[:plant:] 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.

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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.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

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

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! 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.

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So it has been week guys, how are we doing on the game? 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.

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. 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.

I was speaking idiomatically.

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.

Originally Posted by RacinReaver

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.

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

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

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How ya doing, buddy?

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

I got some images! This is my lovely character.



This is MY MAP. 170 hours - 210 locations found, 117 dungeons cleared.

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

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

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! (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.

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

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Yep, noticed this today. I have some Legendary Daedric double enchanted armor so I have over 50% resistance in every element. Today as I played a slightly higher level Conjurer owned me with a couple of fireballs.

And this.

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

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Barraza

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.

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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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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.

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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.

FELIPE NO

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.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

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.

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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.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

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)

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Which Main Quest is that RR?

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

I was speaking idiomatically.