Critical Miss: Skyrim Tales
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Oooh! There is a light armor of dragon! I'm almost to blacksmithing 100 and thought it was only heavyCaspianRoach said:
.You've made my night
.I enchanted a cooks hat and called it "Cooking with Iron".aristos_achaion said:
So proud of myself.
I've seen plenty of comments about stuff like that on YouTube and the like and I still don't get how you're supposed to do it :/Kopikatsu said:
I get that you have to disenchant an item and whatnot but the quality of your enchantment is directly proportional to how lucky you are in acquiring the original item to disenchant?
Maybe it doesn't help that my enchantment is 29 or something but after Smithing a Daedric Bow and having people on YouTube claim they can get stuff like 600 damage out of it confuses me when my character has 75 archery and the bow has 80 damage.
So basically I'm confused.
I got ganged by Draugr at level 2, and it was HORRIBLE. I managed (Through excessive quicksaving and potion-drinking) to fend off SIX Draugr. Haven't met a Deathlord yet, but I've got a lvl 13 Dark Elf with 40 Destruction (Fireball+Fire-combo), 40 Archery, 30-something sneak and almost 40 one-handed, so I might not die THAT easily, considering I've killed several giants and stuff..
But you're good at Restoration, and the Draugr are undead, you can use Turn Undead on them...
Hilarious comic, though; I've definitely been noticing the scaling lately, all of a sudden I'm swimming in ebony.
Hilarious comic, though; I've definitely been noticing the scaling lately, all of a sudden I'm swimming in ebony.
Once you disenchant an item, the strength when you apply the enchantment is determined entirely by your enchanting skill and relevant perks; the strength of the original enchantment has no effect. Your enchanting skill can be boosted by enchantments and potions, which you can then use to make stronger enchantments to boost enchanting and alchemy, which in turn allow you to make even better enchantments and potions, eventually resulting in 600 damage weapons, et cetera.TimeLord said:
HAHA so true. I was having a lot of trouble killing high level draugr up until about lv 35 because my mage kept running out of potions to restore magicka.
Also most Draugr can be dealt quite easily with turn undead spells. It never gets old to send 5-6 draugr fleeing only to set off a trap and get sent flying by a spring loaded spiked gate
This, run in fear mere mortals of the might of the daedra!ocelot0222222 said:
Also most Draugr can be dealt quite easily with turn undead spells. It never gets old to send 5-6 draugr fleeing only to set off a trap and get sent flying by a spring loaded spiked gate
I really don't see what the problem was with your first character. You met up with the draugr in the finest, shiniest suit of armor. You had the deadliest poison on the tip of your blade. You'd talked the best warrior in Skyrim to join you, and you'd gotten the best price for your bodyguard's high-powered weapons and gear.
In Skyrim, you can certainly level yourself into a corner...if that's what you're trying to do.
In Skyrim, you can certainly level yourself into a corner...if that's what you're trying to do.
True, so true, sometimes, I felt the exact same way... why did I use these points on pocket pick?(extra inventory space) Why did I put points on Smiting? (Dragon/Dedra Armor) Why did I waste points on Enchantment? (strong equipments at end game) Why do I need to invest points on Sneak? (assassination skills) while I had almost none melee/destruction buff? at level 13, a bandit leader would one hit KO my ass, and ice spike means death. Giants are out of the question.... they should NOT scale the game by your level, they should scale by your damage/magical damage output, otherwise the thief class will NEVER survive to be dragonborn....
I think Bethesda might want to consider putting their combat and non-combat skills into differant catagories, and have the monsters buff up based on your combat skill progression. Perhaps hiding the numbers for this behind the scenes and not specifying that it computes things that way.
Of course if you spend time experimenting with a lot of differant combat types you could still screw yourself.
That said NPCs and conjurations are your friends if your in that position. Make sure you bring a burly companion with you and pull out an atronach to support them . Even the high end opponents have some problems with that.
Likewise:
If you haven't done it yet the Clavious Vile quest appears at about level 10, the dog that ultimatly gives you the quest and travels with you for a time is literally invincible, and the quest does not appear to have a timer. The exploits here are obvious.
Of course if you spend time experimenting with a lot of differant combat types you could still screw yourself.
That said NPCs and conjurations are your friends if your in that position. Make sure you bring a burly companion with you and pull out an atronach to support them . Even the high end opponents have some problems with that.
Likewise:
If you haven't done it yet the Clavious Vile quest appears at about level 10, the dog that ultimatly gives you the quest and travels with you for a time is literally invincible, and the quest does not appear to have a timer. The exploits here are obvious.
Grouchy Imp said:
Join Dark Brotherhood, their armor doubles sneak attack with one handed weapons. You're dagger now do X30 damage. Combine this with 100 Smithing (plus smith boosting gear) and the Blade of Woe, and you're looking at 80+ damage X30. This drops Dwarven Centurions (the two story tall bipedal ones) in 1 shot. Also make sure you get hold of the Throw Voice dragon shout. Can use it from hiding to draw people's attention to a selected spot, useful for singling out prey.
100 Enchantment is the way to go really. That plus 100 in Smithing, I made a full set of Legendary Ebony Armor with matching weapons and shield and jewelry. I made my own 'Battlemage' set, with 4 separate 'Fortify Destruction 25%' enchantments, I can throw fireballs around for free. It also gives me 46% Fire/Shock resistance, which dovetails nicely with my Nord's innate 50% Frost resistance (provided patch 1.2 hadn't broken all of the resistance mechanics). Plus 124 Magika points, and 186% Magika regenration, and +40% One Handed damage. So I have a rather large Magika pool to cast Summons or for Healing, but I can throw Fireballs as fast as I can cast them with no worries. All Destruction spells cost 0 Magika.
Haha, I do.SoopaSte123 said:
When I play games like this the first thing I do is empty every town and citizen of valuables.
Anything that above a certain threshold of worth and rare items (in this case also ingredients), the threshold gets higher as I get richer.
Pickpocketing perks also add carry capacity, and its fun to loot town people's equipment, some of which can be very rare), lockpicking (not the perks, especially once you get the skeleton key), and speech are key in this game if you want to play like that. Speech means that shpkeepers have more money, you make more money, and you can sell stolen property to any shop you invest 500gold in (which at that point is nothing, and its awesome to own every shop).
With that gold, I buy a ridiculous amount of items for smithing, alchemy, and enchanting. I then up those as far as I can.
Than I build the best equipement possible.
I enchant every item twice, offensive attacks and stamina or magicka upgrades.
By this point you are a high level, and hopefully spent your perks a proper fighting build as well.
Because you cleaned out every town you also grabbed all the quests you can.
Questing becomes awesome. On Master, its far more complicated. But up to Expert, I roll through baddies like a God. 2 Double-Sword Standing Power Attacks usually take down a dragon, and with high stamina I can run for ridiculous distances.
I also alternate between the above and doing Misc. quests because I don't want to hit the problem in this comic. They are easy enough quests, help level weapon skills enough that you aren't made of paper. Then proper quests from beginning areas. You just have to play smart when you suck at combat
I have to wonder how you got your skills that high...CaspianRoach said:
When I trained with a Master-level trainer, the most they could train to was 90... When I leveled up to Lv100 in a skill, I stopped gaining exp in that skill...
Tut tut on the cheating... (says the guy who gave himself millions of gold out of thin air ¬.¬''')
Wow. That sounds ... er ... broken.EvolutionKills said:
The throw voice shout (roar, for a Khajiit?) would indeed be useful. I did find one of it's words, but with a different (non-stealth) character who had no use for it. And when I created Ra'Viir I couldn't remember where I'd gotten Throw Voice from. Curses.
So true. It makes for some genuinely awesome challenging experiences, though. The first time I encountered a Dragur Deathlord (at a really low level, mind), the only way I could beat him without lowering the difficulty was to snipe him, and then run away in sneak mode shouting CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP to myself until he lost track of me, then run back and sneak attack him again.
If I hadn't been lucky enough to find an ebony bow in those same ruins I would have had to leave or reload an earlier save or lower the difficulty I guess, because I was in an area way too high for my level.
If I hadn't been lucky enough to find an ebony bow in those same ruins I would have had to leave or reload an earlier save or lower the difficulty I guess, because I was in an area way too high for my level.