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Thermia
United States866 Posts
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Zeke50100
United States2220 Posts
On November 21 2011 17:21 Caryc wrote: no. thats the point..as far as i know you need soul trap to level enchanting if this is true..you have to use soul trap and therefore level conjuration (soul trap = conjuration spell) i dont want to do this,so i ask if there is a way around. tl;dr : can you level enchanting to 100 w/o casting soul trap? sorry if i wasnt clear. You can enchant weapons with Soul Trap so they steal souls if you kill the enemy within 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. seconds. It's particularly useful with daggers and Sneak, which kills stuff in one shot anyway. Furthermore, you can just buy filled gems from merchants, albeit a bit expensive at first unless you can save up and manage to get the Banish enchantment. | ||
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VoirDire
Sweden1923 Posts
On November 21 2011 17:21 Caryc wrote: no. thats the point..as far as i know you need soul trap to level enchanting if this is true..you have to use soul trap and therefore level conjuration (soul trap = conjuration spell) i dont want to do this,so i ask if there is a way around. tl;dr : can you level enchanting to 100 w/o casting soul trap? sorry if i wasnt clear. Yes, you can buy full soul gems and enchant with them or get a weapon with a soul trap enchantment that automatically fills soul gems. But soul trap is a low level conjuration spell anyway. You only need like 25 conjuration or something, I recommend getting it. | ||
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peeeky
Canada631 Posts
On November 21 2011 17:32 Thermia wrote: I'm having a problem unequipping sparks from my main hand (on pc) - it just lets me add offhand and take offhand off, but right stays on sparks no matter what I do. I just got the game so it doesn't matter too much, but it's really frustrating. Yes, I think this is one of the many annoying problems with the PC version. So far the solution I found for this is to use the favourite menu. So press f on the spells you want to favourite, then hotkey them say 1. Sparks and 2. Flames. To put Flames on the right hand, press 2 twice, then put Sparks on the left by pressing 1 once. | ||
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alypse
Vietnam2762 Posts
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Iyerbeth
England2410 Posts
On November 21 2011 17:49 VoirDire wrote: Yes, you can buy full soul gems and enchant with them or get a weapon with a soul trap enchantment that automatically fills soul gems. But soul trap is a low level conjuration spell anyway. You only need like 25 conjuration or something, I recommend getting it. When I reached level 40 or something I first looked in to Enchanting. From stealing/looting I already had enough soul gems for around 50 skill or something, and buying a few gems every vendor I visitted and continuing looting I actually did reach 100 skill without casting soul trap once (It's easier to just kill enemies than worry about soul trapping them when you cast destruction spells  ). | ||
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Count9
China10928 Posts
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Turbogangsta
Australia319 Posts
On November 21 2011 22:37 Count9 wrote: Why do people play this game on master difficulty? I tried it for a couple hours and found that 90% of the time I'm just kiting an enemy around for 3-4 minutes or finding a place where I can glitch the AI so I get free potshots, does master difficulty offer something I'm not seeing? Do mages get more badass spells or sneak get harder or something? its an ego thing | ||
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Raekhor
Belgium97 Posts
It becomes stale when you start oneshotting everything and a boss does like 5%/hit. If I played against enemies who could oneshot me, sure I had to reload a couple times and I had to make sure mages were out of mana before I could go into melee, but I wouldn't want it any other way. But I do agree, if you start glitching enemies so you can kill them at range without being able to get hit, it's just cheating. | ||
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Simberto
Germany11155 Posts
On November 21 2011 22:37 Count9 wrote: Why do people play this game on master difficulty? I tried it for a couple hours and found that 90% of the time I'm just kiting an enemy around for 3-4 minutes or finding a place where I can glitch the AI so I get free potshots, does master difficulty offer something I'm not seeing? Do mages get more badass spells or sneak get harder or something? You scale pretty hard. As long as the build you are doing makes the slightest sense, at some point the game becomes very easy. I started at expert, and at some point i did not feel threatened by anything at all anymore, so i turned it up to master, and it was better. I have got the feeling that this game has actually an inverse diffculty arc, where it becomes easier over time. For another thing, i think a useful information would not be a strict build, but actually percs you would NOT take again. For me, those are: Frost Casting in general, since i got the feeling that most stuff i meet has resistance against it (not exactly unexpected, we are in Skyrim after all), but especially the perk that stuns a low-Hp enemy, or any similar one. You have already got a stun with Destruction Dual Casting, and this one only triggers at about 10% HP, and at that point your enemy is probably already nearly dead. Mana return on capturing a soul. Completely useless. It might make sense when you get the one following it because you use a lot of enchanted weapons, but i don't really believe so. | ||
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Blitzkrieg0
United States13132 Posts
There are also some "lazy" perks. For example, being able to sell your items to any merchant or being able to sell stolen items to non-fences are what I call lazy perks. It's fairly simple to sell items to the correct merchants, and except for gold limitations, you should have no problem doing so. However, you can spend some points to be lazy if you wish. These perks aren't as bad as the infinite resource ones since they provide a small benefit, but they should be avoided unless you enjoy the benefits they provide. I could elaborate and list all of them, but this should be a good basis to make an informed decision  | ||
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Mindcrime
United States6899 Posts
On November 22 2011 04:59 Blitzkrieg0 wrote: Anything that gives you an unlimited resource is basically useless. For example, the indestructible lockpicks are useless because it's fairly easy to maintain a large supply of them if you buy them at every opportunity (they're cheap and weightless). Weightless armor seems good at first as well, but you'll reach a point where you don't even bother looting because you have infinite gold (or just loot the big ticket items to keep your cash pile growing). At this point weight becomes meaningless and those perks are wasted. With proper follower use, weightless armor is even more pointless before you even reach this point. Consider the steed stone if you're having problems prior to reaching a nice place (+100 carry weight and weightless armor). :| Sneak is affected by armor weight. | ||
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Isualin
Turkey1903 Posts
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Spessi
304 Posts
On November 22 2011 04:48 Simberto wrote: For another thing, i think a useful information would not be a strict build, but actually percs you would NOT take again. For me, those are: Frost Casting in general, since i got the feeling that most stuff i meet has resistance against it (not exactly unexpected, we are in Skyrim after all), but especially the perk that stuns a low-Hp enemy, or any similar one. You have already got a stun with Destruction Dual Casting, and this one only triggers at about 10% HP, and at that point your enemy is probably already nearly dead. To piggy-back off this: I went Ice/Fire on my mage with the mind-set that "anything that resists fire will die to frost, and against melee opponents frost is really good because it drains their stamina" Two problems: 1. Just about everything is vulnerable to fire anyway, while far less is vulnerable to frost. What isn't your companion can probably kill pretty easily, unless it's a dragon, in which case can STILL use fire just to stun them constantly (and use frost if you really want to end it faster, either way though, you're fine), or they're a fire mage, and you'd be better off with lightning perked up than frost. 2. It doesn't matter how much stamina your opponent has when you can stun them until they are dead. | ||
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Koenig99
Canada904 Posts
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Blitzkrieg0
United States13132 Posts
I only have 70 sneak or so and none of the perks and nothing ever sees me coming in my heavy armor ^_^ I am using the Ebony Mail though I guess... | ||
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Spessi
304 Posts
On November 22 2011 06:45 Koenig99 wrote: Not sure if this is the correct place to post this, but does anyone know of a sure way to learn fortify: alchemy? As I understand it correctly, you can learn it if you disenchant something that give +x% to alchemy, but I've never found anything like that. i know i found it on a ring. That doesnt help you find a way to get it specifically, but i guess it reaffirms for you at least that it does exist. | ||
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VoirDire
Sweden1923 Posts
On November 21 2011 22:37 Count9 wrote: Why do people play this game on master difficulty? I tried it for a couple hours and found that 90% of the time I'm just kiting an enemy around for 3-4 minutes or finding a place where I can glitch the AI so I get free potshots, does master difficulty offer something I'm not seeing? Do mages get more badass spells or sneak get harder or something? When you get lvl 30-40 and have high level weapon/armor the game is much easier. I start on expert, then ramp it up when I find things being a bit to easy. | ||
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nekolux
Singapore38 Posts
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Duka08
3391 Posts
On November 22 2011 12:55 nekolux wrote: What's a good level to head down to winterhold at? I'm building a battle mage, currently at level 10 Winterhold is pretty much a joke until the very very very last part of the last quest. I think I started it (along with most of the faction chains) well before lvl 10 | ||
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