General Malaise "vs." reading comprehension ; also some talk of skyim and the elder scrolls (1 Viewer)

[TxBuckeye]

I always use the worst arrows available (Forsworn, falmer, etc). At this point I'm not too concerned with quick kills and would rather take 3-4 arrows to kill something than a single one. I still use good arrows for dragons, dungeon boss, and the occasional assassination. But run of the mill hunting and dungeon clearing is with the low powered stuff.

Oh man, I never pick up those Falmer arrows (7 points?) Now I wish I had. Didn't even occur to me. Oh well, guess I'll keep plinking away and see if I ever get there.

 

[GregR]

Main quest, Mages, Thieves, Dark Brotherhood, and Nightingale all done. bring on my 72 virgins. Oh wait, they're all male and playing this game, nevermind.

So, now that you've done all that, which of the following have you lost?Please check any/all that apply.[ ] Your wife[ ] Your house[ ] Your job[ ] Your self-respect[ ] Your ability to pass by a wooden chest without opening it

[ ] Your ability to pass a butterfly without tearing off its wings

 

[AhrnCityPahnder]

Main quest, Mages, Thieves, Dark Brotherhood, and Nightingale all done. bring on my 72 virgins. Oh wait, they're all male and playing this game, nevermind.

So, now that you've done all that, which of the following have you lost?Please check any/all that apply.

[ ] Your wife

[ ] Your house

[ ] Your job

[ ] Your self-respect (N/A, this was drained out of me in middle school)

[ X ] Your ability to pass by a wooden chest without opening it

 

[Mad Cow]

I always use the worst arrows available (Forsworn, falmer, etc). At this point I'm not too concerned with quick kills and would rather take 3-4 arrows to kill something than a single one. I still use good arrows for dragons, dungeon boss, and the occasional assassination. But run of the mill hunting and dungeon clearing is with the low powered stuff.

Oh man, I never pick up those Falmer arrows (7 points?) Now I wish I had. Didn't even occur to me. Oh well, guess I'll keep plinking away and see if I ever get there.

I have generally used good arrows for everything and always buy ones up from what I an using. For example, I had dwarven to about 200 so started using then but always bought elven, glass and ebony. By the time the dwarven were gone, I had over 200 of the elven and all those above it, so now use elven and just buy everything above it. Money isn't an issue and it keeps the killing rolling along just great.

 

[TxBuckeye]

I always use the worst arrows available (Forsworn, falmer, etc). At this point I'm not too concerned with quick kills and would rather take 3-4 arrows to kill something than a single one. I still use good arrows for dragons, dungeon boss, and the occasional assassination. But run of the mill hunting and dungeon clearing is with the low powered stuff.

Oh man, I never pick up those Falmer arrows (7 points?) Now I wish I had. Didn't even occur to me. Oh well, guess I'll keep plinking away and see if I ever get there.

I have generally used good arrows for everything and always buy ones up from what I an using. For example, I had dwarven to about 200 so started using then but always bought elven, glass and ebony. By the time the dwarven were gone, I had over 200 of the elven and all those above it, so now use elven and just buy everything above it. Money isn't an issue and it keeps the killing rolling along just great.

Climbing up the perk tree, I took the one where you find more arrows on your victims. Basically, you get back everything you fire in to a target. With the power of the bow attacks at this point, even crappy iron arrows rarely take more than two shots to drop something. So I've never bought an arrow ever. Of course that leads to the problem I posted, which is it makes it hard to keep leveling when you are dropping everything so quickly.

 

[Hawks64]

So I started and except for the very last quest finished off the College of Winterhold quests.

Spoiler

Holy hell was that a time suck, the Dwarven ruins were way too long. I get to the last part of those ruins and pump in a bout 30 arrows into the guy I find in the Oculory before realizing I am not supposed to kill him nor can I kill him And I have realized that while I am sneaking there isn't much I can't one or two shot kill now, esp since I can dual enchant things I have Frost/Fire/Shock resist plus fortify archery on rings and necklaces in addition to fortify archery on my gauntlets and helmet.

I wound up not having any issues with Morokei, took out the two mages and then was on the upper area where the one mage was and fired arrow after arrow at Morokei.

So now my Sneak Archer is the Arch Mage of the College of Winterhold, and the bad thing is I pretty much only did this quest for the Dragon shout.

 

[TxBuckeye]

So I started and except for the very last quest finished off the College of Winterhold quests.

Spoiler

Holy hell was that a time suck, the Dwarven ruins were way too long. I get to the last part of those ruins and pump in a bout 30 arrows into the guy I find in the Oculory before realizing I am not supposed to kill him nor can I kill him And I have realized that while I am sneaking there isn't much I can't one or two shot kill now, esp since I can dual enchant things I have Frost/Fire/Shock resist plus fortify archery on rings and necklaces in addition to fortify archery on my gauntlets and helmet. I wound up not having any issues with Morokei, took out the two mages and then was on the upper area where the one mage was and fired arrow after arrow at Morokei. So now my Sneak Archer is the Arch Mage of the College of Winterhold, and the bad thing is I pretty much only did this quest for the Dragon shout.

I'm interested in the second statement in your spoiler. Why did it take that long? Was their some sort of protection I missed out on? For me...

Spoiler

I opened the door in to the room and saw the mages beaming those protection spells down to Morokei. I sniped them with one shot each, which dropped the protection. I then fired exactly TWO arrows in to Morokei, and he was dead. Only then did I actually pass through the doorway.

 

[GroveDiesel]

So I started and except for the very last quest finished off the College of Winterhold quests.

Spoiler

Holy hell was that a time suck, the Dwarven ruins were way too long. I get to the last part of those ruins and pump in a bout 30 arrows into the guy I find in the Oculory before realizing I am not supposed to kill him nor can I kill him And I have realized that while I am sneaking there isn't much I can't one or two shot kill now, esp since I can dual enchant things I have Frost/Fire/Shock resist plus fortify archery on rings and necklaces in addition to fortify archery on my gauntlets and helmet. I wound up not having any issues with Morokei, took out the two mages and then was on the upper area where the one mage was and fired arrow after arrow at Morokei. So now my Sneak Archer is the Arch Mage of the College of Winterhold, and the bad thing is I pretty much only did this quest for the Dragon shout.

I'm interested in the second statement in your spoiler. Why did it take that long? Was their some sort of protection I missed out on? For me...

Spoiler

I opened the door in to the room and saw the mages beaming those protection spells down to Morokei. I sniped them with one shot each, which dropped the protection. I then fired exactly TWO arrows in to Morokei, and he was dead. Only then did I actually pass through the doorway.

Spoiler

Those two mages were actually casting binding spells to keep Moereki there, not protect him.

 

[TxBuckeye]

So I started and except for the very last quest finished off the College of Winterhold quests.

Spoiler

Holy hell was that a time suck, the Dwarven ruins were way too long. I get to the last part of those ruins and pump in a bout 30 arrows into the guy I find in the Oculory before realizing I am not supposed to kill him nor can I kill him And I have realized that while I am sneaking there isn't much I can't one or two shot kill now, esp since I can dual enchant things I have Frost/Fire/Shock resist plus fortify archery on rings and necklaces in addition to fortify archery on my gauntlets and helmet. I wound up not having any issues with Morokei, took out the two mages and then was on the upper area where the one mage was and fired arrow after arrow at Morokei. So now my Sneak Archer is the Arch Mage of the College of Winterhold, and the bad thing is I pretty much only did this quest for the Dragon shout.

Spoiler

I'm interested in the second statement in your spoiler. Why did it take that long? Was their some sort of protection I missed out on? For me...I opened the door in to the room and saw the mages beaming those protection spells down to Morokei. I sniped them with one shot each, which dropped the protection. I then fired exactly TWO arrows in to Morokei, and he was dead. Only then did I actually pass through the doorway.

Spoiler

Those two mages were actually casting binding spells to keep Moereki there, not protect him.

So did I make a mistake killing them? Or was it necessary anyways?

 

[Hawks64]

So I started and except for the very last quest finished off the College of Winterhold quests.

Spoiler

Holy hell was that a time suck, the Dwarven ruins were way too long. I get to the last part of those ruins and pump in a bout 30 arrows into the guy I find in the Oculory before realizing I am not supposed to kill him nor can I kill him And I have realized that while I am sneaking there isn't much I can't one or two shot kill now, esp since I can dual enchant things I have Frost/Fire/Shock resist plus fortify archery on rings and necklaces in addition to fortify archery on my gauntlets and helmet. I wound up not having any issues with Morokei, took out the two mages and then was on the upper area where the one mage was and fired arrow after arrow at Morokei. So now my Sneak Archer is the Arch Mage of the College of Winterhold, and the bad thing is I pretty much only did this quest for the Dragon shout.

I'm interested in the second statement in your spoiler. Why did it take that long? Was their some sort of protection I missed out on? For me...

Spoiler

I opened the door in to the room and saw the mages beaming those protection spells down to Morokei. I sniped them with one shot each, which dropped the protection. I then fired exactly TWO arrows in to Morokei, and he was dead. Only then did I actually pass through the doorway.

I was expecting a much tougher time dealing with him based on statements made here, and then reading the wiki. The part that took so long was those damn dwarven ruins, they are way too long and way to repetitive.I have started reading the wikis after I clear each area so I don't miss something or pickup the wrong thing, since I have picked up a quest item for one of the College misc quests that has essentially killed the it for me. I can't give the person the item as it doesn't register that I have it and after reading about it online I have found that it's pretty much an uncompleteable quest now. So now I am stuck with this item in my inventory forever now.

 

[Hawks64]

FWIW, I also found the audio on narrated quests to be awful. I'll check the wiki on things after I clear them out to see if there was anything major that I missed. And generally, it's only after doing that that I find out what it was that was being said. Half of the on-going narration in the Morokei dungeon, for example, I didn't understand and only got the bigger gist of after I read afterwards.

One thing for me that helps is always facing the person talking, I play with surround sound on so unless I am facing them the audio comes out a different speaker based on where the person is in relation to me.

 

[Wyatt Earp]

After reading a lot of people's stuff here and watching some videos I think I'm the only one rolling arounded with a one-handed sword...should I move on with the two-handed swords/axes/hammers?

One handed here. Ebony War Axe is my primary weapon, leaves one hand free for restoration or conjuring a flame atronach if need be.

 

[Sand]

So how far does one have to get in the main storyline to get access to shouts?

Spoiler

I am currently doing the quest with the Riverwood girl and Elben heading over to the dragon wall.

 

[Sand]

So how far does one have to get in the main storyline to get access to shouts?

Spoiler

I am currently doing the quest with the Riverwood girl and Elben heading over to the dragon wall.

You're well past it. Although really, you have access to shouts immediately. You have to progress in the main quest in order to get dragons to randomly appear so you can kill them, suck down their souls, and power the shouts. And those start appearing once you've killed the first dragon with Lydia and become more frequent the further along the MQ you go.So at this point, it's just a matter of finding the shouts. If you want to find them on your own, your best bets are Nord barrows (they're the upside-down trident on maps) or dragon lairs (dragon heads on the maps). You'll find them in other places as well but if you tackle all of those, you'll have a pretty high number. And almost all of those have one.Huh - I have like 20 dragon souls stored and a bunch of words learned. I guess I should look into that and see about learning some of these things.Edit: just checked. I can't learn them yet, evidently. Says I need dragon souls to learn them (I have 14 in stock, as it were). So maybe I am not far enough along after all?

 

[crush304]

So how far does one have to get in the main storyline to get access to shouts?

Spoiler

I am currently doing the quest with the Riverwood girl and Elben heading over to the dragon wall.

Spoiler

You're well past it. Although really, you have access to shouts immediately. You have to progress in the main quest in order to get dragons to randomly appear so you can kill them, suck down their souls, and power the shouts. And those start appearing once you've killed the first dragon with Lydia and become more frequent the further along the MQ you go.So at this point, it's just a matter of finding the shouts. If you want to find them on your own, your best bets are Nord barrows (they're the upside-down trident on maps) or dragon lairs (dragon heads on the maps). You'll find them in other places as well but if you tackle all of those, you'll have a pretty high number. And almost all of those have one.

Huh - I have like 20 dragon souls stored and a bunch of words learned. I guess I should look into that and see about learning some of these things.Edit: just checked. I can't learn them yet, evidently. Says I need dragon souls to learn them (I have 14 in stock, as it were). So maybe I am not far enough along after all?you have words and souls available? you have to spend the dragon soul on a word you know before you are able to use it. should be available from the shout menu

 

[hotdogcollars]

So how far does one have to get in the main storyline to get access to shouts?

Spoiler

I am currently doing the quest with the Riverwood girl and Elben heading over to the dragon wall.

Spoiler

You're well past it. Although really, you have access to shouts immediately. You have to progress in the main quest in order to get dragons to randomly appear so you can kill them, suck down their souls, and power the shouts. And those start appearing once you've killed the first dragon with Lydia and become more frequent the further along the MQ you go.So at this point, it's just a matter of finding the shouts. If you want to find them on your own, your best bets are Nord barrows (they're the upside-down trident on maps) or dragon lairs (dragon heads on the maps). You'll find them in other places as well but if you tackle all of those, you'll have a pretty high number. And almost all of those have one.

Spoiler

Huh - I have like 20 dragon souls stored and a bunch of words learned. I guess I should look into that and see about learning some of these things.Edit: just checked. I can't learn them yet, evidently. Says I need dragon souls to learn them (I have 14 in stock, as it were). So maybe I am not far enough along after all?

If you have dragon souls on hand, then just go to the shout and there should be some button to "power" the shout. On the playstation, you use the square button. Once you've powered the shout, you can use it. The first time you do it, there's something non-intituitive about it, but you definitely can do it.on xbox its the X button. I totally spaced out on this last night...kept pushing a to activate it and it just said "you must have dragon souls to activate teh shout". Meanwhile i'm staring at 8 souls in the queue. 30 minutes later... oh yeah, push the x button

 

[hotdogcollars]

Have to admit, today knocked some of the luster off of this game for me. Not only did I get stuck doing three straight quests in Dwarven ruins, which were all way to long and repetitious (as always with those things), I have started getting lockups about once per hour. The only thing worse than having to trudge through a dwarven dungeon, is having to do it twice because you forgot to save every 2 minutes because of lockups. It was a very frustrating session to say the least./rant

i've only had 2 lockups so far and they dont bother me. The only thing that bugs me is how it takes 30-60 seconds every time you go in or out of a scene/door. i literally get and do some stuff around the house while waiting for doors to open

 

[Sand]

So how far does one have to get in the main storyline to get access to shouts?

Spoiler

I am currently doing the quest with the Riverwood girl and Elben heading over to the dragon wall.

Spoiler

You're well past it. Although really, you have access to shouts immediately. You have to progress in the main quest in order to get dragons to randomly appear so you can kill them, suck down their souls, and power the shouts. And those start appearing once you've killed the first dragon with Lydia and become more frequent the further along the MQ you go.So at this point, it's just a matter of finding the shouts. If you want to find them on your own, your best bets are Nord barrows (they're the upside-down trident on maps) or dragon lairs (dragon heads on the maps). You'll find them in other places as well but if you tackle all of those, you'll have a pretty high number. And almost all of those have one.

Spoiler

Huh - I have like 20 dragon souls stored and a bunch of words learned. I guess I should look into that and see about learning some of these things.Edit: just checked. I can't learn them yet, evidently. Says I need dragon souls to learn them (I have 14 in stock, as it were). So maybe I am not far enough along after all?

Spoiler

If you have dragon souls on hand, then just go to the shout and there should be some button to "power" the shout. On the playstation, you use the square button. Once you've powered the shout, you can use it. The first time you do it, there's something non-intituitive about it, but you definitely can do it.

on xbox its the X button. I totally spaced out on this last night...kept pushing a to activate it and it just said "you must have dragon souls to activate teh shout". Meanwhile i'm staring at 8 souls in the queue. 30 minutes later... oh yeah, push the x button I got it.

 

[Cold Dead Hands]

The civil war quest line is unimaginative, repetitive, and boring.

 

[thayman]

So how far does one have to get in the main storyline to get access to shouts?

Spoiler

I am currently doing the quest with the Riverwood girl and Elben heading over to the dragon wall.

Spoiler

You're well past it. Although really, you have access to shouts immediately. You have to progress in the main quest in order to get dragons to randomly appear so you can kill them, suck down their souls, and power the shouts. And those start appearing once you've killed the first dragon with Lydia and become more frequent the further along the MQ you go.So at this point, it's just a matter of finding the shouts. If you want to find them on your own, your best bets are Nord barrows (they're the upside-down trident on maps) or dragon lairs (dragon heads on the maps). You'll find them in other places as well but if you tackle all of those, you'll have a pretty high number. And almost all of those have one.

Spoiler

Huh - I have like 20 dragon souls stored and a bunch of words learned. I guess I should look into that and see about learning some of these things.Edit: just checked. I can't learn them yet, evidently. Says I need dragon souls to learn them (I have 14 in stock, as it were). So maybe I am not far enough along after all?

Spoiler

If you have dragon souls on hand, then just go to the shout and there should be some button to "power" the shout. On the playstation, you use the square button. Once you've powered the shout, you can use it. The first time you do it, there's something non-intituitive about it, but you definitely can do it.

Spoiler

on xbox its the X button. I totally spaced out on this last night...kept pushing a to activate it and it just said "you must have dragon souls to activate teh shout". Meanwhile i'm staring at 8 souls in the queue. 30 minutes later... oh yeah, push the x button

I got it.Don't worry you aren't alone, took me awhile to realize that too.

 

[TxBuckeye]

Trying to get the horn of Juergen and can't whirlwind past the gates for the life of me?!?!

What I did was to tell my NPC to stand in front of the first stone. Then I sprinted past two and three and whirlwinded from there. I couldn't get past it until I positioned the NPC. But I have a buddy that did it solo, so I guess it can be done.

 

[SoCalBroncoFan]

So I hit level 32 today. Spent a while trying to find the steed stone. Didnt want to spoil it too much for myself, so I didnt look up exactly where it was. Had a general idea and just explored. Wow, that took forever.

I have now done 5 main quest, 8 thieves guild quests, 1 college of winterhold quest, and I just the first nightingale quest.

Question:

Spoiler

After the quest to kill Karliah, you start doing a quest for her. Is that a thieves guild quest? Is that a nightingale quest? If so, will there be more thieves guild quests?

 

[GroveDiesel]

Thieves Guild and Nightingale are the same thing.

 

[TxBuckeye]

Thieves Guild and Nightingale are the same thing.

Is anyone else using the Nightingale weapons? I was carrying both, really like the bow. I did drop the sword though for the one I stole from Mercer's house in Riften. It's fun to hit someone and watch them fall over frozen.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

Thieves Guild and Nightingale are the same thing.

Is anyone else using the Nightingale weapons? I was carrying both, really like the bow. I did drop the sword though for the one I stole from Mercer's house in Riften. It's fun to hit someone and watch them fall over frozen.

My first character (assassin/sniper) used these exclusively for awhile. I loved that bow. My second character (i.e. Big Gay Orc) is level 34 now, and has been branching out by learning magic. It is not easy learning a new skill set when most of the monsters are leveled with you to level 34. Most of the time I fire off a couple lightening bolts as my flame atronach takes one hit and dies, then I whip out my Big Gay Sword to survive. I also had my second companion inexplicably disappear during a battle. We got into a fight with some Falmer and their creepy pets, and when the smoke cleared, Marcuio was gone. No body.No visual evidence of him dying.Just *POOF*, gone.The same thing happened with the Riverwood wood elf.

 

[culdeus]

I have no ####### idea how to get to the bee hives without being seen. I also blew a sheetload of lockpicks for no apparent gain either on that one.

 

[Kirby]

I have no ####### idea how to get to the bee hives without being seen. I also blew a sheetload of lockpicks for no apparent gain either on that one.

I think I swam to the back side, ate some invisible potion and jumped up there.

 

[AhrnCityPahnder]

I have no ####### idea how to get to the bee hives without being seen. I also blew a sheetload of lockpicks for no apparent gain either on that one.

that was a pretty tough quest early on for me.

 

[culdeus]

I have no ####### idea how to get to the bee hives without being seen. I also blew a sheetload of lockpicks for no apparent gain either on that one.

that was a pretty tough quest early on for me.

So question about this in general. Once you are spotted it isn't so hard to kill a few waves of the guards. You can then retreat in the water. For leveling purposes this seems like a nice way to practice as they seem to spawn unlimited guards?

 

[AhrnCityPahnder]

I have no ####### idea how to get to the bee hives without being seen. I also blew a sheetload of lockpicks for no apparent gain either on that one.

that was a pretty tough quest early on for me.

So question about this in general. Once you are spotted it isn't so hard to kill a few waves of the guards. You can then retreat in the water. For leveling purposes this seems like a nice way to practice as they seem to spawn unlimited guards?

I may be wrong, but I don't think they were unlimited. I just thought there was a lot of them. Again, going from memory and that may not be right.

 

[Foosball God]

Last night I put down the Stormcloak rebellion. Ulfric.

 

[joker]

I have no ####### idea how to get to the bee hives without being seen. I also blew a sheetload of lockpicks for no apparent gain either on that one.

that was a pretty tough quest early on for me.

So question about this in general. Once you are spotted it isn't so hard to kill a few waves of the guards. You can then retreat in the water. For leveling purposes this seems like a nice way to practice as they seem to spawn unlimited guards?

I may be wrong, but I don't think they were unlimited. I just thought there was a lot of them. Again, going from memory and that may not be right.

 

[joker]

I have no ####### idea how to get to the bee hives without being seen. I also blew a sheetload of lockpicks for no apparent gain either on that one.

that was a pretty tough quest early on for me.

So question about this in general. Once you are spotted it isn't so hard to kill a few waves of the guards. You can then retreat in the water. For leveling purposes this seems like a nice way to practice as they seem to spawn unlimited guards?

I may be wrong, but I don't think they were unlimited. I just thought there was a lot of them. Again, going from memory and that may not be right.

Spoiler

It sure seemed like they were unlimited. I ended up taking care of the hives and sneaking in through the back way after I killed what seemed like at least 15+ guards. And it took me forever to find the secret entrance - I swear I swam around that place for a loooong time.

Edited to put some of my info in spoiler tags as I'm not sure everyone would want to see part of the reply without spoiler tags.

 

[The Gator]

So are these Night Mother quests infinite? They're pretty boring by the 5th one

 

[NorvilleBarnes]

I have no ####### idea how to get to the bee hives without being seen. I also blew a sheetload of lockpicks for no apparent gain either on that one.

that was a pretty tough quest early on for me.

So question about this in general. Once you are spotted it isn't so hard to kill a few waves of the guards. You can then retreat in the water. For leveling purposes this seems like a nice way to practice as they seem to spawn unlimited guards?

Spoiler

Remember: You don't want to kill anyone for this quest. Also, you want to burn 3 - and only 3 - hives. After setting fire to my 3rd it took a while to show on my notice so I lit another hive and it showed 3/3 hives burned. When I started swimming away, the 4th hive registered as burning and when I got back the TG was "You made a mess of things! I said only burn 3 hives!" If your sneak is low, use an invisible potion, light 3 hives and even if you alarm the guards, don't fight just flee.

 

[The Gator]

I have no ####### idea how to get to the bee hives without being seen. I also blew a sheetload of lockpicks for no apparent gain either on that one.

that was a pretty tough quest early on for me.

So question about this in general. Once you are spotted it isn't so hard to kill a few waves of the guards. You can then retreat in the water. For leveling purposes this seems like a nice way to practice as they seem to spawn unlimited guards?

I may be wrong, but I don't think they were unlimited. I just thought there was a lot of them. Again, going from memory and that may not be right.

Spoiler

It sure seemed like they were unlimited. I ended up taking care of the hives and sneaking in through the back way after I killed what seemed like at least 15+ guards. And it took me forever to find the secret entrance - I swear I swam around that place for a loooong time.

Edited to put some of my info in spoiler tags as I'm not sure everyone would want to see part of the reply without spoiler tags.

Spoiler

Correct, it feels like a crap ton. Especially early on. I ran that quest later on with my third character and it was far easier.

 

[NorvilleBarnes]

Question on the Thieves Guild generally. I started it because I'm kind of a sneaky guy so why not. But then I did the first (or second, I suppose) quest where you act as enforcer to collect their protection money. And I felt like a real #####... breaking people's treasured belongings and threatening their family? Not cool. So I dropped the questline.Are the rest of the quests similar? Or can you do them without feeling ####ty about yourself? The Thieves Guild quests in Oblivion I had no problem doing. Reassinging Lex? Sure. The guy was a jackass. But these.... distasteful.

That's just to get in. But the people remember - when you walk by them later they give you attitude. Once you're in the quests involve a LOT of sneaking and many stipulate "don't kill anyone" or "don't get caught or spend time in jail". Some are straightforward and some are interesting "sneak puzzles".

 

[cj*]

Finally starting to feel pretty overpowering. Level 55 wood elf, Enchantment, smithing, archery, Lockpick, Sneak, and Heavy Armor at 100 with One handed at 91. Carrying 2 legendary elven swords that are both double enchanted (one with ice/fire and the other with shock/soul). Wearing full Legendary Dragonplate all double enchanted. Armor rating is around 960 and each sword does 190 damage. I still have a chillrend that does 220 damage but dont use it as much. Finished the guild, brotherhood, companions, and mage questlines but not much on the main story. I am cleaning out my miscellaneous now and then moving on to civil war and main quest. Alchemy is only in the 60's so I cam not at full power yet. Really enjoying this game, but dont know if I could do another playthrough. I didn't discover the lady in the hills for archery till I was level 95 in archery. She took care of my last 5 levels lol.

 

[Hawks64]

Finally starting to feel pretty overpowering. Level 55 wood elf, Enchantment, smithing, archery, Lockpick, Sneak, and Heavy Armor at 100 with One handed at 91. Carrying 2 legendary elven swords that are both double enchanted (one with ice/fire and the other with shock/soul). Wearing full Legendary Dragonplate all double enchanted. Armor rating is around 960 and each sword does 190 damage. I still have a chillrend that does 220 damage but dont use it as much. Finished the guild, brotherhood, companions, and mage questlines but not much on the main story. I am cleaning out my miscellaneous now and then moving on to civil war and main quest. Alchemy is only in the 60's so I cam not at full power yet. Really enjoying this game, but dont know if I could do another playthrough. I didn't discover the lady in the hills for archery till I was level 95 in archery. She took care of my last 5 levels lol.

How did you get to 960 in armor? I have DragonScale, full set and it's only around 200ish I think.

 

[The Hank]

Finally starting to feel pretty overpowering. Level 55 wood elf, Enchantment, smithing, archery, Lockpick, Sneak, and Heavy Armor at 100 with One handed at 91. Carrying 2 legendary elven swords that are both double enchanted (one with ice/fire and the other with shock/soul). Wearing full Legendary Dragonplate all double enchanted. Armor rating is around 960 and each sword does 190 damage. I still have a chillrend that does 220 damage but dont use it as much. Finished the guild, brotherhood, companions, and mage questlines but not much on the main story. I am cleaning out my miscellaneous now and then moving on to civil war and main quest. Alchemy is only in the 60's so I cam not at full power yet. Really enjoying this game, but dont know if I could do another playthrough. I didn't discover the lady in the hills for archery till I was level 95 in archery. She took care of my last 5 levels lol.

How did you get to 960 in armor? I have DragonScale, full set and it's only around 200ish I think.

You're using Light Armor (Dragonscale), he's using double enchanted Heavy Armor (Dragonplate)

 

[The Gator]

Finally starting to feel pretty overpowering. Level 55 wood elf, Enchantment, smithing, archery, Lockpick, Sneak, and Heavy Armor at 100 with One handed at 91. Carrying 2 legendary elven swords that are both double enchanted (one with ice/fire and the other with shock/soul). Wearing full Legendary Dragonplate all double enchanted. Armor rating is around 960 and each sword does 190 damage. I still have a chillrend that does 220 damage but dont use it as much. Finished the guild, brotherhood, companions, and mage questlines but not much on the main story. I am cleaning out my miscellaneous now and then moving on to civil war and main quest. Alchemy is only in the 60's so I cam not at full power yet. Really enjoying this game, but dont know if I could do another playthrough. I didn't discover the lady in the hills for archery till I was level 95 in archery. She took care of my last 5 levels lol.

How did you get to 960 in armor? I have DragonScale, full set and it's only around 200ish I think.

You should be able to get to 500ish with a few perks (light armor, matching set...) and improving them after drinking a +40% weapons/armor potion and while wearing a ring, necklace and leather hide armour enchanted to +30% weapons/armor

 

[Hawks64]

Finally starting to feel pretty overpowering. Level 55 wood elf, Enchantment, smithing, archery, Lockpick, Sneak, and Heavy Armor at 100 with One handed at 91. Carrying 2 legendary elven swords that are both double enchanted (one with ice/fire and the other with shock/soul). Wearing full Legendary Dragonplate all double enchanted. Armor rating is around 960 and each sword does 190 damage. I still have a chillrend that does 220 damage but dont use it as much. Finished the guild, brotherhood, companions, and mage questlines but not much on the main story. I am cleaning out my miscellaneous now and then moving on to civil war and main quest. Alchemy is only in the 60's so I cam not at full power yet. Really enjoying this game, but dont know if I could do another playthrough. I didn't discover the lady in the hills for archery till I was level 95 in archery. She took care of my last 5 levels lol.

How did you get to 960 in armor? I have DragonScale, full set and it's only around 200ish I think.

You're using Light Armor (Dragonscale), he's using double enchanted Heavy Armor (Dragonplate)

I know that, but I wouldn't think that the plate armor, which is only 20 points better in base, would be that much better than mine. I have to double check but I don't think I know either of the Fortify armor enchantments, which would be very beneficial.

 

[Hawks64]

Finally starting to feel pretty overpowering. Level 55 wood elf, Enchantment, smithing, archery, Lockpick, Sneak, and Heavy Armor at 100 with One handed at 91. Carrying 2 legendary elven swords that are both double enchanted (one with ice/fire and the other with shock/soul). Wearing full Legendary Dragonplate all double enchanted. Armor rating is around 960 and each sword does 190 damage. I still have a chillrend that does 220 damage but dont use it as much. Finished the guild, brotherhood, companions, and mage questlines but not much on the main story. I am cleaning out my miscellaneous now and then moving on to civil war and main quest. Alchemy is only in the 60's so I cam not at full power yet. Really enjoying this game, but dont know if I could do another playthrough. I didn't discover the lady in the hills for archery till I was level 95 in archery. She took care of my last 5 levels lol.

How did you get to 960 in armor? I have DragonScale, full set and it's only around 200ish I think.

You should be able to get to 500ish with a few perks (light armor, matching set...) and improving them after drinking a +40% weapons/armor potion and while wearing a ring, necklace and leather hide armour enchanted to +30% weapons/armor

I guess I need to look into the armor perks. I am already at 100 smithing and drinking the potions and wearing a helmet and gauntlets of smithing that are ~32% I think, can't remember off the top of my head though. I have really only invested my perks in smithing, enchanting, archery and sneaking.

 

[The Gator]

Finally starting to feel pretty overpowering. Level 55 wood elf, Enchantment, smithing, archery, Lockpick, Sneak, and Heavy Armor at 100 with One handed at 91. Carrying 2 legendary elven swords that are both double enchanted (one with ice/fire and the other with shock/soul). Wearing full Legendary Dragonplate all double enchanted. Armor rating is around 960 and each sword does 190 damage. I still have a chillrend that does 220 damage but dont use it as much. Finished the guild, brotherhood, companions, and mage questlines but not much on the main story. I am cleaning out my miscellaneous now and then moving on to civil war and main quest. Alchemy is only in the 60's so I cam not at full power yet. Really enjoying this game, but dont know if I could do another playthrough. I didn't discover the lady in the hills for archery till I was level 95 in archery. She took care of my last 5 levels lol.

How did you get to 960 in armor? I have DragonScale, full set and it's only around 200ish I think.

You should be able to get to 500ish with a few perks (light armor, matching set...) and improving them after drinking a +40% weapons/armor potion and while wearing a ring, necklace and leather hide armour enchanted to +30% weapons/armor

I guess I need to look into the armor perks. I am already at 100 smithing and drinking the potions and wearing a helmet and gauntlets of smithing that are ~32% I think, can't remember off the top of my head though. I have really only invested my perks in smithing, enchanting, archery and sneaking.

There are 7 you "need":

First 5 in the tree- Increase armor rating for Light Armor by 20% (+20% per additional rank)

Next one up- Custom Fit Light Armor 30, Agile Defender 25% armor bonus if wearing all Light Armor: head, chest, hands, feet

One to the right- Matching Set Light Armor 70, Custom Fit Additional 25% Armor bonus if wearing a matched set of Light Armor.

 

[Hawks64]

Finally starting to feel pretty overpowering. Level 55 wood elf, Enchantment, smithing, archery, Lockpick, Sneak, and Heavy Armor at 100 with One handed at 91. Carrying 2 legendary elven swords that are both double enchanted (one with ice/fire and the other with shock/soul). Wearing full Legendary Dragonplate all double enchanted. Armor rating is around 960 and each sword does 190 damage. I still have a chillrend that does 220 damage but dont use it as much. Finished the guild, brotherhood, companions, and mage questlines but not much on the main story. I am cleaning out my miscellaneous now and then moving on to civil war and main quest. Alchemy is only in the 60's so I cam not at full power yet. Really enjoying this game, but dont know if I could do another playthrough. I didn't discover the lady in the hills for archery till I was level 95 in archery. She took care of my last 5 levels lol.

How did you get to 960 in armor? I have DragonScale, full set and it's only around 200ish I think.

You should be able to get to 500ish with a few perks (light armor, matching set...) and improving them after drinking a +40% weapons/armor potion and while wearing a ring, necklace and leather hide armour enchanted to +30% weapons/armor

I guess I need to look into the armor perks. I am already at 100 smithing and drinking the potions and wearing a helmet and gauntlets of smithing that are ~32% I think, can't remember off the top of my head though. I have really only invested my perks in smithing, enchanting, archery and sneaking.

There are 7 you "need":

First 5 in the tree- Increase armor rating for Light Armor by 20% (+20% per additional rank)

Next one up- Custom Fit Light Armor 30, Agile Defender 25% armor bonus if wearing all Light Armor: head, chest, hands, feet

One to the right- Matching Set Light Armor 70, Custom Fit Additional 25% Armor bonus if wearing a matched set of Light Armor.

Ouch, may not do this then. Only have 2 perks to use right now. My character is a sneak archer so I am always sniping, if it gets up close and personal a little unrelenting force gives me plenty of space, only really need it when taking ranged non magical attacks. Have to think about what I want to do now.

 

[GregR]

Finally starting to feel pretty overpowering. Level 55 wood elf, Enchantment, smithing, archery, Lockpick, Sneak, and Heavy Armor at 100 with One handed at 91. Carrying 2 legendary elven swords that are both double enchanted (one with ice/fire and the other with shock/soul). Wearing full Legendary Dragonplate all double enchanted. Armor rating is around 960 and each sword does 190 damage. I still have a chillrend that does 220 damage but dont use it as much. Finished the guild, brotherhood, companions, and mage questlines but not much on the main story. I am cleaning out my miscellaneous now and then moving on to civil war and main quest. Alchemy is only in the 60's so I cam not at full power yet. Really enjoying this game, but dont know if I could do another playthrough. I didn't discover the lady in the hills for archery till I was level 95 in archery. She took care of my last 5 levels lol.

How did you get to 960 in armor? I have DragonScale, full set and it's only around 200ish I think.

You should be able to get to 500ish with a few perks (light armor, matching set...) and improving them after drinking a +40% weapons/armor potion and while wearing a ring, necklace and leather hide armour enchanted to +30% weapons/armor

I guess I need to look into the armor perks. I am already at 100 smithing and drinking the potions and wearing a helmet and gauntlets of smithing that are ~32% I think, can't remember off the top of my head though. I have really only invested my perks in smithing, enchanting, archery and sneaking.

There are 7 you "need":

First 5 in the tree- Increase armor rating for Light Armor by 20% (+20% per additional rank)

Next one up- Custom Fit Light Armor 30, Agile Defender 25% armor bonus if wearing all Light Armor: head, chest, hands, feet

One to the right- Matching Set Light Armor 70, Custom Fit Additional 25% Armor bonus if wearing a matched set of Light Armor.

Ouch, may not do this then. Only have 2 perks to use right now. My character is a sneak archer so I am always sniping, if it gets up close and personal a little unrelenting force gives me plenty of space, only really need it when taking ranged non magical attacks. Have to think about what I want to do now.

Also, do you have your Light Armor skill maxed out at 100 already? Perks make a big difference, but the skill itself also matters.

 

[SoCalBroncoFan]

Finally starting to feel pretty overpowering. Level 55 wood elf, Enchantment, smithing, archery, Lockpick, Sneak, and Heavy Armor at 100 with One handed at 91. Carrying 2 legendary elven swords that are both double enchanted (one with ice/fire and the other with shock/soul). Wearing full Legendary Dragonplate all double enchanted. Armor rating is around 960 and each sword does 190 damage. I still have a chillrend that does 220 damage but dont use it as much. Finished the guild, brotherhood, companions, and mage questlines but not much on the main story. I am cleaning out my miscellaneous now and then moving on to civil war and main quest. Alchemy is only in the 60's so I cam not at full power yet. Really enjoying this game, but dont know if I could do another playthrough. I didn't discover the lady in the hills for archery till I was level 95 in archery. She took care of my last 5 levels lol.

How did you get to 960 in armor? I have DragonScale, full set and it's only around 200ish I think.

You should be able to get to 500ish with a few perks (light armor, matching set...) and improving them after drinking a +40% weapons/armor potion and while wearing a ring, necklace and leather hide armour enchanted to +30% weapons/armor

I guess I need to look into the armor perks. I am already at 100 smithing and drinking the potions and wearing a helmet and gauntlets of smithing that are ~32% I think, can't remember off the top of my head though. I have really only invested my perks in smithing, enchanting, archery and sneaking.

There are 7 you "need":

First 5 in the tree- Increase armor rating for Light Armor by 20% (+20% per additional rank)

Next one up- Custom Fit Light Armor 30, Agile Defender 25% armor bonus if wearing all Light Armor: head, chest, hands, feet

One to the right- Matching Set Light Armor 70, Custom Fit Additional 25% Armor bonus if wearing a matched set of Light Armor.

Ouch, may not do this then. Only have 2 perks to use right now. My character is a sneak archer so I am always sniping, if it gets up close and personal a little unrelenting force gives me plenty of space, only really need it when taking ranged non magical attacks. Have to think about what I want to do now.

Also, do you have your Light Armor skill maxed out at 100 already? Perks make a big difference, but the skill itself also matters.

I have had problems leveling up my armor. I usually snipe and have been very lucky not to get hit a lot. I think my armor rating is only like 40 and I am level 32. I guess I should just go in a dungeon and let some guy just beat on me and take potions.

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

I should just go in a dungeon and let some guy just beat on me.

 

[The Gator]

I should just go in a dungeon and let some guy just beat on me.

 

[Hawks64]

Finally starting to feel pretty overpowering. Level 55 wood elf, Enchantment, smithing, archery, Lockpick, Sneak, and Heavy Armor at 100 with One handed at 91. Carrying 2 legendary elven swords that are both double enchanted (one with ice/fire and the other with shock/soul). Wearing full Legendary Dragonplate all double enchanted. Armor rating is around 960 and each sword does 190 damage. I still have a chillrend that does 220 damage but dont use it as much. Finished the guild, brotherhood, companions, and mage questlines but not much on the main story. I am cleaning out my miscellaneous now and then moving on to civil war and main quest. Alchemy is only in the 60's so I cam not at full power yet. Really enjoying this game, but dont know if I could do another playthrough. I didn't discover the lady in the hills for archery till I was level 95 in archery. She took care of my last 5 levels lol.

How did you get to 960 in armor? I have DragonScale, full set and it's only around 200ish I think.

You should be able to get to 500ish with a few perks (light armor, matching set...) and improving them after drinking a +40% weapons/armor potion and while wearing a ring, necklace and leather hide armour enchanted to +30% weapons/armor

I guess I need to look into the armor perks. I am already at 100 smithing and drinking the potions and wearing a helmet and gauntlets of smithing that are ~32% I think, can't remember off the top of my head though. I have really only invested my perks in smithing, enchanting, archery and sneaking.

There are 7 you "need":

First 5 in the tree- Increase armor rating for Light Armor by 20% (+20% per additional rank)

Next one up- Custom Fit Light Armor 30, Agile Defender 25% armor bonus if wearing all Light Armor: head, chest, hands, feet

One to the right- Matching Set Light Armor 70, Custom Fit Additional 25% Armor bonus if wearing a matched set of Light Armor.

Ouch, may not do this then. Only have 2 perks to use right now. My character is a sneak archer so I am always sniping, if it gets up close and personal a little unrelenting force gives me plenty of space, only really need it when taking ranged non magical attacks. Have to think about what I want to do now.

Also, do you have your Light Armor skill maxed out at 100 already? Perks make a big difference, but the skill itself also matters.

Nope, like SoCal I am in the 40s or maybe 50s for light armor.