[Gaming] Elder Scrolls 5 - Dawnguard is HERE!
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I am trying to run through with a thief with out cheating by giving him unlimited funds. So he needs to ride back to dungeons several times to pick up anything with remote value to sell.
GasBandit
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Thief? Take up alchemy. Follow UESWiki's alchemy leveling tips, and you'll have more money than you know what to do with, and alchemy counts as a "thief" skill so having that stone selected gives you a bonus to learning it.
Dave
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The trouble with that is if you aren't leveling some sort of combat skill you are going to get royally fucked up when you finally get into a fight. I tried a character who hardly ever left town. I leveled up my enchanting, alchemy and blacksmithing by buying items, working them and then selling them back at a profit.
Once I did that I was in the high 20s for my level. I started actually playing the game then and couldn't beat up a mud crab, not to mention draugrs. And as pointed out before....
Once I did that I was in the high 20s for my level. I started actually playing the game then and couldn't beat up a mud crab, not to mention draugrs. And as pointed out before....
North_Ranger
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I'm wondering... besides less weight on you and therefore more loot you can haul, is there any particular reason why people should take light or medium armor over heavy armor? I'm just wondering...
GasBandit
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Eh, I was already turning a mad profit before I got to 40 alch. The secret? BUY EVERY GIANT'S TOE YOU FIND. STEAL EVERY GIANT'S TOE YOU FIND. MAKE POTIONS WITH GIANT TOES. They sell for like 500 gold a pop. Hanging Moss + Bear Claws + Giant's Toe = Fat stacks of septims. Or, substitute blue butterfly wings and blue mountain flowers. Also MAD money. And unlike just about every other skill, your level in alchemy doesn't limit WHAT potions you can make.
Best alchemy site I've found for leveling. You can watch the video to get the hang of what you're doing.
http://rp.eliteskills.com/skyrim.html
http://rp.eliteskills.com/skyrim.html
Dave
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Wow! That's really cool!
Sticking to towns = a character who can only steal and murder the guards and populous. I made a silly thief who basically does the Aladdin thing of swiping everyone's food. He's fun in a town, but absolutely shit in a dungeon, because all he knows are stealth and pickpocketing shit.
Sticking with my warrior conjurer.
Sticking with my warrior conjurer.
figmentPez
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Bethesda is taking a different approach with Skyrim DLC than it did with Fallout
In short, they can't announce anything yet because the expansions are going to be bigger, and take longer to come out, but they're going to offer little freebies in the mean-time. This might change my mind about waiting for a GOTY version.
In short, they can't announce anything yet because the expansions are going to be bigger, and take longer to come out, but they're going to offer little freebies in the mean-time. This might change my mind about waiting for a GOTY version.
North_Ranger
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Weird stories from Skyrim... Had some friends over today for a visit, and offered one of them a chance to play. Always a bit of a nut, he decided to run into the river in Riverrun and cross the rapids, like a salmon. Oh, the adventures of that salmon sorceress... The funny thing we discovered was that you can actually harvest the salmon underwater.
North_Ranger
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Nah. That's more of a Lappish thing to do.
Good, since other than Point Lookout, most of the Fallout 3 DLC wasn't good.
More like Shivering Isles. Shivering Isles > All of Oblivion.
On the other hand, most of the New Vegas DLC was fantastic. The smaller DLC system can work, but you need to have the right team behind it.
Made a new character, but the dragon will not land and start the escape event. So I am just staring at the executioner and watching the dragon swoop low over us...
Well, Shego, it looks like we are getting closer and closer to your Charm ability.
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=10559
Someone made a set of spells that allow you to recruit any NPC to be a Follower. Right now it even works on animals and enemies, like bandits, though he plans to change that to only work on friendly NPCs someday. This will probably be the closest you can get to a Charm spell for the time being, so I wanted to point it out to you.
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=10559
Someone made a set of spells that allow you to recruit any NPC to be a Follower. Right now it even works on animals and enemies, like bandits, though he plans to change that to only work on friendly NPCs someday. This will probably be the closest you can get to a Charm spell for the time being, so I wanted to point it out to you.
I finally figured out why I was having so damn much trouble with the game back in my early days of playing, and why my wife (who's usually not as good at games as I am) had no trouble whatsoever. Apparently, she's been playing on Novice and I... I've been playing on Adept. Still, the brief bit of learning curve in the beginning was worth it, I've tried playing through some trouble spots on Novice and it's just boring after so long with a more challenging setting. I don't even have to try in dungeons, I can just run through with my conjuration robes and a bound bow, without even having to summon an assistant. The only time it's even been worth it was when I showed up to Saarthal in the really wrong gear and without a housecarl and I couldn't leave the dungeon because I was already past the point of picking up the amulet and blasting down the wall. I almost can't wait to finish off this round through the game just so I can go back through on Expert or Master. Though, it's going to be a while before I finish this one off. I'm level 48 and I still haven't even discovered Dawnstar, or met the Greybeards.
Nope, I'm still just FUS'in. Now, I have found a fair number of other shouts and use some of them frequently; like the fire breath and aura whisper. I'm very specifically avoiding the main plot, as well as the Stormcloak/Empire plot, in favor of exploring the world and helping the common folk - though I'm rapidly running out of random quests and I think, aside from the northern reaches of the map, I've just about discovered everything there is to discover. Give me another week and I should have the full map pockmarked with discovered and cleared dungeons and then I'll decide if I want to kill Ulfric or the general and then go talk to the monks.
Firebreath's third rune piece is received as part of the main story. If you haven't gotten it, you need to advance the main plot.
North_Ranger
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At least Gared's doing his thing on purpose. Me, I can't seem to find the way to High Hrothgar. Even the damn quest menu tells me to go to Ivarstead when I toggle that quest as active.
Yeah, I mainly use it as an interrupt power. It's great for staggering Draugr Death Overlords as they're getting ready to throw me about the room with their own Fus Ro Dah.
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The path to High Hrothgar starts in Ivarstead, there's a bridge that leads in to town and another one on a path that leads perpendicular to the main road through town. There's usually two guys standing at one end of the bridge, next to the sawmill, discussing whether or not one of them is going to make the trip again today. If you're standing in front of the inn, the bridge you want is on your left.
That is because Ivarstead is where you find the beginning of the seven thousands steps, which lead up to High Hrothgar. Go to the city, cross the northern bridge and you will notice the first shrine at the base of the mountain. Then it's all about simply following the path all the way to the temple.
North_Ranger
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And here I was, running around the damn mountain like some reverse lemming. Don't I feel silly just now...
I certainly wouldn't mind a "what places did you miss?" list of some sort. Every time I think there's no where else for me to discover in a particular hold, I wander outside and there's some barrow or standing stone or cave that's blacked out on my compass bar and I know that I'm going to have to spend the next however many minutes and/or hours hunting it down. Of course, I usually find 5 or 6 other places and quests on my way there, and wind up overburdened by alchemy mats and minerals by the time I find it, so it's not all bad.