Skyrim, or, How I Ruined My LifeFollow

It's amazing how easy it is to complete some of the Daedric item quests. Some of them you could probably finish at level 1.

SpoilerAlthough I haven't actually used the Wabbajack in battle yet...

I focus almost exclusively on Archery, and secondarily on Sneak to enhance Archery. I put some points into Heavy Armor to get the Sneak related perk, but beyond that I don't think I put anything anywhere else combat related, and I don't use magic at all.

No, okay I did use the Transmute spell to powerlevel my enchanting. Silver Rings with Waterbreathing sell for decent change.

My bow does ~650 damage, x3 when fired from sneak, with extra damage on a crit and the crit perks in the archery tree. Very little survives one arrow, and with the exception of some dragons nothing survives two. I could get more with archery potions and a review of my gear but I'm content with what I've got for the moment.

So far, I've decimated a giant with a single, fatal arrow wound to the forearm, one-shot a frost dragon who was snoozing on top of a tower, and watch countless other smaller targets slump over tables and bounce off walls. My biggest issue right now is I tend to jump the gun in multi-target fights and fire my arrows before my bow is fully drawn, but it's still kind of funny when you see an arrow fly out at a target 20 feet away from you with just enough oomph to cover the gap only to have your target go flying against the well behind them with an arrow sticking out of their ankle.

The one thing I've noticed is that I pretty much never use my shouts, and that's a damn shame. I've already got plans for a whacky character build that I'll be messing around once I get through this character's adventures, but shouts and stealth just don't really go together for the most part.

Pretty much this. I'll use Force to knock an annoying mage on his *** so I can get in for the up close kill, but aside from that I just don't use them. The global recast really hurts them. If each shout had it's own separate recast I might use them more, but even then only having one equipped at a time and having to go menu diving to change them kind of kills their utility.

I think I found that one. One of the Dragon head areas on the map (an outdoor word of power, guarded by a dragon and sometimes a priest). You learn all three words of Throw Voice at once. You point to a distant object, use it, and that object shouts an insult (like, "Hey skeever head!"). The enemy will investigate that area since the noise came from there. There is a range limit, and your cross hairs turn red if the object is too far away to throw your voice to.

Funny enough, I was using it in town, and the guard came up to me and told me to stop all that shouting cause I was scaring the towns folk. Apparently throwing my voice didn't work very well when a guard was involved.

The only shout I use often is Whirlwind, probably would use that Rend shout if I had it for fighting dragons and forcing them to land.

I can guarantee that once you get Dragonrend, you will spam it often on dragons. It just feels less wasteful missing with a shout than with a bazillion arrows. The best time to use it is when they start lifting up...then they circle like a vulture for a few seconds and are forced to waste time landing again.

I shout constantly, you all just fail. I yell at my weapons to swing faster, I yell at things to make them fall down if they hurt me, I yell at the air to move faster. I'd yell more but I don't even have a lot of shouts yet because I haven't been playing so that I don't fail my classes.

The option conflicts with a racial fear power that makes things run away for 30 seconds. =X

(It also conflicted with a "Turn invisible when you sneak" power that lasts 2 minutes a day on the first character.)

I use my Fire Breath shout a lot.

It's like an Unrelenting Force shout, but with more fire. It'll kill someone and throw them clear across the map if positioned right.



Edited, Dec 7th 2011 6:34pm by Mazra

I just use that to move faster

For shouts I usually only use Dragonrend, Force Unrelenting (for lulz) and Whirlwind Sprint (for moving faster). Oh, and Clear Skies, because lack of visibility is annoying.

I really need to use the one from around the end of the game: SpoilerI hear that the dragon you summon pretty much owns anything.

The best one I've found so far is Ice Form. At one point early in the game, I was having trouble completing a bounty on a giant since he insisted on bringing his friend along with him whenever he attacked. I was starting to get frustrated, then gave the Ice Form shout a chance, and it turned into EZ-Mode.

It's also funny because the Ice Form shout doesn't stop a target's momentum, so one second they'll be running at you full-speed, and the next they'll be tumbling past you as a solid block of ice.

You don't have to kill him. Go talk to him or the Greybeards instead. Then you can learn the word you need to do the next important thing you got to do.

SpoilerI will never kill him in any of my playthrough's. Big P is my buddy. Esbern can go F himself. He would still be living like a rat in the sewer if it weren't for me, just waiting to die. Now he thinks he is important? FuS Do Rah to you pal.

Edited, Dec 7th 2011 12:19pm by Shojindo