And boy does it get super old when you kill one, turn around, walk 10 metres and there's another one in the distance.
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim |OT2| Team Edward's Revenge
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And boy does it get super old when you kill one, turn around, walk 10 metres and there's another one in the distance.
odin toelust
Member
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Finally unlocked my shouts that I've been sitting on for hours. I have dragon souls to spend and didn't even unlock some of the newer cool shouts.I've goofed up on several things too, like not leveling up abilities via buying the levels or even taking up proper smithing. or enchanting. Starting to see some small fruits about 35 hours in now though.
Pancakes
hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
Castor Krieg
Banned
You shouldn't be playing anything on a SD TV anymore.
Also, after toying with Thief/Archer I decided to go back to my uber warrior... Damn it, can I please move closer to finishing this game?
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
Recommendations for magic defense enhancements? Magic just tears right though me.
I find the dragon fights to be more of an annoyance than anything else. I've beaten like 15 or so ... they just get in the way of what im trying to get done now.
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
I wish I had taken that course of action. Of course I hate the feeling that I've left a questline unfinished, so I killed him and now
The Greybeards refuse to talk to me and the Blade chick just gave me a 'Good job!' as thanks. Motherfucker.
Pancakes
hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
I used Ysgramor's shield which you obtain from the Companion questline that gives 20% magic resistance and 20+ HP. Then there is a shield perk that blocks 50% of incoming magic damage while you're blocking.
It was pretty damn effective.
Castor Krieg
Banned
If you are a warrior you might consider Elemental Protection shield perk. If a Mage - try to get Impact from Destruction tree and stunlock them. If a Thief - don't get seen
Also, Shouts like Whirlwind are useful for getting close to a mage. If you have 2H weapon, you will 1-shot most of them.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Oh yeah, it's awesome, hah. I just thought there was some hidden thing we were supposed to spot.
Found out that unarmed on Master difficulty will be super hard. So I rushed to 60 smithing and 80 enchanting, and made myself some +11 unarmed damage gloves and ring. Even with the 8 or so level increase, I mow down most enemies with a power punch. Pretty legit, and allows me to focus on non combat skills like Heavy Armor, Speech, Restoration, stuff I hadn't while doing Destruction/weapon focused characters. I only wish I could poison my claws...
The Albatross
Member
Aye. Head towards the northernmost point of the map, near Solitude. You run into more Red Guards.
There's also an early mission from ...
Whiterun. A dude asks you to find his family sword which is really easy. You go into a cave near White Run to get it and you can mowe through some guys with scimtares and get them.
I like the scimtar, good single handed sword. I've got one regular one and then another I've enchanted.
Pro-tip:
You can hide everything if you type "tm" in the console. Note that this will hide the command console as well until you type it again, but that shouldn't be too hard for anyone to type blind.
Just find the Atronach stone. 50% magic absorb.
odin toelust
Member
you clearly haven't met my dad...anyway thanks for the info, I have been changing hud opacity lol
A quest I am doing got glitched and I don't know what to do
It's a post-completion Companions quest called
Does anyone know if I can fix it without having to resort to a previous save..?
It's a post-completion Companions quest called
Rescue Mission. I had to go into a cave full of fire mages and rescue some guy named Altrys....but the problem is, I got to him and he's already dead, but the quest updated to say "Speak with Altrys"...I can't talk to him when he's dead. :/
Does anyone know if I can fix it without having to resort to a previous save..?
natethegreat409
Member
Started a new character today. Thinking about just using console commands to level my smithing and enchanting rather than wasting hours doing it, lol.
Yeah pretty much. I don't owe them anything. They drag me along to 'aid them', and I do, and even gave them a little base, and now they want another favor before they help me? Sorry, no thanks.
I wish there was an option to decline quests so I can clear off some of those quests I actually don't want to do.
haha, that's what I did. I just made a .txt file with the command "player.incpcs smithing" repeated 85 times and BOOM instant lvl 100 Smithing. I figure it turns out the same as if I had spent a couple hours grinding with Iron DAggers and Leather Bracers.
kingofthedead45
Member
Yeah but my girl friend doesn't call it "dragons." :/
Speaking of Scimitars, there's a Unique one that can found during the Dark Brotherhood questline finale:
It's on the deck of the ship, at the very tip of the of the bow that you really have no reason to ever go near
I don't think that it's technically missable short of not doing the questline. I never checked to see if
the boat leaves after the questline ends. Hell, I don't even know if you need to be doing the questline to get it to appear, actually
Something pretty crazy just happened so I figured I would share,
was outside of Whiterun where all of a sudden a frost dragon appears, I had already used a summon chant previously so that was still active, immediatly it starts attacking the dragon and shadowmere runs up and joins in on the attack, and then out of nowhere about 5 or 6 frost spiders(?) show up and start fighting the dragon also.
The dragon gets up and starts flying around, meanwhile shadowmere and my summon are fighting the spiders now until the dragon lands and kills the spiders, but wait yet ANOTHER spider shows up to get some licks in on the dragon and then a fucking giant shows up also and starts fighting the dragon, eventually winning the battle (all I did was cast some lightning at the dragon every so often and more or less watched)
The giant was pretty much dead, but they usually don't attack me unless I attack them first so I stood next to him and waited for him to get up, not surprising he didn't act aggressive to me and just sort of ignored me when fucking shadowmere just blindsides him and kills him.
I can't believe what I just witnessed lol
was outside of Whiterun where all of a sudden a frost dragon appears, I had already used a summon chant previously so that was still active, immediatly it starts attacking the dragon and shadowmere runs up and joins in on the attack, and then out of nowhere about 5 or 6 frost spiders(?) show up and start fighting the dragon also.
The dragon gets up and starts flying around, meanwhile shadowmere and my summon are fighting the spiders now until the dragon lands and kills the spiders, but wait yet ANOTHER spider shows up to get some licks in on the dragon and then a fucking giant shows up also and starts fighting the dragon, eventually winning the battle (all I did was cast some lightning at the dragon every so often and more or less watched)
The giant was pretty much dead, but they usually don't attack me unless I attack them first so I stood next to him and waited for him to get up, not surprising he didn't act aggressive to me and just sort of ignored me when fucking shadowmere just blindsides him and kills him.
I can't believe what I just witnessed lol
natethegreat409
Member
Does it force your character to level?
Nose Master
Member
So, there's a random dude in the theives guild that wasn't there before. Do they gain more members as you do the repeatable quests?
How many does it take til you "restore them to their former glory?" Can you do the same type over and over?
Dude, just run away. I did the first time I came across him. Then I just destroyed him later on.
Alright, checking was easier than I thought. On my character that (Dark Brotherhood spoilers)
finished the Dark Brotherhood completely, the ship is still there. Small correction but it's on the tip of the fallen mast. My character that never did the Dark Brotherhood doesn't have the ship there at all, which I suppose makes sense
You need to do
5 quests in Whiterun, Markarth, Solitude, and Windhelm. It doesn't matter which types. After doing 5 in a city, you'll be given a special job by Devlin
Yes.
You basically unlock a new merchant after completing 5 of those repeatable quests in each of the cities. The merchants kind of suck though but those quests also unlock fences for each of the cities which is kind of worth it.
freenudemacusers
Member
managed to kill 2 dragons in a summoned frost atronarch and zombie ice wolf gangbang with my pure mage dude. felt nice, since before I hit lvl 15 they were a bitch to take down. Fireball amped with both hands is some good shit.
matrix-cat
Member
So right now my game's just full of bugs. There's a Daedra quest in the palace in Solitude that freezes every time I try it, I can't buy the house in Markarth because neither the Jarl nor his steward will talk to me, and I can't continue the Thieves' Guild storyline because Karliah won't leave the Inn in Winterhold. I think I can probably fix that one with a placeatme console command, but I think some time away from Skyrim waiting for a patch will do me good.
Big-ass Ramp
hella bullets that's true
edit: nvm
yeah :/ I mean if you are able to Smith/Enchant good stuff it shouldn't matter that much. I didn't do it until I was already lvl 30ish. I don't think there's a way to up your skill level without leveling your character and still be able to smith Daedric or Ebony or Glass.
Bah, all I have left to do is the last two city influence missions for thieves guild and I'm done, but I cant fucking take the lock ups anymore.
I leave riften, go to the mission, lock up.
It happens every other batch of missions. My save file is 15mb, I'm just shy of 120 hours played.
I want this platinum, but this is taking hours, when it should take minutes, or an hour or two.
I love this game, but this is testing me.
I leave riften, go to the mission, lock up.
It happens every other batch of missions. My save file is 15mb, I'm just shy of 120 hours played.
I want this platinum, but this is taking hours, when it should take minutes, or an hour or two.
I love this game, but this is testing me.
Ugh, I feel like I should look into this, but at the same time I don't want to be cheap!
I'm depressed I'm coming up to level 50
Looking over the leveling mechanic a bit, 51+ doesn't actually slow down. It follows the same curve of (Level + 3) * 25 EXP needed to level as far as I can tell. The bigger reason it feels like it slows down is that by the time you reach 50, most your skills you commonly use are already at 100 so you're leveling skills that are, say, at 15-20 and you have to go out of your way to utilize them. Each Skill Gain gives that much EXP (i.e., going from 25 to 26 Smithing gives you 26 EXP) so you'll also be doing a lot more skill gains per level at this rate.
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CoffeeJanitor
Member
WUT. I thought that it was simply 10 skill gains per level up. I am out of the loop here.
Same. Good news is I have shit hot alchemy enchanted gear (hat, gloves, ring and necklace ar +21% alchemy each) that I haven't used much with Alchemy only at 30-40 or so. Just ended up using bought +20% enchantment potions I purchased from stores instead. Along with the final +50% Smithing Elixer. More than enough. My Ebony armour is at like 280+ (just the main single armor piece itself) without even taking in to consideration enchantments. Haven't even started on Daedric yet lol.
Hopefully that means that after I reach 50, I can easily use my gear to make crazy expensive potions for easy further level ups. I figure I need to get to about level 60 to get all the perks I want in the game (useful to me personally). Shouldn't be too hard if I can level up the stuff I don't usually use. Such as pick pocketing, lock picking, sneak, two handed, destruction etc.