Kept getting my ass kicked in Treva's Watch (or whatever it is). Would end up getting swarmed by four or five bandits, no matter how sneaky I was, and the two-handed dudes would just pummel me. Backed out and spent like an hour collecting the resources to upgrade to Elven armor. Refined that shit and got the 25% all-light armor bonus perk and now I cannot fucking wait to give those jerks their comeuppance.

btw, check out the mines in Dawnstar for heaps of quicksilver and iron

Also killed a dragon inside the Whiterun walls at 4am. Was pretty cool to see the entire town coming running out to gawk at it after it died.

[Edited on November 23, 2011 at 11:41 AM. Reason : ]

11/23/2011 11:40:52 AM

By "re-rolling" do you people mean abandoning your current character and making a new one?

If so I'd never do that after more than a couple of hours. I do however have 3 separate characters I'm playing basically consecutively and will have a 4th soon, one for each major guild (Thieves, Mages, Companions, Dark Brotherhood).

11/23/2011 11:47:01 AM

Re-rolling in the sense of playing a completely different character build, either concurrently with other builds and quest lines, or completely separately and individually.

11/23/2011 11:51:04 AM

11/23/2011 2:11:42 PM

LOL

That guy has a problem.

But I do think you should be able to take skulls from the trolls you kill, seems like they are reasonably valuable or at least collectible, considering how many people have them in their shops and houses.

11/23/2011 2:14:34 PM

After spending tedious hours leveling up in Morrowind and Oblivion I LOVE the new leveling and perks they've added this go round!

This game is amazing.

11/23/2011 2:39:25 PM

There was a scroll bug in Oblivion that would allow you to duplicate anything at all.

At one point, I got bored enough with the game that I put myself at the top of a really high tower with a sloping hill below me and duplicated four thousand watermelons.

The fell straight down and kept rolling. Bogged down my PS3 for about 15 minutes.

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11/23/2011 2:40:02 PM

<3 the duping bug on Oblivion. I need to go back and finish that game.

Becoming 100% Chameleon took all of the fun out of it.

11/23/2011 2:59:06 PM

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"Becoming 100% Chameleon took all of the fun out of it."

yep, that was the best and the worst thing about Oblivion.

11/23/2011 3:07:31 PM

someone give me 5 reasons why I want to play this game.


youtube videos are acceptable.

11/23/2011 3:09:59 PM

You can be a Two Handed Battle Mage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roZnT3q5wms

11/23/2011 3:14:58 PM

What level were you in that video? I just did that mission as a level ~35 and that last part with all the zombie dudes coming at you at once was approximately 8,000 times harder.

Then again, I'm not a mage either, so that probably had a lot to do with it.

11/23/2011 4:45:38 PM

Draugr Wights and Scourges are no fucking joke compared to regular Draugrs.

11/23/2011 4:51:41 PM

It's sad how much time I spend thinking about what to upgrade every time I level up

And that's before I even get to the skill trees/perks

11/23/2011 5:28:23 PM

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"Draugr Wights and Scourges are no fucking joke compared to regular Draugrs."

Legendary Glass Bow + Glass Arrow = Great Equalizer

11/23/2011 6:12:58 PM

Oh, and eff going into Azura's star.

11/24/2011 1:37:09 AM

Need...to do quests....

11/24/2011 9:36:13 AM

just go into a new town and talk to the first person you see...they will give you 37 quests

11/24/2011 9:48:11 AM

What is the level cap in this game? I could look it up but I am lazy haha

11/24/2011 9:50:47 AM

^^Doesnt help when my Xbox is 4 hours away

11/24/2011 10:32:52 AM

^^

Quote :

"Upcoming fantasy RPG The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is a "1-50" game, Bethesda has revealed. Skyrim players will find they level up faster than they did in Oblivion and Fallout 3, game director Todd Howard said at Bethesda's showcase event last week. "We do balance this game," he said. "The levelling is faster. Oblivion and Fallout 3, we think of them as 1-25 games. This is a 1-50. "But what that means is we just sped it up. It's not like it's going to take you longer. There are so many perks and the power really comes from the perks, we wanted to get it going faster. "You level faster in the beginning and then it slows down." While most players will max out the game at level 50, Skyrim has a "mathematical" level cap "probably somewhere in the 70s", Howard said. Meanwhile, Howard described Skyrim's open world as "about the same size" as Oblivion's. But the addition of difficult to pass mountains "theoretically create less space but more time because you can't cut across them". "It ends up feeling bigger," Howard said. "And the game tends to get harder as you go in elevation. You know, oh those trolls, they're up there, so I'm not going to go through the mountain. I'm going to go this way." Bethesda has increased the number of staff creating dungeons so they end up feeling varied. "We've got eight or nine guys now who are really good. We have at last count 120-some dungeon dungeons, and then we have another 100 plus what we call points of interest, outside encounters. "The game is just too big, actually."Upcoming fantasy RPG The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is a "1-50" game, Bethesda has revealed. Skyrim players will find they level up faster than they did in Oblivion and Fallout 3, game director Todd Howard said at Bethesda's showcase event last week. "We do balance this game," he said. "The levelling is faster. Oblivion and Fallout 3, we think of them as 1-25 games. This is a 1-50. "But what that means is we just sped it up. It's not like it's going to take you longer. There are so many perks and the power really comes from the perks, we wanted to get it going faster. "You level faster in the beginning and then it slows down." While most players will max out the game at level 50, Skyrim has a "mathematical" level cap "probably somewhere in the 70s", Howard said. Meanwhile, Howard described Skyrim's open world as "about the same size" as Oblivion's. But the addition of difficult to pass mountains "theoretically create less space but more time because you can't cut across them". "It ends up feeling bigger," Howard said. "And the game tends to get harder as you go in elevation. You know, oh those trolls, they're up there, so I'm not going to go through the mountain. I'm going to go this way." Bethesda has increased the number of staff creating dungeons so they end up feeling varied. "We've got eight or nine guys now who are really good. We have at last count 120-some dungeon dungeons, and then we have another 100 plus what we call points of interest, outside encounters. "The game is just too big, actually.""

11/24/2011 11:08:09 AM

I'm playing Oblivion and I swear, if i took the time to beat oblivion and then play and beat skyrim, it would take me until this time next year.

11/24/2011 12:54:56 PM

You make that sound like it's a problem.

11/24/2011 1:29:48 PM

Stimwalt, did you post your video with 20k+ views on the forum that it was "featured on", or did you just somehow get lucky and it got stumbled upon?

11/24/2011 1:48:58 PM

Double post. Anyone know about Black Friday deals on Skyrim?

11/24/2011 4:04:32 PM

nope, its not really expensive anyway

11/24/2011 4:24:58 PM

facepalm

11/24/2011 5:47:24 PM

I didn't do anything except post it here. Is 20k a lot? I'm a youtube noob.

I think I have a video editing addiction, because here's another video:

The Skyrim Battle Mage - Level 11ish

http://youtu.be/tCt1VzEyUVM

[Edited on November 24, 2011 at 7:24 PM. Reason : -]

11/24/2011 7:18:41 PM

20k is a lot for someone with only a handful of other views and on a fairly common subject who hasn't intentionally spread it around. If you look at the bottom it says that you got a bunch of links from some gaming forum.

11/24/2011 9:29:17 PM

Do you see more Daedra after a certain point in the main quest line? I haven't seen any daedra in dungeons really, and i've finished all the other quest lines (i think) except for companions.

Really asking about a source of the hearts, I only get 4 every few game days from Mehrunes Dagon's shrine.

11/24/2011 9:45:31 PM

^ you can pick up 2 hearts from the dreamer questline in dawnstar, and the alchemy vendor in windhelm has 1 in stock every few days.

11/24/2011 9:49:03 PM

It sounds like they straight ported some of the sounds from Fallout 3 that you hear in VATS. Like getting a slow-motion scripted kill in Skyrim sounds a lot like firing a bullet in VATS.

Dropping a bear in one of those scripted animation kills has a lot more clanging than I'd expect.

[Edited on November 24, 2011 at 9:51 PM. Reason : -]

11/24/2011 9:49:39 PM

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"Really asking about a source of the hearts, I only get 4 every few game days from Mehrunes Dagon's shrine."

How many do you need

11/24/2011 10:39:54 PM

What's up with the zoom on the map. Am I doing it wrong, or is the zoom feature a joke? I'd like to see it zoom out far enough to get the entire map on one screen and maybe zoom in enough to start to see some of the major land features more clearly.

All I see is a very slight difference between zooming in and zooming out and the local map. I guess I'd be satisfied with an entire map on one screen zoom, displaying only the major locations if need be. I get tired of panning the map all over the place to get my bearings.

Edit: Apparently there's a "google maps" mod that does exactly that. I'll have to check it out.

[Edited on November 24, 2011 at 11:03 PM. Reason : -]

11/24/2011 11:00:52 PM

Okay, so recently, every time I encounter a dragon (non-named), I have to kill two in a row. Two would spawn about 50 yards from each other.

11/25/2011 12:01:13 AM

When I started the College of Winterhold quests, an elder dragon dropped into the main courtyard when every college mage was outside. That thing lasted about 10 seconds, lol.

11/25/2011 7:24:08 AM

Hell I'm having problems getting the dragons to stay and fight . I have had dragons fly off a few times. Last night I was at that fort for the final part of the Hangover quest and a frost dragon started attacking it. I started fighting it, didn't realize the people there were bad guys and had to fight them too. Eventually, the dragon would come by and do its frost breath, then fly off to attack someone in the field, and just flew away. Bastard never landed

11/25/2011 7:37:52 AM

I was fighting a dragon at one of those dragon places at the top of a mountain for a bounty and when it divebombs into the ground, it glitched out and didn't actually come to rest at the end of animation but reverted to the beginning. When I killed him he went limp and fell down the mountain.. Rolled all the way down. Took me 10 or so minutes to get down there and find him.

I accidentally shot one of the greybeards with an arrow when a dragon was attacking high hrothgar. They killed me in no more than 1.4 seconds.

11/25/2011 8:16:37 AM

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"Last night I was at that fort for the final part of the Hangover quest and a frost dragon started attacking it."

Yeah...that was a crazy quest, and that's one of the instances I was talking about.

11/25/2011 8:37:14 AM

How does Mage Armor work? Does boots and bracers count as "armor" as far as rather or not one gets the 2x bonus to alteration armor spells?

Also, I was going after some Mythic Dawn Artifact west of the Dwemer city and during a fight my xbox started lagging. This has to be a first where the xbox 360 could not keep up with the game.

11/25/2011 10:03:14 AM

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"Really asking about a source of the hearts, I only get 4 every few game days from Mehrunes Dagon's shrine."

Where is this?

11/25/2011 10:56:28 AM

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"Double post. Anyone know about Black Friday deals on Skyrim?"

Amazon has it today for $52.99... better than nothing, I suppose.

11/25/2011 2:36:00 PM

Actually, Eorlund has a set if Skyforge Dragon Armor (Light or Heavy) for only 1500 septim.

11/25/2011 2:42:54 PM

Finally full Legendary Daedric. My follower got my dragonbone set



[Edited on November 25, 2011 at 5:31 PM. Reason : *]

11/25/2011 5:25:29 PM

^^^^Lokken, you have to do the Mythic Dawn (museum) quest in Dawnstar, which I think opens up after you do a couple other daedric quests.You'll get a letter inviting you to the museum.

Blackreach is fucking huge and awesome, although it seemed there were too few falmer.

11/25/2011 6:36:31 PM

^yeah i have the museum invite, have for quite a while. I should go do that.

I have only been to Markarth, Whiterun, and Windhelm and im 44 now.

I just went and let 2 giants beat on me to level my blocking. It went astonishingly fast. Even killed an elder dragon that swooped in and took out my giants

11/25/2011 7:03:17 PM

Im trying to do some of those quests in my log that are absurdly far away (rescue a guy from prison in the far, far north west corner) and...its almost pointless to try . Inevitably i'll find a fort, bandit encampment, or very tempting cave and Lydia will aggro on something, so naturally I have to go fight by her side, and oh he'll may as well peek my head inside and see what's in here...lol.

Also, I bought another horse just for this journey, and the fucker got killed by bandit archers or something while I was in their hold when I wasnt more than 10 minutes down the road from my fast travel point

I find lately that I am just getting flat out raped at level 30 by high class bandits and mages. Marauders, Plunderers, Chiefs, and really any sort of Novice or higher mage will just wipe the floor with me in one or two direct hits. I almost wonder if its because I've been leveling up quickly due to smithing, enchanting, and alchemy mostly. The blocking perks have helped (being time stop), but it can get hairy quickly.

[Edited on November 25, 2011 at 8:24 PM. Reason : ffghj]

11/25/2011 8:18:22 PM

Heh. Just found out you can basically train with the three Companion followers for free after you become their leader. Just pay them for training and then tell them to follow you, and then take back your money. I just leveled up 10 levels in Heavy Armor and then took my ~46K Gold right back.

11/25/2011 8:24:13 PM

I don't see what everyone's issue with Lydia is, she seems to kill people as my follower.

11/25/2011 9:19:21 PM

I am a huge fan of her, I just wish that she wouldnt pursue any and all enemies who show up on the radar. Hell sometimes I've had to carefully route around giant camps because she decided to wanted to fight them

11/25/2011 9:32:12 PM