SMILEWITHSTYLE'S PROFILE

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.

author=Max McGee
Buy the perks that halve the magicka cost of your spells, and you should be pretty much golden.

I had the perks, for all my spells (novice and the one after that), but was still running out fast during combat. True my mage is only around level 9, but still having a lot of trouble.

Worst was fighting with witches. Those goddamn women came at me two at once, both casting the magicka draining Sparks. I managed to get a few spells off and hurt them a bit, and then ran out because of the constant draining. Never replenished it after that, they constantly drained me dry again and again. Then I died :)

The other time, I got them into a fight with some bandits, so they left me alone while I fired off spells at them, and luckily killed them. So I went to meet the Hagraven, only to get roasted by a single spell. Ouch.

Playing my mage is quite challenging, I will let her gather dust for a while and first concentrate on my third (probably main) character, a beautiful dual wielding nord heroine clad in heavy armor, concentrating on alchemy. I first wanted to give her light armor, but heavy armor looks better from what I can tell, and it's perks seem better too, and the perk for zero weight seems like an overkill.

Though I hate the fact that most of the armor perks only work when you are wearing the full set of armor, i.e. when I don't want to wear a helmet, I will lose most of the bonuses from perks. Annoying. Will probably set my helmet to one of the two hotkeys, and put in on during tough fights. (I still wish there was an option to "hide helmet" like in some other games, would be awesome)

Playing as a mage character is kinda challenging, since I constantly keep running out of mana, and from what I read on the net, the bonus magicka regen rate from robes and other items does NOT work during combat, which just sucks ass while playing pure mage. Even if my magicka pool gets bigger, if I can't regenerate it fast enough, this character is probably gonna have serious trouble. Kinda frustrating.... hope it is a bug and will get fixed, but until then, the mage is kinda annoying. Incredibly fun, but without the extra magicka regen.... sigh.

Or is this intended? Can anyone who is playing a mage tell me if it is such a huge problem, or if on higher levels it's fine?

Humm, funny, my PC could go through the tutorial without ANY framerate issues on medium settings, which look already better than the PS3 version, while the PS3 had quite a few framerate drops during the tutorial, and my PC is only slightly above the minimum requirements... Sigh, will probably start over on the PC, even though the mouse feels strange and laggy still, and the max volume of the PC version is incredibly low, which is a problem, because my sister listens to music and watches tv shows right behind my back. And navigating the UI, oh my gosh....

I wonder if Bethesda actually tested the PS3 version and thought "oh hey, this framerate is acceptable, people don't need a smooth game".

Gah, it seems each version has it's problems. No matter, won't keep me from playing this game for a few dozen(hundred?) hours. Still hoping for some mods/patches for the PC and PS3 to fix the most glaring problems though.

Rolling a dual-casting breton on the PC, will see if I can get used to the controls.

EDIT: Whaaa... the Y sensitivity is different from the X, and can't be changed from the flippin slow default... okay that's it, PS3 version it is :)

EDIT2: Damn you Bethesda, what have you done to the PS3 version :D
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-11-13-skyrim-triple-format-comparison-gallery-comparison-gallery

author=Craze
Turn on your quest marker and follow it. Reyda being in the dungeon was just a rumor, she's actually at the bottom of the river southeast of Ivarstead. After you get the cryptic message, go to the very first room of the dungeon - Geirund's Hall, i think - and read the book on the body of the dead adventurer in the first room (Lost Legends). That'll open up the full-on quest. (I was confused, too.)

When I turn on the quest marker, literally nothing happens, only on the main map it kinda points to the SE of Ivarstead, where the bridge to the town is. I explored under the bridge, close to the bridge, I swam through like half the "lake" around the island, and the only thing I found were a few slaughterfish eggs. I think my game is bugged, or I am REALLY missing something.

Anyways, thanks for the advice on the Geirund's Hall, I didn't notice the dead adventurer right before the hole down. Thanks.