So...Skyrim

[PLightstar]

Yeah, I like the new book cases. Its no longer a case of dragging books into position. I only have the house in Whiterun, trying to get the one in Solitude at the moment. Its only got one display for weapons and a few chests.
Had a funny moment last night, have been Arch-mage for a while and went to Solitude and spoke to the court mage and she said 'you look like you have some magicka about you' well yes I am the Arch-mage.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Bookcases bug like hell, E not working and can't take books out at times. Better to just place them yourself.

 

[Everz]

THEY BROKE LOCKPICKING?!

Cunts.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Lockpicking perks are pretty much useless. Should be that you can't open a chest without an appropriate level. Adept for adept etc.

 

[pikeh]

thats bollocks. so you have to spend 100 points in lockpicking just to open integral chests? what a load of old shit.

 

[Raven]

Oh, they patched it or something? I think I only have one point in lock picking and been opening master locks. Takes a bit of time and quite a few picks but get it done. Not played it in a few days though.

ah nm, i see.

 

[Cyradix]

 

[old.Tohtori]

thats bollocks. so you have to spend 100 points in lockpicking just to open integral chests? what a load of old shit.

It would atleast make lockpicking a viable career path, instead of what it is now. You could ofcourse hire a companion to do it for you(although ofcourse, every companion is a mater level lockpicker ). Should be that perks open higher locks, chests aren't critical for story(as they don't seem to be) and only sneakier companions can do it for you.

 

[PLightstar]

They shouldn't have taken out the unlock spell.

 

[old.Tohtori]

They shouldn't have taken out the unlock spell.

Oh, i was curious if there was one. Here's hoping they mod one in, not to mention i'm really waiting for Thief mod

 

[old.Tohtori]

Funny how the system works at times, might contain low level spoilers;

Spoiler

Bro got sven to join up.
Tried to pickpockets svens mother.
Svens mother caught him.
Sven killed his mother(fun moment right there)

Gets better.

Sven and bro meet a bounty hunter.
Bounty hunter has letter "I want this guy dead bladibla."
Signed...Sven

 

[Everz]

Progress slowed on this as feeling ill most the weekend and didn't wish to spew all over my laptop.

Got to level 14 though and deciding I may actually start doing the main quests now rather then doing every cave/dungeon I find then leave as it's too high for me .

 

[Cemeterygates]

Little tip to get a few levels in, Everz.

Make Iron daggers, lots of them, cheap way to get to 100 smithing which gives you a nice bit of xp and then enables you to craft yourself a nice set of dragon armor once you get a few of the smithing perks.

Also, disenchant a few items (preferably weapons) then, as you make the iron daggers you can enchant them with any soul gems you may of obtained, thus gaining a bit more exp.

You shall then be ready to venture into the world and kick some ass, just watch out for hagravens, they are mean untill you get quite high.

 

[pikeh]

got to the end room of that dwemer dungeon with shit loads of falmers at the end...are they tough or what?!

 

[Cemeterygates]

Not when you dual weild ebony weapons that are tweaked to high heaven and have armsman 5, dragon armor and agile defender 5 among a few other mellee perks

 

[old.Tohtori]

Little tip to get a few levels in, Everz.

Make Iron daggers, lots of them, cheap way to get to 100 smithing

Should nerf this so it only raises with iron so far, like lockpicking

 

[Nate]

You can level lock picking by failing

 

[Scouse]

Not when you dual weild ebony weapons that are tweaked to high heaven and have armsman 5, dragon armor and agile defender 5 among a few other mellee perks

This sounds like that World of Warcraft South Park episode.

Cool

 

[old.Tohtori]

Shame about the state of thieves on the internet, needing to put pots on heads or some such to do menial heists.

This current generation of RPG thievery is pathetic

 

[PLightstar]

As much as I love Skyrim, I miss being able to create spells. I might change myself to a lower level, seem to be leveling up far too quickly. Seem to be once per hour

 

[Everz]

The hell are you doing to level up fast :|?

I'm just getting killed and sucking hah.

 

[PLightstar]

The hell are you doing to level up fast :|?

I'm just getting killed and sucking hah.

Wouldn't say much, I do tend to use reanimate corpse and firebolt spells alot, lockpicking levels up very quickly. Every time I am in a town I will find a trainer and buy all the skills in areas I don't use much but need like Restoration and Speechcraft. The only problem I have had so far was my battle against Morikai in the mages questline, took me nearly a hour to beat him, as 3 shots from his staff killed me. As I don't use followers it was a long process of hit with sword, run (whirlwind), heal, conjure atronach, hide, save and repeat process till he went down.

 

[Everz]

Ah thats why I'm not really progressing as for the last 8 hours of play I've just ran around lighting the map up hah. Haven't done a quest since finishing the Bleak Hollows one .

 

[Zenith]

I love sneaking. Started with a 2h Redguard female. Too easy. Started a destruction only darkelf... Bit too hard on expert level. Finally on a Woodelf archer/thief. Im loving it! Sneakily taking out targets with longrange arrows = satisfying.

 

[Will]

I've managed to hit the level cap with my Wood Elf archer/thief. I may have used an exploit on the Oghma Infinium. The game is a bit easy now. Level 81, armour rating over the armour cap and a bow with over 500 damage. The master Illusion spell Mayhem makes life a bit easy too.

Also, my horse is a fucking psycho.

 

[Aoami]

Playing a conjurer atm. It's a bit easy but loads of fun. Flame Atronach (sp?) and a bound sword with the upgrade perk, things go down verrrrry quickly.

 

[Cemeterygates]

I've managed to hit the level cap with my Wood Elf archer/thief. I may have used an exploit on the Oghma Infinium. The game is a bit easy now. Level 81, armour rating over the armour cap and a bow with over 500 damage. The master Illusion spell Mayhem makes life a bit easy too.

Also, my horse is a fucking psycho.

How have you got a bow with 500+ dammage?! I'm 100 in archery and using a tweaked ebony bow (which if i recall right has a dammage rating of 110) and with daedric arrows gives me like 136??? Either you've found some kinda glitch or bullshittin us man!

 

[Cemeterygates]

Also, i've got the archery perk at level 5, which makes bows do double dammage..

Agile defender 5, armsman 5, and the archery one

 

[Will]

You need full ranks in Smithing, Enchanting and Alchemy and a few perks.

Enchant up some Alchemy gear and fortify Smithing gear. You'll get +25% which can go on 4 items. Go make potions to boost Enchanting and Smithing. Drink the potion for enchanting and make Fortify Archery gear. You'll get 45% boosts to damage. Go make a Daedric Bow and then improve it under the Smithing potion and clothes. Bam, 501 damage Legendary Bow for me.

You can loop the Alchemy/Enchant set a couple of times to increase it more, I have been told. But I couldn't be arsed getting enough Grand Souls to make that happen. You can farm mammoths for them if you think that isn't enough damage. Or be evil and get Black Souls.

 

[Will]

Bam!