I started out as a dark elf but then restarted as a redguard about 2 hours in. Pretty lethal with a bow at this point, but I've barely developed any magical skills at all and I fear that will come back to haunt me soon.

I've got to get my ****ing Xbox fixed.

Holy shit. You can

you gonna learn enchant stuff to add poison/stun etc to your bow?

My hat > your hat

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The old crone begged for her release:

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I obliged. She rewarded me greatly:

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And now, since I don't want to spoil the DWARVEN RUINS for everyone....

No, this doesn't look ominous at all...

But I guess I'll go ahead and loot this FULL SET OF DWARVEN ARMOR!

Oh, shit.


AW HELL NAW.


After clearing out the ruins, I went on to the Dwarven Museum...started looting, angered the guards, and lured them into a trap.

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Hail Sithis.

Where did you get that helm? I want it

some crash fixes etc

http://segmentnext.com/2011/11/11/sk...res-and-fixes/

If anyone has links for mods and wiki's/walkthroughs, please post and share.

Aww yeah found some Skooma. Bout to get weird.

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Skyrim

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/top/

If you want to pay 25 bucks you can get the PRIMA official strategy guide online.

Of course complete walkthroughs will be written on the official skyrim wiki, but that will take time.

The antler helm? Off a dead forsworn up by Markath-ish part of the country.

Gotcha.

Those having issues with inventory space, look up Steed Stone - one of the guardian stones you run across in the game world.
It grants you +100 inventory weight and no movement penalty for heavy armour.
Northwest of Solitude.

Man I LOVE this game. I'm taking it back tomorrow and will purchase this. Endless possibilities. PBJ

I chose the darker skinned humans. More similar to myself. I chose right.

I've upgraded my video driver and changed the sound settings, but I'm still having serious crash issues - not just the game crashes, but it crashes my computer.

Other than that, it's great. Seems like I always have these issues in the beginning. :banghead:

Up to level 20 now - finally got my smithing skills up to the point where I can work on magical items. Now I need to get busy enchanting stuff.

Might be a heat issue, frazod.

This is honestly one of the best looking games I've ever played. The variety is seriously impressive. Do any of the dungeons repeat at all? Every one I've been to looks different. I loved Oblivion, but everything was either fort, cave, mine, or Alyeid ruin pretty much, repeated over and over. And hearing that they finally hired more than two voice actors is nice for a change.

I was thinking that, too. I've been playing pretty much non-stop all day, and it is a bit warm in here. Computer's fairly well ventilated, but I think I'll throw open a window and take a break for a bit.

That might not fix your issue.

Monitor your video card temps. If it's overheating you might have a weak power supply and it's pulling too hard. That used to cause a lot of reboots for me.

I finally picked up this game. I logged in about 150 hours into Oblivion but I haven't played that in like 4 years. I just got through the intro when the dragon was attacking and I got a boner.

I've played about 30 hours these last three days. I barely even cared about the Chiefs game today; too caught up in this game.

So, I've played Oblivion a little bit and dug it. I played quite a bit of Fallout and it's probably still my favorite game ever.

I'm guessing I should go out and buy this game like yesterday, huh?

Like it was the last Camaro for sale. Ever.

I'm a Chiefs fan. You know how much I like Camaros.

This game is the fruit of everything Bethesda has been working on for the past eight years.

**** Ice Wraiths.

Learn to use a bow, pussy.

this game is fantastic.

It's a little tough when you have a group of them attacking you.

Learn to shoot faster, pussy.

i can't get screenshots to work ... can't find the folder either. :spock:

football season is over so it's good that all these games are out.

break out your flame thrower

If you back away up right you can maneuver them all into a bunch and burn them to the ground all at the same time. :D

F12

It would be a lot easier if they gave us 3 hands to use. 1 for flames, 1 for heal, 1 for sword.

I'd like to be able to sheathe my bow and come up with magic hands.

I'm pretty far in and haven't leveled my bow up at all. It's pretty much out of the question at this point.

That's why you backup while attacking

dual wield flame thrower and start backing up until you are out of mana or they are dead.

Then break out the sword and shield.

I'm constantly switching weapons

in stealth mode pretty much all the time with bow out for long range first strike
when they get close enough switch to double flame thrower
when out of mana, sword and shield
switch sword hand to healing when i need it, keep blocking with shield while healing.

my standard right now ... not very high level yet though.

Yeah I haven't used a shield once. Maybe I should.

Do you know what kind of damage they inflict? Is it just normal damage or do they inflict frost damage too?

there are magic shields that do more damage

I don't use them for damage, basically just to block while healing.

you can always level up your bow by going out and shooting critters


I wonder if you could go out and find a wolf and just stand there with your shield up to level it up. I played MMO RFonline game and we used to level up skills artificially all the time.

Sorry I meant the Ice Wraiths.

I don't think the wiki is fully updated on all this shit yet.

All the people who would do that are busy playing the game.

Bow is so easy to level up. Just shoot everything in sight.

Use your favorites. I basically have fireball locked into my left hand. So I use my bow in sneak and long distance, when I need to switch to melee, choose my right for my glass mace and fire is there in my left as soon as I switch.

If you are on PC, open your favorites and highlight the weapon/spell and press 1-8 to map them to the number keys. Just found that out last night. A bit better than pressing q and scrolling and clicking.

This game is the tits. 30 hours in so far, level 21.

Anyone found a PDF guide (Prima, ect.) online yet?

Must. Not. Buy.

Flambe. I'm going to have to start combining this with a dual swords/blades once my magika is depleted.

Good call. It's a huge time suck.

But. You. Will. :evil:

Don't ****ing tempt me. I hardly have time to play videogames as it is.

:thumb:

bow
flambe
sword

:D

btw ... just a few level points in Magicka seems to make a huge difference in how long it lasts. I think your magicka recovery must be based on % of the total you have. The more you have the faster it recovers.

I'm an imperial so i start with Heavy armor ability and each point of the heavy armor perk increases your armor rating by 20% for heavy armor. I put 2 in there so far. Just wait until i get the extra fire % damage and heavy armor weighs nothing perks

I'm going to be a flame throwing tank!!! :)

Soo even with the first shout you can't move a giant or mammoth? I got raped constantly. Don't think you can beat them @ level 5 anyway.

You know you want to.

Major bummer. I have a business trip today and will be without Skyrim till Thursday! All I did Saturday/Sunday was play (and most of Friday). Basically skipped the game. Watched the first half on DVR, then logged on here to find if we. Once I discovered the outcoime, I just went back to playing.

What guilds is everyone joining? I'm in the magic college, thieves guild and dark brotherhood, so far.

Have you done training with the Graybeards yet? Wonder if the full push shout would work.

You add 2 additional words to each shout, making them more powerful.

Patience, grasshopper. Giants will f you up, even at higher levels.

At level 5, it'd be tough to get past the troll on the way to High Hrothgar.

I'm deep in the Mage College quests right now. Also started up my second quest in the Companions Guild. I'll jump into Thieves guild after those.
I'm hung up on the Staff of Magnus quest now in the Mage College.

MAGE COLLEGE QUESTS ARE THE BEST QUESTS. PERIOD.

Right now I am going to find the This is the best quest I've ever done.

This is where I am too, Buck. But will be Thursday before I'm back to the game.

Hello?

I've got Lydia as a companion and she keeps dying. Any better options or way to keep them alive?

Make them wait somewhere else.

Yeah, that doesn't always work.

One day I noticed Lydia wasn't following me anymore. She must have died.

Good riddance.

Ok, I'm giving this game a shot. I got it for PC. Looks really sweet. I made a reptile dude. Anyway, the small issue I'm having so far is that there is shit everywhere. I'm the dude that is thorough when it comes to getting every item in games. I literally did a crime scene investigation in every room in Bioshock. I just like to get all the items. Seems in this game you gotta just ignore a lot of shit. It's hard for me to do.

This is what you get when you finish the Mage's College quests. Totally ****ing worth it.



They could have made that quest alone it's own game. This is going to be the best $60 I ever spent.

Haha. You're gonna be playing this when the next one comes out.

Has anyone run across any mini-games or did they not put any in this game?

LMAO

I love Penny Arcade.

LMAO

Did you play Oblivion?

Near the sleeping tree mammoth/giant camp there's a sniper's perch the giants can't get to. Lure them there and take them out. So broken.

My bow and archery skills are powerful enough now that I can take out giants just by firing two shots from cover for 3x sneak damage. :evil:

No. **** you. I can't tell you how many times I've said I've never played any of The Elder Scrolls games.

I guess that's not that great of an item, but it's god damn better than anything I have now.

That's why you're having so much fun.

I had never played an Elder Scrolls game or an open world RPG before Oblivion and that game owned me.

Hagravens kicking my ass with that fireball spell.


enchanting is teh wuss pull enchantment off item that increased magicka recovery by 50% and when i put it on an item it was only 1%. :spock: It's going to be worthless unless you invest perks in it.

alchemy table rocks - figured out health pot,fire resist and cold resist so far. :D

making my own potions. oh yea!!

got to figure out how to make a cure disease potion, i'm coming down with diseases faster than lindsay lohan on a weekend bender.

stupid ass weight limit :cuss:

Staff of Magnus goes all the way back to Morrowind.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:S...gnus_(artifact)

Are you reading the books you encounter in your travels, Buck? Lots of cool history and funny stuff about the world of the elder scrolls.

Yeah you have to level up your enchanting. I'm currently working on leveling up my smithing and enchanting so I can make epic enchanted armor.

Also the degree of the soul gem you use on an item affects the percentage of improvement. Use a greater soul for more percentage.

I'm way too impatient.

I was in the beginning, but have since just hit read and then exited.

I bought Oblivion, got through 1 gate. Got through a 2nd gate and realized how repetitive it was and never touched it again.

I got a black soul gem.

What am I supposed to do with that?