Skyrim, or, How I Ruined My LifeFollow

This is entirely unrelated to skyrim but mah kitty is sleeping on my lap as I play and it's just too cute to not tell anyone.

well i started a roguish kahjit. after helgen, bleak falls barrow, and the first couple smithing assignments i was level 12 with 50 archery and 46 sneak, lol. seems like the opposite of most rpgs where the second run through goes so fast you end up underleveled. i was so proud of myself until i realised that enemies are going to be scaled way up relative to my damage output. my first guy was a thane with a house and a couple dragon shouts at level 11.

i tried the dense starfield and hi-res blood mods. only time i bothered to look at the sky at night it was overcast, and wow there's a lot more blood on the screen now.

the big ram patch feels like it makes the game load faster, but i don't see it actually using any more ram, and i don't think my c2d + 4670 have the balls to crank up the graphics too much.

have you guys seen these screenshots:

http://deadendthrills.com/

In my experience, magic regeneration+% is meh during combat. Instead, I'd go with an MP Absorb weapon and Spell Cost-%.

After you kill your first dragon in the main quest (or maybe after recovering the dragon stone?), you are able to buy your house in Whiterun for 5000g. I have only bought a house in Whiterun, so I cannot comment about the other cities. Other cities might have houses for sale immediately.

Edited, Nov 18th 2011 10:40pm by xypin

I think you underestimate the power of the board. With Deadly Bash my shield hits like a truck on bash. It basically is dual wielding except with lots of extra block. Plus with the stagger meditated fus boost word I stun the crap out of mobs with shield bash. I saw earlier you don't power attack or bash becuase of stamina but I never run out of stamina. I have been balancing Stam and Health every other level and ignoring magica since I can always top off with dual wield healing and that the only magic I use on this toon besides enchants and shouts.

My Fights are swing/Block/Bash/Swing repeat depending on mob strength then it's dead for the most part now. But sometimes I just shield bash something dead to save charges on my fire enchant sword.

Edited to add: Conditioning (Heavy Armor weighs nothing and does not slow you down when worn) which I just got rules!


Edited, Nov 18th 2011 8:56pm by Shojindo

Hehe yeah I just did a quest in Whiterun where I had to kill some bandits at Silent Moons Camp and when I went to turn it in Proventus Avenicci gave me the option to buy a house in town. I almost miss the way Oblivion gave the option to buy a town if you had the cash yet still gave the option for a really cheep house if you wanted to put a bit of work into it. That is probably the only big thing about Oblivion I miss though.

I've been doing so much better since I gave up on trying 1h + magic. Dual wielding is awesome, but I also have a shield for certain enemies.

Also, I'm using daggers for obvious reasons - though I didn't think they qualified for the 1h sword perk. Was I wrong? Either way, I think the points are better invested in other trees than just crit chance.

Right mouse button I'm guessing since thats the button I use for shield.

I know what you did. You broke the game! You might want to consider turning up the difficulty.

And Idigg doo eet. The greybeards hook you up with some pretty helpful stuff. On my next play through I won't put that off so long.

Edited, Nov 19th 2011 8:42am by Shojindo

Uhhh... use the right mouse button? I alternate them pretty quickly and it works pretty well.

In my game I actually rebound the controls for attacking. Now my left hand is bound to my left click, and right hand to the right click. It makes more sense to me than the backwards way they had it when I first booted it up.

The thing about dual wielding for me is it's kind of just "OH GOD SPAMSPAMSPAM DIE ALREADY" while trying not to get hit.

I say ***** them and go be a master Enchanter. Bonus points for naming yourself Tim. :D

0 magicka spells is nice...

This intrigues me. What are these 0 magicka shenanigans you speak of?

Edit: Found it.

It's like the 100% chameleon trick in Oblivion. Mass amounts of reduced cost of Destruction or whatever school you want.

Edited, Nov 19th 2011 5:24pm by IDrownFish