Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bifmj1O3D24

not feeling the disco inferno but the SNAP INTO A SKYRIM is awesome

ive benen the deenger zoon

Anduin's ice cave lair with all of the psycho stabby ghost girls was really frustratingly difficult... right up until it suddenly became super easy; I don't even know what I did differently tacticswise*

I pwned Anduin by hiding around a corner and chain-casting artronarchs, lol

* well actually yes I do; on the pull where 2 ghosts and a zombie would run up and own me, I let Lydia and a flame artronarch soak up dmg while I stood in the back with J'Zango's flame cloak on and ran away from things when they tried to kill me until they exploded

only 1 r in atronach /annoyingstickler

my bad, I meant rartrornarchr

sometimes the centurions bug out and stand there like punching bags. dwarven craftsmanship way overrated.

I started a third character last night. My orc will be focusing on two-handed, destruction, and illusion.

I feel like I may have overpowered my archery, I've got 4 bits of +28% enchanted armour, and an exquisite ebony bow (which also does fire damage), and the 3x multiplier for sneak attacks, and a 70+ archery skill level, and as a result I'm knocking out about 360 points of damage per arrow. I'm killing frost trolls with one shot. Might switch to destruction spells to mix it up a bit.

I've started levelling up some of my neglected non-combat skills and I think the bad dudes are getting slightly harder, had to think about dodging and blocking again for my last boss fight.

lol this is getting sad. last night about 2am, finally got enchanting to 100, after doing the same with smithing and alchemy. i am going to make some sick shit.

yes i had to head a meeting at work this morning.

lol I decided last night to start concentrating on destro spells as my main dmg method because I'm currently just slightly average across 2H, bows and spells because I haven't focused on anything

i really don't know why but i like grinding? it's worrying. like if i'm on my way somewhere and an undiscovered cave heaves into view, i'm like, sweet i should clear that thing.

How did you get alchemy so high? It upgrades so slowly for me. What is your alchemy grind? Also what is your enchanting grind? Do you buy a lot of cheap soul gems?

lol ok, prepare for the ocd blast here:

alchemy grind: enchant/get yourself a 'suit' of +alchemy stuff and keep it in a box near a table you own (head, necklace, gloves, and ring iirc). there's an equivalence between power, price, and skill value, so the more expensive the product the better the grind. certain fx are more expensive: paralyze, invisibility, slow and damage magic regen are pretty high i think. (if you want to get a little cheatier, sanpaku linked to a webapp that will spit out potential recipes in order of price for given ingredients). the potions don't have to be useful to be expensive, just the opposite in fact. totally fucked up multi-effect potions can be worth 1k+ easy

enchant grind: i use a lot of bound sword/bow with the conjuring perk that auto-soultraps. making sure i have a lot of empty soul gems, after a quest i'll have a bunch of them full. and buying the cheap little ones too. i think enchanting a bunch of jewelry is best because of weight, and the waterbreathing effect because the power doesn't matter. spam a bunch of rings with the weaker souls. it does take a while tho.

smithing: pretty straightfoward.

(selling off all your potions and crap enchants grinds your speech too)

oh and the right standing stone + 'well rested' before doing any of this helps too

What is your favorite thing to smith? Early on I was doing a lot of iron daggers because it's cheap to buy a bunch of iron ore and ingots, but do you upgrade faster if you make higher class daggers or etc.?

I smith leather/hide bracers mostly

i don't think so, but even if so it's probably not worth it cos of price & availability.

hide bracers are another cheap option. if you're outdoors enough you can end up with plenty of hides

also, jewelry.

xp

guys I actually paid money for an iPhone app that helps with alchemy (basically just give it your inventory and it'll tell you what's available)

That's a real AA level confession.

haha that's only cos if yr on pc it's a bitch to flip to the free webapps amirite

Started this in earnest last Friday. On Monday night, when I was wandering around Blackreach picking up 30 specimens of Crimson Nirnroot, I decided I might have a problem and took the day off yesterday. Came back with a vengeance today though. Neverending. Beautiful game. I never get into these sorts of things but I find myself really looking forward to side quests. I've also found that the whole Winterhold College sidequest is a pretty big quest in an of itself. Would be kind of awesome if it tied in with the larger narrative.

yeah, it's when the sidequests' sidequests have sidequests that you start to wonder at how big this game is and what an achievement it is despite all the bugs and other stuff people are bitching about online.

enh

never mind the quality, etc

i mean obviously i'm never going to play this but basically my idea of it is that it's like reading a pretty decent d&d sourcebook except every fifteen pages someone snatches it from you and hits you in the face with it and then you have to grab the book back and find your page again

also grinding

'smithing' and 'alchemy' should be banned from videogames

you all suck

btw can I just say, ravage magicka potions are amazing

i mean obviously i'm never going to play this but basically my idea of it is that it's like reading a pretty decent d&d sourcebook except every fifteen pages someone snatches it from you and hits you in the face with it and then you have to grab the book back and find your page again

More like every fifteen pages page there is a malapropism which is more a cause for wry amusement than annoyance.

Spent some time in the alchemists shop in Solitude using their alchemy table, except they closed shortly after I started. For the next (game) hour the shopkeeper and her assistant could be heard complaining in the background - "Please leave. You need to leave, now. Leave before i call the guards. It's time for you to go. You need to leave, now" &c &c.

xp invisibility potions my current fave "where did you go OW where did you go OW "

magicka posion are pretty funny when you completely drain some guy.

one thing that needs to be tweaked is fear/frenzy poisons. by the time you are making them you can't help but one shot the only levels they effect.

invisibility is fun but it should at least drop you out of aggro.

i feel like sneaking should be much harder in this

I know invisibility doesn't really stop guards coming up and whacking you on the head but can they identify you if you commit a crime while under the effect? Can you still rack up a bounty?

i mean obviously i'm never going to play this

Cool! Catch you in the other threads.

had an interesting thing happen last night. so i've made a bunch of insane gear. walking somewhere, i came upon a group of bandits who were traveling. this seemed unique to me; bandits are usually stationed at a location. i just walked up to them, thinking they were one of the stormcloak/imperial random encounters.

i got pretty close before they became hostile. using said insane gear i ripped through three of the four really fast, one-hit killing at least one of them. the last one went into the flee/cowering routine without me hitting him at all! he was saying something like "i cannot best you". never happened before.

That happens if you do a fear spell, sounds like the same effect happens if you terrorize a guy

Can't get past some sort of fireball trap in Labrynthium. This might be when I finally give up on this damn thing and get my life back.

have you tried shout-sprinting past it

I keep shout-sprinting right into the fireball.

Also don't forget to use wards.

I got the steady ward tome right before entering the fireball hall of hell. I tried it and I just died closer to the gem stones that seem to control it. Will pull it out and shout sprint and see what's up.

i don't remember where that is, but if you are running into those pillar things with a soul gem on top that shoots fireballs, you can shoot an arrow at the gem to knock it out, and can usually creep into a spot to do it w/o it going off

I think I ended up using a blizzard scroll or something

slow time shout + fast healing maybe

I don't remember how I got past them actually, I think I was able to sneak past one and then sprint past the next one? I don't remember exactly what I did because I don't remember having a problem getting past them.

^^ yeah this actually - i think i did labyriwhatever really really early on, so maybe it scales up? although i wouldn't think that the traps would

I bet that first shout you get would probably dislodge it too

I know the bit you mean. I did unrelenting force and knocked the gem out of the top.