Skyrim...what happened?

[InkL0sed]

I'm playing Skyrim right now. When I started out, I decided my character would focus entirely on Speech, avoiding all combat. Now my Speech is 95 and my Pickpocket 96, so I've switched focus to magic – and my Destruction is 70, Conjuration 66, and Illusion 59. All at level 35.

It's kind of obscene how fast I'm levelling skills. My only problem is I'm not getting perks fast enough to keep up.

Illusion is the easiest to level up (especially if you are a High Elf). Go to your house, park your butt by your bed, and cast Muffle as much as you can (as a High Elf, use your magic regeneration power, you will be able to cast more spells this way). Once you have burned up all your magic, go to bed and wake up. Rinse and repeat...you will level up quick.

I find it interesting that you chose Speech to focus on. How is that working out for you?

The point is that at first I wanted to make a character that was just really good at making money, and who would be forced to avoid combat as much as any other normal citizen. Then, once I had all the Speech and Pickpocket I needed, I was going to buy all the skills from trainers and pickpocket some or all of the money back.

That part hasn't turned out as well as I hoped because you can only train five ranks in any skill per level, and ranks gradually get more expensive, making the money impossible to pickpocket back at a certain point. So now I'm running into this problem with perks.

I have a hard time fighting things but I get by – mostly because I can summon a Dremora Lord or Storm Atronach (with all of my magicka) even without the perks.

[InkL0sed]

Also, you're basically impossible to arrest with high enough Speech because you can persuade guards not to arrest you once per guard per day. That synergizes REALLY well with Pickpocket.

[notyou2]

Is everyone Skyrimmed out now? Nobody ever says anything about it anymore.

At one time it was made out to be the greatest RPG of all time...now, rarely a murmur--not even a whisper in the wind.

I lost interest in it when I took it out and didn't put it back in the case. I left it on the floor like a moron. Then...my dad stepped on it.

My dad stepped on my SKYRIM!

I never entered that world again after that.

Apparently the Elders took the scrolls back.

[notyou2]

I'm playing Skyrim right now. When I started out, I decided my character would focus entirely on Speech, avoiding all combat. Now my Speech is 95 and my Pickpocket 96, so I've switched focus to magic – and my Destruction is 70, Conjuration 66, and Illusion 59. All at level 35.

It's kind of obscene how fast I'm levelling skills. My only problem is I'm not getting perks fast enough to keep up.

Illusion is the easiest to level up (especially if you are a High Elf). Go to your house, park your butt by your bed, and cast Muffle as much as you can (as a High Elf, use your magic regeneration power, you will be able to cast more spells this way). Once you have burned up all your magic, go to bed and wake up. Rinse and repeat...you will level up quick.

I find it interesting that you chose Speech to focus on. How is that working out for you?

What are you trying to "muffle" while lying on your bed?

[xeno]

'sfunny, I just started a new character on Morrowind. Never got to beat it the first time cuz the original Xbox crapped out. Having a blast with it. I agree with BBS to some extent. The whole time I played Oblivion I really hoped for somebody who would could join my game.

I have mixed feelings on Dark Souls' multiplayer. On one hand it's a lot of fun, except for the annoying griefers that are present in any online game (looking at Forest Covenant fights), but I wish it was allowed for more specificity. Like, if I could just invite a friend through the menu rather than having to plan where you'd meet up and then summon them.

-TG

Yeah, exactly. And have the game prohibit red raiders (or whatever they're called) from joining in.

I don't know how much y'all played the multiplayer but I spent last summer getting indictments and I was in the top 1000 or so on ps3 it was intense. Lots of cigs weed and Mountain Dew and nothing is more annoying than some asshole health glitching. I hate griefers. Also bbs since I'm th red phantom you hate so much don't turn alive and I won't come kill your ass.

[BigBallinStalin]

'sfunny, I just started a new character on Morrowind. Never got to beat it the first time cuz the original Xbox crapped out. Having a blast with it. I agree with BBS to some extent. The whole time I played Oblivion I really hoped for somebody who would could join my game.

I have mixed feelings on Dark Souls' multiplayer. On one hand it's a lot of fun, except for the annoying griefers that are present in any online game (looking at Forest Covenant fights), but I wish it was allowed for more specificity. Like, if I could just invite a friend through the menu rather than having to plan where you'd meet up and then summon them.

-TG

Yeah, exactly. And have the game prohibit red raiders (or whatever they're called) from joining in.

I don't know how much y'all played the multiplayer but I spent last summer getting indictments and I was in the top 1000 or so on ps3 it was intense. Lots of cigs weed and Mountain Dew and nothing is more annoying than some asshole health glitching. I hate griefers. Also bbs since I'm th red phantom you hate so much don't turn alive and I won't come kill your ass.

Me and my axe will sort your ass out--as soon as I get a PS3 controller charger, and then find my Dark Souls game--UGH! UGH! UGH!

My main point is that I'm differentiating between Diablo 2 multiplayer co-op, and Dark Souls 'multiplayer'. I favor the former for my ideal game.

[xeno]

'sfunny, I just started a new character on Morrowind. Never got to beat it the first time cuz the original Xbox crapped out. Having a blast with it. I agree with BBS to some extent. The whole time I played Oblivion I really hoped for somebody who would could join my game.

I have mixed feelings on Dark Souls' multiplayer. On one hand it's a lot of fun, except for the annoying griefers that are present in any online game (looking at Forest Covenant fights), but I wish it was allowed for more specificity. Like, if I could just invite a friend through the menu rather than having to plan where you'd meet up and then summon them.

-TG

Yeah, exactly. And have the game prohibit red raiders (or whatever they're called) from joining in.

I don't know how much y'all played the multiplayer but I spent last summer getting indictments and I was in the top 1000 or so on ps3 it was intense. Lots of cigs weed and Mountain Dew and nothing is more annoying than some asshole health glitching. I hate griefers. Also bbs since I'm th red phantom you hate so much don't turn alive and I won't come kill your ass.

Me and my axe will sort your ass out--as soon as I get a PS3 controller charger, and then find my Dark Souls game--UGH! UGH! UGH!

My main point is that I'm differentiating between Diablo 2 multiplayer co-op, and Dark Souls 'multiplayer'. I favor the former for my ideal game.

Good luck with that axe. I used to low level pvp with a chaos uchigatana, giants gear, roley ring before it was nerfed and the gold ring and rape noobs like you. Those were the days!

[xeno]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Lp-5WdtD0


Omg omg I'm so excited!!!!! This is the greatest moment!

[CreepersWiener]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Lp-5WdtD0


Omg omg I'm so excited!!!!! This is the greatest moment!

Now, if it only played the way the trailer looked...

[xeno]

It's going to be better if that's possible!

[CreepersWiener]

It's going to be better if that's possible!

Do you recommend Dark Souls, btw?

[xeno]

It's going to be better if that's possible!

Do you recommend Dark Souls, btw?

What? Of course I've only hijacked this stupid skyrim thread to talk about it! I'll go as far as to say it is my favorite game on this generation of consoles it was that good. I'm listening to the soundtrack now

[BigBallinStalin]

'sfunny, I just started a new character on Morrowind. Never got to beat it the first time cuz the original Xbox crapped out. Having a blast with it. I agree with BBS to some extent. The whole time I played Oblivion I really hoped for somebody who would could join my game.

I have mixed feelings on Dark Souls' multiplayer. On one hand it's a lot of fun, except for the annoying griefers that are present in any online game (looking at Forest Covenant fights), but I wish it was allowed for more specificity. Like, if I could just invite a friend through the menu rather than having to plan where you'd meet up and then summon them.

-TG

Yeah, exactly. And have the game prohibit red raiders (or whatever they're called) from joining in.

I don't know how much y'all played the multiplayer but I spent last summer getting indictments and I was in the top 1000 or so on ps3 it was intense. Lots of cigs weed and Mountain Dew and nothing is more annoying than some asshole health glitching. I hate griefers. Also bbs since I'm th red phantom you hate so much don't turn alive and I won't come kill your ass.

Me and my axe will sort your ass out--as soon as I get a PS3 controller charger, and then find my Dark Souls game--UGH! UGH! UGH!

My main point is that I'm differentiating between Diablo 2 multiplayer co-op, and Dark Souls 'multiplayer'. I favor the former for my ideal game.

Good luck with that axe. I used to low level pvp with a chaos uchigatana, giants gear, roley ring before it was nerfed and the gold ring and rape noobs like you. Those were the days!

You're no true man!

[BigBallinStalin]

It's going to be better if that's possible!

Do you recommend Dark Souls, btw?

What? Of course I've only hijacked this stupid skyrim thread to talk about it! I'll go as far as to say it is my favorite game on this generation of consoles it was that good. I'm listening to the soundtrack now

It's great in some areas, and decent in others (e.g. the story, and way too decentralized merchants--i.e. no 'Warp' feature to towns where all the merchants are chillin' in one spot.

[xeno]

It's going to be better if that's possible!

Do you recommend Dark Souls, btw?

What? Of course I've only hijacked this stupid skyrim thread to talk about it! I'll go as far as to say it is my favorite game on this generation of consoles it was that good. I'm listening to the soundtrack now

It's great in some areas, and decent in others (e.g. the story, and way too decentralized merchants--i.e. no 'Warp' feature to towns where all the merchants are chillin' in one spot.

The story is expansive! The game won't spoon feed you anything if you want to know more about it you'll have to research it yourself.

And yep I had a level 12 or so that could carry all those things I would set up around the bell tower or even darkroot forest and go off on people

[thegreekdog]

Dark Souls seems like a game I don't want to play.

[TA1LGUNN3R]

I'm playing Skyrim right now. When I started out, I decided my character would focus entirely on Speech, avoiding all combat. Now my Speech is 95 and my Pickpocket 96, so I've switched focus to magic – and my Destruction is 70, Conjuration 66, and Illusion 59. All at level 35.

It's kind of obscene how fast I'm levelling skills. My only problem is I'm not getting perks fast enough to keep up.

Illusion is the easiest to level up (especially if you are a High Elf). Go to your house, park your butt by your bed, and cast Muffle as much as you can (as a High Elf, use your magic regeneration power, you will be able to cast more spells this way). Once you have burned up all your magic, go to bed and wake up. Rinse and repeat...you will level up quick.

I find it interesting that you chose Speech to focus on. How is that working out for you?

The point is that at first I wanted to make a character that was just really good at making money, and who would be forced to avoid combat as much as any other normal citizen. Then, once I had all the Speech and Pickpocket I needed, I was going to buy all the skills from trainers and pickpocket some or all of the money back.

That part hasn't turned out as well as I hoped because you can only train five ranks in any skill per level, and ranks gradually get more expensive, making the money impossible to pickpocket back at a certain point. So now I'm running into this problem with perks.

I have a hard time fighting things but I get by – mostly because I can summon a Dremora Lord or Storm Atronach (with all of my magicka) even without the perks.

I never really bothered with speechcraft because if you have high enough illusion you can just charm the person. Skyrim may be different, but if you level up you mercantile high enough money is easy. It's also fast to build up. Just go to a merchant, charm them so they like you about >90, then buy one item at the minimum you can, then sell it back to them at max you can.
Repeat. If their disposition is high enough, you can just drain them of their money. The restocking merchants are endless money pits.

Mercantile and Alchemy = lots of money. You can buy ingredients from the restocking merchants that are really cheap, and make quite a profit. A potion that costs 10 gold to make you can sell for 50 or 60 with high enough Alchemy and a good set (using master set right now in Morrowind).

Now I'm pretty set on gold, and can buy skills to a certain level so that I don't stay bored.

-TG

[thegreekdog]

I contemplated doing a mage-only character but that provides some unfun limitations. First, the Companion quests are pretty cool. Second, and more importantly, I'm a bit of a hoarder. I keep any weapons I find that have even a small level of magicka or are in any way unique. I feel like a pure mage-only character wouldn't do that. I also like to enchant and smith the crap out of things.

If I could only make my own spells.

[AndyDufresne]

I contemplated doing a mage-only character but that provides some unfun limitations. First, the Companion quests are pretty cool. Second, and more importantly, I'm a bit of a hoarder. I keep any weapons I find that have even a small level of magicka or are in any way unique. I feel like a pure mage-only character wouldn't do that. I also like to enchant and smith the crap out of things.

If I could only make my own spells.

I was a hoarder as well. One of the things I liked about Diablo franchise when I played it, was loot hunting. Not as fun in Skyrim, but Skyrim has many other things going for it.


--Andy

[thegreekdog]

I contemplated doing a mage-only character but that provides some unfun limitations. First, the Companion quests are pretty cool. Second, and more importantly, I'm a bit of a hoarder. I keep any weapons I find that have even a small level of magicka or are in any way unique. I feel like a pure mage-only character wouldn't do that. I also like to enchant and smith the crap out of things.

If I could only make my own spells.

I was a hoarder as well. One of the things I liked about Diablo franchise when I played it, was loot hunting. Not as fun in Skyrim, but Skyrim has many other things going for it.


--Andy

I even hoard the Dwermer parts that I pick up. There's a pile of them in Breezehome next to my alchemist bench. I think they need a reality show for video game hoarders.

[Lootifer]

Melt those bad boys down!

[Serbia]

Depending on what he's hoarding, he most probably can't melt them down.

Bollocks.

[CreepersWiener]

I contemplated doing a mage-only character but that provides some unfun limitations. First, the Companion quests are pretty cool. Second, and more importantly, I'm a bit of a hoarder. I keep any weapons I find that have even a small level of magicka or are in any way unique. I feel like a pure mage-only character wouldn't do that. I also like to enchant and smith the crap out of things.

If I could only make my own spells.

I was a hoarder as well. One of the things I liked about Diablo franchise when I played it, was loot hunting. Not as fun in Skyrim, but Skyrim has many other things going for it.


--Andy

I even hoard the Dwermer parts that I pick up. There's a pile of them in Breezehome next to my alchemist bench. I think they need a reality show for video game hoarders.

X-Play had this skit:
http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/7 ... -hoarders/

[Serbia]

All I want to say is "bump" but I'm worried I'll be accused of spamming. So instead, I'll let everyone know that I'm watching my wife Skyrimming while I drink beer and write posts.

Bollocks.

[muy_thaiguy]

Haven't played it since I beat the DragonBorn DLC. And got tired of Giant hunting, which is a LOT easier at a level higher than 10.