SKYRIM!!!!!

[XtreO]

Leveled destruction waaay too high, now the awesome-sauce fire spell (big-boy single target fire attack) takes like all my magicka. I guess I should stop poking into every dungeon I find and start following the main quest.

Have yet to do companions, thieves guild and dark brotherhood too. Going to do it with a friend over christmas, just like we played Oblivion together for three nights straight a few years ago.

Other than that, The White Phail quest, or some related name, from the alchemist in Whindhelm had a really disappointing end. I thought he'd drink it and die, but then the cake was stolen from me.

Played for 25 hours so far, only been to four major cities. And I suspect in the half of the world I have been traveling in, the eastern side, I've only found about half of the ruins, forts, mines, caves, cabins, smuggler's dens, towers, shrines, dungeons, towns, mills, farms, inns, manors, camps and whatever else there might be.

Oh, and the Labyrinthian-questline is the shizzle. And I found this mad mage on some desolate island north of the college of winterhold. He told me he'd found a dwemer artifact with an Elder Scroll inside. Gonna be fun to find out if the big lockbox that needs opening only dishes out death, or if it actually contains something cool!

 

[kombi]

@XtreO: Yeah, spells cost a lot of Mana if you aren't playing as a Mage (or lvl up Mana). I catched up a Quest where I had to drink some beer with a guy called "Sam" in a Pub and after I woke up, I had to search for a staff. Don't wanne get more detailed on this one, because this was some really cool quest!

Nine levels left until smithing is lvl100, can't wait for my dragon armor! Iron Daggering LIKE A BOSS

 

[Funky Ghost]

I hit 100 smithing, got my dragon armor and found that I STILL need to invest 4 points to get deadric bows. Kinda pisses me off. I wont use a single thing from dwarven,orchish or ebony so it's 3 wasted points. I might say screw it and just roll with my legendary (x2 .. yes there are different stages of legendary folks.. make those +% to smithing items to see ATM I have +30% to smithing on 3 items and the pick axe that boosts it an undetermined amount . . )

 

[kombi]

I hit 100 smithing, got my dragon armor and found that I STILL need to invest 4 points to get deadric bows. Kinda pisses me off. I wont use a single thing from dwarven,orchish or ebony so it's 3 wasted points. I might say screw it and just roll with my legendary (x2 .. yes there are different stages of legendary folks.. make those +% to smithing items to see ATM I have +30% to smithing on 3 items and the pick axe that boosts it an undetermined amount . . )

Can't you skill "down" to the right way from the Dragon Smithing?! I've skilled both ways anyway, but it would be pretty weird...

 

[metron]

Man I just spent a million years trying to get through Forelhost. Hardest part of the game so far for me.

I got dragon priests mask then found the dragon shout thing outside but I didnt get a shout from it. Anyone else not get a shout like that? Its supposed to be the stormcall. I already have the first word of that shout but I figured it would be the second word. Are there duplicate word locations or something?

That ruin was brutal and I got all bent out of shape when I didnt get the shout.

 

[MJ5150]

I can give ya a shout out from my homies.

-Mike

 

[Funky Ghost]

He will too. Mikes dope like dat, yo. He's a giver.

 

[echoSE7EN]

I hit 100 smithing, got my dragon armor and found that I STILL need to invest 4 points to get deadric bows. Kinda pisses me off. I wont use a single thing from dwarven,orchish or ebony so it's 3 wasted points. I might say screw it and just roll with my legendary (x2 .. yes there are different stages of legendary folks.. make those +% to smithing items to see ATM I have +30% to smithing on 3 items and the pick axe that boosts it an undetermined amount . . )

How did you get "Legendary"? My smithing is at 80, and I'm only able to improve my Glass armor to "Epic"? Do I need to have my smithing skill at 100?

 

[Keano]

I hit 100 smithing, got my dragon armor and found that I STILL need to invest 4 points to get deadric bows. Kinda pisses me off. I wont use a single thing from dwarven,orchish or ebony so it's 3 wasted points. I might say screw it and just roll with my legendary (x2 .. yes there are different stages of legendary folks.. make those +% to smithing items to see ATM I have +30% to smithing on 3 items and the pick axe that boosts it an undetermined amount . . )

Don't forget to check the potion vendors for +% smithing and enchanting potions.

I reallly wish there was a 'Fortify Enchanting' enchantment. Yo dawg...

 

[metron]

I can give ya a shout out from my homies.

-Mike

Hey-oooooooooo!

 

[Funky Ghost]

Don't forget to check the potion vendors for +% smithing and enchanting potions.

I reallly wish there was a 'Fortify Enchanting' enchantment. Yo dawg...

Or make your own necklace, rings, gloves and armor of smithing

I have +120% from created items alone. There is a mining pick you might find that also assists in smithing. Add potions to that and it's silly. I haven't seen a change from +120% up, however.
Legendary items are created when you exceed the required ability to make it by a fixed amount. I'm not sure what the hard numbers are as I didn't by the book and I haven't read anything online. I want it all to be a mystery at this point Eventually I'll get that "itch" and want to know the nuts n bolts of this game. Then I'll hit the Wiki and such to see all the things I might have missed.

 

[Chef FourString]

Round Two: Necromancer

 

[tylerwylie]

How many of you have taken an arrow to the knee?

 

[Dale D Dilly]

Bleh, met a glitch dragon that flies backwards and drops the fps to about 1 or 2. Should have expected it coming from Bethesda, but I had been growing increasingly hopeful as I made it through the game with nothing more than a few freeze ups on the loading screens.

I'm still absolutely addicted though.

 

[benthughes]

I have 2 characters going currently, Briscoe Longhammer who is a sneaky Dark Elf assassin with a Sneak of 100 and Archery in the 90s. He rules all but I feel a bit cheap using him because I can just stand back and snipe then use my sneakiness to hide again pretty quick like.

I didn't do much smithing with this character which I now regret but I guess it's not too late considering I'm level 43 with tons of cash through my thieves guild and dark brotherhood association.

My new character is a Nord I've dubbed Haans Fraupounder who I'm building to be an utter juggernaut. Heavy armor, two handed smithing enchanting fool. I'll probably throw in some restoration perk to help keep him from dieing so much. The dungeons go a bit faster with him just running in destroying everything instead of sneaking around. It is a bit more difficult but gratifying in its own way.

My ultimate character would be a sneaky archer with mad smithing skills, alteration, sneak and archery. I'd level up light armor, one handed and maybe blocking for up close and personal stuff. My sneaky guy now is at a serious disadvantage up close which sucks and in retrospect I should have made him a bit more capable in close quarters.

I'd love a guy who rules with destruction magic but it seems to level up slowly in this game and isn't super useful until you're well above level 50 IMO. Working archery to reach out and touch someone seems like a way better use of skills.

 

[Dale D Dilly]

I'd love a guy who rules with destruction magic but it seems to level up slowly in this game and isn't super useful until you're well above level 50 IMO. Working archery to reach out and touch someone seems like a way better use of skills.

It does level up slowly, but once you hit 50 and have the area of effect spells like fireball and chain lightening and a few points in your destruction tree, you can pretty much clear out any room you walk into for quite a long while. I'm closing in on lvl 35 and fireball still kills pretty much everything without me even bothering to aim.

The snail pace of leveling it is killer though.

 

[metron]

My characters name is Jon Bassman

 

[kombi]

I'm closing in on lvl 35 and fireball still kills pretty much everything without me even bothering to aim.

haha yeah! I just reached lvl34 and learned the Fireball skill a bit earlier. It's pretty awesome. In earlier Levels I used to run around with a Mace (switched to Ebony Dagger now) for when my Mana was low.

Destruction mage is pretty fun to play

 

[BioDriver]

I've already found two dragon priest masks even though I'm not even supposed to know what they are yet I've done two, maybe three plot quests and am level 32.

 

[Joe Gress]

My characters name is Jon Bassman

Sue the Killer