Official Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim thread!

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Originally Posted by SwordsMaster

Ok, so, what is the ultimate light armour and heavy armour? Not in terms of protection, but overall usability?

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I think this depends a lot on whether you are also working on smithing and enchanting. I have 100 smithing and about 90 enchanting, and it's incredibly rare for me to find pieces of armor that are better than what I can make myself. I'm a light armor mage and I wear a full suit of custom-enchanted glass armor. I also have a full set of legendary dragonscale, but it's not enchanted yet because I'm waiting to hit 100 before I do so. I used to wear Dark Brotherhood stuff, but it just couldn't keep up with the vastly superior protection that my legendary glass armor has. With high enchanting, you can also make sure you get exactly the enchantments you want, instead of having to decide between less optimal protection for more preferable enchantments.

The only exception I've found to this are a certain set of masks that I won't discuss further due to spoilers. Those things, with smithing improvements, are absolutely superb.

Well, I'm lvl 30 now, my smithing is at around 65, and enchanting at a pathetic 35, but I use some gloves I found me that raise smithing an extra 17%, so I don't do too badly. Besides, I skipped Orcish and Dwarven on the development cycle. Still not sure if that will allow me to unlock further levels...

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Originally Posted by rajpoot

DEbony armour looks good but then Ebony ore is so rare as it is that I'd much rather save it for crafting Daedric stuff later.
So despite having found bits of other higher tier armour, I'm still sticking with my steel plate at level 23.

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http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Gloombound_Mine

Problem solved.
Chances are you need to do a quest to get to it though.
But not me, no siree.

It's good being an orc.

ALSO.

I used to do well in school......BUT THEN I TOOK AN ARROW TO THE KNEE.

Had to be done, sorry.

Any opinion on which shouts are best? "Force" shout versus i'm breathing flames shout?

OHHH DA-VING!!! Gets my vote.

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Originally Posted by Greyblades

OHHH DA-VING!!! Gets my vote.

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yeah yeah summoning a dragon is cool but unrelenting force is my favorite You get to send people flying

Just got this for my b-day yesterday, so, installed over night, and now I've just finished running through the intro. Looking forward to some fun this weekend!

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Originally Posted by Pharoah

yeah yeah summoning a dragon is cool but unrelenting force is my favorite You get to send people flying

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Yeah but with a flying dragon around its alot easier to maintain stealth and backstab people who are all looking up at the big dragon and anyone that is too weak to be worth killing usually gets killed in the first pass. Unrelenting force has its ups but I find when fighting outdoors all it does is make it harder for me to find lootable bodies as anyone killed by unrelenting force has an annoying habit of getting chucked into a really hard to get area.

Loaded an old messed-up game, patch was no help. Bah. I guess I'll just re-roll.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCrhDamN82k

hmm...

My rig will probably blow up if I tried something like that.

@thefluffyone93
Went to the mine. Got enough ebony. Thanks.

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Originally Posted by rajpoot

My rig will probably blow up if I tried something like that.

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I just ordered my new computer last night, I wanna play this maxed out, right now I can only go med-high

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4z9TdDCWN7g

amazing...

now I gotta go play more Skyrim!

Her face is so close to the camera that I always smile when she says "Dragonborn comes".

Yea.

Too much reverb. She has a lovely voice; no need to gild the proverbial lily.

Meanwhile, Zero Punctuation has as close to a positive review as Yahtzee ever gets. Warning: Zero Punctuation pretty much always contains some sort of obscenity. Not safe for work, grandma, or smallish children.

Minecraft was almost positive too. It all came down to having a plan before you start.

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Originally Posted by Lemur

Too much reverb. She has a lovely voice; no need to gild the proverbial lily.

Meanwhile, Zero Punctuation has as close to a positive review as Yahtzee ever gets. Warning: Zero Punctuation pretty much always contains some sort of obscenity. Not safe for work, grandma, or smallish children.

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I have zero respect for his reviews since he nakedly trolled in his War for Cybertron review.

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Originally Posted by lars573

I have zero respect for his reviews since he nakedly trolled in his War for Cybertron review.

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I doubt people watch his reviews for fair judgement of the games. His reviews are funny though, and that is why I always watch them.

But the kind of trolling he did for that one I find to be quite vulgar, and not funny.

The joke is still entirely on you regardless if you take anything Zero says seriously.

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Originally Posted by easytarget

The joke is still entirely on you regardless if you take anything Zero says seriously.

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Yatzee plays a caricature of himself in those vids. He often likes the games he is taking the mickey out of. However, his point is that there is no perfect game, and he points out the flaws accordingly.

Yep, just punching holes in a very immature medium with comedy. If I'd been around and paying attention at the start of cinema or literature I'm sure there were folks doing the same thing.

These aren't game reviews he's doing people. ;)

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Originally Posted by easytarget

The joke is still entirely on you regardless if you take anything Zero says seriously.

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I take no internet reviewer seriously. I STILL take issue with that kind of trolling, joke or otherwise.

This arrow to the knee thing is getting out of hand.

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Originally Posted by Lemur

This arrow to the knee thing is getting out of hand.

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I agree 140%.

Personally I prefered the guy in Windhelm who used to be a soldier, but then he took a sword in the gut.

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Originally Posted by Psychonaut

I agree 140%.

Personally I prefered the guy in Windhelm who used to be a soldier, but then he took a sword in the gut.

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Was it one of those curved swords? CURVED SWORDS.

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nice one

Maybe I'm smarter because I know cats can be bats can be rats can be hats can be gnats can be thats can be thises.

WABBAJACK.

You guys are all just milk drinkers.

You can actually FUS RO DAH! now.

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Originally Posted by Veho Nex

You guys are all just milk drinkers.

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Whats wrong, did someone steal your sweetroll?

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Originally Posted by LeftEyeNine

You can actually FUS RO DAH! now.

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Niiiice find :thumbsup:

I just have to get my mic port repaired now....

What's the actual point of Dragon smithing when Daedric Armour has better stats?

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Originally Posted by tibilicus

What's the actual point of Dragon smithing when Daedric Armour has better stats?

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I'm guessing they were trying to keep a balance between the old and new.
Daedric armour has traditionally been the strongest in all TES games to date, AFAIK. To nerf that in favour of dragon armour wouldn't have made much sense.
But on the other hand Dragon Armour is nearly as good, and has a different look to it (one I don't much like BTW...the helmet's cool, but everything is else is too boney).

Anyway none of it matters. With enough points in smithing and a few well chosen items with smithing-fortifying enchantments on them you can eaisly reach the armour level cap, even with Orcish or Steel plate.

Personally I wish that they should've made the Draugr armour look cooler. It's got a really nice looking helmet and everything else looks like leather and fur.

Skyrim HD textures change your game a lot.

However if you ever decide to give that a go, do not forget to use Skyrim 4GB so that 4GB of a virtual memory could be allocated to your Skyrim as well as -afterwards- adding iMaxAllocatedMemoryBytes=3000000000 under [Papyrus] in your Skyrim.ini file that is located at My Games\Skyrim.

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Originally Posted by tibilicus

What's the actual point of Dragon smithing when Daedric Armour has better stats?

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Other than being lighter, Dragon Armour is far easier to get the mats for.

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Originally Posted by Tiaexz

Other than being lighter, Dragon Armour is far easier to get the mats for.

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Looks better.

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Shout mod is excellent. I often get the wrong shout, but it does own.

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Originally Posted by Tiaexz

Other than being lighter, Dragon Armour is far easier to get the mats for.

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I do enjoy genres wherein making suits out of my enemies is considered socially acceptable.

Oh in addition to Skyrim HD Textures, these complement best:

Vurt's Flora

Lush Trees

I should reiterate that in case you use these mods Skyrim 4GB is a must to evade crashes and purple textures problems.

ATI users are advised to turn off AA and AF from the game and use ATI CCC to apply such settings. It indeed allows a drastic FPS incrase especially after patching the game with the Hi-Res texture packs above.

Nvidia users (I'm not one) are told to tweak to certain configurations via a tool called Nvidia Inspector as instructed here.

The game is over-dull with its original textures. No wonder why we were amazed at the smoothness of the graphics maxed out. Textures are too light to create any burden on a good rig although top notch is switched.

Those HD textures look great. But, my machine is just barely doing the job with the graphics as they currently are. And my machine is pretty decent... so I think I'll give those a miss for now... =P

TBH, the game runs like poop on my machine. No idea why. Every other game I have runs fine. (AMD Phenom II x6 OC 3.5Ghz [down-clocking to default specs doesn't help], HD5870, 8gb RAM) I consistently get about 25fps on anything above medium settings. :shrug:


Hmmm. OCing down and back up to 3.5Ghz seems to have done the trick. Runs beautifully. I knew it was CPU bound, but didn't realise how much so.

For those looking to push their monster rig further and enhance Skyrim visuals even further should try out ENBSeries.

Make sure you have a top notch gfx card though.

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Originally Posted by LeftEyeNine

Make sure you have a top notch gfx card though.

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TBH. CPU is more important for Skyrim. It is bound to 2 cores, performance on anything below an solid i5 or heavily oced AMD rig is not great.

I've read that the game is heavily CPU-bound however I doubt it's the same about post-processing injections, e.g. SSAO, like ENBSeries do. Are you sure, matey ?

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Originally Posted by Psychonaut

[P]erformance on anything below an solid i5 or heavily oced AMD rig is not great.

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Depends on how you're defining "not great"; I've been playing on a lightly OCed Core 2 Duo E6600, and I'm doing just fine. I was chuffed when one of the Skyrim team's patch notes talked about optimizing for Core 2 Duo performance. They like me! They really, really like me!

Lads, lads...

Here is what we were looking for.

UP FOR GRABS.

Thanks for the link LEN, I'll give it a whirl.

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Originally Posted by Lemur

Depends on how you're defining "not great";

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My definition of "not great" is ultra settings at 1080p running at a stuttery 25fps. Which, yes, is a little different from many other's definitions. However, if a game is pretty, I want it at it's prettiest.

Please report back about (non-existent) benefits, Psychonaut.

Ok. Tested.

Settings:

1080p
AAx8
AFx8
Textures=High
Radial Blur=low (personal preference, I hate radial and motion blur in any and every game)
Shadows=High (ultra has minimal improvement for the fps hit)
Decals=Ultra
FXAA=On
Reflect=All
View Distance=Max
Distant Objects=Medium

Testing Area:

Markarth, probably the most visually demanding area in the game. A good combination of NPCs, ambient activity, water and distant objects. Starting from the entrance, looping to the left, up to Understone Keep, to the Guard Tower, round to Vlindrell and back to the entrance. A place where my fps was always average at best.


Without Tweak:

Max fps: 43
Avg fps: ~35
Min fps: 19

Minimum was reached at the entrance to Vlindrell, with the view of the valley, the city and three waterfalls dropping fps.


With Tweak:

Max fps: 45
Avg fps: ~35
Min fps: 21

Overall, it made a minor difference. The minimum occurred in the same spot, and a 2fps gain there. It seems to make a difference, but it would probably be more pronounced on a weaker rig.

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Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube

All of this is exactly why I bought the Xbox 360 Version. Moderate load times, no frame-rate issues. :2thumbsup:

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But you are ****ed harder when you encounter bugs :)

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Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube

All of this is exactly why I bought the Xbox 360 Version. Moderate load times, no frame-rate issues. :2thumbsup:

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With even more dumbed-down textures, it must be a joy to behold, mate. :2thumbsup:

Vine grow and twine,
Green and curl. Choke and bind;
Leaves unfurled. Formsie spine;
Tumble wall. Wreath and vine,
Cover all, Leafsie mine.
Call the vine!
Call the Green!
Bringsie forth world be seen!

Storm black, and blow
Swirly gusts! Rain! Winds flow,
Pushing dust. Storm Clouds grow
Darksie. Clouds lightning throw;
Misty shroud; freezie snow
Call the Storm!
Call the gray!
Bringsie forth world's old way!

Flame, burning heat!
Fences charred blazie sheet.
Blackened tar manflesh meat!
Melting gears dance and leap,
Manfool's fear come to reap!
Call the fire!
Call the red!
Bringsie forth past not dead!

Tide rise and fall.
River flood, rain and squall,
Churning mud. Dam, break all
Sea waves wash swampy Squall
Sewer slosh drain pipes stall
Call the wave
Call the blue
Bringsie forth world anew!

Stone grind and quake.
Shatter tile! Columns shake
Brick unpile! Chip and flake!
Darky soil; Windows break!
Earthy toil; wall unmake!
Call earth!
Call the brown!
Bringsie back world thrown down!

Night smother light
Black break lamp! Done with bright.
Dew and damp smother tight.
Dark, and hide foolsie sight.
Stay inside fear the night!
Call the dark!
Call the Black!
Bringsie forth; I call it back!

Open for me
Open to me
Open my way
Open the path
Open for me
Open

just got for 360.

holy *******************

im tempted to swear because it deserves it.

what doesnt deserve it is me buying a game for a 360 that freezes twice in the space of thirty minutes. seriously lower the graphics a little before you allow that.

hasnt for a couple hours which eases me.

this game is gorgeous will weigh in more tmmrw.

happy holidays yall

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Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube

I gotta say, this one is certainly more immersive than any of the other Elder Scrolls games. I picked a big tough Nord Warrior guy for a character, and I'm currently following the Stormcloak storyline. Its pretty sweet. I don't recall caring one whit about Oblivion's storyline after it became apparent that I was, in fact, going to have to go into all of those damned irritating Oblivion gates.

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Ahh I did the same thing until one particular story mission which made me realise that Stormcloak is indeed the 'less-good' way to pick. That made me feel so distressed I started the game again from an older save losing over three days worth of gameplay.

Speak to the mage in Solitude's court. That's an eye opener.

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And infiltrate the Thalmor Embassy. Even bigger proof there.

im usually a steath bow guy but i too chose a nord warrior using a massive two hander. i feel distressingly over powered though tbh.

I'm more of a warrior charector then battle mage etc

ps what's your favorite race in the game mines kajite or how ever you spell it

Sneak overpowered? Meh.

How bout an Orc with a 100 in smithing, conjuration, heavy armor, and one-handed?
A tank like that with full legendary Daedric Armor is tough to kill, as is the two storm Atronachs I can summon at once!

sneak friendly classes but maybe redguard overall.

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Originally Posted by thefluffyone93

Sneak overpowered? Meh.

How bout an Orc with a 100 in smithing, conjuration, heavy armor, and one-handed?
A tank like that with full legendary Daedric Armor is tough to kill, as is the two storm Atronachs I can summon at once!

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Its a pity the max armour rating makes any armour more advanced than ebony pretty redundant.

On which difficulty do you play? I assure you; playing it on master isn't easy.

adept difficult enough for me so far,


annoyed right now.
big glitch lost an hours worth of gameplay because in the way of the voice ive encountered a game breaker. cannot get master einkrah (spelling is off sorry) to teach me the second word the symbol just sits on the ground. DAMN

Edit; and then i kid you not i turned back to the game after typing this and it immediately froze on me.

no this is glitch. i didnt get some of the dialgue and it didnt go through with it.

ive gotten other words

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Originally Posted by Centurion1

adept difficult enough for me so far,


annoyed right now.
big glitch lost an hours worth of gameplay because in the way of the voice ive encountered a game breaker. cannot get master einkrah (spelling is off sorry) to teach me the second word the symbol just sits on the ground. DAMN

Edit; and then i kid you not i turned back to the game after typing this and it immediately froze on me.

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When you're playing I think it's a good idea to save often and have multiple saves in case you get a bug like that or you encounter an unbeatable enemy you can't run away from.

yeah i try to sleep after every fight and save relatively often but sometimes you just get caught up in the game

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Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube

Another thing I'm just starting to admire is the way this game encourages role playing. If you haven't slept in awhile, people will encourage you to go to an inn. If you sleep, you get a bonus towards skill-learning for 8 hours. And by hanging around the Inns you can find all kinds of quests and random fun. And if you're sick, the people will say "You look sick." Sometimes that's the only indication, until the effects start showing up as the disease progresses.

There's a ton of stuff to love about this game. I especially like the Radiant Quest system. It's perhaps the most seemless and enjoyable RPG experience i've had in a long while.

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its true about role play. i am playing a two handed nord and it just feels so..... right.

also as an aside easily the best main quest in any elder scrolls game so far (just got horn of jurgen)

Edit2: seriously though the glitches and bugs are horrible in the 360 version. yet again unable to complete the quest to learnt he final word of unrelenting force. this time the dragon writing doesnt even show up when he says it on the ground and it just sort of ends; luckily i have saves available.

is it just me or does this game take up an epic amount of space...... one save and 23mb deep.... how much will it take?

It's too bad that due to some thing I can't get well rested or sick anymore :P

Anyways, I suggest to notch the difficulty up to expert (not master! that's just masochism) it makes it IMHO more enjoyable if you beat someone/something.

yeah i think im going to on my next playthrough.....

only lvl 13 though right now!

wow..... new favorite armor for all of elder scrolls?

steel plate. sexy as hell. it is going to be a struggle updating anytihng over. absolutely gorgeous

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Originally Posted by Drunk Clown

It's too bad that due to some thing I can't get well rested or sick anymore :P

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You become a werewolf?

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Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube

Gotta stand right on top of the word. All words work like that--you just get close enough, and it'll happen. I've done that part twice with no problems.

It's the not knowing whether or not each loading screen is going to crash the game that's killing me. Shoulda spent the extra money on an Xbox 360 with a harddrive, so I could install it and see if that fixes it a bit.

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The HDD ability to install games makes it well worth the cash outlay. I bought it separately for my 360 2.0 and have not regrets. My Skyrim game does hang a bit on loading, but has yet to lock-up.

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Originally Posted by thefluffyone93

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You become a werewolf?

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Yup, never use it though. Only plus is that you can move very quickly and the immunity for deceases.

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Originally Posted by Drunk Clown

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Yup, never use it though. Only plus is that you can move very quickly and the immunity for deceases.

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Being a werewolf removes the ability to gain the Well Rested bonus and contract diseases.
I dunno about not getting poisoned though. You an argonian?
Or did you get an item that increases resistance to poison?

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Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube

It turns out most of them weren't freezes, I was just impatient. I refused to believe that loading times could be over two minutes, but apparently they are. Guess I need a Hard Drive!

That said, this game is amazing. After trying a few characters just to get the hang of it, I finally settled on a Redgaurd Fighter-Mage guy. I'm now level 13, and I've got a badass suit of enchanted Elven Armor. Also, the Mage College quest line is fantastic--absolutely worth checking out, even if you don't like the Magic aspect. In fact, the whole story feels very Wheel of Time-ish, and I like it.

Also, Bound Blades are awesome if you get the Perks.. especially if mixed with some magic, dual wielding, and one-handed perks.

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I haven't done anything but the main quest (and 1 side quest) yet. I'm gonna break off when I get the Dragonrend shout. Then I can deal with random dragon encounters better.

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Originally Posted by thefluffyone93

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Being a werewolf removes the ability to gain the Well Rested bonus and contract diseases.
I dunno about not getting poisoned though. You an argonian?
Or did you get an item that increases resistance to poison?

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Nope I'm a Dark Elf. Don't know about poison; though do not recall being poisoned. You can get poisoned by those spiders, can't you?

yep

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Originally Posted by Centurion1

steel plate. sexy as hell. it is going to be a struggle updating anytihng over. absolutely gorgeous

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Oh yes, I love it, though I dont really like the fur pelt they stuck on the groin area.

Fortunately if you can upgrade it to legendary the whole max armour rating thing makes it as strong as daedric.

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Originally Posted by Centurion1

new favorite armor for all of elder scrolls?

steel plate. sexy as hell. it is going to be a struggle updating anytihng over. absolutely gorgeous

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Ebony is sexy as well, but Daedric is too much for my aesthetics. My Nord looks like something from a hair metal band or a Gwar concert.

From what I've heard, though, you hit some sort of max armor level or something like that, so you can take your steel plate all the way to level 50. Can somebody explain that to me?