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If it's not a major skill of yours you're golden as minor skills don't affect levelling at all. If those are major skills you could be in trouble if increasing them too much causes you to level without your combat skills keeping pace. All encounters are scaled by your level so you'll be spawning higher and higher level monsters... and will only be able to jump around and heal the damage they do you.
It just depends on what you do. I told Galrthir that Davide was plotting against him, at which point he ran off to go kill Davide. I then told the city guard about it, and the city guard went and kicked his ###.
Yeah, I got the reward. Big whoop, huh? Give me the goods, #####, or your daughter dies was not a conversation tree option.Sorry, I had to go check what the reward was.***SPOILER***I never got the quest from the mother, but when I ran into the daughter, she asked to help her and it got me going. What is the reward?That's it. If you didn't actually get a quest for it, let me know... you may be due a reward.I [sPOILED] if that is what you are referring to. If otherwise, I will have a hard time finishing the quest because, um, well, you know. Their ain't no one left alive.In part, yes. But there is a quest associated with the town.Are you referring to what lies beneath? Because I kicked their asses, too.
Free Mercantile training. You didn't miss much.
I think that jumping is affecting one of the major skills because after leveling up I always have to sleep to get to the next level. But I do get to add points to "strength", so I'd suppose that helps a little with fighting, no?Restoration just moves me to the 'next class' of restoration...no leveling up or sleeping necessary.
found out from a GB that to drag bodies on the 360 you use the left shoulder button. Hope that helps with your rotting corpse problems.
Oh, well too late for that now I guess. Oh well, I'll just cut down on jumping a bit and level up at a normal pace...no problem.
I'm not seeing any guards at all.
It might be time to make a new character.
Without goin into too much complicated detail....Level up minor skills more than major skills. If you are a combat character, you will want strength to increase the damage of your sword. To up your strength, it is best to level up strength-based minor skills (blade, hand2hand, blunt) a total of 10 levels (no less). If you are a bow character, you will want agility to raise the damage dealt with your bow. To do this, raise the agility-based minor skills you have (sneak, security, marksman?) at least 10 levels before your next levelup. Do this to 2 other categories (willpower, intelligence, endurance, speed, etc). Next time you level up, the 3 catagories you focused on will have +5 beside them. This is how you take advantage of the system and become stronger than the enemies. Not doing this in some way will make you weak over time and unable to fight in simple battles in advanced levels.
That happened ALL the time to me in the last one....HATED that....I had to save every 30 seconds or I would have to redo a bunch of stuff....
That happened to me in the middle of a loading screen. Mildly annoying, but as long as it's infrequent, I can deal.
Wha?There is always player.additem XXXXXXXToo bad I can't will some of my cool stuff to my new character.
I kind of agree, but I guess I've gotten used to it. Besides, if you have access to the Arcane University you can make your own spells: extended summons, all sorts of mixed damage spells, etc.I know I'm limiting myself in a way, but I really only use a handful of spells on a regular basis; any other spells I need are an F3 away.
I didn't have much trouble with them. You may be seeing the effect of you constant jumping / leveling up without improving your battle skills.
Wow. That will certianly help me -- I thought I had to put up with it locking every other day or so.ETA: Oh, and I agree totally with Ignoramus: as soon as you get to the arcane Uni, you'll be set. I made an all purpose shield/invisibility/night-eye/fortify magika spell. One slot for what takes up 3 right now (I have the same problem of not bothering with shield) ... Invis makes everything soooo much easier
Nothing is better than waiting for a rat to jump at you and fireballing right below them to make them go flying over your head or into a wall and die.
LMAO last night at a goblin shaman I blasted with lightning -- the thing flopped around like a fish w/ ADD for about 2 min. GB confusing the physics engine
Oh, and invis + sneak = wrong. bad enough you can sneak up behind them with stealth up high, but when you can walk right up in front of them and blast em? priceless.....
by this goblin skirmisher and his little #### friend. Over. And over. And over.
, even when I soften them up with a few arrows first.
After posing the same question earlier in the thread, here's where I'm at..I hold block, wait for a strike, then unleash a few rounds on the enemy. It works ok, but I generally just stand in one place the whole time. I'm beginning to think there is more to strategically advancing and retreating as I'm still getting a fair share of whoopin's laid on to me if I don't use magic, even in 1 on 1's. I just don't do enough damage.Finally got a character built up, a custom class similar to a crusader. Played for about 5 hours last night, mostly wandering around the City. (Anybody know how to get past the first room in the Market Section Sewers? I kept looking for a remote switch to open the door and never found it.)
Anyway, overcome with the urge to kill something, I headed out to Chorral. Stopped by Fort Ash for a little goblin cornhole, and got absolutely
Has anybody got any tips on melee combat? I rtfm and it says 'get the timing down on blocking then attacking'. Are you supposed to throw the shield up at the last second, or just hide behind it until he hits it, then attack? Either way, my reflexes must be shot to hell 'cause I'm getting
Of course, I woke up at 6:30 this morning and charged out to try it again. This time with the "Shoot 'em full of arrows, then run like little girl" strategy. That worked on #2, and I finally got #1 in a position where he evidently couldn't see me and made a pincushion outta him. Taking advantage of the AI always robs me of the "Woot!" moment at the end of a battle, though.
Any advice you could give little Moe the WampusCat would be greatly appreciated.
If you can move quickly enough, my usual tactic if I have to melee with my little wimpy mage/assassin is to go back and forth in and out of melee range, starting my swing so it connects when I get in range, and backing out as soon as it hits, then charging right back in again. especially since I dont have a shield, its more about dodging the blows then blocking them. He just flat out can't fight more than a couple guys at once, so i revert to cowardice and invis/sneak away till they are in manageable numbers again.Finally got a character built up, a custom class similar to a crusader. Played for about 5 hours last night, mostly wandering around the City. (Anybody know how to get past the first room in the Market Section Sewers? I kept looking for a remote switch to open the door and never found it.)
Anyway, overcome with the urge to kill something, I headed out to Chorral. Stopped by Fort Ash for a little goblin cornhole, and got absolutely
Has anybody got any tips on melee combat? I rtfm and it says 'get the timing down on blocking then attacking'. Are you supposed to throw the shield up at the last second, or just hide behind it until he hits it, then attack? Either way, my reflexes must be shot to hell 'cause I'm getting
Of course, I woke up at 6:30 this morning and charged out to try it again. This time with the "Shoot 'em full of arrows, then run like little girl" strategy. That worked on #2, and I finally got #1 in a position where he evidently couldn't see me and made a pincushion outta him. Taking advantage of the AI always robs me of the "Woot!" moment at the end of a battle, though.
Any advice you could give little Moe the WampusCat would be greatly appreciated.
I found it works well on small stuff (rats, crabs, etc.) but if you're up against anything with more than a couple hp, you're better off with longranged stuff. Unless you've got enough hp to go toe-to-toe anyway...
Circling works nice to get a shot at them from the side or behind. Otherwise, I mix it up. Sometimes blocking and taking the occasional shot. Sometimes bringing a flurry of strikes w/ a sword. Seems like every so often your opponent is vulnerable to 3-5 strikes in a row...
Wait for them to attack, block as they swing, counter with a couple swings or a lunge. Do not attack more than 2-3 times as you will get blocked and then countered. Against opponents with heavier weapons(hammers, axes) its easier to let them swing and retreat and then go in for a couple swings.Finally got a character built up, a custom class similar to a crusader. Played for about 5 hours last night, mostly wandering around the City. (Anybody know how to get past the first room in the Market Section Sewers? I kept looking for a remote switch to open the door and never found it.)
Anyway, overcome with the urge to kill something, I headed out to Chorral. Stopped by Fort Ash for a little goblin cornhole, and got absolutely
Has anybody got any tips on melee combat? I rtfm and it says 'get the timing down on blocking then attacking'. Are you supposed to throw the shield up at the last second, or just hide behind it until he hits it, then attack? Either way, my reflexes must be shot to hell 'cause I'm getting
Of course, I woke up at 6:30 this morning and charged out to try it again. This time with the "Shoot 'em full of arrows, then run like little girl" strategy. That worked on #2, and I finally got #1 in a position where he evidently couldn't see me and made a pincushion outta him. Taking advantage of the AI always robs me of the "Woot!" moment at the end of a battle, though.
Any advice you could give little Moe the WampusCat would be greatly appreciated.
How do you drag the body around? I usually just let them lay where I slay. LOL! 
Me too... Then I went and pillaged their barracks and sold everything I could... LOL.
