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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/08/23 12:41:29
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Terrifying Doombull
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Both brutal and hard I assume he means, since the game straigth up pummels you at the highest difficulties.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/08/23 14:13:45
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Veteran Knight Baron in a Crusader
Behind you
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Thanks Compel. I was interested in Punisher at one point.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/08/23 18:41:14
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Liche Priest Hierophant
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Conrad Turner wrote: Sigvatr wrote:Oblivion was a lot of fun at start, but after a few hours, the scaling system just took any fun out of it. Mere bandits suddenly running around in top tier armor armed with top tier weapons ust ruins any immersion. Took the game up a few years ago with mods and it was good, but the sour feeling never really left.
Easy way round that. Tell the game you are a fighter, then play a thief*. As the mobs level with you, and you only level in Oblivion by increasing your major skills, you won't leve uo so fast, and neither will the mobs.
Downside is you become OP pretty quickly as your sneak levels fast and things just don't notice you so much. If you use a bow you end up being able to take most things down in a single shot before they even notice you are there.
Similar situation for saying you're a thief and then playing a fighter. Stomp round in heavy armour taking everything they can throw at you and cutting them in two or turning them into Strawberry jam at every oportunity. You will only level according to how many locks you pick.
Or you could take a middle ground, so you work on the above for a while, then when you think you are getting OP for the stage of the game, level up your major skills to gain levels until you are happy again, then continue.
This was a major exploit in the game, and the reason they dropped the idea for Skyrim.
*other combinations are available.
That's considered an exploit? That's just basic gameplay in Morrowind (I actually just wrote a pretty in-depth post about 'efficient' levelling in Morrowind, vs "Speed" levelling). I guess it's different for games with the 'level adjustment' mechanic. I do miss the huge variety of skills that Morrowind (and to a lesser extent, Oblivion) had- oh Mysticism, where have you gone?
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If yer an Ork, why dont ya WAAAGH!!
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/08/23 19:04:42
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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[DCM]
Coastal Bliss in the Shadow of Sizewell
Suffolk, where the Aliens roam.
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My gaming time of the past few weeks seems split pretty evenly between WoW, Destiny and Minecraft.
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"That's not an Ork, its a girl.." - Last words of High General Daran Ul'tharem, battle of Ursha VII.
Two White Horses (Ipswich Town and Denver Broncos Supporter)
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/08/23 20:32:40
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Glorious Lord of Chaos
The burning pits of Hades, also known as Sweden in summer
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Trondheim wrote:
Both brutal and hard I assume he means, since the game straigth up pummels you at the highest difficulties.
wat
I played hard and it didn't feel very different fron normal at all.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/08/23 21:15:51
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Anvildude wrote:
That's considered an exploit? That's just basic gameplay in Morrowind (I actually just wrote a pretty in-depth post about 'efficient' levelling in Morrowind, vs "Speed" levelling). I guess it's different for games with the 'level adjustment' mechanic. I do miss the huge variety of skills that Morrowind (and to a lesser extent, Oblivion) had- oh Mysticism, where have you gone?
If a game requires extensive meta gaming...it's not a good game.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/08/23 22:38:59
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Liche Priest Hierophant
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Well, the thing is in Morrowind, there were so many skills that were useful, vs how many you could fit in Major and Minor, that you ended up getting those Misc skills up anyways. And since there wasn't Scaled Difficulty, you didn't need to worry as much about 'out-leveling' places. The super-efficient levelling system is almost impossible to play, anyways, since the hit-chance in Morrowind is based on the skills, not the 'physical' swings.
It balances out, I think.
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GENERATION 8: The first time you see this, copy and paste it into your sig and add 1 to the number after generation. Consider it a social experiment.
If yer an Ork, why dont ya WAAAGH!!
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/08/24 02:13:49
Subject: Re:What are you playing right now?
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Fixture of Dakka
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Playing catchup... installed Fallout 3 and will also install Elderscrolls IV Oblivion.
I tried fallout 3 before but never did get very far. Trying it out again it seems better than I remember it.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/08/24 02:15:43
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Master Shaper
Gargant Hunting
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Got Fallout 1 & 2 due to never playing them, and am doing a guy that's dumb as a brick but hits like a train. I'm having a blast beating giant scorpions to death right now.
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Irishpeacockz-Blackjack needs a pay raise for being the welcomer to the crusade
Palleus-Write a school essay about Kroot! Pride. Prejudice. And Cannibalsim. |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/08/24 18:08:02
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Junior Officer with Laspistol
Perth/Glasgow
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Yes Blizzard, opening TGT at 6/7pm for the EU server was the perfect time, no way that everyone's free at that time to try & login
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Currently debating whether to study for my exams or paint some Deathwing |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/08/24 18:22:09
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Wight Lord with the Sword of Kings
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Hlaine Larkin mk2 wrote:Yes Blizzard, opening TGT at 6/7pm for the EU server was the perfect time, no way that everyone's free at that time to try & login
Yep. 13 minute wait time...
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/08/25 07:38:37
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Using Inks and Washes
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Playing Bioshock 2 for the first and second time.*
*My internet connection is currently running between 4kb/s and around 200kb/s so I can't always connect to my Live account, therefore I have 2 sets of saves and am somewhat further along on the set where I can't connect. Elite Dangerous is out of the question, and I'm just not in the mood to do more on the witcher yet.
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"Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics, and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-Tzu, and Einstein, and Morobuto, and Buddy Holly, and Aristophanes…then all of this…all of this…was for nothing. Unless we go to the stars." Commander sinclair, Babylon 5.
Bobtheinquisitor wrote:what is going on with APAC shipping? If Macross Island were real, they'd be the last place to get any Robotechnology. |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/08/26 02:03:11
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Old Sourpuss
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Stepped back into Dark Souls 2 since a friend has recently picked it up on Steam (the old 32 bit, not the new 64 bit Scholar of the First Sin). I know it's only been a few months since I've beaten DaS2, but man does it feel good to be back in that game
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DR:80+S++G+M+B+I+Pwmhd11#++D++A++++/sWD-R++++T(S)DM+

Ask me about Brushfire or Endless: Fantasy Tactics |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/08/27 16:54:04
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Member of the Ethereal Council
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The recent anniversary of ff14 had an event in which you accidently get teleported to the 18th floor. Which is the floor in squares office that makes the gamd. All the games designers are there to thank you for making the game great and for giving them a second chancde.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/08/27 19:12:55
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Humorless Arbite
Outside the DarkTower, amongst the roses.
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The waiting game for MG PP, also went back to pillars to play the new expansion.
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Every Dakkanaught gets a 4+ Pinch of Salt save.
When you suffer a Falling Sky hit, roll a D6 - on a 4+ the hit is ignored as per the Pinch of Salt save. On a 1-3 panic insues - you automatically fail common sense tests for the next 2 weeks and get +7 to your negativity stat. -Praxiss
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/08/27 19:38:34
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Powerful Spawning Champion
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Hopefully Rayman Legends soon, waiting for the download to finish. I need a good, fun platformer right now. Here's hoping this will fit the bill.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/08/29 04:00:10
Subject: Re:What are you playing right now?
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Wise Ethereal with Bodyguard
Catskills in NYS
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Picked up hand of fate for half off, I've been planning to for a while, and this seemed as good a time as any.
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Homosexuality is the #1 cause of gay marriage.
kronk wrote:Every pizza is a personal sized pizza if you try hard enough and believe in yourself.
sebster wrote:Yes, indeed. What a terrible piece of cultural imperialism it is for me to say that a country shouldn't murder its own citizens BaronIveagh wrote:Basically they went from a carrot and stick to a smaller carrot and flanged mace. |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/08/30 05:08:22
Subject: Re:What are you playing right now?
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Fixture of Dakka
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Took forever to finish up 1 daily in Hearthstone today.
Played plenty of Terraria...I'm now decked out in gold armor and I have a viking helmet.
Sorely disappointed that the PC version of Street Fighter X Tekken seems to be missing a Kumite Survival mode :(
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/08/30 11:21:07
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Incorporating Wet-Blending
Wales: Where the Men are Men and the sheep are Scared.
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Far Cry 4 atm. Its Far Cry 3 with a new skin but its been years since I have played Far Cry 3 so that's no so bad.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/08/30 16:06:49
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Ancient Space Wolves Venerable Dreadnought
I... actually don't know. Help?
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I ranked up from Silver Elite to GN2 in 10 games in CS: GO! Yay! Also, playing Tanks in War Thunder is cool.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/08/30 16:59:31
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Fixture of Dakka
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I decided to try to be disciplined and at least finish one Dragon Age Inquisition DLC (The Jaws of Hakkon) before diving properly into Pillars of Eternity.
I can't figure out that in the time since I last played it, there's been some massive rebalancing and now Hard Mode is properly hard. Or I've just forgotten how to play and aren't casting Barrier anywhere near as much as I used to.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/08/30 17:06:51
Subject: Re:What are you playing right now?
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Master Shaper
Gargant Hunting
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This is spoiled because it talks about the ending of Colonial Marines. Bit of an older game, but I just finished it for the first time.
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Irishpeacockz-Blackjack needs a pay raise for being the welcomer to the crusade
Palleus-Write a school essay about Kroot! Pride. Prejudice. And Cannibalsim. |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/08/30 20:06:56
Subject: Re:What are you playing right now?
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Wise Ethereal with Bodyguard
Catskills in NYS
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I'm up to the jack of scales in hand of fate, it's a lot of fun.
Also, the entire M&B collection is 50% off, so I picked up With Fire and Sword.
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Homosexuality is the #1 cause of gay marriage.
kronk wrote:Every pizza is a personal sized pizza if you try hard enough and believe in yourself.
sebster wrote:Yes, indeed. What a terrible piece of cultural imperialism it is for me to say that a country shouldn't murder its own citizens BaronIveagh wrote:Basically they went from a carrot and stick to a smaller carrot and flanged mace. |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/08/31 04:36:48
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Fixture of Dakka
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Conrad Turner wrote: Jehan-reznor wrote:Anvildude wrote: Jehan-reznor wrote:Was playing skyrim until the Kill the dragon mission after you vist the geezers on the mountain and after 20 tries killing the dragon i am done. Now playing bloodborne at least here it feels that it is my fault when i get killed by a boss
I thought the "kill the dragon" mission was before visiting the Greybeards?
The first dragon you kill is outside the village, at the watch tower with several guards present and you can hide in the castle, the second one is with Delphine, to kill a dragon as it is getting revived by another dragon, that is the one i have trouble with and i do not know if i have a save where i can roam first to get a flame resistant armor.
That's one of the reasons I generally go through ALL of the guilds before advancing that questline. I pay special attention to the thieves guild, and mage guild questlines. Make sure you have properly finished both - got the Archmages gear, and the guildmaster gear from the thieves guild [you will need to do a load of radiant quests for that one and brought the 5 cities back into the fold. There will be 5 new merchants in the ratway when you have done]. this should see you have enough to cast resistances on yourself to mitigate the damage and a high enough sneak to hit it with a bow and do some serious damage on a sneak attack.
Of course, you could also get your enchanting to 100% and do double enchants on all your gear. Flame/frost resistance for preference, then anything that increases your prefferred damage or if using spells reduces their cost. Correctly spec'd armour and the correct skills can mean you cast spells for free.
Because I normally go sneak/archer with enchants and do side quests first, by the time I pick up the main questline to that point, it's a cakewalk.
This is obviously the problem with these open-world games. The developers stand no chance of balancing the game. It could be improved by blocking certain quests until a certain point in the mnain quest is released.
Did some of the deadric missions, that helped a lot, now playing bloodborne, no matter how high your character is, one wrong move and your dead.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/08/31 17:36:46
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Infiltrating Broodlord
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Pre-downloading Mad Max, so maybe in 11hrs I can play it?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/08/31 18:33:48
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Sinister Shapeshifter
The Lair of Vengeance....Poole.
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Waiting on Wasteland 2 to download. Finally.
Also started on the Pillars DLC. Even after time away where I forgot what my characters do, its still way too easy on the hardest difficulty. Although that's mostly from me using basic weapons to make it seem more difficult.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/08/31 19:17:53
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Wasteland 2 is amazing. It's very old school and tough, but extremely well done. Feels like a true Fallout 3 in the spirit of Fallout 1 / 2.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/08/31 19:47:14
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Let us know how that is... It's one of a number of games coming out through the end of this year that I'm very interested in.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/08/31 21:50:39
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Fixture of Dakka
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I've started playing Pillars of Eternity now, it's pretty awesome. It's basically Critical Role the game.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2015/09/01 07:10:16
Subject: What are you playing right now?
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Liche Priest Hierophant
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Apparently in Vanilla Skyrim, dual wielding maces in light armour isn't the path to being survivable.
I got an Argonian 'Dervish' I'm using, level 10. I'm still having trouble with some enemies- though I suppose it's no shame to have trouble taking on a nest of vampires as a melee character.
But I felt more fear than I have in a long while, trying to run down a mountain while a dragon circles overhead, occasionally pausing to frost-breath me. I couldn't do anything to it, since I'd only just completed the Greybeard's quest bit- had no good shouts, my bow skill wasn't that great, and the dragon refused to land.
I'm really thinking that the key to enjoying Vanilla Skyrim is to just pick an archetype and stick with it, instead of 'jack of all trades'ing. My Paladin's focused on sword and shield, and doesn't wear or use 'evil' looking stuff (sorry Orcs!), and I'm having a blast doing the 'shield wall' thing, and going all St. George on dragons. My Sorcerer really struggles in closed-in areas, especially in conflicts with a lot of enemies. Drawn out combat is especially tough, since he still runs out of magicka relatively quick. And even my Battlemage has become more enjoyable since I decided to rely on Magical protection instead of shields- Wards and Alteration spells to supplement the armour.
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GENERATION 8: The first time you see this, copy and paste it into your sig and add 1 to the number after generation. Consider it a social experiment.
If yer an Ork, why dont ya WAAAGH!!
M.A.V.- if you liked ChromeHounds, drop by the site and give it a go. Or check out my M.A.V. Oneshots videos on YouTube! |
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