The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim ~|OT|~

[Great Rumbler]

I like the way factions are handled in Skyrim, you never get the feeling that either the Empire or the Stormcloaks are ever "evil" they're just groups that are both looking out for their own interests. And then there's the Foresworn, they're not a major player but they still play a role in the game and just help to flesh out the overall experience.

Haven't finished the Dark Brotherhood questline, but it looks like they're going to play a major role in the events of the game as well.

[Himu]

I like the way factions are handled in Skyrim, you never get the feeling that either the Empire or the Stormcloaks are ever "evil" they're just groups that are both looking out for their own interests. And then there's the Foresworn, they're not a major player but they still play a role in the game and just help to flesh out the overall experience.

Haven't finished the Dark Brotherhood questline, but it looks like they're going to play a major role in the events of the game as well.

I haven't joined either the Stormcloaks or the Empire, because both seem in the wrong (and also the right).

[Great Rumbler]

I haven't joined either the Stormcloaks or the Empire, because both seem in the wrong (and also the right).

Yeah, that's pretty much my point. They're both flawed, but they also have realistic motivations and you can kind of see where each side is coming from. Makes it hard to choose one or the other, but also makes their situations, and the situation the game puts you in, that much more interesting.

[Van Cruncheon]

fuck the stormcloaks. i joined the empire without reservation.

[Human Snorenado]

I'm eventually gonna join the Stormcloaks, only cause I chose Nord as my race and GET OFF MAH PROPERTY YA IMPERIAL SCUM

[Van Cruncheon]

dirty rebel hippy

[Great Rumbler]

Occupy Solitude

[Human Snorenado]

RELIGIOUS OPPRESSOR

[Himu]

I am a Wood Elf. I have 5000 gold to my name and I am an ill treated minority. I am the 1% of Skyrim.

[Great Rumbler]

I'm an Imperial with over 15k gold and two houses.

[Van Cruncheon]

i'm starting to try and kill every furry i encounter, like i did in oblivion. thankfully, they don't let furries into the cities, so they're easy to take out.

[Akala]

I went burly nord this playthough, so wil probably do the stormcloaks line. Next will either be a thief or a mage, I'll see the imperial line later.

[Himu]

khajit are weird and talk funny

they're also not cute kitties

[Human Snorenado]

i'm starting to try and kill every furry i encounter, like i did in oblivion. thankfully, they don't let furries into the cities, so they're easy to take out.

I'm slightly dyslexic, so sometimes I mix up my run and shout buttons; one time I did that outside of a city with some furries in front of me, and I accidentally shouted one to death and had to fight the other two.  Not only did I not feel bad about it at all, but the guards who watched it all happen didn't seem to give a shit either.

[Sho Nuff]

I'm marrying my milfy redhead nord companion. She can cook me dinner while I go adventuring with that other girl I met at the Shrine of Whoosis

[Human Snorenado]

I just married some chick from Riverrun or whatever, I just wanted the monies.  BITCH STAY HOME WHILE ME AND PACKMULE #3 GO KILL US SOME SHIT.  (Pack mules 1 & 2, aka Lydia and some random dude, gave their all to the cause.)

[archie4208]

I just came across a

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Dwarven Centurion

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who could kill me in one hit.  My strategy was to flip a lever that locked him behind a gate and ping him with arrows until he fell over.  This game

[Van Cruncheon]

mage boss is nuking me. i ALMOST had him glitched behind a gate, but the motherfucker found a ledge that took him over a wall and he blasted me. oi, the tension...

[Sho Nuff]

Some asshole necromancer was fucking my shit for about thirty minutes, but then I remembered that I was a werewolf 

My companion wasn't ready for it though, she flipped the fuck out and ran away, taking all my lewt with me. Had to restore my previous save and tell her to wait in a side room while daddy took care of business

[Mupepe]

I always hunt mammoths.  Shoot them with arrows and then sprint back on top of a rock or something they can't climb onto and just blast the shit out of them with magic and arrows and let my summon beat on them too.  160 gold for their tusks and a shitload of exp

[fistfulofmetal]

mage boss is nuking me. i ALMOST had him glitched behind a gate, but the motherfucker found a ledge that took him over a wall and he blasted me. oi, the tension...

morokei?

if so, when you initiate the battle immediately run into the hallway and close the door. wait for him to lose interest then open the door and shoot an arrow at him (for massive damange).
then run away and hide. wait for him to lose interest again

rinse and repeat for an hour.

[Great Rumbler]

[Sho Nuff]

Morokei is easy as fuck. Stand behind pillars and take potshots at him. He never get's up on you, which makes it super easy to dodge his OP lightning and if you have the shout of time, it's even easier.

The item you get after beating him is so cash.

Hells yes. That's precisely how I fucked him in the shit

[fistfulofmetal]

Morokei is easy as fuck. Stand behind pillars and take potshots at him. He never get's up on you, which makes it super easy to dodge his OP lightning and if you have the shout of time, it's even easier.

The item you get after beating him is so cash.

he would run up on me

i even had to tell lydia to go back home because she kept running in on her own and getting her ass killed.
even when i removed all her weapons she would PICK UP the weapons i dropped on the ground and go and fight. she's tenacious, i give her that.

[Mupepe]

I can't bring myself to kill Lydia.  She annoys me to no end but I can't just slaughter her like I really want to.

[Himu]

I seem to be one of the few that doesn't go out of his way to slaughter anyone who isn't trying to slaughter ME in these games. I don't even hunt animals unless they're trying to kill me. It's mostly because I'm anal and I worry they'll be tied to a quest. Near Solitude there was a rich asshole and his wife and guard on the way to the princesses wedding and I wanted to kill him so bad but then my mind flashes and I'm like WHAT IF HE'S PART OF A LATER QUEST and put my bow down.

[Mupepe]

That's me too, Himuro.  I don't kill anyone I don't have to.  If I go on a spree, I just don't save it. 

[BlueTsunami]

Mastered the Sneak tree but my Weapon/Armor skills are definitely lagging. So I think I'll switch up standing stones now to Warrior. Lvl.36 right now.

Oh and the Masks you can acquire in this game are pretty damn awesome. They just look cool and have positive skill boosts to match the looks.

[Human Snorenado]

I don't go out of my way to kill people, but I don't really care if I do either.  Basically, if you get in my way while I'm blowin' shit up then it's your own damn fault.

[Joe Molotov]

So I know what you're thinking, "Can I still use my weapons and my spells and my sneaking about and all that?" Sure, sure. Of course. Or you could use.....THE WABBAJACK!

[AdmiralViscen]

The miscellaneous quest section needs work. Not all quests are added to it, and ones that are there don't always get a quest marker.

I have a letter from Gorm, to aldis, from mortath or wherever. I have no idea who aldis is or where he is. Thankfully I remember who Gorm is, but he won't repeat his information. So unless someone here remembers this part, I will never be able to do this quest.

[Joe Molotov]

I don't know if this is causing your problem or not, but just remember that to get a quest marker for a miscellaneous quest, you have to check Miscellaneous  AND the sub-quest you want marked. That caused me some problems at first because I was checking the sub-quest, but I didn't have Miscellaneous checked so the marker wasn't showing up.

[Robo]

I seem to be one of the few that doesn't go out of his way to slaughter anyone who isn't trying to slaughter ME in these games. I don't even hunt animals unless they're trying to kill me. It's mostly because I'm anal and I worry they'll be tied to a quest. Near Solitude there was a rich asshole and his wife and guard on the way to the princesses wedding and I wanted to kill him so bad but then my mind flashes and I'm like WHAT IF HE'S PART OF A LATER QUEST and put my bow down.

Doesn't the game say Quest Failed if you kill someone of importance, even if you don't have that quest?  I think FO3 or NV did, but I can't quite remember.

edit: Now that I think about it, NV definitely did.  I remember smoking some incapacitated Powder Ganger relatively early on and failing a number of quests that I never received.

[AdmiralViscen]

I don't know if this is causing your problem or not, but just remember that to get a quest marker for a miscellaneous quest, you have to check Miscellaneous  AND the sub-quest you want marked. That caused me some problems at first because I was checking the sub-quest, but I didn't have Miscellaneous checked so the marker wasn't showing up.

I know. S,e subquests sow on the map when you do this, some don't. And some don't appear on the list at all, like the one I mentions.

[Eel O'Brian]

there should have been a "wolves won't attack you"  benefit from becoming a werewolf, they do very little damage but goddamn those things are annoying

i go out of my way to kill them now because i know if i spot one sooner or later he's gonna spot me and sneak up to bite me on my ass

[Van Cruncheon]

I can't bring myself to kill Lydia.  She annoys me to no end but I can't just slaughter her like I really want to.

pussies! i light up ANYONE that even MILDLY peeves me. i am like a petty, angry little godling. i kill catpeople because i can. i killed an entire tavern and paid off the guards because why not. i trashed dawnstar and broke quest chains because, eh, it was tuesday.

[Herr Mafflard]

I usually always kill anyone I come across that are alone in their homes (or out in the wilds...)

What justification do I use? Merely because the opportunity presents itself for an easy stealth kill.

Still playing a goody two-shoes though. Funny how that works.

[Stoney Mason]

I rarely kill random people in games like this mainly because quests are often attached to them and by killing them I'm losing out on game content. A game has to be really designed in a smart manner before I start playing it "evil" because most games still simply punish the evil route by simply removing game content.

[Herr Mafflard]

I rarely kill random people in games like this mainly because quests are often attached to them and by killing them I'm losing out on game content. A game has to be really designed in a smart manner before I start playing it "evil" because most games still simply punish the evil route by simply removing game content.

yet I couldn't kill that pesky jester! I'm sure he has turns up down the line. In fact, BobfromPikeCreek pretty much confirmed it.

There's so much content anyway, that I care little if a few quest givers 'accidentally fell on their bread knives' while alone. At home. In the middle of the night...  :mystery

[Joe Molotov]

Damn it game, quit crashing to desktop on me.

[pilonv1]

I don't ever bring companions with me unless they're mission dependent.

An extra body around while sneaking & stealing just gets in the way.

[fistfulofmetal]

the Companions quest line completely glitched for me and now they all have disappeared...


edit: looks like i was able to get around it with the console

PC

[fizzel]

I've got 2 frost dragon skeletons in the harry potter school courtyard and 2 more in the little village outside. And my framerate tanks when i fast travel there because it's loading the shitty skeleton physics. Next one is getting /console killed.

[pilonv1]

[archie4208]

Time to uninstall.

[Sho Nuff]

I can't bring myself to kill Lydia.  She annoys me to no end but I can't just slaughter her like I really want to.

pussies! i light up ANYONE that even MILDLY peeves me. i am like a petty, angry little godling. i kill catpeople because i can. i killed an entire tavern and paid off the guards because why not. i trashed dawnstar and broke quest chains because, eh, it was tuesday.

[Stoney Mason]

3 people on my friends list bought Skyrim simply based on me describing the game to them and what I was currently doing in it. I wasn't even recommending it or trying to get them to buy it. I was just describing it.

[Stoney Mason]

Quick question that I'm going to put in spoilers do I don't ruin anything for anybody.

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I just completed the quest Glory of the Dead and got the achievement for it. I talked to another person in the companions and he gave me a quest called Trouble in Skyrim which involves killing Vampires. My question is, is that a real quest or one of the "radiant AI" generated quests because If I've finished the storyline campaign for the companions I'll move on to something else rather than doing an infinite number of randomly generated companion quests?

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[Eel O'Brian]

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once you do a quest for farkas and vilkas they will ask you to cure them like you cured kodlak, and after that you have the opportunity to cure yourself if you want (provided you have a witch head to throw on the fire).  then i think the quests become radiant.

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[BlueTsunami]

Just got the perk the final lv.90 Alchemy perk that allows you to see all an ingredients properties. I can make, with a certain mixture, a potion that can be sold for 2K Gold. Lawdy. And that's just with two ingredients. I'm sure I can add another that'll make it skyrocket.

If you guys every play through again, definitely take up Alchemy. Alchemy allows you to get, relatively, a lot of money at the beginning which means that money can be put towards training which means you'll level up even quicker with a skill you want to use but not grind.

[Human Snorenado]

I've definitely taken to training 5x of something on each level.

[naff]

Level 29, getting back into the mainline quests   Just finished up with the Thieves Guild, great questline but I still need to do more sidequests to 'bring them back to glory'. Archery is getting pretty tired too, I just wreak havoc, Epic Elven Bow deals 53 Base dmg and the perks + Enchantments on top of that make it pretty OP with high Enchanting, I could've done this a lot faster and at a lower level too if I didn't waste perks and skilpoints in other things.

Just disenchanted a weapon with a Paralyze enchantment, been enchanting Iron Daggers I forge for easy cash. Yeah, you can make A LOT of money fast this way. My crappy $4 daggers I've forged for leveling smithing suddenly become worth $500+

[AdmiralViscen]

The main quests seems pretty hard if you don't do side stuff.

Where is the person you can pay to rank up in smithing?

[Joe Molotov]

Where is the person you can pay to rank up in smithing?

The old guy at the Skyforge in Whiterun. I think the woman smith right by the gate will too.

[OptimoPeach]

Stupid noob question: How do hybrid-type builds tend to work in these games? I initially went orc and was dumping points into heavy armor and two-hand weapons, but after a few hours I was already bored. I rerolled dark elf, and I want to do something like use a dagger in my mainhand for sneak attacks and destruction magic in my offhand unless I'm going to get whomped by everything I fight

[Stoney Mason]

Someone explain weapon crafting and potion crafting. I never do it in these sorts of games but I'd like to give it a try.

[Brehvolution]

It's so sad that I haven't been able to play this since last weekend. I miss it so much.  :'(

[fistfulofmetal]

Someone explain weapon crafting and potion crafting. I never do it in these sorts of games but I'd like to give it a try.

like in regard to what exactly?

it's fairly simple. if you have the ingredients you select what you want to make and it gets made.

i make a lot of iron stuff and i need a few leather straps and some iron ingots. the leather straps are made by first turning pelts into leather, then leather into leather straps.
the iron ingots are made by smelting iron ore into ingots.

you can also make stuff that just uses leather as well so sometimes you wont want to turn the leather into strips.

i imagine it's similar to potions but i don't make those.

[Great Rumbler]

Stupid noob question: How do hybrid-type builds tend to work in these games? I initially went orc and was dumping points into heavy armor and two-hand weapons, but after a few hours I was already bored. I rerolled dark elf, and I want to do something like use a dagger in my mainhand for sneak attacks and destruction magic in my offhand unless I'm going to get whomped by everything I fight

You can level up every skill to 100 if you want to.

[Stoney Mason]

Someone explain weapon crafting and potion crafting. I never do it in these sorts of games but I'd like to give it a try.

like in regard to what exactly?

it's fairly simple. if you have the ingredients you select what you want to make and it gets made.

i make a lot of iron stuff and i need a few leather straps and some iron ingots. the leather straps are made by first turning pelts into leather, then leather into leather straps.
the iron ingots are made by smelting iron ore into ingots.

you can also make stuff that just uses leather as well so sometimes you wont want to turn the leather into strips.

i imagine it's similar to potions but i don't make those.

Like for the smithing for instance there are like 4 devices. The forge. The tanning thing, etc. It just seems complicated looking at it from the outside.