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Ma55ter_fett wrote:

Sad but true.

However since I'm playing on the xbox (haters gonna hate) I'm just going to make seperate profiles for all my characters.

The only problem I'd see there is if you where trying to get the achievements.

On a side note I think I have discovered an answer to this issue. I ordered two 8gb USB drives last night off Play, and going to put them in the back, didn't realise the Slim had three slots in the back, thought it only had the front two for pad recharging.

So can use them on the same profile, just using different save locations. Will let Aurelia can play on my profile and not be worried about wiping my main character accidently.

On the pc
i'm having random menu issues, and the left/right equip system seems a little finicky (like i cant equip a spell to my other hand unless i go de-quip the sword first

otherwise, having a great time

archer/sneaky/summoner so far

I 'm still absolutely loving the Conjuration school. Started my second character, trusty old Nuva the Bretonic Battlemage (axe and shield and spell and plate, a bastion of Magicka and Muscle). The Conjure Familiar thing is rather neat. It's also interesting that you can just run through the tutorial session, way ahead of either of the dudes you're supposed to 'follow' if you want.

Now I'm gonna go see if I can slay a dragon at second level.

My first play through looks like it will be a heavy armoured, mace wielding Breton necromancer (using conjuration) that MAY be a vampire.

Then a Khajjit werewolf for a laugh.

Oh no! That bipedal cat just turned into a bipedal dog!

Iur_tae_mont wrote:Prolly my favorite part is how drastically they shifted the plot forward


The events in the 200 years between the Oblivion Crisis and Skyrim

Spoiler:

the Summerset Isles conquered Valenwood and Elswyr, seceded from the Empire and are now called the Aldmeri Dominion

They invaded Cyrodill, reaching the Imperial city and pretty much said, "We've made our point. Who wants to Negotiate?

The Aldmeri Dominion had Talos REMOVED from the pantheon of the Divines.

Black Marsh left the Empire. Followed by Black Marsh conquering Morrowind.

The Empire is now: Cyrodill, Skyrim(barely) Hammerfell( who are not happy with the Agreement between the Empire and Aldmeri and continued to fight the Dominion for 5 years after the war had been declared over), and High Rock.

gak got crazy since the end of the 3rd Era.

Im using left hand healing, right hand steel sword (looking for ancient Nord..)
And for da thoughest enemies I use ancient Nordic 2h sword.

Ok so speaking of raising the dead and all that, anyone know how the necromancy works in this game yet? Because everytime Ive made a magic user, Ive always wanted to get as close to a Necromancer as possible, summoning zombies and litches and the like instead of Daedra. So how is it anyways?

Whoa... Necromancy in Skyrim? Doing that yourself! Whoa!

Only thing I've seen so far KC is a stone that grants you ability to summon an undead ally.

My main is a Dark Elf combat Mage mind, so totally plans on giving the locals of Winterhold more reason to fear her race if she gets the chance.

Yeah. Necromancy is awesome. That's why I've been gushing about the Conjuration school. You can summon stuff like normal- haemunculi, familiars, daedra, atronachs, etc.

BUT! There's a spell tome for sale in Riverwood called Raise (or Summon) Zombie. To use that, you actually have to target a corpse, and it'll raise that corpse to fight for you! So yeah, actual Necromancy here. However, once you raise something, and time runs out, it turns into a pile of ash.

Hmm, that could be somewhat limiting then. Useful in dungeons and places where there are a group of enemies, but just running around, sounds like youd need some different spells to last

Avatar 720 wrote:I went mad with my perks, but not TOO mad. They're mainly focussed in Smithing (damn the complete lack of any materials for intermediate-level equipment), One-Handed, Ranged, Light Armour, and Stealth, which equates to about points in each given my level.

Also, Hagravens are a bloody pain in the arse, especially the ones in the

Spoiler:

Companion's quest to kill the Witches so you can cure the Companion's 'leader'

. I only just managed to kill them with an elven bow and ancient Nord arrows + various poisons, in conjunction with beating on them with an axe when they came too close and desperately healing myself between Fire Breath dragon shouts.

They aren't that bad...
Try using drain magicka poison on them, it helps stop the worst of their spells and if you get up close just keep moving to stop them landing a heavy blow on you.

Or lightening. It drains Magicka as well.

I used all my poisons on them, but the buggy movement meant that landing the poisoned arrow was quite hard after the initial stealth tag, since they would stop, then shift just as I fired and it'd whistle an inch too far away; the lightning drained my magicka too quickly for me to heal myself enough at the same time too.

It doesn't matter anyway, I killed them all, but i'd have preferred it if i'd have been a higher level.

In other news, bears are now, for some reason, able to trounce me in a matter of seconds, where before I would all but take it down from range before it could do anything, and simply end it with a blow from my axe. Doing another quest for the Companions to kill a certain bear, and one has blocked the cave exit (so if I enter, I can't get out again thanks to my backpeddling too far) and both are now able to tear me a new one before I can do anything.

Do dungeons and the likes have a certain time period before they reset?

AFAIK, they dont. Once a dungeon has the "cleared" tag on it on the world map, it *should* be good to go.

Hmmm, might have to wait for a much higher level then. Luckily the mob levels in dungeons are locked upon entering, so should be easier.

I've re-rolled twice. 'Vulkan' my redguard is boring, my dark elf is a bit meh so I've redone as an Orc. No mercy!

What i'm wondering is how dual-wielding ups damage, it appears that you swing each hand equally as fast, and can't swing furiously (one right after the other, there's a cooldown period between strikes), so i've found little point in dual-wielding over HW/S, especially since HW/S offers you a larger degree of protection AND you have the ability to kill enemy power strikes with a well-timed shield bash.

Has anyone found anything to the contrary?

If you press both buttons simultaneously, it will perform about 6 strikes rapidly, as your "power attack", which seems to be the only advantage to duel-wielding. I believe DW'ing would be much better if they allowed parrying, which I assume will be modded in soon, as I still don't understand why it wasn't included.

I've gotten over my remorse for starting a mage instead of a Nord warrior. I found a scroll of Blizzard (which I assume I won't get until 100 Magicka and Master level spells, at 78 currently) and it took me about 5 seconds to cast, but tore through a cave full of vampires very rapidly, which surprised me since they are usually very resistant to cold.

KingCracker wrote:Hmm, that could be somewhat limiting then. Useful in dungeons and places where there are a group of enemies, but just running around, sounds like youd need some different spells to last

for me at least, it was a great boon in the beginning of the game
I could sneak out and kill one enemy, then raise his corpse to disrupt as I killed the rest.

There is a b it of a roadblock as you start getting ramped up as an archer
you dont know any good poisons, you cant afford/don't have any +bow damage items, and your bows arent very good yet, so if you end up wandering into a grove of those bee elementals or whatever, it's a bad situation.
now my bow (superior elven) with 3X crits launch people (via headshot) hilariously against walls and such, and tagging a running dear at a 200+ yards is very satisfying with arrow paths turned off. I highly suggest leveling pickpocket if only to steal infinite arrows from guards.

On another note, I got mushed by a giant, and he launched my corpse into low-orbit, almost as high as the minimap zooms out O_O

Being an archer does seem to be quite hard, especially since using bows is slower than it was in oblivion, in exchange for a damage buff, although playing on Adept difficulty, it doesn't feel all that great of an increase.

There are some things that I dread facing as an archer, namely beasts (simply because they're too quick) and tough guys like Ice Trolls (found one on my level 15 and he took on me and a passer by, taking two fire breath shouts and a large amount of steel arrows (I don't have enough orcish or dwarven arrows to warrant them being spent on anything bar dragons) to take down after he ate the passer by). I seem to end up running in and hammering on things to actually kill them, even with 3x sneak damage.

Strangely enough, dragons are one of the easiest kills i've had, simply because of the large gaps in damage whilst they fly around, they also don't seem to do much when they land apart from give you ample time to descale them.

Everyone! Favorite shouts?

Mine is whirlwind sprint. Useful and fun (launch over cliffs to other sides etc)
And unrelenting force, because fus ro dah sounds cool when you yell it

Fire breath, because I like fire.

I had a quest for 3 witches and a hagraven too, but it was for some tree or something. I was getting blown to bitz by the hagraven till I just said frak it and ran in there swords blazing. She didn't cast fireballs at me anymore when I was up in her face, it took a few heal pots but it looks like for them you gotta just chop em up instead of using ranged stuff.

Hagravens have 10x health mods and I hate it

I just ran in and kited that one...
Was fairly easy since their melee attack is a touch slow.

Okay, I have a feeling this spider poison has done something permanent, because ever since I was poisoned, i've been taking a craptonne more damage from everything than I should be taking. I actually considered simply switching difficulties before a dungeon because I can't seem to take any amount of damage without it wiping me out in a short space of time.

Avatar 720 wrote:Okay, I have a feeling this spider poison has done something permanent, because ever since I was poisoned, i've been taking a craptonne more damage from everything than I should be taking. I actually considered simply switching difficulties before a dungeon because I can't seem to take any amount of damage without it wiping me out in a short space of time.

Some creatures can give you diseases...
check your effects tab.
I caught brain rot from a melee attack.
It lowers your mana, nott oo bad since i am an archer but still annoying on the off chance i need to use magic.

I took a Cure Disease potion when I was poisoned just in case, but i'll check anyway.