Skyrim: How To Maim Your Dragon

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Edcrab

Tube, tell me

As someone who hasn't gotten this yet and who values your outlook re: fisticuffs in games

How viable would an unarmed build be in this game

rhylith

I love the thread title.

Peccavi

Edcrab wrote:

Tube, tell me

As someone who hasn't gotten this yet and who values your outlook re: fisticuffs in games

How viable would an unarmed build be in this game

From what I've read, heavy armor + smithing + enchanting makes a badass punching dude.

A duck!

Oh God I play too much of this. Also, there is a set of Gloves I just got that do +10 unarmed damage, but I haven't improved it.

Edcrab

Peccavi wrote:

Edcrab wrote:

Tube, tell me

As someone who hasn't gotten this yet and who values your outlook re: fisticuffs in games

How viable would an unarmed build be in this game

From what I've read, heavy armor + smithing + enchanting makes a badass punching dude.

Wait, armor improves your melee damage?

I mean sure in real-world terms that makes perfect sense what with the weight and hard metal bits on your hands but damn that's cool

Huntera

Edcrab wrote: »

Tube, tell me

As someone who hasn't gotten this yet and who values your outlook re: fisticuffs in games

How viable would an unarmed build be in this game

I'm your man with a plan for this shit.

I'm level 34 and have done nothing but punch stuff.

I've recently taken to punching dragons and while you probably want a good heal spell on hand for fights like that it's perfectly viable if not especially quick with the killing.

Taskman

Punching things is both fun and recommended, especially once you've acquired the gloves of the pugilist.
Does anyone know how to recharge

Keening?

It doesn't seem to have a normal recharge key.

Kusuguttai

make cat person
get gloves of pugilist
get heavy armor perk
laugh all the way to the punch bank

Huntera

My one thing is that you will want to go to Riften from a carriage at the first hold you visit (Whiterun) and go into the Ratways and find a guy who has a pair of gloves called Gloves of the Pugilist, it's +10 unarmed damage and later can be disenchanted to put that on a ring and a new pair of gloves.


Do this before anything. Get out of the starting dungeon thing, run to whiterun and go get them damn gloves, boy.

HugmasterGeneral

Guh. I gotta stop fantasizing about my next character. Finish this one, dangit!

Liiya

Lydia seems to think that when I make a fireball that its time to play catch. Why? She's encouraging the bloody horse, too.

Tube

Edcrab wrote:

Tube, tell me

As someone who hasn't gotten this yet and who values your outlook re: fisticuffs in games

How viable would an unarmed build be in this game

You could play a khajitt, wear heavy armor and use the +unarmed enchants to wreck face pretty well.

zucchini

dang just got into an epic fight between three dragons, a wandering merchant, three stormpike soldiers, a sabre cat and a giant

and one of the dragons won't give me his soul.... what a dick

Kusuguttai

Liiya wrote:

Lydia seems to think that when I make a fireball that its time to play catch. Why? She's encouraging the bloody horse, too.

liiya, how are you in jail! have you finally reverted to a life of crime?

Edcrab

Music to my ears!

I haven't killed gigantic abominations with my bare hands since

Well New Vegas actually but still

Usagi

So I guess I should, y'know, like get on with the main quest line

This is my problem with big world games like this, I'm too easily distracted by shiny objects and killing necromancers

Liiya

Kusuguttai wrote:

Liiya wrote:

Lydia seems to think that when I make a fireball that its time to play catch. Why? She's encouraging the bloody horse, too.

liiya, how are you in jail! have you finally reverted to a life of crime?

Police finally caught up with me, all those funeral wreaths were starting to look suspicious I guess!

Wren

so for some reason the amulet you get from being the guild master of the thieves guild is listed as light armor, which means you can level light armor easily even with full heavy on

neville

I hope my main quest gets unbugged soon.

Macro9

Has anyone tried Nvidia's new beta drivers yet?

Fyndir

Edit: Ok, it did the weird thing where it showed up as a double post but wasn't really.

Son of a bitch Vanilla!

I cannot stop chuckling at this method of killing, I don't even feel enthused about fighting enemies normally anymore!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET70svGp-Bc

Clint Eastwood

How does this game expect me to make 25K to buy this manor in Solitude? I've barely even sniffed 5K and the quest rewards are just not getting it done. Oh, yeah, I exorcised that evil wolf queen in the catacombs, Falk Firebeard. Thanks for the wimpy one thousand doubloons. How about you just give me the deed to the manor and we call it even?

Dux

Clint Eastwood wrote:

How does this game expect me to make 25K to buy this manor in Solitude? I've barely even sniffed 5K and the quest rewards are just not getting it done. Oh, yeah, I exorcised that evil wolf queen in the catacombs, Falk Firebeard. Thanks for the wimpy one thousand doubloons. How about you just give me the deed to the manor and we call it even?

Join the thieves guild. Join the dark brotherhood. Dungeon crawl. Make bank.

Basically, crime pays well in this game.

Fyndir

Clint Eastwood wrote:

How does this game expect me to make 25K to buy this manor in Solitude? I've barely even sniffed 5K and the quest rewards are just not getting it done. Oh, yeah, I exorcised that evil wolf queen in the catacombs, Falk Firebeard. Thanks for the wimpy one thousand doubloons. How about you just give me the deed to the manor and we call it even?

Level up, get better loot, make jewelry with the various gems you find, loot enchanted/nice equipment from enemies for selling, and if all else fails, join the thieves guild.

I have something like 140k on my current character, and it was never particularly my intention to make a ridiculous amount of gold, it just happened after a certain point.

Kusuguttai

i'm level 22, just did bleak falls barrow
returned the golden claw, then snuck back at night and stole it

Kwoaru

What level are you? By the time I got to level 42 I had 76k in my pocket, after buying and completely furnishing the houses in Whiterun, Riften, and Markarth

Eventually enemies will start dropping things you can sell for bank

You can also craft shitty little weapons and put on a good enchant, even with a weak soul the value of the weapon will shoot up, and if you have the black star you can put on really strong enchants and sell them for a lot

Clint Eastwood

I'm not joining no dark brotherhood, chad the lizard man is a good guy and not a villainous creep.

Big Red Tie

craft dagger
enchant dagger
sell dagger
buy materials

repeat

Aneurhythmia

I have 50k or so at level 29. I haven't really messed with job-type quests or any sort of crafting yet, just picking up every damn thing worth more than 50 gold that I come across and selling it.

Renegade Wolf

I've just killed a string of hunters including a quest giver because they all look like bandits from a distance so I stealth attacked with my bow.

Also the black smoke from the ebony mail is not helpful when it starts obscuring your vision when you are trying to line up shots.

skettios

I had money troubles early on in the game.
It's not so hard later. Dungeons, crafting, etc

Wren

after the 5k house in whiterun or the 25k house in Solitude, money is pretty useless anyways

kinda want to swim in my gold coins though

PaperLuigi44

Renegade Wolf wrote:

I've just killed a string of hunters including a quest giver because they all look like bandits from a distance so I stealth attacked with my bow.

Also the black smoke from the ebony mail is not helpful when it starts obscuring your vision when you are trying to line up shots.

I accidentally did a sneak attack on the guard of that guy who wants to retake his castle, luckily Elder Scrolls AI was in effect so when I actually got there everything was cool.

Tube

Most of my money goes on training.

Huntera

yeah but you can pick pocket that back tube

Macro9

It's become impossible for me to pickpocket the money I have to spend on my main skills. It's too damn high for each skill up to get away with.

Skills I don't really use are still fine, though.

Tube

Huntera wrote:

yeah but you can pick pocket that back tube

Good luck pick pocketing 2 grand per skill point.

Macro9

Lewie P's Stepdad wrote:

Huntera wrote:

yeah but you can pick pocket that back tube

Good luck pick pocketing 2 grand per skill point.

Between 2000 and 2500 was the cutoff for me. All of my major skills cost over 3000 to trains per skill point.

I don't understand how I can take 2100 with a 90% chance but 2200 is down to around 0%.

Huntera

Well maybe you should chill on buying skills then cause that's crazy expensive for one skill point!

Aneurhythmia

I'm already worried I'm going to out-level the game and get bored before I get anywhere with the main quest, so I try not to spend a dime on training.