Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

[hercules]

Whiterun, I've rarely visited any other towns extensively only for brief visits.

In Whiterun your house in next to the blacksmith & the shops & inn are just up the road.

Yeh i like whiterun alot for convenience and it is where most of my loot is. I'm making the long trip to Riften but i keep looting caves on the way so probably won't get there for another few hours.

[Girth Certificate]

gah @ that satchel

I might actually take everything I own and very slowly walk to the top of whiterun and shout it down stairs, see how badly the game shits the bed.

[Stolly]

Yeh i like whiterun alot for convenience and it is where most of my loot is. I'm making the long trip to Riften but i keep looting caves on the way so probably won't get there for another few hours.

Riften's a right scratty place. Solitude is the most colourful, Markarth's the most dramatic, what with the waterfall, and Whiterun's the most practical. Matey's odds and sods shop in Whiterun has never got enough gold in spare change for buying stuff though

[polygon_monkey]

Have you done "A Daedra's best friend" quest? Thats one of the better ones.

Most of the Daedric ones were a cut above the norm. The hunting one, the haunted house one etc.

[Aardvark]

Blackreach is very cool indeed, although the little sidequest you get in there is almost annoyingly long winded, I've done half of it and almost forgotten now where I've looked and not looked...

The thing that gets me with Blackreach is the music makes me pause and go, "no, that's just the music," far too often. I think I could finish that quest a lot fast if I muted the music.

[sir stiff_one]

Made myself an axe to play with as I fancied a change from my mace:

Also made an interesting potion. If I sup one of these, well... you do the maths.

[gospvg]

571 !! Damage !!

[Kryptonian]

Am I missing a trick here or are axes just a lot more powerful than the bows, daggers and occasional sword I use?

To put it another way, how do I make something like that!? My smithing is 100 if that helps...

Ta

[sir stiff_one]

Yeah, it doesn't hit as hard as the Warhammer, but it's a bit faster. I quite like it.

I think I might swap back to Ebony Gloves as I don't like the Daedric style claws. I wasn't sure about the chest piece either at first, but I have come to like the horned look:

I kitted Lydia out in my old Dragon stuff but she looked like a right dick, poor lass. I'd finally given her a chance after sitting in a chair for about 4 months and I couldn't stand her hanging around. So I did the honourable thing, strapped on my blacksmithing apron and set to work on a full set of Ebony armour for her. Good stuff I thought, but it needs enchanting, so up we trot to Dragonsreach and I pimp her new suit out with a full on red and blue glow. Finally I hand over the last treats, an Ebony shield to replace her embarrassing battered hunk of metal, an Ebony sword with which to freeze her foes as she slices into them, and an Ebony Bow with which to paralyse threats from long range.

Yes I thought, now you're ready. We set off immediately to a nearby bandit camp to blood her sword. No problems there, I stood back as she took the offensive, laying waste to all who dared challenge her. A bear became interested in the battle going on and tried to bite a piece of her ass. Standing away from the action I calmly notched up a daedric arrow and let it fly. This was Lydia's first outing after all, can't have her catching some horrible disease or get caught off guard. The silence of the arrow lodging itself deeply into the bear's leg was at odds with the visual spectacle as it burst into flames and rolled back down the mountain. As it came to rest in a heap against a tree, I looked up and the bandit camp was empty. Great job partner.

Then we killed a dragon together before heading home. Obviously she carried the bones.

Looking forward to our next outing. I haven't really used followers much, although I did hang out with a really cool mage lady from a hagraven quest. Until I left her outside High Hrothgar for a week and she pissed off.

[sir stiff_one]

Am I missing a trick here or are axes just a lot more powerful than the bows, daggers and occasional sword I use?

To put it another way, how do I make something like that!? My smithing is 100 if that helps...

Ta

Make sure your stuff is enchanted appropriately. My gloves add 48% to bows and 2h damage. I actually don't have the fortify 1h enchant... lol what a noob.

Bows should be doing mega damage, especially factoring the x3 sneak bonus.

Daggers are strictly regulated as there is a x15 perk somewhere.

1h swords hit lighter but faster and you may have a shield on too. 2h swords are around that mark, slightly less and slightly faster - might try one next.

I wish you could scrub enchantments off of stuff you find. There's a cool looking helmet I found in one dungeon with Frost resist on it. I'd love to wear the thing, the armour difference doesn't matter as mine is over 1000, way over the cap, but I'd be giving up 48% on bow damage.

[robdood]

Buh. The damage on 2 handed weapons is insane!! Stiff, is that the true base damage, or the damage thanks to buffs on your equipment? Its gotta be with some buffs right? Cos even my legendary ebony bow with 4 x +35% damage only puts me up to about 180

Maybe its time I move over to melee..

[redbloodcell]

You can get a bows up there too, mine's (Legendary Daedric one) doing 527 + another 29 fire & 29 ice damage. That's not even with the tip top buffs either, I got lazy and only buffed my head and necklace up to 40% so I'm missing out on an extra lump more on top of that.

[robdood]

Gah... what am I missing then. Oh wait, did you make your own bow?

[sir stiff_one]

With enchants but without potions.

My bow:

I am rocking a fairly damage heavy enchantment setup. I could up my health instead but where's the fun in that?

I will chug a potion one day when I remember, and try to one shot a dragon out of the sky:

[DjSatansfur3h]

Do the enchantments on armor benefit followers at all?

[Cheyenne]

I've really taken to disregarding the supposed strengths of a specific race. When I feel like playing stealthily, I load up my Orc (incidentally I find Orc is a great race for stealth, Berserker Rage along with the Sneak bonuses means my dagger is doing x30 damage , dont even need enchantments), and this morning I decided to start a melee monster, so naturally I had to make him a High Elf because fuck playing to type. I like to picture the shock on the faces of Bandits, expecting a magic-based character only for me lunge at them with a Warhammer, feels tasty.

I guess this means in a few weeks I'll start a Khajiit mage. Which will be difficult, as they repulse me.

[Kryptonian]

I should look more into enchantments then I think. I have archery gloves & hat and a fairly decent bow so I should be on my way...

[b00dles]

The thing that gets me with Blackreach is the music makes me pause and go, "no, that's just the music," far too often. I think I could finish that quest a lot fast if I muted the music.

Bllody right, there are so many times I think I can hear 'the noise' and it's just a bit of the music, or

the huge, inexplicable, glow in the dark jellyfish,

which seem to make the same flippin' noise.

[Aardvark]

Bllody right, there are so many times I think I can hear 'the noise' and it's just a bit of the music, or

the huge, inexplicable, glow in the dark jellyfish,

which seem to make the same flippin' noise.

Nah, the noises are all different, it's just hard filtering out the single one you're interested in when it's potentially quite faint.

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

I'm almost level 10 now, does this game make you madly overpowered once you pass a certain mark like Fallout 3? I hope so

[Jamin]

I spent roughly 10 hours exploring Blackreach. Absolutely fantastically realised environment, made and made a welcome change of pace from the outside world.

The best bit was I thought this would be 'just another quest' and it led there. How wrong I was! I love Bethesda games.

[lampkin]

I'm almost level 10 now, does this game make you madly overpowered once you pass a certain mark like Fallout 3? I hope so

I've been dual wielding since level 1, second hardest difficulty setting (is that master?). It's been tough until about level 25, now I have legendary glass armour and swords Maximus is starting to rock. I got my smithing up to 100 then made some armour to add another 50% or so, I think I read there's a cap of how much you can improve armour. I have reloaded a lot but it's been fun

[Gringo]

I thought my character was quite tough but looking at the stuff people are rocking from here I realise I am but a mere ant compared to them. If my character saw any of those weapons he would die from pure fear alone.

[lampkin]

Epic!

Just found some kind of dragon shrine, a Frost Dragon turns up. I run in for my usual hand to hand, fuck knows where Lydia is, always seems to be lagging behind. All of a sudden, she fucking dives on the back of this dragon, the dragon takes off and she's still kicking it's arse mid flight! She falls off, I'm wondering if this is her end, no, she lands, bow in hands shooting away

I started hammering print screen as it all kicked off, check out the dragons tail (just above the right foot) on the first shot (she's whacking it with some dwarven fire sword):

(I stumbled across some tinypic site so I hope this works)

Bow in hands mid air!

[MrPogo]

Some quality Last Words from one of my latest victims: "Death... is highly overrated".

[Royshan]

I've got a weird one where a lot of my miscellaneous side quests are pointing to the Lovers Stone over in the west when I click show on map.

I've been there But there doesn't seem to be anything to do or anyone to meet.

Is it a bug or am I just being stupid and missing something obvious?

I have this. Any quest in the Markarth city will point to lovers stone.

I have a lot of bugs at the moment- if I play for more than an hour and a half, the game freezes, and if restarted will freeze on whatever event it initially froze on. Although I think my favourite was the draugur deathlord running towards me- as I started to run back, drawing my bow, he suddenly just flew into the air. And stayed there until I killed him

[Distinct muttering]

Some strange differences in people's progress in relation to time played,

Nap I recall said he was upwards of 40 hours, yet only level 10. I'm around 50 hours and level 25, think my highest stat

Is about 60. Then lampkin around same level as me but rocking level 100 skills.

Are the guys who have these awesome weapons etc been grinding and reading guides etc?

[lampkin]

Some strange differences in people's progress in relation to time played,

Nap I recall said he was upwards of 40 hours, yet only level 10. I'm around 50 hours and level 25, think my highest stat

Is about 60. Then lampkin around same level as me but rocking level 100 skills.

Are the guys who have these awesome weapons etc been grinding and reading guides etc?

Steams says I'm 74 hours in, I'm level 31. I just made a fuck ton of daggers and I tend to pick up all ore / hide that I find. Smithing is my only 100 skill, one handed is at around 74 then enchanting is at 60 odd, light armour around 51, the rest are 40 and below, most magic related are below 20.

I haven't used any guides.

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

Some strange differences in people's progress in relation to time played,

Nap I recall said he was upwards of 40 hours, yet only level 10. I'm around 50 hours and level 25, think my highest stat

Is about 60. Then lampkin around same level as me but rocking level 100 skills.

Are the guys who have these awesome weapons etc been grinding and reading guides etc?

I'm not working hard though ... I've just bought my house and I'm still level 10 after something close to 50 hours. But I spend a lot of time just walking around and taking in the sights, doing odd jobs and easy questing. I tend to avoid conflict resulting in a small amount of kills too. I find that when I go into dungeons proper the levelbar moves pretty swiftly, but days pass without actually going into a dungeon but rather doing more mundane stuff like going around town and talking to everybody and reading books. I've got the difficulty at the default setting, haven't touched it. Unlike Fallout 3, completing quests doesn't seem to give any XP.

[redbloodcell]

Some strange differences in people's progress in relation to time played,

Nap I recall said he was upwards of 40 hours, yet only level 10. I'm around 50 hours and level 25, think my highest stat

Is about 60. Then lampkin around same level as me but rocking level 100 skills.

Are the guys who have these awesome weapons etc been grinding and reading guides etc?

I figured out the alchemy/enchanting loop myself, but did check what the upper limit was (and then didn't bother hitting it, lol).

Sneak, Archery and the Thief stone meant I levelled up nice and steadily until I maxed both skills, but then Alchemy, Smithing and Enchanting provided quick levelling after. Once you've got good enchanting you can also boost low skills to make it easier to level them up.