Elder Scrolls V

[Fire Me Boy!]

So the guys at Bethesda let it slip a few months ago that Elder Scrolls V was in the works for 2010, and a friend said he read a possible release in 2009... I'm looking for the article, but I'm friggin' STOKED about a new Elder Scrolls game coming out in the next 12-18 months!!!

I think they can learn a lot with the successes and failures of their previous landmark releases like Morrowind, Oblivion and Fallout 3 and make ESV an absolute KICK ASS game!

[Dave Lane]

What do you use the perks for I have about 8-9 and not sure how they work? I'm trying to get destruction up and not having luck after the initial time.

[Swanman]

Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy!

Yes. One perk per level. Wonder if they instituted a level cap.

From what I read, there is a level 50 "soft cap". You can continue to level up to 70 but you stop getting perks after 50.

I get it today from Amazon, can't wait.

[Pants]

Originally Posted by Swanman

From what I read, there is a level 50 "soft cap". You can continue to level up to 70 but you stop getting perks after 50.

I get it today from Amazon, can't wait.

Why the **** would they do that? Seriously...

LE SIGH

[allen_kcCard]

Originally Posted by Dave Lane

What do you use the perks for I have about 8-9 and not sure how they work? I'm trying to get destruction up and not having luck after the initial time.

You do it in the constellations screen, skills when you don't have a level up to do. Just use the arrows to move around and select where you want to put new ones. It should show the skill you need to place in a slot, and what your current is.

[Pants]

Originally Posted by Dave Lane

What do you use the perks for I have about 8-9 and not sure how they work? I'm trying to get destruction up and not having luck after the initial time.

Go to skills and invest points into those constellations. It's pretty self explanatory once you read the description under each star. For example, I'm putting my perks into One-Handed (for dual wielding) and into Heavy Armor. My one-handed weapons are now doing 40% more damage, use 25% less stamina on heavy attacks and dual wielding attacks are 20% faster (which is huge). My Heavy Armor items receive a 40% bonus to their rating.

[allen_kcCard]

I am pushing up only part of Descruction myself. Putting in for all the half costs on the tiers, dual spell, impact, and then only the shock increased damage with the incinerate one that can instakill low hp targets.

I'll also do heavy armor for the one that lets me move faster and have no wieght for heavy armors, and smithing to be able to craft those heavy armors. I might do some in archery as well, and maybe some in alchemy and/or enchanting. I need to look at a perks calculator again and plan it out.

[Dave Lane]

Originally Posted by allen_kcCard

You do it in the constellations screen, skills when you don't have a level up to do. Just use the arrows to move around and select where you want to put new ones. It should show the skill you need to place in a slot, and what your current is.

Yeah it does, maybe i don't have enough perks to make the next level of the tree. It says you have 20 points need 30. Are these perks because the number isn't the same as the perks so i was a bit confused if they are like perks in New Vegas or something different.

[Pants]

Originally Posted by Dave Lane

Yeah it does, maybe i don't have enough perks to make the next level of the tree. It says you have 20 points need 30. Are these perks because the number is the same as the perks so i was a bit confused if they are like perks in New Vegas or something different.

Skills require proficiencies. Sounds like you're at 20 and need 30, you have to keep using that skill until you level it up to 30.

Proficiency =/= perks. You can be a 100 in Light Armor and never invest any perks into the tree. Your proficiencies increase automatically as you use your skills.

[Skyy God]

Originally Posted by Buck

Here's my player guys.

That's it, I'm getting a dragon priest mask stat.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by Pittsie

That's it, I'm getting a dragon priest mask stat.

I got something similar - gives me +20 speech and allows for an extra 20 pounts of inventory weight.

[WhiteWhale]

Originally Posted by Swanman

From what I read, there is a level 50 "soft cap". You can continue to level up to 70 but you stop getting perks after 50.

I get it today from Amazon, can't wait.

This is wrong.

There IS a soft-cap at level 50. Skills take longer to increase. That's it. You start leveling slower. You still gain perks at every level gain.

I also understand that some quests will give you perks once finished, but I have not seen any.

[Pants]

Quick question: what is ore used in? Alchemy? I thought I would be able to smelt it into ignots and do some smithing, but it doesn't look that way.

[WhiteWhale]

The Mage's college quest line was weak. In Oblivion I stopped a long dead necromancer from coming back and enslaving the realm.

Spoiler!

In Skyrim I stop a shady elf who is trying to do something unexplained using a tiny death star. I dive 2 ruins and kill an elf and they name me ArchMage. The final 'epic' battle of the questline was so pathetic I don't even want to mention it.

Weak sauce guys. Considering that magic itself has been totally ****ed up (no spell crafting, hardly any daedra for conjuring) they could have at least made the questline worth my time.

That was underwhelming.

[WhiteWhale]

Originally Posted by Pants

Quick question: what is ore used in? Alchemy? I thought I would be able to smelt it into ignots and do some smithing, but it doesn't look that way.

I'm also trying to figure this out. I got a transmutate spell that lets me turn all my iron/silver ore into gold... but as far as I know all I can do is sell it for a pittance.

[lcarus]

Originally Posted by Buck

That's so me in this game. I gotta be more disciplined and just run past shit.