Skyrim

[TacticalKid]

I will be getting this game quite soon and i think. Its a huge game and I think this thread could be a good place to share useful information and tips.

[vorpalbunnie]

I was seriously wondering when this thread was gonna go up. Skyrim is awesome!

[frogfish]

I've enjoyed it so far. I've done most of the major side quest lines with only the Bards college and Imperial/Stormcloak quest lines left. I also haven't done the very last thieves guild quest as I don't want to loose the Skeleton Key quite yet, and I've done almost none of the main quest line.

 

I highly recommend leveling enchanting and smithing all the way, it's easy enough to do without glitching the game, and will net you extremely powerful armor and weapons, however don't be an idiot like I was, just go heavy armor all the way, I leveled smithing on the light armor side any now don't have access to Deadric armor, there is no need for light armor in the game with the Stead Stone blessing. All you need to do is farm iron ingots, leather strips, and petty soul gems (or any soul gem for that matter), make tons of Iron Daggers, and then go enchant them with "Banish" (it's the most expensive enchantment) and then go sell them for 700-2000 gold a pop.

 

I'm a lvl 48 Breton "Battle Mage" (that's a Heavy armor, one handed weapon wielding, destruction, healing mage) my armor rating is like 650, it costs me no mana to cast desro or healing spells, and my armor gives me a +75% bonus to one handed weapon damage. My sword does 75 base damage (legendary glass) and I've got +48 fire damage and +48 lighting damage enchantments on it that are never ending, and all of that is built into the game, not a glitch. There is still that combination of challenge, while still having enough awesome abilities to back me up if I get up *suitcases* creek, for example accidentally running into two Ancient Dragons at the same time....

[Jagdraben]

Pfft. Light armor is easy to sneak around in and... "Some people think they're smarter than me. Perhaps... perhaps. But I have yet to meet anyone who can outsmart my warhammer."

[frogfish]

The steed stone blessing gives you the armor rating of heavy armor but the sound and mobility checks of being unarmored, plus it increases your ability to carry items by 100 and removes the weight of heavy armor. I can be sneaky and take a beating.

[spetsnazdave87]

Where do you get it from?

[scorch]

The Steed standing stone. I forget where it is, near Falkreath I think.

 

I have perked up my heavy armour so it is no weight when worn, and have the "lover stone" blessing so all attributes level faster.

[Slayer750]

The Steed Standing stone is NW of Solitude. A bit tricky to get to, and depending on which direction your approach is made from, you might have to do some jump spamming to get to it. Easiest way to get to it is probably by heading to it with a NE vector.

[Shardik]

I love this game. I think I literally played Oblivion for neigh on 2 years Non stop, and still turned it on every now and then since. Generally after watching some form of Fantasy movie. As far as I am concerned, Skyrim is far better than Oblivion was. It helps that I am pretty much obsessed with Norse mythology (Real Norse) and Skyrim is full of that sort of stuff.

 

Has anyone not noticed how much cooler everything is too? i mean, besides leather armour, all the armours, clothing, weapons, fancy hat's, all looked utter *suitcase* and unnatural in Oblivion. Heck, I love the look of my mix of Steel armours so much on my character, I dont even bother upgrading to the new stuff I am coming accross. (Orkish, Ebony).

 

Semi Spolierish alert here, but, I would reccommend anyone to do the main quest as soon as possible. You unlock all the best shouts easiest by doing this. Call Dragon, Call of Valour, Stormcall ect. On a related note, does anyone know where to find the next two words of power for Stormcall? I am having trouble finding them.

[SteevoLS]

Lizard Blizzard Wizard, reporting.

[Sallinen]

45 hours of fun behind. Still counting.

 

Stormcall:

Forelhost (The Rift)

High Gate Ruins (The Pale)

Skuldafn (Other Realm)

[Moriquende]

According to steam I've played 95 hours so far.

On my second char at the moment. Pretty much just played through mainquest and the civil war with the first one.

 

Spoiler: The mainquest ending sucks.

[Shardik]

Spoiler: I loved the whole of the main quest, plus the ending!

[frogfish]

end battle was "meh" could have been done in many more interesting ways.

 

All I have left are Misc. quests and the Blades quests but I can't seem to find the Blades guys at their haven....

 

Oh yeah enchanting and smithing made the game easy as hell, double enchantments on items and crafting top tier gear at level 20, also really unimpressed with the destruction tree, I'm at 100 destruction and spells take way to long to cast, or are weak, I'm better off charging in sword a waving, or sneak attacking foes.

 

Anywho I finished at level 55, I could grind out more talents but it's all stuff I haven't used like 2 handed, archery, block, light armor, ect....

[-Al-]

Gotta say, it's really nothing more than a tarted up Oblivion... Think evolutionary, not revolutionary.

 

It's not bad, in fct it's quite fun, just nothing new. I'm struggling to find the interest in it to keep playing!

[Shardik]

I was hoping (which I got) for a tarted up Oblivion. Heck, I would have been happy with more Oblivion DLC. Anything is better than the Fallout series anyway. That in no way is a replacement for Oblivion.

 

Anyhow, Im loving Stormcall now, Just obliterated a whole town with it haha, it was pretty brutal.

[Shardik]

Has anyone elses Dragons glitched since the last update?

[frogfish]

I'm struggling to find the interest in it to keep playing!

 

I beat it, wandered around for half an hour, then boxed it up and mailed it to my brother in law....... no interest in it anymore.

[Shardik]

define 'beat it'. I always wonder what people mean when they say that. A couple of chaps at work said the same thing ''I Beat it in a day then sent it back''.

 

Im 70 hours in and still have yet to 'beat it'. You must be talking about the main quest?

[darkchild130]

Yeah, to me beating it would require completing every single quest, clearing every single location and finding every unique item in the game. If you have any kind of life outside of gaming, I'd say it's nigh on impossible to "beat".

 

I'm 70 hours in, level 48, haven't started main quest yet.

 

Darkchild

[frogfish]

I was 135 hours in stalled at level 56 with a handfull of Misc. dungeon quests left. For these games, to me, beating the main quest constitutes "completion" as that's typically the last thing I do

[Grindstone]

Yeah, to me beating it would require completing every single quest, clearing every single location and finding every unique item in the game. If you have any kind of life outside of gaming, I'd say it's nigh on impossible to "beat".

 

I'm 70 hours in, level 48, haven't started main quest yet.

 

Darkchild

Now that I look back, I don't think I've ever actually finished the main quest in both Morrowind and Oblivion.

 

And I still play both, occasionally.

[Shardik]

I cant comprehend how many hours I put into Oblivion, and still played it up untill the release of Skyrim. I never finsihed the Fighters Gulid or even started the Mages guild...

 

These games tend to be full of content.

[Agent Hunk]

I thought Oblivion was pretty meh. Loved Morrowind and love Skyrim. I sneak around in light armor and shoot people with arrows until I get close enough to hack them up with my war axe. On my second character because on the first one I made a poor wife choice and wanted a better one.

 

In these style games I go the route that is the most fun, and that route seldom leads to having the strongest stats. YMMV.

[Grindstone]

I guess my problem is I'm always wanting to try out new classes or other stats. I'll start an assassin/dark elf, play for a week or two, then creat a nord/smash-and-bash, another few weeks, then high elf/pure magic, and so forth, often cylcing back through old classes.

 

Must be the ADHD