Skyrim - The Elder Scrolls V

[DaemonDD]

@illram:

Spoiler :

The best thing about the task is that it makes you look all over the world to become a dragon priest hunter of a sort. I had loads of fun trying to find them personally.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Here is my 36 level Barbarian:
magika: 100
heath: 431
stamina: 240

Weapons most used:

Epic Elven battle ax: 127 damage; +13 health absorb when strikes foe
Flawless Ebony two handed sword: 123 damage; soul trap
Flawless Plate armor: 126 armor rating;+34 health
Exquisite Ebony gauntlets: 50 armor rating; +30 to two handed attacks
Flawless Ebony helmet; 65 armor rating
Exquisite plate boots: 45 armor rating; +19% to two handed attacks
Necklace of mending: +30 to health regeneration rate
Ring of Recuperation: +20% to stamina regeneration rate

Armor rating: 286

My only ranged weapons are my shouts. I have a great companion in Mercurio who uses his magic, his bow and his war hammer as appropriate. I use lots of potions to stay alive. I am struggling with the Sacellum of Boethiah. I do not want to lose Mercurio, so rather than sacrifice him, I am trying to kill the warriors at the entrance to the site. I rarely last more than 15 seconds no matter what I do. Shouts, poisons, health potions, etc, nothing seems to work to even slow them down in their destructiveness.


Kills:
People: 588
Animals: 268
Creatures: 85
Daedra: 6

 

[Birdjaguar]

Skill Levels:

Alchemy: 35
Illusion: 17
Conjuration: 17
Destruction: 17
Restoration: 21
Alteration: 17
Enchanting: 73
Smithing: 90
Heavy Armor: 78
Block: 25
Two handed: 91
One handed: 25
Archery: 18
Light armor: 40 [paid training]
Sneak: 49 [by sneaking a lot]
Lock picking: 55 [practice]
Pick pocket: 17
Speech: 55 [practice and training]

In smithing I have the following: (shown with white letters in the game)

Steel smithing
Arcane blacksmithing
Elven smithing
Dwarven smithing
Orchish smithing
Advanced armors

The following are grey lettered and i cannot select any of them even though i have 2 perks available and a level 90:

Glass 70 level required
Dragon 100 level required
Daedric 90 level required
Ebony 80 level required

Is there some other skill necessary to select them? I can upgrade ebony items (and I think glass too)

 

[GenMarshall]

I've managed to get 100 in sneak. But that's largely due to having a ninjutsu built character...

Spoiler :

...and a special help from the Oghma Infinium to give the boost in thief based skills

 

[illram]

Here is my 36 level Barbarian:
magika: 100
heath: 431
stamina: 240

Weapons most used:

Epic Elven battle ax: 127 damage; +13 health absorb when strikes foe
Flawless Ebony two handed sword: 123 damage; soul trap
Flawless Plate armor: 126 armor rating;+34 health
Exquisite Ebony gauntlets: 50 armor rating; +30 to two handed attacks
Flawless Ebony helmet; 65 armor rating
Exquisite plate boots: 45 armor rating; +19% to two handed attacks
Necklace of mending: +30 to health regeneration rate
Ring of Recuperation: +20% to stamina regeneration rate

Armor rating: 286

My only ranged weapons are my shouts. I have a great companion in Mercurio who uses his magic, his bow and his war hammer as appropriate. I use lots of potions to stay alive. I am struggling with the Sacellum of Boethiah. I do not want to lose Mercurio, so rather than sacrifice him, I am trying to kill the warriors at the entrance to the site. I rarely last more than 15 seconds no matter what I do. Shouts, poisons, health potions, etc, nothing seems to work to even slow them down in their destructiveness.


Kills:
People: 588
Animals: 268
Creatures: 85
Daedra: 6

Hire a mercenary for the sacrifice. I regret killing one of the mage's college dudes, because afterwards I discovered they make great companions since they use conjuration. I naively thought "oh, mage companions, they must be weak I'll just use one of them..." D'oh! Some Arch-Mage I am...

Spoiler :

But you still have to kill everyone after.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Hire a mercenary for the sacrifice. I regret killing one of the mage's college dudes, because afterwards I discovered they make great companions since they use conjuration. I naively thought "oh, mage companions, they must be weak I'll just use one of them..." D'oh! Some Arch-Mage I am...

Spoiler :

But you still have to kill everyone after.

I have a mercenary and i don't want to lose him. I don't seem to be able to hire another while he is around. Could I park him some where and then get another for sacrifice and then go and retrieve my Mercurio?

 

[PeteAtoms]

I have a mercenary and i don't want to lose him. I don't seem to be able to hire another while he is around. Could I park him some where and then get another for sacrifice and then go and retrieve my Mercurio?

I've never heard of the Mercurio character, but most followers will return to the location that you originally hired them when you dismiss them. It's easy enough to go back and rehire them.

I was toting around Lydia at the time, dismissed her back to the house in Whiterun, and hired Jenassa from the Drunken Huntsman (Whiterun) for the sacrifice.

 

[DaemonDD]

I just recently lost my witch-companion (a magician based on ice-magic and such) and kind of felt bad because of her background. Then I remembered how annoying she was all the time (especially in dungeons' hallways) and I then celebrated by killing one of those snobbish noble people you come across while travelling.

 

[salty mud]

I just recently lost my witch-companion (a magician based on ice-magic and such) and kind of felt bad because of her background. Then I remembered how annoying she was all the time (especially in dungeons' hallways) and I then celebrated by killing one of those snobbish noble people you come across while travelling.

 

[Methos]

I learned an interesting tidbit today. If some NPC's are fighting a dragon with you and you leave prior to the dragon dying and then come back later, even if its a day later, you will still absorb the dragon soul if the NPC's kill it.

I was fighting a dragon at the College of Winterhold and the stupid thing wouldn't drop below half hit points for some reason. I got annoyed and bored, so I just left. I came back a day or so later and as I'm walking into the college I start getting the magical spinning graphics around me. At the time I thought I'd set off a trap or something, but nope, it popped up saying dragon soul absorbed. Odd, but good to know.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Well, you are currenty the only guy in Skyrim (probably even Tamriel) who can absorb dragon souls. Dragon bodies stay for quite a bit.

 

[illram]

I killed a dragon and nothing happened the other day. It was weird. I presume it was a bug--it was a dragon that re-appeared at one of those dragon-perch spots I had cleared ages ago. Luckily no one other than my companion was around to witness this scandalous evidence against my alleged dragonborn-ness.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Pete, I posted my smithing tree....

 

[illram]

If you have the perk before the other perk in the chain that you want, and you have the requisite skill level, you should be able to select it. ??? If you click on it, nothing happens?

 

[Birdjaguar]

If you have the perk before the other perk in the chain that you want, and you have the requisite skill level, you should be able to select it. ??? If you click on it, nothing happens?

The situation seems to have righted itself. I had been getting a "nothing happens" when I clicked on the desired skill, but after some intensive smithing and leveling up twice (adding new perks), I could add the new smithing options. ???

Which side should I join in the civil war? Does one path provide a more challenging path?

 

[Arakhor]

Well, if you take the Stormcloak option, you're only really fighting for Ulric. Fighting to destroy Talos' Empire, supposedly in the name of Talos, and then leaving Skyrim alone to fall to the Thalmor is not what anyone can call a successful outcome.

 

[illram]

I have no idea what side is harder, I would assume they are actually both just the same quests, but different sides. The quests themselves are pretty interchangeable, you'll see what I mean when you play them.

Personally, as a Dark Elf character, I could not in good conscious fight for Ulfric, since he is basically a total racist.

 

[salty mud]

It took me a bit of my willpower to play for the Stormcloaks as an Argonian... but I'd previously done the Empire's storyline so I had to do it.

 

[KaiserElectric]

I have no idea what side is harder, I would assume they are actually both just the same quests, but different sides. The quests themselves are pretty interchangeable, you'll see what I mean when you play them.

Personally, as a Dark Elf character, I could not in good conscious fight for Ulfric, since he is basically a total racist.

It's justifiable if your character hates the Empire more than he hates Ulfric. The lesser of two evils, per say.

Personally, I would have loved to be able to fight with the Thalmor and take Skyrim for the Aldmeri Dominion.

 

[Birdjaguar]

What is the battle for whiterun quest?