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CthuluIsSpy wrote:

thenoobbomb wrote:I hope for DLC that gives me a book called 'the lusty greybeards.'
Think 'the lusty argonian maid', but then about master Bori ghetting teached master Arngeir about the dragobtongue..

GAAAH NO! The last thing we need is a rule 34 greybeard slashflick.

Now if it were with Lydia and Mjolll...

I could have a crack at both if you want; BorrixArngier (or however it's spelled, i'll look it up) for thenoobbomb, and LydiaxMjoll for you.

Of course, in perfect bad slashfic fashion, it'd have to be hilariously out of line with the plot and background and one of the duo has to be innocent and shy with the other one being as horny as feth, even if it's hugely out of character. They also have to discover that they're secretly gay, despite having no thoughts about it previously whatsoever.

It also has to be badly spelled with little or no grammar.

as long as the Dovakin comes in at the very end and Fus-ro-Dah's them off the side of the Throat of the World(dang, that mountain sounds dirtier and dirtier every time I read it )

Oh there'll be lots of interesting shouting done in the throat of the world

I feel paarthurnax should join in...

What?

If you are throwing in a dragon, you might as well add a couple of trolls and a hagraven.

Is it bad that trolls, hagravens, dwemer constructs and bears go down with ease yet forsworn and falmer decimate my level 40 thief?

Forsworn obliterate my level 42 Rogue/Thief/Assassin if they see me, apart from that they fall like wheat to a scythe.

Falmer i'm not sure of, since they've only ever detected my Rogue once in her lifetime, and that went tits up because Brynjolf decided he could tank everything and Karliah decided to bugger off, leaving me against several Falmer and a Chaurus Reaper.

Dwemer Constructs still give me hassle though, the Spheres moreso than anything else since they seem to be continuously on the move and have greater detection than most mobs, and my daggers don't seem to do much.

the Forsworn and Falmer power level is a tad too high. Forsworn at least have very little protection so they can't take much damage, but their output is tremendous. Falmer are more durable and just as damaging.

I do appreciate that bows are more powerful, but they need to tone down the accuracy. Maybe competely remove them from Falmer too. I don't care how advanced their vibration and hearing senses are, you can't hit a human sized object 9 times out of ten at 100 yards without eyes

I've put no perks into bows and next to no points into health (all on stamina, stupid but what the hell ) so perhaps that's my issue.

The other problem I suppose I'm having is forsworn and falmer come in large numbers, strong foes on their own can be sneak attacked to death with ease but groups tend to be harder.

It's easier if you can use bows to draw them away from the packs. If you fire an arrow at a wall, they'll go off and investigate, and then mill around for while, and you can pick one off with a dagger strike as they're walking back, since dagger attacks are silent, or one of the NPCs will stay there and walk around that area for a while instead.

You can also stand in a door (a little further back, but make sure there's a shadowy corner or place you can hide right next to it), loose off an arrow and hit one, then shift off the side into your shadowed hiding place (try and make sure the middle of the door is within reasonable dagger reach, so you don't have to spend ages trapsing over there).

He'll come running up there (with friends, usually, but they'll be behind him) and should be standing just in front of where you stood when you fired the arrow. If you placed yourself right, you can catch him from the side as he's standing there. The ones behind him should follow and you just repeat the process.

If there isn't any way you can do that, then just firing arrows at them, running off (crouched, of course) to a secluded corner until they leave, and rinse repeating works just as well, but it's far more tedious.

That would explain it somewhat. You really should be putting most of your upgrades into health and then a split between Magica and Stamina.

I suddenly have a vision of some skinny little frail dude carrying massive amounts of super heavy stuff and then he gets torn apart by a rabid skeever.

Unless you're a non-magic user like my Rogue is, who still only has 100 magicka at level 42

She's kept a fairly good balance between health and stamina, 300 in the former and 310 in the latter, since I find that I become overencumbered a hell of a lot, and I like to roll everywhere; I don't take much damage anyway, and I like having to play hide-and-seek sometimes; it adds to the gameplay more than standing there and taking it whilst you try and poke their eyes out with glass.

I have 110 magicka (so I could cast fear once to get into the mages college), 140 health and around 400 stamina IIRC. I'm also a very skinny dark elf that rarely leaves sneak mode when in a dungeon as I roll everywhere with my ridiculous stamina.

I don't use magic at all and I only use bows to pick off distant weak enemies as the silent attacks with 30* damage multipliers on my legendary glass daggers (base damage 34) of absorb health (extra 8 points damage) are too tempting to ignore.

Got my wizard with nothing but Magicka- he can fire off Lightning like a boss, but is a little wary of taking damage himself.

When Skyrim first came out everyone was shouting about how overpowered magic was, now we have insane armour rating and damage on warriors and 30* sneak attacks on thieves

I did say Sneak was OP...
I can do 1500 damage in a single sneak attack...
That just seems wrong... though considering i did just slit their throat they should be dead... so it seems right...
Dilema solved .

Really endgame characters are just OP rather than anything in particular.

And regarding your sig, many men have hairy nipples!

Anvildude wrote:The funny thing is, once you figure out the trick to the Oblivion system, it's incredibly easy.

All you have to do is

Spoiler:

tap them up until you get one that's incredibly fast coming down. The next 'tap' can be locked into place, without fail. You just need to recognize the speeds the tumblers fall.

Exactly. Its so much more fun then the stick it in and wait for your pick to break method. It also means you can actually pick mastar locks without breaking a thousand picks. Imho the Oblivion system was just much better thought out, and fun.

corpsesarefun wrote:Really endgame characters are just OP rather than anything in particular.

And regarding your sig, many men have hairy nipples!

You didn't see this picture... It was like he had shifted all chest hair solely onto his nipples...

I really hate doing quests with the Companions on my rogue/assassin. They like to charge in like mad. My answer to that is:

run awayyyyyy

Swordwind wrote:I really hate doing quests with the Companions on my rogue/assassin. They like to charge in like mad. My answer to that is:

run awayyyyyy

Just leave them to die/fall over and then kite the enemies with either a decent dagger or a decent bow...
If worst comes to worst whack out a magic sword and have at them...
Make sure you have a fairly powerful enchantment and make good use of poison and potions to cheat during combat...

I just finished the Companions quest line, I think



And I personally think it was pretty lack luster. Specially compared to the others Ive done with other characters. Pretty big let down

Paralyze and banish enchantments cause weapons to sell for stupidly high quantities of gold.

I'm an Mage-Archer! I love this game, although I fell of a cliff and killed my poor Horse, I had named him Boreale and everything.

^edit: Also just killed my horse by galloping off a cliff.

corpsesarefun wrote:Paralyze and banish enchantments cause weapons to sell for stupidly high quantities of gold.

Any tips on where to find one of these weapons or should I just check out the wiki?
I don't have many good enchantments so far.

I just got to level 100 Smithing yesterday, next it's Alchemy and Enchantment.



edit2: I never could work out lock picking in Oblivion. I just auto-picked every lock I came across. The lock picking in Fallout 3 I absolutely love. Now Skyrim seems to have copied it and while I like it much more than Oblivion, I still don't think it's as good as FO3's lockpicking. It seems slower, picks break too easily and it takes too long to get out a new pick. I don't mind it now, but the almost guarantee that you will break a pick and the slowness that comes with that really puts me off.

KingCracker wrote:I just finished the Companions quest line, I think

Spoiler:

Im not a wolf anymore if thats where it ends?

And I personally think it was pretty lack luster. Specially compared to the others Ive done with other characters. Pretty big let down

That's the official end of the main quest because other than that you just get radiant quests from Vilkas, Farkas, or Aella. Also I don't know if you knew this or not, but you didn't have to do that to yourself, just Kodlak.

Just beat the main quest on my Rogue/Assassin... Alduin went down like a cheap date on Prom night... lackluster ending is lackluster, but I don't really care... I managed to find two daedric swords in chests

Alright, in the name of Talos, how the frak did a Giant get into Blackreach? I found him wandering around by the far wall.

Avatar 720 wrote:

CthuluIsSpy wrote:

thenoobbomb wrote:I hope for DLC that gives me a book called 'the lusty greybeards.'
Think 'the lusty argonian maid', but then about master Bori ghetting teached master Arngeir about the dragobtongue..

GAAAH NO! The last thing we need is a rule 34 greybeard slashflick.

Now if it were with Lydia and Mjolll...

I could have a crack at both if you want; BorrixArngier (or however it's spelled, i'll look it up) for thenoobbomb, and LydiaxMjoll for you.

Of course, in perfect bad slashfic fashion, it'd have to be hilariously out of line with the plot and background and one of the duo has to be innocent and shy with the other one being as horny as feth, even if it's hugely out of character. They also have to discover that they're secretly gay, despite having no thoughts about it previously whatsoever.

It also has to be badly spelled with little or no grammar.

Borri and Arngeir would just be funny

Grey Templar wrote:Alright, in the name of Talos, how the frak did a Giant get into Blackreach? I found him wandering around by the far wall.

I've had the same thing. But it was a mammoth in Whiterun.