The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

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**KingCracker**

I just made the light dragonbone armor yesterday, and was let down. It doesnt look that good. Naturally as Im playing a stealthy assassin type. The heavy though, that looks bad ass, and cant wait to see it on my warrior.

Just joined the Brotherhood as well. Super excited, as I LOVE the DB

**GangstaMuffin24**

KingCracker wrote:I just made the light dragonbone armor yesterday, and was let down. It doesnt look that good. Naturally as Im playing a stealthy assassin type. The heavy though, that looks bad ass, and cant wait to see it on my warrior.

Just joined the Brotherhood as well. Super excited, as I LOVE the DB

I like Dragonscale except for the helmet, it kind of ruins the whole suit. I just replace it the Dragon Priest mask that gives a bonus to archery on my stealth character.

**Melissia**

The dragonplate helmet is far worse, it doesn't even match the COLORs of the rest of the armor.

**Lint**

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

Ugh, I have to disagree. I am not a fan of the dragonplate. Daedric feels much sexier. I wish they'd let you customize your armours appearance, that'd be sweet.

**Melissia**

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

Ugh, I have to disagree. I am not a fan of the dragonplate. Daedric feels much sexier. I wish they'd let you customize your armours appearance, that'd be sweet.

I personally hate the new look of daedric armor...

And daedric weapons...

... and ebony weapons...

... and orc weapons...

I'm probably too big of a fan of symmetry.

**Lint**

I haven't seen the glass armour yet, only a couple of axes.... How does the glass stuff stack up?

**Melissia**

Glass armor is just below dragonscale armor in stats.

Doesn't look taht bad either.

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Glass weapons are also all fairly attractive.

For weapons, glass is surpassed by daedric and ebony.

**vodo40k**

I like the look of daedric armour however you cant help but look extremely evil while you wear it. Dragon plate dosent look brilliant IMO but it deffinatly makes you look the part of "Dovahkiin". My favourite looking armour is steel plate (and imperial with the hoplite helmet), but i dont wear it cause its not the best.

**Ensis Ferrae**

Actually, I really wish that Skyrim had built on the "factional" armor that the FO series has, especially in FO:NV... I mean, I would love to run into any town wearing my stormcloak armor, or imperial armor (especially if its held by the other group) and be straight up attacked like a common criminal, or at least get a guard stoppin me at the gate to warn me off.

It always bugged me in oblivion that once I got daedric armor, which looked EXACTLY the same as the dudes popping out of oblivion gates, all the 'civilians' and guards in the game couldn't care less.. they just all recognized me and didnt care

**purplefood**

Ensis Ferrae wrote:Actually, I really wish that Skyrim had built on the "factional" armor that the FO series has, especially in FO:NV... I mean, I would love to run into any town wearing my stormcloak armor, or imperial armor (especially if its held by the other group) and be straight up attacked like a common criminal, or at least get a guard stoppin me at the gate to warn me off.

It always bugged me in oblivion that once I got daedric armor, which looked EXACTLY the same as the dudes popping out of oblivion gates, all the 'civilians' and guards in the game couldn't care less.. they just all recognized me and didnt care

In Oblivion you were attacked if you cranked the difficulty up and wore necromancer robes or DB gear.
Try that...

**thenoobbomb**

I now need to go in Blackreach but am evel 15.. Should I wait for that? I think Ill die immediately when a Centurion shows up..

Also, I made my own Dwarven armor and Im proud. Hah. (I know, I suck because of that)

**Grey Templar**

You run into like 1 Centurion when doing that quest. So unless you decide to go exploring every nook and cranny you should be fine if you are worried about them. Frankly, Falmer are more dangerous.

**thenoobbomb**

Ive read that its around 3 Centurions and lots of Falmer...
Ill wait and level up some more.
Would the mace of Molog Bal help?
(when I find a wife I really need to equip forsworn armor on her...

)

**Akroma06**

Then make sure it's someone who is already a follower if you want them to wear the Falmer. Someone like Lydia or Alea the Huntress. It has to be better than what they already have.

As far as the mace of Molag Bal goes, I have not been thrilled with any of the Daedric Artifacts short of Azura's Star. I miss Umbra.

**Corpsesarefun**

I love daedric, ebony and orcish weapons but sadly I've specc'd into light armour and the light armour side of smithing

Was anyone able to clear up the issue I had with the wiki stating glass daggers had a base damage of 14 whereas daedric had a base damage of 12?

**Morathi's Darkest Sin**

I went up the heavy side myself, even though a light armour wearer, I could wait for the Dragonscale, and wanted access to ebony one handers.

Love the fact you can name your items when you enchant, I'm getting way too much fun out of such a simple option.

**Melissia**

Did they fix naming enchanted items so they aren't always in all caps?

**Morathi's Darkest Sin**

On the xbox thats not an issue, well not in my game anyways. Either I am lucky, or its only on PC format?

Hmm, noting the enchanting thing, I'll need to get some more ebony together for another sword once I max it.

It's a crazy difference though. Make a ebony sword, craft it up to epic, and enchant the danged thing. Damage difference between my old scimitar and 'Darklight' was insane.

**Melissia**

They may have simplyalready patched it.

**vodo40k**

thenoobbomb wrote:I now need to go in Blackreach but am evel 15.. Should I wait for that? I think Ill die immediately when a Centurion shows up..

Also, I made my own Dwarven armor and Im proud. Hah. (I know, I suck because of that)

The way to deal with the centurions is to get in close, i mean hugging their legs close. That way they wont be able to use their extremely nasty steam attack. You either have to be pretty proficient at blocking or dodging to do this well.

**Grey Templar**

Or you can keep it stunned with Power Attacks and Unrelenting Force.

First Centurion I faced, I spent a good 10 minutes playing tag with Fire breath and avoiding its steam attack.

Second Centurion I faced I got up in its grill and it died pretty quickly with only minor damage to myself. You probably don't want to do that if you are specilizing in light armor or are a mage, that would end badly.

I find it odd that the Dwarven machines are resistant to Ice but not Fire. You think Ice would be good because it could shut down the boilers, but instead Ice just tickles them while fire does decent damage.

**Avatar 720**

All dwarven constructs are actually immune to frost and poision, and come with a 25% magic resist IIRC.

**Grey Templar**

Poison and Magic make sense, Frost doesn't. Freeze up the mechanisims and the whole thing becomes useless.

**Avatar 720**

It goes against one of the books found in the game too, the "Ruins of Something'Something" and I know it had a 'z' in it...

**Goliath**

Avatar 720 wrote:It goes against one of the books found in the game too, the "Ruins of Something'Something" and I know it had a 'z' in it...

I think you're thinking of "The Ruins of Kemel-Ze" and another thing that's quite good for centurions is ranged sneak attacks, because if they haven't activated yet, they can still take damage.

Which brings me onto one thing I miss from Oblivion, the ability to place enchantments onto individual arrows. That was fun. "Oh, there are five dremora that can't see me, guess I'll just use my arrows that do 30 lightning damage in a 15 foot radius then"

**Grey Templar**

Well, you can enchant your Bows so you can kinda still do the magical group assassination thingy.

**Corpsesarefun**

Can you enchant things to do AoE damage?

**Grey Templar**

I don't know, I havn't done much enchanting in Skyrim.

**Corpsesarefun**

I've not seen any AoE enchantments and very few AoE spells.

**Melissia**

There are no AoE enchantments I think.

As for AoE spells, there's the tier three and four spells. Fireball is an AoE, the ice one hits everything in a fairly wide line, and the chain lightning of course jumps from enemy to enemy, whiel the three tier four ones... I haven't really used much, they kinda suck IIRC.

The runes are also AoE and quite a bit more powerful than the second tier spells.