No, it's a totally random thing. I've cleared that dungeon a half dozen times. Other than the Sagecraft book that I've found in the same exact place every time, I've never gotten a Skills book randomly from a chest. And I got TWO in one chest...

oops ... i guess i was in such a hurry to explore that i never did the 'into the light' quest

like the very first quest LMAO

so i never went into the bog and saw any of that entire hunk of the map. The priest,the assassin ... none of it.

heh

oh look ... orc gear. :redface:

ROFL

Anybody else grinding/farming for sets?

Other than the first set you find in the chest at the beginning of the game, I've never had one, not had more than three pieces of anything at one time. I'll find something that looks cool and dump it in my stash, but then I'll go back and check it later and the full set doesn't have a quarter of the stats the armor I'm wearing has, so I just sell it.

Right now I'm doing the mage's guild (or whatever it's called here) quest, and regularly getting pieces of a set as I go through it. Of course, it's mage armor and I don't use it.

I either hit level 31 or 32 last night.

I'm finding that trying to get sets is even more distracting than all the side quests. I've got a couple full sets already just going back and forth through a couple areas.

And yes, they're not NEARLY as good as the stuff you can smith at your given level but the game is already WAY too easy as it is, so I've sworn off smithing. I've limited myself to only using yellow or purple items and it has created a lot more excitement and tension for me.

The last mages guild mission I did was actually fairly tough. Everything in cave used lightning attacks, and at some point I failed a dispel on a chest and got hit with a lightning weakness curse. Ouch. I didn't die, but I damn near ran out of potions and got pounded on worse than I had in the past three or four days of playing.

I've also noticed that creatures you encounter during quests are much tougher than the same types of creatures you encounter just wandering around.

OCD will do that to you.



:D

:banghead:

o:-)

Completed another set this morning. They look SO much cooler than the regular items, SO much cooler.

I feel pretty,
Oh, so pretty,
I feel pretty and witty and bright!

Yeah, especially when I'm wearing an executioner style gladiator helmet and armor covered with short spikes... :)

The one part of this game I really dislike is the stealth/stealing aspect. I started the Travelers quest just because I hadn't done it yet, and it sucks hard. So much so that I started playing ME3.

Are you just grinding for hours in hopes that you find entire sets?

The Mountain Trolls in Haxhi drop a purple/yellow about once in every 6 kills. So I spawn 1, get it down to almost no health, run away, save, and then kill it. If it doesn't drop a purple/yellow, I re-load and kill it again until it does. In terms of time, I'm getting anywhere from 5-8 purple/yellow items an hour, sometimes more.

There are other mobs that work (Ettin Warpriests in Ettinmere) but the drop rate is much lower.

I'm level 19 right now and I am wearing/using nothing but purple/yellow items, with EIGHTY SIX yellow/purple items in my stash back at my house. :)