Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

considering the number of waterbreathing rings i've spammed, should be soon /wakkawakka

am I missing out on anything by not going underwater?

I found a ship graveyard that looks cool but I have to go back to check it out; no potions or rings on my person at the time.

there are some alchemy ingredients that are found underwater. a lot of time the designers throw a chest down there too.

i know there was one quest that required i hunt for something in a lake. and there was a dungeon that had a 2nd exit through an underwater tunnel.

so, maybe? not much tho

haven't found much but i like the freedom it affords when running away from giants or just exploring
i'm argonian btw

I'm also argonian but so far I haven't had much of a reason to go underwater.

I am tempted to stay underwater to see how long it takes to drown

I have been trying to build up conjuration but it doesn't seem like making a flame atronach at the beginning of a fight before slashing dudes to pieces is a very quick way of getting anywhere with it.

magic is a slow business.

I wish there was some ship action.

did you find the stone that lets you learn magic 20% faster?

Yeah I've had it on for the entirety of my game.

aragonian dudes i dont know how to tell you this but the nords have been saying some pretty unflattering things about you behind your back xposts

ah

well, it's kind obv but it's a lot easier to lvl destro and resto than anything else ime

easier to lvl destro

Yeah, I'm trying to avoid destro this playthrough.

it took me about 10 murders to realize the dark brotherhood forever quests will never end

I did just enough of the Thieves Guild quests to get access to their appraiser and then peaced

i mean cmon its dark brotherhood forever

i know rite

i decided to let this tragedy stand last. sacrifices must be made :`(
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last night*.

am I missing out on anything by not going underwater?

― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Thursday, January 5, 2012 9:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

here I will note that I swam the shit out of the big lake in fallout new vegas and there was not a fucking thing under water there. =(

at least in skyrim theres soooooooome stuff. nothing amazing but better than 0.

aragonian dudes i dont know how to tell you this but the nords have been saying some pretty unflattering things about you behind your back
― blurgh (jjjusten)

The greybeardfs have sent me into a cave to get back a stone or something. SO I go through the dungeon, kill evberything, and this stone is si8tting right in front of me, and I can't pick it up! Stupid bethseda.

How early on is this? Were you trying to get THE HORN? There should be a note from someone who got THE HORN before you, you have to track them down and get them to give you THE HORN.

maybe the note got dislodged with careless shouting.

so just how camp is people's appreciation of skyrim, on the whole, as a fictional environment

why is there always a whiterun guard in my house just ...leaving... whenever I return back to my wife from a long adventure? what kind of shop is she running?

that and the dead naked lydia in the spare room make me thinks our marriage is not what it should be.

xp A restart solved it. Star of something? I got to take it somewhere to get fixed. Then I got the note telling me the HORN has been stolen, so that's something else for me to do.

Trying to get a half a broken amulet, and there's a bridge that won't come down. The lever just booby-traps some spikes at me. It's very frustrating. I don't want to have to go to a walkthru, but it's pushing me.

lol I didn't even notice my horse had been killed because it ran away and got into a fight with some other random creature I didn't know was there and I assumed it had done its usual "run from scary fight and magically appear at next destination" thing

lol i hopped on a horse at one point, it must have been left over after some bandit encounter or something? idk. i rode it around for a few minutes and then left it somewhere.

i played through the college of winterhold questline, and at the point where the magic anomalies are attacking the town, there was "my" horse, getting killed.

there were about 10 solid hours of gameplay between these things, swear to god, never saw the horse once in that time.

I went to the fruit n veg stall in Winterhold, asked the woman what she had for sale. "Some people call this junk. Me, I call them treasures." Ok good luck with yr treasure cabbages luv.

Winterhold Windhelm Whiterun. So many similar names in this thing.

yeah that's a problem

markarth, morthal

kind of lolling at the idea of there being characters in this game world who would be all "basic foodstuffs? that's junk!" but then I remembered we are in Nord country

Venting frustration.

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am I missing out on anything by not going underwater?

There are underwater chests here and there, but so far I haven't found anything spectacular (read enchanted weapons/armor) in them, just ordinary loot.

Northwest of Winterhold there is a wreck of the Pilgrim's Trench under 100+ ft of water, just visible if you swim out to the middle of the frigid bay. I suspect that one might hold remarkable loot. My alchemy mojo is pretty good (60+, with perks, and +20% hat/necklace/gloves/ring), so I've got some 90 second waterbreathing potions. I just haven't had another excuse to head that way (nearby catacomb Ysgramor's Tomb looked main questy).

magic is a slow business

There are ways of leveling magic quickly (eg. casting muffle anywhere, casting soul tap on bodies, healing self after self-injury on spikes @ Halted Streams Camp) but I'm roleplaying here.

I halted my first playthrough with a stealthy archer/dual wielder/crafter at lvl 40 doing Thief's Guild and Dark Brotherhood quests as I felt a bit overpowered on main quests. Second playthrough I'm trying a stealthy conjurer/illusionist/crafter/archer doing Mage & Bard College quests mixed with main quests at Expert level. I sort of direct the action from the rear, and silently casting frenzy and later sending in my atronach & tank to mop up the carnage is fun. I've forgotten where my shout key is.

I'd add the symbiosis between enchanting/alchemy/smithing is great, and one can really "level up" with just 4-6 perks in each. Alchemy is a fast, painless gold generator after a slow start.

Of course, this guy beat the main quest just investing in heavy armor, smithing, and enchanting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhBiNx749Zw

sneak makes it pretty easy to exploit any fight. kind of wish it was handled more like deus ex - where once they were tipped off you there it was harder to sneak up on them even after they stopped searching for you.

I leveled sneak highish (30some) just by doing a few dark bro missions and got through the dragonstone dungeon without waking any draugr, it ruled

i am working on grinding enchant, smith and alchemy up to 100 and i have grand plans to make insane gear. i'm going a little bit ham w/ this.

here's a tip (that may come close to a cheat for some of you): when selling a bunch of crap off, sell what you can (after buying whatever you need), and then stand there and wait for 48 hrs. the merchant's money supply will refresh. works great if it's at a thieves guild fence: more money, plus a bunch more lockpicks to buy.

Note that fast travel consumes game calendar time too, so you could just as readily have a circuit of market towns you frequent to offload loot (or in my case, valuable potions.

A video I came across at this excellent compendium of Skyrim tricks and tips is the series Felix the Peaceful Monk, who plays as a pacifist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2d2KRIUYCM

It will be interesting to find where Felix is halted in main/faction quest lines.

here's a tip (that may come close to a cheat for some of you): when selling a bunch of crap off, sell what you can (after buying whatever you need), and then stand there and wait for 48 hrs. the merchant's money supply will refresh.

h8 this shit

imo waiting is always cheating

we all cheated while ilx was down

ok that stamina/cooking tip is pretty nuts - but i probably won't take it to heart.

Aaaaargh! I put all my loot in my chest at Uthelred's house in Whiterun, and when I went back to get it later, it was all gone! That has seriously pissed me off. I thought ex-followers' houses were cool to put stuff in, but apparently not. I had a fortune in amulets just to start with!

I think the same thing happened with my room in the mage college. I wouldn't have thought that counted as a public area.

oh shit i've got tons of shit in the dark bros sanctuary

Don't worry, the dark brotherhood are known for their trustworthiness.