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Melissia wrote:

Lord Scythican wrote:I used to be original, exciting, and wise then I took an arrow in the knee.

Okay, that's it. Nobody who uses that meme is a person.

Thus I'm putting anyone who uses it from now on on my ignore list >.<

Oh now come on, you might as well back it up to anyone who used it in the last few days. You know I have to make at least one more arrow in the knee joke since you made that statement. It is just kind of hanging there, begging for me to make at least one more arrow in the knee joke.

Oh well, at least I went out with a bang. It could have been worse, I could have taken an arrow in the knee instead of being put on an ignore list. That would have been worse. On the plus side, my chances of getting a disability check would have increased, since I would have had two injuries.

Now I can only get a job as a high school security guard.

Lord Scythican wrote:

Melissia wrote:

Lord Scythican wrote:I used to be original, exciting, and wise then I took an arrow in the knee.

Okay, that's it. Nobody who uses that meme is a person.

Thus I'm putting anyone who uses it from now on on my ignore list >.<

Oh now come on, you might as well back it up to anyone who used it in the last few days. You know I have to make at least one more arrow in the knee joke since you made that statement. It is just kind of hanging there, begging for me to make at least one more arrow in the knee joke.

Oh well, at least I went out with a bang. It could have been worse, I could have taken an arrow in the knee instead of being put on an ignore list. That would have been worse. On the plus side, my chances of getting a disability check would have increased, since I would have had two injuries.

Now I can only get a job as a high school security guard.

Whcih reminds me; someone stole my sweetroll...

No forviveness. That "joke" is boring and unimaginative, as is anyone who uses it.

Okay I promise not to use it again!

It really isn't funny at all.



How about some better topics?


I wish the glitches in the game would get fixed. I went to liberate the reach and none of the stormcloaks were where they were supposed to be. I waited several times and they never showed up. I gave up and did some other quests since the fort was completely empty. Every time I went into the fort it said I failed the quest.

Eventually I went into Markarth for another quest and I was attacked by the Jarl & crew. I beat them and it said I completed the liberation of reach quest. Then it told me to return to Ulfric to finish the quest, which never finished even after I talked to him. Weird...


I wish the bookshelves and mannequins would get fixed too...

For some reason health draining enchanted daggers start health draining a split second before I hit causing the mob to detect me and denying my delicious 30x sneak damage bonus :(

I made some named enchanted legendary glass daggers for my vampire thief to go with his vampire theme and now they are making me far less effective on combat :/

Some bugs have been fixed.

For example, the unkillable dragon flying backwards bug which was caused by traveling around.


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corpsesarefun wrote:For some reason health draining enchanted daggers start health draining a split second before I hit causing the mob to detect me and denying my delicious 30x sneak damage bonus :(

I made some named enchanted legendary glass daggers for my vampire thief to go with his vampire theme and now they are making me far less effective on combat :/

Make your off hand dagger draining, and your main hand one damaging?

Melissia wrote:Some bugs have been fixed.

For example, the unkillable dragon flying backwards bug which was caused by traveling around.

I noticed that I hadn't seen that one in a while.

I really want to display some armour in my house though...

Also does anyone know if there is a forge that comes with any of the houses? I bought the house in windhelm and it has everything but a forge. Also my option for cleaning up the murder's mess disappeared before I could purchase it.

Melissia wrote:Some bugs have been fixed.

For example, the unkillable dragon flying backwards bug which was caused by traveling around.


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corpsesarefun wrote:For some reason health draining enchanted daggers start health draining a split second before I hit causing the mob to detect me and denying my delicious 30x sneak damage bonus :(

I made some named enchanted legendary glass daggers for my vampire thief to go with his vampire theme and now they are making me far less effective on combat :/

Make your off hand dagger draining, and your main hand one damaging?

The idea was both are draining and act as a proxy set of fangs for draining life in combat, I suppose I could make the mainhand soultrap.

Soultrap is pretty good if you want to raise your enchanting higher...

I admit, I've been going around with unenchanted dragonscale armor becauase I want to wait until enchantment is at max before enchanting it lol...

My armour is nightingale and daggers cost very little in resources so I don't need to worry about wasting enchantments really.

According to the wiki glass daggers are stronger than daedric, is this true?

Question: what are the componants of Dragon armor? How many scales/bones do I need? do I need other metals?

Grey Templar wrote:Question: what are the componants of Dragon armor? How many scales/bones do I need? do I need other metals?

Which kind?

Dragonbone (heavy) or dragonscale (light)?

Dragonbone for sure.

Name, Leather Strips, Dragon Scales, Dragon Bones:
Dragonplate Armor: 3, 3, 2
Dragonplate Boots: 2, 3, 1
Dragonplate Gauntlets: 2, 2, 1
Dragonplate Helmet: 2, 2, 1
Dragonplate Shield: 1, 3, 1

Total: 10 leather strips, 13 dragon scales, 6 dragon bones.

Daedric armor is better (by a few points) by the way, but dragonplate armor looks better.

Can you re-enchant pieces out of interest. I foolishly enchanted my Dragonscale set, and its covered in +4% and that kind of horror level enchants.

Okay I can make the set again if not, but if I can just enchant over the top, I can raise up my stats a bit as I am mastering the skill.

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Can you re-enchant pieces out of interest. I foolishly enchanted my Dragonscale set, and its covered in +4% and that kind of horror level enchants.

Okay I can make the set again if not, but if I can just enchant over the top, I can raise up my stats a bit as I am mastering the skill.

You cannot re-enchant. Once an item is enchanted, it's stuck.

If you want the optimal enchantments, make sure to get to 100 Enchanting and get the perk "Extra Effect" to put 2 enchantments on the same item. (And, each is as powerful as if it were the only one on it.)

Right, will make certain I take that into account, and keep leveling my enchanting.

I leveled my enchanting while leveling smithing. Buy a bunch if iron and leather strips, make 27 iron daggers. Take the daggers to your nearest enchanter table and enchant as many as you can with cheapy petty souls, then sell the daggers for 70-100 gold each

Necros wrote:I leveled my enchanting while leveling smithing. Buy a bunch if iron and leather strips, make 27 iron daggers. Take the daggers to your nearest enchanter table and enchant as many as you can with cheapy petty souls, then sell the daggers for 70-100 gold each

Some enchantments are worth more gold than others, I used drain stamina when i did this.

If you do that ,be sure to either use the Lovers stone or switch between warrior for smithing and mage for enchanting (or sleep with your wife/husband, which grants a temporary bonus that's the same as the lover's stone bonus) before embarking on that, to maximize xp gain.

Does anyone have any advice for levelling Alchemy? Even with things with Fortify Alchemy, the Thief Stone and Lover's Comfort bonus, plus making the most expensive potion in the game (Wheat + Giant's Toe Fortify Health potion), only gives me about half a level at a time, and Toes are scarce.

What combinations of common ingredients typically produce the more valuable potions?

Hell if I know, I never touch alchemy...

Avatar 720 wrote:Does anyone have any advice for levelling Alchemy? Even with things with Fortify Alchemy, the Thief Stone and Lover's Comfort bonus, plus making the most expensive potion in the game (Wheat + Giant's Toe Fortify Health potion), only gives me about half a level at a time, and Toes are scarce.

What combinations of common ingredients typically produce the more valuable potions?

Well the way I have been doing it is to gather any ingredients that I find in my travels. They don't weigh much so you can carry a lot. Periodically I drop all of them off at my house in one specific container. Once I get a lot of them I go to my alchemy table with all my ingredients and just make whatever potions I can. I then sell off the ones I don't want. I maxed out the skill doing this a long time ago.

That's the method i've been using throughout, but it hasn't done much.

Avatar 720 wrote:That's the method i've been using throughout, but it hasn't done much.

Do you eat the ingredients too? That gives you a small boost to the skill and opens up options for more powerful potions.

Of course, I eat one of every ingredient I find so I can discover the first effect. Not got the perk that discovers the second yet, but i've made so many potions using so many ingredients that only a small handful haven't had the second effect revealed.

Avatar 720 wrote:Of course, I eat one of every ingredient I find so I can discover the first effect. Not got the perk that discovers the second yet, but i've made so many potions using so many ingredients that only a small handful haven't had the second effect revealed.

It may be the types of potions you are creating. I usually make potions with three ingredients. However even with that I will select and reselect ingredients if they do not make an expensive potion. Sometimes choosing one ingredient over another will make a potion worth over 500 gold versus like 60.

I am awful at Alchemy.

it's my worst skill that i have actually spent time on.
I just dont get it!

Heh. You'z guys have it easy. Back in Morrowind, you had to select each ingredient seperately, and you couldn't see the effects of the ingredients you'd already selected!

If you made a potion with two items that both had the same 'unkown effect', you didn't learn the effect, you just got a potion with an unknown effect.

The list was alphabetical, and horizontal, and purely graphical, meaning you had to either mouse over each item to see its name, or learn to recognize them by their icon.

I don't know if this last one is correct, but from how it feels, there were about twice as many different ingredients than there are in either later game.

I find it much easier to recognise items by images, if there was a mod that changed the inventory interface to take up more room with tiled images instead of a list of text I would be a happy man.