[I don't blame you]

Hi.
How many of you guys are playing:

• Daggerfall
• Morrowind
• Oblivion
• Skyrim

....?

[Aptorian]

You might want to try making a new thread and using the polling option to get that question answered. You should probably also be asking how many have played and/or are playing Elder Scrolls X.

[tiam]

So I bought Skurim today and have been on it for like 5 hours and im slightly underwhelmed. It seems fairly barren and doesnt have the ...grandeur? of Oblivion somehow despite looking better. Im still enjoying and I was definitely in the 'if it aint broke dont fix it' camp pre release but its very similar to Oblvion. Hopefully when I advance the plot a bit itll get better.

The one change I miss in a stupid way is alchemy. I can no longer mix bread,cheese and lettuce together to get a potion rather than a sandwich

[Dolorous Menhir]

Visited the Shrine of Azura in a storm. First I heard the roar, then a dragon high above, slipping through the clouds and snow.

There was no attack. It was just a wonderful sight to see.

[Defiance]

I am a huge Elder Scrolls fan, and I have yet to play Skyrim.

Yeah, yeah, I know it's blasphemy. Unfortunately, due to being broke I wasn't able to purchase it in November. Then, come the holidays, I tried to buy it off of Steam, but they refuse to take any credit card I try to give them. I've tried mine, my girlfriend's, and another friend's...none of them work. I have filed multiple support tickets and have gotten no helpful responses. This, on top of the fact that my former Steam account, which had $250+ of games on it, got suspended for NO REASON. I never played multiplayer, and every purchase I made to buy games was approved and on my billing statement.

So, yeah. After not being able to buy it off Steam, I was (and still remain) too pissed off to go pick it up at the store, since apparently I still need Steam to run it anyway. Fuck that corporation, "you suck my dick and I suck yours" bullshit. I should not have to have a third-party program to play a game.

I could pick it up on PS3, but Elder Scrolls games are nothing without player made mods once you get past 100 hours played or so.

Anyway, I'm sure I'll play it sooner or later. For the mean time, though, I have Morrowind. Despite how fun I'm sure Skyrim will be, nothing will ever top my beautiful Elder Scrolls III.

[Aptorian]

Why doesn't it accept your credit card? Sure this isn't an issue with your credit card provider and not Steam?

[tiam]

Alchemy is actually gayer on Skyrim. In Oblivion I was running through the woods picking flowers now im skipping around mountains trying to catch butterflies....

[Traveller]

Briar King, on 31 December 2011 - 02:41 AM, said:

Traveller, on 28 December 2011 - 09:29 PM, said:

How about if you're mainly playing with Light Armor though? If you spend a load of perks on smithing to get Daedric Armor, but all your bonuses are for Light - you'll be worse off, won't you?

So far I've been choosing armor based on weight and how it looks - to the extent that some of the time I'm wearing items of clothing that have enchantments on, solely because they look better! And, if I'm not taking much damage, it doesn't seem to matter that I'm not wearing the heaviest armor in the game.

(My character in Morrowind ended up wearing so many non-matching but powerful items of legendary armor that he looked like a damned clown, as it was all different shiny colours. Ok, I could walk through the air and kill whatever I wanted, but it looked ridiculous).

Im doing light armor myself but Im still doing all the heavy armor perks for my followers that favor HA so I think its worth it for that reason.


Also: Im getting seriously irked! Im level 31 trying to get Malyn out of Azura's Star and he is handing me my balls and bending me over everytime I go in...!! Anyone got any advice to turn the tables on him?

I went in around that level - I think I just ran in quick and hit him repeatedly with a dwarven sword that did @50 points of magicka damage, which stopped him from doing anything too serious. Had to do it quickly though, as there are other mages in there.
I managed to ignore them while I took him out, then left.

Black Star is worth it though.

This post has been edited by Traveller: 01 January 2012 - 11:44 AM

[Jade-Green Pig-Hog Swine-Beast]

Slow Time (or whatever it's actually called) is your friend.

[Garak]

Slow time is so awesome. I used it to wipe out the cannibal cult in Markath. I got the priest to follow me to the shrine (so the cult would be there in numbers) and when they were expecting me to kill the priest I instead slowed time and went murder happy on them. It was priceless.

[Defiance]

Aptorius, on 31 December 2011 - 06:46 AM, said:

Why doesn't it accept your credit card? Sure this isn't an issue with your credit card provider and not Steam?

There's no way it's an issue with my credit card. I've used it several times before on Steam, not to mention the fact that I tried my girlfriend's and another friend's (who both have cards from different credit unions).

[Beezulbubba]

Just squared off against a Draugr Deathlord in Volskygge. I caught myself yelling: "You want to shout! I'll shout you into the next county beeeyotch!"

[Garak]

It's funny when they use the disarm shout on me and in reply I just turn into a werewolf. They only make it worse for themselves really.

[Traveller]

I've been working through DB and Mage quests; have now started the thieves guild ones too. Is it possible to complete all three without any cross-overs? (I'd actually prefer to wipe out the thieves as I haven't met one yet I didn't want to kill, but there might be some interesting missions).

Also, although I have no smithing perks yet, I have made myself an Exquisite Daedric Bow, which does stupid amounts of damage with all my enchanted stuff on top. Is there now any reason to get the Daedric smithing perk? It seems like a long way round the tree to get dragon armor.

What's your favoured armor? I've currently got a mix of enchanted Leather and Glass, which is great but is a bit... shiny for a stealth character. Daedric is heavy, plus I don't really want to walk round looking like Sauron. Is there any better light armor? I've got a heap of dragon scales begging to be used at some point - I've no idea how good/bad that is yet.

[Gothos]

If you want to sneak around with some combat gains, the DB armor is pretty much what you want to wear. Follow up on the fortune telling you can get from the questline to get an improved version. It kicks ass. After you get to the point where you're such a powerhouse you grow bored of slitting throats and want to go actually fight stuff, dragonscale armor is the best light armor you can get. Dragon Scales are really easy to get, too.

[Dolmen 2.0]

I am constantly encouraged to download the Tytanis mod.

It allows you to ride Sabrecats aparently.

Has anyone loaded this up? I'm worried It'll change
way too much of the game but my friends keep urging me to try it.

Heres the link with descriptions etc: http://www.skyrimnex...ile.php?id=1601

[Traveller]

Gothos, on 03 January 2012 - 10:12 AM, said:

If you want to sneak around with some combat gains, the DB armor is pretty much what you want to wear. Follow up on the fortune telling you can get from the questline to get an improved version. It kicks ass. After you get to the point where you're such a powerhouse you grow bored of slitting throats and want to go actually fight stuff, dragonscale armor is the best light armor you can get. Dragon Scales are really easy to get, too.

I'm at a level now where anything I make is generally better than the stuff found in the quests. I've just reached the fortune telling so I'll check it out, although it's a shame you can't remove enchantments from armor and replace them with more powerful ones without destroying the armor in the process. I'll have to put a few perks into smithing I guess, I have a whole chest stuffed with dragon bones and scales now.

[Gothos]

Well, with the sneaky type, you don't generally count on being hit much, so the armor value is not as important as very nice enchantments, especially the 2x backstab damage one. In the end I was using a mix of Nightingale armor (spoiler alert) and DB armor for great enchantments, before I got tired of oneshotting everything and switched to full dragonscale and open fighting with two daedric swords.

[Traveller]

That sounds fun. I'm already hoarding nice weapons in pairs for when I go for the dual weapon fighting later on.

[Illuyankas]

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