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I've had to sack off my unarmed combat experiment unfortunately.
With going double destro Im pretty much wearing mage only gear and hth combat is most definetly not the place to be for that. Being one shotted aint fun.

You can upgrade nightingale armour with void salts!

I have 100 smithing and enchanting with all 5/5 on the first enchanting perk, insightful enchanter, corpus enchanter and extra effect. My alchemy is only 70 something but I'm working on that.

If you want to raise alchemy head to the reach and pick all the juniper berries you can carry then make regenerate health potions using either juniper berries and garlic (my most commonly used one) or juniper berries and vampire dust. Also stock up on deathbells and salt then make slow poisons with them or wheat and giant toes to make fortify health potions.

just completed the Fallen but I have no desire to finish the play-through. I'm planning on starting a thief/rouge character and then focusing on maxing out my smiting and enchanting. I have a few more games in my back log to beat and I really want to play through Mass Effect 1 and 2 one more time before 3 comes out so I may not come back to Skyrim until after March. Its a really great game, hell I spent over 100 hours playing it already I just want to come back to it another time.

My advice would be similar.
Take a break from it, a good month or two (or three) will do wonders in terms of coming back to it fresh and invigorated.

Yeah the world is awesome and I only scratched the surface of it after 100 plus hours. There are so many games I want to catch up on this year and so little time. Thank god the only announced games so far that I want to play are only Mass Effect 3, Max Payne 3 and Bioshock Infinite. Good thing Max Payne got pushed back to May.

corpsesarefun wrote:You can upgrade nightingale armour with void salts!

I have 100 smithing and enchanting with all 5/5 on the first enchanting perk, insightful enchanter, corpus enchanter and extra effect. My alchemy is only 70 something but I'm working on that.

If you want to raise alchemy head to the reach and pick all the juniper berries you can carry then make regenerate health potions using either juniper berries and garlic (my most commonly used one) or juniper berries and vampire dust. Also stock up on deathbells and salt then make slow poisons with them or wheat and giant toes to make fortify health potions.

Unfortunately I can't upgrade my Nightingale, seeing as I have no perks in smithing. *sigh*

Dunwich wrote:The only way a follower can die is if you kill them yourself. Enemies will attack your hirelings until near death, when the hireling will crouch down and enemies will ignore them.

They can also die if they are attacked to the point of yielding in an area where they will continue to take damage, e.g. someone cast firewall, they get knocked back in a fight into a trap/blade gauntlet, or are still getting hit with area effect spells because they are near you or another friendly NPC.

I wouldnt say its that cut and dry. On the mage I made, I had....whats her face, the house carl you get with me. And in a cave with some big ass spiders, they killed her strait out, but on the flip side, I watched while laughing as she tried to take on a dragon (obviously loaded before she died) and no matter how many times it blasted her with fire and took chunks out of her, she just kindda laid there in pain

Did the nightmares in Dawnstar stuff earlier, liked that quest a lot.

However as I'm mainly trying to raise alchemy and enchanting atm, its a little drawn out and I feel like I'm banging my head against a wall, especially with alchemy. So I can see me shelving it for a bit.


Also just restarted Mass Effect 2, trying to finally do the game on Insanity. I'm not looking forward to the Shadowbroker DLC or the suicide mission. Hehe

H.B.M.C. wrote:H.B.M.C's Story.

General rule of thumb I've heard is that the PS3 version of Skyrim sucks, you'd be better off for PC or Xbox.
Second, if your going to attack cows make sure noone can see you lol

Third if your going to massacre a town don't expect your quests will be completed.

Personally after all that I'd say continue and massacre every village you come across, should be fun!

KingCracker wrote:

Dunwich wrote:The only way a follower can die is if you kill them yourself. Enemies will attack your hirelings until near death, when the hireling will crouch down and enemies will ignore them.

They can also die if they are attacked to the point of yielding in an area where they will continue to take damage, e.g. someone cast firewall, they get knocked back in a fight into a trap/blade gauntlet, or are still getting hit with area effect spells because they are near you or another friendly NPC.

I wouldnt say its that cut and dry. On the mage I made, I had....whats her face, the house carl you get with me. And in a cave with some big ass spiders, they killed her strait out, but on the flip side, I watched while laughing as she tried to take on a dragon (obviously loaded before she died) and no matter how many times it blasted her with fire and took chunks out of her, she just kindda laid there in pain

You let Lydia die? I won't let Lydia die, she has too much of my stuff even though she isn't a follower. Also a perfect example of the NPC clothing programming, she has dwarven armor in her inventory and will wear it when she's my follower but will not wear it if she is not.

Reloaded 5 tmes last night because she was getting totally pasted by these pirate guys in a cave.
Something to do with (possibly) missplaced feelings of loyalty towards AI.

Ratius wrote:Reloaded 5 tmes last night because she was getting totally pasted by these pirate guys in a cave.
Something to do with (possibly) missplaced feelings of loyalty towards AI.

Well that's just Lydia, she's good at getting herself killed but most people tend to love her for the fact that she's the first housecarl you get.

Once you can upgrade magic items you can upgrade it.

You can't change the enchantments on it, but you can improve it.

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Did the nightmares in Dawnstar stuff earlier, liked that quest a lot.

Spoiler:

I have to ask who listened to the Goddess/Skull when the priest was casting the spell. I let him destroy it, but I'm betting some of those reading knifed him.

I let him destroy it, but only because I didn't really want the staff, and wanted to have him as a follower for later. If you're going for the Daedric Items achievement then you've got to kill the poor sod...

halonachos wrote:

KingCracker wrote:

Dunwich wrote:The only way a follower can die is if you kill them yourself. Enemies will attack your hirelings until near death, when the hireling will crouch down and enemies will ignore them.

They can also die if they are attacked to the point of yielding in an area where they will continue to take damage, e.g. someone cast firewall, they get knocked back in a fight into a trap/blade gauntlet, or are still getting hit with area effect spells because they are near you or another friendly NPC.

I wouldnt say its that cut and dry. On the mage I made, I had....whats her face, the house carl you get with me. And in a cave with some big ass spiders, they killed her strait out, but on the flip side, I watched while laughing as she tried to take on a dragon (obviously loaded before she died) and no matter how many times it blasted her with fire and took chunks out of her, she just kindda laid there in pain

You let Lydia die? I won't let Lydia die, she has too much of my stuff even though she isn't a follower. Also a perfect example of the NPC clothing programming, she has dwarven armor in her inventory and will wear it when she's my follower but will not wear it if she is not.

My brother when he got lydia was ,urder her for her stuf...

The daedric quests in general are quite good.

They usually are, the Sheogorath quest in Oblivion was particularly enjoyable.

Where do you find Sheogorath's shrine in Skyrim?

Very few daedric quests are started at shrines in skyrim, sheogoraths quest is started in solitude.

Where does it start?

Bards College?

Grey Templar wrote:Where does it start?

Bards College?

some homeless guy running around town.

He gives you a hip bone of pelagius the 3rd.

Pelagius the Mad?Hmmm, I know where Im going as soon as I turn this on today I did Sanguines by pure accident. I was going from bar to bar and Orc stronghold to stronghold showing people how awesome my boxing skills are, and felt cocky with the dude that wanted to challenge me to a drinking contest. I must say, that one made me chuckle a few times

KingCracker wrote:Pelagius the Mad?Hmmm, I know where Im going as soon as I turn this on today I did Sanguines by pure accident. I was going from bar to bar and Orc stronghold to stronghold showing people how awesome my boxing skills are, and felt cocky with the dude that wanted to challenge me to a drinking contest. I must say, that one made me chuckle a few times

Spoiler:

Specially when I found out who I was going to marry

I sadly missed out on most of this quest. Just after starting it (and only cleaning up the temple), I ran into Ysolda in Whiterun and persuaded her to tell me where to go, rather than do her errand.

So, I missed the entire plot of the quest and only found out about it's awesomeness from the wiki

Grakmar wrote:

KingCracker wrote:Pelagius the Mad?Hmmm, I know where Im going as soon as I turn this on today I did Sanguines by pure accident. I was going from bar to bar and Orc stronghold to stronghold showing people how awesome my boxing skills are, and felt cocky with the dude that wanted to challenge me to a drinking contest. I must say, that one made me chuckle a few times

Spoiler:

Specially when I found out who I was going to marry

I sadly missed out on most of this quest. Just after starting it (and only cleaning up the temple), I ran into Ysolda in Whiterun and persuaded her to tell me where to go, rather than do her errand.

So, I missed the entire plot of the quest and only found out about it's awesomeness from the wiki

I didn't know how to clear the temple up so after bribing the priestess i murdered everyone and stole their stuff...
That was in the Hangover right?

halonachos wrote:

Ratius wrote:Reloaded 5 tmes last night because she was getting totally pasted by these pirate guys in a cave.
Something to do with (possibly) missplaced feelings of loyalty towards AI.

Well that's just Lydia, she's good at getting herself killed but most people tend to love her for the fact that she's the first housecarl you get.

Wrong
My level 81 has like 4 other housecarls, but I still dont have her

Finished the Sheogorath quest. Short but sweet.





And where is this drunken bet quest where you end up messing up a temple?

An npc can randomly appear when you're in any tavern and challenge you to a drinking contest, he is a breton named sam something.

Grey Templar wrote:Finished the Sheogorath quest. Short but sweet.

Spoiler:

Took me FOREVER to figure out I was supposed to target the guards on the other side of the battle pit

That was a brilliant thing there

i have this weird bug that anyone who is talking to me while im opening a door follows me through it

not a big problem but very disturbing when Im entering, say, my house in winterhold

"WTF is this beggar doing in MY house?!"

anyone else experience this?