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On November 18 2011 14:24 Straught wrote:
I took out my second dragon priest today, I stumbled upon him on accident, was doing some stormcloaks quests and fast travelled somewhere. (note: I have been looking for an elven bow for ever)
I get there and two freaking dragons swoop down on me, fortunately I had Lydia with me, so we kill one dragon and I trip with a freaking coffin, I'm standing there thinking "keep casting and kill that damn dragon, what's this coffin doing here in the middle of nowhere anyway?" and then a freaking skeleton rises from the coffin. I had met Morokei before and took me like 2 hours to take him down, so I just think "well this is just great, fighting a dragon and a dragon priest at the same time, fuck me." So I keep running in circles trying to take the dragon down first, while avoiding nuclear blasts from this anorexic skeleton priest, mind you, he has a staff so he doesn't OOM.
I take the dragon down, see a chest which peaks my curiosity and I pick the lock to look inside, amazingly I find a freaking ELVEN BOW! So I said to myself "not gonna loose this, if I reload and avoid the priest I wont get this awesome piece of equipment, and I'm not gonna run, I'm no coward" I send lydia in to tank the fireballs but then my horse (5th one btw) charges this guy, I thought he'd die as soon as the first spell hit him, I had accepted Valandil's horse #5 death already, but he freaking tanks the fireballs and I manage to take out the nuclear strike-shooting skeleton!
I'm so happy now with my new mask, a nuclear staff, three new words of power that shout insults at dragons, two extra souls and a shiny bow. Downside I only had one healing potion left after that.
Well actually, if you have enough pickpocket skill, Jarl Balgruuf's housecarl (forget her name) has an elven bow, Dragonreach is where I got an elven sword and elven bow at like level 5 :p
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uhh... so are you SUPPOSED to be able to train any skill by paying for training, pickpocketing, leveling, and repeating that process? It seems almost broken that you're able to do that. Fuck running around collecting flowers and brewing 100 potions to go up 10 levels, do that shit in like 5 minutes and even get all your money back.
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So has anyone been working on smithing?
I got the lovers stone and have been smithing like CRAZY. I got to 80 skill in smithing in about 2 days worth of playing (like 4-8 hours a day). Lover stone increases ALL skills by 15% and you can find it near Markath (top left corner).
But smithing is insane, I get levels SO quickly. All I need to do is kill some wolves/bears get their pelts, use the workshop to create leather and leather strips, then just use iron ingots to create over 9000 iron daggers, and you level really quickly. I wanted to get smithing for glass armor and later dragon armor but I got the magical armor perk and now my Thief armor is BALLER, it's like 4x better at exquisite (trying to get it higher obv, I'm almost at 90 skill and still can't upgrade further). I also got an elven bow with 2 second paralyze at epic status with like almost 40 damage.
Enchanting is pretty cool too, I want to be able to put 2 enchants per item but that requires 100 skill, and I have a hard enough time leveling that skill as it is.
So yea, smithing is where it's at, oh an alchemy is pretty fun too, you can make more money from potions than ingredients by themselves.
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On the topic of bows I have had my legendary glass bow since like level 25 is there any way to get an upgrade without spending 4 precious perk points to get daedric smithing? Lvl 40 and perk points hard as he'll to come by.
I have gotten 2 quests bows and an ebony bow and they are not better  . Had this for like 35 hours heh. Want new one! ( you should be able to make dragonbone bow tt)
Edit: on topic of crafting. Smithing easy peazy to level and easiest way to cheese levels early on and rush to good gear. Enchanting not too bad to level once you have good access to soulgems by the dozens. Alchemy though. I must suck but this seems WAY harder to level. Like 40 potions to get a level at 30 skill wtf. I have crafted 500+ potions and am 35 skill... I think I am missing something.
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I'd rather have a normal name, personally.
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anyone know how to join the Dark Brotherhood in this game? In the last i think I just killed people then slept and was offered a spot. sorry if this has been covered already..
or is there no dark brotherhood questline in this game? if so, very lame.
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On November 18 2011 15:07 AegiS_ wrote:
anyone know how to join the Dark Brotherhood in this game? In the last i think I just killed people then slept and was offered a spot. sorry if this has been covered already..
or is there no dark brotherhood questline in this game? if so, very lame.
Ask Innkeepers about rumors, and it should spring up eventually.
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You just have to be careful about maxing skills quickly because enemies will be around the difficulty of your level. Smithing is one of the skills that actually gives you items to stabilize yourself (although I've heard people say smithing made the game impossible and that it made the game too easy after powering to 100), but if you powerlevel pickpocket for instance you can really screw yourself up since it'll make the enemies harder, but not give you any tangible advantage in combat.
On November 18 2011 15:07 AegiS_ wrote:
anyone know how to join the Dark Brotherhood in this game? In the last i think I just killed people then slept and was offered a spot. sorry if this has been covered already..
or is there no dark brotherhood questline in this game? if so, very lame.
It's very likely that it is already in your misc quest list. The way you join in this one is very non-obvious. I ended up looking it up because I couldn't figure it out myself, but I had actually found it already at the very start of the game pretty much. I just never bothered to do the quest because it didn't interest me.
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On November 18 2011 15:07 AegiS_ wrote:
anyone know how to join the Dark Brotherhood in this game? In the last i think I just killed people then slept and was offered a spot. sorry if this has been covered already..
or is there no dark brotherhood questline in this game? if so, very lame.
Talk to an innkeeper, learn about the boy in windhelm doing a ritual, talk to said boy.
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I'm level 30 with 77 Pickpocketing, 85 Sneak, 60 Enchanting, 60 Smithing, 55 Archery, and 40 One-handed, with negligible stats in everything else. It sucks when I don't manage to get sneak attacks >.< I'm debating if I should spend 5 points on maxing out Pickpocketing's first perk and getting the Gold perk so I can abuse the crap out of trainers (particularly Alchemy, since I haven't done any at all, and Shadow Warrior + Invisibility Potion sounds like it's the only thing that'll prevent me from dying in bright rooms with more than one enemy).
On a side note, I killed a Giant and found a Glass Dagger, which is definitely an improvement over Elven. I'm waiting until I max out Smithing before using it, though, since it isn't quite better than my currently enchanted daggers >.<
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On November 18 2011 15:14 Zeke50100 wrote:
I'm level 30 with 77 Pickpocketing, 85 Sneak, 60 Enchanting, 60 Smithing, 55 Archery, and 40 One-handed, with negligible stats in everything else. It sucks when I don't manage to get sneak attacks >.< I'm debating if I should spend 5 points on maxing out Pickpocketing's first perk and getting the Gold perk so I can abuse the crap out of trainers (particularly Alchemy, since I haven't done any at all, and Shadow Warrior + Invisibility Potion sounds like it's the only thing that'll prevent me from dying in bright rooms with more than one enemy).
On a side note, I killed a Giant and found a Glass Dagger, which is definitely an improvement over Elven. I'm waiting until I max out Smithing before using it, though, since it isn't quite better than my currently enchanted daggers >.<
You can improve an item multiple times if it'll be upgraded. However, it will cost you another bar each time. There's no reason to not improve it! Go ahead an enchant it as well because you will find a lot more glass daggers. They're pretty common now that you're level 30.
Of course, you should have your eyes out for a Daedric weapon. Ebony might be stronger than glass as well, but I'm not completely certain.
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Ya smithing is the fastest way to level but also the easiest to improve any non magic combat build so I think it's by far a net gain. Makes things way easier.
As to pick pocket just level to 50 to get best perk in game. (+100 carry ftw)
Edit: get dark brotherhood dagger. Amazing. Been using it level 16 to 40. Not found anything remote close (upgraded to legendary). Worth doing chain for dagger and horse and good light armor archery/dagger combat set even if you don't want to be assassin. The glove bonus alone is amazing if you are doing sneak dagger build. (30x backstabs!!!!) the armor is much much better than thief armor for actually fighting.
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Ok reading about these game-breaking bugs has gotten me nervous, can anyone make a list of stuff I should watch out for in a somewhat spoiler free format? Thanks, sided with stormcloaks btw.
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On November 18 2011 15:30 Orpheusz wrote:
Ok reading about these game-breaking bugs has gotten me nervous, can anyone make a list of stuff I should watch out for in a somewhat spoiler free format? Thanks, sided with stormcloaks btw.
Just save often and you'll be fine.
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On November 18 2011 15:24 Blitzkrieg0 wrote:Show nested quote +On November 18 2011 15:14 Zeke50100 wrote:
I'm level 30 with 77 Pickpocketing, 85 Sneak, 60 Enchanting, 60 Smithing, 55 Archery, and 40 One-handed, with negligible stats in everything else. It sucks when I don't manage to get sneak attacks >.< I'm debating if I should spend 5 points on maxing out Pickpocketing's first perk and getting the Gold perk so I can abuse the crap out of trainers (particularly Alchemy, since I haven't done any at all, and Shadow Warrior + Invisibility Potion sounds like it's the only thing that'll prevent me from dying in bright rooms with more than one enemy).
On a side note, I killed a Giant and found a Glass Dagger, which is definitely an improvement over Elven. I'm waiting until I max out Smithing before using it, though, since it isn't quite better than my currently enchanted daggers >.< You can improve an item multiple times if it'll be upgraded. However, it will cost you another bar each time. There's no reason to not improve it! Go ahead an enchant it as well because you will find a lot more glass daggers. They're pretty common now that you're level 30. Of course, you should have your eyes out for a Daedric weapon. Ebony might be stronger than glass as well, but I'm not completely certain.
The only limiting factor right now is the fact that I'm actually dirt poor after spending all of my money buying Iron Ores, Ingots, and Gems, and have not been able to get enough Petty gems to feed my ever-growing supply of Iron Daggers. I think I'll just finish up Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood while I max out Sneak >.<
Can anybody explain to me exactly what Shadow Warrior does? My understanding is that it makes you invisible for a second and lets you get new Sneak Attacks; is that only true when also using Invisibility potions?
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On November 18 2011 13:33 Juddas wrote:
Hey so guys I bought Skyrim the other day, but I keep restarting because I don't like my build. Any good recomendations for fun builds that don't die?
Btw, the first attempt was just random shit to learn the game.
The second was my sniping archer sneak Kaijet
and the third was a pure dagger sneak Kaijet
Any help? I'th thinking about mage but it seems so squishy? aNd how would I do that anyways?
I plan on making myself a strict Sorceror. No swords, no armor, no nothing. Just Magic, and whatever skills you need for dodging 
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Full destro is actually really easy I was playing a character like that till it bugged out and I made my sneaky archer assassin and swore to use no offensive magic. So don't worry about viability. Offensive magic very good in this game.
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On November 18 2011 15:42 eLe.Long wrote:Show nested quote +On November 18 2011 13:33 Juddas wrote:
Hey so guys I bought Skyrim the other day, but I keep restarting because I don't like my build. Any good recomendations for fun builds that don't die?
Btw, the first attempt was just random shit to learn the game.
The second was my sniping archer sneak Kaijet
and the third was a pure dagger sneak Kaijet
Any help? I'th thinking about mage but it seems so squishy? aNd how would I do that anyways? I plan on making myself a strict Sorceror. No swords, no armor, no nothing. Just Magic, and whatever skills you need for dodging
Same. All magic disciplines, alchemy, enchanting. No sneak, archery, weapons, armor, etc.
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On November 18 2011 15:42 eLe.Long wrote:Show nested quote +On November 18 2011 13:33 Juddas wrote:
Hey so guys I bought Skyrim the other day, but I keep restarting because I don't like my build. Any good recomendations for fun builds that don't die?
Btw, the first attempt was just random shit to learn the game.
The second was my sniping archer sneak Kaijet
and the third was a pure dagger sneak Kaijet
Any help? I'th thinking about mage but it seems so squishy? aNd how would I do that anyways? I plan on making myself a strict Sorceror. No swords, no armor, no nothing. Just Magic, and whatever skills you need for dodging
Being a pure mage is easy. My follower and atronauch tank almost any damage anyway, and if something is going for me i can hit it with frost to stagger it so it, well, can't hit me.
The only thing I have trouble with are really strong mages with lightning, I think I need to start carrying shock resist gear with me.
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