Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

[Broker]

Anyone know a reliable source of Daedra hearts? It shouldn't be harder to craft Daedric armour than Dragon Plate

Enthir at the college in Winterhold has two at a time, the apothecaries in Whiterun and Solitude stock one every few days, doing the quest to stop the nightmares in Dawnstar includes finding two or three, if you meet a guy who's collecting ingredients to impress the gourmet and kill/pickpocket him he has one and any daedric quest is usually a good bet.

[Lorfarius]

So I'm on top of the world half way on the main quest line, Elder Scroll spoiler here:

Fighting Alduin for the first time having picked up the Dragonrend and what a pile of shite! He zooms by and it's way too difficult to aim the shout and bring him down. Gave up out of frustration after he spent 5 minutes circling constantly and me missing every single shout. It shouldn't be this difficult!

[martingee]

Finished the main quest line which i was a little dissapointed with, not because of the content just that i've not caned that storyline much and done quite a bit of wondering yet seemed to have finished it already, i'm only level 32 or something. Whilst i haven't just done the main quest line i did decide to play it a bit more since in Oblivion i did loads of other stuff and when i got back to the main story arc i kinda got stuck with some balancing issues and found it quite hard to progress.

There are other quest lines that i haven't got very far with, the Companions, DB and thieves guild stuff etc so i'll continue with those. i don't have many shouts beyond the first installment so that'll be something else i'll continue with. Overall an awesome game and i haven't encountered many glitches/bugs.

[Naysonymous]

100 hours in and I only just realised you can rotate the pictures on the loading screens.

Been off main quest lines for a while now (mostly because I have a certain something from the thieves guild which I'd quite like to keep until my lockpicking is 100) so I have been just walking around the map, unlocking locations and talking to random passers by in town. There are some really interesting side quests out there, and I dont mean the miscellaneous quests which are barely a step up from the "kill 10 scorpions" stuff you get in an MMO but proper side quests with real plots.

I absolutely love the fact that there are things that are unique and hand crafted that you might not see, if that makes any sense. Well, not the fact that you might not see them but when you do stumble upon them they appear magical and special rather than the look here!!! follow this!!! model of gaming which is so fashionable on this generation of games.

I also just realised I have 100,000 gold. It seems I got it a few days ago looking at my achievement history. What is a man to blow such riches on? My combat skills are pretty formidable now days, I can instagib anything up to a Frost Troll with one arrow from stealth and 100 in destruction has given me the hammer of dawn for those situations where I absolutely, positively have to kill every motherfucker in the room. So, more houses or something else?

[Mr Ben]

You need to have completed "Pieces of the Past" the daedric questline for Mehrunes Razor before you can use this place to farm the hearts. If you go there before the quest then the doors locked and un-pickable and theres no daedra outside even.

Completed the Dark Brotherhood questline before the Civil War quests, and chose to side with the Stormcloaks as I'd

assassinated the Emperor

and the empire just seems a pale shadow of the Empire in Oblivion etc. The odd thing was that when fighting Imperials they all shouted

"For the Emperor!"

which as a result didnt make a lot of sense

[a big boy]

100 hours in and I only just realised you can rotate the pictures on the loading screens.

Been off main quest lines for a while now (mostly because I have a certain something from the thieves guild which I'd quite like to keep until my lockpicking is 100) so I have been just walking around the map, unlocking locations and talking to random passers by in town. There are some really interesting side quests out there, and I dont mean the miscellaneous quests which are barely a step up from the "kill 10 scorpions" stuff you get in an MMO but proper side quests with real plots.

I absolutely love the fact that there are things that are unique and hand crafted that you might not see, if that makes any sense. Well, not the fact that you might not see them but when you do stumble upon them they appear magical and special rather than the look here!!! follow this!!! model of gaming which is so fashionable on this generation of games.

I also just realised I have 100,000 gold. It seems I got it a few days ago looking at my achievement history. What is a man to blow such riches on? My combat skills are pretty formidable now days, I can instagib anything up to a Frost Troll with one arrow from stealth and 100 in destruction has given me the hammer of dawn for those situations where I absolutely, positively have to kill every motherfucker in the room. So, more houses or something else?

I spend all my money learning skills from the various teachers dotted about the place; once you get up to the higher levels of a particular skill they start asking for upwards of 5,000 per level (with the caveat that you can always take your money back from teachers who are also companions!)... Right now my main problem is making enough money in my side occupation as an enchancted dagger salesman to keep up with this level of expenditure, as I'm yet to find a shop owner who keeps more than 750 in the till. Anyone?

[Naysonymous]

The guy in Whiterun usually has 1000-1100 in his till. He has bought more enchanted iron daggers off of me than Jan Molby has bought pies!

The bloke behind the bar in the pub directly opposite buys stuff from you too, he doesnt have as much cash but he is so close it is virtually the same place. And of course, in the middle of these two areas is a house you can own called Breezehome.

There is an enchanter in Dragonsreach at the top of the town too, and you can fast travel from the doors of Dragonsreach to right outside the shop you sell your shit to. Then just wait/sleep a day or two for the tills to replenish.

Edited December 24, 2011 by Nayson

[Lorfarius]

They still haven't fixed the texture issue in the latest patch for 360

[moosegrinder]

Haven't they? I could've swore it looked a lot better. They're definitely loading in quicker.

[DC]

I noticed LOADS of bad pop up this morning.

[Lorfarius]

Haven't they? I could've swore it looked a lot better. They're definitely loading in quicker.

Nope. Was in Winterhold earlier and all the buildings looked awful, same up a couple of mountains lots of blocky, ugly textures

[Rudi von Starnberg]

If you've got 100,000 gold kicking about, Nayson, splurge it on a house and furnishings in Solitude.

[George Clooney]

I spend all my money learning skills from the various teachers dotted about the place; once you get up to the higher levels of a particular skill they start asking for upwards of 5,000 per level (with the caveat that you can always take your money back from teachers who are also companions!)... Right now my main problem is making enough money in my side occupation as an enchancted dagger salesman to keep up with this level of expenditure, as I'm yet to find a shop owner who keeps more than 750 in the till. Anyone?

Do the thieves guild quests to return them to their former glory. There are four "special" jobs that you get every so often while you are doing the side jobs for them from Vex and Devlin, and each one adds a merchant to the tavern, adds a fence to the town you did the special job in, and increases the amount of gold each fence has. There is also a job from the fence in the tavern of the thieves guild that turns the Khajit caravans into fences. When you've done all 4 special jobs every fence will have 4000 gold and buy anything off you.

Well worth doing if you want to make money selling stuff.

[Stolly]

I spend all my money learning skills from the various teachers dotted about the place; once you get up to the higher levels of a particular skill they start asking for upwards of 5,000 per level (with the caveat that you can always take your money back from teachers who are also companions!)... Right now my main problem is making enough money in my side occupation as an enchancted dagger salesman to keep up with this level of expenditure, as I'm yet to find a shop owner who keeps more than 750 in the till. Anyone?

Me too. I'm a spender, not a saver

[Monkeyspill]

Nope. Was in Winterhold earlier and all the buildings looked awful, same up a couple of mountains lots of blocky, ugly textures

Are you sure? I think some game textures just are very low res. Try it streaming from the disc and see if it's the same.

[Monkeyspill]

Meh. I set my xbox live profile to require a password to sign in as I was worrying about all these security issues. Now live appears to be down and it won't even let me access my offline profile, so my attempts to continue my game of Skyrim this afternoon hand been scuppered. My own stupid fault I suppose.

[Lorfarius]

Are you sure? I think some game textures just are very low res. Try it streaming from the disc and see if it's the same.

Different when streaming from disk, the load times are awful though so don't want to do that much.

[SM47]

The textures seem to be fine for me since the most recent patch. I put in 30 odd hours with the game installed to the HDD before 1.3 (?) and I've certainly noticed the difference.

[SaintM]

Since the latest patch i've been get freezes for a couple of seconds during intensive battles.

[Kyouma]

Nosing around the Skyrim Nexus modding forums, I picked up the vibe that there's quite the modding scene for Skyrim in China. I was looking for cool armour mods, but all I found was stuff like this...

(For all I know, though, the first one is a 'shop)

So I lolled a little, then carried on looking for cool armour mods....

If anyone's interested in having a nose, and can read "Simplified Han" Chinese, or can get by with Google translations, the forum's here:

http://bbs.3dmgame.com/forum-685-1.html (You need to register to view most of the images, or to download. Not that I've found anything to download yet. Some of the stuff there is on Skyrim Nexus already, but not all of it will be.

I've not finished having a gander yet, but there's some cool stuff like Assassins Creed armour, here, too:

http://modgames.net/load/246-1-13 (Again, some but not all can also be found at the Nexus)

Those are Japanese characters, not chinese... (then again, they're popular in China too so it may have been a chinese modder who made it).

That's Hatsune Miku and Luka with some kind of Gundam Unicorn armour.

Skyrim is making waves in the Japanese gaming scene. It's one of the most popular Western games there for a long, long time.

Expect lots of mods from Japan once it gets released there.

[Argh]

That's cool to know. Definitely a Chinese site I went to (although I only know that because of Google translate offering to translate Simplified Han Chinese!), but I'm pleased it's doing so well globally.

I do want to be able to run someone through with a giant leek, though.

[Guest]

Yes, I got this for Christmas. Is there anything I need to know before starting? Any hints, like doing the Wasteland Survival Guide quests in Fallout 3, to ease me into things?

[Lorfarius]

Main Quest complete spoilers -

Bit disappointed. Seems built up like crazy then you just clamber on a dragons back, climb up some mountain/temple straight to the warriors hall. There's been some really great quests I've stumbled upon but this just seemed to peter out. I really wish they'd taken it down a darker path, maybe with you having to side with Alduin. See the world from his point of view before deciding to kill him. Sad but that's the main bit over, back to wandering the world!

[Guest]

Fuck. I pressed the B button on the character naming screen to go back and it kicked me out with the name 'Prisoner'. Is there any way to change it without starting again?

[Uzi]

Fuck. I pressed the B button on the character naming screen to go back and it kicked me out with the name 'Prisoner'. Is there any way to change it without starting again?

Nope

[SqueakyG]

Apologies if it hasn't been posted, but I see exploits have been found for alchemy: http://www.reddit.com/r/skyrim/comments/mvzb9/can_somebody_walk_me_through_ho...

There's an easier way for this.

Skyrim treats active effects as Restoration school effects. Meaning, if you drink a potion that improves restoration, it also improves the effects you get from items. All effects, things like Fortify One-Handed, Fortify Sneak etc etc, everything.

This is different from the Enchanting/Smithing/Alchemy synergies you'll see, but it is similar, and you don't need to max any of them to use this method, nor need expensive soul gems (apart from first time).

First, you need a Fortify Alchemy gear set. Basically, just buy Grand Soul Gems with Grand souls and enchant a set of armors/jewelries. Your enchant skill doesn't matter, but if you have some skill, things will be quicker. If you don't know Fortify Alchemy, you need to find an item that gives Fortify Alchemy effect, then you need to disenchant that item to learn that effect. Alternatively, you can use the alchemy items you find, just 3 or more would suffice, but it may take a while to find, so enchanting is better.

Next, you need ingredients for Fortify Restoration potion, those are:

•Abecean Longfin

•Cyrodilic Spadetail

•Salt Pile

•Small Antlers

•Small Pearl

Refer to wiki for more info.

You should have at least 20 potions worth of ingredients. If you aren't skilled at enchanting or alchemy, it will start of slow at first because of low percentages, but, if you keep doing it, soon it'll start rapidly increasing.

Now, how to make thing work:

•Wear your Alchemy set

•Create 1 Fortify Restoration potion (just one), and drink it

•Go to your inventory, unequip your alchemy items and requip them

•Create another Fortify Restoration potion (again, just one), and drink it

•Unequip and reequip your alchemy items.

Repeat this as long as you want, every time you do this (correctly), your alchemy gear stats will increase, and the next fortify restoration potion effect will also increase. After getting a satisfactory increase (entirely up to you, either 850% or 50000%, your choice), create 10 or so fortify restoration potions, so that you can use that on Fortify Smithing/Alchemy* gear (use the potion and equip/unequip/reequip your gear).

Alternatively, if you don't want to create new sets for smithing/alchemy*, create Fortify Smithing/Enchanting potions. Before improving your weapon (not creating), drink the potion then improve the weapon you want (or armor for that matter). You can even combine both potions and gear sets if you so desire.

Unlike Smithing/Enchanting/Alchemy synergies, this has no limit. You can make 26000% potions with this if you want. However, that sucks the fun out of the game, so if you want to use this method, do be careful.

On Playstation 3, some people say you can just drink 10 restoration potions and effects will stack each time you drink them, I couldn't reproduce this on PC. When you drink the first Restoration potion, the next one will show up as improved on UI, but when you drink it, it will apply the original value, not the improved value you see on UI.

Few notes: If you don't remove your items after potion effect wears off, you'll keep the improved item effects. Game only checks active effects while equiping items, you can walk around with Fortify skill 463234% items forever, as long as you don't remove them.

TL;DR Each fortify restoration potion improves beneficial active effects (enchants), you can create a loop that increases Alchemy to increase the fortify restoration effect even further (sky's the limit)

Edit: Still works as of v1.3

I have to try this.

I would advise AGAINST using this exploit! It spoils the fun. At first I got a bit carried away and ended up with a Fortify Restoration potion that allowed me to improve my favourite axe to 550 hit points and improve my armour to over a billion.

So I started again and tried to be a bit more modest. Now I have merely doubled my axe and armour values. Still, I find I can swat nearly all human enemies with one swing and they barely damage me. I've saved quite a few times since the exploit so I don't want to lose a few hours! I suppose I can start using a new weapon and new armour.

[Kryptonian]

I've not kept up with this thread for a few weeks - last I read there was a patch (1.2?) that messed up loads of stuff (360) like armour effects etc.

Has that been fixed now? Ta

[Farley]

Fuck. I pressed the B button on the character naming screen to go back and it kicked me out with the name 'Prisoner'. Is there any way to change it without starting again?

I did exactly the same when I booted up my shiny new game this afternoon...

[FuzzyDunlop]

I don't think they could have made the text any smaller, could they? It's not making it easy to play when I have to lurch forward just to see what the options in the menu are.

And it's not like they have a lack of space on screen to enlarge things.

It's a shame because I find it frustrating, and you can't exactly play the game without using a menu or dialogue screen.

[sir stiff_one]

You need a bigger TV.

Not quite sure what Squeaky G was expecting when he tried a known cheat in the game to become very powerful and became very powerful. I also am ridiculously powerful but within the confines of the game, and there are other difficulty levels to cater for that.

It's a very strange complaint.