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| Incandescent | Nov 20 2011, 12:12 AM Post #21 |
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I hated navigating riften. For some reason the layout bothered me. Then again I spent 95% of the game in whiterun because that's where my house was and where the most merchants were. |
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"What game was this, where every player on the board claimed the same pawn?" - Raziel "The coin is still turning..." -Kain "Cats are truly all powerful!" - sog Resident Marquis de Carabas Father of AC The Harbinger: Tiny, Adorable Predator (rapidly developing into a bitch and a half) A feeling of compassion warms you... A feeling of regret envelops you... A desire to cry wells up within you... A feeling of anger overcomes you... A feeling of Emptiness fills your heart... A destructive force stirs within you... My Inventory | |
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| Yev | Nov 20 2011, 11:31 PM Post #22 |
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I don't mind Riften. I get lost in Windhelm and Markarth more than anywhere else. I probably wouldn't have as much trouble in Windhelm if I spent more than a cursory amount of time there. Have two houses now. Breezehome in Winterrun and Honeyside in Riften. I kind of like Honeyside better, as you can buy an enchanting table and an alchemy lab for it and you can only get the alchemy lab for Breezehome. You can also buy a porch for Honeyside that connects to the overworld, which is kind of cool. Been collecting ebony ingots, as that is where I'm going to hit very soon on the smithing tree. Already picked up the armor and boots inside dungeons. I'm level 29 now, almost level 30. Don't know how far the rest of you are. |
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[align=center]"It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question." ~ John Stuart Mill The Yev Museum[/align] | |
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| Yev | Nov 21 2011, 12:53 PM Post #23 |
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Suddenly, cabbages. Thousands of them. |
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| Incandescent | Nov 21 2011, 09:52 PM Post #24 |
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i topped out at level 30 something with Thane Fistfuck before I accidentally saved over him. Jangles the Red Menace, mace-mage extraordinaire has now taken the spotlight. I hate not wearing armor but the pyro in me is happy. The storm cloak quest line is annoying but is full of massive loot in the form of imperial light armor. The only reason i sided with them is because that imperial bitch in the beginning tried to cut my damn head off. In general, Nords are a bunch of assholes. Argonians should rule Skyrim. I might pull a sog and kill everyone. |
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"What game was this, where every player on the board claimed the same pawn?" - Raziel "The coin is still turning..." -Kain "Cats are truly all powerful!" - sog Resident Marquis de Carabas Father of AC The Harbinger: Tiny, Adorable Predator (rapidly developing into a bitch and a half) A feeling of compassion warms you... A feeling of regret envelops you... A desire to cry wells up within you... A feeling of anger overcomes you... A feeling of Emptiness fills your heart... A destructive force stirs within you... My Inventory | |
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| Yev | Nov 21 2011, 11:37 PM Post #25 |
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Yeah, I'm not disappointed that I joined with the Empire. The Nords tend to be racist jingos, at least the ones over on the Stormcloak side. Not sure how far through the main quest line I am. I'm intentionally not looking it up. Been tearing through sidequests for the past few days. My goal right now is to become a thane in all the cities. Only have Whiterun and Riften done so far but I'm almost a thane in both Solitude and Markarth. This run was as a heavy armor, sword and board, knight-ish Redguard. I'm thinking that I'll do a stealthy bow/dual-wielding daggers Bosmer for my next run. Also, so as to see the quests from all sides, I'll help the Stormcloaks and [Spoiler:]join the Dark Brotherhood instead of killing them. |
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[align=center]"It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question." ~ John Stuart Mill The Yev Museum[/align] | |
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| Incandescent | Nov 22 2011, 06:10 AM Post #26 |
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be prepared to die a lot as a stealth or mage character. apparently people in heavy armor are the only ones allowed to withstand blows from my experience. I have to save after every minor encounter because the highest number of hits i can take is 3 (and that's with protection spells). Every fight I have to backpedal furiously and jam the flame button and hope my mace can take em down on the final swing. It just gets worse as i level up. takes like eight fireballs to kill fallmer (who always ambush in groups of 2-4) and about 20 to kill dwarven centurions. makes for some fun, frantic fights but i miss my puncher character's ability to stand there and take it. The only reason my character is tolerable is because I have lydia wade into melee and i burn people until she gets knocked to her knees. Even without attributes the game has some stupid kind of power creep. There's no middle ground sometimes. every fight is either pathetically easy or ball bustingly hard. and stealth characters + dragons i foresee being annoying. |
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"What game was this, where every player on the board claimed the same pawn?" - Raziel "The coin is still turning..." -Kain "Cats are truly all powerful!" - sog Resident Marquis de Carabas Father of AC The Harbinger: Tiny, Adorable Predator (rapidly developing into a bitch and a half) A feeling of compassion warms you... A feeling of regret envelops you... A desire to cry wells up within you... A feeling of anger overcomes you... A feeling of Emptiness fills your heart... A destructive force stirs within you... My Inventory | |
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| Yev | Nov 22 2011, 10:38 AM Post #27 |
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I foresee relying on bows and arrows to kill dragons. Give them their space, even when they're on the ground, and blot out the sun with a rain of arrows. |
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[align=center]"It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question." ~ John Stuart Mill The Yev Museum[/align] | |
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| Incandescent | Nov 22 2011, 08:49 PM Post #28 |
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to paraphrase: "what you plan and what actually happens ain't exactly ever been similar". (not to sound sound like an ass or bat down your character concept here, just saying) especially in those wide open field random dragon encounters and those word walls where dragons spawn. I hate it when they hover in the air and breath attack you. I recently traded in my mage for a "brutal scoundrel" type rogue because i got tired of having no health and no armor. I wear light armor use a one handed mace and a shield when i end up in straight up fight but use the 6x damage sneak perk in conjunction with the mace's armor piercing perk when i need to be sneaky. I completely love shields. You get to bitch slap people to interrupt their power attack. To sog: how did you manage to kill both the imperial general and Ulfric? I did the stormcloaks all the way through and was like "sweet, time for betrayal" but the asshole was invincible. *sadness* |
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"What game was this, where every player on the board claimed the same pawn?" - Raziel "The coin is still turning..." -Kain "Cats are truly all powerful!" - sog Resident Marquis de Carabas Father of AC The Harbinger: Tiny, Adorable Predator (rapidly developing into a bitch and a half) A feeling of compassion warms you... A feeling of regret envelops you... A desire to cry wells up within you... A feeling of anger overcomes you... A feeling of Emptiness fills your heart... A destructive force stirs within you... My Inventory | |
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| DangerousNate | Nov 22 2011, 10:40 PM Post #29 |
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My mage character has been doing pretty good so far, other than my encounter with a giant which was rather one-sided. |
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"Remember if you are going to do something stupid, at least do it intelligently." "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Winston Churchill Once a guy fell into a monocle making machine and made a spectacle of himself, while he was on fire. "God is good, but never dance in a small boat." -Mikey's dad "The sun shines and the day is beautiful even if there is a big raise in taxes." -Nev My Storage Container for Awards | |
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| Incandescent | Nov 22 2011, 11:10 PM Post #30 |
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giants are cheating assholes. i fought one in 3rd person because i was in a cramped space and kept getting caught on scenery. the club came down a measure of feet to one side of me and i was instakilled. |
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"What game was this, where every player on the board claimed the same pawn?" - Raziel "The coin is still turning..." -Kain "Cats are truly all powerful!" - sog Resident Marquis de Carabas Father of AC The Harbinger: Tiny, Adorable Predator (rapidly developing into a bitch and a half) A feeling of compassion warms you... A feeling of regret envelops you... A desire to cry wells up within you... A feeling of anger overcomes you... A feeling of Emptiness fills your heart... A destructive force stirs within you... My Inventory | |
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| Yev | Nov 22 2011, 11:59 PM Post #31 |
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Finished (and very satisfied) with the College of Winterhold questline. Didn't net much useful loot for a heavy armor/melee character, but the plot was good and I liked the dungeons. Finally upped my smithing to 80. Haven't made any ebony armor yet, but I do have 30-something ingots saved up, knowing I'd reach this point soon enough. Considering mostly forgoing ebony armor and just powering through to daedric, using my ebony ingots there. I only have 3 daedra hearts, so I'll have to get more of those to get the whole set of daedric armor. I did fine the Orcish ebony mine earlier today though, so I suppose it wouldn't be too difficult to mine some more ebony up. Re: Giants, I've been fleeing from them so far. I've seen the youtube videos. Dragons don't threaten me much anymore but I'm still skirting the edge of giant camps. Goram bastards. I've found the best way to deal with mages is the Slow Time shout. I have two words in it, so it lasts a fair while, which is really useful for closing the distance on some guy up a ramp and around a ledge who has been chucking exploding fireballs at you. Sprint up there with time moving at a snail's pace and knock him with your shield, followed by a few power attacks. I also have a lightning enchant on my current sword, which drains magicka with each hit, preventing the more powerful mages from being able to keep casting as frequently. I've still only been in Dawnstar once. I had to deliver some forged Stormcloak missive to a Stormcloak officer there as part of a Imperial Legion quest. I walked in and people were talking about a museum opening soon and also about how everyone in the city was having the same nightmare each night and I was like "People, I have about 20,000 active quests right now. Your bitch-asses are going to have to wait." Still haven't been back. I wonder how they're doing. |
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| Incandescent | Nov 23 2011, 12:54 AM Post #32 |
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the dream quest is neat. the museum isn't much in my opinion. The only times I've killed a giant were by using double flame on it while running like fuck to dodge it's insta-death blows. With a follower my unarmed character killed one. but the follower was a mage and did a lot of softening. Also, are the imperials as big of assholes as the stormcloaks? I didn't get too deep into the College quest line but stormcloaks was meh and companions was short. The main quest is nice. If you ever make a dual wield character i recommend finding the elemental fury shout that makes your melee weapon attacks go faster. |
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"What game was this, where every player on the board claimed the same pawn?" - Raziel "The coin is still turning..." -Kain "Cats are truly all powerful!" - sog Resident Marquis de Carabas Father of AC The Harbinger: Tiny, Adorable Predator (rapidly developing into a bitch and a half) A feeling of compassion warms you... A feeling of regret envelops you... A desire to cry wells up within you... A feeling of anger overcomes you... A feeling of Emptiness fills your heart... A destructive force stirs within you... My Inventory | |
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| Yev | Nov 23 2011, 01:17 AM Post #33 |
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The Legion seems to be portrayed as somewhat of a "benevolent overlord". They have their asshole moments, but on the whole seem to be decent, at least as long as you accept them as your overlords. The Stormcloaks, on the otherhand, just seemed to be close-minded nationalists. However, General Tullius was a pretty bland character and Ulfric actually seemed interesting. |
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| Shades of Gray | Nov 26 2011, 08:46 AM Post #34 |
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Playing as a Dark Elf Necromancer now. This is much more fun than my warrior. ![]() I'm surprised to say that I REALLY don't like the Stormcloaks. I played Empire first game figuring they were evil and was surprised at how... neutral they were. Stormcloaks on the other hand are just assholes. When I burnt down Whiterun, I actually was somewhat... sad. |
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There once was a poster called SoG about as substantial as fog he would gleefully beam while the others did scream as he fed them alive to the dogs - Dunkum Do you see what I'm getting at here? ![]() *nanomachines* My awards | |
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| Incandescent | Nov 26 2011, 05:07 PM Post #35 |
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This. also, how did you killed both dudes! Ulfric was invincible throughout the SC questline. (i only tried twice to kill him) |
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"What game was this, where every player on the board claimed the same pawn?" - Raziel "The coin is still turning..." -Kain "Cats are truly all powerful!" - sog Resident Marquis de Carabas Father of AC The Harbinger: Tiny, Adorable Predator (rapidly developing into a bitch and a half) A feeling of compassion warms you... A feeling of regret envelops you... A desire to cry wells up within you... A feeling of anger overcomes you... A feeling of Emptiness fills your heart... A destructive force stirs within you... My Inventory | |
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| Shades of Gray | Nov 26 2011, 06:55 PM Post #36 |
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I did it while I was working for the empire, after he was dead I tracked down the emperor (he's on a boat somewhere), and pulled off the greatest betrayal in the history of Skyrim.
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There once was a poster called SoG about as substantial as fog he would gleefully beam while the others did scream as he fed them alive to the dogs - Dunkum Do you see what I'm getting at here? ![]() *nanomachines* My awards | |
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| Incandescent | Nov 26 2011, 09:19 PM Post #37 |
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oh. i thought you said you killed tullius too |
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"What game was this, where every player on the board claimed the same pawn?" - Raziel "The coin is still turning..." -Kain "Cats are truly all powerful!" - sog Resident Marquis de Carabas Father of AC The Harbinger: Tiny, Adorable Predator (rapidly developing into a bitch and a half) A feeling of compassion warms you... A feeling of regret envelops you... A desire to cry wells up within you... A feeling of anger overcomes you... A feeling of Emptiness fills your heart... A destructive force stirs within you... My Inventory | |
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| DangerousNate | Nov 27 2011, 08:10 PM Post #38 |
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BETRAYAL! |
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"Remember if you are going to do something stupid, at least do it intelligently." "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Winston Churchill Once a guy fell into a monocle making machine and made a spectacle of himself, while he was on fire. "God is good, but never dance in a small boat." -Mikey's dad "The sun shines and the day is beautiful even if there is a big raise in taxes." -Nev My Storage Container for Awards | |
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| Yev | Nov 28 2011, 12:32 AM Post #39 |
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Have my full daedric armor made, improved to legendary, and enchanted up. My armor is now in the 770-range. Sword does 113, or somewhere around there, before enchantment proc. Life is good. Spoilers: I've also advanced in the main questline a bit. Recovered and read from an elder scroll and annoyed Alduin with the new shout I learned from it for a bit before he decided to run away. The underground Dwemer city where you find the elder scroll is pretty nifty. |
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[align=center]"It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question." ~ John Stuart Mill The Yev Museum[/align] | |
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| DangerousNate | Nov 28 2011, 06:16 AM Post #40 |
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*Avoids spoilers.* |
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"Remember if you are going to do something stupid, at least do it intelligently." "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Winston Churchill Once a guy fell into a monocle making machine and made a spectacle of himself, while he was on fire. "God is good, but never dance in a small boat." -Mikey's dad "The sun shines and the day is beautiful even if there is a big raise in taxes." -Nev My Storage Container for Awards | |
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