Baron Aloha
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My Arms Your Hearse said:
Sancre Tor is loaded with them.
Its just west of the Shrine of Dagon in the Jerall Mountains. It shows up on your map with a fort icon. You might need a key though. I can't remember.
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion |OT|
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Sancre Tor is loaded with them.
Its just west of the Shrine of Dagon in the Jerall Mountains. It shows up on your map with a fort icon. You might need a key though. I can't remember.
KarishBHR said:
It's not long...the cave is nearby and easy to reach. Once you actually get inside, though, make sure you sneak attack the bandits first before confronting them head on, because they're really hard to kill when they're going five against one on you (especially the guy who actually has the mace; it does an extra 10 damage against you per hit.)
I think that second mission requires you to go talk to his wife, then talk to some women at the bar on the docks, and everything else is self explanatory
w00t! Just scored myself a shiny new skeleton key. Thanks for the pointers, Mike. 
Quest was fairly easy and straight-forward, but I wish that I had worked on it at a lower level.
Quest was fairly easy and straight-forward, but I wish that I had worked on it at a lower level.
Those trolls and mountain lions in the cave were a bitch to deal with at level 17, and I died several times trying to get to the underwater chest
Baron Aloha
A Shining Example
KarishBHR said:
Yes. Very much so.
Vyse The Legend
Member
For PC users, how is the Construction Set? I'm wondering how flexible the Radiant AI editor truly is.
I just ran into a big gamestopper bug. I'm on the quest "Tears of the Savior", went into the glade, and now the door leading out of the glade will not open again. When I try to open it, it says "this door cannot be opened". There's no other way out of the glade, it's an instanced forest area in a bowl.
I think it may have had something to do with the ingredient I needed to open the door. I only got one, and maybe I needed two?
I reloaded a game (eight hours previous) and bought two of the ingredient, and now I can go back and forth out the door and back in.
Ugh. 8 hours gone...
EDIT : The ingredient was refined frost salt. In my savegame where I can't get out of the door I don't have any in my inventory (although I had one I bought when I initially opened the door).
EDIT 2: In my new savegame, I can neither drop nor eat the refined frost salt. It's somehow gone from my initial one, though. Seems like I'm screwed, and have to revert back 8 hours.
In the new game, I bought, two, and after coming into the glade I still have both in my inventory.
I think it may have had something to do with the ingredient I needed to open the door. I only got one, and maybe I needed two?
I reloaded a game (eight hours previous) and bought two of the ingredient, and now I can go back and forth out the door and back in.
Ugh. 8 hours gone...
EDIT : The ingredient was refined frost salt. In my savegame where I can't get out of the door I don't have any in my inventory (although I had one I bought when I initially opened the door).
EDIT 2: In my new savegame, I can neither drop nor eat the refined frost salt. It's somehow gone from my initial one, though. Seems like I'm screwed, and have to revert back 8 hours.
In the new game, I bought, two, and after coming into the glade I still have both in my inventory.
Vyse The Legend
Member
Vark said:
Ok, then, I can create a NPC that is a high level thief and steals spoons from all the houses in Cyrodiil?
Vyse The Legend
Member
IJoel said:What is it with guards magically knowing you murdered someone when you do it in the privacy of their own home?!
This is so extremely annoying...
If you are one-hit killing them, then that shouldn't happen. However, if you attack them and they see you, you will be flagged.
DaviBlight
Member
anyone know where i can find a scroll or skill for fortify magicka? its for one of the mage guild quests.
WHOAguitarninja
Member
Does this game have the same bug that PGR3 had that when you put it to 1280x1024 that it would squish the screen? I can't seem to get it to look right on my monitor.
When I beat the arena last night, the game gave me a little goon to follow me around. What do I do with him? I told him to stay in my house in the IC, but can you give him weapons and turn him into a kickass sidekick?
SPECIAL TREAT! Morrowind in seven minutes
SPECIAL TREAT! Morrowind in seven minutes
Scottlarock
Banned
okay, where is the garden of dareloth?
Before saturday i never gave a crap about RPG's, but i said WTH and i bought Oblivion yesterday for the 360 because of all the great reviews its getting................and holy shit what an awesome game, i've played the game over 13 hours since yesterday!!!!!!
Great job Bethesda!!!!
Great job Bethesda!!!!
Willy Wanka
my god this avatar owns
Ok I have a bit of a problem:
Also I now have a "night vision" heavy armour helm to go along with my ring that detects life
I'm doing that quest in Bruma where a vampire hunter has killed someone called Brandon and the murder is supposedly suspicious. I've questioned the wife and the guard at the scene and I then asked a merchant where to find the vampire hunter. After being told he is at the inn I headed over there. The problem is that the innkeeper won't bloody tell me anything more about him until he knows me better I've bribed him with my hard earned cahs to get my disposition with him up but it's reached a max of 68 and won't go any higher. I know he has a key to the guys room too because I've tried and failed to pickpocket him. Is this quest interminably broken or is there something I've missed or need to do to get him to give me the key/info I need?
I've bribed him with my hard earned cahs to get my disposition with him up but it's reached a max of 68 and won't go any higher. I know he has a key to the guys room too because I've tried and failed to pickpocket him. Is this quest interminably broken or is there something I've missed or need to do to get him to give me the key/info I need?Also I now have a "night vision" heavy armour helm to go along with my ring that detects life
Baron Aloha
A Shining Example
Playing the 360 version....
The Dark Brotherhood is definitely my favorite quest line in the game so far (I've completed the main quest, arena, and Fighter Guild lines and I've dabbled a little bit into the Mage's guild). Every single one of the assignments so far has been interesting and fun to do and most of all, they are quick. Not like the fighters guild where you run all over the place and stuff drags on forever or the mages guild where you need to do 9 quests just to get into the university. An expansion pack or a mission pack or something that was all about the Dark Brotherhood would be a definite buy for me.
The Dark Brotherhood is definitely my favorite quest line in the game so far (I've completed the main quest, arena, and Fighter Guild lines and I've dabbled a little bit into the Mage's guild). Every single one of the assignments so far has been interesting and fun to do and most of all, they are quick. Not like the fighters guild where you run all over the place and stuff drags on forever or the mages guild where you need to do 9 quests just to get into the university. An expansion pack or a mission pack or something that was all about the Dark Brotherhood would be a definite buy for me.
Eel O'Brian
Member
I'm so damned pissed at this game right now it isn't even funny. I couldn't figure out how to finish the
quest last night, and I'd forgotten to save, so I had to play five hours worth of quests over again today. I approached the quest several different ways, and still couldn't figure it out. I finally got so frustrated I went out and dropped $20 on the guide, and, following the instructions given to a T, I still can't finish the goddamned quest.
This mission has serious flaws. Apparently everything must be completed in an exact order, and any straying from it breaks the mission so it can't be finished. Only problem is, neither the game nor the guide gives a clear mission order. Can someone please, please, please help me here so I can finish this damned mission and move on? Because I'm seriously about to snatch this game out of the 360 and stomp it into a million pieces. A whole day I've wasted on this.
Spies
I've talked to Steffan.
I've spied on Jearl and Saveri.
When I try to follow them, Jearl disappears and a message pops up saying Sevari is dead, and that I should go talk to Burd.
I do that, and talk to the bum who says she has a visitor.
I don't have any lockpicks, so I have to wait for Jearl at the ruins again and kill her to get her keys. Lockpicks are required for just about every fucking mission, yet they're almost impossible to find. What the hell is that all about? I take the keys and enter her home, and there's nothing NOTHING NOTHING GODDAMNED NOTHING in her home for me to find.
According to the guide, I need to find a cave, yet Jearl and Sevari won't ever lead me to it, and when I go southwest like the guide says I just keep going and going and going and never find it. I just can't find the fucking cave no matter where I look. Does it even exist?
I've spied on Jearl and Saveri.
When I try to follow them, Jearl disappears and a message pops up saying Sevari is dead, and that I should go talk to Burd.
I do that, and talk to the bum who says she has a visitor.
I don't have any lockpicks, so I have to wait for Jearl at the ruins again and kill her to get her keys. Lockpicks are required for just about every fucking mission, yet they're almost impossible to find. What the hell is that all about? I take the keys and enter her home, and there's nothing NOTHING NOTHING GODDAMNED NOTHING in her home for me to find.
According to the guide, I need to find a cave, yet Jearl and Sevari won't ever lead me to it, and when I go southwest like the guide says I just keep going and going and going and never find it. I just can't find the fucking cave no matter where I look. Does it even exist?
This mission has serious flaws. Apparently everything must be completed in an exact order, and any straying from it breaks the mission so it can't be finished. Only problem is, neither the game nor the guide gives a clear mission order. Can someone please, please, please help me here so I can finish this damned mission and move on? Because I'm seriously about to snatch this game out of the 360 and stomp it into a million pieces. A whole day I've wasted on this.
OK, I really need help with this glitch or whatever it is.
I was playing, and I pressed tab. While I was on the tab screen, I held shift and meant to click an item to get rid of it, but I pressed tab again by accident.
Doing this caused my to levitate that ale bottle that I posted in a video on the previous page, and it also seems to have put me on auto-run mode.
I'm in constant run mode unless I press shift to manually slow down to walk level, and while this is usually a very good thing, it's screwing up my stealthing and whatnot.
What the heck did I do?
I was playing, and I pressed tab. While I was on the tab screen, I held shift and meant to click an item to get rid of it, but I pressed tab again by accident.
Doing this caused my to levitate that ale bottle that I posted in a video on the previous page, and it also seems to have put me on auto-run mode.
I'm in constant run mode unless I press shift to manually slow down to walk level, and while this is usually a very good thing, it's screwing up my stealthing and whatnot.
What the heck did I do?
WHOAguitarninja
Member
Okay something is wrong. Suddenly it takes several minutes to load and those brief loading pauses are now not so brief. There seems to be a serious loading bug and I'm not really sure how to fix this. It now happens everywhere I go....this is REALLY aggrivating.
EDIT - Nevermind...just did the cache thing. Apparently you have to hold it down until the main logo pops up and not the bethesda logo, which I had already tried. Problem solved.
EDIT - Nevermind...just did the cache thing. Apparently you have to hold it down until the main logo pops up and not the bethesda logo, which I had already tried. Problem solved.
Teknopathetic
Member
"OK, I really need help with this glitch or whatever it is.
I was playing, and I pressed tab. While I was on the tab screen, I held shift and meant to click an item to get rid of it, but I pressed tab again by accident.
Doing this caused my to levitate that ale bottle that I posted in a video on the previous page, and it also seems to have put me on auto-run mode.
I'm in constant run mode unless I press shift to manually slow down to walk level, and while this is usually a very good thing, it's screwing up my stealthing and whatnot.
What the heck did I do?"
Press Z to drop the bottle, Press capslock to turn off auto-run.
I was playing, and I pressed tab. While I was on the tab screen, I held shift and meant to click an item to get rid of it, but I pressed tab again by accident.
Doing this caused my to levitate that ale bottle that I posted in a video on the previous page, and it also seems to have put me on auto-run mode.
I'm in constant run mode unless I press shift to manually slow down to walk level, and while this is usually a very good thing, it's screwing up my stealthing and whatnot.
What the heck did I do?"
Press Z to drop the bottle, Press capslock to turn off auto-run.
Thanks for the cache tip, it worked great. Also, I'm considering starting the game over as I'm currently playing with a thief/mage mix. I'm thinking about doing more of a fighter character to go with the magic, but I'm just unsure. This is my first Elder Scrolls game I've liked.
What is a good beginning type character that isn't boring either?
What is a good beginning type character that isn't boring either?
krypt0nian
Banned
Y2Kevbug11 said:
words right out of my mouth.....very pretty but I hate it. Hate.
My Arms Your Hearse
Banned
Hmm? It is possible to BUY ectoplasm anywhere?
Four hours or so of searching and I've found two ectoplasms... I ran into a crapload of ghosts on my stealth character, but I think that was mostly from Thief/DB quests... maybe I should go take some of those.
ST definitely needs a key.
You don't have to close all of those Oblivion gates. I finished the main quest with only having closed three.
I should also just add that I've been through about five Ayleid ruins type places by now searching for ectoplasm... saw one ghost each in two of them :/ Found zero in other types of dungeons. Maybe I just need more levels? (6 now)
Four hours or so of searching and I've found two ectoplasms... I ran into a crapload of ghosts on my stealth character, but I think that was mostly from Thief/DB quests... maybe I should go take some of those.
ST definitely needs a key
.You don't have to close all of those Oblivion gates. I finished the main quest with only having closed three.
I should also just add that I've been through about five Ayleid ruins type places by now searching for ectoplasm... saw one ghost each in two of them :/ Found zero in other types of dungeons. Maybe I just need more levels? (6 now)
DaviBlight
Member
Anyone know of a merchant that has a limit of over 1000coin?
Im sick of selling shit that says it is worth over 3000 for 1000 exactly..
Im sick of selling shit that says it is worth over 3000 for 1000 exactly..
any other archers out there?
is it me, or does archery just fucking suck? it takes me like 10-15 arrows to take down scamps and shit. maybe 8 if i get to get the sneak bonus. i'm getting owned repeatedly (in the castle following the first oblivion gate), its not fun. now i'm out of arrows (went through a good 100+) and doing dick squat with my sword.
is it me, or does archery just fucking suck? it takes me like 10-15 arrows to take down scamps and shit. maybe 8 if i get to get the sneak bonus. i'm getting owned repeatedly (in the castle following the first oblivion gate), its not fun. now i'm out of arrows (went through a good 100+) and doing dick squat with my sword.
krypt0nian
Banned
DaviBlight said:
Up your Merchantile and you'll be able to "invest" in a merchant to give them a higher base amount and sell your phat loots for higher.
op_ivy said:
Add potions/poisons to your arrows. Esp Burden to slow them down. I found a Bow that casts a Fear on them, which makes it easier to take out multiple mobs.
DaviBlight
Member
i had alot of problems with the ectoplasm too
there are a few ways to get it, you can buy it from a magic store(not guild) 1 piece at a time, but you have to wait a week or so for a new shipment, or you can go to any chapel, break into the undercoft(down the stairs) and there will be 4 ghosts.
there are a few ways to get it, you can buy it from a magic store(not guild) 1 piece at a time, but you have to wait a week or so for a new shipment, or you can go to any chapel, break into the undercoft(down the stairs) and there will be 4 ghosts.
DaviBlight
Member
krypt0nian they all say that they are at 100 diposition, can it go higher than that?
Teknopathetic
Member
"Hmm? It is possible to BUY ectoplasm anywhere?"
I think the chick in skingrad has some regularly.
"is it me, or does archery just fucking suck? it takes me like 10-15 arrows to take down scamps and shit. maybe 8 if i get to get the sneak bonus. i'm getting owned repeatedly (in the castle following the first oblivion gate), its not fun. now i'm out of arrows (went through a good 100+) and doing dick squat with my sword."
I get the same feeling, although, I can get off a few sneak attacks (like 3 or 4) before they notice me (If they're alive long enough).
I'd like to know what was going on in that countdown video where an archer shot an arrow and killed 2 minotaurs in one shot.
Steve? Could you /spoiler that one for me?
I think the chick in skingrad has some regularly.
"is it me, or does archery just fucking suck? it takes me like 10-15 arrows to take down scamps and shit. maybe 8 if i get to get the sneak bonus. i'm getting owned repeatedly (in the castle following the first oblivion gate), its not fun. now i'm out of arrows (went through a good 100+) and doing dick squat with my sword."
I get the same feeling, although, I can get off a few sneak attacks (like 3 or 4) before they notice me (If they're alive long enough).
I'd like to know what was going on in that countdown video where an archer shot an arrow and killed 2 minotaurs in one shot.
Steve? Could you /spoiler that one for me?
krypt0nian
Banned
DaviBlight said:
Disposition is for Speechcraft. Merchatile is from buying/selling things.
scooby_dooby
Banned
Eel O'Brian said:
Impossible to find? Join the thieves guild by meeting a guy at midnight in that waterfront in the impercial city, then goto Bruma and goto the guy who buys stolen goods.
100 lock pick for 500 gold. Not exactly impossible, takes maybe 30 minutes.
Vyse The Legend
Member
Eel O'Brian said:
:lol :lol
I'm sorry for laughing, but the quest isn't broken and can be done in any order. What you're missing (and you will kick yourself for this) is that there is a trapdoor on the floor in Jearl's house. Just, look down near the table/rug. :lol Anyway, Go in there and find the paper with her orders from the Mystic Dawn. Then take them to Jauffre. Quest over.
Confidence Man
Member
I don't find archery underpowered at all. As long as your stats are favorable toward it (high agility, marksman, a decent bow) it's no more out of whack than melee.
My Arms Your Hearse
Banned
Hmm, thanks for the tip about buying ectoplasm.
I broke into one of the chapel's undercrofts and found zero ghosts. Just some insanely hard bitch who shot ice at me and slapped me around with her bare fists. I'll try some more.
I broke into one of the chapel's undercrofts and found zero ghosts
. Just some insanely hard bitch who shot ice at me and slapped me around with her bare fists. I'll try some more.op_ivy said:
I want to use my sword, but can't because I seem to suck at it for no apparent reason. I'm level 17 and could NEVER take out a minotaur, even one. I have to run from them. I have trouble with a single mountain lion, even. But, I can take down anything with my bow and a few sneak attacks.
Teknopathetic said:"Hmm? It is possible to BUY ectoplasm anywhere?"
I think the chick in skingrad has some regularly.
"is it me, or does archery just fucking suck? it takes me like 10-15 arrows to take down scamps and shit. maybe 8 if i get to get the sneak bonus. i'm getting owned repeatedly (in the castle following the first oblivion gate), its not fun. now i'm out of arrows (went through a good 100+) and doing dick squat with my sword."
I get the same feeling, although, I can get off a few sneak attacks (like 3 or 4) before they notice me (If they're alive long enough).
I'd like to know what was going on in that countdown video where an archer shot an arrow and killed 2 minotaurs in one shot.
Steve? Could you /spoiler that one for me?
High class arrows +difficulty slider all the way to the left, I imagine. Deceptive marketing for the win!
My Arms Your Hearse
Banned
Well, after getting denied at a few more chapels, Bruma pulls through. About six down there... finally.
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