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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim |OT| Het Kos Dovahhe
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DoctorWho said:
You can use them for Smithing, but otherwise just sell them. They're worth a ton of money, which is great for Speechcraft building (especially if you whip up a simple potion of Fortify Barter, even +4-5% can help).
Speaking of Speechcraft (heh), I think that as soon as the construction kit comes out I'm going to mod the Merchant perk so that it does something beyond "sell anything anywhere." I loathe that, and wish that stores were even more exclusive (which I will also try to mod). I don't want to be able to sell my heavy armor at Fletcher in Solitude or the Drunken Huntsman in Whiterun! (I usually don't in the first place, but allowing the restriction in hard code makes it more immersive for me).
But, uh, what's a good replacement for it?
Another mod I'll probably make is the homosexual version of Allure, so you could put it in whenever you play a gay character.
SpeedingUptoStop
will totally Facebook friend you! *giggle* *LOL*
100 in smithing? shieeeet, I need dat armor.prowler_ said:
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
Nard Bagman said:
You could go that route to cheat the system a bit. I mean, it would grant you the benefits of high level skills, but it would sort of ruin the idea of leveling as you go.
JumpingTheGun
Banned
Man, being at work after a 4 day binge fucking bites. It's like Im here at work, sitting at my desk doing my duties, but Im not. Mentally Im still in Skyrim continuing my story in my fucking head and zoning out like a full ritard. It is indeed gamer euphoria at its fullest.
Mechanized
Member
Sarcasm said:
Shoot arrows if it does that thing where it hovers over you and breathes fire. Otherwise when it lands I just get up in its grill and melee the sumbitch. Might have to use a few pots.
This is on a light armored character as well, don't have any crazy gear or anything.
Toma said:
I dont want everything..just the main ones to support my melee build. Heavy Armor, Block, and One Handed are the skills I want to mostly max except for a few perks. I also want to do Smithing but am hesitant to dump perks into something thats pretty useless to me once I get the best of everything in the game.
prowler_ said:
Is Dragon Armor ONLY available by Smithing or can it be bought in pieces from NPCs once you get high enough?
DoctorWho said:
Toma said:
My second dragon was pretty much this:
Was working on [QUEST]
Missing In Action
Northwest Keep
So I just kited and let it deaggro - as in it went away. No assassin this time and now I am lost trying to get to that keep down on the coast.
Crazetex said:
Maybe a carrying capacity+ perk, like the one in Pickpocketing? Doesn't really make sense to have it under Speechcraft, but then again, you're being granted bonuses by magical holes in Aetherius.
Salaadin said:
I've heard that you can get it near some really high-level named foes.
Eteric Rice
Member
When going Mage, would I be able to max out Destruction and Conjuration, or should I only grab a few abilities in each?
Blue Ninja
Member
If you keep levelling 'em, you'll definitely be able to pick all the perks in them.Eteric Rice said:
JumpingTheGun said:
me and you bruv, me and you
I am loving the random meetups on the road that have occured cause of the shit you have done in the cities:
First I got attacked by hired thugs, I dealt with them but not the man who sent them.
Second I got freaking attacked by a dual weilding assasin from the dark brotherhood! I took that as an honour and I needed to do more of whatever I am doing to anger their guild
Third, a fellow theif tried to rob me on my travels, until I told him I was a thief too... he then said "oh yea I saw you at X and X!" we high fived and went seperate ways.
I love my play style, I am a thief/asassin/conjurer/destruct/bowman. I have learnt to enchant. I was getting one shotted quite a bit. But now I use the lightning rune as my fall back, a paralysis bow. If they make it to me the lightning rune normally does just enough damage for me to switch to my cojuring/ sword to take their soul. Loving it!!!
Ashamed to admit it but i'm doing the same. Almost worse because it's been so long since ive actually liked a a game too.JumpingTheGun said:
Also i guess im done with the major guilds beside the College of Winterhold. KInd of at an impasse now. Should I go questing for shouts and loot? Main quest? Civil War?
Eteric Rice
Member
Blue Ninja said:
But should I go that route, or is there stuff in other trees that I should grab instead?
i give up. would someone please tell me where i can find the shout that will
make dragons land. i am getting tired of taking 30 potshots at one in the air with my bow just to have the fucker fly off. it's happening way too often. i think they are just fucking with me at this point.
http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_shoutslegbone said:
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
So, is there any whim or reason to Alchemy? I usually just click 3 random things I have in my bag and see what happens. Accidentally wasted all of my vampire stuff though.
Also, what other crafts should I level? Is it necessary to put stuff in skill trees for Blacksmithing or anything? Dragon armor sounds awesome...
Also, what other crafts should I level? Is it necessary to put stuff in skill trees for Blacksmithing or anything? Dragon armor sounds awesome...
SpeedingUptoStop
will totally Facebook friend you! *giggle* *LOL*
So uh, what's the deal with that lady with the cabin who keeps talking about how she is loney? I went the wrong way up to Bleak Falls Barrow and found her, I never knew what to do. I just robbed her of all her shit when she wasn't looking and let her be, thinking if I tried to attack her, she'd turn out to be some crazy wizard or some shit.
Mechanized
Member
SpeedingUptoStop said:
I found a random house out in the wild and there was in fact a crazy wizard inside, I had to book out of that place because he could kill me so insanely fast.
Sickboy007
Member
Victrix said:
I fought a dragon there too!
Regarding the artifact,
i preferred to bring it back to the mage in Whitehold. You still have to beat the mage and the daedra in the Star, but then you get the Black Star which absorbs the soul of human enemies instead of creatures.
Is it me, or does anyone else find the controls to be clunky and non intuitive? I don't mean the actual gameplay, but navigating the menus and switching weapons and spells and such. Constantly pausing to go into the menus disrupts the flow of the game and slows it down. I know that Skyrim has two hotkeys, but in my mind this is not enough. This is why I'm really hope Bethesda makes a WiiU version. Using the tablet to manage your inventory and look at your map on the fly would be totally awesome.
JumpingTheGun said:
This'll make you feel better about not being able to play it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSgFgCzCl0Y&feature=related
Deadly Cyclone said:
You need to go to ur ingredients menu and try one of each to reveal one of the unknown effects.
Once you do that the alchemy thing cataogories stuff that are similar. You mix them together and you get a potion. The more you mix the more of the secondary and tertiary effects you will discover. Allowing you to further mix more kinds of potions.
Bah my google chrome spell checker isn't working.
richiek said:
For me its a massive upgrade from Oblivion, and I can now work the menu system without issue since I dumped so much time into it. I prefer using the keyboard but I wish there was more consistancy. Need to wait? Press T, drag ur slider or use the arrow keys. Press Enter to start.... I press enter nothing happens. Actually got to press E.
Is it possible to put more than one kind of enchantment on a weapon?
JumpingTheGun
Banned
I managed to finf myself a Bow of Soul Snaring. As long as I kill any creature with it within five seconds of initiating combat, their soul is mine (as long as Ive got the required size soul gem). Quite a handy little system to keep weapons enchanted.
Fantastical
Death Prophet
I definitely should have waited until after finals to get this game. I'm finding it increasingly hard to study for long periods of time.
JumpingTheGun
Banned
EschatonDX said:
Id go with Winterhold and then the Civil War and then tie up whatever loose ends/sidequests that interest you and THEN do the Main Quest last. After the Main Quest, finish up the sides.
Kung Fu Jedi
Member
Restarted the game last night as a more Mage-focused character. Playing as a Dark Elf and using Destruction Magic as my main attack, although I'm augmenting it with stealth bow strikes and one-handed weapons as well. I know some of it is that I'm more accustomed to playing the game now, but I went through the early stages of the game in half the time as I did with my other character, who is more stealthy thief/assassin/mage. I'm wiping out enemies that gave me trouble before in no time flat with my new build, and I definitely feel more like a badass.
Finding Rune Stone for The Mage was nice as well. I learn all magic skills 20% faster, which is really helping to build up those areas more quickly.
Finding Rune Stone for The Mage was nice as well. I learn all magic skills 20% faster, which is really helping to build up those areas more quickly.
Has anyone done much with enchanting? I'm at work and fiending for my skyrim hit, so I've been planning out the rest of my characters build. I'm currently at level 21 and I figure I can get most of what I want combat/sneak/armour wise by around level 38-40. That leaves me enough perks before 50 to perk up to the top branch of enchanting/alchemy/smithing. Currently looking at enchanting.
I get that you disenchant/enchant items to put your skill up. I know you have to soul trap in order to fill the gems, so that you can create enchantments. What I'm wondering is;
1. Is there a specific place I can get an item with the Soul Trap quality so that I can disenchant and learn it, or is it from random drops?
2. Is the soul trap spell very low in magicka cost? I am mainly using dual wield/bow with lots of sneaking. I had to increase my magicka once or twice in order to use Clairvoyance, but I don't want to decide to spec enchanting and then find out I still don't have enough magicka to cast soul trap.
Just checking it's viable for my build. I could always go with alchemy, which technically suits my build much better if I went the poisons route, but I find applying them repeatedly a bit of a chore. Prefer the idea of lots of buffs on my armour, hp/stamina stealing on my melee weapons and shock on my bow...
I get that you disenchant/enchant items to put your skill up. I know you have to soul trap in order to fill the gems, so that you can create enchantments. What I'm wondering is;
1. Is there a specific place I can get an item with the Soul Trap quality so that I can disenchant and learn it, or is it from random drops?
2. Is the soul trap spell very low in magicka cost? I am mainly using dual wield/bow with lots of sneaking. I had to increase my magicka once or twice in order to use Clairvoyance, but I don't want to decide to spec enchanting and then find out I still don't have enough magicka to cast soul trap.
Just checking it's viable for my build. I could always go with alchemy, which technically suits my build much better if I went the poisons route, but I find applying them repeatedly a bit of a chore. Prefer the idea of lots of buffs on my armour, hp/stamina stealing on my melee weapons and shock on my bow...
Pai Pai Master
Banned
Does hand-to-hand benefit from one-handed or two-handed perks? Or neither?
I'm playing a sneaky Khajiit archer that scratches the shit out of anyone who gets close enough. I'm wondering if hand-to-hand is viable at all later in the game or if I should be dual-wielding daggers or something.
I'm playing a sneaky Khajiit archer that scratches the shit out of anyone who gets close enough. I'm wondering if hand-to-hand is viable at all later in the game or if I should be dual-wielding daggers or something.
Drelas' cottage? FUCK that guy. I ended up waiting till i leveled up, snuck in there like 10 hours later, and then gave him the business.Mechanized said:
JumpingTheGun said:
Yeap, that sounds about right.
btw katana people i strongly suggest going to look for a cave west of whiterun called Bloated Man's Grotto. A very nice trinket can be found there ;]
jeemer said:
Tip for enchanting: enchant your dagger and/or bow with Soul Trap, at its lowest strength. As far as I can tell, it only uses the charge when you actually store a soul. Even if that wasn't the case, you'll be 1 shotting lots of things anyways and 1 second is all you need.
Krisprolls
Banned
Ah ah yes, Drelas cottage, he destroyed me so hard.
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