I'm level 10, so i'm no font of wisdom, but I figured we could all pool our reources to aid each others adventures :D
My one tip so far is the importance of block. If you get that skill up to 30 theirs a perk available that slows down time when the enemy performs a power attack. Very useful against Trolls, whose every other attack is a fucking power attack :/
Plus companions are vital! That wood elf archer from RiverGuard has saved my bacon a few times now :)
it depends on how you play really. i am level 21 by now and i rareley use block. more like -never. only tried it a few times. my colleague who also palys skyrim told me just yesterday how he loves how the blocking works and that he skilled it up and it´s so much fun now. i will really try that out later as well. i focused more on becoming a deadly battlemage using magic, and bows. i also use and skilled one handed of course but i combine it with fire and healing spells rather than with blocking. it´s cool that there are so many ways to play and enjoy the game.
what i´d really like to know - BEWARE LIGHT SPOILERS:
i received the archmage robe. it is powerfull but i hate the look of that thing. also i found the mask of morokai which is good for mages as well - don´t like that thing either.
i would love to wear a plain black robe and a magic diadem/circlet...is there some other cool mage stuff to find or do i have to enchant a robe to get a powerfull mage robe other than the arch mage one.
this is nerdy stuff...as i talked to my colleague in the office yesterday about our skyrim adventures we had to laugh about how ridiculous it sounded in that office setting.
Game is easy.
I'm now 40 level and i never used block at all. Never. I have 38 block level because of books and some training from teachers.
and i never used companions because they are glitchy as hell and i just don't like them.
Want to kill evryone?
Use 2 swords (Especially ebonite or daedric) and you are done. Playing on Hard. (Not the hardest difficulty yet, because i don't want for now).
Elder Scrolls were always easy when it comes to combat. I want to try to be battlemage like polygem, but i have too much health and not so much mana which is a problem for now, but i completed a Winterhold college quests and have all the best magic gear for now.
Also, i suggest to learn SLOW Shout and use 2 swords = you are invincible. "Slow time" shout is a huge advantage or even cheat.
I kill any enemy (except for dragons, they just have a lot of health) by 1-3 hits. With special attack in 1-2 hits.
Game is easy. Really easy. I'm already 63 hours in to it and still explored just 35%-45% of the place. To be honest i just started.
Just a sec. Will show you my characters pic and stats just for fun :D
the slow time shout is indeed very powerfull or even overpowered if you will. for cqb it is deadly.
Slow shout is really, really overpowered.
you can kill bosses with one slow shout of the second level with few hits.
but if you have ebonite (minimum) weapons with (Epic) or (Legendary) and 1 or 2 enchantments you are immortal.
Bethesda seriously need to release a patch that need to balance few things. After 25+ level, combat is really easy which is a problem considering that gamers aren't that stupid and they will somehow find a huge advantage in the end.
I would say do alot of misc quests aswell, as some of the, lead you to side quests or give you rewards and if you do alot of sneaking I also find that if you use the perk "bow arrows do 3 times damage while sneaking" not only does it make bow arrows useful but you will also kill alot of them. and try and get your forged skills up because when you are on the grind wheel(i think thats what its called) you can upgrade your weapons to do more damage, hope i helped. :D
And erth where abouts is the slow down shout? is it in the mainquest because ive only just seen the greybeards?
The great thing about TES games is that there are a shedload of ways to play, and no one of them is any more right than the others.
Personally, I always took a companion with me for the first 25 levels/40 hours of played time, for no other reason than they're invaluable for carry space alone. You'll always have a steady income of gold when you've got an extra inventory to fill with loot on your adventures, which is very helpful in the beginning of the game. Later in the game you'll have amassed so much gold that this largely becomes irrelevant, but I still usually keep a companion around just because I like having them around. They're not as glitchy as people make out, or as stubborn in doorways, and on the one or two occasions when they have blocked my way, it's not exactly been difficult to get them out of the way, either by making room for them in the room or by giving them an order to do something out of the way.
I'm currently at 80 hours of play on my rogue (yeah, took the week off work for TES... played them all since Arena, and there was no way this one was not getting a proper dedicated time slot) and loving every second of it. I've barely even scratched the surface, too. Fun stuff.
Totally agree about using your smith skills, especially if your into heavy armour. Buffs up your equipment nicely & you can make some bling too :)
My biggest problem with the game so far is that I always get more loot than I possible can sell. I've ended up dumping all the loot outside the general goods store in Whiterun just to free up my inventory.
@Anders
I place all my stuff inside a barrel at the Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary.
My advice: Save as often as you can without getting annoyed. Game crashes have begun to happen regularly for me now, and this will ve the third time I'm doing the battle for Whiterun. It pays off. SAVE!
^ agree !
It's a shame that they didn't add a quicksave button (like holding Start or Select) for consoles. Unless they did and I've missed it?
Didn't they have a quick-save function on Fallout 3? I may be imagining that..
My advice:
- Don't use fast-travel at all
- Turn the compass/markers off
- Don't focus on Smithing until they fix it (it makes the game far too easy)
How does smithing make the game easy? Do Dragons spontaneously combust at the sound of you improving your armour?
Games not been out a week & some dweeb wants a nerf on something he doesn't have to use?
I'm so close to being able to smith elven and dwarven armour, and I just found some nice Elven armour down in Frostbite. Better sort my shit out and level it up asap. Sorry, meant to add that apart from annoying save issues, I'm abso-fucking-lutely lovin' this game. It's soooo sucked me in.
@OrbitMonkey, no offence. But you are a bit noob.
I raised my smithing skill to 100 when i was 7-10 level.
It's really easy to do with:
1) Leather bracers
or
2) Iron daggers
I used a first method and it's the easiest way to make this skill up to 100 level being just at the level 1-10. (Second method requires iron ingot which is a bit harder to find at the shop and + it costs more)
So because of this, Smithing skill needs to be nerfed and Fast.
@Telepathic.Geometry, you are going to make mistake if you are going to level up Elven armor. It's useless because elven is all over the place.
Better level up Dwarven Armor and go by that route until Dragon Armor. (+ Advanced armor for better upgrades up to (Legendary) or (Epic))
The professions and talent trees are woefully under developed and lots of exploits and loopholes exist.
There needs to be a cut off on gaining skills from low level items.
There also needs to be a loose level restriction on armour types.
There's no point in crafting most of the early armour since you can simply loot it from mobs.
Additionally, crafted armor should not look the same as the crap you find on mobs. Even a simple palette change would do in the short term. In the future perhaps allow optional dyes to be used. There is alot of scope but it's all a bit under developed.
@Kabby, agree with everything except for "There also needs to be a loose level restriction on armour types."
Because this will never happen and this is the feature of Elder Scrolls Games and some European RPG games. You can wear any armor at any level and this is how it should be.
Level should not be a restriction for wearing What you want.
Yeah level restriction is complete wank but 100% agree about patching the forging, the iron dagger glitch is just ridiculous.
Oh so sorry Erazthus, but maybe just maybe I have the self-restraint NOT TO USE THE EASY OPTION THAT RUINS YOU DWEEBS GAME.
I could level up my smithing asap, but I won't. I could exploit the iron dagger glitch, but I won't. See how easy that is?
Patch the bugs by all means, but fuck with a in game mechanic that actually work, cuz some fucking dweeb can't stop exploiting something? Fuck off.
"I raised my smithing skill to 100 when i was 7-10 level."
I find this hard to believe... if you'd genuinely done that, you would have been beyond way 10 just from getting smithing to 100, surely? Not to mention all the other skills you would have raised while gathering, buying or stealing the materials.
I agree with Orbit, although perhaps less vehemently; abusing a weak point and then complaining the game is too easy or you're too good for it earns zero e-peen.
Alternatively, my prefered route is to just play and enjoy the game as intended in a sensible and non-ridiculous fashion. You want to be a warrior? Get some armour and weapons and go hit things. You want to be an archer? Go shoot things. You want to be a rogue? Have fun stealing your way to success. You want to spend days upon days gathering herbs and butterflies and make a billion potions? Go for it. The beauty of TES games is that you can do and be anything you want to be, and no one person's PRO-GAMORZ WINNAR GUIDE is any more right or wrong than whatever it is anyone else finds enjoyable. Skyrim is not a hardcore raiding MMO where you have to min/max or get the fuck out, it's a much more relaxed free-for -all choose your own adventure.
Really the best advice I can think of for any new starter is take your time, stop to smell the roses, and enjoy whatever intrigues you. Yes, there are ways you can stack things heavily in your favour and give yourself an easy ride, but if that's your thing then you probably won't get as much enjoyment out of a TES game. TES games are all about exploring at your own pace, not following a three step plan to the iWin button.
@OrbitMonkey, sorry, but you missed the point again. It's not a glitch or even exploit.
But in every normal gamer opinion they should just make harder to do it.
"I could level up my smithing asap, but I won't. "
before we told you, you could not do this because you never knew how to do it first of all.
I know a lot of stuff how to raise my skills to max without exploits or glitches.
@revolting, easy.
Riverwood-Winter-Solitude + 2 big dungeons + some stealing is enough to make money for leather because it is cheap.
Thats why i didn't used iron ingot method because it requires some money.
@OrbitMonkey - There's no need to be so hostile.
You're right, I don't *have* to use smithing. In fact, I realised fairly early on that it was too easy to level up and stopped using it. If others want to take advantage of the problem and end up with swords that can do 100+ damage really early in the game, that's upto them. I have more self control than to ruin the game like that.
The thing is though, I still *want* to use smithing at some point. Ignoring it is only a temporary solution. So of course i'm going to want Bethesda to balance it better as soon as possible.
Dwarven armour is too heavy. I'm just looking for some nice armour that suits my high-elf arch-mage, (Boots and gloves) and some armour for my companion. Hmm, maybe dwarven armour would suit a tank companion... Any suggestions on where to find a worthy companion like that?
@telepathic i dont think companions wear armour
Companions don't change gear as far as I know.
If you want to make mad cash and level enchanting at the same time, buy unenchanted steel / iron weapons at the shop, enchant them with absorb health, even with a petty soul gem, and they'll sell for 300+ (Iron Daggers + Petty Soul Gem enchant sells for ~350, and the best steel items sell for 600). Small effort, loads of money, and you get enchanting.
Also - the trader in Riverrun (or whatever that first village with the blacksmith is called) is by far the best vendor in the game. If you return the golden claw to him and THEN invest 500g, he'll have 12k gold to barter with. It's just awesome.
Erazthus don't be dick, you think I never made leather braces? Of course I knew how easy it is to boost smithing, just like stealth walking into a wall near an enemy boosts stealth -_-
My point and a fairly simple one is this... I hate hypocritical dweebs such as yourself who take advantage of this little loopholes & then moan to high heaven to get them removed. What no-one else can have your fun?
Your like a fat kid whose stole all the cookies out the jar, blaming his mum for leaving them were he can get them and preaching to his brothers that they shouldn't do the same. Fuck off.
These little loopholes are like little mods for the console game & I'd prefer them left in thank you very much. If you think they break the game, don't use them. Oh & don't preach what other gamers should want, instead respect the fact that others should be allowed a choice too.
Sorry UuBuU, it just bugs me when guys ask for single player games to be nerfed. Reminds me of Fallout: New Vegas. Ok the VATS Perks could be a little op in Fallout 3, but In Vegas, VATS is pretty much useless. All thanks to moaning dweebs.
In fact look at any sequal which isn't quite as fun as the origional, or has that equal "balance" of enjoyment & irritation, you can bet Its down to a handful of whining dweebs being taken seriously.
@Telepathic, Companions can wear other armour. Got my elf mate wearing steel I'd looted of a bandit. He was even using the battle axe I gave him... maybe it has to be loot?
Have you done the missions for the ruler of whiterun? When you get made a Thane, a Nord warrior woman with sword and shield offers to be your companion. Probably a decent tank.
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