Dark Octave
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How come some locations get marked as cleared and others don't, when you obviously went in and wrecked the place?
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim |OT2| Team Edward's Revenge
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Dragonscale armor is the best craftable light armor. No such option for mage robes.
As for bows, some questlines
Thieves Guild
That's the best option for robe users? lol
Yeah, because robes suck. lol
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Deleted member 17706
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There is no benefit to wearing a robe over heavy armor other than the mana regen stat, which doesn't matter either if you start enchanting.
Honestly, I can't think of any Light Armor I really, really like. Scaled maybe. Elven looks tacky to me and Glass is lolno.
But, hey, PC version so I can just mod them to be better. Haven't seen too many good Light Armor mods though ... but I haven't looked for one. My only Light Armor character currently dons modded armor to the Nocturnal Robe skin. Next will probably use Stormcloak since I like the look of it.
Ether_Snake
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Why don't they show where your damn companion is on the map? I don't know where Lydia went.
edit: found her
edit: found her
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Yeah, one of my bigger complaints about the game.
Yeah it's stupid, but if your companion has trouble following you to places then just wait 1 hour and bam, he/she appears next to you.
Mr_Appleby
Member
Nothing wrong with swording as a mage! Good backup when the MP runs low, great for filling gems, and when you run up against a bunch of other mages with their fancy wards there's nothing like chopping a few heads off to send a message. Dawnstar is a good sword, i used that for a fair while. fire damage + turn undead etc.
Regarding soul trap for mages: there's a conjuration perk that adds soul trap to any bound weapon. Coupled with the dispell summoned creatures perk (and a few perks in one handed) and even at level 30 i'm still using the basic bound sword quite a bit. If you don't want to go down that road then the
mace of molag bal from the abandoned house quest
unrelated: when unicorns attack!
flyinpiranha
Member
Yeah, I really love the Glass as a full destro mage. I'm probably going to craft Daedric here soon as I'm almost close to getting it all. Think I have about 15 more points on Smithing until 100 and about the same with Enchanting.
Honestly, wish I would have known this build earlier on, wouldn't have wasted so many perks on mana saving.
DualShadow
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Mr_Appleby
Member
i went down the alteration road with stoneflesh/ironflesh etc. up to the 2.5 perk and it's ok. not great. at times i wondered if it was even working. but i kinda feel i've already invested two perks in it might as well go the third and hopefully with the next level of spell it should be ok. still, in my roleplaying head land mages should be squishies. still despite what i just said, flame cloak + iron flesh*2.5 and close wounds in the off-hand has helped me finish off many a draugr deathlord / dragonpriest etc. with melee.
base shagohod
Member
Main story spoiler junk:
I can't help but roll my eyes at
I can't help but roll my eyes at
Paarthurnax's speaking dragon, then translating it right after. Feels so goofy. Just say the damn word in English.
I'm not sure, but I think it's because enemies will respawn in those locations after a while. So it says cleared to just let you know they haven't respawned yet. I don't know for sure though so that could be wrong.
Mr_Appleby
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RebornYeti
Member
So I got smithing all the way up and now I'm finding it really hard to get Enchanting up. Is there any quick way?
Fisticuffs
Member
I think because some places have quests that need to be done in there and until you get the quest you can't clear it.
Digital Limit
Member
heroderp
dragonscale.
Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
Enchant iron daggers. Enchant Banish Daedra if you have it, or whatever your "best" selling enchant is, find a fence if you can, otherwise, sell to weapon dealers. Sell for profit/as close as you can get, go buy/find/fill more soul gems, repeat.
Either that, or use Azura's/Black star on a soul trap weapon every time you trap something.
Basically,
I had no idea for the Lexicon either, I just hit the right button once or twice, hit the 2nd to the right button until I noticed that the middle-left button opened up, hit that until lights shone down and the final left button was able to be pressed. There's probably a book describing the process somewhere that I missed.
GillianSeed79
Member
So is it worth it to cheese the iron dagger smithing exploit?
I've been playing 26 hours so far and just talked to the graybeards or whatever, so I'm not to far into the main quest. It's weird, even after doing a shit ton of sidequests I feel like taking on quests is a dice roll sometimes. Some quests I wreck the living shit out the enemies, but other seemingly mundane one off quests seem impossible at certain points.
I've been playing 26 hours so far and just talked to the graybeards or whatever, so I'm not to far into the main quest. It's weird, even after doing a shit ton of sidequests I feel like taking on quests is a dice roll sometimes. Some quests I wreck the living shit out the enemies, but other seemingly mundane one off quests seem impossible at certain points.
Yeah, I really like the Ebony armor as well.
I also think so places, where bandits live, after cleared for a while, refill.
Like that tower on your first quest with Delphine. I cleared that out early on and the. They were back many hours of gaming later.
Dark Octave
Banned
Thankyou. This was one of the many possabilities running through my head. I'm so paranoid about the game being glitched that for about 15 hours I thought my costom marker was permanently stuck. A lot of learning to be done about how this game works.
RebornYeti
Member
What kind of creatures give you Grand Souls? I only have the regular Azura's Star, and it can't trap human souls.
Think I'm finally reaching my burnout point with the game. I have a hard time staying focused after 30 minutes, I stop listening to people and just mash A, I stop looking around for loot in every corner (I also dont' need much now so that's partly why).
Sometimes having too much time to play games is a curse.
Sometimes having too much time to play games is a curse.
Hobbestetrician
Member
Definitely the best, especially the female form of it.
i want a mod that creates a diablo 2 style random loot system
So I'm starting a second character after hitting 25 on my Orc warrior. Hes pretty awesome, but I really want to try a different playstyle. Decided to go with a Khajit, whom I plan on using bow, at least 1 dagger, light armor... and some magic. Does anyone else do something similar? I kind of want to dual wield, but the mechanics of dual-wielding seem kinda weird (haven't done much of it) and I kind of want to use some kind of magic, though I'm not sure which.
Any suggestions? I know play as you want and all that, but I'm more curious as to what works really well for some of you.
Any suggestions? I know play as you want and all that, but I'm more curious as to what works really well for some of you.
HammerOfThor
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Can someone help me understand enchanting?
I have a necklace that improves smithing by 15%, but I currently know an enchantment to improve it by 8%. I want to learn the 15% one, but I cant since I already know the enchantment. How can I improve my current one by more than 8%?
I have a necklace that improves smithing by 15%, but I currently know an enchantment to improve it by 8%. I want to learn the 15% one, but I cant since I already know the enchantment. How can I improve my current one by more than 8%?
SuperLurker
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The amount of any given enchant is determined by your enchanting skill, enchanting perks, and any buffs (like enchanting potions) that you have on you when you do the enchant.
EDIT: Forgot, the size of the soul also plays a large factor in the strength of the enchant.
I have yet to find a fucking item which improves smithing ARGH.
misc quests and sidequests are tracked differently for different achieves.
Not really. Basically, you have to enchant all those iron daggers you made via smithing. Ideally with common soul gems and absorb health enchantment.
Just buy as many empty (or filled if you have the money) common souls (or better if you can) as possible and go to snowy areas and fill them up.
Warn you, it takes ages.
Eventually you'll have enough money that you can just buy filled common and petty souls from the guy in Dragonsreach. Each time you buy them. Save. Kill him. Re-load and he'll have a new fresh inventory and full money again. Rinse repeat.
There's a relatively small number of actual side quests. But Bethesda, being the organized people that they are, decided that when you got a guild quest or daedric quest or other comparable quests to lump them in the same long ass list of quests that your side quests also happen to be on. They all appear to be side quests but aren't counted as such.
Felix Lighter
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I was referring to conditional side dialog, triggered if you were saving the world while also murdering it, not something that would be there if you were just doing the latter.