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Maybe that's it. I didn't go and visit the greybeards yet, I've been doing the College of Winterhold quests. I'll try right clicking as well.
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chippy posted:Maybe that's it. I didn't go and visit the greybeards yet, I've been doing the College of Winterhold quests. I'll try right clicking as well.
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LtSmash posted:For leveling smithing I've been buying/mining all the iron ore I can get and then transmuting it to gold. Gold jewelry give pretty good skillups. Alchemy you can abuse the +restoration potion glitch http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim_tal...f_Enchanting.29 a handful of super powerful potions will max your alchemy skill. I'm a little wary of the permanently breaking alchemy bug that could create but I'll give it a shot.
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LtSmash posted:For leveling smithing I've been buying/mining all the iron ore I can get and then transmuting it to gold. Gold jewelry give pretty good skillups. This is pretty much how I got smithing up to 100 fairly quickly this time around since jewelry is valuable. It also has the added benefit of leveling your Alteration skill and getting rid of gems you might be lugging around. If you don't want to pay for the spell, there's a Transmute spell tome in the mine at Halted Stream Camp. LobsterTick posted:The previous poster is wrong.Visiting Greybeards only allows you to learn additional 2 words of Unrelenting Force and one word of Whirlwind sprint.It doesn't affect learning of other shouts.Just select the shout you want to learn and press R.It will do the trick. Don't forget the Clear Skies shout. I think that's the last one they teach you though, after that they just point you on the radiant quests to find word walls.
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NaturalLow posted:If you don't want to pay for the spell, there's a Transmute spell tome in the mine at Halted Stream Camp. Wait you can buy that? Where? I thought you had to get the spellbook from Halted Stream.
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Stroth posted:Wait you can buy that? Where? I thought you had to get the spellbook from Halted Stream. I don't know, I just assumed it was like any other spell you could buy. But actually looking it up, you can occasionally buy it from Enthir and Tolfdir will sell it once your Alteration skill hits 50 (both at the college of course). Otherwise apparently it's also found at Knifepoint Ridge and somewhere in Ansilvund.
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Is there any way to have no-cost magic in more than 2 schools at once?
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Really Pants posted:Is there any way to have no-cost magic in more than 2 schools at once?
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| # ? Jun 13, 2012 00:43 |
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I decided that was too much work, but after I used console cheats for it I sort of got tired of being a wizard. Who knew absolute invincibility would be boring? With a bow, does sneak attack damage stack with the Critical Shot perk?
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You can get a cricital shot on a sneak attack, but the damage from it isn't multiplied. The crit damage is also based off your weapon's base damage, so it'll be negligible if you go nuts with smithing.
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I've not updated the OP in quite a while, is there anything that's glaringly wrong/ anything people would appreciate me adding in?
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I'm about to start a game for the first time, what skills work well with bows? i'm terrible at sneaky stuffs in most games.
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massive spider posted:I'm about to start a game for the first time, what skills work well with bows? i'm terrible at sneaky stuffs in most games. e: Actually, I wrote a post about my suggested sneakthief skill set a while ago. Here it is. LobsterTick fucked around with this message at Jun 26, 2012 around 18:15 |
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So are bows just useless for warrior builds then? As I said I don't really want a stealth build.
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massive spider posted:So are bows just useless for warrior builds then? As I said I don't really want a stealth build.
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You really have to work to find a build that "doesn't work."
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massive spider posted:So are bows just useless for warrior builds then? As I said I don't really want a stealth build. For what it's worth, my newest character's a heavy armor archer and I'm doing okay. I'm not a dedicated archer, I just pump people full of arrows until they come in range of my 2-handed weapon, but I don't see any reason it couldn't work.
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I'm a dual-casting destruction mage, and even I've got a bow for the occasional long-range attack if an enemy hasn't seen me yet. I also use it for dragons whilst they're flying around, since I'd rather waste arrows than mana whilst I'm trying to hit them before they land. I even carry a one handed mana draining mace around and go spellsword with a restoration spell in my other hand on occasion if I heading into a potential short range situation. Like GrumpyDoctor said, it's difficult to build a character that isn't going to work in some way or another.
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So how am I supposed to hurt Alduin? (this is right after getting Dragonrend I hit him with Dragonrend and he lands and I wail on him with an Orcish Longsword with the moonfire effect but he takes no damage I wanted to beat the game before I started Dawnguard, but apparently I'm either underlevelled or ill-equipped.
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Calaveron posted:So how am I supposed to hurt Alduin? (this is right after getting Dragonrend Reload a save previous to that fight.
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After playing a lot of a sneaky character, I wanted to try my hand at the complete opposite and play a heavy armour, two-handed trotting tank. I'm going with two-handed (obviously), heavy armour, smithing and enchanting, but what would be some good ideas for rounding him up? I was planning on going block and restoration, but switching from two handed to magic takes a bit of time so I'm not sure it's really worth it, and I'm not sure whether some block perks (like elemental resistance) apply to blocking with a weapon instead of a shield. Maybe archery would be a good addition?
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Deflect arrows, Elemental Resistance and Shield Charge(there's a bug you can use, but it's obviously not intended to work this way) do not work without shields. Everything else does.
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LobsterTick posted:Deflect arrows, Elemental Resistance and Shield Charge(there's a bug you can use, but it's obviously not intended to work this way) do not work without shields. Everything else does. Ah, gotcha. How feasible is to go both one and two-handed and switching up on demand, seeing as I will be using the block tree either way? I'm not sure how my guy will hold up against wizards and forts filled with archers without the block bonuses.
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Edmond Dantes posted:Ah, gotcha. How feasible is to go both one and two-handed and switching up on demand, seeing as I will be using the block tree either way? I'm not sure how my guy will hold up against wizards and forts filled with archers without the block bonuses. It may also be wise to use wards against them if you plan investing in restoration anyway.
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LobsterTick posted:It would work, but you are wasting too much points this way (only my opinion, of course). 2H-based characters do just fine again ranged enemies. You just need either to close the distance fast (Whirlwind Sprint helps a lot) or stagger your opponents until you get in melee range(FUS RO DA). Mages can't do much when you are meleeing their face with a big battleaxe. Ah, cheers. I keep forgetting about the other shouts, I always max out fus ro da (and the project voice one for the sneaking) and don't even consider the whirlwind one, but it makes a lot of sense. I have to admit, after getting my rear end handed to me whenever my sneaking failed because my char did poo poo damage, it's kind of cathartic to just walk up to people and one hit them via battleaxe to the face. 
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You're hardly wasting points if it's what you want to do, if you're going to be using shields, one handers and two handers as your combat stuff what else would you really put points into? There are more than enough to max out the good stuff in those trees and still get the stuff you want from smithing and enchanting maxed.
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What's the fastest way of leveling up Smithing? Iron Daggers after lvl. 70 is an awful slog, so I figure there's gotta be a faster way to make my Dragonbone weapons.
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Calaveron posted:What's the fastest way of leveling up Smithing? Iron Daggers after lvl. 70 is an awful slog, so I figure there's gotta be a faster way to make my Dragonbone weapons. Transmute iron ore to gold ore. Smelt gold ingots. Incorporate jewels with these to make as expensive jewelry as your gems allow. Requires no perks and makes you money, and also helps level up alteration. It does require you to do enough dungeon diving to get the gems though. You can purchase iron ore cheaply without even having to go mine it.
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Zwabu posted:Transmute iron ore to gold ore. Smelt gold ingots. Incorporate jewels with these to make as expensive jewelry as your gems allow. Requires no perks and makes you money, and also helps level up alteration. It does require you to do enough dungeon diving to get the gems though. You can purchase iron ore cheaply without even having to go mine it. Mining out Kolskeggr Mine is also a really quick way to get absurd amounts of gold ore. You get over fifty on the first swing through and the gold ore mining nets a bunch of random jewel drops.
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thebardyspoon posted:You're hardly wasting points if it's what you want to do, if you're going to be using shields, one handers and two handers as your combat stuff what else would you really put points into? There are more than enough to max out the good stuff in those trees and still get the stuff you want from smithing and enchanting maxed. I was going for two-handed only and doing fine until I hit the first batch of dwarven ruins, where a Falmer archer killed me with two arrows.  I'll whip up a shield and try again in a bit.
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What if you skipped on the One-Handed and just got the few Shield-only perks. Start the attack with just the shield equipped. Charge him, bash him, and then hit the hotkey for your sword while he's staggered.
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Lycus posted:What if you skipped on the One-Handed and just got the few Shield-only perks. Start the attack with just the shield equipped. Charge him, bash him, and then hit the hotkey for your sword while he's staggered. Yeah, that was my plan. One handed is too low by now and it'll take me a lot of perks to make it worthwhile. I'll level block a bit and get the arrow and elemental protections and hotkey in and out of it.
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Edmond Dantes posted:I was going for two-handed only and doing fine until I hit the first batch of dwarven ruins, where a Falmer archer killed me with two arrows. Then you go search them and find that they have 10 Iron arrows when they clearly where pegging you with elven ones  .Do you have a high Block skill? A light shield with the Deflect Arrows Blocking perk is very effective. Even as my light sneaky archer/one-handed character it is just so satisfying to hear the archer helplessly plink arrow after arrow off your shield as you conduct the Pain Train in their direction. My favorite kills are doing this then using a whirlwind sprint to close the last distance followed by a random decapitation from the Savage Strike one-handed perk.  Edit: If you don't have a high block just go and get wailed on by some mudcrabs for a while. Or if you are leveled enough bears, sabre-cats, giants, or Cicero from the Dark Brotherhood. Be careful with the last one because he hits very hard and very fast. Shifty Pony fucked around with this message at Jul 2, 2012 around 18:12 |
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I think I'm at some between level blocks bullshit point, besides the falmer archer I ran into a bandit camp, massacred everyone, and the leader came and lobbed my head off with a single blow, and I was at full health. I don't think my block is up to scratch, I'll go annoy some mudcrabs later.
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I think bandit leaders are one of the nastier enemies; I remember reading they levelled with you. I definitely remember getting caught out by them at least once and smashed to bits  Go test it on a dragon instead!
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Edmond Dantes posted:I think I'm at some between level blocks bullshit point, besides the falmer archer I ran into a bandit camp, massacred everyone, and the leader came and lobbed my head off with a single blow, and I was at full health. It seems the bandit leaders level up with you but the other bandits don't, or at least not nearly to the same degree. I cleared out a bandit camp one-shotting them all with sneak iron arrows until I got the the leader. She was sitting there with her back turned to me and I hit her with a sneak arrow shot which took a millimeter off her health bar. She then wailed the crap out of me with an elven war axe while blocking perfectly with a Dwemer shield and wearing steel plate armor.  Finally cleared it and got a measly 100 gold from Proventus Avenicci.
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The Supreme Court posted:Go test it on a dragon instead! I'm making Dragons my bitches since the first one ate me because I got cocky. They may take a bit to land, but once they do, they're mine. But falmer archers? Nope! Shifty Pony posted:It seems the bandit leaders level up with you but the other bandits don't, or at least not nearly to the same degree. I cleared out a bandit camp one-shotting them all with sneak iron arrows until I got the the leader. She was sitting there with her back turned to me and I hit her with a sneak arrow shot which took a millimeter off her health bar. She then wailed the crap out of me with an elven war axe while blocking perfectly with a Dwemer shield and wearing steel plate armor. I had to turn into my wolf form to kill the bastard and then stunlock him to death. And the first time I tried that, he took my head off AGAIN.
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Shifty Pony posted:Finally cleared it and got a measly 100 gold from Proventus Avenicci. "Hey Proventus! How's about a little something.. you know.. for the effort?" Yeah some of the Bandit Chiefs hit pretty drat hard. Forsworn Briarhearts also.
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If you run into that couple of nobles that are trying to get to Vici's wedding and don't kill them, do they later show up at the wedding if you do the quest?
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They didn't on my playthrough. I found them a little outside of Markarth, the guy'd been killed and the woman was sitting next to his corpse.
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