I just ended up climbing on top of the rock formation near his camp and crouching down and stabbing him from just beyond his reach.

Cheap, but effective, and at that point in the game, extremely necessary.

1/9/2012 6:24:18 PM

i was up to maybe level 20 by the time i went there, with daedric armor, so i just fisted the fuck out of the ice troll

1/9/2012 6:33:44 PM

i'm loving these long-distance one shot kills with sneak+bow/arrow. i think i'm having more fun playing this way then i did with my first character of "in-your-face hack and slash."

1/10/2012 9:08:28 AM

every single level up i've had has been used to increase magicka

my perks have been used for destruction, restoration, and conjuration (in that order)

i wear robes that increase my magicka and double my regen time; the only armor i wear are gauntlets and boots (i wear one of the masks instead of a helmet)

i have never used a companion, just conjure atronachs

i love this game

[Edited on January 10, 2012 at 9:15 AM. Reason : .]

1/10/2012 9:14:50 AM

do you have any weapons on ya at all? like what do you do in CQC (close-quarters combat)?

1/10/2012 10:02:10 AM

Have you guys seen the exploit that lets you get free arrows with a little patience?

1/10/2012 2:17:27 PM

post for later...anybody tried this? i havent even watched the video but apparently theres some invisible chest in Dawnstar that has cool shit in it and replenishes every 48 in game hours

1/10/2012 2:21:44 PM

holy crap...once I am finished with getting my Daedric Arrows, I will travel there and check it out.

1/10/2012 2:28:23 PM

found that hidden chest last night outside Dawnstar per the video. was some pretty awesome stuff in there, esp soul gems that i loaded up on since i dont really have any starting out with my new character. some nice potions i took as well.

1/11/2012 10:17:09 AM

This game is ruining my life.

1/11/2012 12:11:14 PM

1/11/2012 2:08:27 PM

Quote :

"do you have any weapons on ya at all?"

dragonbane, mehrunes razor, and ebony blade...i also have an enchanted bow and some arrows, but i've never used them

i really never need the weapons...firebolt (and whatever the ice equivalent is) for distance and flames (as well as ice/shock equivalents) for close combat

1/11/2012 2:15:44 PM

i feel kind of lazy doing it but i often fast travel from riften to mistveil keep or thieves guild, or from whiterun to dragonsreach, etc

1/11/2012 5:54:06 PM

^ i do that all the time. with all the quests putting you out in random locations "that you have not discovered yet", i think the game gives you plenty of mandatory exploring.

1/11/2012 6:06:38 PM

thoughts on Barbas?



I figure I'll keep him as a follower for awhile but eventually finish the quest to get the daedric artifact

also i'm not really a sneak player, but supposedly he barks and alerts guards if he sees you break the law? lol

1/11/2012 8:55:57 PM

Barbas is immortal. That being said the voice actor that plays Barbas makes me want to mute the game

1/11/2012 9:45:25 PM

trying to decide if i should marry...i'm racist, so i'm not marrying any orcs or argonians

sylgja is cute, but she's a miner
senna is a priestess of dibella, so she's probably pretty kinky in the sack, but i can't see what she looks like without that stupid hood
aela is a werewolf, so she'd probably eat me
camilla has too much drama going on with sven and faendal...also, she looks kinda bitchy
muiri is probably the hottest, but she REALLY holds a grudge

1/12/2012 2:59:53 PM

forgetting the werewolf thing, Aela is pretty hot

1/12/2012 3:13:29 PM

i've tossed out senna and camilla

Sylgja



Aela



Muiri

1/12/2012 3:23:12 PM

my vote is Aela, she's got the whole side-boob thing going.

1/12/2012 3:24:23 PM

anyone installed the "deadly dragons" mod? http://skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=3829

the fact that at level 22 (yes, only level 22), i can beat the shit out of any dragon seems...wrong

looks like the mod does a couple of things, including making more types of dragons and giving them the ability to fight back instead of sitting there and taking it like pussies

if you're ballsy, you can install it using "hard" and make them immune to impact

1/12/2012 4:17:49 PM

can you have same sex marriages? i made my 2nd character, some fly ass blonde norde chick who is a mage (unlike my unarmed badass character) but i'd rather her marry another hot chick

also i sent Robbaz a message asking him to do a video on Barbas, his reply:

"There is a talking dog? Damn skyrim have a lot of shit to offer. Putting this on my suggestion list. Cheers! "

1/12/2012 5:06:26 PM

WHO THE FUCK WANTS TO BE A WALRUS ANYWAY

1/12/2012 5:10:46 PM

I have not yet run into Barbas, but when I do I'll be sure to complete whatever I have to do to shake him.

Sneak + Archery = Crazy Delicious.

1/12/2012 5:46:17 PM

I believe the time between him giving you the quest and you doing a few things to complete the quest, you can tell him to stop following you, and eventually be able to ask him to re-follow you if you want

he's worth trying though since he's invincible, and constantly pisses you off by running into you

you can find him by either going to the main gate of Falkreath and talking to the gate guard, who tells you to talk to the blacksmith, who gives you some raw meat to lure him to the road...then he's not far outside the town...also supposedly if you carry around raw meat long enough he'll show up...and at first he runs at you, so don't accidentally shout him down! although i guess it wouldnt kill him, it might make him hostile, i dunno

[Edited on January 12, 2012 at 6:15 PM. Reason : .]

1/12/2012 6:05:16 PM

Quote :

"the fact that at level 22 (yes, only level 22), i can beat the shit out of any dragon seems...wrong"

What difficulty are you on? If its anything but Master . . . you might want to consider changing that before adding any mods.

1/12/2012 8:52:04 PM

Nothing wrong with adding mods.

If he wants dragons to be more powerful than anything else then changing the difficulty does nothing for him.

1/12/2012 8:54:11 PM

Can you find that Dawnstar chest on xbox and PS3? And if so is it considered an exploit? There are like 3 of them under your quarters in the mage college if you turn off clipping. I think they're storage for the various merchants in skyrim?

1/12/2012 9:15:49 PM

I found it on 360

1/12/2012 9:30:49 PM

I found it on PS3.

As to quagmire's marriage dilemma, I personally went with Aela. Yeah, she's a werewolf. So is my character. Motherfuckers take doggy style SERIOUS.

1/13/2012 3:39:26 AM

sometimes the spawn points piss me off.

leaving winterrun to find that nettlebone thing or something, get almost there, get my ass kicked by a wispmother, respawn at winterrun.

fuck running all the way back there, i'll do something else.

1/13/2012 9:51:35 AM

Spawn points?
You mean going back to the last time you saved?

How about this?
Press F5
...
Profit

1/13/2012 10:20:54 AM

not on a pc.

but, i'll be ditty boppin' around and it'll autosave plenty of times, but when i come back after dying it'll be several autosaves previous. most of the time the last major area i left.

forgive me if they're not called spawn points. not down with the vernacular. either way, if it's like a 15 minute walk from where i just died, seems pretty dumb.

i'm not going to go into the menu and save before every time i fight something.

[Edited on January 13, 2012 at 10:29 AM. Reason : e]

1/13/2012 10:28:30 AM

I know what you are talking about... it seems strange to me that it doesn't auto save when you 'discover' an area/cave/etc assuming there are no enemies around.

1/13/2012 10:30:10 AM

for those who have played the Archer class, how is your character set up for Magica/Health/Stamina?

1/13/2012 11:21:06 AM

Are you doing anything with magicka?

Pure archers would generally just put most points into health IMO with the occasional point into stamina. You don't need too much stamina, jsut enough to do the zoom/slow time thing.

[Edited on January 13, 2012 at 11:32 AM. Reason : ]

1/13/2012 11:30:37 AM

^and carry shit

1/13/2012 12:17:55 PM

Quote :

"i'm not going to go into the menu and save before every time i fight something. "

Oh wow. I didn't realize that the consoles don't have a quick-save option. That's really unpleasant. For the PC it makes sense to not auto-save all the time since you can always quick-save, but I guess that's a bigger deal for consoles.

In terms of speccing Magicka/Health/Stamina, I think most people dump most of the points into Health for all builds. I could see melee wanting extra in Stamina for more power attacks, though they are the ones that might want Health the most as well. Magicka is an odd-ball because if you are a caster you will want it early on, but later there are perks and enchants to really lessen the need. (Case in point I have a friend with a character that casts all Restoration spells for free and he never put a single point in Magicka.

1/13/2012 12:57:15 PM

isn't there a save-every-##-minutes setting? i thought there was, and the default was 15 or something...i just assumed it was the same on the consoles

1/13/2012 1:00:11 PM

The game will frequently autosave when you enter your menus, but yeah, no quicksave sucks sometimes.

1/13/2012 1:00:47 PM

i'm doing very little with Magica: some occasional flames or healing. i have only put a few level-ups into Magica, the rest have been in Health and Stamina. Just unsure if i should concentrate solely on Health going forward.

1/13/2012 1:11:32 PM

Consol auto saves every once in awhile at the menu, and every time you enter or leave a location that requires a load screen

1/13/2012 1:11:37 PM

I've had Lydia die too many times to not save frequently

1/13/2012 1:24:46 PM

^

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1/13/2012 2:03:08 PM

on Xbox 

1/13/2012 2:42:43 PM

oh...never mind

1/13/2012 6:20:20 PM

I did the Azura's Star mission and ended up getting the Black Star cause I heard it was better than Azura's Star

can you use it on infinte weapons or only one? says it never breaks, but I didn't know if I'd have to destroy a weapon to use it on another or something? or can and should i enchant everything using it?

1/13/2012 10:51:48 PM

It never breaks, you can create as many enchantments as many times as you can fill it. The gem becomes empty after using the soul

1/13/2012 11:01:15 PM

There's a bug with the black star that lets it absorb monster souls as well as NPC souls. So in one way that makes it incredibly versatile but in another way that makes it annoying since you'll absorb some lame mudcrab soul without knowing it and won't be able to get a black soul.

But in case anyone didn't know, if you accidentaly trapped a weak soul in a large soul gem, you can drop the soul gem on the ground, pick it up again, and it will be empty.

1/13/2012 11:24:17 PM

so if you enchant a weapon that has say, 250 strikes of a certain enchantment before it needs recharging, its the weapon itself that is being recharged, not the soul gem? the soul gem is destroyed normally when you use it to enchant a weapon but with this one, i'll never need to use a petty soul gem again? provided i can keep filling it

1/13/2012 11:26:39 PM