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  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    I am amazed at how well the dragons lock onto you. They will twist their necks all the way around to track you. It makes it hard to get away from their fire blasts.

  • Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    also how do you get dragons that aren't angry to attack you

    2 times i've seen them flying above me

    try to hit them with arrows

    they just doot doot doot and fly away

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  • MorblitzMorblitz Registered User regular
    Having finished the mage college questline, I have a rather important question:
    Am I unable to buy magic now? I mean, what the fuck? I'm still stuck with the starter-level destruction spells, and it sucks.
    Magic college, y u no sell magic?

    ...What.
    I finished it and I buy magic from them all the time

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  • CantidoCantido Registered User regular
    edited November 2011
    Echo wrote:
    I'm saving my first black soul gem for that goddamn preacher in Whiterun.

    You assume fundamentalists have a soul to take.

    Anyone how to make those damn Chaurus bugs die faster?

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  • GaslightGaslight Registered User regular
    You guys shut up, that preacher is boss.
    Krathoon wrote:
    I am amazed at how well the dragons lock onto you. They will twist their necks all the way around to track you. It makes it hard to get away from their fire blasts.

    This. The damn things are like Linda Blair. Next fight I am not bothering with trying to FUUUS them, I am just keeping whirlwind sprint ready so I can dodge.

  • MahnmutMahnmut Registered User regular
    Cantido wrote:
    Echo wrote:
    I'm saving my first black soul gem for that goddamn preacher in Whiterun.

    You assume fundamentalists have a soul to take.

    Anyone how to make those damn Chaurus bugs die faster?

    I had no idea they were so mean. I just hit them with fireballs until they fell over. Ten points for Rangedcombatdor, I guess.

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  • surrealitychecksurrealitycheck lonely, but not unloved dreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered User regular
    does anybody know if the bullet time shout gets improved as you find more words?

    at rank 1 it's pretty underwhelming

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  • YougottawannaYougottawanna Registered User regular
    Does anyone have tips for using stealth effectively? I sneak up slow but can rarely get close enough to actually melee someone, which is a shame because I have the x16 dagger backstab perk.

    I'm also getting to the point where there's a noticeable jump in difficulty. Bandit marauders can two-shot me... I'm lv18 at the moment.

  • Banzai5150Banzai5150 Registered User regular
    What I'm curious about, in the Stealth field, is this... It is 2am in Whiterun, I pick the lock to a house, sneak in, going slow, and BOOM Someone catches me doing nothing? Don't these fuckers sleep? Or, is my armor(Light) and sneak just not perked up enough that I'm making that much noise?

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  • MeepZeroMeepZero Registered User regular
    So, how does leveling work in this one? Like, do monsters scale with you? Does the world stay at a certain difficulty and you just become godlike over time?

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  • MahnmutMahnmut Registered User regular
    Does anyone have tips for using stealth effectively? I sneak up slow but can rarely get close enough to actually melee someone, which is a shame because I have the x16 dagger backstab perk.

    I'm also getting to the point where there's a noticeable jump in difficulty. Bandit marauders can two-shot me... I'm lv18 at the moment.

    Did you know that the stealth roll preserves your sneak status?

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  • DarisDaris Registered User regular
    Echo wrote:
    A bow with Soul Trap is excellent.

    Need to recharge some other weapons? Go huntin' bears!

    Burning Souls is better. It deals fire damage and sets them on fire. I'm wondering if there are electric and frost versions.

    Also, where is this daedric armor people are getting?

  • Renegade WolfRenegade Wolf Registered User regular
    Man how you dudes beating dragons so easily.

    So far the only way I can kill them is by running for my life until I reach some giants or guards.

  • EliteBattlemanEliteBattleman Registered User regular
    Morblitz wrote:
    Having finished the mage college questline, I have a rather important question:
    Am I unable to buy magic now? I mean, what the fuck? I'm still stuck with the starter-level destruction spells, and it sucks.
    Magic college, y u no sell magic?

    ...What.
    I finished it and I buy magic from them all the time
    Who are you buying from and where can I find them? The only person selling any kind of books is the dude in the library, and none of those are even spells. The mage questline got like 3 or 4 of the college mages killed. I'm pretty sure they were the ones that were able to sell me stuff.

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  • mynameisguidomynameisguido Registered User regular
    So, High Hrothgar is pretty far up, huh? That alone would keep me from doing a no-quicktravel run.

    Also, I had to turn the difficulty down because even with a full improved set of dwarven armor I got my face eaten on the way up there :(

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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    Man how you dudes beating dragons so easily.

    So far the only way I can kill them is by running for my life until I reach some giants or guards.

    We hit them with sharp things or set them on fire or fill them with arrows or shout at them until they stop moving. You should try one of these things, or perhaps a combination, until you too can make the bad lizards go away.

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  • GaslightGaslight Registered User regular
    edited November 2011
    Now made it to my second city, Windhelm. I wasn't planning on going there yet but it seemed most expedient after I came back down from Hrothgar. The bar for design was set high by Whiterun, but Windhelm doesn't disappoint. It's fully realized with its own feel totally distinct from Whiterun: all dank and cramped and bleak, with lots of narrow winding alleys that change elevation. Of course, the fact that I arrived in Whiterun in the morning and Windhelm at night probably helped to underscore the difference in aesthetics.

    Plan is still for Winterhold to be the next destination, can't wait to see what that place is like!

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  • AegisAegis Fear My Dance Overshot Toronto, Landed in OttawaRegistered User regular
    Man how you dudes beating dragons so easily.

    So far the only way I can kill them is by running for my life until I reach some giants or guards.

    It depends on the environment for me. If it's a wide-open area with little in the way of obstructions (or if there's a thing-that-shall-not-be-named-napping-right-underneath-the-dragon-to-beat-the-living-crap-out-of-you-when-you-go-to-collect-the-shout) then I'm in for a world of hurt.

    But if there's even just one tall rock or pillar then I can just hide behind it when he breathes and pop out over and over again to zap him to death.

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  • DarisDaris Registered User regular
    edited November 2011
    Man how you dudes beating dragons so easily.

    So far the only way I can kill them is by running for my life until I reach some giants or guards.

    I pretty much use bows on everything at all times. They work well for dealing damage and getting them down out of the sky. Make sure you're always moving when they breath fire, for some reason it lowers the damage even though they pretty much lock you. Also, arrows placed at soft spots seem to do more damage on armored targets/dragons. Shooting them in the eye/neck/chest seems to do more damage and even causes bloody spotting on their face/chest.

    Oh, and some dragons are harder than others. You might just have bad luck.

    Edit: An enemy with a shield/plate is always the worst. I just try and neck them when they turn to swing. I'm starting to prefer neck shots to even a headshot. Always love when an enemy charges me spouting something... that always seems to end in GLARGLE!

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  • taliosfalcontaliosfalcon Registered User regular
    edited November 2011
    Aegis wrote:
    Man how you dudes beating dragons so easily.

    So far the only way I can kill them is by running for my life until I reach some giants or guards.

    It depends on the environment for me. If it's a wide-open area with little in the way of obstructions (or if there's a thing-that-shall-not-be-named-napping-right-underneath-the-dragon-to-beat-the-living-crap-out-of-you-when-you-go-to-collect-the-shout) then I'm in for a world of hurt.

    But if there's even just one tall rock or pillar then I can just hide behind it when he breathes and pop out over and over again to zap him to death.

    its the opposite for warriors, if its a wide open space i can take two or three fire blasts no problem until it lands then waltz up and cut its head off, if there are pillars or something so the bastard won't land and just lands on them out of my reach and flames me, gg.

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  • TIFunkaliciousTIFunkalicious Kicking back in NebraskaRegistered User regular
    Gaslight wrote:
    Plan is still for Winterhold to be the next destination, can't wait to see what that place is like!

    :O

  • korodullinkorodullin What. SCRegistered User regular
    Gaslight wrote:
    Now made it to my second city, Windhelm. I wasn't planning on going there yet but it seemed most expedient after I came back down from Hrothgar. The bar for design was set high by Whiterun, but Windhelm doesn't disappoint. It's fully realized with its own feel totally distinct from Whiterun: all dank and cramped and bleak, with lots of narrow winding alleys that change elevation. Of course, the fact that I arrived in Whiterun in the morning and Windhelm at night probably helped to underscore the difference in aesthetics.

    Plan is still for Winterhold to be the next destination, can't wait to see what that place is like!

    Well I hate to tell you, but...
    There's not much there. The city was destroyed.

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  • BehemothBehemoth Compulsive Seashell Collector Registered User regular
    Morblitz wrote:
    Having finished the mage college questline, I have a rather important question:
    Am I unable to buy magic now? I mean, what the fuck? I'm still stuck with the starter-level destruction spells, and it sucks.
    Magic college, y u no sell magic?

    ...What.
    I finished it and I buy magic from them all the time
    Who are you buying from and where can I find them? The only person selling any kind of books is the dude in the library, and none of those are even spells. The mage questline got like 3 or 4 of the college mages killed. I'm pretty sure they were the ones that were able to sell me stuff.
    Huh, none of them died when I did it. You can also buy spells from the court mage guy at Whiterun, and some other mages (don't remember offhand). The ones at the college are just for training and are guaranteed to have the best spells available at your level.

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  • Foolish ChaosFoolish Chaos Registered User regular
    So does the sparks/flames spell just kind of suck later on? I don't see how it could possibly be worth using if its damage doesn't scale in any way. 25% extra from a perk isn't really going to cut it.

  • GaslightGaslight Registered User regular
    korodullin wrote:
    Gaslight wrote:
    Now made it to my second city, Windhelm. I wasn't planning on going there yet but it seemed most expedient after I came back down from Hrothgar. The bar for design was set high by Whiterun, but Windhelm doesn't disappoint. It's fully realized with its own feel totally distinct from Whiterun: all dank and cramped and bleak, with lots of narrow winding alleys that change elevation. Of course, the fact that I arrived in Whiterun in the morning and Windhelm at night probably helped to underscore the difference in aesthetics.

    Plan is still for Winterhold to be the next destination, can't wait to see what that place is like!

    Well I hate to tell you, but...
    There's not much there. The city was destroyed.

    Fuck. Well the only reason it was my priority is because of the mages college, and that questline is supposed to be good, so I can deal with it.

  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    MeepZero wrote:
    So, how does leveling work in this one? Like, do monsters scale with you? Does the world stay at a certain difficulty and you just become godlike over time?
    It's similar to Fallout 3 in that enemies level up with you, but each area has a level cap for the enemies there. So enemies in the starting areas might be only capable of scaling up to ten or something. I heard that dungeons, on the other hand, take a snapshot of your level when entering, and the enemies scale up to that level. So if you find it too hard, you can leave and they will stay at that level forever.

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  • NeadenNeaden Registered User regular
    Neaden wrote:
    Also, does anyone know how all the resists in the game work? Like lets say I have 50% magic resist and 50% fire resist, some dude casts a firebolt at me, do I take 50%, 25%, or no damage from it? What about dragons breath? Does MR from multiple sources add, or apply separately? Having trouble finding this out.
    Anybody understand resists? UESP wiki is usually good for all this but I can't find anything anywhere.

  • HeirHeir Ausitn, TXRegistered User regular
    Hrm...found an orc named "Old Orc" or something like that. Said he wanted to die in glorious battle or something. "Heck yeah, this guy has Umbra" I thought. So we have our epic fight, I tank him while my mage companion chick freezes the heck out of him, and he goes down. I go to loot him and he doesn't have anything on him. Dang. :(

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  • TurambarTurambar Independent Registered User regular
    also how do you get dragons that aren't angry to attack you

    2 times i've seen them flying above me

    try to hit them with arrows

    they just doot doot doot and fly away

    Climb the nearest mountain and shout at it

    You have to think "What would a viking do"

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  • Anon the FelonAnon the Felon In bat country.Registered User regular
    So my problem seemed to resolve itself. I went to Solitude, and after some wandering around, the game crashed. Nothing to bad right?

    When I got back in, I found out that all my saves since I entered Solitude were corrupted. I couldn't load in, pretty much the entire character was lost to the warp (I have a single save from when I was level 10...it got corrupted at 24).

    Lesson here? Make a few saves if you think about it.

    At least I got a chance to roll Gazthuk, the Orc Barbarian.

  • MorblitzMorblitz Registered User regular
    Behemoth wrote:
    Morblitz wrote:
    Having finished the mage college questline, I have a rather important question:
    Am I unable to buy magic now? I mean, what the fuck? I'm still stuck with the starter-level destruction spells, and it sucks.
    Magic college, y u no sell magic?

    ...What.
    I finished it and I buy magic from them all the time
    Who are you buying from and where can I find them? The only person selling any kind of books is the dude in the library, and none of those are even spells. The mage questline got like 3 or 4 of the college mages killed. I'm pretty sure they were the ones that were able to sell me stuff.
    Huh, none of them died when I did it. You can also buy spells from the court mage guy at Whiterun, and some other mages (don't remember offhand). The ones at the college are just for training and are guaranteed to have the best spells available at your level.
    Yeah I think it's highly likely your book sellers got killed in that final part of the quest chain. The instructor guy you meet at the start, he sells general books, theres another guy that sells conjuration ones.

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  • UselesswarriorUselesswarrior Registered User regular
    Is there any way to rotate grabbed objects so I can place them nicely in my house? God forbid you every knock anything over in your house because you are never getting it back.

    I know I should be out adventuring but playing Barbie dream house adventure is way too much fun.

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  • KlykaKlyka DO you have any SPARE BATTERIES?Registered User regular
    So my problem seemed to resolve itself. I went to Solitude, and after some wandering around, the game crashed. Nothing to bad right?

    When I got back in, I found out that all my saves since I entered Solitude were corrupted. I couldn't load in, pretty much the entire character was lost to the warp (I have a single save from when I was level 10...it got corrupted at 24).

    Lesson here? Make a few saves if you think about it.

    At least I got a chance to roll Gazthuk, the Orc Barbarian.

    I....I am pretty sure there is an NPC with that EXACT NAME and he MIGHT BE AN ORC.

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  • HeisenbergHeisenberg Registered User regular
    Just decapitated someone with my 2h greatsword for the first time. Glorious.

  • projectmayhemprojectmayhem Registered User regular
    Fuck Labyinthian. Fuck it. Fuck it to hell. Fuck it and its stupid fucking hard boss. Fuck it.

  • taliosfalcontaliosfalcon Registered User regular
    edited November 2011
    So my problem seemed to resolve itself. I went to Solitude, and after some wandering around, the game crashed. Nothing to bad right?

    When I got back in, I found out that all my saves since I entered Solitude were corrupted. I couldn't load in, pretty much the entire character was lost to the warp (I have a single save from when I was level 10...it got corrupted at 24).

    Lesson here? Make a few saves if you think about it.

    At least I got a chance to roll Gazthuk, the Orc Barbarian.

    I have 80+ saves and counting so far =0, never trust bethesda
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  • Raiden333Raiden333 Registered User regular
    edited November 2011
    Holy goddamn, if I could get rid of that bar at the top (and I made a save so that I can, when there's a mod to do it) this would be my new desktop bacgkround. Spoilered for 1920x1200.
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  • BehemothBehemoth Compulsive Seashell Collector Registered User regular
    Fuck Labyinthian. Fuck it. Fuck it to hell. Fuck it and its stupid fucking hard boss. Fuck it.

    That guy is the worst. I was only able to kill him by
    Using the Sanguine Rose to summon dremora to fight him. They would usually only get 2 or 3 hits in, but the staff was fully charged so it was just a matter of wearing him down.

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  • ArthilArthil Registered User regular
    Raiden333 wrote:
    Holy goddamn, if I could get rid of that bar at the top (and I made a save so that I can, when there's a mod to do it) this would be my new desktop bacgkround. Spoilered for 1920x1200.
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  • projectmayhemprojectmayhem Registered User regular
    Behemoth wrote:
    Fuck Labyinthian. Fuck it. Fuck it to hell. Fuck it and its stupid fucking hard boss. Fuck it.

    That guy is the worst. I was only able to kill him by
    Using the Sanguine Rose to summon dremora to fight him. They would usually only get 2 or 3 hits in, but the staff was fully charged so it was just a matter of wearing him down.

    I dont even know what that
    summon
    is. Im level 10 with a bunch of t1 spells and an axe. Its going...less than well.

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