|OT| Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

[Gunner37]

So i just fought a dragon priest it jesus he sucked it might be because im like level 18 with some ok equipment he just sucked

 

[De-Ting]

I'm walking around with an iron arrow pointing at my left elbow, and another one lodged in my left hip.

I've tried reloading and dumping all of my arrows on the ground, but they are still there. Sleeping, healing, and getting arrested don't help, either. I'm just gonna try getting naked and see what happens.

This goes away when you get shot by more arrows or other projectiles. It's a weird glitch, but that's the only solution.

Yeah, I noticed that when I realized I should probably be trying to increase my light armor skill instead of dodging nearly every attack thrown at me.

Another stupid thing that happened was the person I was following went to use a door while I was already using the one next to it, and when we got outside, she ran for a second and then disappear and came out of the door again. And when you're following someone through the same door, they're always far away by the time you get through.

 

[MattAY]

So i just fought a dragon priest it jesus he sucked it might be because im like level 18 with some ok equipment he just sucked

I fought my first priest on a dragon burial thingy. "Krosis" I think he was called. I found him fucking hard haha! Got his mask - pleasant

 

[Guernica]

So i just fought a dragon priest it jesus he sucked it might be because im like level 18 with some ok equipment he just sucked

I fought my first priest on a dragon burial thingy. "Krosis" I think he was called. I found him f****** hard haha! Got his mask - pleasant

My first was from the last mage College quest And he was rediculously hard for me. Was a good 20 min fight of running in and out of the room to do a small hit and regen.

 

[C_nate]

So i just fought a dragon priest it jesus he sucked it might be because im like level 18 with some ok equipment he just sucked

I fought my first priest on a dragon burial thingy. "Krosis" I think he was called. I found him f****** hard haha! Got his mask - pleasant

I just got that mask last night, though the fight was pretty easy for me because I think I unintentionally picked the easiest way to play the game.

In Oblivion, my main was the woodelf guy who I went with stealth/archery the whole game, so this time around I wanted to go in a different direction. I picked Orc, Warhammer, heavy armor the whole way.

Leveled up his smithing and enchanting a bunch, and am running around in a full set of orcish armor and glass warhammer all upgraded to (epic) quality.

Orcs get the berserk ability once a day and it has to be the most over powered ability in the game. 50% more damage while taking 50% less damage for 60 seconds.

Coupled with the shout that increases swing speed, I am dropping dragons, giants, mammoths, those guys with the mask, basically anything in 2 to 3 swings tops while hardly taking any damage myself. Just absolutely insane. I can't even imagine what it will be like when I level up my smithing enough to make dragon stuff.

Next play through I think I am going to have to go pure caster or something.

 

[De-Ting]

rediculously

ridiculous
ri·dic·u·lous

adjective

1. worthy of ridicule

Not using spell check is ridiculous.

 

[Guernica]

rediculously

ridiculous
ri·dic·u·lous

adjective

1. worthy of ridicule

Not using spell check is ridiculous.

Weird... it doesn't get a little red underline thingy when I type it. Without a working spell check I'm nothing!

 

[Longo_2_guns]

Destruction is really good in the beginning of the game...

But by the halfway point or so becomes useless. Mostly because you can't make your own fucking spells!

 

[NecroWolf]

Odd, my girlfriend is pure caster, around level 42, and easily drops enemy after enemy with her Destruction spells. She also duel-wields Staves (Which do damage dependent on your Destruction skill, and contain charges that are determined by your Destruction skill.) Her damage output is crazy, at least, on standard enemies. As far as my character goes, I'm sneaky-sneaky Khajit thief, and either avoid enemies or stealth-kill them.

 

[Gunner37]

So i just fought a dragon priest it jesus he sucked it might be because im like level 18 with some ok equipment he just sucked

I fought my first priest on a dragon burial thingy. "Krosis" I think he was called. I found him f****** hard haha! Got his mask - pleasant

I think mine was like "Vokun" or something like that i also got the mask so im happy but i am not looking forward to fighting the other 8

 

[Ashalar]

Dragon Priests?

Maybe I should try doing something in the main quest for a change. I'm level 38 now and I'm making tons of Septims, leveling my skills like mad and basically run around doing a lot of sidequests.

I decided to set all quest markers up and go explore the countryside on the way over to the objective.

Which leads to new quests being added one way or another, which makes me do even more stuff.

So... much... to... do.

However, my Dunmer is highly skilled in the arts of Archery (77), Sneak (97) and Smithing (92) now. I'm paying for Light Armor training at this point, as I don't get hit often enough to level through normal means. It is getting a bit expensive now, as around level 68 I have to pay 2k gold per level of training.
Anyone with any solid tips about how to easily level Light Armor skills. Keep in mind that I play on Master difficulty.

@ C_nate: Beyond level 90 Smithing you can improve up to <Legendary> level. NICE!
I wonder what level 100 will bring...

 

[MattAY]

Haha, I'm gathering gold for the 100k achievement. On 51k at the moment! Gold is so easy to gain.

I've just found the Dark Brotherhood...FINALLY! It was lucky though...I want spoil it. But the initiation is pretty cool.

 

[madster111]

madster just has a ps3 so you heard the biased madster POV

Actually, i have every current console you can get apart from the 3DS, and a mate just came over with his HDD and Skyrim and played like 4hrs on my 360, relatively problem free. Couple small glitches, but nothing that major.

Also, how are you guys getting your smithing so high?
I spend like $1k buying ingots because i've drained most of the mines i know about, then use most of it, then upgrade the armors and weapons with what's left over, and i'm lucky to have gone up 2 levels and get back like $600 from my items.

 

[drathbone]

My first was from the *************** And he was rediculously hard for me. Was a good 20 min fight of running in and out of the room to do a small hit and regen.

Yeah I died a few times on him, then he glitched and stopped attacking me. I reloaded, shut down, tried a different save file. Nothing. Kinda made it way less epic.

Anybody notice that some skills go up WAY faster than others? I'm a caster/rogue and just got a nice Illusion buff to decrease noise when I sneak and I went from 20ish to over 50 illusion in like 5 minutes. Every cast gave a level. Now it's every 2 or 3 casts for a level. Same with conjuration. I have alteration and I've cast all 5 or 6 of my spells several times in a row and I get no level ups at 27 alteration. I've used destruction 99% of the time for combat and in 40+ hours of gameplay and it's barely 50. Bug? Balance issue?

 

[MattAY]

I've noticed ever since reaching level 25, my levelling has been a lot slower. Dont know if they've just made it so you need more skill increases to adance a level? eithey way, there's so much to do we'll get there eventually!

 

[C_nate]

madster just has a ps3 so you heard the biased madster POV

Actually, i have every current console you can get apart from the 3DS, and a mate just came over with his HDD and Skyrim and played like 4hrs on my 360, relatively problem free. Couple small glitches, but nothing that major.

Also, how are you guys getting your smithing so high?
I spend like $1k buying ingots because i've drained most of the mines i know about, then use most of it, then upgrade the armors and weapons with what's left over, and i'm lucky to have gone up 2 levels and get back like $600 from my items.

I haven't been doing anything special really.

When I am out doing quests I will mine any stray ore I see and pick up anything worth a decent amount of coin. When I am at my weight limit I will go sell off everything, turn in any quests I finished and then take that money and buy ingots and craft. Sell all those then rinse and repeat.

Also, doing some quests for certain npcs. The female orc smith in Markath for example will reward you with a level of smithing for getting a book for her. Bought a few levels on top of that.

I have not really been grinding it out that much and at lvl 35 I am at about 83 in smithing. Just made myself a full set of Ebony armor with the warhammer to go with it and with a +smithing ring and amulet I made, upgraded them to legendary.

Oh, almost forgot. When exploring cave, ruins, crypts, whatever... I also check every single corpse and urn around. Sometimes they might only have 3 gold in it but it adds up after a while.

P.S. Almost forgot one more thing. If you have not found it yet... Lovers Stone. Find it. All skills increase 15% faster. Helps a lot.

 

[MattAY]

^ I've found that. But I've also found the Steed Stone. More stamina and a hefty 100kg added to your carry weight. Nothing annoys me more than having a weight limit!!

 

[intoTheRain]

madster just has a ps3 so you heard the biased madster POV

Actually, i have every current console you can get apart from the 3DS, and a mate just came over with his HDD and Skyrim and played like 4hrs on my 360, relatively problem free. Couple small glitches, but nothing that major.

Also, how are you guys getting your smithing so high?
I spend like $1k buying ingots because i've drained most of the mines i know about, then use most of it, then upgrade the armors and weapons with what's left over, and i'm lucky to have gone up 2 levels and get back like $600 from my items.

i dont know why i assumed madster would have anything other than everything, ugh.

go between the 3 guys in whiterun that sell iron ingots and leather straps, the guy in riverwood. buy them all up, smash X to build 100 iron daggers, sleep 48 hours, repeat. takes all of 45 minutes to max smithing if you have any gold at all.

ive remade my second toon playing a few hours a day, i'm full daedric armor, daedric bow, and 4 daedric war axes, and have 30k gold still. level 40.

that's a complaint of mine. sure it feels good to be pimped out, but it takes like 12 hours. gold is WAY too easy to make.

i also have maxed speech, so i have about 4 places I invested with, and added 1000 gold to each vendor. so it's no longer a pain trying to find the right place to sell things, and people not having enough etc. most vendors have 3000 gold now, and buy anything i have.

 

[Guernica]

Got level 30 last night and killed krosis. He was much easier than the other I killed. Anyone know what happens when you collect them all and put them on their statue? Is it like the rings and gauntlent in the midden? Because that was kind of a let down in terms of rewards and epicness.

Also I'm almost at the end of the thieve guild quest line I think. Anyone know whether I can get back the skeleton key at the end of the quest or if I should not finish the quest line and keep it?

Anyone notice that the conjured weapons seem to be much stronger than physical weapons? Maybe I just haven't been to the right places but so far I can't find anything to beat my bound swords or bow. The only thing they don't have are special effects, but you can spec into them to banish summoned creatures instantly which is pretty handy in some fights.

 

[Daddio]

So I just dropped 5,000 on the house in Whiterun ... then realised you could literally buy your way to 100 smithing. dangit! Only lvl 13 .. considering redoing my character. Also read it's better to go down the heavy armor side even if you are using light armor because you can actually craft better light armor than elvish armor down the road .. and the weapons are better. BLah!