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    Quote Originally Posted by Animeniax View Post
    I'm playing on adept mode. I wonder how many of you are on apprentice or easy mode, because I seem to struggle to kill mobs that you all are breezing through. Once my equipment/skills get too high, I'll switch to the next higher difficulty, though I've heard there may be a bug preventing it.
    We're just not mentioning it that often. I've said it before, I'll say it again. If get caught, I die. I've never adjusted the difficultly, so I'm on Adept. I save a lot. As in, each time before I crest the next hill, every larger room in a dungeon.

    Some mobs are easy, some (bandit camp halfway between Falkreath and Solitude) take me a dozen tries or more. I still get killed by bears if they catch me unaware and I don't use potions. Same with Saber Cats. People with two handed weapons still two-shot me. This is largely because I rarely upped my Health and focused on entirely on Stamina. It has gotten worse since I switched to even lighter armor for aesthetic and magical bonuses reasons. I run around the corner a lot, wait for sneak to go Hidden again. I shoot from nearly my max range whenever I can.

    If you're not big on Destruction or Heavy Armor/Block/Restoration, the character requires quite a bit more strategy in each encounter. It's similar to the Fallouts. If you played SmallGuns/Guns (FO3/NV), the game was a piece of cake. In fact, with NV, the game was a joke with high Guns skills. I played on Very Hard and had absolutely no problem. If you played Energy or melee without T-51B, the games were more difficult.

    Some builds just work better than others. Skyrim isn't anywhere near as bad as Oblivion, where MinMaxing was a requirement, not a suggestion.

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    When snooping through an ancient fortress for a quest, I happened to release a prisoner. Now the fucking idiot is following me like a dog, ruining my sneaking action and as if that wasn't enough, he's always faithfully there to block my way so that when the enemies spot us, I can't back off from the fire and in fact act as a shield for the cretin. I think I'll do bills and relieve him from his fear of bad mages. Permanently.

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    Does anyone know if smithing equipment at Skyforge in Whiterun gives better stats than at other forges?

    Also, it's tough to find blacksmith potions... but if anyone is doing smithing, be sure to quaff one for an instant 20% boost to the stats of anything you smith. Only lasts 30 seconds, so plan your smithing and have all required components ready to go.


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    There never was a more satisfying slitting a throat scene than the one produced from sneaking behind the fool I mentioned in my previous post...

    Quote Originally Posted by Animeniax View Post
    Also, it's tough to find blacksmith potions... but if anyone is doing smithing, be sure to quaff one for an instant 20% boost to the stats of anything you smith. Only lasts 30 seconds, so plan your smithing and have all required components ready to go.
    Assuming the ingredients aren't overly difficult to locate, you could make the potion yourself.

    I also used to think the saber tooths are difficult opponents but when I was killing one giant by shooting and running, as luck would have it, I encountered not one but two saber tooths while being chased by the angry giant. I froze the first one with a Shout, then offed the second in mere moments with a nice impaling animation. I don't even know how I killed it so easily and fast. I should find one on purpose to see if it was only fool's luck.

    Mediocre Daedric quest spoiler: I happened to perform the Sanguine quest and goddam the fire mage was more difficult than any other opponent I'd faced so far. I really need to acquire fire resistance in some form, though I don't know how much it would have helped unless the percentage was really high.
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    So knowing nothing about this game, if i didn`t liked Elder Scrolls 4, is there a chance i might like this?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Animeniax View Post
    Does anyone know if smithing equipment at Skyforge in Whiterun gives better stats than at other forges?
    I don't think so, but I made my Daedric Bow there just to be sure.

    It lets you forge Nordic weapons if you finish the Companion questline. Plentiful to make with ancient nord weapons and steel ingots...but they're not that good.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kraco View Post
    Assuming the ingredients aren't overly difficult to locate, you could make the potion yourself.
    I've sampled pretty much every ingredient I've seen in the game (I'm lvl33 now) and didn't find one that said it could help with skills, only stats and spell effects.

    Quote Originally Posted by UChessmaster View Post
    So knowing nothing about this game, if i didn`t liked Elder Scrolls 4, is there a chance i might like this?
    Depends on what you didn't like about Oblivion. If you don't like open world RPGs in a D&D type world, then you won't like Skyrim.


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    Quote Originally Posted by UChessmaster View Post
    So knowing nothing about this game, if i didn`t liked Elder Scrolls 4, is there a chance i might like this?
    Prolly. I wasn't a bit fan of Oblivion.

    Quote Originally Posted by Kraco
    When snooping through an ancient fortress for a quest, I happened to release a prisoner. Now the fucking idiot is following me like a dog, ruining my sneaking action and as if that wasn't enough, he's always faithfully there to block my way so that when the enemies spot us, I can't back off from the fire and in fact act as a shield for the cretin. I think I'll do bills and relieve him from his fear of bad mages. Permanently.
    See? Should have done what I did. I bet you know what I did. :P

    @Ryll: wait till you get Shadow warrior, and perform the move in 3rd person. I didn't know exactly what it meant by "stops combat for a moment". Turns out, you actually go invisible for one second.

    At long ranges like yourself, it forces people to lose you. For me, when I get tied up in close combat, I duck - go invisible - and 15x on him in that split second that he loses track of me.

    It's useful WHEN I get found, but normally I just either sneak up on them from behind - or roll up really quickly in their face if they're looking at me and double-slice them before they're aware of me. The latter works too, since with high sneak it also affects how long they take to detect you after seeing you (in the dark/dungeons anyway - pretty sure daylight will may be different).

    btw: has anybody encountered a dragon at night yet?

    edit: Bethesda has announced at the official Elder Scrolls forums that the next patch for Skyrim is due to go live 'the week after Thanksgiving.'
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    Quote Originally Posted by Buffalobiian View Post
    btw: has anybody encountered a dragon at night yet?
    I did, right in the middle of Falkreath. I also killed one on top of a mountain close to Riften at night. The fire of the latter was truly blinding.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ryllharu View Post
    I did, right in the middle of Falkreath. I also killed one on top of a mountain close to Riften at night. The fire of the latter was truly blinding.
    Ah, good. Hopefully the dragon's eyesight is affected at night. I'm always hoping that sneaking on them is not 100% hopeless.

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    I did get a 3.0x arrow modifier on the mountaintop one. It was asleep after all. But don't expect it to do too much. The fight was still tough, it actually got worse when it landed. It followed me around the pillars I had previously been hiding behind to get away from its fire breathing.

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    This was ages ago, back below Level 16 and the random amulet find that gives me 40% fire resistance.

    Now I shoot them in the face while they're breathing fire on me. Frost ones mess me up pretty bad still.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buffalobiian View Post
    btw: has anybody encountered a dragon at night yet?
    Oddly enough, I have killed about 7 dragons and haven't encountered a single one during the day.

    @Ryllharu: The frost ones trouble you more? As a Nord, I find that the frost breath attacks barely hurt me, whereas the fire does alot more damage. Of the 7 I have faced, 5 were frost dragons, whereas 2 were the regular fire types.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Splash! View Post
    @Ryllharu: The frost ones trouble you more? As a Nord, I find that the frost breath attacks barely hurt me, whereas the fire does alot more damage. Of the 7 I have faced, 5 were frost dragons, whereas 2 were the regular fire types.
    It's a really good amulet. The frost isn't nearly as bad as when my Imperial Shield Maiden faces it, that's true, but I'm used to not even having to heal. I guess it is a relative scale.

    By the way, I faced my first Elder Dragon. It was a frost one (of course). I got too close and got chomped on. Damn thing nearly killed me in one blow! Watch out for them, they're covered in knobbly spikes. I still made short work of it thanks to the (Epic) Daedric Bow.

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    Just had some good chuckles reading this review.

    http://games.on.net/article/14258/Epic_Review_Skyrim_PC

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ryllharu View Post
    This was ages ago, back below Level 16 and the random amulet find that gives me 40% fire resistance.

    Now I shoot them in the face while they're breathing fire on me. Frost ones mess me up pretty bad still.
    I found some scaled boots with 50% fire resistance. If I can find that amulet, I'd be nearly impervious to fire attacks.

    Does anyone know, are dragon scaled and bones required to make dragon armor? I thought scales would go to making scaled armor, but it turns our that's corundrum. It seems blacksmithing potions do not replenish at alchemy stores.

    My armor is currently at 330 without a shield and at 387 with a shield.

    Has anyone become a slave of a daedric god yet? I turned down my only offer so far. Had to kill two daedric minions, but then it wouldn't let me loot their armor.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Animeniax View Post
    I've sampled pretty much every ingredient I've seen in the game (I'm lvl33 now) and didn't find one that said it could help with skills, only stats and spell effects.
    If you feel like going through lots of ingredients (perhaps with a save-load cycle) mixing potions at random will reveal more effects than just eating raw samples.

    Has anyone become a slave of a daedric god yet? I turned down my only offer so far. Had to kill two daedric minions, but then it wouldn't let me loot their armor.
    Slave? You mean something beyond the normal daedric quests? Doesn't sound too tempting to become a slave. Especially of a Prince of Oblivion. The quests, at least the three I've tasted so far, are more involving and longer than those in Oblivion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Animeniax View Post
    It seems blacksmithing potions do not replenish at alchemy stores.
    Concerning blacksmithing potions, you absolutely can craft them. I only know one of the ingredients, so it doesn't mean much for me right now. I actually read about it in a book in game. If you can find another, you can make a potion.

    Highlight only if you want to know: [ Sabre Cat Tooth ]

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    I've finally hit 100 smithing and crafted my full set of dragonscale armor(legendary) and the deadric sword(legendary too). now i just need to skill up my enchanting to make it way more awesome. I've put magica regen on head and chest, and on boots and gloves I've put one handed dmg, on shield - extra hp.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ryllharu View Post
    Concerning blacksmithing potions, you absolutely can craft them. I only know one of the ingredients, so it doesn't mean much for me right now. I actually read about it in a book in game. If you can find another, you can make a potion.

    Highlight only if you want to know: [ Sabre Cat Tooth ]
    Yeah I got tired after checking shops at 4 major cities so I looked it up and found a recipe for them. I didn't pay close attention to the ingredients, I just wanted to know if it was possible to make them.

    Quote Originally Posted by Kraco View Post
    Slave? You mean something beyond the normal daedric quests? Doesn't sound too tempting to become a slave. Especially of a Prince of Oblivion. The quests, at least the three I've tasted so far, are more involving and longer than those in Oblivion.
    Not sure if it was a daedric quest or not. It was a quest to find the components necessary to trek to the altar of one of the deities, but once I got there I refused to do what he commanded, so maybe I prevented my chance of even starting the quest.


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    Sounds like you refused a quest. Aedra are boring, Daedra amusing, so in my opinion you should always accept their quests, even if you momentarily needed to breach your general playing style.

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