Uh, yeah. Bought it on Day 1 and am now around level 52. I didn''t suggest you could find a place with a bunch of flame atronachs; I gave you a standard CP (ak a smartass) response that the way you get fire salts is by killing FAs.

You can summon a flame atronach and piss it off until it attacks you, then kill it.

Yes, but you don't get any fire salts from the kill.

I don't play this game so i can cook food.

PETA will be up in arms.

Word of warning - apparently not all the places you store stuff are safe.

I put a bunch of crap (including my full set of Nightengale armor) in one of the barrels by the blacksmith in Riften - I don't know if it had anything to do with loading the latest patch, but when I went back to check the inventory, the barrel was empty. Not that big of a deal since I'm level 52 now, but annoying nonetheless.

Also, that glitch with the companion quest has still not resolved itself. I'm getting the impression that at some base level the game just blew a gasket when I cleared that particular dungeon early, and even though I went back to an earlier save point, it is just ****ed up and that's the end of it. The people in Whiterun are still standing around like morons even after I moved the bodies. The most annoying thing is that I'm stuck with the werewolf thing now, which I never use and which also prevents me from getting the rest bonuses. It may also prevent the marriage quest, since putting on the amulet does nothing when it should spark interest in certain characters.

Ugh. That sucks, man.

P.S. If anyone needs gold ore, Kolskeggr Mine (NE of Markath) gave me 54 ore + 2 ignots (sitting on the table) in one go. Much jewelry was made for a hefty profit last night while increasing my Blacksmithing and Enchanting. :)

In other news, I just completed the main part of the Dark Brotherhood quest. I liked it (apparently more than others did), although won't be able to show my face in Solitude again for a while. I pretty much went full-out avenger at the end.

It was a bad day to be a guard. :$2500:

Anytime I get iron ore I just use the transmuting spell to change it to silver then to gold so I end up increasing my alteration skills as well.

I do that too, but it would take me forever to process 54 ore iron ore to gold. My magicka is at 130 (thanks to an amulet, otherwise it would be at the default 100) and the Transmute spell costs 80... that's a lot of waiting for the magicka bar to recharge.

I literally just said that a page or 2 ago.

Oh. I got rid of that annoying ****ing dog. I couldn't take him shoving me around anymore.

Good I was tired about hearing about the ****ing thing.

LMAO

That's mean.

November NPD notes are up: Skyrim is just about half a million units shy of matching Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion in lifetime sales.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/modern-...es-npd-6347394

The Black Star quest was a ****ing breeze :) I mean, I died once but.. pussies.
I've gone through the main quest, dark brotherhood, thieves, and started companions but I'm thinking I'll go ahead and side with Imperials and startup the civil war quests which look very cool.
I'm a level 23 Dunmer duel wielding destro mage and I don't take shit from frost trolls or giants. My archery and sneak are also near 60.

Damn, I'm level 42 and I've only done 1/2 of the main quest and the companions.

Right. It seems like my level would be higher. I've got 40 hours in on PS3 version

man ... this enchant leveling is killing me

I just got my enchanting to 100 last night. Now I'm trying to level up so I can invest in the perk that lets you dual enchant items.

congrats ... it's like painful boring

I think i'm at 86 right now ... i still got a lot of petty soul gems to fill and worthless crap to enchant. :(

Oh the positive side, i've been saving full grand soul gems for awhile so i should be able to double enchant, a full set of gear at max, when i finally get it done.

Same here... I have so much money from selling the enchanted gear that I buy up all the grand soul gems so when I finally get to double enchant, I can do it all in one swoop.

Battled my first major glitch today with the elevators to Blackreach. They wouldn't let me out, just keep reloading the screen over and over. It was a real pain.

Also, battled my first elder dragon today (I think... I'm tired and memory is shot). The worst part of the whole battle was the effort I put into "hiding" Frost somewhere so his stupid ass wouldn't come to "help" me. It's like no matter how far I ran him away from the town, the dragon would follow us and start attacking. I eventually just left him at a far spot and ran to the town. I shouldn't have to go through this much trouble to keep a horse, but for some reason I don't want to lose him. There's only the 2 named horses in the game right?

none of my merchants have enough cash to buy all my stuff

I guess maybe i should take off my haggling bonus gear ... then i would spend more and they would have more to spend. The greedy part of me refuses. :D

Skyrim Cowardly horse mod ... horse always runs away instead of getting itself toasted.


http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1522

So I killed a dragon today by sneaking up on it from behind.

I made my exit by going down the mountain the way the game wanted me to come in.

Then I ran into this place:

http://i.imgur.com/8aB8o.jpg

And read this note:

http://i.imgur.com/2koT4.jpg

Poor bastards.

Oh yeah, and

http://i.imgur.com/624Rh.jpg

Random beauty shot.

LOL

http://i.imgur.com/dM4zN.jpg

LMAO Clever



What is everyone's name in the game?

Barkley - he is a Breton.

I typically name my RPG characters Barkley after Lt. Barkley on STTNG.

Zarcenia. I almost always use Zalia (Dark Tower Series ftw!) for names as it's my favorite, but I just started typing random things and in the end chose this one. It's not really my best name I've used, but that's ok. I'll have several more names I'm sure.

Oh and I was going to ask, for those you with smithing/enchantment 100, what is your "end game" gear you've made for yourself so far?

I'm about to go enchant my first set of dragon stuff and I'm looking for nice combos and ideas.

Since I'm an archer, I use the light dragon scale armor with archery enchantments, a health bonus on the main armor, strength bonus on the boots, one handed on the gauntlets.

This is a great approach.

If you (a) took this approach, (b) didn't collect every gold piece and sellable item you could find AND (c) minimized the amount of time you spent "farming" your skill levels up (as opposed letting your levels advance naturally according to your exploits), would you still be able to beat the game? Do you think you'd still be able to max the attributes/skills/spells you focus on (e.g. enchantment, fire resistance, etc.) by playing this way?

Yes. Theoretically you could beat the game at a level 10. All you have to do is work on the main quest line and not do anything else.

OK, that answers my question. When I play, I won't want to strictly limit myself to the main quest. I just wouldn't want to spend a lot of time enchanting minor items to sell for cash or letting easily killable creatures chew on me while I worked on my healing, for example. I'd still want to experience many of the sidequests on each playthrough. Thanks.

My Breton is Halix, and my Redguard is Vadin. Anyway, these daedric princes are pissing me off. They are jerking me around and I want to kill all of them.

Heh. Good luck with that.

Started a new character and have it up to level 20. Got tired of all the twitchy problems and mistakes I made with the old one. Going with a wood elf specializing in archery and thieving.

I love the game so far, only level 34 but the one thing that sucks is there is a lack of random monsters that might take you out. Sure there is the ocassional dragon but even those are not terribly hard to kill in most cases. I wish there most more random monsters in the land that might pop out and give me a good run for my money. Anyone else feel this way or find a place that might have more mobs to hack and slash? It seems like one dungeon crawl after another to get to fight anyone.

And my Character is Raylan Bloodsword a Redguard dual wield warrior.

It does seem that way, but then every now and then you'll run into a higher level version of something you think is familiar that just beats the shit out of you.

It's a definitely weakness of Bethesda Elder Scrolls series.

Skyrim is way better than Oblivion but it's still limited.

I have hit mobs coming after me now from 'people' which adds a little bit more randomness to battles.

If i start another character, that's what i'll be going with too.

seems to me that archers can be way overpowered if you select all the archery/stealth/critic perks related to bows. Add in potion application with perks that make that more effective and you are going to be kicking some ass.

You could always add some summoning to tank/distract a little bit to give you a few extra sneak attacks.

I'm a level 17 2h Orc. I use no magic EXCEPT for enchanting.

Anyways I thought I would go after one of those dragon priest masks. The ****ing dragon priest pretty much raped me.

Strong casters pose the only danger to a melee warrior. Once you level up higher and invest enough into Health, even they become a complete joke, though. I'm a level 41 and I'm pretty much untouchable with 400 HP (+30 from "the amulet").

I don't have any magical weapons yet - haven't randomly found any worth a shit yet and I'm spending all my money on training. Still using a dwarven bow with steel arrows and wearing thieves guild armor. Tried one dragon on my own and it basically made a snack out of me. I kept hiding behind a tree for cover while I whittled it down, but eventually it just reached around the tree and grabbed me.

Definitely not ready for that shit yet. :$2500:

I've been pretty much leveling only my Stamina ever since I figured out it controlled the carrying weight.

I leveled my HP up to 200 first, then did some stamina, then started to go back and forth up until I had about 330 stamina. It's all been HP since then. Getting the perk for weightless Heavy Armor makes a huge difference, but it takes a long time.

Skyrim is GOTY
 

Looks like I'm smart to wait for the GOTY edition:

The epic and wildly anticipated new entry in the Elder Scrolls series, Skyrim, walked away with the top prize from this weekend's Video Game Awards.

The annual awards ceremony, televised on Spike TV, has become the definitive arena for determining which games rose above the rest over the past year. 25 of the most prestigious gaming media are involved in the voting process.

Skyrim taking away the most coveted award is not an enormous surprise, but it does understandably bring up the recent issue of glitches and game-crashing bugs, crippling the experience for some players, many of whom on the PS3 version.

The problems seem to increase as players progress through the game, leading to the assumption that as the save file gets bigger and bigger, the game drains the system's resources and after a certain point becomes largely unplayable.

In a blog post, publisher Bethesda wrote, "We understand how frustrating it can be when your game is having issues, and we thank all of you for your continued feedback and patience. Rest assured we take your gameplay experience seriously and will continue working on this until it's resolved."

Nevertheless, to gamers who have not been affected by the various glitches, it has been heralded as a marvelous and unparalleled experience. The title was the second best selling game behind Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

http://www.tgdaily.com/games-and-ent...goes-to-skyrim

that's why having a summoning spell of some sort will help. The dragon can chase it around a bit while you shoot.

Hadn't thought of that. Not big into summoning, although that staff of daedra summoning was pretty bad ass.

My character is a proud Nord barbarian named Bjalnor Skäldengard. He's very xenophobic and hates Imperials and Altmer. He scorns magic and stealth but gets his point across well enough with his mace.

He kind of looks like the grandpa in Braveheart.

Hate to break it to you, but the dude's name is Barclay.

The best summon I've seen is I can summon the ghost of Lucien Lachance, who will fight for me until someone kills him, no time limit.

Interesting.

Post a picture of him.

Cool. I assume that as a ghost he sneaks well, too.

The Valor shout isn't bad either.

You can't kill any of the princes? I thought that you would've done that by now since this game comes so easy to you. Wimp.

There is a staff of familiar summoning you could use so you don't have to use a skill point. Summoned a Wolf for me.

btw you can enchant gloves and helmets with the Archery damage bonus ... 40% damage increase each if you use a grand soul.

That's 100% damage increase from perks
80% damage increase from enchant (i don't know if you can do it on jewelry)
3x damage with sneak hit perk
30% increase damage chance for critiacal hit with perk(s)

very nice

I just made me a pretty nice Ebony bow with dual enchants

35 base damage
17 fire damage (double if they are on fire)
5 second soul capture
25 frost damage to health and stamina

40% damage increase from glove/helm enchant

thinking about taking archery perk for another 100% :D


full set of double enchanted Ebony armor btw. w00t!!

what does the absorb majicka enchant do exactly? Does it steal mana when you hit somebody or does it absorb majick damage when somebody hits you?

Dragon attacks ... are they all elemental or are they part elemental and part magic?



getting my nerd on with these enchants and i want to get the balance right. :D

How did you get 3 enchants on your bow?

I'm going to make my fully maxed Daedric set today, just need 3 more Daedra hearts. Also, if you're going for the absolute maxed out items, make sure to drink the blacksmithing and enchanting potions (use the strongest ones) before you make and enchant your things.

And yeah, absorb magicka works just like absorb health - you steal theirs when you hit them.

Also, to all you heavy armor wearing blacksmiths, save your skill point and don't invest into Dragon Armor. Daedric is better all around even though it's a peg lower.

As far as Dragon attacks, I'm pretty sure they're all elemental and physical.

I'll be damned you're right. Only benefit, it seems, is dragon plate armor is about 10 pounds lighter for the set. Not a biggie if you use the heavy armor perk to remove weight of heavy armor.

Dragon scale armor (light), however, is the best light armor you can get.

BACONBORN!!!

http://edge.alluremedia.com.au/m/k/2.../baconmain.jpg

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/sky...con-baconborn/

He’s Level 35 In Skyrim. He Makes Villagers Kill His Dragons.

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/hes...l-his-dragons/

i disenchanted an item with dual enchant so it's considered as one.

It's called Fiery Soul Capture

fire damage + soul capture = 1 enchant
frost damage = 1 enchant

:D

Destruction cost 20% less/Majicka recovers 10% faster = 1 enchant
Conjuration cost 15% less/Majicka recovers 10% faster = 1 enchant

i have both on my exquisite ebony armor

Wow, I want to get that Fiery Soul Capture. Could care less about the spell cost, magicka recovery spells.

I was thinking doing Health Absorb + Stamina Absorb on one axe and Soul Capture + Fire on the other axe, but if I can squeeze in a third enchant on the 2nd axe, holy shit that would be awesome. That would mean I would have 5 effects going with every swing... JIMP

My bow would have Magicka Absorb and Shock Damage for those pesky casters.

I think i got it off a sword


Yea, Magicka absorb for casters and Frost damage for melee attacks because of the added stamina damage. My dual cast Ice Storm will take most melee attackers down even if it doesn't kill them because they don't have enough stamina to run or attack.

I am currently up to level 29 with my Breton. I finally got the damn Black Star so it's fun enchanting time for me. I just finished up the Staff of Magnus quest so I have the Archmage Robes (big boost to magicka and magicka regen rate) and also just completed the Gauldur's Amulet sidequest so that bad boy gives me a 30 boost to health, magicka and stamina. I am slowly working my way up to the real high levels of smithing and enchanting so I can start getting some pimped out armor set up.

Yeah, I wish you could wear more jewlery than just two pieces. I'm going to keep Gauldur's I think because there are no 2 enchants that would make for a better amulet as far as I know. On the ring, I'm definitely doing +one handed damage, but haven't decided on the 2nd enchant yet.

Well, I'm not going to worry about Frost damage because I'm already draining their stamina and adding it to mine. Same thing with health. On my bow, it's going to do drain their magicka and add to mine and the shock will drain it further. Stamina is inconsequential to casters so I'm not going to worry about it.

You wouldn't get close enough to me to drain my majicka or stamina. :fire:

Hmmmm...

I have fortified Archery/one-handed 120% each. 31% faster health and stamina regeneration, and 80% magic resistance (dragons do almost no damage to me at all).

I'm almost immune to casters and my bow and one handed to in excess of 130 base damage each and I still don't have the 100% damage perks (one handed is at 78 though!) Soul trap/ 31 pts shock on my bow and my sword has 62 pts of frost/lightning damage.

I also have a sword on another save game that does 8,299 points of fire damage... and a helmet that fortifies magicka by 1456 points. I just wanted to glitch the game and see how funny it was. I can't actually play that game, because the game is easy enough. It is funny to 1 shot an elder dragon though.

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There are duel enchantments with soul trap AND damage? I haven't seen that!

Well, I'm not fighting you, I'm fighting the casters in the game. But if I had to, I'm pretty sure I could decapitate you pretty quickly. Magicka resist armor + magicka resist potions FTW. :)

LMAO

Pretty much. The potion recipe's in this game are ridiculous.

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq...an1eo1_500.jpg

Longest post ever?

Some of these are pretty ****ing funny.


http://www.addfunny.com/funnypicture...immemecomp.jpg

SKALDJA
Level - 42
Armor Rating - 328
Health - 240
Majicka - 442
Magic Resist - 40%
Fire Resist - 46% (92%w/shield)
Cold Resist - 37% (74%w/Shield)
Destruction cast cost bonus - (-96%)
Conjuration cast cost bonus - (-30%)
Archery damage bonus - 40%
Chance of kicking your ass bonus - 100%


http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/3816/tesv71.jpg

328 armor?

Yah, that's weak. I'm at 597 with full Ebony (don't use a shield). 'Bout to go Daedric and turn it up to 11 up in this bitch.

People who glitch games are the most reeruned people in the world. Bar none.