Shaun Snow Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 Finished the Companions stuff and married one of them for good measure. Working on the College quests now. I think I must have 50 items in my Misc Quests log - it's impossible to keep track of them all!Random question: I bought a horse at the first stables I came across, but it's brown and rather boring looking. I've since seen prettier ones at other stables that have been for sale. If I buy a second horse, will it replace my current one? Or am I stuck with Ugly until I feed him to a bear or something?You keep all the horses. Whichever one you used last teleports with you when you fast-travel and the others automatically return to their home stables. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakkie Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 The Dark Brotherhood storyline was excellent in my opinion, much cooler than Oblivion's. The Thieves Guild was also pretty good, but didn't feel as in depth as some of the others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slyfinger Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 Last night I set out to clear out some of my misc quests, as I felt my quest log was over full. Five hours later I had about 10 quests more than when i'd started.And did a bunch of other stuff that just happened, like walking straight into an ingenious (and pretty tough) forsworn ambush. :agree:I am becoming an introverted recluse in my real life and also in Skyrim. For every quest I complete 2 more pop up in its place. Everytime I talk to NPC's... I think I asked one how's he been and out of the blue, random quest. Hell, a fucking courier ran up to me and delivered me a quest so avoiding cities and towns is useless.And someone has put a contract out on my life and I'm not sure who did it, despite the fact I've been Paragoning the shit out of my character. And as the game progresses the behavior only intensifies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stego Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 Where should I start? I feel like I'm missing something. 3 hours in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaceBannon42 Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 I escaped with the Stormcrow, went to Riverwood, and from there to Whiterun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slick Mongoose Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 I'd suggest doing the main quest until you get to High Hrothgar, then go exploring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slyfinger Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 Stay away from the giants, Stego. Their murda game is tight on low level players.What Race and Slick said. And if you have a melee character, the Companions storyline can be done in tandem with the main quest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inigima Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 Got it around launch but have only put a few hours in so far. Too many amazing games coming out.I have two characters, but they are both only level 2. My first was a Redguard warrior -- I always roll Redguards for my first attempt at an Elder Scrolls game. Second is a Breton warmage, I plan to level Conjuration and Destruction mainly.Right now I feel pretty weak as a mage. I can roast minor enemies easily with Flames; so far I haven't really fought mages, so no point to changing to the slightly more expensive Sparks. I sent my Mage to find that guy's sword in Redoran's Retreat; the regular bandits posed no threat to speak of, but the Bandit Chief almost killed me -- she took almost no damage from my spells and hit like a truck. I had no shield at the time. I eventually killed her by using half a dozen or more potions and having my conjured familiar tank her for a bit.After that I decided to head for the wizards' College to improve my spell work. It is quite far. Shortly along the way I encountered a bandit camp; it was tough, but I fought and killed the three bandits there. Then I was investigating their camp and I could swear I watched four more bandits materialize out of thin air, which felt like a bunch of bullshit. They killed me, of course. Did anyone else have this experience?Right now I am basically using whatever springs to hand equipment wise. I am casting one-handed and using a fairly heavy duty shield in the other, and wearing heavy armor. The shield seems necessary because I can't kill multiple enemies fast enough to not take serious damage. I understand dual casting is the current hotness, but I don't think I have the damage, the survivability, or the mana pool to support it at the moment. What are you guys doing? Am I doing this wrong?I put my first perk point into Conjuration because otherwise summoning a familiar takes roughly all of my mana. Was this a wise choice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a wooden chair Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 Where should I start? I feel like I'm missing something. 3 hours in.Stego, the beauty with it is you can start anywhere you want. With my current orc fighter I decided to do the Companions questline in Whiterun alongside the main quest until I killed my first dragon. Then I finished the Companions and did the main quest more until I got to a point where words of power can be marked on my map through 2 quest means. Somewhere in that time I also worked my blacksmith skill up to where I had dragon plate armor before I could even think about orcish.I plans to hold off on the civil war until after I am as badass as possible. Apparently the game will let you play forever, no matter what questlines you beat. Many of the faction s have unlimited work quests too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slick Mongoose Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 Inigma, when starting out as a mage I found I had to fall back on a 1-handed sword quite often, but after a few levels and destruction perks I could hold my own. My favourite perk is the "Impact" destruction perk, which knocks enemies back with duel casting, buying you more time. At level 17 as a mage specialising in destruction I feel very strong and don't need to use normal weapons at all.Summoning is obviously very useful in tough fights as well.Don't forget to use the armour-type Alteration spells.I don't think heavy armour is the best idea as a mage, I think it weakens your spells. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turinqui-Calima Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 I'm having so much fun with this game. I got the game on Sunday and have to share it with the husband so I'm only about 4 hours in. In any case I am very happy with the changes they made since Oblivion.I am playing as a very sexy female Orc, focusing on two handed and heavy armour. Only problem is that I watched my husband do some of the main quest I haven't really been feeling up to it yet, so I have mostly been wandering around doing random quests. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaceBannon42 Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 leave the mammoth alonehttp://penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/11/09 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthmail Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 I asked it befoe but no one answered. Will having taken a Nord effect my ability to cast spells, or is there another race that does it better. I only played Oblivion a few hours until i found that the animals were scaling with me. So when i made my character for this game i thought i'd be using weapons, but i'm mostly using spells. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slick Mongoose Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 I asked it befoe but no one answered. Will having taken a Nord effect my ability to cast spells, or is there another race that does it better. I only played Oblivion a few hours until i found that the animals were scaling with me. So when i made my character for this game i thought i'd be using weapons, but i'm mostly using spells.The different races will affect how good you are at things to start with, but you'll quickly improve your skills in whatever you happen to be using way past any racial bonuses. So I wouldn't worry at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oberyn Sand Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 I asked it befoe but no one answered. Will having taken a Nord effect my ability to cast spells, or is there another race that does it better. I only played Oblivion a few hours until i found that the animals were scaling with me. So when i made my character for this game i thought i'd be using weapons, but i'm mostly using spells.Well, not really. Just use the skills you want and they'll level up nice and proper. Fun stuff. So, being a werewolf. Goddamn awesome or just awesome? It's the former for me. Awww yeah, Silver Hand ain't got nothing on me. *picks teeth clean and smiles* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Greguh Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 The different races will affect how good you are at things to start with, but you'll quickly improve your skills in whatever you happen to be using way past any racial bonuses. So I wouldn't worry at all.More important than the starting stats are the abilities inherent to your race. The High Elf ability to regenerate Magicka faster if you're a mage once per day is pretty nice if you're a mage, for instance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sivin Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 I'm now a vampire. It's not as great as one might think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrowfan Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 Finally had some nice weather, was just going to complain about how gloomy Skyrim is.... either night or just foggy gloom, then the sun came out. Was nice while it lasted.Was en rout to High Hrothgar, stopped at the village in the foothills, specifically asked those assholes "is there anything I should be aware of on the way there?", they tell me: slippery stairs and wolves. No big deal I can handle that.But they didn't tell me about the fucking frost troll! Been getting destroyed by that damn troll... I have the game set to the difficulty 1 step above the default setting of "adept". I'm lvl 5, am I supposed to be able to defeat the abominable snowman at this stage of the game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sivin Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 That snow troll got me on my first trip up. But only once. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrowfan Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 So is Skyrim level scaled like Oblivion was? (ie, you could complete the entire main quest of Oblivion at lvl 1) Sidenote: there doesn't seem to be anywhere near as many ruins, caves, etc to explore as Oblivion.... right? Don't get me wrong, I'm lovin this game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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