On the enchanting side of things, save all the clean rings and amulets you find and enchant those. Skill gains plus even more money, think that's how I made my fortune on my original playthrough.
I don't think I've ever noticed the details like that! I do remember Hamelin and his army of skeevers but hadn't noticed the Lusty Argonian Maid next to beds. I suppose even in Tamriel "50 Shades" is popular bedtime reading
Statistics: Posted by pevil — Tue Apr 06, 2021 12:42 pm
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I started dabling around a bit with the enchanting table, mainly because i wanted to get smithing enchantements on my gear. Turned out i can't get it at a decent amount (yet?), but at least i'm getting a good amount of money from it. Went past the 100k gold mark.
In that regard, i've been getting several achievements, like my first 100 skill (one-handed) and i joined the thief guild and mages guild. Don't plan atm to really use a lot of magic, but since my lockpicking was at almost 80 anyway, thief guild didn't see that wrong of a choice. And i'm following that quest line now, enjoying it as well.
Keep getting sidetracked, because my first intention was to keep progressing in the war questline: i went for the empire troops, even captured 2 forts with them. But now i'm doing other stuff again. Soo many quests, so many things to visit.
I also thought i had never been in Markarth before, untill i recognized the Mace of Molag Bal in some questline. I had it on my previous character, but couldn't remember ever being in the city. Weird, you'd think i would remember walking around in a big Dwemer ruin.
Love the little things and jokes that are in the game, like finding "The lusty Argonian maid" next to a lot of beds, running into a guy named "Hamelin" or something raising an army of skeevers and much much more.
Statistics: Posted by J — Tue Apr 06, 2021 10:45 am
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After that I decided to get rid of the unusual gem as it sitting around along with the quest for it can get annoying. So off to Riften I head. I've been stealing things anyway so I might as well head to thief town and help myself to their hospitality. As soon as I set foot out of the college I was approached by vampire hunters saying I should check out the dawnguard. Ok, well it's south of Riften so that's handy.
I began the process of joining the Thieves Guild, though not very successfully. It's a little trial to steal a ring from one market stall and plant it on someone else whilst they're all being distracted. I stole it just fine but got noticed whilst planting it. They still let me in though, provided I could navigate the tunnels to get to their hideaway. So my current quest for them now is to "persuade" 3 debtors to pay up.
Time to join the dawnguard. I haven't fully made up my mind yet but considering Steerpike in the books is sort of a social vampire I was leaning towards vampirism with him. As soon as I set foot outside of Riften a fledgling vampire and a normal vampire attacked me and I instantly caught vampirism. Of course, because this is me and I attract diseases in Elder Scrolls games like Pigpen attracts dirt (I haven't in my Oblivion re-run but mainly due to the fact I'm argonian so they have some stupidly high disease resistance, if not immunity). So I'm going with it for now. I joined the dawnguard and no one spotted I have the beginnings of the disease so I have to go do the first quest for them now. From what little I remember back when it first released and I did it before, I think at some point you can choose to join the vampires rather than fight them anyway so if I'm getting that right I know what I'll be doing. Pevil before just slaughtered the evil vampires as she was going for the morally good choices most of the time.
Statistics: Posted by pevil — Sat Mar 13, 2021 12:02 pm
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Not sure about imperial or stormcloak. I was thinking Stormcloak, untill i started talking with them some more. Seems like it's a big Nords first attitude which i'm not that fond of, being an orc. Haven't talked with the imperials yet, i have a feeling nobody likes orcs.
Statistics: Posted by J — Fri Mar 12, 2021 2:59 pm
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I must've been really lucky in my first playthrough, I don't remember coming across any major bugs. Either that or I just didn't realise. Sometimes it can be hard to tell when a game is designed to give you freedom what is a bug and what is just sheer bad luck. I have run into tons of small bugs though, mostly just amusing things.
Statistics: Posted by pevil — Fri Mar 12, 2021 2:27 pm
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still bashing skulls with my shield and decapitating things with the axe. Slowly making progress, smithing is near lvl 50, but i'm not sure if i'm going to bother with enchanting. Of course it would be better if i would, but it kinda doesn't feel right for my orc. And there are already too many things on my to-do list.
Basically i'm pretty randomly running around, discovering awesome sights, occasionally exploring ruins. At times i feel like crossing things off my quest list, and start working on those, only ending up sidetracked again, taking more random quests.
Haven't been in a few major cities yet, so still got tons of exploring to do.
My previous character stranded at lvl 25, now i'm at 26 so technically i'm further than in that playthrough. Didn't get involved in the stormcloak/imperial army discussion yet. I also ended up with a major bug in the Companions questline, really got stuck there. Then i realised why i had 100+ saves on that other character. Took me some good internet searching and putting some bits and pieces together, but ended up fixing the bug (it involved teleporting, don't ask).
I also wonder why i stopped playing previous game. Probably lack of time, but still enjoying myself so much with this game.
Statistics: Posted by J — Fri Mar 12, 2021 2:18 pm
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I also always forget the shouts until something kicks my ass and I start desperately looking around every menu and in every pocket for something to give me an edge. My boyfriend used to have loads of fun 'fus-ro-dahing' enemies off every ledge available, I probably used it 3 times total. I think there are 2 shouts, 1 better than the other for ice. The one I have is ice form I think which actually freezes them solid. Could be totally wrong!
Statistics: Posted by pevil — Fri Feb 26, 2021 1:53 pm
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