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slag

Lifer
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I'm about 15 hours in and hit level 15. I don't see how you guys are levelling so fast at such low hours unless all you do is craft to level which really makes no sense to me. I spent at least half of the hours just walking around, looking at stuff, going places, picking up the odd quest here and there. I have killed 3 or 4 dragons so far and really need to get my crafting skill up to 100 to make dragon armor. I have been throwing all my stuff on my bed and it seems to stay there. That dragon stuff is HEAVY. I have about 6k gold. I'm getting pretty tired of killing these undead things all the time, its either undead or bandits, not much variation there.
 

Beev

Diamond Member
Apr 20, 2006
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I'm about 15 hours in and hit level 15. I don't see how you guys are levelling so fast at such low hours unless all you do is craft to level which really makes no sense to me. I spent at least half of the hours just walking around, looking at stuff, going places, picking up the odd quest here and there. I have killed 3 or 4 dragons so far and really need to get my crafting skill up to 100 to make dragon armor. I have been throwing all my stuff on my bed and it seems to stay there. That dragon stuff is HEAVY. I have about 6k gold. I'm getting pretty tired of killing these undead things all the time, its either undead or bandits, not much variation there.

My save has ~70 hours on it so far. I've only done two quests for the story, and not really that many side quests. I did the Dark Brotherhood line because I really wanted to, but I spend tons of time wandering the world. I NEED every location to say Cleared :awe:

Archery is 87
Sneak is 92
Lockpicking is 8x
Smithing is 100, but I did that to make shiny things, not to level
 

IceBergSLiM

Lifer
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I'm eager to hear your tale as you progress. You will probably approach the game drastically different than I am and that interests me.

Loving it so far. Yesterday I put in about 6 hours. I don't think I accomplished much though... Killed a bunch of baddies and leveled up some. Definitely took a while to get familiar with the controls and menus. I like how you can just wander and stumble upon random shit. i found some cave that I got pwned hard in . I came across a master level vampire or something and he gave it to me hard lol. When I get stronger I'll go back and show him who is boss. fun times.
 

mnewsham

Lifer
Oct 2, 2010
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Loving it so far. Yesterday I put in about 6 hours. I don't think I accomplished much though... Killed a bunch of baddies and leveled up some. Definitely took a while to get familiar with the controls and menus. I like how you can just wander and stumble upon random shit. i found some cave that I got pwned hard in . I came across a master level vampire or something and he gave it to me hard lol. When I get stronger I'll go back and show him who is boss. fun times.

Did you get Vampireism? I'm looking for a werewolf so i can get Lycanthropy, I really want to be able to just feed upon the poor bastards who get in my way.
 

Rage187

Lifer
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Did you get Vampireism? I'm looking for a werewolf so i can get Lycanthropy, I really want to be able to just feed upon the poor bastards who get in my way.

You'll get it as part of a quest line in white run. The champions I believe.
 

slag

Lifer
Dec 14, 2000
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Hit level 18.5 yesterday and its pretty fun. I just joined the thieves guild, although I can't sneak or pickpocket, I am pretty decent at lockpicking though.

Kind of feeling lost in this game though. I expected the quests to come to me really, but I have to actively search out for quests and questlines.

I know everyone says to not fast travel because you miss out on things, but when I'm at one side of the map and it sends me to the other side of the map, I'm not going to blow 45 minutes of real time (or more with fights), to get to the other side.

I upgraded my armor at the workbench and also my axe and i'm a lean mean, killing machine. Still can't kill Giants as they take me out with a couple hits, but I'm hoping that will change once I get to 100 crafting and can make the dragon armor.
 

Rage187

Lifer
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last night I was playing part of the main quest and got to a part where I had to create a distraction at a party. I did a dragon force shout and blew shit off of tables and then changed into a werewolf. What I did not know at the time is that I was supposed to get someone else to create a distraction so I could sneak away. Trust me though, they were distracted.
 

slag

Lifer
Dec 14, 2000
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last night I was playing part of the main quest and got to a part where I had to create a distraction at a party. I did a dragon force shout and blew shit off of tables and then changed into a werewolf. What I did not know at the time is that I was supposed to get someone else to create a distraction so I could sneak away. Trust me though, they were distracted.


LOL.. yeah, buy the man a drink!!

What level/area do you get the werewolf/vampire quests? I already saw my friend turn into a wolf but didn't get a quest from him.
 

Rage187

Lifer
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LOL.. yeah, buy the man a drink!!

What level/area do you get the werewolf/vampire quests? I already saw my friend turn into a wolf but didn't get a quest from him.

Maybe the 4th or 5th quest in the Champions line.
 

chorb

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I found a +12 to heavy armor amulet last night, arguably the best (most useful) item I've come across yet. Current char is at lvl 13, with lvl 33 heavy armor; having that bump up to lvl 45 heavy armor is quite nice, melee attacks barely drops my HP bar now

What awesome items have all you guys found?
 

ManBearPig

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Sep 5, 2000
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fellow skyrim console gaming nerds, i am thinking of building a pretty sweet computer so i can have the best version of skyrim, and then possibly running it on my 52" HDTV. i am excited. what say you?

skyrim is gonna waste me a ton of money.
 

Rage187

Lifer
Dec 30, 2000
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I sort of broke my game. I got the double enchant perk, drank a potion to increase my enchanting 15% and enchanted all new dragon armor and jewelry with uber more magica, less spell cost and a ton of other things. Now my magic never goes down even when casting expert spells

I also pimped the Forgemasters gloves and a smithing potion to better the gear by 35%
 
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PrayForDeath

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I sort of broke my game. I got the double enchant perk, drank a potion to increase my enchanting 15% and enchanted all new dragon armor and jewelry with uber more magica, less spell cost and a ton of other things. Now my magic never goes down even when casting expert spells

I also pimped the Forgemasters gloves and a smithing potion to better the gear by 35%

Yea some people actually never level magicka beyond 100 and dump most of their points into health. And after they max enchanting, they will have somewhere around 700 health with heavy armor, while being able to cast the strongest spells at no mana cost. It's imba
 

Doppel

Lifer
Feb 5, 2011
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level 24 now, about 31 hours in.
Playing as a mage, mainly destruction, secondary archer. Probably useless to combine archery and mage in truth, but I am not spending any time on stamina so close combat is out. Also working on lockpicking whenever possible but it's a slow one to get up.
 

Doppel

Lifer
Feb 5, 2011
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I wish the dragons were harder to kill (and had better AI).
They are very easy to kill at distance, they fly around predictably and then land and you can nail them for a while, particularly if indisposed with another enemy.

However, I've noticed my biggest annoyance with them is they won't attack. I've seen them circle me many times and I'd say about 50% of the time I see a dragon i cannot get it to engage. I imagine if I hit it once it might attack but they are very hard to hit while flying.
 

Hadsus

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I focused on the main quest as a Nord two handed basher but did many side quests and just wandering around on my to and fro. Finished the main quest at just level 13 and will now take a break to decide what to do next. Easily my favorite in the Elder Scrolls series though I think the main quest was kinda short.
 

HateMeAlways

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I focused on the main quest as a Nord two handed basher but did many side quests and just wandering around on my to and fro. Finished the main quest at just level 13 and will now take a break to decide what to do next. Easily my favorite in the Elder Scrolls series though I think the main quest was kinda short.

Stupid Question : what's the main quest?
 
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