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Post Post #0 (isolation #0) » Tue Dec 20, 2016 6:03 am

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No Skyrim thread?!?

Just started playing again with remastered version. Beautiful! I'm a Breton Conjuration mage. Just hit level 40 with my highest skills being conjuration and enchantment in the low 90s.

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Post Post #3 (isolation #1) » Wed Dec 21, 2016 1:28 am

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I just started the dragonborn dlc. I didn't have it before. It's pretty spectacular. I love being able to respec perks!
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Post Post #4 (isolation #2) » Wed Dec 21, 2016 1:29 am

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In post 2, DiamondSentinel wrote:I usually played a Dunmer Shadowblade (high illusion, sneak, 1H, and archery), but now I've moved over to a Bosmer archer. I've already legendaried 3 of my skills, and let me tell you. After you've legendaried sneaking, it's a pain to get it back up.
It doesn't level the same way as before? I was waiting to legendary anything cuz I was pretty indecisive about it, and then remastered came out and I had to start all over.
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Post Post #5 (isolation #3) » Wed Dec 21, 2016 6:20 am

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I'm currently working on restoring the thieves guild quest (not the main questline for them, but the one where you do all the side jobs and get the merchants and stuff). I only have Whiterun and Riften left to complete. Basically, I'm at a point now where my enchanted items are so high value that the merchants don't have enough gold to make my selling trips not annoying.

I think my speech is only level 50, so I have those perks up to that point, the one where you get better prices from the opposite gender and then the one after where you can sell anything to anyone. That's helped a lot. I'm trying to get that 100,000 gold achievement, and so far I'm doing pretty well.

When I finish a cave or barrow or something, I enchant anything I have (bound bow has soul trap and I buy every empty soul gem I come across) and then go sell it. I make an average of 6000 to 8000 gold each time so far out of each trip, and I'm about halfway there.

Funny thing, I've never actually completed the Dark Brotherhood. I've always started it but never got far. I think I have a fundamental issue with some of the targets, especially Narfi in Ivarstead. It's also not the same as it was in Oblivion - it's more "lawless" and isn't really governed by some underlying sense of honor or something, I dunno lol... I just really want Shadowmere but... with Dawnguard I think I'm gonna go with that horse you can summon instead, and once again not finish the DB questline :lol:
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Post Post #7 (isolation #4) » Fri Dec 23, 2016 3:35 am

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In post 6, KaleiÐoscøpe wrote:Is there a point to legendary skills?
It basically removes the level cap, so you can continue to level up and earn perk points to use in other trees. you get all the points. back too which is quite useful, especially if you want to try something different with the same character.
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Post Post #11 (isolation #5) » Sat Dec 24, 2016 7:37 am

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In post 8, KaleiÐoscøpe wrote:Ah, makes sense. I just hate giving up my skills aside from pickpocket.

Meanehile, I built my own house but now theres a fat dragon corpse on the front door. Any way to change that?

Also, I stocked up on pots so much that once a dragon came, I got my archery up 10 lvls just by shooting and chugging pots
:lol: i'm an ingredient hoarder myself lol

for the dragon carcass issue, just stay away from your house for 48 in-game hours or 10 in-game days. The cells reset every 2 days but like the apeary, chicken coop and stuff respawn after 10, so it's one or the other to disappear the bones.
In post 9, McMenno wrote:skyrim is pretty fun I have some vanilla characters and some modded ones

mostly with just perkus maximus
i'm conflicted on using mods, mostly because even with nearly 1000 hours into this game, i don't think i've completed half of it lol... what does that mod do?
In post 10, Nero Cain wrote:I have a Breton Mage and a LVL 40 Nord with an axe. I haven't even finished the game mostly b/c I didn't buy it until way after it came out and its huge and I'm lazy
i love playing breton. it's a really well rounded race overall, but apparently most people don't choose it? i've been listening to a skyrim addict podcast and all the people were like "what's the breton even do?" i've only finished the main quest line once on my first character back with 360 and then after that i basically just did different things, lots of rp with different backstories lol..

on a side note, argis the bulwark is my husband and he's probably the best follower i have ever used. i don't know if he can even die and he's strong as fk. lots of fun adventuring with him! got him currently decked out in carved nordic stuff while i raise my smithing. i'm totally mage but i've now completed the conjuration master spell ritual and now i'm going to transition from full mage to battle mage. i'm going up the heavy armor side so i can smith up some awesome stuff for hubby :]

and today/yesterday i've spent about 4 hours getting frustrated trying to beat miraak, that fucker. he keeps taking down the dragon i'm riding and it's pissing me off.
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Post Post #13 (isolation #6) » Sun Dec 25, 2016 8:53 am

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In post 12, Annadog40 wrote:A high elfin oblivion who only uses illusion magic. She managed to beat the Dark Brotherhood without killing anyone directly.
ooo frenzy spells?
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Post Post #19 (isolation #7) » Fri Dec 30, 2016 8:35 am

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oh my goodness her face looks nice in that pic. i should probably take a look at some of the graphic mods that are available now for xbox one.

i really liked the dark brotherhood in oblivion, and the fighter's guild. i miss that game lol... i much prefer the way skills level in skyrim but oblivion had such good stories!
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Post Post #21 (isolation #8) » Sun Jan 08, 2017 12:44 pm

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i never got a chance to get through morrowind. dry car.
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Post Post #22 (isolation #9) » Sun Jan 08, 2017 12:45 pm

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very far* :lol: it was hard to play on my old tv and now i can't find it. plus we switched to xbox one so i dunno. i really really wanna play it all the way through. it i don't have much time these days with school and work so i'm waiting for summer before buying it again.
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Post Post #25 (isolation #10) » Tue Jan 10, 2017 7:17 am

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In post 23, Nero Cain wrote:Do you have Steam?
i do but my laptop isn't awesome
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Post Post #26 (isolation #11) » Tue Jan 10, 2017 7:17 am

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In post 24, Porochaz wrote:I've been playing skyrim a lot recently for the first time. I started on my laptop but got bored after having to find a necklace in a river for a long time but got the remastered one on my desktop amd it's playing slightly nicer now.
:lol: poor narfi
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Post Post #30 (isolation #12) » Thu Jan 12, 2017 4:17 am

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In post 27, Porochaz wrote:The fact that eventually I will have to
kill him
makes me sad. It was an annoying quest but I formed an attachment to the poor bugger.
definitely, me too. i didn't want to complete that but i wanted the horse. but with the dawn guard add on you can get the summoned horse which is better. so i never did it :mrgreen:
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Post Post #31 (isolation #13) » Thu Jan 12, 2017 4:18 am

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In post 28, Nero Cain wrote:What is the difference between the normal Skyrim and the remastered? More content?
just updated graphics and bug fixes plus it comes with all dlc and modding for consoles. i believe there are some added dialogue and radiant quests too maybe but i'm not sure about that exactly
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Post Post #36 (isolation #14) » Fri Jul 07, 2017 5:35 am

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finally made a fortify carry weight ring that adds 849 additional capacity :D
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Post Post #43 (isolation #15) » Sat Jun 09, 2018 3:56 am

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I just started a new Morrowind character actually. I never gotten very far into it, and it's a lot of fun. The mechanics are a bit different, leveling is silly, but the roleplaying is a lot more immersive than any other TES game I've played. Instead of just following a waypoint, you actually have to get directions, have them written down, follow signs, etc. There's no fast traveling - except by silt strider or mage's teleportation spells. It's really fantastic. There's a reason this is the game that made Bethesda.
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Post Post #44 (isolation #16) » Sat Jun 09, 2018 3:58 am

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ALSO TES legends is THE BEST THING EVER.
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