Skyrim, or, How I Ruined My LifeFollow

Good deal. I'll keep my eyes open. Only gear I've seen it on has been guild feet.

Is there any limit on training from npcs? I know in Oblivion it was not possible to go 0->100 through trainers alone.

You can't disenchant set pieces, which are the only ones I've seen so far that have muffle. I'll have to try shopping a little (that's assuming I ever get back to the game, I haven't played it in a week due to dota 2 / skyward sword).

Here are your fun tips for the day. Spoilery spoilers ahoy, the first can make you overpowered pretty much from the get-go.

Spoiler The entire thing is detailed here, but here is the meat and bones:
1. The "fortify X" effects are considered part of the restoration tree.
2. If you were to, say, use a "Fortify restoration potion," and then use another, and then another, and then another... the effect and duration would increase each time. If you then drank a "fortify enchanting potion," your increase would be several hundred-thousands of percents increased.
3. You can then enchant your items with more fortify enchanting/smithing/alchemy. The effects will be much higher than the "normal" maximum cap of 29% (or 32% with the falmer hood glitch).
4. You can then make whatever uber items you want through smithing, or with whatever amazing enchant you want through enchanting, or with uber-powerful potion effects and a 999 second duration with alchemy.
5. Best of all, you don't need any perks; just add more fortify restoration potions before-hand. The potion can be made very early on using salt piles and abecean longfin.

Second one, less game-breaking and likely a glitch, but a great boost for a low-level character or a huge cash-cow for higher level characters.
SpoilerDawnstar's secret chest:
The topic on it can be found here, the OP was looking for reagents, thought the tree he mentioned had something, and ended up finding an invisible chest outside of Dawnstar containing several hundred gold, some filled Grant Soul Gems, dozens of potions, and a large amount of enchanted gear. After much trial and error, the members of the board are pretty sure that this is the inventory of the traveling Khajhit caravan that goes from city to city; people sold items to them, and then found the items back in the chest.

To find the chest, here are the direction:
To find it, go to Dawnstar. Face the Iron-breaker mine entrance. Now look to the left of the entrance (facing it, not coming out of it.) On the compass, you'd be looking almost due east. There's a triangle of rocks near a short pine tree. The chest is between the mountain and the rock closest to it.


Here's a video of it; the guy is very long-winded. Chest location is around 1:03


I've heard the items do respawn after about a month in-game, and the value and type will level with your character's level.

Edited, Dec 5th 2011 3:04pm by LockeColeMA

I just finished this last night but haven't really checked out the furnished hideout yet. I'll have to do that in a bit. That being said, I've tried on every worn, ancient, and normal shrouded armors I've come across with no luck yet. It did let me enchant a worn shrouded glove with the backstab on it, but afterwards it didn't show up on the item.

I'm pretty sure there is a named...either thief or assassin who has a lesser version of the equipment. I honestly don't remember because I disenchanted his entire set a while back. =X

I came across this list that may be of at least some use to you if you want to grind alchemy (or part of it) with potions. It's organized by the value of the finished potion which correlates to the skill gained from each combine. It's not great for finding specific recipes because it's too large and unwieldy, but if you're looking at your mats wondering what to make with them in order to get the most skill-up bang for your buck, it can be a big help.

That's definitely a nifty list. Thanks!

My bow is doing 32 damage.

My bow does 219 damage and I've only put a couple perks into Archery. With the triple damage from Sneak attacks, it's really as strong as it needs to be.

Ok, so I hit level 27, and now every time a dragon shows up it's two bloody Frost Dragons with about a million HP, and they kill me in one shot.

This game is now seriously p*ssing me off :(

In my case, it's a game of "How many times can I restart this game before actually getting past level 20?"

I'm two levels from finding out - unless I start over again, of course.

My current toon is using:

One-Handed
Archery
Block
Light Armor
Restoration
Sneak

Prioritization is in that order.