Nah, I've only got 8 of them or so. I see that it's lumped together with the "become a full member of the Thieve's Guild" quest. Do you know if that means you have to collect all the stones to become such a member? Seems like nonsense since you're already Guildmaster and everybody-but-Vex all praise you like anything.Originally Posted by Ani
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You get a perk where the likelihood of finding jewels in random loot increases. Not really useful.
Well that sux. Like Buff said, it's attached to the quest to become a full member of the thieves guild and I'm trying to clear out my quest list. I won't bother looking for them, since the last one I found was during a companions quest. I wonder if they randomly appear on missions or if they are in fixed locations.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
I have no idea. I've always found mine while I'm doing some random quest and kill a boss or something.. then search around a little for loot only to find the stone.
I wonder what happens if the stone appeared (as in it appears on screen) but you didn't take it (either intentionally or because YOU didn't see it). If there's only 24 of them.. you can't just have them spawning all over the place. I guess you can palm it off as saying bandits are stealing it from each other and seemingly keep dropping it places you happen to visit..
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Has anyone else encountered an inconsistency in the dragon types you fight? I can't remember the last time I fought a fire one. I've killed like 25 across 3 characters, and only two besides the first introductory one for each character was a fire one. I'm getting really tired of fighting frost ones.
My character's fought an even mix of both frost and fire breathing dragons. I've fought around 26 all together.
I have yet to see a backwards flying dragon.. but today I encountered a dragon that refused to take damage.. or perhaps it was I who was unable to deal any damage...
In any case, I reloaded, but have not visited the location again to try.
I don't mind Frost dragons now since they can barely hurt me. Nightingale armour plus necklace gives me 100% reduction in frost damage. It's actually the fire ones that are more of a problem now since I only have 15% resistance to that via another necklace. Fire's more visually stunning though, so I still like them more.
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I don't encounter an even distribution, more like 35-40% frost and the majority fire. It doesn't really make such a big difference. I carry three pairs of boots: Frost, fire, and shock resistance and three necklaces for the same purposes. It's 65-90% resistance for me when equipped properly for any element. There's some damage taken but not enough that I'd usually need to heal during the combat. In fact most of the damage is usually taken if I guess incorrectly the element before the first attack.
Also, my AC's around 850, not 750 like I earlier incorrectly remembered. My smithing wasn't even fully boosted when I improved the armour pieces. I didn't bother back then because my enchanting still has room to improve and all the armour pieces are enchanted, so I'll eventually need to make new ones. Light armour skill as well has room to rise, making the armour better in practice.
Final part of the Dark Brotherhood questline was so underwhelming.
I'd think fighting more of one type of dragon would be beneficial since you can wear armor resistant to that type of attack and not have to swap armor. I don't even bother switching to fire proof armor since my normal armor rating is so high.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
When you get high enough weapon skills and perks and a weapon improved enough to deliver significant damage (so that the enemy can still boast most of its health but will die due to a critical hit), you can get pretty funny last words out of bandits. Like one man I had already skewered and who was doubling around my blade uttered: "Is this the best you can do?" or one man whose head had already separated from his neck said something along the lines of: "This is nothing"...
Anyway, there are a few named characters in small rooms when you enter the Riften sewers. I haven't joined the thieves guild, but I entered the sewers when a quest suddenly required I take some necromancer's laboratory notes to a man living down there. I entered the sewers, and those named characters bid me welcome with their blades and bows. I had to slaughter them to reach the man in need of the grisly books.
Maybe the best Skyrim bug video that I've seen.
I bought a completely new rig with new case, cpu, motherboard, gpu, ram, psu, etc. All except my hard drive which I reused. I didn't know this, but Steam saves games under your user settings in C: (or whatever your system drive is). I had the hard drive partitioned in 2 (with Steam installed on the other Partition drive D:\) and when I upgraded my rig I formatted C: and put a 64bit Windows 7 on there.
To my horror I learned that my 70 hour Skyrim save game is gone. Too bad there wasn't any Steam Cloud support either. Oh well.
Are you going to start a new character?
I'm at about 115 hrs with my level 60. I've been exploring to find new locations and found a joint one with a "find the source of power" quest. As I cleared it out, it took all of my resolve and will to not just stop and say "funk this" and quit. Instead I just tore through the dungeon and skipped most of the treasures and any hidden areas. I plan to uninstall the game this weekend.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
Ever since Morrowind, the first Elder Scrolls I played, I have had the bad habit of strolling around the countryside developing the character with minor quests or no quests at all, just hacking'n'slashing, exploring, and developing skills. So, before long, the game starts to get kind of repetitive and old. I don't honestly know why I have such an aversion to sticking to the main story for any amount of time, despite the fact it would be hugely more interesting. Skyrim made it even worse with the added value of checking every bloody cave and mountain slope for the next shout.
But I won't be uninstalling this game, likely not ever. I'll need to concentrate on the quests next and then put this on ice until nice mods appear - or even the inevitable major expansion by Bethesda. Who knows, I might try to build an adventure by myself.
Actually you're right, I will keep it installed for when the DLC and mods arrive. I have Solitude modded with HD textures and it's quite beautiful.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
My sneak, smithing and pickpocketing are now at 100, with lockpicking, one-hand and light armour in the 90s. Enchanting is in the 70s.
I went the Heavy Armour route for smithing since I wanted the ebony and daedric weapon perks (and really, dragon armour is all that I wanted for armour upgrades as long as I can enchant them). So my armour increased only from 305 to around 372, but my Ebony Dagger (Fine) increased from 31 to 58 when it reached legendary status (without using potions etc).
Ancient dragons die with one (sneak) hit. This rocks.
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I might eventually. Might make a full on mage with dual casting magic as a main point. My last character I maxed smithing, and enchanting and had a full dragonscale set and legendary Ebonscale Sword with Fire/Frost enchant and the game was just too easy, even on the highest difficulty. Only reason I'm not so torn up about losing my save game was probably cause I was losing interest in destroying the game already for myself, heh.
Yeah. I have enchanting, smithing, and sneak at 100, one-handed, archery, lock picking, and light armour very near it. While I still tend to sneak around, but even when I don't, I can already muscle myself through any opposition easily. In the beginning I thought it's not possible to develop such a demi-god character in this game as it was in Oblivion/Morrowind if you optimized every single levelling to get max bonuses. While that's still not possible, you do get pretty tough in Skyrim as well, even if it takes twice the number of levels.
I see now why going the heavy armour route is indeed wiser if you do it all afterwards, all at once. But if you do it gradually during the longer gameplay, it would suck to use whatever light armour in whatever condition before you reach the dragon armours.
If you were a warrior type, then yeah.. since you'll actually need armour perks. Sneak types can pretty much live without it (like I did).
Decided to craft some Daedric daggers at near-full-potential today (mix of potions and enchanted armours that gave me +99% improvement). They each had 93 damage.. so that's a maximum sneak attack damage of 5580pts. The game caps damage absorption from armour to 80%, so under normal circumstances I can expect to deal a minimum of 1116pts of actual reduction to someone's HP.
.. not much can survive that..
I then tried to raise Enchantment too, but finding and filling gems are hard. I even went down to Blackreach and mined every vein I could find, but I'm still at lvl88 or so in enchantments. Current strategy is just to keep recharging my Soul-trap dagger whenever I trap someone into my re-usable black gem. It's slow.. but it'll get there eventually.
I wouldn't actually have enough spare upgrades to obtain all the useful enchantment perks just by upping that to 100 though, so I farmed speech, block and heavy armour to 100 in the meanwhile:
-Attack random stormcloak camp
-Leave one survivor
-Leave combat
-Sneak back and pickpocket all of his weapons
-Taunt him
-Equip shield
-Equip heavy armour, rings and necklaces enchanted with Fortify Healing Rate
-Bind "Left Hand" to <Num Pad 0>
-Place stapler on keyboard, holding down NP0 key
-Catch up on anime that were missed in the past month due to skyrim
That guy has been punching me for a week now (skyrim time).
I tried joining the Imperials, but even though the General-something's guards at the door didn't attack me (Solitude guards will), the actual general himself and his lackeys in the meeting room will. The 34K+ bounty from my Dark Brotherhood run-in still bother them I guess....
I paid it off at half price with the Thieve's Guild's influence though, since I wanted to join the Imperials. There's always been something about the word "Empire" that I've liked. Plus, these guys seek to unify and don't really care about races, so that's cool by me. Too bad so many of them are assholes.
The battle at Whiterun was pretty fun for me.. being able to ninja-killing them all. Only one of my allied soldiers died.. and that was because I missed, haha. (though it seems like the game's designed so no allies die anyway, since they kneel when they're low on health which cancels the enemy's offensive nature).
Last edited by Buffalobiian; Tue, 12-20-2011 at 12:08 PM.
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Great places for finding soul gems are the old Dwemer cities. The spiders, spheres, and centurions carry one or two of them almost always. Plus there's usually extra lying around here and there.
I decided to use my accumulated four perks to unlock the heavy armour route. So, now I have a daedric sword and bow, both doing measly ~10 points more damage than the glass weapons I had previously. In battle there's no practical difference after applying the bonuses from my Gauntlets of Battle and Ring of Conflict, both fortifying one-hand and archery as much as enchanting with full skill and perks plus an elixir allows.
So, in the end, the only real plus is that they look more badass than glass weapons. Dunno if that was worth four perks. I guess I'll open "Dovahkiin's Legendary Weapons And Armour" smithy after retiring from adventuring...
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