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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim |OT| Het Kos Dovahhe
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Dragon fights are really starting to wear on me. The easier dragons in the beginning were cool because they were a small threat and could actually fuck people up that happened to be nearby so you want to take care of them quickly, but these Blood Dragons are starting to show up way too often and take too damn long to kill. The fights just end up being me spamming health potions while wearing them down slowly since there's pretty much no way to get around their breath blasts that completely blind you and drain the shit out of your health. Then they fly away, circle out of range for 20 seconds, come back and do it again.
Dragons are quickly becoming my least favorite thing about the game by far, if they continue to be this annoying then they might just be Skyrims cliff racer.
Dragons are quickly becoming my least favorite thing about the game by far, if they continue to be this annoying then they might just be Skyrims cliff racer.
Flame Lord
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Main Story Spoiler:
When you had to fight that giant dwarven mech during the Elder Scroll fetching quest, did it have any good loot? I just closed the gate on him and he couldn't open it....
Pollux
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Just raided the mine near Riverwood with my lvl 7 archer dude.
Loot was fucking awesome.
In the chest at the end got:
Amulet of Mara (marriage here I come -- Nord women better like furries)
Orcish Bow
100 gold
A staff worth 250
A mace of freezing or something worth 350
Garnett
Ruby
Soul Gem
Made my SplinterCell-esque dungeon crawl of stealing all the torches and using night eye to snipe well worth it.
Loot was fucking awesome.
In the chest at the end got:
Amulet of Mara (marriage here I come -- Nord women better like furries)
Orcish Bow
100 gold
A staff worth 250
A mace of freezing or something worth 350
Garnett
Ruby
Soul Gem
Made my SplinterCell-esque dungeon crawl of stealing all the torches and using night eye to snipe well worth it.
What I've been doing is, once I took part in the Civil War, I'd go through 2 or 3 of those missions, then inevitably get sidetracked by a couple of city side quests, then back for a couple more civil war missions.
Like Morthal for instance. I go to the town to turn in some false documents to the Legion, talk with some people, find out about a house fire, and it's Detective time!
One thing I remembered, and chuckled over, is the piss poor spending by Skyrim citizens. I walk into a small town near a mine, which has been taken over by Mercs. I have told the mayor that I'll try to take care of the Mercs, because the Mayor can't pay the Merc's ransom money. I go and talk to the Merc Captain, bribe/pay the ransom of 161 gold (which works because it's "more than we were asking for"), then go back with the good news to the Mayor.
He repays me with 600 gold.
Stupid Mayor, no wonder it's a small town!
Like Morthal for instance. I go to the town to turn in some false documents to the Legion, talk with some people, find out about a house fire, and it's Detective time!
One thing I remembered, and chuckled over, is the piss poor spending by Skyrim citizens. I walk into a small town near a mine, which has been taken over by Mercs. I have told the mayor that I'll try to take care of the Mercs, because the Mayor can't pay the Merc's ransom money. I go and talk to the Merc Captain, bribe/pay the ransom of 161 gold (which works because it's "more than we were asking for"), then go back with the good news to the Mayor.
He repays me with 600 gold.
Stupid Mayor, no wonder it's a small town!
:\ think i hit a progress ending bug.
i had taken the kill the ice wraith mission and never completed it so when it came time to talk to elfric
, ulfric kept sending me to talk to galmar but i also couldn't complete the ice wraith quest because galmar was acting like i had successfully talked to ulfric
and not giving me any dialogue options.
are there console commands to force the completion of a quest so i can skip past this bug?
i had taken the kill the ice wraith mission and never completed it so when it came time to talk to elfric
for the peace treaty
about the peace treaty
are there console commands to force the completion of a quest so i can skip past this bug?
JohnOfMars
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Yo Gotti said:
I'm not that far, but here's one tip: The Unrelenting Force shout stops their breath.
My companion before Lydia died to the same thing. Urglefurg or whatever her name is that resides in the Whiterun tavern you have to fist fight. She wasn't worth much anyway.Papercuts said:When they kneel down they lose the enemies aggro, but they can still die from them. Lydia died for me to a powerful storm mage casting lightning everywhere.
Lydia was a lot better, but man, whoever said get Murcurio wasn't lying. That guy laid out an entire bandit camp because he couldn't sneak up where I was trying to get around them to surprise them. He just went nuts and before I was even down there, the side quest for clearing out this bandit camp was over. I laughed. He's also saved me several times from the brink of death.
narcosis219
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Realyn said:Wanna make a extra post for it.
How hard do you guys roleplay? Like I said above, I really dont get the reload thing.
For me its:
-No fast travel. But tbh I used it, when I was at Whiterun doing quest. I mostly got one quest, walked/rode to it and did it and so on. But once I was near Whiterun(like on the back of it, or near the farms), I fasttraveld into the City. Because there was nothing I could have missed, like bandits, a dragon, a cave or something. Think you get my point.
-Read the books
-No reloading whatsoever. If I get caught stealing, I have to deal with it! Same if a companion dies.
-In a dungeon I quicksave after every 2-3 encounters.
-I try to "play" my char like a human. Like, accepting a quest in Whiterun. Go to the other city by horse or carriage. Talk to people, go into the Inn and sleep. Do your quest, look around the city and maybe accept a new quest and so on.
Do everything during day hours. Take into account what time of day it is before I head out of town (Riften to Winterhold at 5:30PM? Start next morning), or get as far as I can and stop at an inn. Also, buy food and eat it (waiting for a mod).
I never do anything during the night time unless I have a specific reason.
Also, reloads are kind of necessary. Sometimes I hit E before I mouse over my target and steal sweetroll. I would have never done that consciously. Makes 0 sense to deal with thievery when I didn't purposely do it. Failed pickpockets and such I don't reload on.
Nose Master
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Is there any serious detriment to becoming a (companion spoilers)
?
werewolf
Papercuts said:When they kneel down they lose the enemies aggro, but they can still die from them. Lydia died for me to a powerful storm mage casting lightning everywhere.
Hm, I'll try again tonight. Like I said, I tried my best to get her killed off with Mammoths and Giants that have their AoE attacks. None of it would kill her. I'd Shout in her general direction and she'd drop dead from that.
Really kind of want to figure this out; would ease my mind a bit on how I want to use my companions.
mbmonk said:
You get her if you do the main story quests in Whiterun.
Another question: Divorce? Is it possible? I married the innkeeper in the town before High Hrothgar and am seriously regretting it. Especially since it looks like Farkas wants a piece of my Breton battle-mage. I read in other boards that the only way to divorce is to murder your spouse. Is this true?
Nose Master
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Chairhome said:
I don't even know what that bonus does. XP modifier?
Deified Data
Banned
Really? I was sort of underwhelmed by the dragon fights early in the game - found it odd that your average bear was more powerful than a 15-foot tall dragon. Now that the Blood Dragons have begun to show up, they're starting to feel like full-on boss battles. Killing them is immensely satisfying. God, their one-hit maul attack is a killer...Yo Gotti said:
krameriffic
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They are so much like the Oblivion gates from the last game. At first they are cool, but later on they just throw so many at you that they become this gargantuan plot macguffin annoyance. There isn't enough variety or difficulty to fighting them. Why are giants about 50 times more dangerous than dragons?Yo Gotti said:
Incendiary
Banned
I think I lost Lydia. I decided to make the pilgrimage to the College of Winterhold so I could get my mage on, and along the way I took a roundabout route through the mountains which involved cliffs Lydia decided she couldn't jump down. By the time I got to Winterhold I realized she wasn't following me anymore....is she lost for good? I hope not, she was carrying some heavy items for me. :|
SpeedingUptoStop
will totally Facebook friend you! *giggle* *LOL*
I need to get in on this shit.hyduK said:
Derrick01 said:
I married the same person, and I'm also Argonian. Is Lydia alive in your game? Because her corpse showed up at my wedding and ruined it, I'm wondering if that is a glitch that can happen to anyone, because it was god damn hilarious.
So I have now fought three dragons at the College of Winterhold. I guess they spawn when you reach certain levels and attack at whatever "dragon fight location" you happen across? Kind of annoying: since I'm using the College as my home base for now, I presume I can count on fighting more dragons there?
I mean, it's a pretty cool place to fight dragons. Plenty of cover, occasional magic NPC support. Just getting a little tired of it. I'd prefer to face dragons with some more variety.
I mean, it's a pretty cool place to fight dragons. Plenty of cover, occasional magic NPC support. Just getting a little tired of it. I'd prefer to face dragons with some more variety.
Bears are infinitely more terrifying to me. I cant run and hide from them like I can a dragon and my character isn't very good with melee combat. If I want to survive a bear attack without using absolutely every potion in my inventory(and I keep a lot), I need to get the jump on them or be near civilization so I can run for help. In fact, using an archer/mage character, I've stopped putting points into HP and started putting them into stamina(when I'm not putting them into magicka) so I can run farther!Deified Data said:
masterkajo
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Haha... Just got the wood elf from the first town as a companion after I paid him 300 Gold to teach me an archery skill. Guess what, I asked him to trade some items with me and I took my 300 gold right back. Could level archery pretty easy that way but I guess it is not really recommended because I will lvl up fast without other skills, I guess.
But just so funny when you pay him 300 gold and then just take it right back and pay him again to teach you. Haha.
But just so funny when you pay him 300 gold and then just take it right back and pay him again to teach you. Haha.
Papercuts said:
Yeah she was there alive only because I've had her waiting at my whiterun house the whole game. I prefer to do my sneaking alone, though I'm having a harder time taking enemies out in 1-2 arrows as the enemy scaling is kicking in so I may need to get her outfitted and ready to journey with me.
Plus leaving her there while I'm sleeping with my wife could make things awkward.
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