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American Gunner

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I've probably made 20 or 30 potions and my alchemy is only around a 23. I do have 400lbs of ingredients in my WhiteRun house ready for a marathon alchemy session some weekend
You can't think of any better way to spend your weekend?
 

TheSlamma

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Sep 6, 2005
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It takes a lot more than that. I had to make about 300+ weapons/armor to get my smithing to 100, and I've enchanted probably 200 items to get my enchanting to 88. I've probably made 20 or 30 potions and my alchemy is only around a 23. I do have 400lbs of ingredients in my WhiteRun house ready for a marathon alchemy session some weekend
You guys should go hit the Lover Stone before you do crafting things like that. It gives you a 15% increase to experience for all skills. I got 100 smithing real fast just making iron and steel daggers
 

dougp

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You guys should go hit the Lover Stone before you do crafting things like that. It gives you a 15% increase to experience for all skills. I got 100 smithing real fast just making iron and steel daggers

Problem is you don't get a sleeping bonus w/ Lover's Stone. What you want to do is take Warrior's Stone, sleep 8 hours (especially if married) and then craft. You will get the 15% bonus from Lover's Comfort and 20% bonus from the Warrior's Stone - 35% increase in skill is really good.
 

QuikWgn

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I sat down and made 125 potions or so last night in about 20 mins and levelled to 40 in alchemy, then went around WhiteRun and made about 6000 gold. I'm unmarried and lycanthropic so I get no resting bonuses, but I did turn on the Lover's Stone. I already have 2 fully outfitted houses, and I'm carrying about 30000 gold.

I've got Soul Stealer on my ebony bow and my Skyforged sword so I just buy every empty soul gem I come across and buy out the entire inventory from the Alchemists whenever I come accross them. With my enchanting currently @ 89 I'm using all the daggers I have left over from leveling my smithing to 100, and I sold the daggers one at a time to Warmaiden's to level my speech to 100 and kept the extras to enchant. With Dibella's amulet giving +15% and the 10% better prices from the opposite sex perk I get really good deals.
 

Todd33

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Oct 16, 2003
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I sat down and made 125 potions or so last night in about 20 mins and levelled to 40 in alchemy, then went around WhiteRun and made about 6000 gold. I'm unmarried and lycanthropic so I get no resting bonuses, but I did turn on the Lover's Stone. I already have 2 fully outfitted houses, and I'm carrying about 30000 gold.

I've got Soul Stealer on my ebony bow and my Skyforged sword so I just buy every empty soul gem I come across and buy out the entire inventory from the Alchemists whenever I come accross them. With my enchanting currently @ 89 I'm using all the daggers I have left over from leveling my smithing to 100, and I sold the daggers one at a time to Warmaiden's to level my speech to 100 and kept the extras to enchant. With Dibella's amulet giving +15% and the 10% better prices from the opposite sex perk I get really good deals.

You make the game sound so fun, like a class in micro economics. zzzzzz. But to be fair, I ,just run around killing everything and it isn't much more fun. I have lost track of all the hideout and caves I have cleared to get x or kill y. I have no idea why I am doing anything other than some stranger asked me to. I wish the game had some narrative and cut scenes or even some memorable characters.
 

TheSlamma

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Sep 6, 2005
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You make the game sound so fun, like a class in micro economics. zzzzzz. But to be fair, I ,just run around killing everything and it isn't much more fun. I have lost track of all the hideout and caves I have cleared to get x or kill y. I have no idea why I am doing anything other than some stranger asked me to. I wish the game had some narrative and cut scenes or even some memorable characters.
Most of the time to attain this you have to get more linear.

Many times I feel most games that have too many cutscenes are just a bunch of people who couldn't make it in hollywood
 

TheSlamma

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Problem is you don't get a sleeping bonus w/ Lover's Stone. What you want to do is take Warrior's Stone, sleep 8 hours (especially if married) and then craft. You will get the 15% bonus from Lover's Comfort and 20% bonus from the Warrior's Stone - 35% increase in skill is really good.
Cool didn't know that it didn't stack on the lovers.

So for Alchemy do the thief stone and get the rest bonus,
 

IceBergSLiM

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Jul 11, 2000
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Update 1.3 Notes (all platforms unless specified)
  • General stability improvements
  • Optimize performance for Core 2 Duo CPUs (PC)
  • Fixed Radiant Story incorrectly filling certain roles
  • Fixed magic resistances not calculating properly
  • Fixed issue with placing books on bookshelves inside player purchased homes
  • Fixed dragon animation issues with saving and loading
  • Fixed Y-look input to scale correctly with framerate
 

OptimumSlinky

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Update 1.3 Notes (all platforms unless specified)
  • General stability improvements
  • Optimize performance for Core 2 Duo CPUs (PC)
  • Fixed Radiant Story incorrectly filling certain roles
  • Fixed magic resistances not calculating properly
  • Fixed issue with placing books on bookshelves inside player purchased homes
  • Fixed dragon animation issues with saving and loading
  • Fixed Y-look input to scale correctly with framerate

But has it fixed the low-res texture glitch if you install the game to your HDD on the Xbox 360? Because I am kind of tired of the load times and noise of my DVD drive, but don't want to sacrifice the pretty stuff.
 

Rage187

Lifer
Dec 30, 2000
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But has it fixed the low-res texture glitch if you install the game to your HDD on the Xbox 360? Because I am kind of tired of the load times and noise of my DVD drive, but don't want to sacrifice the pretty stuff.

Um, they fixed that last patch.


UPDATE 1.2 NOTES (all platforms unless specified)

Fixed issue where textures would not properly upgrade when installed to drive (Xbox 360)
 
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Doppel

Lifer
Feb 5, 2011
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I sat down and made 125 potions or so last night in about 20 mins and levelled to 40 in alchemy, then went around WhiteRun and made about 6000 gold. I'm unmarried and lycanthropic so I get no resting bonuses, but I did turn on the Lover's Stone. I already have 2 fully outfitted houses, and I'm carrying about 30000 gold.

I've got Soul Stealer on my ebony bow and my Skyforged sword so I just buy every empty soul gem I come across and buy out the entire inventory from the Alchemists whenever I come accross them. With my enchanting currently @ 89 I'm using all the daggers I have left over from leveling my smithing to 100, and I sold the daggers one at a time to Warmaiden's to level my speech to 100 and kept the extras to enchant. With Dibella's amulet giving +15% and the 10% better prices from the opposite sex perk I get really good deals.
What is the point now? The game is no challenge for your character so you are just building stats that nobody can ever see anyway as it is a single player game. I still have not touched this game since my level 31 or so character finished the main quest line.
 

Beev

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I just wanted to post and say I miss Skyrim so much . TOR is just so good and I can't find time for Skyrim anymore...

/firstworldproblems
 

QuikWgn

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What is the point now? The game is no challenge for your character so you are just building stats that nobody can ever see anyway as it is a single player game. I still have not touched this game since my level 31 or so character finished the main quest line.

Not at all because even though my skills are high in some areas, I'm playing a 'jack of all trades' character using a combination of archery, one handed, and destruction magic in which my skill is about 70 on each, and I'm playing on the hardest difficulty. I'm level 45 now and have only just completed my first full storyline the Mage's College.

All my weapons and armor are only singularly enchanted, and my perks are widely distributed. My bow with ebony arrows does about 100 dmg, and I'm using the DragonBane sword or a Skyforged steel sword with soul stealer and it only does 68 damage. My entire set of Dragonbone armor is only around armor class 350. I did not drink 50 smithing potions before making it or even double enchant it. it is still wholly possible to die as I prove quite frequently.
 

IceBergSLiM

Lifer
Jul 11, 2000
29,933
3
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What is the point now? The game is no challenge for your character so you are just building stats that nobody can ever see anyway as it is a single player game. I still have not touched this game since my level 31 or so character finished the main quest line.

I don't follow. You stopped playing because you rushed through the main quest line as fast as possible? What are you complaining about
 

ManBearPig

Diamond Member
Sep 5, 2000
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I think i'm gonna wait until the next patch (1.4) to continue playing and in the meanwhile play the newest assasins creed. The stuttering (playing on ps3) is starting to get annoying if playing for longer than like 30-45 minutes.
 

IceBergSLiM

Lifer
Jul 11, 2000
29,933
3
81
I screwed myself hard last night.

I had a follower with sick gear(easily 10k worth) (dragon head to toe + legendary ebony battleaxe enchanted etc) I had him wait out side for a minute while I went into a cave(companion quest line) the game removed my follower and I lost all the gear he had. LAME.

My saves were all screwed up and if I wanted to go back I would have lost about 4 hours of play time or more.
 
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