Skyrim, or, How I Ruined My LifeFollow

Ugh, haven't had time to play this recently. Been too focused on KOR before my beta time runs out.

Archery skillups are also horribly slow, it feels like.

For one thing, if using them with stealth, 1-2 arrows kills a target. But even when I fight with arrows exclusively, it just always seems to take forever. Way longer than one-handed, from what I can tell.

I put 45% increased one handed damage on four pieces of armor and put few perks into one handed. I took out an Ancient dragon with three hits and upped the difficulty. Enchanting really can make the game way too easy on normal.

Well I went ahead and did it. I went back to my Nord and completed the main quest. It was a pretty cool story. Although I upped my smithing to get dragon armor(legendary) I did not over enchant my stuff. I was still pretty strong against the stuff on the way to the final fight but I did almost get smoked by the power of a certain dragon's breath becuase IT BURNS pretty strong.

And now for some thoughts on my Skyrim experience: !!Super Cereal Spoiler Warning Here!! I am going to talk about several plot elements and my choices.

On the ending I received:

SpoilerOne part that is cool about a never ending sandbox is it never ends. But there is a downside to that. After the dragons on The Throat of the World were done talking to me when I got back from Sovergaurde I got kind of a mild letdown. In Fallout New Vegas or Dragon Age Origons it sucks becuase BAM the game is over if you complete the mainquest. But on the other hand you get a cool tailor made epilogue about how your choices affected the world. I don't know what the happy medium is between that.

On my Nord I did the things that felt right for a brutish but noble Nord warrior. I drove the Empire from Skyrim. I did not kill Parthanax. I refused to join the Thieves guild or learn to much magic from the College. I wandred around and helped people whenever I could. It was a fun experience. It felt right to complete the main story as a Nord.

On mini-plot climaxes and stabbing:

SpoilerI feel like the story line for Thief/Assassins was the most compelling story arc, even more so than the main quest in some ways. On my Dark Elf I started with the thieves guild and completed that first. Then I joined the Dark Brotherhood. Initially I had planned to take them out in the name of the thieves. But as such things happen I found myself liking them. In the end I went through the entire plot and took out the Emperor. The twists and turns for that were really epic. I made one more contract with the emperor before killing him. Then went back and killed the guy who had started it all. After taking his 20k of course.

The whole thing felt really satisfying.


I do plan to play some more after a break. Maybe try and come up with some wacky concept builds or take my mage into really high destruction spells I did not get to play with yet just completing the mages college. But the last weeks have certainly been a huge Skyrim glut for me. Oh Hi friends I have not called in days, and all of that.

Ha ha no shield glitch I didn't want a house in Falsworn country anyway.

player.moveto a2c94 is one I have to keep written down. It makes you warp to where Lydia is. 2 times now I've told her we need to go our separate ways and she says she will head home but never does. She ends up standing where ever I told her to go home. She also doesn't get tired like she does when she is told to wait. She will just stay there forever it looks like. First time I really thought she was dead because I waited and logged out and everything but she never showed back up. I've gotten into the habit of writing down the little code thing for other followers as well in case they vanish on me.
And if you are really lazy, you can always write the code of NPCs you frequent and just warp right to them. May be bad if it's someone who is now in their house and they think you've broken in.

On another note.. Not sure how many people got pickpocketing to 100 and got the perk but it's kind of funny. You can steal the clothes right off their backs (and butts lol) and they are just left in their undies. Most never get dressed again. Entire towns are undies only except there are certain NPCs that you can't do that. There are some NPCs (adults) that aren't wearing any stealable clothes as far as the game seems to be concerned. Not sure why. There's a girl in whiterun who wants an elephant tusk. You can't steal her clothes and AFAIK she is an "adult" NPC because you can steal stuff from her but not clothes.

Edited, Nov 29th 2011 11:14am by MrTalos

I'm guessing it was the Halted Steam Camp dungeon right outside Whiterun. And I'm guessing you got TWO quests to clear it--one from an innkeeper and one from the guy who wanted his sword back. And, if I remember correctly, you are led to all those npcs at around the same time as Ysolda or whatever her name is.

:P

[EDIT]

Also, that cave has a spell book for transmute--definitely worth checking it out for anyone. On top of the mammoth tusks (which you only need one of and can sell the rest), there are some mineral veins, usually an enchanted item or two, some chests, some ingots. And the spell turns one [ingot or ore--can't remember which] to the next quality metal. Extremely useful.

Edited, Nov 29th 2011 11:51am by idiggory

Ok I just got my idea for my new wacky concept build guy: Khajit with no weapons! I'm going to use bound bow for ranged. Which gives skills in conjuration and archery when used and can be perked to soul trap and dispel daedra. Then I'm going to get the pugilist gloves from the brawler in the ratway and break them down for the fortify unarmed damage enchant.

*Edit: I wonder how much just having heavy gloves on will effect sneak if all else is light armor? Fist of steel perk would be cool. Also got my first unarmed fatality animation escaping Helgen. He grabed his throat and sort of facepunch broke his neck. +15 damage fists is pretty strong early on.





Edited, Nov 29th 2011 11:47am by Shojindo

Sounds about right, yeah. It had a lot of mammoth corpses in it.



I ran into Mammoth Chick when I ran from Riverwood to Dragonreach the first time. Was talking to a bunch of people in Whiterun, including the guy who wanted his sword (Amlen? Amren?), but I didn't track his quest (first time playing, was still trying to figure out how it worked) so I didn't notice the waypoint at the dungeon.

As for Mammoth Chick, it went something like:

Her: "Get me a shrubbery tusk!"
Me: "Yes, ma'am! I saw some mammoths outside the city, I'll be right back!"
*death*
*death*
*death*
...
Me: "Got the tusk, ma'am!"
Her: "Kthxbai!"

It's pretty obvious that you should go to that dungeon to get the tusk, but unless you know the dungeon is there, your first thought is likely to go out and kill a wandering mammoth yourself, which results in pain. Lots of pain.

By the way, that Amlen guy with the sword... was I drunk the second time I played through that quest, or does the location of the sword change? I could have sworn I went east of Whiterun to a river and a tower the second time I did that quest.

That's where it was for me also on my 2 characters.

Sounds like a good way to get crushed by every passing mage that comes your way. I suppose with prolific use of the Fus Ro Dah it could work, but not easily.

Is it the quicksave lag?

Really? The Elder Scrolls wiki page on enchanting said only gloves and ring can be enchanted with unarmed. It would be nice if they were wrong!