Skyrim, or, How I Ruined My LifeFollow

Once you get the appropriate shout during the main quest line, getting dragons to land is very easy once they let you aim at them with the shout.

Go to shouts under the magic menu and you have to activate them.

Also, anyone getting a lot of lag from the PS3 version? I read this has been a problem after you play for a while due to the amount of data saved. Bethesda is supposed to have a patch next week, but in the meantime, I found restarting the PS3 and deleting all but 1 save helps for a bit.

Yes, there is a button to unlock them after they're highlighted. On PS3 it is the square button. It should say near the bottom of the screen where it says equip/favorite.

Damn ninja post Broken.

I'm having a problem filling some grand soul gems. There seems to be a few in my inventory that will not fill when I kill someone. They are empty and other grands fill but these won't. Anyone else have this problem?

I have a soul trap bow I use. I was hunting bandits to fill the grands and after filling a couple including my black star, it told me I didn't have a gem big enough when I had 8 empty grand gems left. Bow still has plenty of charge and the bandits were getting lit up with it. I don't know?

Unintentional double post, but whatever.



Humanoid souls (elves, Nords, etc) can only go in black soul gems, though their soul level is "grand". Grand soul gems can only be filled with "white" souls, which would be any high-level, non-humanoid creature, such as dragons.

I'm currently level 24, almost pure Heavy Armor, One Handed, and Block. Conditioning is great. I've been running around finding the Nord Crypts and unlocking Words. So far, I haven't found any good ones. Frost Breath kind of sucks, and others are a Detect Life type, one to pacify animals, and one to disarm opponents, plus a couple second words.

Dragons are definitely a push over with high level blocking and heavy armor. I've got a bunch of heavy armor pieces with 30-50% elemental resists I can throw on. Enough to the point that even without blocking, I take almost no damage from breath spells.


I did have a Blood Dragon attack me while in Whiterun. It looks awesome when they perch ontop of buildings and cliffs to attack you. I lured it away from any NPCs, and it was sitting ontop of the Warmadien's shop trying to breath on me. Now its skeleton is stuck in Whiterun. It doesn't seem to be disppearing like the others around Skyrim have. Every time I zone into the town, it is flopping around between Breezehome and the Drunken Huntsman. I think since the physics won't let it rest, it is glitched and won't disappear.

Here in a little bit, I'm going to start leveling Smithing and Enchanting. Now that my battle skills are high enough to make up for the increase in level I'll get. I didn't want to focus on non-combat skills early on, because I'd be a higher level, and be weaker relative to that level.

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Edit: nevermind

Edited, Nov 24th 2011 5:32pm by feelz

Wewt, I found it. Now I've got some kind of ice breath and ethereal form and an additional word on my fire breath.

In other news, I wish I'd gone heavy armor from the beginning. Yes, Studded/Scale Armor looks amazing with a hood, but I'll eventually want the matching set bonus and light armor helmets just look like crap.

Might just switch it up to heavy armor and start crafting me some Daedric armor. That stuff looks mean!

If you intend to go full mage, then there isn't. Smithing lets you get as much as 4x the base defense/damage on weapons/armor. You won't be using either.

But if you intend to be a battlemage, then it will be extremely useful.

I leveled up my Smithing (and some Enchanting). I had a ton of Leather and Iron in storage (stored every piece I've found since I started). I crafted Iron Daggers and Leather Braces, and ended up at 82 Smithing. Then I learned how truly powerful it is. I almost doubled the base damage on my weapon and the armor rating on my armor.

In Oblivion, you broke the game with the custom spells.

In Skyrim, you break the game with crafting.

Did you pick up the self-charging perk in the enchanting tree?

You know, if this is the finished, tested product with most bugs allegedly fixed, I'd hate to see what initial builds of the game looked like.

Why not just '~' + 'tgm'?

I was power-leveling Smithing the other night to get me some Daedric armor, but then I realized how ridiculously overpowered it was at my current level (even without fortifying potions or enchants) and loaded an earlier save.

If I wanted to be invincible then the console command would be faster.

You can power-level Sneak by breaking into houses in the night and murdering the inhabitants in their sleep.

I had 48 Sneak by level 8 when I started my Thief character.

Edit: Of course, I'd killed everyone from Riverwood to Whiterun by the time I got there, so it might not be a viable strategy if you plan on having any non-player characters in the game at all.

Edited, Nov 25th 2011 6:30pm by Mazra

I broke the game with crafting in Oblivion. hitting the 95% mitigation cap was silly.

You CB'ed him by marrying her and now he's returning the favor. LOL

I bet it's the ruin near Winterhold that you have to go to for the quest line. Saardal or something like that?

Also, if playing a stealth character, remember to level your one-handed skills too. Sure, you have some limited melee ability with a bow, but there are going to be times when a dagger is just far more useful. Plus, that lets you use a shield.

My thief is level 20ish now and I use the bow quite a bit. But I'm finding dual weild is pretty fun. That power attack with all the blows kicks out some nice burst. Especially with the dual weild speed increase. I'm looking forward to trying the 50% boost to dual weild power attack eventually.

I ran into that guy twice, once when I was exploring out around Riften. I was in the middle of a fight with a Necromancer and a Frost Astronauch and this idiot comes up to me in the middle of the fight and tries to hand me some rubbish mace. Getting caught in the conversation during the fight got me killed. The second time I was a bit West of White Run, and this douche runs up to me again, also in the middle of a fight. Luckily, that time I was only fighting some weak bandits so I was able to spam my way out of the conversation and live.

Basically, it looks like it's just a random event and can happen anywhere. A guy at work is also playing Skyrim and he ran into the same guy, didn't mention where, but it was also in the middle of a fight. Either he's programmed that way, or the game just doesn't like us.

Interesting, so completely random then.

Yeah I believe the thief and his victim are a random spawn. I have seen them from the warrior/mage/thief stone, near Whiterun, and various other cave entrances and outskirts of towns across the map. Unless it is something nice I tend to give it back to the previous owner and watch them beat the thief to a pulp with it. Unless it is a bow then the npc goes brain dead and stands there waiting while the thief does the same.