Skyrim, or, How I Ruined My LifeFollow

I will occaionally get a guard to randomly spawn at the entrance to a cave, run to me then turn around and run out. When I try to catch back up to him he just gives me some random flavor statement. Scared the **** out of me when I was already on edge in one cave.

Edited, Nov 20th 2011 4:55pm by Criminy

The enchantments on the mage robes are the same results you'd gain from enchanting magic cost-% and magic regen+% onto a piece of armor as two separate enchantments.

You are able to disenchant the robes for a single enchantment that combines cost-% and regen+%, but even at 100 enchanting, the effect is significantly reduced. I think when I last checked, I ended up with cost-10%, regen+15% using that specific enchantment.

You can not add enchantments to gear that already has an enchantment on it. The "extra" enchantment means you pick up to two enchantments and use only one soul gem. Unless it is without enchantments, gear will not appear in the list of available items to enchant, this includes robes.

Also, I'm thinking about turning my Breton into a Warmage. Pure mage is fun... as long as you have magicka. Once you run out, then my potion stores just plummet. I think that, now that my enchanting is getting up there, I can make it viable.

Of course, I'm ALSO debating the merits of starting over. So take this with a grain of salt.

Do fire spells add a weakness debuff on the target, or do they just burn the target for a bit of extra damage? The tooltip says that targets take additional damage, but I don't know if they mean they become weak to further damage from all sources.

I've tried to keep an eye on health bars when I light stuff on fire. Doesn't seem to go down from the lingering fire. I've noticed, though, that targets on fire have a tendency to get a fatality much faster. Sometimes I'll barely do any damage with Flames and do a regular attack with my sword and instantly skewer the target.

By the way, the fatality where you stab someone in the chest has got to be the most gratifying fatality in the game. When it happens on a boss, I whisper 'Shush, don't cry...' at the monitor (the fatality reminds me of a certain scene from Saving Private Ryan for some reason). Every time. True story.

Well, sometimes I jump out of the chair, do a double fist pump and yell "HELL YEAH!"

So a bit of both, but only additional damage from fire spells?

Hmn, guess I should keybind Frostbite and Sparks then. So far I've been using Flames exclusively because I thought the debuff worked with all damage sources, especially my sword.

I don't really use Sparks or Frostbite as much. Stuff dies so fast it's not worth switching from Flames. Plus, Flames seems to hit multiple targets if they stack up, so a good bottleneck and Flames has made short work of most bandits and Draugr, or whatever the undead are called.

Also, for people who have been through Markarath, is that SERIOUSLY where the quest line ends? SpoilerWhat, I'm just supposed to act like everything's cool while these ******** ruin everyone's lives? I have to say, for a game that is about giving the player freedom and possibilities, I'm extremely dissatisfied with how little you are able to influence towns and politics in the game. If it's not a quest, your only option is killing them (IF they aren't essential, which everyone valuable seems to be). And considering where all these quest lines stop...

:/

To be fair, this is not new with Skyrim--it was exactly the same with Oblivion. It would be one thing, though, if we were like we were in Oblivion--just some random guy. But I'm the MFing DOVAHKIIN, let me oust a corrupt Jarl. At LEAST let me crush a corrupt family into the ground...

I stumbled upon my first Dwemer ruins today, just outside of Whiterun. I've played close to 20 hours on this character and still haven't gone to meet the Grey Beards. I keep working my way towards them and every time I do another dungeon area appears and I just have to clear it.

I've only killed 4 dragons, but I must say, Frost dragons are a HUGE pushover (Nord). Fire still hurts me. I have to find some fire resist to help with that. If they land, they are dead quickly, but those damn Fire dragons love to just fly and burn. I've been making a habit to save before every fast travel, since I always get a dragon attack at the most inappropriate time.

So far my "goody two shoes" hasn't been so bad. I just make friends with everyone until they let me take stuff from their house. I did the "no crime" thing because my brother's game has an army of Thugs following him around that he constantly hides from. I did get a brotherhood assassin come after me today, but I have only 9 assaults (attacking unprovoked enemies counts as an assault, I guess). The note said someone put a hit out on me, didn't mention who. I'm assuming that it was just a random event, related to the people who don't want the Dragonborn to live.


Also, I think earlier there was talk of, and a link to, your home being robbed. I really don't think it's true. My brother's hated by half the current game and his house remains untouched. Reading the single topic on the internet that talks about it, and experiencing the bug myself, it looks like if you start a random walk-by conversation with a person and instantly enter your home, they enter it, finish talking, and leave again. That includes the one guard who says stuff about "Someone stealing your sweet roll" and you then see random people leaving your house when you first enter.

You've apparently never seen a fatality on a dragon then. Jumping up on it's head and stabbing the hell out of it's face is way more satisfying than stabbing some random guy through the chest.

Wait until you find a good shield with magic resist, and invest in the Elemental Protection perk in the Block tree. Then all dragons become huge pushovers.

I found some Expert Robes Of Destruction. 25% easier to cast destruction spells and 125% magicka regen. Vendors for like 900+ default. Is that what it caps out at with max enchanting perks and potions?

Yeah I love just shrugging off their ice breath attacks. Then they land and nom on my face.


So, I got ambushed by a bunch of hired thugs after exiting a dungeon. It's apparently a random occurrence that happens after some thefts? In my case, I believe that it was Spoilerthe theft of the Firebrand wine as part of the Thieves Guild quest.

Thing is, they ambushed me when I was stuck in a dialogue that started immediately after leaving the dungeon. So I had to spam through the dialogue options to counter attack. Very annoying. Thankfully, the NPC and I made short work of them.