Which makes sense AH. Skyrim is not exactly a land where fancy talk is going to get you anywhere. This is the land of viking burly men! Its like Idiocracy fantasy style.
"So what we're saying here Fagamir is that you talk like a fag and your shits all retarded."
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
well are you following the main quest? or are you branching out? talk to every innkeeper and ask about jobs, same at the jarls house. go kill those bandits and search it high and low. find a burial site? they are all over. loot the hell out of it. recognize what urns and burial urns look like from a distance...search every body, take just the gold and good weapons. I'm branching out a good bit and for the most part im never using gold anyway. The only things ive bought are a few training sessions, a house with all decorations, maybe one or two low level spellbooks.
and the only time i collect normal weapons to sell is when im on the way out of the dungeon ive just cleared and have free space. I stuff every food i collect into my cabinet, every flower i pick into the chest next to my alchemy stand and practically disenchant every magic weapon i find (unless i am using it).
I'm currently wearing full elven armor...found every piece of it without buying/making any of it. elven bow (stole my first one from the companions den but found one later).
Pick every lock. search every pot. you dont need to fill up with everything you see.
Yeah, I think I just need to do more quests. I've been following the DB/Thieves' Guild quests (the beginning few), but I have 2 or 3 bounties to collect, and some other stuff.
Pissed that my decent elven sword was confiscated. Stole it from the Jarl of Whiterun's display case, but I got arrested and broke my pick trying to get out.
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Just broke into the Dwemer Museum to find the translation for Gallus' notes. That was some serious stealthing right there.
Yeah I found that part in particular very satisfying. On a related note (thieves guild quests):
Do I have to do every single quest from Vex and Devlin to "restore the guild to it's former glory"? I haven't yet done all of any particular type yet (burglary/heist/etc), so it looks like a bottomless pit of quests right now.
Just broke into the Dwemer Museum to find the translation for Gallus' notes. That was some serious stealthing right there.
Yeah I found that part in particular very satisfying. On a related note (thieves guild quests):
Do I have to do every single quest from Vex and Devlin to "restore the guild to it's former glory"? I haven't yet done all of any particular type yet (burglary/heist/etc), so it looks like a bottomless pit of quests right now.
I think I did a couple, but I got caught up in the whole Karliah chain. I've been avoiding Riften since then, because Mercer thinks I'm dead, right?
Level 17 Dunmer dual-wield (mid-40s)/archery (late-20s, but moving up fast)
Sword 1: Ancient Nord sword of Cold (a pitiful 12 damage, and I don't have the perk to upgrade it yet)
Sword 2: Blades sword (Superior - 20 something damage)
Bow: Ancient Nord bow (21 damage)
Armor: Dark Brotherhood set you get for joining
Cash: ~1,000 gold
I'm not spending money. In fact, I sell just about everything non-potion or non-crafting I can find.
Is my gear normal, or do I just suck?
Did you buy a home yet?
Nope, couldn't afford the first one offered. Still can't.
The only equipment I've bought has been to fill out suits of armor for collection purposes.
I'd be curious to see what your skills look like at 17, what you're most focused in.
Honestly, just get yourself to some ruins, caves, dungeons, etc. and start laying waste to the places.
Leave with as much as you can carry, but don't crawl back to town overweight. You can always run right back to a cave and collect whatever you had to leave behind.
If you're a sneaky type, try to find the Thieves Guild. Great rewards for that line.
If not, consider doing the Companions questline, you'll earn some good cash & gear there, too.
I saw some imperials attacking a stray guardsman from a local town. Whistled my way by that particular encounter...
But you stuck around long enough to loot the corpse, right?
I can not confirm nor deny what may or may not have happened to certain items that have found their way into my possession. Skyrims a harsh place you see...
Had a funny moment when a gang of two bandit chiefs and one bandit plunderer (the most henpecked plunderer ever) decided to attack me after I left a grave robb... err exploration section. I killed the chiefs and the plunderer ran away only to get killed by a frost spider.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Level 17 Dunmer dual-wield (mid-40s)/archery (late-20s, but moving up fast)
Sword 1: Ancient Nord sword of Cold (a pitiful 12 damage, and I don't have the perk to upgrade it yet)
Sword 2: Blades sword (Superior - 20 something damage)
Bow: Ancient Nord bow (21 damage)
Armor: Dark Brotherhood set you get for joining
Cash: ~1,000 gold
I'm not spending money. In fact, I sell just about everything non-potion or non-crafting I can find.
Is my gear normal, or do I just suck?
Yeah, you're doing it wrong. By level 17 I had full Elven armor, an elven sword, and 18k gold (I blew most of it on skill training and the rest of blacksmithing). First off, don't grab everything. Check every corpse and take the most valuable stuff off of it. A 12lb ax that's worth 500 gold is better than 12 books worth 5 gold. You should be able to make at least a few hundred to a thousand gold by selling equipment from every dungeon you go into.
You know what a bad time to get attacked by a dragon is? When you're trying to sneak into that meadery on the island near Rifton to set fire to their hives. NOT A GOOD TIME BUDDY.
More generally, I kind of feel like a bastard doing the thieves guild quests. Not quite so warm and cuddly as previous theives guilds.
By level 17 I owned half of Skryim, thanks to some well placed bribes I've turned that half into an industrial wasteland that is now poisoning the other half. I am the 1%.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
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Dark Brotherhood Spoilers (Near the end)
My most awesome "oh shit" moment so far is right when I was rushing back to the Sanctuary after killing the fake Emperor. I show up and the Imperials are razing that shit, my horse is fighting shit to my right, I'm fighting off 3 other soldiers. Then a Blood Dragon shows up. Two soldiers fighting Shadowmere start attacking the dragon, the dragon starts attacking me and I'm still juggling 2 soldiers of my own, having just killed one. I think I had to drink like 12 health potions and 5 or 6 stamina potions to survive that one. Holy hell, though, the ground really did look like a battlefield. Then I had to rush inside a blazing Sanctuary....
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Glitches that my sister and I have discovered while playing this game.
-A bandit's corpse falling through the floor after killing it making it completely unlootable.
-A book floating in the sky in the middle of nowhere, could only be picked up and read after shooting it down with a bow (the book was 'Ancestors and the Dunmer').
Also, question about the Dark Brotherhood.
I recently killed an assassin and picked up a note that was on him that said that something called 'the dark ritual' was performed on me and now I'm marked for death. Did I accidentally piss off the wrong guy or is there some crazy dragon worshipper who wants my head?
I was so tempted to take a horse I found in the middle of nowhere. I mean I found a camp empty, with some skeletons, and the horse. It didn't say "steal" next to it, but I was still wary, I mean what if the horse ate the people at the camp?
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
You know what a bad time to get attacked by a dragon is? When you're trying to sneak into that meadery on the island near Rifton to set fire to their hives. NOT A GOOD TIME BUDDY.
More generally, I kind of feel like a bastard doing the thieves guild quests. Not quite so warm and cuddly as previous theives guilds.
On that second part, I actually really like that about the Thieves guild this time around. Oblivion's thieves guild was essentially Robin Hood in group form. "Rogue" in Skyrim seems to take into account actual roguish men, thuggy swashbuckling types, rather than everyone is a sneaky dagger man.
I was so tempted to take a horse I found in the middle of nowhere. I mean I found a camp empty, with some skeletons, and the horse. It didn't say "steal" next to it, but I was still wary, I mean what if the horse ate the people at the camp?
The horse is okay, its the mud crab that slaughtered the camp you need to worry about. The horse is just scared shitless.
So I find it pleasently surprising that there are actually multiple types of elven equipment. You have light and standard for everything. Then there is also Gilded armor. So that was nice to upgrade to! My Armor rating is 200+ with my upgraded (not fully) elven stuff with plenty of light armor skill left to gain and some perks still ahead.
Switching from heavy armor to light is the best thing ive ever done. I run for days. For days.
I was so tempted to take a horse I found in the middle of nowhere. I mean I found a camp empty, with some skeletons, and the horse. It didn't say "steal" next to it, but I was still wary, I mean what if the horse ate the people at the camp?
The horse is okay, its the mud crab that slaughtered the camp you need to worry about. The horse is just scared shitless.
That horse has watched the movie Tremors. It knows what to do.
So I find it pleasently surprising that there are actually multiple types of elven equipment. You have light and standard for everything. Then there is also Gilded armor. So that was nice to upgrade to! My Armor rating is 200+ with my upgraded (not fully) elven stuff with plenty of light armor skill left to gain and some perks still ahead.
Switching from heavy armor to light is the best thing ive ever done. I run for days. For days.
I've noticed that iron armor has a couple versions too, one with shoulderpads and one without.
There's no plan, there's no race to be run
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
I was so tempted to take a horse I found in the middle of nowhere. I mean I found a camp empty, with some skeletons, and the horse. It didn't say "steal" next to it, but I was still wary, I mean what if the horse ate the people at the camp?
The horse is okay, its the mud crab that slaughtered the camp you need to worry about. The horse is just scared shitless.
I don't think it was a mudcrab, this was deep in a snowy area. Most likely a horker, those walrus looking mofos.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Speaking of guilds, I started doing the Dark Brotherhood quests last night, and I am loving them. A couple quests in, a plot point arises that I never thought they'd let you do. I am really looking forward to (Major spoiler regarding Dark Brotherhood in spoiler tag)
I've officially moved into the territory where I have a real life to-do list and a Skyrim to-do list. Joining the Companions and delving into the smithing tree are on today's list.
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I was so tempted to take a horse I found in the middle of nowhere. I mean I found a camp empty, with some skeletons, and the horse. It didn't say "steal" next to it, but I was still wary, I mean what if the horse ate the people at the camp?
The horse is okay, its the mud crab that slaughtered the camp you need to worry about. The horse is just scared shitless.
I don't think it was a mudcrab, this was deep in a snowy area. Most likely a horker, those walrus looking mofos.
and one of the guards who helped me kill it, ran to the Jarl's house and came back with the Jarl and his kid
and they just stood there, looking at the dragon, and exclaiming about how they'd never seen one
Awesome! I do like how killing a dragon near a town is not just a "Ho hum still doing my npc stuff" type moment.
I killed one in the town where Benor lives, when I returned there after letting him go in favor of Lydia. He ran over with the same axe I'd given him and helped battle the monster while it was sitting on rooftops burning down the village. When it was dead, the town guards all ran over with torches to gawk and Benor walked off like it wasn't shit to him, which is true - that was his third time facing one.
Decided to use my Breton character, who I've been using in the Mage Guild for a while now, and just use him for the Dark Brotherhood quests.... mostly because of Shadowmere, but also because the only female Breton bachelorette in the game is available only if you do one of the Dark Brotherhood quests... and she is, surprisingly, not ugly.
Oh yeah, and tons of cash for doing what I do best: Killing the FUCK out of people.
Just broke into the Dwemer Museum to find the translation for Gallus' notes. That was some serious stealthing right there.
Yeah I found that part in particular very satisfying. On a related note (thieves guild quests):
Do I have to do every single quest from Vex and Devlin to "restore the guild to it's former glory"? I haven't yet done all of any particular type yet (burglary/heist/etc), so it looks like a bottomless pit of quests right now.
you need to do them until you complete 5 quests for each city, once you hit 5 for a city you get a special quest for that city. once you've done all the special quests for the cities than you get one last quest to restore the guild and get all it's awesome stuff they talk about back.
so it's not quite a bottomless pit of quests, but close.
its really annoying when you walk outside a house, and some stupid courier stops you to give you a pamphlet advertising the opening of a new shop or attraction...and the whole time a dragon is burning you and the town around you yet you cant move until this ass stops telling me about my mail which he obviously read already. the bastard.
Got my CE guide from Amazon today. Goooooo preorder! This thing is impressive and highly detailed. I was just looking through the Beastiary part of it and there's data on every type of enemy and their loot. It also shows their health, magic, and stamina for each leveled type. Some enemies go up to level 51.
The Quest section of the guide is huuuuuuge and gives exhaustive detail of every quest, like a wiki. There's also an Atlas section with annotated indoor and outdoor maps of most of the world and dungeons. There's also appendices and an index, and a section on training as a short tutorial and reference for mechanics.
My second playthrough I think I'll use the guide heavily to make sure I get all the unique and collectible stuff. There's a section with checkboxes next to quest names and locations and stuff to mark (in pencil, natch) which stuff you've completed/collected.
I haven't bought a guide since the Final Fantasy XII guide. This one is definitely worthwhile.
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one of the guards ran into my swing, so I had to kill them all to avoid the bounty
sigh
the necromancer had a daedra heart, though so whatevs
Yeah, I think I just need to do more quests. I've been following the DB/Thieves' Guild quests (the beginning few), but I have 2 or 3 bounties to collect, and some other stuff.
Pissed that my decent elven sword was confiscated. Stole it from the Jarl of Whiterun's display case, but I got arrested and broke my pick trying to get out.
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for christ's sake
what part of "last witness" did the game not understand
But you stuck around long enough to loot the corpse, right?
The only equipment I've bought has been to fill out suits of armor for collection purposes.
I'd be curious to see what your skills look like at 17, what you're most focused in.
Honestly, just get yourself to some ruins, caves, dungeons, etc. and start laying waste to the places.
Leave with as much as you can carry, but don't crawl back to town overweight. You can always run right back to a cave and collect whatever you had to leave behind.
If you're a sneaky type, try to find the Thieves Guild. Great rewards for that line.
If not, consider doing the Companions questline, you'll earn some good cash & gear there, too.
Battletag: Kain#1658
I can not confirm nor deny what may or may not have happened to certain items that have found their way into my possession. Skyrims a harsh place you see...
Had a funny moment when a gang of two bandit chiefs and one bandit plunderer (the most henpecked plunderer ever) decided to attack me after I left a grave robb... err exploration section. I killed the chiefs and the plunderer ran away only to get killed by a frost spider.
pleasepaypreacher.net
Yeah, you're doing it wrong. By level 17 I had full Elven armor, an elven sword, and 18k gold (I blew most of it on skill training and the rest of blacksmithing). First off, don't grab everything. Check every corpse and take the most valuable stuff off of it. A 12lb ax that's worth 500 gold is better than 12 books worth 5 gold. You should be able to make at least a few hundred to a thousand gold by selling equipment from every dungeon you go into.
More generally, I kind of feel like a bastard doing the thieves guild quests. Not quite so warm and cuddly as previous theives guilds.
pleasepaypreacher.net
The shop keeper is talking in her sleep...
she keeps telling me to browse her shelves. Oh, I am.
What happened to the good old days when everything was turgid penises and tentacle rape?
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
Thanks for the heads up. I am using someone else's INI parser code, and it seems they aren't very tolerant of duplicate values in the file.
I'll work on that for version 0.4.
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Whatever happened to normal undersexed young men? Now we have to deal with ponephiles.
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-A bandit's corpse falling through the floor after killing it making it completely unlootable.
-A book floating in the sky in the middle of nowhere, could only be picked up and read after shooting it down with a bow (the book was 'Ancestors and the Dunmer').
Also, question about the Dark Brotherhood.
and one of the guards who helped me kill it, ran to the Jarl's house and came back with the Jarl and his kid
and they just stood there, looking at the dragon, and exclaiming about how they'd never seen one
pleasepaypreacher.net
On that second part, I actually really like that about the Thieves guild this time around. Oblivion's thieves guild was essentially Robin Hood in group form. "Rogue" in Skyrim seems to take into account actual roguish men, thuggy swashbuckling types, rather than everyone is a sneaky dagger man.
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Awesome! I do like how killing a dragon near a town is not just a "Ho hum still doing my npc stuff" type moment.
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The horse is okay, its the mud crab that slaughtered the camp you need to worry about. The horse is just scared shitless.
Battletag: Kain#1658
Duplicate sections are now allowed, but they will be coalesced the first time SkyrimTweaker saves the file back out.
Switching from heavy armor to light is the best thing ive ever done. I run for days. For days.
That horse has watched the movie Tremors. It knows what to do.
I've noticed that iron armor has a couple versions too, one with shoulderpads and one without.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
I don't think it was a mudcrab, this was deep in a snowy area. Most likely a horker, those walrus looking mofos.
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Sorry!
Battletag: Kain#1658
Passed a garden of flowers...
Honestly thought about harvesting them before I realized I was back in the real world.
I killed one in the town where Benor lives, when I returned there after letting him go in favor of Lydia. He ran over with the same axe I'd given him and helped battle the monster while it was sitting on rooftops burning down the village. When it was dead, the town guards all ran over with torches to gawk and Benor walked off like it wasn't shit to him, which is true - that was his third time facing one.
Boy are you going to be shocked when the dragon shows up.
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Oh yeah, and tons of cash for doing what I do best: Killing the FUCK out of people.
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so it's not quite a bottomless pit of quests, but close.
The Quest section of the guide is huuuuuuge and gives exhaustive detail of every quest, like a wiki. There's also an Atlas section with annotated indoor and outdoor maps of most of the world and dungeons. There's also appendices and an index, and a section on training as a short tutorial and reference for mechanics.
My second playthrough I think I'll use the guide heavily to make sure I get all the unique and collectible stuff. There's a section with checkboxes next to quest names and locations and stuff to mark (in pencil, natch) which stuff you've completed/collected.
I haven't bought a guide since the Final Fantasy XII guide. This one is definitely worthwhile.