[:plant:] TES: Skyrim

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Lv 29 Khajiit, Archer with stealth oriented skills

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.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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...

How ya doing, buddy?

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.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Philia

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

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?

I was speaking idiomatically.

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.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

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?

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Freelance

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

Update: Never mind. It has come back.

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.)

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

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.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Spoiler:

The mission's called "A Cornered Rat." It's the one where you have to meet Esbern (a member of the Blades) in the Rataway in Riften. You talk to him through a locked door and after a few conversation points he's supposed to unlock the door for you. In my case he just walked away. It's a decent while after you meet with the Greybeards.

Apparently his dialogue is bugged throughout the entire game, so if you get hit in the first spot you'll likely get it again. I was able to avoid it by using the patch. Looking through a few wikis there's a tons of bugs dealing with him, though the one at the door seems to be the worst since it's an essential part of the main plot line.

There's nowhere I can't reach.