Skyrim, or, How I Ruined My LifeFollow

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The next time Lydia says "*Sigh*... I'm sworn to carry your burdens...", she's gonna catch an arrow in the muff.

Followers are more trouble than they're worth, IMO.

Though SpoilerI hear tell there's a Dogmeat equivalent out there somewhere. I'd be down for that.

I don't often use followers because they steal my kills... I feel like I cannot level up my combat skills or be stealthy when Lydia or someone else goes charging in and murdering everything/setting off every trap/getting herself killed.

I'll admit earlier though she saved my *** quite a few times when I was weak and unskilled from monsters like saber cats and frost trolls. Though these days I could kill frost trolls naked at level 1 simply having learned to dodge their attack pattern. I use them as training partners because of their ability to constantly regenerate health.

Followers get in the damn way when you're trying to snipe bad guys. And to note, so do the damn horses.

I do agree with that. I almost wish they were more like (dare I say it?) the companions in SWTOR. While not amazingly lifelike, they at least have more than three lines, make witty lines during quests, and have some personal quests.

Ideally, they'd have the same kind of interaction that you get from the companions in Dragon Age. God, can you imagine running around Skyrim with Morrigan? Oh man, someone mod her into the game right now!

"You expect me to carry your items? How about I turn you into a frog?"

My bag used to always be packed, then a few things happened:

1. Picked up the heavy armor conditioning perk, so all that heavy armor that I wore... no longer weighed anything.
2. I realized that almost anything I craft will net me more gold than some random orc axe of blaze.

Also, I stopped picking up dragon bones because I already have 3000 of each of them.

I've only bothered with Lydia so far (since she was thrust upon me) but I've found sometimes the best answer is to stand behind her and just pour some Healing Hands on the girl. Tank/Cleric is a classic combo for a reason.

But I'm not worried about kill-stealing. I fight enough open battles where I have plenty of room to avoid Firebolt'ing Lydia in the back of the head that I don't begrudge changing tactics for tight locations.

Also, my life is better since I said "***** you" to cooking and stopped picking up every stray potato and cabbage I found stored in a barrel at the bottom of some long abandoned ruin

Edited, Feb 13th 2012 12:27pm by Jophiel

I started out that way, but now that I'm aware of how stupidly easy it can be to make gold in the game, I find I can get by carrying less than I used to. My thief has something absurd like 420 carrying capacity, and my mage doesn't have much use for 99% of the things he could loot.

My warrior does have that archer elf from Riverwood tagging along with him for kicks, but I don't really use him as a mule.

But I don't fight many dragons, because I don't use many shouts, and I've yet to get a character to the top levels of smithing. So I'm not really burdened with excess dragon bones/scales. My thief is my highest level character, and I beat the game with him at level 26 or so. So there just hasn't been much that's needed collecting for me.



I honestly can't believe that you even tried that to begin with!

Cooking always gets the shaft in games.

Well, the stew and fondue aren't bad for some magicka/stamina boosting and regen. Plus the ingredients are fairly common and you can make it without any skill in alchemy.

Once you have alchemy (or even a modest player level) you'll have stronger potions, of course.

Edit: There are some mods that make cooking a lot more attractive; I found this one and I'm tempted to use it.

Also, this:


Edited, Feb 13th 2012 2:48pm by LockeColeMA

I haven't spent any perks on it or anything but I create some potions when I'm between dungeons/quests. The health/magicka ones are of obvious use and melee-centric ones that I don't need I either sell or pass to Lydia. I haven't kept track of how often she uses them, aside from the tell-tale golden swirls of healing potions. Now that I type it, I need to look into that and see if she uses +Stamina potions and stuff.

Otherwise it's +Enchantment, +Lockpick and the occasional +Destruction.

Speaking of, I like lock picking so much more than in Oblivion. I hated Oblivion's so much I'd just spam Auto to see what was inside and then reload. If it was worth it, I'd keep spamming Auto and reloading until I opened it with just a couple picks. At least that went a lot faster after I made a Fortify Lockpicking +100 spell.

I've gotta say, the whole Steam Workshop mod thing is pretty awesome. It's really nice having my mods auto-update, and install with just a click.

Edit: And I've got the Space Core sitting on a table in my house. ಠ_ಠ

Edited, Feb 13th 2012 4:33pm by IDrownFish