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Yeah I got that a few times when leaving the thieves guild, it's a bit annoying.

Another glitch I've got is when assassinating someone as they go through a door, the animation plays and a corpse appears but sometimes it isn't searchable and when I go through the door they appear to have survived.

Apparently when the level of your sidekick is set to yours when you first meet them and never goes up afterwards. That sucks because now Lydia is becoming obsolete for me.

Aye, I think I stopped taking Lydia with me fourteen levels ago. She just guards Breezehome now.

Bakerofish wrote: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?

Yeah, that happens to me too. Mostly when I enter Bits and Pieces in Solitude. I'm often followed in by a guard and 2-3 children.

I hate kids in videogames

Either you DONT make them annoying and snotty as F**K, or you let me kill them!

I know its wrong, but god I hate some of the kids. Mostly all the snotty whiterun kids
I love playing tag with the Solitude kids

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Aye, I think I stopped taking Lydia with me fourteen levels ago. She just guards Breezehome now.

I sacrificed Lydia...
Never bothered getting another Companion. They just get me seen...

Yeah I rarely use a follower.

purplefood wrote:

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Aye, I think I stopped taking Lydia with me fourteen levels ago. She just guards Breezehome now.

I sacrificed Lydia...
Never bothered getting another Companion. They just get me seen...

I don't think you get detected if your follower gets detected.

You don't but the mobs go into combat mode and are harder to sneak up on than when they are in patrol mode.

KamikazeCanuck wrote:

purplefood wrote:

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Aye, I think I stopped taking Lydia with me fourteen levels ago. She just guards Breezehome now.

I sacrificed Lydia...
Never bothered getting another Companion. They just get me seen...

I don't think you get detected if your follower gets detected.

Yeah but even if you don't they pull everyone out of the regular walky bits which annoys me...

Wearing nothing but cloth.....hurts.
Getting one shotted is not much fun.
Granted Im only level 8 but any survival tips/tactics for a poor squishy?

Ratius wrote:Wearing nothing but cloth.....hurts.
Getting one shotted is not much fun.
Granted Im only level 8 but any survival tips/tactics for a poor squishy?

Wear armor? There's no reason not to.

Problem is all of the cloth gear has very specific and decent +mage stats on them (mana regen, + destro/retro %s, and other buffs).
It is much harder to collect a set of medium/heavy with the same stat buffs.
In addition Im trying to play in character somewhat. A mage going around in full plate armor isnt a mage anymore - hes a Battlemage and Im not going down that route

Get someone to hang out with you and take the hits? I got Faendral pretty early (like level 2 or 3) and I imagine there are other followers you can get.
(Apparently you can get either Faendral or Sven depending on how you do that first quest.)

Ratius wrote:Wearing nothing but cloth.....hurts.
Getting one shotted is not much fun.
Granted Im only level 8 but any survival tips/tactics for a poor squishy?

1) Check what difficulty you're playing on. There's a weird bug that some people have reported where the game default is to the hardest difficulty. Adept should be the default.
2) Turn down the difficulty. I had to do that for a brief period because I foolishly leveled Smithing and Pickpocket super fast, so I was a high level with no equipment and no combat skills.
3) Wear armor. Yes, I know that the robes tend to have better enchantments, but sacrificing enchantments for protection is sometimes necessary. Level up your enchanting in order to put good enchantments on armor rather than just robes.
4) Cast Stoneflesh/Ironflesh and use wards when a big attack is incoming. Also, use a summoned/reanimated creature or follower to take some of the heat off of you.

I dont know why I care because im a console player but im extremely keen to see a comprehensive lord of the rings mod. All id really want would be some new sets of themed weapons and armour and particularly (as much as i like it, it gets a bit repetitive) to replace the sound track with the appropriate LOTR sound tack (especially the "beacon lighting" music for dragon fights). This kind of all stems from the idea of duel wielding a sword and a staff, standing in front of Alduin and shouting "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!", except we cant get Gandalfs robes and hat. (a fantasy game without pointy wizards hats! I was shocked when I started)

I wonder if they still have Colovian Fur Helms available? Those are about the pointiest hats you can fine in Tamriel.

Battle Brother Lucifer wrote:

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

Okay, no need to be a dick about it. Besides Lydia is given to you after you do one of the first main quests, so if you're telling me that you're level 81 and have not killed any dragons then I will believe that you didn't get Lydia seeing as though the quest to kill the first dragon, "Dragon Rising" gets you the following; "The Way of the Voice" quest, Thane of Whiterun, ability to buy Breezehome, Lydia as a housecarl, and the Axe of Whiterun. Now remember that dragons don't spawn randomly unless you kill the first one during the quest. So I am not wrong, either you haven't killed any dragons with your level 81, your game glitched and Lydia disappeared, or you don't know what you're talking about.

halonachos wrote:

Battle Brother Lucifer wrote:

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

Okay, no need to be a dick about it. Besides Lydia is given to you after you do one of the first main quests, so if you're telling me that you're level 81 and have not killed any dragons then I will believe that you didn't get Lydia seeing as though the quest to kill the first dragon, "Dragon Rising" gets you the following; "The Way of the Voice" quest, Thane of Whiterun, ability to buy Breezehome, Lydia as a housecarl, and the Axe of Whiterun. Now remember that dragons don't spawn randomly unless you kill the first one during the quest. So I am not wrong, either you haven't killed any dragons with your level 81, your game glitched and Lydia disappeared, or you don't know what you're talking about.

Well, he said that he's been using Shouts (other than just Fus), so he had to complete "Dragon Rising".

I assume his game either glitched (first time that's happened in Skyrim, amiright?), or he was awarded Breezehome and didn't notice.

And, he exploited the Oghma Infinium bug, so that could be messing with his game in various ways.

For the guys trying to build a hand-to-hand fighter, I found a pair of gloves dropped by a vagrant in the rat tunnels underneath Riften. Just a heads up...

Edit** The gloves bump up HTH combat damage, something like 20% base. You could probably improve them some.

Gloves of the pugilist, very useful until you unlock the perk that allows you to deal your armour rating in damage with unarmed attacks.

Lint wrote:For the guys trying to build a hand-to-hand fighter, I found a pair of gloves dropped by a vagrant in the rat tunnels underneath Riften. Just a heads up...

Edit** The gloves bump up HTH combat damage, something like 20% base. You could probably improve them some.

The gloves add an extra 10 damage to unarmed attacks. (Khajeet do 22 base, Argonians do 10 base, everyone else does 4 base).

You can disenchant those gloves and put that enchantment on a different pair of gloves. With 100 Enchanting, all appropriate perks and a Grand Soul, you can get to 15.65 added damage (I don't know how the game handles fractions). If you add in using a Fortify Enchanting Potion (with max Alchemy, perks, fortify Alchemy gear), you can get this to 18.25 added damage.

Add in the Heavy Armor perk to do more damage (damage added is equal to armor rating). Daedric Gauntlets (18 base) can be improved considerably. Assume you can get to around 200 Smithing (due to Fortify Smithing Enchantments and Potions). That adds about 43 Armor to the Gauntlets. Total of about 61 damage added.

So, the max damage you can do (be a Khajeet with super-Legendary Daedric Gauntlets with the max Fortify Unarmed enchantment on them) is about 100.

That's not too bad.

But, say you have a Daedric Greatsword (base damage of 24) with the same level of Smithing adding 21 damage (weapons get half the bonus armor does). Now, you have 100 Two-Handed (+50% damage) add 5 levels of Barbarian perk (+100%) and a single Fortify Two-Handed enchantment (max of +47.45% using above method). You're doing about 200 damage. Add in some extra Fortify Two-Handed and you can get to roughly 390 damage (goes on Neck, Arms, Finger, Feet).


So, Unarmed can be pretty good, but isn't nearly as good as a real weapon. Plus, it will be terrible until you get Fists of Steel at 30 Heavy Armor.

Can't you put the Pugilism enchantments on other bits of armour?

Anvildude wrote:Can't you put the Pugilism enchantments on other bits of armour?

Ah! Good point.

Yes, it can go on either Gloves or Finger.

So, add another 18.25 damage, bringing the total to about 120.

Grakmar wrote:
You can disenchant those gloves and put that enchantment on a different pair of gloves. With 100 Enchanting, all appropriate perks and a Grand Soul, you can get to 15.65 added damage (I don't know how the game handles fractions). If you add in using a Fortify Enchanting Potion (with max Alchemy, perks, fortify Alchemy gear), you can get this to 18.25 added damage.

Add in the Heavy Armor perk to do more damage (damage added is equal to armor rating). Daedric Gauntlets (18 base) can be improved considerably. Assume you can get to around 200 Smithing (due to Fortify Smithing Enchantments and Potions). That adds about 43 Armor to the Gauntlets. Total of about 61 damage added.

So, the max damage you can do (be a Khajeet with super-Legendary Daedric Gauntlets with the max Fortify Unarmed enchantment on them) is about 100.

That's not too bad.

But, say you have a Daedric Greatsword (base damage of 24) with the same level of Smithing adding 21 damage (weapons get half the bonus armor does). Now, you have 100 Two-Handed (+50% damage) add 5 levels of Barbarian perk (+100%) and a single Fortify Two-Handed enchantment (max of +47.45% using above method). You're doing about 200 damage. Add in some extra Fortify Two-Handed and you can get to roughly 390 damage (goes on Neck, Arms, Finger, Feet).


So, Unarmed can be pretty good, but isn't nearly as good as a real weapon. Plus, it will be terrible until you get Fists of Steel at 30 Heavy Armor.

Wow. Should we call this "Mathrim" or "Skyhammer?" Very impressive crunching.

Mathrim.

Lint wrote:Wow. Should we call this "Mathrim" or "Skyhammer?" Very impressive crunching.

You know the hammer in mathhammer is only there because it is referring to Warhammer, right?

Obvious man is obvious, Skyhammer sounded cooler.

Lint wrote:Obvious man is obvious, Skyhammer sounded cooler.

Skyhammer does sound cooler, but I think Mathrim is more accurate.

Also, in my above analysis, I ignored the Fortify Restoration exploit. Using that, you can take easily get damage with anything to the point where you can 1-Shot everything.

corpsesarefun wrote:Yeah I got that a few times when leaving the thieves guild, it's a bit annoying.

Another glitch I've got is when assassinating someone as they go through a door, the animation plays and a corpse appears but sometimes it isn't searchable and when I go through the door they appear to have survived.

I have a somewhat similar glitch with the dead I raised. I can newly raise a zombie, walk through a door, and POOF! its dust instantly, and I can loot the body. BUT on a positive note, I figured out a fix to an irritating thing with zombies. USually when I would raise someone, they would just take off and leave their fething weapon on the ground, and try to punch things to death, which was obviously annoying. Ive since learned, that Ill loot their weapon/shield and while they are being raised, Ill loot them again and drop the weapon/shield back on them. Problem solved


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Grakmar wrote:

Lint wrote:Obvious man is obvious, Skyhammer sounded cooler.

Skyhammer does sound cooler, but I think Mathrim is more accurate.

Also, in my above analysis, I ignored the Fortify Restoration exploit. Using that, you can take easily get damage with anything to the point where you can 1-Shot everything.

Whats up Ancient Dragon?

Heh.....puny human.........wait a second.......is that??!?!?!?!?!?

Oh yea....its my finger *flick*