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Avatar 720 wrote:

Slarg232 wrote:

Manchu wrote:I think Bosmer make the best bow-rogues.

Actually, I think I'm going to try a Conjuration Warrior Breton.

Should be interesting.

if by that you mean heavy armour with conjured weaponry then go for it, that's what my most recent one is and it's a blast

Can you summon up a weapon and it immediately goes into your summoning hand?

Where do you find Bound Weapons?

I was actually going to roleplay a sort of Magika Guard; conjuring bows/weapons while wearing a Guards uniform (love that hat).

Do you need arrows to shoot a bound bow, do you know?

@Sol: If you want challenge try being a dual-wielding stealth character. Good luck with dragons.

Slarg232 wrote:

Avatar 720 wrote:

Slarg232 wrote:

Manchu wrote:I think Bosmer make the best bow-rogues.

Actually, I think I'm going to try a Conjuration Warrior Breton.

Should be interesting.

if by that you mean heavy armour with conjured weaponry then go for it, that's what my most recent one is and it's a blast

Can you summon up a weapon and it immediately goes into your summoning hand?

Where do you find Bound Weapons?

I was actually going to roleplay a sort of Magika Guard; conjuring bows/weapons while wearing a Guards uniform (love that hat).

Do you need arrows to shoot a bound bow, do you know?

I don't think you get magic bows, that is what lightening bolt is for.
With bound weapons, I think you cast it as a normal spell, and it appears in your hands automatically for a short time. You can buy the Bound Weapon tomes from any vendor who sells spells.
I know of 3

-Riverwood trader
-Farengar
-That conjurer guy at the Mage College

Manchu wrote:@Sol: If you want challenge try being a dual-wielding stealth character. Good luck with dragons.

This is my point, I don't want to have to make a game challenging by limiting myself.

So you want to break a game and still find it challenging. Can I suggest Demon's Souls?

CthuluIsSpy wrote:
I don't think you get magic bows, that is what lightening bolt is for.

You most definitely can get Conjure: Bound Bow.

The spell also summons 100 Bound Arrows, but you can use real ones if I remember.

It wasn't challenging even when I didn't use tailor made stuff. I've said so before. I started breaking it after I discovered I was already pretty much done with and just wanted a quick spin around all there was to it.

Oh and the Guild quests are dumb. You need zero skill in any of the things they represent to actually complete them.

Mages guild? Used staves on the 2 occasions a spell was required.

Thieves guild? You can just grab stuff and run away, regardless of discovery, theres no penalty at all.

Dark Brotherhood? Same again.

They should have at least some way of punishing you when you screw up, but I don't think you actually can screw up.

I completed all the guilds with a pure warrior character :\

Soladrin wrote:
Thieves guild? You can just grab stuff and run away, regardless of discovery, theres no penalty at all.

Dark Brotherhood? Same again.

Or, you know, you could do them and try not to get caught.

Just because the game doesn't force you to do it a certain way shouldn't stop you.

Not being forced, and zero penalty is quite a difference.

Really? I find a penalty in it; the penalty of not having done it the way I wanted to do it.

That is, doing it until I get it right by me.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/5020-The-Elder-Scrolls-V-Skyrim


Yahtzee's review is up!

To each their own I guess, I'm bored of the game now.

Back to Halo Anniversary! Legendary with as many skulls as I can take, huzzah!

Yeah, different strokes. But I would never fault an apple for not being an orange.

Hey, I already accepted it's more my problem then anything with the game

I like the game, don't get me wrong, but I don't get the endless hours out of it as some of you are able too.

I mean, 100 hours out of a single game (all enjoyed thoroughly mind you) is still not something any other single player game on the current market can even get close too.

Slarg232 wrote:

Avatar 720 wrote:

Slarg232 wrote:

Manchu wrote:I think Bosmer make the best bow-rogues.

Actually, I think I'm going to try a Conjuration Warrior Breton.

Should be interesting.

if by that you mean heavy armour with conjured weaponry then go for it, that's what my most recent one is and it's a blast

Can you summon up a weapon and it immediately goes into your summoning hand?

Where do you find Bound Weapons?

I was actually going to roleplay a sort of Magika Guard; conjuring bows/weapons while wearing a Guards uniform (love that hat).

Do you need arrows to shoot a bound bow, do you know?

Whichever hand you have the bound weapon spell in holds it upon summoning (you can dual wield bound weapons by having the spell in both hands and casting them both). Bound sword uses 1 hand, Bound battleaxe probably uses both, bound bow uses both, they all, however, only need 1 hand to summon, which can be confusing.

You find them from spell vendors. Bound sword is a novice level spell, so can be found on most traders of magic books (the Jarl's wizards are the best source, since they're everywhere, the closest being Whiterun). Bound battleaxe is less common, but I prefer the use of a shield, so I haven't gone looking for it. Never seen a vendor with bound bow, but the tome can be found in Fort Amol prison (you can find the location on any map with red and blue flags on it (can be found at any Imperial or Stormcloak camps, and I believe there's one in the room where you sign up for the Imperials in Solitude, simply hover on the blue flags till you see 'Fort Amol' and hit the action button to save the location to your map), and I believe it's stormcloak held unless you're an imperial and you've done the quest to capture it).

In the prison, look for a bucket with a lantern in it, lift the lantern out and the spell tome is sitting beneath where it was in the bucket, which can save a lot of time running between vendors, and can save a few gold. It starts off as needing 137 magicka to cast though, so unless you're increasing magicka every few levels (since I only use BS and BB, I don't bother) you'll need to spend a perk to half the cost of Adept level spells before you can use it.

Bound bow comes with 100 arrows every time you cast, but unless you're a terrible, terrible shot and fire off one every second or so, you shouldn't run out of them before you need to re-cast it (if your bound item is out for a few minutes straight, it'll disappear and you'll need to re-cast it).

Manchu wrote:@Sol: If you want challenge try being a dual-wielding stealth character. Good luck with dragons.

Thats what I am, and I have no problem with dragons

Well, I'm archery too. I shoot the dragon while he's being a baby and flying around, when he lands, I switch to my 2 swords, sprint up into his face and do the marked for death shout. Then I swing both arms and the same time, and do it again, and then again, and then it's dead If he bites me and it hurts, I just chug down a heal pot and finish swinging. Even before I discovered upgrading armor, dragons were still pretty easy for me. Sometimes I don't even fight them and just leave, cuz I just don't feel like it getting annoyed with having to swap back to my bow when he takes off again.

Bears are tougher than dragons :(

Oh and get yourself a Shadowmere. Bestest dragon tank in the whole game.

Archery is nearly as OP as destro! I say nearly only because it's hard to get multiple sneak attacks on dragons.

If I do a mage I was thinking of doing destruction plus conjuration, so I can have a pet hit stuff while I toss fireballs. But, I'll just stick with my sneaky guy for now and finish the stormcloak missions and then the main quests and probably hold off on a new character for a while, maybe till they put out a DLC. I need get my life back for a while ...

No need to waste time/magicka on conjuration if you have a companion, in my experience.

Skyrim is the only game where I find more quests while screwing around then when I try to get things done. Everyone and everything needs something done.

Yeah, the game is stuffed with quests. and most are out in the boonies somewhere you wouldn't ever go unless you just decided to take a walking tour of Skyrim's outer reaches.

Hey now, sometimes it's fun to pick a direction and just walk.

And murder everything on the way there.

Fun stuff happens when you explore.

I like walking into the Imperial Camps and turning into a Werewolf on the spot. its fun to slaughter poor NPCs just milling around doing nothing.

In that same vein...
As I mentioned early, I like to ambush patrols when I find them.
I like to think that Tullius and Ulfric are sitting around lamenting their loss of men.

Can't say i'm a fan of that fact that

Yeah, I hate the ever living captains.

I especially hate that they just kinda kneel down and catch their breath when you defeat them. Oblivion was kinda nice in that the vital NPCs actually became unconcious.

I'm against "essential" npc's in general.

Not me! Quests already find 99 ways to feth up but a dead NPC ain't one.

corpsesarefun wrote:I'm against "essential" npc's in general.

Sounds like a vitamen. Make sure you have your .05mg of Essential NPCs daily to prevent dry skin.