knock 'em down [with a gentle nudge in morokei's case]

12/2/2011 2:31:56 PM

the more i play the more bugs i run into. so many quests are bugged for me.

12/2/2011 6:39:06 PM

Ok, so a serious mod/enhancement suggestion this time...

So they have the favorites menu. In addition to what is already there I'd like to have a custom list favorites, so if I select "Archer" it would set me up with the bow and swap out pieces of armor to the ones with +damage with bow enhanced items, I select "Sneak" and it sets me up with a dagger, light armor and/or any amulet that helps me sneak, etc. etc.

That way I could make one selection from the menu instead of making 4 every time I want to swap out a set of things to do a particular task. And just to be clear you would give the set a name and select which pieces belonged to the set.

[Edited on December 2, 2011 at 7:29 PM. Reason : -]

12/2/2011 7:08:57 PM

I just beat the main questline. I didn't take a single point of damage during the final battle. I was a bit disappointed with that, but getting there wasn't a cakewalk, so I suppose that was the challenge. Ended up having to leave behind probably ~50k worth of Ebony armor and weapons coming up to the final battle because I couldn't carry all my stuff and had 18 dragon bones and 16 scales and didn't want to leave any of those behind.

Ended up as a level 50 Pure Tank. 100 levels on Smithing, Heavy Armor, Two Handed Weapons, Speechcraft, and Block, 96 on Lockpicking, and 75 on Archery. Most everything else is still around the starting level.

Things I never did in this game:
Use Magic
Drink a Potion
Pickpocket anyone
Steal anything (except for the items required to join the Thieves Guild)
Enchant anything
Fire an arrow (leveled up to 75 with trainers only)
Create a potion
Eat an ingredient or food of any kind
Block with a shield
Block with my sword except for when I leveled up to 100 by going out and standing in front of a giant for half an hour
Swung a one handed weapon

If it's not obvious, I prefer to play the extreme side of one aspect of the game. I will probably wait a few months and start all over again as a Pure mage and never swing a sword/wear armor/etc.

Now on to all the side missions I missed.

12/2/2011 7:37:25 PM

So here's the deal....magic is for suckers.

I have a magic spec and played a good portion of the game trying to be some sort of badass wizard dude. I was constantly getting my ass kicked and realized I could do 5x more damage with a bow than any destruction spell in the game.

So, yeah, don't waste your time with magic. It doesn't scale well at all.

On an unrelated note, Lydia finally kicked the bucket and I don't give enough of a shit to go back to an earlier save and get her back. Any recommendations for another follower? I'm about to finish the main quest so I can quit playing this game and resume living my life.

12/3/2011 12:30:43 AM

Really? That sucks. I just know that I want to do my 2nd playthrough as completely non-physical as possible. Figure I'll try the other extreme.

12/3/2011 1:27:11 AM

ive read destruction doesnt scale well but other stuff like conjuration is the tits

12/3/2011 1:34:33 AM

I cannot find the Notched Pickaxe. Google results all say "go to the top of the TotW."

I cannot find the pathway to do that. Anyone else?

12/3/2011 1:45:11 AM

Yeah, I just started my second character. I'm rocking destruction magic right now and leveling conjuration so I can summon multiple daedra later on.

And I just found an awesome alteration spell that turns iron ore to silver ore, and silver ore to gold ore. I definitely could have used that on my main character. I think he's carrying around 30lbs of gems.

12/3/2011 9:10:03 AM

The one thing this game doesn't have (compared to Oblivion) is NUMBER of spells you can cast.

For instance:

Touch: Flames/Frostbite/Sparks
Target: Firebolt/Ice Spike/Lightning Bolt
Trap: Fire Rune/Frost Rune/Lightning Rune

Or am I just not high enough level to see/buy the other higher level spells?

12/3/2011 9:38:58 AM

^^I have that spell as well, its pretty awesome. I use it to level Blacksmithing, since jewel crafting gives fairly good skill ups as well. My problem though is that you run out of vendors who will buy jewelry at a good price...all I know of is the mage in Dragonsreach. I guess I could travel with a few pounds of jewelry ready to sell

12/3/2011 10:53:31 AM

Quote :

"I cannot find the Notched Pickaxe. Google results all say "go to the top of the TotW." I cannot find the pathway to do that. Anyone else?"

There is no path. You just have to do it. Just point yourself towards the top, strafe left and right a lot and keep hammering the jump button.

12/3/2011 11:20:06 AM

Does not work. Do you have to start from the courtyard? Or do you have to have crossed the gap which I haven't done yet.

12/3/2011 11:31:19 AM

Have you located Throat of the World on your map yet? You have to pass that section that requires the storm clearing shout to at least get that far.

There's a section that icy wind prevents you from traversing from that courtyard. You have to clear that entire section first, get to TotW, then make your own path to get to the very peak.

[Edited on December 3, 2011 at 11:37 AM. Reason : -]

12/3/2011 11:35:42 AM

Something is wrong.

Since yesterday, when I installed 4.00 on my PS3, my game will let me play for about 2 minutes. Whenever I would change locations, it would freeze in the loading screen.

12/3/2011 11:37:46 AM

Quote :

"Or am I just not high enough level to see/buy the other higher level spells?"

yep

12/3/2011 12:49:29 PM

Another life, then.

12/3/2011 1:34:33 PM

Yeah, once you reach a certain level in restoration, destruction, etc., the spells become available from vendors.

12/3/2011 1:43:04 PM

[Edited on December 3, 2011 at 3:05 PM. Reason : smaller]

12/3/2011 3:04:26 PM

that is magnificent

12/3/2011 4:51:39 PM

my buddy singed the edges of his skyrim map to add more aesthetic appeal...lmao

12/3/2011 9:01:18 PM

maybe he can frame it, put a doubloon behind it, and hide it in his attic for his kid to find and give it to his overweight pal to hold and break

12/3/2011 9:13:26 PM

Found my first sleeping Blood Dragon.

Two backstab swipes with my Blade of Woe and he's done. Were I wearing the DB gloves, would have been one and done.

12/4/2011 11:33:43 AM

Quote :

"So here's the deal....magic is for suckers. I have a magic spec and played a good portion of the game trying to be some sort of badass wizard dude. I was constantly getting my ass kicked and realized I could do 5x more damage with a bow than any destruction spell in the game. So, yeah, don't waste your time with magic. It doesn't scale well at all."

Yeah this is very true, but if you're playing PC you can get mods that make destruction more usable at high level.

These are all mods focused on improving magic, specifically focused on destruction.

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=611
http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=382
http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=870

12/4/2011 11:42:05 AM

Okay...this is getting me mad.

Going into Azura's Star, I have to kill a guy that is being defended by three Dremora, all of them toss fire at me. After going in the first time and getting hammered, I put on a necklace with 40% fire resistance, a ring with 15% fire resistance, and Otar with 30% fire resistance. Then, I drink a potion worth 30% fire resistance for 60 seconds.

Math = 115% fire resistance

I go in, kill the guy, and keep getting hammered by the Dremora with their fire. I'm in there less than 60 seconds, but their fire keeps burning me.

WTF?

12/4/2011 12:14:19 PM

isn't there some bug where the resistances don't work right? (post-patch)

haven't really noticed it, but yea that quest was tough.

12/4/2011 12:24:27 PM

Azure's star is a PITA. All three Dremora aren't suppose to attack you at the same time, and the final guy you are suppose to fight in the large room at the bottom of the "stairs" However, the script bugs out and you usually have to fight him and/or all three Dremora at the same time, and as you have seen, they hit very hard.

12/4/2011 12:28:34 PM

You can get around the dialogue at the beginning (just keep hitting exit), and he'll still be right in front of you when you attack him. If you are quick enough, you can kill him with a few blows.

But the Dremora are still there.

I've tried going up close, but the bug you mentioned makes the other two attack me.

I've tried a staff and that doesn't work.

I may just give up trying to kill them to get their hearts and just wait it out until I'm back outside.

12/4/2011 12:32:05 PM

Do two-handed buffs work for dual-wielding or is just for greatswords and such?

12/4/2011 1:02:30 PM

for some reason Azura's star wasn't too rough for me

but Otar was a complete dick, holy fuck.

[Edited on December 4, 2011 at 1:39 PM. Reason : black star FTMFW]

12/4/2011 1:39:41 PM

^^ One handed buffs increase dual wielding

12/4/2011 2:07:40 PM

Okay...Azura's Star.

Sanguine Rose in Left Hand, Staff of Ice Storms in Right Hand.

Cake.

12/4/2011 2:57:20 PM

anyone tried those destruction mods and find them to be really overpowered, or do they actually correctly balance destruction?

12/4/2011 3:17:00 PM

I've used 2 of them. One of them was overpowered, another one was really balanced.

Can't remember which I'm using now.

But really you should only install it at late game because destruction is already really powerful at low levels, and any mod making destruction more powerful will make lower levels a breeze.

12/4/2011 3:32:37 PM

Getting tired of the Daedric Princes wanting me to kill innocent ppl.

12/4/2011 4:05:45 PM

So the first character was a one handed shield user. I split the level up bonuses such that I had close to 100 magic, 400 health, and 300 stamina by the time I did the last quest.

Now I want to do a sneak archer/conjurer, maybe some destruction mixed in but I hear that's worthless late game. How should I split up the level bonuses. I can already tell that I'll probably need robes so no armor. I guess that equals health, but I do want to sneak so I hopefully won't be getting hit very much. I know I'll have to go heavy magic, so maybe 400 magic, 300 health, 100 stamina? Just looking for some recommendations.

I know some of those apprentice spells required more magic to cast than my other character even had, so maybe 400 isn't enough?

12/4/2011 5:36:47 PM

More magicka

[Edited on December 4, 2011 at 6:48 PM. Reason : You will be able to get +magicka items but I'd say 250 health at most.]

12/4/2011 6:47:33 PM

i went full plate with 2hand weapons. although i did have fun dual wielding dragonbane in one hand and dawnbreaker in the other. dawnbreaker is a beast of a sword.

finished the main questline and now im done until january when they implement some quest fixes that have my game all fucked up.

12/4/2011 7:40:21 PM

Thanks for the clarification. I ended up finding some necklace of extreme one-handed or w/e that gives +35% damage to one handed weapons, so now dual wielding does a ton of damage.

I gotta say, its getting annoying that a lot of the loot now is glass and ebony - level 35. Everything is worth taking but it all weighs so much. I'm also noticing that Lydia is starting to get beat down a lot faster now in battle...might need to switch her out for a new follower who will be closer to my level

This link has some funny shit, credit to evan's friend
http://memegenerator.net/Skyrim-Stan/images/popular/week

12/4/2011 7:40:29 PM

^AndyMac posted this earlier:

Quote :

"If you're finding companions aren't as useful as they once were and are dying easily, and you're on PC, there's an easy way to have them level up to your current level. First, tell them it's time to part ways. Then open the console with the ~ key. Click on your companion, type disable, then type enable and close the console. Then you can ask them to follow you again and they will be the same level as you."

12/4/2011 8:08:26 PM

Great mod, or greatest mod?

http://youtu.be/uSHvPJD_558

12/4/2011 9:26:00 PM

12/4/2011 10:26:44 PM

^^i posted that mod two pages ago

12/4/2011 11:54:28 PM

^^lmao

12/5/2011 12:48:01 AM

Had to pay off the guards for killing a chicken. I am disappoint that 6000 chickens of death did not descend from the heavens and annihilate me

12/5/2011 1:48:58 AM

Quote :

"You will be able to get +magicka items but I'd say 250 health at most."

I read up a bit and I'm thinking that I'll need to put a few into stamina for the bow zoom/time slow. I guess the idea is to sneak kill with a bow and rely on conjuration and destruction as a backup when that fails.

Anyone see this:
One of my skills displayed in red and was 15 points lower than what it was supposed to be. I immediately thought that I had some sort of disease or debuff, so I went to the magic menu to see all the current things that were affecting me. Nothing. No disease, no spell, etc. No armor or items equipped that said anything about -15 to archery.

It eventually righted itself once I leveled the skill, so no worries. The only concerning thing is that this might happen to a 100 skill which can't be leveled to fix the glitch. When searching this one out it appears to only happen to archery and the only (non console) way of fixing it is to level the skill.

[Edited on December 5, 2011 at 7:37 AM. Reason : -]

12/5/2011 7:20:37 AM

12/5/2011 8:40:11 AM

impressive

12/5/2011 8:49:05 AM

Is Otar supposed to be hard? I went nuts on him with dual wielding while he was resurrecting, popped a stam potion, fusrodahed him into the wall, then finished him off before he ever got an attack off. #humblebrag

Are you able to wear robes and armor? I seem to remember you could in Morrowind with the Archmage's Robes, but I haven't tried to do it in Skyrim yet

[Edited on December 5, 2011 at 9:10 AM. Reason : lkj]

12/5/2011 8:58:12 AM

alduin bugged out on me at the throat of the world...he was "landed" in the middle of the sky and i just kept hitting him until he was "dead"...but even then he just stayed there and continued to rain down hellfire

i had to run down the path far enough that i could fast-travel, then fast-traveled to high hrothgar and fast-traveled back to the throat (at which point he was on the ground again)

he then became preoccupied with paarthanax (or whatever his name is) after i dragonrended him to the ground and it took only a little time to fireball him into running away

12/5/2011 9:17:09 AM