Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Just Fus-ro-dah those silly fish out of the water.

I hate walking into shallow water to try and hide from dragonfire (doesn't work, rage) and being unable to attack the dragon despite half my body being out of the water.

I decided to make the non-attacking monk character. Its interesting, but annoying when you are by yourself, and run into those randoms on the road, (e.g thalmor etc.)

Just live with the Greybeards.

JohnnoM wrote:I decided to make the non-attacking monk character. Its interesting, but annoying when you are by yourself, and run into those randoms on the road, (e.g thalmor etc.)

No way, I find it SO much easier by myself. Im blasting so many calm spells all over the place its awesome. And its nice to "practice" by shooting everyone I see in a town and not get arrested for it.

Its incredibly tough/difficult with others with you, because their kills fething count as yours for some annoying reason. When I first met Esbern, and was trying to get him out of the ratworks.....holy...fething....god! I literally reloaded the game 5 times, because somehow he kept killing something. Its definitely a challenge thats for sure.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Does anyone know off the top of your head, if unrelenting forcing someone off a castle or mountain if that counts as a kill? Please say it does not.

That's a kill for sure.

KingCracker wrote:

JohnnoM wrote:I decided to make the non-attacking monk character. Its interesting, but annoying when you are by yourself, and run into those randoms on the road, (e.g thalmor etc.)

No way, I find it SO much easier by myself. Im blasting so many calm spells all over the place its awesome. And its nice to "practice" by shooting everyone I see in a town and not get arrested for it.

Its incredibly tough/difficult with others with you, because their kills fething count as yours for some annoying reason. When I first met Esbern, and was trying to get him out of the ratworks.....holy...fething....god! I literally reloaded the game 5 times, because somehow he kept killing something. Its definitely a challenge thats for sure.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Does anyone know off the top of your head, if unrelenting forcing someone off a castle or mountain if that counts as a kill? Please say it does not.

I believe it does, but I'm not 100% certain.

In fact, I think that even scripted deaths not caused by you count for your kill total. They definitely can screw up the Thieves Guild quests where you get bonuses for not killing anyone.

KingCracker wrote:

JohnnoM wrote:I decided to make the non-attacking monk character. Its interesting, but annoying when you are by yourself, and run into those randoms on the road, (e.g thalmor etc.)

No way, I find it SO much easier by myself. Im blasting so many calm spells all over the place its awesome. And its nice to "practice" by shooting everyone I see in a town and not get arrested for it.

Its incredibly tough/difficult with others with you, because their kills fething count as yours for some annoying reason. When I first met Esbern, and was trying to get him out of the ratworks.....holy...fething....god! I literally reloaded the game 5 times, because somehow he kept killing something. Its definitely a challenge thats for sure.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Does anyone know off the top of your head, if unrelenting forcing someone off a castle or mountain if that counts as a kill? Please say it does not.

"honestly officer, I didn't kill him. It was all gravity I swear"

KingCracker wrote:

JohnnoM wrote:I decided to make the non-attacking monk character. Its interesting, but annoying when you are by yourself, and run into those randoms on the road, (e.g thalmor etc.)

No way, I find it SO much easier by myself. Im blasting so many calm spells all over the place its awesome. And its nice to "practice" by shooting everyone I see in a town and not get arrested for it.

Its incredibly tough/difficult with others with you, because their kills fething count as yours for some annoying reason. When I first met Esbern, and was trying to get him out of the ratworks.....holy...fething....god! I literally reloaded the game 5 times, because somehow he kept killing something. Its definitely a challenge thats for sure.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Does anyone know off the top of your head, if unrelenting forcing someone off a castle or mountain if that counts as a kill? Please say it does not.

I would say maybe assault at the most, though I havnt tried this personally. I burnt out Skyrim ages ago. Shame really.... I had hoped it would eat alot more of my time like Oblivion.

Yea I figured it would, oh well. Playing this way is very tricky though, and also why it makes the game so fun/challenging. But obviously there is some crappy parts to it as well. Basically I cannot take a companion, so ANY quests with someone following me, is 50x more difficult because I have to sling magic at EVERYONE before companion runs someone through. So this means some quests are just impossible, like I said, it took me 5 tries to get Esbern out of the ratway for feth sake.

And dont get me started on dragons, I have a few shouts Im looking forward to getting.....but....Ive got to wait till Dragons attack towns and just heal everyone until they kill it, so any dragons in the wild, Ive got to run away like a scared child

Well, I've just finished the Civil War quests. That was fun, although it was easier charging in with axe and spell than sniping away with a bow like usual. Diplomatic Immunity was a fun quest, if only because you get to shoot Thalmor.

^ Ah, the Thalmor - those guys are a pleasure to tear apart
To be fair though, I do enjoy killing anything and everything that crosses my path, but I take great pleasure from killing a Thalmor justicar team without feeling any guilt whatsoever. Not so arrogant when they're dead...

Nah, they still look like D-bags with their smug expressions.

Not if you throw them in a river. Out of sight, out of mind, after all.
Out of interest, what's the favourite destruction magic element, shock, ice or fire?
I prefer fire, myself, when I'm fooling about as a warmage, I love the smell of burning elf in the morning

Fire does the best damage, except for Icestorm

I'm a Nord, I'm 50% resistant to Frost. Why does this spell kill me in 1 second

But you can stand in front of an ice dragon and laugh at its feeble halitosis, which is fun

Grey Templar wrote:Fire does the best damage, except for Icestorm

I'm a Nord, I'm 50% resistant to Frost. Why does this spell kill me in 1 second

I have max resistance to all magic and it can still feth me over too. I'm level 50-something, i'm resistance to basically everything, I eat any mob for breakfast/dragon for lunch/another few for dinner, and yet a measly ice mage or necromancer can hurl this thing at me and it'll hit like a truck.

I like shock myself, if only because I like to say Kamehameha when firing lightning storm.

Shock is pretty coo-ABSOLUTE POWAAAAAH!!!

*ahem*. Sorry about that.

Anyways, I find that I use Fire a whole bunch, simply because it seems like it outranges the others, at least at lower levels. Shock's very useful as well, when you have a boatload of Magicka, and you can use it to drain enemy mages enough that they'll be powerless for a while. Cold, I guess, would be helpful against Melee combatants, but as most of them are either Nord or resistant to Frost anyways, you may as well use Fire for its DoT effect.

Im partial to shock. Dont people know by now that their swords conduct electricity?
As a side note, im hunting dragon priests now. Fun to collect all their masks from their beaten bodies, and a nice challenge.
All those against Sithis and the night mother may find themselves in a sudden and lethal prediciment as well.

Argis the Bulwark is epic.
Blood Dragon attacking mah Thane?
Dead Blood Dragon is what ya get.

GAH! Not killing got the better of me. While trying to not step on butterflies something in my brain snapped and I just couldnt stand not killing things. So I made a super criminal donkey-cave killer guy, and made good and sure to make him a werewolf. So far, Solitude says they will pay someone 25k gold to bring me to justice. Im not sure exactly how high my total bounty is, but its pretty fething high. I just slaughter things and laugh about it. So I joined the DB again, and figured, instead of being a subtle assassin, Ill fething slaughter an entire family, 6 guards and a puppy on the way out of a job. That way people wont think it was an assassination, it was some poor sap that got in the way of the big scary Werewolf.



So far, its rather satisfying

^lol sounds like fun.

I enjoy using my firbolt, fireball and flames. It looks completely awesome, and you get great results!

Just out of interest, what shouts (other than unrelenting force) do you guys enjoy using?

For me, I enjoy "storm call", or "Call dragon"

Become Ethereal has saved my ass more times than I can count. Fire Breath is pretty fun for damage.

Ive used freeze form more then a few times, its great for thinning out groups. But on my super sissy "I cant kill anything" mage, I use the one that makes enemies Flee, that thing is handy, lure a group into a narrow hallway, and shout them all away.

If you're on a high building and under attack.
Use 'Become Ethereal'
Jump from building.
Sorted.

purplefood wrote:If you're on a high building and under attack.
Use 'Become Ethereal'
Jump from building.
Sorted.

Oh I'll try that for my normal travelling. I head straight at my marker so have to jump off a lot of mountains...

KamikazeCanuck wrote:

purplefood wrote:If you're on a high building and under attack.
Use 'Become Ethereal'
Jump from building.
Sorted.

Oh I'll try that for my normal travelling. I head straight at my marker so have to jump off a lot of mountains...

This happens to me a lot. I was playing yesterday when I asked my wife "Does that look like a cliff to you?" "Yeah."

It was. I need a new horse.

I jumped like hundreds of feet into a river, that was pretty awesome.