What are you playing at? I was playing at Master but found it way too hard to even kill the first Dragon, opted to just go back to the default setting (Adept?). Either way I think might try Expert if Adept becomes way too easy.
I will say, I leveled up skills a lot quickly on fodder enemies on Master difficulty since they are harder to kill.
I'm playing on default
It was pretty ok for the first few dungeons, then I decided to level my smithing and enchanting to get it out of the way, after I was done, I went back to questing and one of the miniboss killed me in 2 hits (1 hit then a finish move :lol)
CrocMother said:
Good at smithing?
1)Make expensive armor
2)Sell
3)Pay trainers to level up skill
4)Get back out there
If you ever get caught sneaking you should have a backup one handed weapon for the damage. Daggers are amazing for the backstabs, but not very suited for the actual fights.
So I just fast travelled and as soon as the small town loads a dragon drops dead out of the sky. Then as I'm absorbing its' soul, another comes flying down to fight me. Did one kill the other?
Edit: Now the new one flew away mighty fast. What the fuck is going on?
Maaaan.. just started running on a 13mb game save on ps3.. its down to the point where when i fast travel shit hits the fan and the frame rate goes out the window. I just want to grind to 50! sdfkjhwketn ugh the frustration! such an amazing game and i sure hope they do something about this b4 they pump out the DLC.
1)Hire a companion if you don't already have one, and give them beefed up/enchanted armor and weapons. I recommend Stenvar, a mercenary at Candlehearth in Windhelm. When shit gets hairy, run behind him. Enemies will automatically try to take him down before they go to you, and he's a tough bastard. Many companions are.
2)You don't have to complete the dungeon. If a dungeon feels like its too tough (basic enemies nearly killing you), take what XP you can, get the hell out and come back later. If you explore enough, you will get strong in no time.
3)Don't forget about all the scrolls, poisons and potions that you have. Don't be afraid to spam those against harder enemies, this game doesn't punish you for using that stuff like a lot of RPGs do.
That's why I prefer travelling alone. The AI for your melee is utterly idiotic. If I'm travelling, I much prefer Archers because they can GET OUT THE WAY. It's very agitating when you are fighting something and your companion runs right next or right in front of you to attack the same thing and you hit them... or even worse is when they just take off at the speed of light to fight somebody on the other side of the screen and possibly get killed.
Archers who can stay out of the way and just shoot arrows is cool for me. I've been travelling alone as of late, but I like archers. This team doesn't need two Jordans. One Jordan and one Pippen is where it's at. You stay back and let me handle the melee.
Holy shit. I saw my horse run after something in the river. It started fighting a bear and then once I killed the bear with arrows, my Horse got washed all the way downstream and over waterfalls and now I can't find it.
Just spent what has to be around 3 hours discovering and exploring Windhelm and Riften for the first time. Achieved pretty much nothing except gaining more quests. I'm never going to finish this game.
So is there anyone foolish enough to admit they like Oblivion more? Cuz I love the hell (no pun intended) of some Oblivion and this is blowing it out of the water.
So is there anyone foolish enough to admit they like Oblivion more? Cuz I love the hell (no pun intended) of some Oblivion and this is blowing it out of the water.
Yeah, I really like Oblivion as well, but because of all the little issues that game had, Skyrim has more or less rendered Oblivion pointless and probably never to be picked up again. The lack of accomplishment was the worst part of Oblivion, even if exploring was still fun and atmospheric.
So is there anyone foolish enough to admit they like Oblivion more? Cuz I love the hell (no pun intended) of some Oblivion and this is blowing it out of the water.
Modded Oblivion (and by modded I mean ~20 gigs' worth ) gives vanilla Skyrim a run for its money, but that's not exactly a fair comparison. Skyrim, with all the DLC's and matured mod community will eventually no doubt crush it.
If you compare vanilla Oblivion vs. vanilla Skyrim tho, well now that's like a boxing match between a toddler and a heavyweight champion.
So is there anyone foolish enough to admit they like Oblivion more? Cuz I love the hell (no pun intended) of some Oblivion and this is blowing it out of the water.
Oblivion has at times a warmer summers day feel about it which really gave awesome moments of immersion but asides from that skyrim is better in 9/10 ways.
I left Lydia in the tombs at the end of the companion questline as she said she wanted to spend some time their. After giving her some days of rest, I went looking for her again, but she was not at my house or anywhere in Whiterun or at the tombs. So I had to spawn her to me and apparantly that made her lose every single loot she was carrying for me :/. Was so upset, I cheated and gave myself a 100 in smithing, so I could stop making those damn iron daggers.
I'm not even sure that this is accurate anymore. I have a 20 GB Oblivion install, and while it's superior in some ways (textures, amount of content, ...), it also has worse performance, is far less stable, and despite mods magic is not nearly as fun to use as in Skyrim.
Concluded the Dark Brotherhood chain, immensely satisfying stuff. I wasn't entirely surprised
that the chef bit was a set up, nor was I surprised that Astrid was behind it,
but it was handled well all the same. Going back
to the Sanctuary and seeing nearly everyone butchered like that, Astrid's burnt corpse, the old man nailed to a tree with dozens of arrows.
Wild stuff. Although I sort of regret
killing Cicero now that I'm at the top dog of the Dark Brotherhood. I didn't know until later he was a possible companion! That would have been amusing to drag him along for my adventures.
Concluded the Dark Brotherhood chain, immensely satisfying stuff. I wasn't entirely surprised
that the chef bit was a set up, nor was I surprised that Astrid was behind it,
but it was handled well all the same. Going back
to the Sanctuary and seeing nearly everyone butchered like that, Astrid's burnt corpse, the old man nailed to a tree with dozens of arrows.
Wild stuff. Although I sort of regret
killing Cicero now that I'm at the top dog of the Dark Brotherhood. I didn't know until later he was a possible companion! That would have been amusing to drag him along for my adventures.
Do they ever restock? Bought one from Riverwood and hasn't come back over the past few days, guess I need to head up north to the mage place then. Do they sell multiple ones there? Right now I'm rocking a Deadra sword(legendary) with 2 pieces of dragon armor. Would like to make some more Daedra gear. Smithing is quite possibly one of the best skills.
