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Don't forget that you can get potions of +%Enchanting that you can use to make enchantments that give +%Alchemy to make stronger +%Enchanting potions to make better +%Smithing gear, etc etc.

Like the Morrowind Infinite Intelligence loop, where, since the strength of a potion was determined by Int, you could make potions of +Int, drink those, make more potions of +Int that were now stronger, and keep going until you had something like +5000 Intelligence for 15 days potions.

I never realized how much getting attacked by 2 dragons sucked until today...

JohnnoM wrote:How do you smith better things?
Im at smithing 20-ish and I still can only smith the base things.

Unlock them with perks.

If you mean upgrading them, you do that at a workbench (for armor) or a grindstone (for weapons).

Whoo Hoo! Got SkiRim for Xmas.

Easy daedra hearts

get access to the colleg of winterhold and/or do the thieves guild quest

your fence sells 2 daedra hearts and restocks every cople of days

Or do Mehrunes Dagon's quest, and get 4 every 3 days for free.

I'm a cheap bastard.

Got the Daedric armour now. I guess I should probably start progressing some of the main story quests again sometime, as I stopped basically after getting Dragonrend.

My saves were wiped when I switched to a 64bit OS so I've started again, this time I'm running an imperial resto-speech-warrior with a hatred of undead clad in the most golden looking armour I can find

After this one I'm going to run a vampire thief.

Im starting to really dig summoning/destruction. I still suck at enchanting big time, but mostly its my fault, as I continually forget that I have a sou trap spell to make pidly things But man, can I kick some major ass. Im about to get on now, and learn some better summons.



and I must add, Ive read many times on here how you guys kill so many dragons, and Ive gotta say, they are tough! Ive killed 2 though. And added badass perk, Ive killed a Giant at lvl 7 without cheating. It was incredibly hard though, but was up in a tree line on a hill and I kept zig zagging in them and my flame atronach (sp?) and I kept blasting fireballs at it. Took awhile and 2 summons but I beat that bastard!

Dragons get easier as you level up, and they introduce bigger stronger generic dragons as you do.

My current character is an Argonian warrior.

Pretty much the same focuses as my first character, Sword and Shield, Light Armour and Restoration.

Iv got a little back story behind him. Currently hes on the run from the Dark Brotherhood as he is a Shadowscale who wasn't interested in the DB, so fled to Skyrim after trying to be assassinated and got caught in the ambush by General Tullius. He hates the DB and the Empire with a vengeance.

You can roughly tell whats going to happen haha.

Though when playin him i completely forgot what I was doing and followed Hadvar at the start.

I thought the Shadowscales were a subset of the DB? O_o

Just betrayed the Stormcloaks to the Empire by handing the Jagged Crown over, but only after killing the Emperor.

Fun fun fun.

Swordwind wrote:I thought the Shadowscales were a subset of the DB? O_o

Just betrayed the Stormcloaks to the Empire by handing the Jagged Crown over, but only after killing the Emperor.

Fun fun fun.

Shadowscales are a kind of argonian, most of them do join the DB though.

From what I learned in Oblivion from the argonian in the DB, Teinaava, Shadowscales are born under the Shadow starsign and are given to the DB. Any that come to age are acepted into the DB.

Followed up by this source:

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Shadowscales

I know its a wiki link but they are usually correct. Do not that you do not want to read the Skyrim part as it contains a spoiler if you havnt done the DB questline.

Just acquired the Wabbajack, however i havent used it yet, looking forward to it!

I only wish that there was a quest for Argonian characters to become a Shadowscale. I changed my sign to the Shadow and all that. );

How do I become a werewolf? A lot of the companions quests so far have been kind of boring. (Then again I've only done one REAL quest for them, and that was fun. The first one where you help the guy kill the draugr. All of those fetch quests around Whiterun got old fast)

And any tips for killing the fething Falmer? I had to go all the way back to the surface on the "inscribe the lexicon" quest to get more health potions. Luckily there was a conveniently placed elevator, but it was still a long walk. And WTF a creature that is BLIND should not be able to detect me when I have a potion of invisibility. So yeah how do I kill the damn things more effectively?

I find that falmer really don't like being set on fire, other than that they are tough blighters.

Also how do you join the dark brotherhood? I found their door while randomly wandering around.

GalacticDefender wrote:Also how do you join the dark brotherhood? I found their door while randomly wandering around.

Go to windhelm. Look around until you find something called the "Arentino Residence". Pick the lock. Talk to the kid in there.
Accept his job. Go to riften and waste the old bitch (you'll know what I am talking about). Wait several days. After recieving the scary, go to sleep.

Sweet Dreams

Aaaand I've obsoleted the Daedric set by being able to go over the cap in Orcish (which I prefer the look of).

My super-smithing isn't enough to get the steel sets up to it yet.

I want to find the rest of the Ancient Nord set though, to look the proper Nordic warrior. Wearing Orcish at the moment though, as although it isn't as Nordish, at least it looks like it's from the same game unlike Daedric and my character's hair doesn't clip through the helmet like Dragonplate...

LOL Stupid dragons attacking me in towns. A dragons attacks me in Riverwood and no one is helping me. Not a big deal, I can handle a dragon. Then as I start to do Unrelenting Force, guards come in to help, right at that moment. My UF is maxed out, so the dragon staggers and the guards go flying!

Don't get me wrong, nothing makes me laugh like watching guards ragdoll down the road like the next guy, but then they want to arrest you after words. *sigh* I just killed a dragon, you ex-adventurers don't scare me. Go away or an arrow in your knee will be the least of your problems.

I am at Level 51 and have my heavy armour, two-handed weapons, smithing, enchanting, alchemy, sneaking, and lock picking maxed out.

My daedric chest armour alone is 490 at the moment and I think I will be able to get it even higher once I make me a few potions that increase my armor improving even more. Right now I have made potions that makes my improving +40%. I can carry a weight of 500 without my magical items. Most stuff I swing my Daedric sword at die in 1 or 2 hits, (even Death Lords). Dragon Priests go down quick too if I get close to them. Usually I freeze them and then run up and smash them.

Dragons go down quick if I get them to land. If I fight one in a town I usually run out and make them follow me to an area where they will land.

My toughest fight so far was fighting an Ancient Dragon, Elder Dragon, and a Dragon Priest at the same time.

CthuluIsSpy wrote:

GalacticDefender wrote:Also how do you join the dark brotherhood? I found their door while randomly wandering around.

Go to windhelm. Look around until you find something called the "Arentino Residence". Pick the lock. Talk to the kid in there.
Accept his job. Go to riften and waste the old bitch (you'll know what I am talking about). Wait several days. After recieving the scary, go to sleep.

Sweet Dreams

See I haven't got around to the DB stuff yet, but I am interested to see if I have borked my character, or if like the dragonstone it'll take that into account. You see, I already killed her, my Dark Elf really didn't like her attitude and murdered her in her sleep the same night she met her.
Same with the dragonstone, I went into a dungeon, fought through, got the stone, then went to Windhelm a few days later, and when the mage asked me to get it, one of the responses was 'oh you mean this old stone here' or words to that effect.

Dark Brotherhood Entry Spoiler (if you want to find out if your char is borken, read it, otherwise, don't)


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I also think i've fethed my rogue a bit. In trying to be as rogue-y as possible, i've neglected everything that allows me to fight things I can't sneak up on. Dragons are fine, but my daggers just bounce off Dragon Priests and higher-level Draugr like Scourges and Deathlords (on the off-chance that killing something triggers them, like the Deathlord in the place where you get the Jagged Crown). They're immune to Disarm, I only have L2 UF, Marked for Death is the only other thing I can use, but the armour degredation on L1 isn't great. Nightingale Strike also doesn't seem to do much.

Up until now i've been relying on stabbing stuff with x30 damage and neglecting the 1h tree something fierce, and i'm starting to feel the effects of doing so.

This game has some really creepy stuff in it, waay creepier than Oblivion.

Has anybody found the ruins (I forget the name) it has a bunch of dark mages around the outside, and inside it has a ton of empty wine bottles laying around. Two people working the forge inside are having a conversation about what's "below" and how disgusting what goes on down there is. Anybody? I got freaked out and since I'm still only lvl 10 I lit out of there to come back later. So what's down there?

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:

CthuluIsSpy wrote:

GalacticDefender wrote:Also how do you join the dark brotherhood? I found their door while randomly wandering around.

Go to windhelm. Look around until you find something called the "Arentino Residence". Pick the lock. Talk to the kid in there.
Accept his job. Go to riften and waste the old bitch (you'll know what I am talking about). Wait several days. After recieving the scary, go to sleep.

Sweet Dreams

See I haven't got around to the DB stuff yet, but I am interested to see if I have borked my character, or if like the dragonstone it'll take that into account. You see, I already killed her, my Dark Elf really didn't like her attitude and murdered her in her sleep the same night she met her.
Same with the dragonstone, I went into a dungeon, fought through, got the stone, then went to Windhelm a few days later, and when the mage asked me to get it, one of the responses was 'oh you mean this old stone here' or words to that effect.

Well, supposedly you can also join it if you meet this crazy jester guy and help him with his wagon. You can find on the road going from Whiterun.

So I managed to get full Daedric legendary armor and sword/shield yesterday, looks pretty epic.

Loving the game.

Well I couldnt take it anymore, and decided to put the mage on hold for the time being, and made my Orc warrior. Im going 2 handed and working my ass off on smithing. I have to say, its awesome sauce. I already (like lvl10 last night?) do so much damage with my 2 handed perks its insane.

And finally my first gripe about the game. After working my ass off on smithing, I can make my gear exquisite and just made my first bit of Orc armor. My problem is though, is they didnt make any of the quality you make any different then normal from what Ive seen. So my exquisite Orc warhammer, looks the same as it did the day I made it, and so on. Just a little gripe but still, they should of added some swirls or SOMETHING to embellish armor/weapons that you upgrade.


And Ive smashed down 3 dragons already with this build. Any dragon that lands, just gave itself a death sentence lol. But oddly enough, Ive yet to be able to go toe to toe with a damn frost troll. Dear GOD those things can kick my ass

Lint wrote:This game has some really creepy stuff in it, waay creepier than Oblivion.

Has anybody found the ruins (I forget the name) it has a bunch of dark mages around the outside, and inside it has a ton of empty wine bottles laying around. Two people working the forge inside are having a conversation about what's "below" and how disgusting what goes on down there is. Anybody? I got freaked out and since I'm still only lvl 10 I lit out of there to come back later. So what's down there?

I have no idea.
Were it dwemer ruins or a cave?
If Dwemer ruins, it could be Dwemer statues.
If any of both, it could be Falmer.

Anyways, I keep walking trough my (not in game, real!) house singing this:
'Dovahkiin, Dovahkiin, naal ok zin los vahriin, wah dein vokul mahfaeraak ahst vaal!
Ahrk fin norok paal graan fod nust hon zindro zaan, Dovahkiin, fah hin kogaan mu draal!
Huzrah nu, kul do od, wah aan bok lingrah vod, Aahrk fin tey, boziik fun, do fin gein!
Wo lost fron wah ney dov, ahrk fin reyliik do jul, voth aan suleyk wah ronit faal krein!
Ahrk fin zul, rok drey kod, nau tol morokei frod, rul lot Taazokaan motaad voth kein!
Sahrot Thu'um, med aan tuz, vey zeim hokoron pah, ol fin Dovahkiin komeyt ok rein!
Ahrk fin Kel lost prodah, do ved viing ko fin krah, tol fod zeymah win kein meyz fundein!
Alduin, feyn do jun, kruziik vokun staadnau, voth aan bahlok wah diivon fin lein!
Nuz aan sul, fent alok, fod fin vul dovah nok, fen kos nahlot mahfaeraak ahrk ruz!
Paaz Keizaal fen kos stin nol bein Alduin jot, Dovahkiin kos fin saviik do muz!'

and this, ofcourse:
'The Age of Oppression

We drink to our youth, and to days come and gone. For the age of oppression is now nearly done.
We'll drive out the Empire from this land that we own. With our blood and our steel we will take back our home.
All hail to Ulfric! You are the High King! In your great honor we drink and we sing.
We're the children of Skyrim, and we fight all our lives. And when Sovngarde beckons, every one of us dies!
But this land is ours and we'll see it wiped clean. Of the scourge that has sullied our hopes and our dreams.'
But thats just me, i guess..