[lilVaratep]

I started off as a Nord, went for the sword/shield with heavy armor, but then when I got about halfway the main storyline, I found some fancy looking clothes and took off the shield and just rapefaced while looking cool. Also had "blades" sword, which is the best one-handed sword I could find. I finished the main storyline and now I've just joined the Dark Brotherhood (my fave guild). I'm gonna start building light armor and sneak and stuff like that. After this will probably be mage, but I might just make a new character for that. Took me about 15 hours to beat the game while lollygagging somewhat. Now my journey to the rest of Skyrim commences !

[Martyr2]

So I have been moving along and appear I have sided with the imperials so far. My first test in WhiteRun had come up where I had to take out that fire breathing dragon. So I went with my dark elf which actually handled his fire quite well. I could stand directly in the path of his fire and not lose much life at all. I then used frostbite which actually worked quite well.

During the whole battle I maybe had to use like 3 minor health potions. Not too bad considering I could stand directly in his blast radius and essentially ice him down when he was heating me up.

But as far as that rag tag bunch of fighters that were suppose to be "helping me" they sure weren't around when I was dueling him. All just to prove I was "dragonborn?"

Anyways, dark elf and ice combination was a success on the first dragon. I just got to figure out how I am going to fair better against the frost and lightning style dragons to come in the future.

[KYA]

Anyone figure out what causes the "chunking" like load issue I mentioned earlier? It doesn't appear to be tied to settings at all. I can run ultra with my crap computer and run into the exact issue even on lower settings. Makes no sense! Grrrrrrrrrrrr.

[aikbix]

I'm still downloading the damn game, can't wait to lose my social life.

[ishkabible]

a really cheap move: once you get the impact perk for destruction by dual casting projectile spells(flame or frostbite wont work) you can keep staggering your opponent until you run out of magicka. with a smaller spell like firebolt or ice spike you can keep it up forever.

This post has been edited by ishkabible: 13 November 2011 - 07:46 PM

[Martyr2]

So I went into the Bannered Mare to beat up that lute player and accidentally hit my dragon word. I haven't seen so many fighters jump up and draw their swords in my life. Totally kicked my ass. I should have lit them up with my ancestoral wrath but I didn't want to kill half of them and lock me out of future side quests. hehe

I just had to take my beating and move on.

[ishkabible]

if you kill all of them your bounty goes away

i freed a prisoner from a thalmor caravan and so they all attacked me while the prisoner ran away. my bounty was like 6000 after i had killed them all and just because i was pissed i killed the prisoner and then poof! all my bounty went away

if your already in the dark brotherhood read this

Spoiler

i thought about killing all the kids orphanage along with the mean old lady after the fact; it would have been 10 times quicker than waiting on her to go into your room and shut the door. o well

[gabehabe]

What difficulty is everyone on? I followed the entire thieves guild/nightingales questline, then went to fight my first dragon and got raped, realised I was on master difficulty for no good reason. Knocked it down to adept, don't see the point in making every fight a needless grind.

Even with a nightingale bow (~22atk + 10 frost damage to health and stamina + 10% chance of 2 second freeze) + glass arrows (18atk), I was barely denting the damn thing's health.

Doing the thieves guild questline has upped my pickpocket skill to 100 already though, and lockpick/sneak are around 60. I can steal the clothes that people are wearing, think I'm gonna turn Winterfall into the naked city of flesh and snow.

Yeah, I like to steal...

This post has been edited by gabehabe: 14 November 2011 - 08:15 AM

[xclite]

I went the mage route. The game actually runs very well on my pc, given that I haven't upgraded it in 5 years. Guess the console argument about having to constantly upgrade can suck it.

Dragons are pretty easy for me (I have a ton of magicka and my regen is obscene), but fucking giants, man.

Also, I did the Winterhaven College stuff before starting the 7000 steps stuff, so it was pretty awesome to roll through one of the areas in the 7000 steps quest line and one shot everything.

[BetaWar]

I'm not sure what difficulty I am playing on, but I haven't manually set it, so I could be at pretty much anywhere. It seems to me that they have a tiered leveling system built in where the enemies get stronger (stronger variants) at least at level 10.

I noticed that I haven't seen a single normal dragon since I leveled over 10, and they are all blood dragons now, which kinda sucks because I can't kill them off without having around 4 guards/ other people to act as cannon fodder. The dragons sure are good at taking out hostile camps though By the time they were done with the dragon I swept in and killed the 3 or 4 left alive and stole the dragon's soul. Pretty good deal.

As far as race/ class I am an Imperial battlemage type. I have 1 hand spell casting and the other using a mace. I wear heavy armor and am certain to carry my Notched Pick with me at all times (for mining purposes only).

[Creecher]

Yeah, the College quests are pretty fun. So far they're the only guild I've joined. After I do that questline I'm going to take my battlemage over to the Companions and join them.

[modi123_1]

@xclite - what's your spects and what setting are you playing with?

Oh, you must feel as the penny arcade guys do!


http://penny-arcade....omic/2011/11/09

[xclite]

I think things are on high - I just let it auto-detect.

My machine is:
Q6600 at 2.8 GHz
6 Gigs of DDR2 at around 800 MHZ
AMD 4870 (512 MB VRAM)

and it runs from a 7200 RPM HDD.

[Kilorn]

Very close to my own specs. I've got the Q8400 which is 2.66GHz, but I have it overclocked to 3.66. 4850 GPU, and only 4 gigs of RAM. Good to see that I shouldn't have much trouble running it when/if I ever get it.

[modi123_1]

Too to hear that after I am done studying for my cert exam I won't need to dump more cash into the ol' gal to get Skyrim to start rocking and rolling.

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