I am happy to report that I said "Fuck you, life" and I'm going to get Skyrim this weekend.

Unless I wise up before then.

11/17/2011 5:43:25 PM

just made my first set of orcish armor, all exquisite.

What sucks is the dwarf mace still does 2 more damage than the orc one at the same upgraded level

got %block enchants on my gloves and shield tho

11/17/2011 6:17:23 PM

Should i join the legion or the rebellion

11/17/2011 7:02:46 PM

Should you join the empire or the rebel alliance?

11/17/2011 7:03:42 PM

Dude, you are in Skyrim, not Cyrodil.

11/17/2011 7:08:06 PM

Despite their blatant racism, I joined the storm cloaks, but I'm only like 2 missions deep so far

11/17/2011 7:30:19 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVtSnNdIw9E&feature=channel_video_title

Watch in 1080P HD

11/17/2011 7:48:42 PM

sucks you had to fight the first one at night. Soooo much easier in the day time.

11/17/2011 7:56:08 PM

Are frost trolls really that hard, or am I just progressing too quickly in the game (level 12 on like the 3rd main story quest).

Those things are ridiculous.

11/17/2011 8:47:34 PM

Trolls, giants, and mammoths are kicking my ass at level 14. I can still kill the shit out of every dragon I come across, however.

11/17/2011 8:58:27 PM

Yeah, funny you mention that. I hit an area called Labyrinthonia, or something like that, and it's crawling with trolls. Each one practically heals quicker than I can do damage and if I have to back off the fight for one instant to regen health the thing regens its own health to near full.

Then a dragon appeared shortly thereafter and I didn't have to swig one potion (didn't have any thanks to the trolls anyway) or regen health once.

11/17/2011 9:10:25 PM

^^^yes trolls fuck you up, especially frost

11/17/2011 9:38:24 PM

use your words of power, they're solid damage in addition to your normal attack

11/17/2011 10:05:53 PM

I like how quest items are weightless.

11/17/2011 10:21:36 PM

No, they're not. I was carrying around 20lbs of witches' heads for a while and couldn't get rid of them because "you cannot discard quest items."

11/17/2011 10:27:44 PM

after you use the one head at the end of that quest line you can dump the rest in your chest at your house

11/17/2011 10:31:46 PM

i havent run into a troll yet that causes me trouble. Ive run into a dragon that 2 shots me or my companion

but im 23 and i still need to go get the horn for the shout quest

11/17/2011 10:33:02 PM

^That's the quest where I met all those frost trolls. Up until then I ran into a cave by a waterfall filled with several normal trolls and they didn't give me near as much trouble.

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"use your words of power, they're solid damage in addition to your normal attack"

That was my #1 problem. I always forget to use shouts in a fight. I remembered for the troll fight, but the shout did nothing. Maybe a half-second knockback, nothing more.

[Edited on November 17, 2011 at 10:44 PM. Reason : -]

11/17/2011 10:42:02 PM

the fire shout is the one i use the most, works great on trolls, and pretty much everything else

but I'm melee, so it fits with my playstyle

if you're a caster or archer, you should really finish the graybeard questline, and get the full-power, 3 word Unrelenting Force shout*. That thing will keep anything away from you.

there is a invulnerability shout you can get too, which is good if you need to run quick and heal up

Just keep a couple of shouts marked as favorites, so you can select the important ones at a moments notice.

[Edited on November 17, 2011 at 10:53 PM. Reason : *don't forget to hold your shout button down long enough to get all 3 words out]

11/17/2011 10:52:35 PM

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"High Hrothgar takes goddamn forever to get to"

No fucking kidding

11/17/2011 11:05:22 PM

Quote :

"No, they're not."

I guess not all, then. I just picked up a quest sword from a Dwemer ruin and it didn't weigh anything.

[shrugs]

11/17/2011 11:44:01 PM

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"High Hrothgar takes goddamn forever to get to"

Wha? Only took me about 15 mins.

So anyone else find the nod to Minecraft?

11/17/2011 11:53:52 PM

Yeah, I took the long route to High Hrothgar without realizing there was a faster way. Next time I play the game I'll be able to save so much time

The walk to the tomb in the Companion missions about Korlak is another long ass walk if you haven't been out that way yet.



[Edited on November 18, 2011 at 7:29 AM. Reason : Korlak]

11/18/2011 7:27:53 AM

there is a faster way up the mountain to the greybeards? i took the stone steps path and yea it was way long.

11/18/2011 7:59:49 AM

^ this

11/18/2011 8:02:15 AM

Still don't know what you folks are talking about. I too took the 7000 steps and it only took about 10 minutes.

11/18/2011 8:04:39 AM

i think part of it is if you level too fast before you walk the steps you get faced with some nasty spawns.


took down a regular dragon, two blood dragons, and a frost dragon last night. frost dragon gave me the most problems, but mainly due to nothing to hide behind during breath attack and less time spent landing and breathing

11/18/2011 8:15:59 AM

lol I'm definiely not looking forward to the greybeards then, I'm level 19

11/18/2011 8:25:52 AM

yeah, i went up to their place the first time at 15, ran into some frost wolves and ice wraiths.

not terrible if you've leveled up in combat, but i had leveled up mainly in noncombat skills.

11/18/2011 8:38:13 AM

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"Still don't know what you folks are talking about. I too took the 7000 steps and it only took about 10 minutes. "

The trip to the town at the foot of the mountain was the haul for me. Took forever to find a way there, and I ran into a dragon, a troll and a couple of sabre cats. There was an ice wraith and an ice troll (fuck that guy) on the steps, but it was a much shorter trip.

11/18/2011 8:56:22 AM

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"High Hrothgar takes goddamn forever to get to"

Haha when I said this, I was starting my trip from Whiterun and didn't have any points east to fast travel to.

The trip up the 7000 steps isn't that bad. The thing I was most impressed about was how good everything looked on the climb up. It must blow people away playing on a really good gaming computer.

This game is an OCD person's nightmare. One minute I'm in a town trying to bang out all the quests. I stop to have a couple of drinks with an NPC, and next thing I know I'm waking up halfway across Skyrim, in the temple of a sex goddess, in a Hold I haven't been to yet.

Worst part is the temple is closed.... goddamnitsomuch.

11/18/2011 9:02:52 AM

It took me forever because I couldn't find the 'attack angle' to summit that mountain. Originally I approached from the southwest and eventually hit a dead end. Lots of backtracking before I realized that bridge across the waterfall was the start of the 7000 step thing. I wonder if anyone will be obsessed enough with this game to verify there are 7000 steps.

Quote :

"took down a regular dragon, two blood dragons, and a frost dragon last night. frost dragon gave me the most problems"

Maybe it was because I was a nord and I think they get some kind of ice resistance bonus, but the frost dragon is the only type I can just stand toe to toe with and not have to worry about dying... fire on the other hand.

Edit: Yeah, there's a 50% frost resistance bonus for being a nord. You get to laugh at the frost dragons.

[Edited on November 18, 2011 at 9:18 AM. Reason : -]

11/18/2011 9:13:33 AM

^ same...Nord here as well.

11/18/2011 9:15:04 AM

yeah, i'm a khajiit, i was chugging down frost resist potions in the fight, but finally got it to land in a nice spot to pick it off with the bow

11/18/2011 9:19:34 AM

Quote :

"This game is an OCD person's nightmare."

Yes.

Yes it is.

I was doing my questing in Whiterun, working through my quests, then unknowingly started the "A night to remember" quest, putting me across the map with another chain while my other quests were still in Whiterun. I start walking around and some event happens that starts off another long conspiracy quest chain, which leads me to three other (unrelated) quest chains involving cannibalism, Dwemer ruins, a Daedric lord, and I'm sure others that I can't remember...now I have quests all over the place that must be done.

Fuckin' hell.

11/18/2011 9:55:30 AM

so, should i be looking at making a straight warrior, is the opinion to go with a nord for frost resist? or an orc for berserker?

11/18/2011 10:01:56 AM

the word should doesnt really work with this game.

you can do either of those things

11/18/2011 10:05:15 AM

the logic i used was: I'm going to be playing a game based almost entirely in an arctic/winter environment. Cold resist might come in handy.

Doing good so far.



[Edited on November 18, 2011 at 10:14 AM. Reason : n]

11/18/2011 10:13:14 AM

well, should is all in the opinion of aesthetics i suppose.

I've played about 40 hours now with a rogue type class, so next round will be either a caster or a warrior. just trying to decide which sounds more appealing and looks better

i like the idea of crafting the high end heavy armor though

11/18/2011 10:31:16 AM

^ I've thoroughly enjoyed blacksmithing my armor

11/18/2011 10:34:45 AM

i was wandering around in my typical fashion, came across bard's leap summit. thought to myself, 'that's pretty high, i wonder if i can jump off that'. YUP. and you get speech +1 for doing so

11/18/2011 11:04:13 AM

^^ i've gotten smithing and alchemy pretty high now, enchanting is going up solely due to recharging weapons from thieves guild quest line. but mostly took smithing for weapon crafting. hoping to find stronger bows

11/18/2011 11:09:16 AM

i was over there killing cavemen then i climbed up and killed their leader then two bird witches resurrected him and shot fire kamehamehas at me and i jumped off the waterfall and there was a ghost true story i shit you not

11/18/2011 12:50:41 PM

Every enchantment you make up to like Level 35, levels up that skill by +1.

11/18/2011 12:53:23 PM

I played the shit out of Morrowind but don't get the reference

11/18/2011 1:02:50 PM

Do what

11/18/2011 1:04:00 PM

For some reason I read Minecraft as Morrowind

referring to the giant-ass image above

[Edited on November 18, 2011 at 1:06 PM. Reason : lkj]

11/18/2011 1:05:29 PM

Went to shearpoint and facerolled the blood dragon...

...then proceeded to get my ass handed to me by Krosis (one of the dragon priests). Just keeps floating backwards while shooting fireballs at me.

11/18/2011 1:43:12 PM

yeah, he owned me bad the first time.

after that i found a hiding spot to take him down ranged. it appeared he couldn't keep casting fireballs at one point though

11/18/2011 1:51:09 PM

Head Shot:

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/326599/skyrim-video-is-this-the-most-incredible-assassination-ever/

11/18/2011 3:48:40 PM