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On November 15 2011 00:19 Raisauce wrote:Show nested quote +On November 14 2011 23:52 sc4k wrote:On November 14 2011 23:03 Raisauce wrote:
For those who also rolled as pure mages, what do you feel the core perks are? Also do you guys find Intense Flames, Disintegrate, and Deep Freeze worth it? I don't see how they can be crucial.
Um core perks are you get to be an indestructible badass  and using two spells at once is often quite useful. If you have restoration and alteration then you can hit your armour to around 380 if you are using ward + protective spell, then you are basically indestructible and you can spam whatever destruction spell you want. If you do you the college of magic mission string you end up with + Show Spoiler + and you can just take the piss with how many spells you can cast before you run out of mana. Also you can summon some horrifically high damage creatures to get in the way of the enemy, and stay alive. You can also resurrect giants and things like that :D Oh sorry I think you misinterpreted my question. I meant perks as in the ones you choose each time you level up. I know being a mage is badass . For the college mission + Show Spoiler +What gives you 200% mana regen? Is it the archmage robes?
I spent a point in Intense Flames, and it sucks. Running away with ~10-20% left, hiding my loot in corners.. sure there will be the point where u throw fireballs in big groups and ur happy to see some of the creatures running away, but this didnt happen to me right now ( lvl 27 atm ), its just annoying. Deep Freeze might be worth it, but i dont know, lydia does a good job hitting everything i intend to freeze 
+ Show Spoiler +The robe gives u 100% and other nice stats, and u get a mask for 100% regenaration during the quest line.
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i'm stuck between quests for the thieves guild
+ Show Spoiler +so i finished the beehive burning etc, went back and this brynjolf guy tells me something like "go talk to maven black-briar, cya" but then i get no "quest" that tells me to go to her. so i try to get any other quests but i can only get the "heist/burglary/.." quests. am i doing something wrong? only other thiefs quest i have is the no stone unturned one (recover 24 stones of barenziah / become full member of the thieves guild)
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On November 15 2011 00:26 graan wrote:Show nested quote +On November 15 2011 00:19 Raisauce wrote:On November 14 2011 23:52 sc4k wrote:On November 14 2011 23:03 Raisauce wrote:
For those who also rolled as pure mages, what do you feel the core perks are? Also do you guys find Intense Flames, Disintegrate, and Deep Freeze worth it? I don't see how they can be crucial.
Um core perks are you get to be an indestructible badass and using two spells at once is often quite useful. If you have restoration and alteration then you can hit your armour to around 380 if you are using ward + protective spell, then you are basically indestructible and you can spam whatever destruction spell you want. If you do you the college of magic mission string you end up with + Show Spoiler + and you can just take the piss with how many spells you can cast before you run out of mana. Also you can summon some horrifically high damage creatures to get in the way of the enemy, and stay alive. You can also resurrect giants and things like that :D Oh sorry I think you misinterpreted my question. I meant perks as in the ones you choose each time you level up. I know being a mage is badass . For the college mission + Show Spoiler +What gives you 200% mana regen? Is it the archmage robes? I spent a point in Intense Flames, and it sucks. Running away with ~10-20% left, hiding my loot in corners.. sure there will be the point where u throw fireballs in big groups and ur happy to see some of the creatures running away, but this didnt happen to me right now ( lvl 27 atm ), its just annoying. Deep Freeze might be worth it, but i dont know, lydia does a good job hitting everything i intend to freeze + Show Spoiler +The robe gives u 100% and other nice stats, and u get a mask for 100% regenaration during the quest line.
I was thinking the only one worth it would be for lightning. Disintegrating someone when they get low health seems nice.
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On November 15 2011 00:09 MasterKush wrote:Looks like my previous question was lost in the sea of posts  Q. Why can I not pay off my bounty in Markarth? It's only at 1050 and the guards just instantly attack me. The times when they didn't attack, they gave me 3 options...1) "I was framed, I didn't do it" - There is no bribe/persuade/intimidate next to this answer and it never worked when I tried it. 2) "Ok, send me to jail" - The guards say "You're going to Cidna Mine, you'll never see the light of day again" and then the chat resets and nothing happens...(still have my bounty etc.) ??? 3) "I would rather die than go to jail" - Fight the guards. Impractical. This is really annoying as I need to get into the city to hand-in/obtain side quests (and I can't do any quests related to the Jarl because he see's me as an "enemy" -__-). Please Help! Thanks
Selecting send me to jail should work, all that happens is you go and you can lockpick your way out and attempt to sneak past the guards but it seems like it is easier to just do the time. After you wake up you should return to infront of the castle, re enter it and go bacl down into the castle dungeons and retrieve any stolen items since they give you every item back except for those. Also your bounty should be cleared and since it was a 1000 bounty you may have lost a skill or 2 but I am not sure. I have served many 40 bounties and they didn't say ii lost a skill and I may have served a 1040 bounty and I don't recall seeing anything saying I lost skills eiither
0.0 GL
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Does anyone know if there is an opportunity to respec your perks/talents so to speak? Mainly because I'm disappointed with with my destruction fire spec. Thanks!
- Archmage Trojak, Dual-castin' mage o' destruction
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On November 15 2011 00:32 Xinder wrote:Show nested quote +On November 15 2011 00:26 graan wrote:On November 15 2011 00:19 Raisauce wrote:On November 14 2011 23:52 sc4k wrote:On November 14 2011 23:03 Raisauce wrote:
For those who also rolled as pure mages, what do you feel the core perks are? Also do you guys find Intense Flames, Disintegrate, and Deep Freeze worth it? I don't see how they can be crucial.
Um core perks are you get to be an indestructible badass and using two spells at once is often quite useful. If you have restoration and alteration then you can hit your armour to around 380 if you are using ward + protective spell, then you are basically indestructible and you can spam whatever destruction spell you want. If you do you the college of magic mission string you end up with + Show Spoiler + and you can just take the piss with how many spells you can cast before you run out of mana. Also you can summon some horrifically high damage creatures to get in the way of the enemy, and stay alive. You can also resurrect giants and things like that :D Oh sorry I think you misinterpreted my question. I meant perks as in the ones you choose each time you level up. I know being a mage is badass . For the college mission + Show Spoiler +What gives you 200% mana regen? Is it the archmage robes? I spent a point in Intense Flames, and it sucks. Running away with ~10-20% left, hiding my loot in corners.. sure there will be the point where u throw fireballs in big groups and ur happy to see some of the creatures running away, but this didnt happen to me right now ( lvl 27 atm ), its just annoying. Deep Freeze might be worth it, but i dont know, lydia does a good job hitting everything i intend to freeze + Show Spoiler +The robe gives u 100% and other nice stats, and u get a mask for 100% regenaration during the quest line. I was thinking the only one worth it would be for lightning. Disintegrating someone when they get low health seems nice.
The problem with Disintegrate is that they turn into ashes once they die so you can't raise zombies.
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On November 15 2011 00:25 Turbogangsta wrote:
if your leveling alteration magik its insanely fast to level with telekineses spell. after i bought the spell i went up 20 skills in what seemed like maybe half an hour. grabbing item from what i can tell is unlimited range and throwing them onto roofs and in childrens faces is my favorit thing to do right now.
Where do you find the telekinesis spell?
@Raisauce I'm not big into raising zombies so it wouldn't be the end of the world for me.
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You know this game is amazing when you have an exam in 2 hours and all you can think about is failing it so you can get home faster and play more.
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On November 15 2011 00:58 ZoW wrote:
You know this game is amazing when you have an exam in 2 hours and all you can think about is failing it so you can get home faster and play more.
we might make the news if we all keep it up!
move over WoW!
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On November 15 2011 00:19 Raisauce wrote:Show nested quote +On November 14 2011 23:52 sc4k wrote:On November 14 2011 23:03 Raisauce wrote:
For those who also rolled as pure mages, what do you feel the core perks are? Also do you guys find Intense Flames, Disintegrate, and Deep Freeze worth it? I don't see how they can be crucial.
Um core perks are you get to be an indestructible badass and using two spells at once is often quite useful. If you have restoration and alteration then you can hit your armour to around 380 if you are using ward + protective spell, then you are basically indestructible and you can spam whatever destruction spell you want. If you do you the college of magic mission string you end up with + Show Spoiler + and you can just take the piss with how many spells you can cast before you run out of mana. Also you can summon some horrifically high damage creatures to get in the way of the enemy, and stay alive. You can also resurrect giants and things like that :D Oh sorry I think you misinterpreted my question. I meant perks as in the ones you choose each time you level up. I know being a mage is badass . For the college mission + Show Spoiler +What gives you 200% mana regen? Is it the archmage robes?
When you complete the final college mission you get + Show Spoiler +archmage for 100% and the mask of the lich that you have to fight near the end of the mission- it gives 100%
Ah, sorry about misunderstanding you , my char is a battlemage so I can't really answer you with certainty. I get the feeling that you can quite happily survive with a bunch of different routes. I'm really interested to see if basically you can get by with invisibility + casting loads of mental domination type spells ie fear and frenzy and calm. It would be hilarious to just be an invisible crazy-maker who runs around villages turning them all into rabid 28 days later style zombies .
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30 hours in 2 days. That's how hooked i am right now.
The game has its weak points, but overall i'm pretty pleased!
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On November 15 2011 00:26 graan wrote:lydia does a good job hitting everything i intend to freeze
Won't lydia get hit by your own spells?
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On November 15 2011 00:43 FreezingAssassin wrote:Show nested quote +On November 15 2011 00:09 MasterKush wrote:Looks like my previous question was lost in the sea of posts Q. Why can I not pay off my bounty in Markarth? It's only at 1050 and the guards just instantly attack me. The times when they didn't attack, they gave me 3 options...1) "I was framed, I didn't do it" - There is no bribe/persuade/intimidate next to this answer and it never worked when I tried it. 2) "Ok, send me to jail" - The guards say "You're going to Cidna Mine, you'll never see the light of day again" and then the chat resets and nothing happens...(still have my bounty etc.) ??? 3) "I would rather die than go to jail" - Fight the guards. Impractical. This is really annoying as I need to get into the city to hand-in/obtain side quests (and I can't do any quests related to the Jarl because he see's me as an "enemy" -__-). Please Help! Thanks Selecting send me to jail should work, all that happens is you go and you can lockpick your way out and attempt to sneak past the guards but it seems like it is easier to just do the time. After you wake up you should return to infront of the castle, re enter it and go bacl down into the castle dungeons and retrieve any stolen items since they give you every item back except for those. Also your bounty should be cleared and since it was a 1000 bounty you may have lost a skill or 2 but I am not sure. I have served many 40 bounties and they didn't say ii lost a skill and I may have served a 1040 bounty and I don't recall seeing anything saying I lost skills eiither 0.0 GL
Thanks for trying to help, I've been to jail a few times before too and I know roughly how it works, though I always just pay off the bounty as it's quicker. This though, is bugged, i'm 99% sure of it. Since writing the post i've gone back and tried once again to hand myself in, but the guards just don't do anything. The chat resets and my only option is to kill them, thus raising the bounty even more. I think it's something to do with the storyline that happens in Markarth involving the prison etc, don't want to spoil it incase you're not there yet.
Guess I will just have to avoid going to Markarth now.
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If you want to level illusion to 100 in like 30 minutes + Show Spoiler +just grab some regen items and spam the muffle spell. Its less than 10 casts per level and doesn't have an extreme mana cost like alot of other buff spells and actually skills you up
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On November 15 2011 00:43 enzymezero wrote:
Does anyone know if there is an opportunity to respec your perks/talents so to speak? Mainly because I'm disappointed with with my destruction fire spec. Thanks!
- Archmage Trojak, Dual-castin' mage o' destruction
Dito.. 1h shield isn't my thing
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The greatest first world problem in my life to date: how to fit in a stupid amount of Skyrim today and watch all of last nights shows (boardwalk, dexter, homeland, hell on wheels, walking dead)
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On November 15 2011 01:12 Coal wrote:Show nested quote +On November 15 2011 00:43 enzymezero wrote:
Does anyone know if there is an opportunity to respec your perks/talents so to speak? Mainly because I'm disappointed with with my destruction fire spec. Thanks!
- Archmage Trojak, Dual-castin' mage o' destruction Dito.. 1h shield isn't my thing
You can shuffle perk points using console commands, but I don't think there is anything like a full perk reset..
That's just what I discovered via google / reddit.
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On November 14 2011 21:54 KinQuh wrote:Show nested quote +On November 14 2011 21:52 gullberg wrote:On November 14 2011 21:45 KinQuh wrote:
The Thieves Guild questline is simply put amazing, great story,amazing missions and everyone should play it. hard as hell to finish if you don't have thief char though, alot of the time I skipped the whole sneak part and just started fighting. The estate infiltration mission was surprisingly easy even though i dont play a thief char.
Isnt when a dragon decides to get in on the action in the middle of a bloody honey farm :D
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On November 14 2011 09:02 PHILtheTANK wrote:Just had the worst random dragon encounter. I was in the middle of one of the early thieves guild quests where + Show Spoiler +you have to burn down 3 of those guys beehives.... a dragon appears while im burning the hives, flies down and incinerates them all had to reload. Im like 20 hours in right now, still just playing the way it feels natural for me(focusing on Sneak/archery then 1h/block/light armor) and really loving it. I also like alchemy alot.... especially cuz i get to catch butterflies! Is there a better way to find potion recipes and stuff other than just eating the ingredients(without looking them up online)? I also still have like half my talent points saved up because I don't wanna put them in the wrong thing
I started Dark Brotherhood, got out of the house where you first meet a DB lady and the dragon was on top of the house and firebreath'd me to death
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Here's my review, the game is the first game since oblivion to completely blow me away in terms of how good it is. The world that they have created feels quite realistic and is really beautiful to look at, even though things looks a bit pixelated up close. The graphics overall are really good though. Still it is not as much the graphics that makes the world stand out but the detail they've put in and the variations from region to region.
The gameplay has vastly improved since oblivion. Even if fights to get a bit repetitive in the long run it's still a vast improved to that of oblivion. Magic is probably the feature that has changed the most and is actually a lot more viable this time around. Walking around in cities and interacting with npcs has also improved a bunch, even though the npcs are a bit nonsensical at times they are a lot more dynamic and feel well alive at times.
As for story I am going to go over it from a spoiler free perspective and then touch on some spoiler filled topics in a hidden field.
The story of Skyrim can't really be thrown in to one category, but rather a bunch in which would be the different guilds, main quests and side quests. However all of these are inferior to Oblivion in my opinion. All of the quests and storylines you get are so short and non imaginative. For instance joining guilds just requires one initiation quest to be done before they let you in, I am not saying that it's bad to be let in that fast it's just a bit weird. Also all of the guild quests and even the main quests are so short, they pretty much consist of around ten quests each with the main story being a bit longer. All of the guilds and main quest have their moments, some are really quite epic. But since it's so short it just feels so unsatisfying to complete the quest lines. Take thieves guild in Oblivion for instance, in that game you had to do a really long quest chain and progress through the guild and at the end all of the missions were just leading up to the big finally where you actually steal an elder scroll and become the grey fox. It was one of the best quest lines ever, sure it had it's downsides too. But none of the quests in Skyrim really felt all that epic, the main story even had me asking myself if it was all done because the aftermath of the ending seemed non existent, no one really acknowledged it.
+ Show Spoiler +Now for the specific points that I found disturbing. Main quest: After you have slain Alduin, nothing really changes you just go back and they say that prathanax is the new leader pretty much, you have the option of slaying him later as well but that changes nothing either. It just made me feel like it was all just a big joke. Stormcloaks: Doing their quests was really boring I was already lvl 24 at the time so I managed to clear out the keeps in a few minutes making me do the quest line in about an hour. Taking Solitude was epic and all that but apart from that the quests just felt really boring. Dark Brotherhood: Really short, and with a twist that was so easy to predict cicero going completely mad. I didn't like having the night mother get introduced so early seeing that she actually existed was one of the highlights of the dark brotherhood questline in Oblivion. Thieves Guild: Probably my favorite out of the bunch it was actually really good, apart from the fact that it felt more like the dark brotherhood, since there weren't that many heists or anything like that. Companions: It could have been kinda cool with the werewolves and all that but it just ended up being boring and people mourning a person you had spoken to once or twice. Mage guild: Haven't done it hoping for an epic questline
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