SKYRIM HYPE THREAD: UNDEAD CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE DRAGON'S SOUL

@Max : for the 3rd riddle : the only way to have all lying but one is if the Orc killed the Bosmer, then the Khaajiit is the only one telling the truth.

I have about 70 hours so I am up there with you. The difference is I haven't gotten a real night's sleep since getting Skyrim. I look hung over every day.

Oh, I've decided that The Lord is the best standing stone. You get 50 armor and 25% magic resist. I think the optimal master-difficulty character is probably a Breton with The Lord. Why? I am just playing on Expert and I still encounter mages that one or two-shot me if they get the chance and ancient dragons' breath is very dangerous even with the 50% fire resist I have from being a dunmer. A Breton with The Lord would have 50% resistance not just to fire but to all magic before items are even factored. I find spell damage to be very significant and mitigating that sounds like priority one on master.

I have been using The Steed on my thief ever since I found Ebony Mail (I hate being slow from heavy armor) and started finding Shadow's invisibility power redundant with my seemingly undetectable sneak at 100 skill plus armor/perk bonuses.

And I thought I was esoteric for remembering Redguard and Battlespire!

Of all the stones, it's the Tower that to me stands out as being way underpowered.

author=Craze
REGARDING MAGICKA/STAMINA REGEN:I did some reading and I'm pretty sure that what happens is that your regen bonuses are taken into effect; however, all regeneration is cut to 1/3 while in combat. So, base regen is, for magicka, 3%/second. With a +50% robe, it's 4.5%/s. While in combat, these would be 1%/s and 1.5%/s.

Thanks, after a while I figured it would be something like this. Since it's percentage based, the more magicka, the better. Should be fine later in the game (if spell costs don't go up extremely).


As for standing stones, my current dual wielding nord uses The Lady for the bonus health and stamina regen. Not sure how helpful it actually is, but I didn't like any other stones I encountered so far.

Not quite sure which faction this character will join, just doing some wandering around the map, completing quests as they come. Just received Kyne's Sacred Trials, gonna go hunt some guardian skeever and mudcrab. It's amazing where you can find quests just by chance in this game.

Also, about quests, I like that they sometimes take place in different locations, boosts the replayability a bit.

Side note: Shouldn't have picked alchemy for my nord, I waste so much time just looking at the ground, picking herbs, instead of killing/enjoying the view :) And it levels up sooooo slow, only managed to take it to like 23 so far (that is with 5x training for gold). Though I like the potions/poisons I make, and the perks seem nice. But I really need to put my perk points into heavy armor instead of alchemy, I am too squishy while dual wielding.

Gah, I hate the Alftand Ruins....

Random moment:
Found some insanely powerful necromancers who repeatedly killed me, while guarding a dragon word... So I used that warcry or whatever Nords have to fear them. Grabbed the dragon word, turned and ran. Came to a wooden diving board atop a waterfall cliff, with the necromancers regaining their consciousness gave Chase. I was in 3rd person so as I jumped off the diving board I saw a couple of fireball explosions behind me! Escaped unscathed, as I landed in a pool below.
...only to meet the ghost of a bard who did not have my luck.

Skyrim.

Skip to 2:40 IMMEDIATELY, turn your volume to max, and listen to the next sixteen seconds intently.

That quarter-minute long "YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" is the only appropriate response to this anecdote.

Anyway, I have never had any problem raising Alchemy. Snowberries and Purple Mountain Flowers are insanely common; they make a fairly useless Resist Frost potion, but you can make a LOT of it very fast.

I kind of wished that smelting and tanning and cooking raised some skill somehow by some small percentage. Like if cooking something counted as 1/10th of a potion and tanning or smelting something counted as 1/10th of smithing an iron dagger. That'd be neat.

I only found one dwarven ruin, had to climb all the way up to a balcony, only to find a barred door inside... Those ruins are probably connected to a quest or something.

BUT (there is one they fear... haha), I did explore one cave full of Falmer and Chaurus, that connected to a collapsed dwarven ruin, got a quick look, then got obliterated by some giant automaton/golem/thing, in a mere second. Dwarven ruins seem suited for higher level characters :)

Don't remember the name of the cave, but I could take a look, my nord character has a save inside, I am currently focusing on my Imperial Sword and Board character, shield is so much fun, and it's so much safer than dual-wielding.