenge him to Combat and become the next king. I just pretend that after I'm done killing dragons and gak, I stick my axe into that racist pig's fething skull.
thenoobbomb wrote:Ulfric is the most awsome guy.
He is cooler then Tullius.
Although i can't say i like the legion for trying to kill me at least they have a reason other than 'he's an elf and not like us'
Ulfric on the other hand doesn't have much more of a reason...
thenoobbomb wrote:Ulfric is the most awsome guy.
He is cooler then Tullius.
Although i can't say i like the legion for trying to kill me at least they have a reason other than 'he's an elf and not like us'
Ulfric on the other hand doesn't have much more of a reason...
Ulfric is in wartime, he is not going to help everyone. His reasoning may be that he will only assist those most likely to assist him (the Nords).
He's not a dumb guy, and you saying that he started this war because he is a racist is only showing your ignorance.
So, I killed the big E, but havent chosen imperials or stormcloaks, should I stick on the path of 'bad' and go stormcloaks, cause I dont think I can take the oath to honor the emperor seriously...
thenoobbomb wrote:Ulfric is the most awsome guy.
He is cooler then Tullius.
Although i can't say i like the legion for trying to kill me at least they have a reason other than 'he's an elf and not like us'
Ulfric on the other hand doesn't have much more of a reason...
Ulfric is in wartime, he is not going to help everyone. His reasoning may be that he will only assist those most likely to assist him (the Nords).
He's not a dumb guy, and you saying that he started this war because he is a racist is only showing your ignorance.
I'm not saying he has to help everyone...
It's just that his enemies seem to be 'all of the above' rather than just 'the empire'.
Also there is a difference between not helping and actively beating people down...
Battle Brother Lucifer wrote:So, I killed the big E, but havent chosen imperials or stormcloaks, should I stick on the path of 'bad' and go stormcloaks, cause I dont think I can take the oath to honor the emperor seriously...
thenoobbomb wrote:Ulfric is the most awsome guy.
He is cooler then Tullius.
Although i can't say i like the legion for trying to kill me at least they have a reason other than 'he's an elf and not like us'
Ulfric on the other hand doesn't have much more of a reason...
Ulfric is in wartime, he is not going to help everyone. His reasoning may be that he will only assist those most likely to assist him (the Nords).
He's not a dumb guy, and you saying that he started this war because he is a racist is only showing your ignorance.
I'm not saying he has to help everyone...
It's just that his enemies seem to be 'all of the above' rather than just 'the empire'.
Also there is a difference between not helping and actively beating people down...
The problem with Skyrim is that the legion directly gave a big "feth you" to Skyrim with the White-Gold Concordant, the place that takes Talos extremely seriously, and then they expect them to deal with it.
Its like if you banned Judaism in Israel...you can bet your ass everyone would be shunning outsiders and starting an uprising.
I don't think you are grasping the part that he is in the middle of a civil war, that he is a major part of. He isn't going to help anyone that isn't helping him.
War is ugly, and Ulfric will use any scapegoat, like foreigners, to fuel the rage of his army. Is it right? No. Do the means justify the ends? I think so.
Anyone else have the problem that when you finish cleansing Meridia's shrine and you finish talking with her in the sky that you actually fall to your death?
I did it three times before I actually landed safely on her shrine.
I don't believe those people graduated middle school, judging from the number of grammatical errors in that post.
See, I'm hoping it's satire (and judging from a lot of the language used, it most likely is) but I'm pessimistic enough about modern man that I'm legitimately worried it's not.
Though if it is? Man, whoever thought of putting a 'Science' section with Satan's Internet and Lies of Evolution right above Tech Review and Weather was a genius.
Given that the site is christwire (and sorry if this offends anybody what i say next is purely my own opinion) then its just talking about a pile of crap just like the Bible.
Do note that its not just Christianity that I hate, I hate all forms of religion equally. They just don't make sense imo. At least science is trying to prove something instead of going "this is what happened but we arnt going to show you how we know that".
If you are a responsible parent, then the world of MMORPG first person shooters should be something of a foreign language to you. In games like Skyrim, players are teleported to a far way lands that are cream filled with demonic spell crafting, violent shirtless blood shed and exposed not only Satanic critters, but bombarded with gay under tones of fecal fornication.
In the land of Skyrim, the player starts off as a captured terrorist, who has been caught plotting to destroy the golden empire by using dragons. Before the player gets to take control of his avatar, they are asked to create a character, which is purely the liberal’s way of teaching out kids that modifying and gender changing one’s self is fun and normal. Once the player has decided if they want to be a female wood fairy or an black ogre from Stormwind, they get to take control of their hell spawned fictitious demon.
Right off the bat, the gay supporting software company Blizzard, shows the player images of decapitations and after the third of forth head chopping, a necromatic dragon appears and sets the player free from righteous punishment. Now that the player is free, they will spend the next 400 hours robbing people, killing villagers, crafting sexual items, fornicate with elves and other Harry Potter style animals and also learn how to conjure up black magic.
Throughout the game, the played is exposed to full frontal violence and replay style death killing finish moves. The graphics of this game are way too realistic for the type of blood shed they ejaculate all over the player’s CPU monitor.
The spells the player are taught are directly out of The Book of Wiccan and are far more dangerous than anything your child is watching on that Wizards at Waverly Place and Sabrina The Teenage Witch. When a player casts a spell, you will see the hand gesture is that of how homosexuals fling devil DNA juices at each other after a long night of fecal frenzy ass assassinations. This is subliminally teaching your children that they need to go in their rooms, demon whack their sin staff and produce sin milk into their hands and than fling it in the face of the first person they come in contact with after their taint tugging session.
Once they player has finish killing all the people in Skyrim, his final battle is to have a mass dragon orgy with his feel homosexual warriors he meets on his way and all take turns impregnating the dragon with homosexual dragon eggs. Once the dragon has been backdoor feasted, the player must kill it. The dragon needs to be killed, so the spirit of death and gayness can enter the new eggs and reek havoc onto the rest of the world. This new destruction will be playable in the next Skyrim saga.
It goes on for a bit but it's still fething slowed...
PS. opening that link reposted it on my facebook wall, the things I do for you guys...
I too posted that on Facebook. I just want to know.......HONESTLY......was that a troll and I missed it? Because holy fething gak! I think the guy must of just.....read the dust cover? Because I could tell many times over, that he was WAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy off on alot of that. I mean.....just....what?
...Wow. I have seen the light ! Skyrim is all about homosexuals and jacking off producing sin juice ! How did I not see that casting spells is obviously subliminal messages...
Jesus Christ on a flaming jetski, I didnt think people could stoop to such levels of stupidity.
Anyone else having some gfx texture issues since the patch, such as character faces becoming "see through", clothes being mono colored and trees/bushes looking crystalline?
Have to restart to get rid of them and whilst not game breaking its an annoyance.
Where can I locate an alchemy trainer? i.e to actually skill it up, not just buy ingredients/recipes
I've run into a nasty bug on my new char. As soon as you pass the companions killing the giant near Whiterun, they turn on you and you can do nothing about it. Not tried to bypass them yet, because i've just been thrown back several levels due to having 3 characters not dying at that part and assuming I didn't need to save, so I ragequit instead of spamming iron daggers again to get back to level 6.
Just got my smithing up to 100... Any ideas on where I can get ebony ore and ingots? I need to craft me some Daedric weapons... (I'm okay with wearing my full Dragonplate armor atm)
Gloombound Mine, in the Orc Stronghold Narzulbur. There's at least enough in there, combined with the ore and bar spawns around the forge area outside it, to create a full set of ebony plus weapons, and maybe to enhance a few pieces too, so i'd imagine that there's easily enough for Daedric also.
Karon wrote:The Drow looks absolutely horrific, and I'm quite sad they ruined my favorite race.
They really are too ugly to play...
You know playing in third person and having the camera constantly pointing at your characters face (presumably with no helmet if you can see the face all the time) is probably not a good idea, you should stop doing that.
Karon wrote:The Drow looks absolutely horrific, and I'm quite sad they ruined my favorite race.
They really are too ugly to play...
You know playing in third person and having the camera constantly pointing at your characters face (presumably with no helmet if you can see the face all the time) is probably not a good idea, you should stop doing that.
I still KNOW he's ugly, though, and I don't always play in first-person view.
I'll gladly play the beautiful Nord and Orc races, though.
I think the point of the new elves is how inhuman they look, that and the aldmeri dominions expansion lore gives me the impression they are really trying to distance the elven races from being humans with pointy ears that have been around for a while and like magic.
Wow, the Dragonrend shout was a let down. I thought "This sounds awesome! I wonder what it'll be. Will it be like a a strike of energy from the heavens? Or sapping the energy from him?"
*Uses Dragonrend*
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...Wow. It took away my only advantage against dragons; the fact that they like to fly off and let me heal myself... Helpful...
Avatar 720 wrote:Wow, the Dragonrend shout was a let down. I thought "This sounds awesome! I wonder what it'll be. Will it be like a a strike of energy from the heavens? Or sapping the energy from him?"
*Uses Dragonrend*
Spoiler:
...Wow. It took away my only advantage against dragons; the fact that they like to fly off and let me heal myself... Helpful...
I use it to bring Dragons down to taste my Daedric Axe.
Avatar 720 wrote:Wow, the Dragonrend shout was a let down. I thought "This sounds awesome! I wonder what it'll be. Will it be like a a strike of energy from the heavens? Or sapping the energy from him?"
*Uses Dragonrend*
Spoiler:
...Wow. It took away my only advantage against dragons; the fact that they like to fly off and let me heal myself... Helpful...
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it gives you an advantage against them if you are in a rocky area with alot of cover, since they can't fly over you. It does suck when you are walking around on a stretch of flat land, though.
If it was an additional effect of something like a strike of energy, i'd be fine with it, but as it stands it's a bit of an underwhelming shout to me.
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"We did it! We figured out how to kill the dragons!" "How?" "We make them land!" "Why not just shoot them with arrows like we normally do?" "...Shut up."
Considering that it took an entire race's hatred to make, you think they could've come up with something more damaging than a forced landing.
I've seen a lot of Khajiit caravans (or maybe just one Khajiit caravan a lot of times) and of course there's M'aiq the Liar.
I think there's an Argonian in Solitude that wants you to do something seedy for him, but my first paythrough is with a good character so I didn't inquire further.
(fast travel)
