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The (fake?) Scottish voice actors are probably easier to find. Scottish vikings aren’t without some history though: Orcadians.
I’m now at the point where I’m given the option to become a werewolf. I know that changing form in front of townsfolk, guards, or others that you like is bad form. But what if I have a hired mercenary or other companion like a housecarl? Will they freak out if I change form, or are they loyal to me in any form?
Someone upthread said they’d tested it with the housecarl and she stayed loyal, though she did express shock.
I experienced my first game breaking bug. I’m at the end of the Thieves Guild quest line and I’m supposed listen to someone speak then talk to someone else. Problem is the person I’m supposed to listen to doesn’t say anything and then they both disappear. This leaves me stuck in a room because I need to talk to that person before I can leave.
I spent much of today obsessively grinding magic skills, so I’m gaining a lot of levels. At level 61 I noticed a lot of ebony weapons showing up in a crypt I was clearing. The gear scaling seems a bit much, doesn’t it? I also see a lot of ebony gear offered by merchants, but I’ve only seen a few daedric arrows from that fletcher in Solitude, and a magic daedric bow from a thieves’ guild fence. Otherwise all of the daedric gear has been made by me. Still weird to see a roadside thief try to rob me while wearing glass armor. It’s still not at the level that Oblivion did it, though.
Not too much of a grind, though. Smithing goes up super fast. Stored a bunch of stuff and went from 16 to 45 in about five minutes, including the time it took me to find a smelter. Could have easily gone up more but I ran out of stuff and didn’t want to buy it. I guess it’s about 1,000 times less grindy than Morrowind crafting (enchant especially) so I barely noticed. Keyboard shortcuts help a lot (hammer E then Y a bunch of times, sell whole stack, it takes about 5 seconds to make and dispose of a ton of hide bracers or iron daggers).
If you still hate it, you could consider hiring a trainer. You’re not forced to do it.
Ok, I just got my smithing up above 80 and crafted myself a full set of Ebony Armor. And I gotta say, my character is looking pretty badass.
Can’t wait until I can do daedric! Although I don’t want too much spoiler, where the hell does daedric come from anyway?
Get back to me after grinding enchanting. It’s a lot worse than smithing (thanks largely to the lovely UI).
My point was that it sucks compared to traditional experience systems, not that it’s some kind of unbearable burden.
Grinding smithing is pretty easy, because it goes at a fairly quick rate with just iron gear. When you see iron ore and ingots for sale, buy them. When you see filled petty and lesser soul gems for sale, buy them. Turn iron into gear for smithing skill-ups, enchant with cheap soul gems for enchanting skill-ups, sell for speechcraft skill-ups. If you’re spending the perks (IMO worth it for the insanely upgraded daedric armor at max skill), you can turn a big profit on orcish and possibly also dwarven armor at low speechcraft. In hindsight, I wish I had been more diligent about leveling enchanting with smithing, and more diligent about going to trainers for to train those pain-in-the-ass-to-level skills.
Crafting gets such crazy synergy and feedback at high levels. Brew potion to boost enchanting skill, use to enchant helm gloves and jewelry to boost alchemy skill, brew better enchanting-boosting potions. Enchant gear to give bonus to smithing, and brew smithing-boosting potion. Make gear three times as good as normal. (Remember, buy every single daedra heart you see for sale. You need one for each piece of daedric gear.)
Seriously, my armor rating is around 1100. I was fighting some bandits yesterday, and it was like something out of Looney Tunes where the plucky hero hits the big burly dude with a giant mallet, but the burly dude doesn’t even flich. I had been doing sword-and-board for most of the game, but then realized that it’s kind of unnecessary. My armor is enchanted so that I’m cheesy-good at sneaking and pickpocketing (and with the aforementioned free destruction spells), and I can brew potions that give 97% fire, frost, and/or shock resistance. The damnedest thing is that my combat skills are still kinda sucky.
How doe sit work with ore? Can one mine it or does one have to buy it from stores? I’ve been picking up ingots here and there and just fiddling with making stuff, but as a caster I haven’t really been going in for mad armour.
Actually, can I disenchant the robes I have with Magika renewal and thus enchant light armour with the same enchant? Is there a down side to doing that?
I noticed that sometimes, when you success in some action, there’s a small pop-up in the lower right corner of the screen. For instance, the first time you cut wood, you’re noted as an “hard worker”.
However, I can’t find anywhere the list of these achievments, nor do I know what consequences they bring, if any. Does anybody have a clue?
You can buy ore from smiths, or find it in mines (for instance, iron appears as red, silver as gleaming white, etc…). Veins aren’t obvious to notice if you’re not looking for them. Then, you need a furnace (?, not sure of the english name), that some smiths own to turn it into ingots.
ETA : you will need a pickaxe to extrract ore from mines. Veins appear on the walls.
Normally yes, but I’m not 100% positive because I noticed that some robes can’t be disanchanted at all (not being much into magic with my character, I didn’t pay much attention to robes). Save, test, and reload if needed.
On a related note, what purpose serves cut wood?
Another question, about Steam (even though I bought a number of games from them, I didn’t really try to figure out how it worked).
A poster stated that you could play offline. I never tried. And two days ago, I did. I was playing, while connected, left with my laptop and was perfectly able to keep playing. However, the next day, I tried again to play while offline (this time, I hadn’t been playing previously), without success. The computer tried to connect to Steam, obviously failed, and the game wouldn’t launch. I was also unable to find the files on my computer.
Could someone help and explain to me what’s the issue, and, more generally, how Steam works?
It’s used to upgrade wooden shields, hence it is completely useless for 99.5% of the game. Although a good way to make money in the beginning is to make a few dozen and sell to the foremen at the sawmills for 5 gold a piece (I honestly couldn’t tell you why they would need to buy kindling from adventurers when they are standing in a huge sawmill, but maybe it’s subsidized by the Nordic Department of Labour or something).
By the way, does anyone know if it’s possible to find out who has put a contract out on your life? I was attacked by a luckily inept assassin who had a note on him saying someone wanted me dead, but frankly that could be just about anybody so that’s not much to go on.
Thanks. I found a mine yesterday so I think I’m going to give that a go.
In other news, I was confused by my rapidly dwindling amount of free weight for loot. I finally tracked it down to all the potions I’ve picked up. They really build up after a while, don’t they? I had about seventy health ones on me alone …
Smelter; the blacksmith in Whiterun has one.
Can someone remind my how to get to Black Reach (or is it Blackreach)? I want to continue the quest to look for the plants down there, but I can’t recall which ruins had the elevators to the place. No luck with Google.
They’re in the STEAM menu for the game.
Well, I got it. Started playing and decided I wanted to do something differently. I *love * smithing for some reason, and really want those bonuses
I am curious as to whether it matters if I go “right” or “left” on the Smithing tree. This new character would prefer light armor, and I’m curious as to whether it matters. I know that while it looks like a circle, you can’t go past Dragon is coming from the right, and presumably Daedric if soming from the left. The endgame difference between glass and daedric weaponry is pretty minimal anyway. I do wonder about upgrading what I find, since perhaps some of the powerful endgame gear is Daedric.