Elder Scrolls V: Skeerim

[TKz]

Wonder what I'm doing wrong then. I've still only got like 4000.

Just take a look at what your picking up and have a look at the value vs. the weight. It's better to carry around lots of lots of 10 small things that weigh 10 all together but will sell for 300 than it is to carry around lots of stuff that weighs 20 each and will bring in 400.

Also loot everything. Leave no stone unturned! And if you've done the missions are your buddy buddy with the Jarl of Whiterun now, you can wander around his house and take lots of stuff if no one is looking. I've nabbed a few necklaces and bits for like 1000 total from his place alone, not counting the stack of Silver Ingots I found that I used to make awesome stuff to sell.

[tenaciousg]

My cousin's discovered how utterly overpowered Smithing can get. Last night, he made 51 Iron Daggers and bumped himself up not only two levels, but up to 50 in Smithing.

He also had a giant hit a home-run strike on the dog companion. We thought it was dead until it randomly came back to him.

[Herr Matzat]

I am not shure how leveling works, but dossent this mean he can´t level different skills wen he is at the level 50 cap? So he is stuck with smithing?

Saving your game and just go out to set everything on fire is a nice twist on things. >_>

[Dan]

Not really got into smihing but I imagine being a high level in it can't be bad? Must be able to make some pretty sweet stuff.

Edit: Got my horse back, thanks for the tip Apsham

Edited November 13, 2011 by McDanlad's

[apsham]

I am sure you can still level things when you hit the level cap - you just run out of perk points and magicka/health/stamina upgrades.

[Your Mom]

Wonder what I'm doing wrong then. I've still only got like 4000.

Just take a look at what your picking up and have a look at the value vs. the weight. It's better to carry around lots of lots of 10 small things that weigh 10 all together but will sell for 300 than it is to carry around lots of stuff that weighs 20 each and will bring in 400.

Also loot everything. Leave no stone unturned! And if you've done the missions are your buddy buddy with the Jarl of Whiterun now, you can wander around his house and take lots of stuff if no one is looking. I've nabbed a few necklaces and bits for like 1000 total from his place alone, not counting the stack of Silver Ingots I found that I used to make awesome stuff to sell.

Thanks! I own a house now On a related note I found an "unusual" gem at the jarl's place and it said to find an appraiser. How do you know who the appraiser is?

[Maxx]

I found appraisers at the Thieves Guild in Riften.

[Dan]

Okay, Mammoths are awesome, I'm just walking along when a pack of wolves comes and attacks me, then this giant-ass mammoth walks up from behind me and kills all the wolves for me.

[gunnar hendershow]

Decided to start over, figured that if I'm going to do Skyrim right, I need to play as a Nord. Having a lot of fun with two-handed weapons and heavy armor.

A lesson from my playthrough is to not ignore spells. Alteration, especially anything to improve Heavy Armor (Oakflesh) and Destruction, especially one of each major element, are going to make it a lot smoother. Plus for the fights were you do find you need magic you can get an easy level up with the spells and one-handed combination. You could probably get by later with weapon enchantments and Alteration spells, but early in the game I've been needing some Destruction magic to aid me in some tougher battles.

[Ace]

The only thing that really bugs me about this game sometimes is how hard it is just to find some places. I'm looking for the Greybeards... and I get to the first marker and suddenly it changes to some place on top of the mountain. Okay, I figure if I follow the path around, I'll get to where I want to go. Wrong. It leads me to a dead end... now I need to find a way up the mountain, which I can't. Eventually I find myself assaulted by Witches (as in actual witches, not mages, they were called witches and fired really powerful spells at me) and I die. It just kind of bugs me, I want to do the quest, but it's sometimes so hard to just find the route to where to go.

I couldn't find the path either. I ended up just jumping up and walking along the mountain until I reached them.

[Herr Matzat]

How could you not find the path? They say "It´s the 7000 stairs up there" and you just follow them. There even are a few shrines on the way up that explain the history of dowakin.

[Quom]

Quom, you level as you play. If you use a one handed sword, your one handed sword skill goes up. If you use magic, your magic skill goes up. You get rewarded for playing the game essentially, then your actual level goes up as you complete quests and kill enemies. For instance, I'm level 8 with 29 archery skill, which means even though my level isn't that high, if I'm using a bow, it's very effective. Plus there are perk trees for every skill. It's kind of tricky to explain, but easy to understand when you're using it.

In short: It's a great system, I can't see you fucking it up.

Bwah? Your level goes up when you level up a certain number of skills. I leveled up entirely off sneaking skill gains earlier.

So say I decide to start off as a sneaking thief magic person who fires arrows, if I realise I'm shit at sneaking and killing people at a distance I can then decide to pick up a big arsed bastard sword without being disadvantaged (beyond the perks I've got for the sneaking I've done, which may be helpful anyway)?

I thought it would be like Fallout or Final Fantasy where you have to choose skills and shit and then couldn't change your mind when you decide it isn't useful for you.

[Herr Matzat]

Well, if you want to fight with two handet weapons and you skilled half of your levels in magic you will be missing that endurance while swinging.

[Quom]

So they lied to me??!!! Hold me Matz (})

[Herr Matzat]

They are not lying, it´s more like not being as smart and sexy as we are.

Edited November 14, 2011 by Michael Matzat on a Plane

[Quom]

You can tell that he's deep. He has such lovely hair. Shame about the face.

[DMN in the House]

I have a house! And a chick that follows me around! But she won't sleep with me! I look like Chris Hero, dammit!

Running around with a big fucking Ancient Nord Sword of Cold. Works pretty well. If I didn't use heavy armor, I'd probably feel like Conan the Barbarian.

Already planning three play-throughs, this one as a Stormcloak, one as an Imperial, well, Imperial, and one as a swank Khajit explorer, alias Hammerfell Jones (duh duh duh-dun!)

[thepunkrockicon]

I thought u were going to bed?

[SeanDMan]

Tell his mom.

[Quom]

Okay am buying this tomorrow. Just gave Oblivion one final try, wandered into a vampire nest and it was lovely. I assume that Skyrim will still be lots of aimless wandering, but the world does look prettier.