TES: Skyrim
 

Given with all that info out there, I'm gonna leave this refreshingly brief and null of god damn HYPE that we've gotten already. And yes, there's a poll for you guys; to be aware of who's playing it on what. This thread also is to arrange for party chats mostly and the modding help for later. If you're double dipping, feel free to mention it as well.

Also if someone else is/was planning on a proper OT or NEWS for skyrim, feel free to make it. I plan to use this thread mostly for discussions anyway.

Free discussion GO.

I'm reluctant to buy this.. weeks ago.

I'll probably cave in on my second paycheck week, after they patch some of the gamebreaking bugs. Getting the PC version.

I mean, I'm impressed. I never liked Oblivion that much but somehow this got me all excited-like. Will you forgive me if I delay my Xenoblade purchase for this?

PC reqs are actually...sensible. I wonder what it'll look like on their recommended. Some people have made the claim that this is going to look relatively ugly because of the aging consoles, but I'm hoping it's just well optimized.

Then again, Bethesda. So who knows. Probably a buggy mess no matter which way you cut it. Dat day 1 patch.

As for the poll, probably gonna double dip. Ugly circle version first, mods + wait until the damn thing stops exploding version second on a steam sale or something.

I'll take ugly over an exploding face for sure. Fucking explosions, how do they work. :(

Also Term, I'll actually forgive you. I figure Xenoblade will take a while to ship/come into stock anyways.

ALSO Skills. Change your figgin sig, its embarrassing OLD by now. DARK DAWN SUCKED.

I'll be getting this after I finish Dark Souls. So maybe never. Nah, but this is next on my list for the triple. Was never into Morrowind, was kinda into Oblivion, loved Fallout 3 in all its buggy glory. I'm liking the streamlined hud and menu and the general nordic setting, seems a touch less generic fantasy.

Your face sucked but I haven't seen you change that recently

Dark Dawn wasn't awful, though it was disappointing. Game ended too soon without and felt like i'd just been taken on one huge tangent.

On topic, PS3 is the only system i'll really consider getting it for, since my laptop barely runs Oblivion. As for when... who knows. I have a lot of games to get through, and there's a lot of other stuff coming out that'll probably get my attention first. Also still don't have the new Layton since Amazon is slow. I'll have to go look at PnP sometime soon.

Anybody see the concept art video? It has some of Jeremy Soule's new music for the game and holy shit I almost had tears in my eyes. Okay I did, but they didn't fall.

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PC master race here - can't way to play as the Dickingborn master of taking down winged, fire-breathing loli uguus and riding my little pony back to my tower of dungeon furry porn in matrix bullet time. Enjoy your bethesda console shit, peasants, as I sip a flagon of butterbeer from a gengar's asshole in my rainbow batmobile.

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Watch at this video! The graphicals are very realistical, they have a good job with this :) :)

In adition I also buy Lolli Pop Chainsaw game : Lollipop Chainsaw Video Game, Total Awesomeness Trailer HD | Video Clip | Game Trailers & Videos | GameTrailers.com (look at it!!)

I'm not really bothered about Skyrim to be honest. Oblivion was fun enough the second time I played it but it dragged on towards the end and I only finished it after putting together a game-breaking suit of chameleon armour to do the arean etc. Fallout 3 was better but again, dragged on after a while.

I'm hoping the whole game isn't all snowy peaks and Hollywood norse because then they risk the same Fallout 3 boredom issue of all of it looking the same after a while. It's probably a game I'll pick up after Christmas once the price comes down to under £15 (On the 360).

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LOL, I hope you guys are playing this. I'm wondering about something.

I just unlocked a perk for Archer's Overdraw for bows to do 20% more damage. I know there's a perk in sneak that unlocks x3 damage multiplier and then I just looted a good pair of enchanted gauntlets that allows 2H attacks to do 15% more damage. NOW my question is obviously... WILL THESE STACK?

Yeah, got hit by those giants once and just flew skyward.. If that's a glitch, I don't mind keeping it 'cause it's hilarious. Redguard here and mostly focused on one hand/two hand/shield with a tad bit of restoration.

And yeah, just doing the main quest for now. God, the rest of the games I have right now will get some dust time.

LOL, its not a glitch, that's how I died too when I first encountered one. Skyward. :D

Thankfully, they really are stupid and cannot climb cliffs. So I spammed my bow at the thing and went up quite a bit in sneak/archery! :D The range on the archery is awesome and I definitely will go as an assassin this. I had a blast doing an archer/assassin/thief khajiit in oblivion. That's what I'm as in this game too and its working out really well. :D

OH man. I'll probably get the circle box one. But it'll have to wait until Christmas. Hopefully the game's bugs will be fixed by then.

So it has been week guys, how are we doing on the game? :D Any hilarious stories to tell? Interesting glitches?

Feel free to add what's your character bio so far.

Lv 29 Khajiit, Archer with stealth oriented skills including thievery. 100 Locations found, 55 dungeons cleared, and owned just one house. I only killed 6 dragons so far.

As far as questing, I only did 7 main/side and 29 misc. I have not joined a guild yet. Although I accidentally did a Dark Brotherhood quest. :D

As for followers and companions and the like, I saw they'll just fucking up and die and waste my time and gold and loot. Fuck that noise (literally since they can alert enemies to our position more often than I'd like. >.< ). But once I get a horse, it'll be that insane Nightmare horse or something. But that's me being hard pressed to do so because honestly, they do nothing but attract unnecessary attention.

So Lydia just stays home and cooks like a bitch instead. ;)

Alright as for stories, I got not a whole lot but a few technical glitches that I can share.

*Cliffs are awesome for sniping but I find that after a while, enemies will actually run away from you. A while meaning in terms of levels or upgraded weaponry or the like who knows. I find this odd.

*Some places have an invisible wall where enemies cannot dare approach or cross it. Typical in dungeons or caves of the like where you stand at the exit of it, they won't approach you. Its rare but its there.

*In two of the favors quests (escort missions :\ ), I managed to oneshot the bosses just by standing before the entrance of the boss room before allies charge in like usual. Really simplified things in the midst of fighting with stupid AI.

*I wish I had pickpocketed from bandits sooner knowing that it also possible with the enemies too. (I guess I forgot lol.) The expensive pickpocket perk to unequip your enemies is starting to sound pretty useful in later levels.

*Racial insults were always funny but not when they kept saying the same damn thing. "You'll make a nice rug Khajiit!"

*Even though they show a dragon head icon on your radial (compass), you can still encounter these fuckers elsewhere completely unscripted.

And on occasion, when you head to that spot, the damn dragon wouldn't approach you unless there's more for it to attack. IE dragons seem to love attacking guards, giants, bears, sabre cats, mammoths before they even look at you. Use them to lure the fucker down and go from there. You'll hear highlighted stories like this quite often, watching a battle between a group of hardy enemies dueling it out. Or you die after slaying a dragon by some ground bastard.

*Also dungeons are definitely varied real nice. From a varied group of enemies to groups of quests involved to nasty traps to environments to themes of the dungeon. :D You'll be sure to be finding something new in every dungeon. I've visited over 60 of them so far and can tell you that at least.

*There's a silly misc quest to keep an eye out. A fugitive will run up to you out in the open to give you a stolen item. This is a leveled reward, and often quite nice. I kept resetting til I get to see him in later levels. I'm holding out for some invisibility enchanted equips.

*Unfortunately silly storage do not separate your items like your own merchants or menus. So its best that you just store them in each separate container like I did. Again, be sure to store in your HOUSE. Not outside, otherwise the contents will reset after a day I think.

*Dungeon isn't cleared til you killed all of the enemies. Including the ones that you don't trigger by stealth. Damn you Spriggan. Oh and by questing too.

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Oh yeah. Offensive magic is gimped in this game. :\ As in like alchemy and smithing enchanted weapons will just outclass your own spells.

Pretty much same thing here, though I'm only at level 17. One weird thing I hit was while doing the mage college place's first quest where you go outside and into an excavation site I had super-fast charging magic for a really long time. I took it as an opportunity to just stand there and get wailed on by some undead while using muffle and muffle. Both skills went from level 20 or so up to 45. I was worried there was going to be a level cap around 20 or so, so I've hardly been investing any skill points. Pretty happy to see I can dump them into some skills to try 'em out.

I really can't figure out if I like the game a whole lot or not. I do enjoy going from one dungeon to the next finding crap, but I think I waste too much time looking in every nook and cranny trying to find items that'll sell for the most. I really don't care a whole lot for the story; it just seems like there's too much mythology going on from previous games, and I just don't care about learning all of it. Also, gotta say I've never been able to remember fantasy-style names, so I can never keep any of it straight in the first place. :(

Oh, also, if you're planning on playing an archer, be sure to go into the advanced graphics options and turn up the view distance for character models. The game set my distance for drawing at around 15 feet, so that made it hard as heck to sneak up and snipe someone.

The soft cap (points for perks) is at 50, the hard cap is at 81 or so when all of your skills are maxed out.

Also, please use the poll RR. Not everyone obviously plays on the master race platform. :)

In before someone else posts it: people don't want be sword.

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One of my favorite things to do while in a dungeon is to lure enemies into environmental traps. The best one personally is the switch on the floor that when activated will swing a spiked wall in your direction.

I always get a kick when the enemy approaches within the radius of the trap and I just step on the switch. BAM. Instant loot!

Talking about traps, had to lure a certain boss immune to everything to a trap half across the dungeon. He died instantly..

By far my favorite trick late game is casting frenzy on mobs and they tear themselves to pieces while I chuckle behind corner.

MUDCRAB BATTLE!

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I never got into Elder Scrolls, I remember getting a free copy of Morrowind when I got my GeForce 3! LMAFO

However after much hyping and a damn sexy collector's edition (PS3, cause I'm tired of upgrading only to have a crappy computer at the end of the month...) I caved and bought it the day it came out. Therefore destroying any chance of having a social life....

I love how enemies react to each other throughout the world, like how often do you see a giant and a mammoth work together to fight a dragon? As you try to get your sword in the action only to have been launched in the air by a giant and watch the battle ensue. FREAKING GREAT!!!

You guys should check out the glitch videos they are pretty damn funny.

SUch as, I've just discovered that SKyrim is the digital hoarders dream:

Hoarding in Skyrim - YouTube

Read that they patched it and added DRM or something similar. Shouldn't be that much of a problem, except with the mods getting nuked. Ah well, they'll make other ones.

(this is why i bought the pc version lolol. MOD THAT SHIT AFTER YOU FINISH THE GAME)

You got a link? I knew they were patching the PC version and the consoles were getting patched after Thanksgiving. But didn't hear anything in regards to DRM crap....

fixed dat for u buddy

If you "finish" an Elder Scrolls game you're doing it wrong

Alright you fuckers! Its been two weeks! What's your stories by NOW?

I got some images! This is my lovely character. :D

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This is MY MAP. 170 hours - 210 locations found, 117 dungeons cleared.http://i39.tinypic.com/fc0i9i.jpg

Level 40, skills Sneak/Archery maxed out, working on light armor, pickpocketing, lockpicking, ETC

Not to troll, but what kind of map is that? It looks like someone gave a 5-year-old a picture of a mountain, and a bunch of stickers.

LOL nathan, its only lined up to see most of the landmarks. Mo0 needs to show you how it is interactive ingame. The map rotates a bit horizontal and vertical and zooms in/out. (LOVE YOUR SIG BTW!)

Okay... as for mini stories I got a few.

*First of all, I'm so wrong about not getting perks after level 50, they called it a softcap because you don't really level up as fast in your skills by that point and it'd become a slog compared to your earlier levels. So obviously I got plenty to spend! :D (80 points total.)

*With above said, there's an awesome way to buff up your equips to ridiculous levels. This guy summarizes it nicely. I plan to make my bow with this just to be able to one shot dragons as I please!

*There's two named npcs in two dungeons I ran across, and I wanted you guys to be aware that they're Dark Brotherhood quest related. I'm not sure if its okay to kill them or not (don't want to sequence break the quest or w/e) but just watch out for them. I know one of them won't kill you, and the other is pretty weak and isn't someone to worry about.

*Not sure how to level your skills fast enough? Go here. I highly suggest you to JUST PLAY the game naturally though. Get your bearings, gold, equips obviously and fun naturally. :) This link is recommended for the post lv 50 slog.

*Not sure how to get there? Strafe Jumping is your friend! There's two caves that has a opening with a waterfall but no visible way to get in there but yet somehow looks feasible enough to attempt wall jumping? Its totally doable! One leads to a definite gold vein lol and the other definitely leads into a much better cavern that can be completely missed out on "cleared" status too.

*I've gotten 100k in gold. This part is not hard! Really just tedious in selling to shopkeepers that aren't open all times or only buys a selection or have limited amount of gold but hey, every time you got overloaded with stuff, you do some selling with gear/jewelry/the like while you're storing your stash every time. Just don't forget to save your money before buying them houses and shit.

I saw a Youtube on how to make a suit of armour giving you 0% destruction casting cost which is by all accounts a bit of a gamebreaker but not as bad as 100% Chaemeleon in Oblivion I'll wager. There are a ton of vids up on how to level quickly too which seems to me to really be missing the point of a game like this.

The more I hear about the game, the more tempted I am to buy it t be honest.

Same here. Even though my computer couldn't possibly handle this game (since it didn't handle Oblivion very well) and therefore I can't use mods in the 360 version, I still get excited every time I see videos of battle sequences or rooms piles of loot everywhere.

Odds are if your system can run Oblivion at all Skyrim will run fine, or probably better than Oblivion actually. From what I've heard it's generally better-coded.

If you can run Oblivion, you can run Skyrim. 5 years notwithstanding, they both had to be designed to fit within the memory constraints of the (now long-in-the-tooth) current console gen.

(If you just prefer to play sandbox RPGs with a controller, more power to you I suppose. You monster.)

I buyed this game on the flee market yesterday for 399 rubles I ask myself now if it`is legit...

So far I'm...

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Let me put it another way: my computer doesn't handle anything well anymore, whether it's Unreal Tournament, Titan Quest, Minecraft, Portal 2, Left 4 Dead, Sid Meier's Railroads, Pro Evolution Soccer 2011; all these games (and others) feature frequent and long bouts of slowdowns (usually every couple of minutes for about a minute). Yeah, I can lower the resolution and lower the graphics settings, but for how much work and money I put into this system five or so years ago at some point it feels like my system is ten years old. I really don't know how to resolve it without building a new system.

That armor is bad ass! I haven't been on it as much as you guys....

Still lvl 18? and yeh i'm not even going to bring up my goods....need to sell more soul to skyrim I think.

Not sure what it is about this Elder Scrolls game specifically but I am 51 hours in and have only done 4 quests involved in the main story. I've spent much of my time burglarizing every home and shop in every city I come across.

Stealth/archery here also.
Protip for ya'll beggars: if you finish the Thieves Guild quest line, the main fence, Tamilia, has 4000 gold inventory. This is surprisingly handy, as beside buying anything stolen, she buys anything in general.

My best story so far: was drunk on Saturday, and spent the entire night following my fox-bro. He led me to a bandit camp, two bunches of elks and finally to a Dragon Priest dungeon. I want foxes as pets. Best Skyrim bro ever.

Thank god. According to my stats I've stolen 33,000 objects, so that's REALLY handy for me.

This 1.2 patch breaks all resistances. Isn't that nice. Be wary you guys.

And this.

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Man, just figured out secret to mega $$$.

You need the daedric artifact star thing that is essentially a reusable soul gem. Use the capture soul spell to get one high-level soul into it. Then, buy/find a weapon with the ability to autocast capture soul on your weapon. Go to the enchanting table, dechant the weapon you found for the ability from that weapon you got earlier (I suck at remembering these names) get your weapon of choice (mine was a fine glass bow), and enchant it using the biggest soul gem/that artifact you can. Set it so the spell only lasts for 1 second after hitting the enemy, and you should be able to get something like 600 casts out of a fully charged weapon. This way, whenever you kill an enemy, they'll have the spell cast on them (how often does something else kill an enemy?), and you'll be able to capture their soul.

Now go out hunting with all of those petty soul gems you've been collecting all game.

I got my enchanting up to around level 50 from level 20 just by doing three normal dungeons. Weapons seem to get the best bonus to money from enchantments (though expensive armors work great, too). Try dechanting a bunch of various things to see what gives the best value for putting it onto other items. I found health leech tends to be worth the most, unless you've got a really big soul gem in which case Banish or Stamina damage take over.

I think I'm going to try and find that shrine that gives a boost to warrior skills so I can boost smithing with the MASSIVE stockpile of leather I've built up so far.

Or just go to Lover's Stone. Its in Reach. 15% increase learning in all skills. :D

Oh, nice, hadn't found that one yet! I've been using the Lady Stone for the nice bump to 25% health and stamina regen.

Debating now if I want to bother giving up werewolf so I can get rested bonuses. It's so nice being able to run really fast, plus I imagine it'll be nice for situations where I can't snipe my way out. Then again, I'm usually pretty good at taking out almost everyone from a distance...

Man, the Azura's star quest is very awesome. Although only 3 daedra hearts. But yeah, if you want your enchantment levels soaring fast, you basically need the star.

The problem with games like this is that no matter how much I try not to do it, I always try to figure out a way to create the "perfect" character, or how to best play the game. It's not at all conducive to the spirit of the game, obviously. I restarted New Vegas about fourteen times before I finally settled into the type of character I used to complete the game, for instance.

I'm an Imperial and I'm only at Level 6. =(

I was like this in Oblivion but once I narrowed down on my tastes (stealth/thievery), I created the archetype accordingly and it worked out pretty well. When in doubt just go with archetypes. They should work for most part in TES games.

With this said though, apparently, best character for DPS is an Orc, while Bretons offer a nice magic resistance. I don't regret my Khajiit character at all, if anything she's the most appealing to look at lol, except dat neck.

But yeah after a while and fighting those dragons, I begin to wish for some decent magic resistance because it can get silly.

Just turned all of my pelts into leather and made about over a hundred sets of leather bracers. My smithing skill went from about 40 to 68. I think I've got something like six character levels still stored that I need to apply my heath/stamina/magic choice. Plus 20 skill points to spend.

Also, just found out that recharging weapons boosts your enchant skill. I had let my bow get down to about 1/4 power left, used Azura's Star on it, and it was refilled along with an easy level up. Then just killed one more random bandit to refill the star.

Totally wish I had actually read up on how enchanting works a bit earlier in the game.

Be careful RR, don't level up too much to have your own combat levels gimped in comparison with the enemies around you.

ALSO.

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Say Philia, how do you do that again?

It's been like this for a really long time. That's what I get for leveling up two types of magic for a non-mage character with hardly any MP and no skill points put into those skills. >_>

My archery's at level 82 or so, though, so I can hold my own pretty well as long as nobody can find me, and I get my 3x sneak bonus.


My biggest worry at the moment is running out of arrow, though. I've only got about 100 steel arrows left, and after that I think it's mostly more rare types of arrows. Is there anywhere good to get them other than scrounging (and overpaying) at markets?

Well, do some more dungeons RR. There's lots of Drugar enemies that carry arrows. Granted its ancient nord arrows but that carried me for a good while til I got enough money to buy Ebony and better arrow upgrades.

Term.

*Archery, Smithing, Enchanting, Alchemy = 100, Perks applied.
*Ring, Necklace, Gloves, Helmet = Bows do more Damage 47% enchanted
*Daedric Bow is made with 3 Ebony Ingots and 2 Daedra Hearts, I just happen to be very lucky and have one plain for loot.
*Alchemy/Enchanting cycle gear til you get good enough % in Enchanting/Smithing potions. (32%, 130% respectively) I happen to be lucky enough to have an Enchanter's Elixir or two to start with and gave myself a headstart. Pretty much skipped a few steps.
*Drink Smithing potion while wearing Smithing gear and then refine your weapon with Ebony Ingot.

I haven't enchanted my bow yet because I'm still not sure which to apply to it. I have a Fiery Soul Trap which is neat but I had this sneaky feeling that I'll find something better. So I'm saving it til then. Either way, this is overkill and I can oneshot dragons if I want. :D

If you're really desperate for arrows and want to get some for free, find a training yard like the one in Solitude, and see if there's a soldier training his archery on practice targets. It may be slow, but you should be able to collect some arrows off of the practice targets.

What do you mean by this?

In my personal experience, I feel that the enemies do scale with you at some level. Just not their gear (bosses) but their hp/strengths.

Let me rephrase that. The higher level you go, the more diverse enemies you run into. You'll actually meet an enemy of your level at all times. There seems to be categories of them. Level 1-10 being the weakest, next ten levels is so so, and so on.

Like you'll meet Spriggan and hate those. 20 levels later, you'll meet one AND a Matron Spriggan. >.<

Then again, you can change the difficulty if you want I guess.

Philia you've got followers all wrong. They kick so much ass. I'm running into rooms with a entourage of 5 absolutely destroying things. My dark elf hireling is clad in all heavy armor, duel-weilding ferocious staves - one summons a daedra warrior and the other shoots arching lightning; then i summon my flame monster and hang back with a bow while my loud ass dog runs in to assist.

LOL I'm sure they're great for your amusement though. I'm sure even Pang could whip up some awesome and just as hilarious frame by frame of them doing ridiculous things. You should post some more stories though! :)

Followers and escorts and the like is just not my thing. :)

Hello everyone. I'm a newcomer to the world and I'm currently a level 15 Argonian thief with a bow and dagger. Funny thing happened to me just now. I was in Whiterun selling my crap to the local shops when a large shadow passes overhead and in comes a dragon. Here he is for all you photo whores:

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Anyway, so the guards and I are firing at it and the townspeople don't care. It finally died...right by my house and also right across the path. Doesn't seem to bother anyone. They just walk through it like it doesn't exist. They stared at it at first though.

Its tail is touching one of my windows and its head is lying right on top of the steps. I really like it there. Too bad it's going to disappear eventually.


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Oh and here's me. I think I look like an anthro dragon with snake eyes.

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Are there certain "archetypes" that work best with certain races? Or are races almost entirely cosmetic?

I mean, I'm an Imperial, like I said, which seems to place me in a certain non-magical capacity. But I don't know if there are actually boosts or not. And if there are handicaps/boosts, how detrimental are they really? I mean, could I overcome those obstacles?

The only ones that has racial advantages is Breton who has 25% resistance to all magic, Nords have 50% frost resistance, Dark Elves with 50% fire resistance, Redguards with 50% poison resistance, Wood Elves with 50% disease/poison, High Elves +50 mp, Imperials get a little gold in loot. There's a 85% cap on magic resistance anyway. Argonians can breathe underwater, there's a mask you can get for this. Khajiit has Night Eye but I've never used it. All while, there's definitely loot that offers resistance to disease and poison (mask in particular) and another mask will offer magic resistance to all magic. Not only that, you also got Atronach Stone that allows 50% fire/frost resistance too. :)

The rest is pretty minor, and had a headstart on some of the skills that you can eventually get to 100 anyway on any sort of build you want to do. So you're fine in either class you want to do midway in the game. In fact you can roll all kind of build in this game if you want. The only thing that is not infinite is the perks. There's only 80 points, one per a level. So I'd spend them wisely in areas that you think would be beneficial to all builds. Thankfully you can save your perk points. :)

I thought Imperials have a speech advantage or the sort. And Orks are best at everything melee because of their ability: Berserker Rage. BR cuts the incoming damage by half while delivering twice as much. It'll most likely be my next race (considering I'm a Redguard right now and my points are all spread out to where I need them)

Philia, I'll most likely try to up my Daedric mace the next game. Time consuming alchemy/enchanting powering up and such (I have a daedra heart and about 3 ebony ingots though). And my current Daedra is maxed at 108 damage (before I realized I have to up the alchemy and wear armor related to smithing {which is also rigged by max enchanting}) after improving it twice.

They do, but like I said, they're MINOR. IMHO anyway. What's IMPORTANT in this game is definitely magic resistance. Since that's just what dragons are using and most mages can KO you with despite of the amount of the best armor you have.

Argonians have 50% resistance to disease. Kinda moot for me now though as werewolves have 100% immunity.

Lycanthrophy is curable, so no worries.

So this is most definitely a game where I can't be a god by the end who is capable of doing everything. :( Are there general rules of the three perks that are most useful for which build? I can see Magic (Magicka was it?) for mages and Stamina for thief-types, and I assume Health is good for all-around warrior types?

50 actually. The perks max at level 50, but if you got all skill levels to 100 then you'd result in a level 81 character.

Skills. I'm lv 53 and I'm still getting my perk points. :) Are you being silly to where you're not even reading my posts or entries anymore. ;___; Am I really that fucking invisible.

Damnit, I just did the quest where you have to kill all the witches for the Companions, grabbed all their heads (figured they'd make nice trophies for my house), and even though the quest is over the game is telling me I can't drop the heads. Is there another quest that requires them? Otherwise I'm stuck carrying 20 pounds worth of crap I can't ever use.

Also, best combo for making money is enchanting banish onto any weapon. You can make iron daggers worth 1700 using a petty soul gem, so I'm not even bothering with looting stuff I don't want to keep now.

My bad, that's just the consensus on this info generally. I am not that high level to test it myself. I dunno if it was misinformation that I saw or that you've got one of these lolarity Bethesda bugs.

Sorry, either way. ;_;

You use them later on in that questline. One for someone else and one for you (If you want) and it's probably pretty obvious what you'll use them for when it comes to it.

Edit: I actually just finished that line yesterday and still had four heads in my inventory. You can indeed drop them afterward. They are sitting on the same shelf I keep 40 skulls. I love decorating.

Is this a bug or something? I was doing the Bard's quests to find some instruments but when I turn in the quest the NPCs do not take the instruments from my inventory and I can't drop them because they are quest items so now I am stuck carrying these around and taking up weight.

I had that happen with a quest at the mage's college. What happened was there was a quest that involved the whole college, so normal conversation options weren't available, so the game wouldn't register the smaller quests I had picked up from various people. One of the reasons I wound up doing the final quest for the college was just to get this stupid staff and a few books out of my inventory, lol.

How many quests do you guys usually have sitting in your journal? I've got half a billion, and it seems whenever I'm about to finish one I wind up getting five more. Also, is there any way to drop a quest from the menu?

I got at least 30 sitting in my quest log. I tell myself to finish all these quests first before picking up new ones but I keep talking to random NPCs and get new quests so yeah, it's just going to get bigger and bigger.

It's also bugged. I finished a bounty to kill a dragon and turned in the quest but the quest log still tells me to talk to the NPC. Can't get rid of it so bah.

Also, I think I got messed up with a certain quest. It's that one in Morthal called Laid to Rest.



So has anyone got the same issue and know how to fix it?

I've been having fun with the Thieves Guild. Just joined it today.

Has anyone gotten married yet? There's only 2 Argonians (male and female) you can marry in the game which kinda sucks since I don't want to marry someone not of my species.

Several times I got married. I'm a player like that.

Also come on, why do you limit yourself on marriage partners? Always fun to mix and match.

That said, I'm just doing miscellaneous quests right now. If I wanted to do any sidequests at all, I'm better off doing Boethiah's but right now, I'm earning dough to buy all the furnishings at my Solitude house. I could get the Windhelm house but I fucking hate picking sides (gotta join Stormcloaks) so 4 houses for now. Level 40 and I'm seriously considering touching the Enchantment perk (I'm Redguard. How could I miss this ;_;)

I got married to Sylgja, from Shor's Stone. I don't suggest doing it. She never loses the fucking pickaxe she is carrying in her belt. However it IS nice having a store in the house. No real downside to it, that's for sure.

While I experimented with some of the NPCs, Housecarls and potential allies (Mjoll, Mercutio, etc), I wanna marry either Senna (Dibella's temple on Markarth) or Ysolda (From Whiterun). Most likely Senna.

And if you don't collect gold everyday, the amount stacks. 1K gold for 10 days is not bad at all.

I just would find it weird to marry outside my race but that's just me, you know. Anyway, there were actually 3 to choose from not 2 and I married Scouts-Many-Marshes today. A store does come in handy.

P.S. The dead dragon has left Whiterun for good this time. Don't see it anymore.

Update: Never mind. It has come back.

As always, I'm late to the party, But I finally got this two days ago and I'll probably be able to finally dive in when I get back from work tonight.

The other day I walked into a new city, stopped in a shop to sell a few wares, and when I walked outside there was a dead dragon.

I guess that makes up for the one I killed a few days ago but for some reason wasn't able to absorb its soul.

(Also, just got alchemy, smithing, and enchanting up to 100, hit level 38 with something like 24 skill points in reserve, and will be making lolgear next time I fire the game up.)

BUG ALERT: Thief Guild's Dampened Spirits cannot be triggered.

I know, I know, the game can be loaded with them and etc. But this is one of the important ones where you cannot progress in Thief Guild questline at all. So in sense besides the Main Questline, its somewhat major to mention ITT.

I'll copypaste the bugs related in here for further reference or clarification.

*If the player breaks into Honningbrew Meadery before being given the quest, the quest is never offered to the player after the completion of Loud and Clear.

*If the player (after completing the quest Loud and Clear) does not ask Brynjolf why Maven Black-Briar wishes to see you, the quest is not given and players will not be able to receive quest information from Maven Black-Briar, players will also not be able to speak to Brynjolf saying he has "Important tasks to be doing", hence making the quest un-startable.

*If you do not speak to Maven Black-Briar shortly after being given the quest, the quest will bug out and you will not be able to continue with the Thieves' Guild quest line. This is an issue as of 11/17/2011. (A not so elegant but effective solution is to open the console and enter the command "setstage TG04 1". That will allow you to skip the bugged quest entirely (if it´s not showing up for you) and continue with the Thieves Guild line). (confirmed 360)

I actually had an apparently fairly common glitch on the main storyline where a character in the Riften sewers wouldn't unlock a door for me. I had to turn on no-clip, walk through the door, and talk to him on the other side a bunch of times in order for him to continue. Apparently there's some glitch with his voice files not installing correctly that causes him to do all sorts of weird behavior. Not a huge problem on PC since you can download corrected files and put them in the right place yourself (or just use stuff like noclip to bypass the issue). Bigger issue for 360 and PS3 users.

I've also got an issue where the stormcloaks mission after you get the witch heads doesn't start. Apparently there's a bunch of console nonsense I have to do in order to get it to work now.

Which Main Quest is that RR?

ALSO 350 hours, I still have not met the Greybeards yet. XD

I had same problem with that same quest. Had to spam the talk button to get him to open the stupid door. Also, he never talks too and the subs disappear at light speed so I can only catch a fraction of the dialogue before it disappears.

It kinda sucks for the console players who can't access the console (at least I don't think I can) to trigger parts of quests if they get bugged.

Der Helm aus Bacon | The German Scrolls

In their tongue, he is PORKVADIIN: BACONBORN

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