You need more scales than bones, IIRC. The Dragonscale all upgrades using scales, while the Heavy Dragonbone needs mostly bones but a few scales.
Now I can’t tell if you guys are advising me to go back or not, since I have no idea how many more opportunities I’ll have to collect them in the future.
Potentially infinite opportunities. Don’t worry.
I’m wearing a full set of Dragonplate, and my faithful wizard companion is decked out in a full set of Dragonscale. And *damn *but are those armor sets butt-ugly. I’m very tempted to downgrade to Ebony or Daedric just so I feel presentable.
I actually like the look of dragonscale, though if I’m going for straight aesthetics I’d go with the Nightblade armor for the coolest assassin type armor…and the daedric for the coolest heavy plate (it’s just bad ass, though I don’t even have a set for me since I’m a light armor guy). I wish I could craft assassin armor though, since I could really ramp it up with my smithing and enchanting perks.
-XT
The dragonscale is ok, but the helmet seems really huge on my slender elf neck. Lydia, on the other hand, looks like she’s dressed up in a costume that was made out of those foam band-aids, but I really like her dragonplate helmet.
I don’t care for Daedric aesthetically myself. I downgraded all the way to Ancient Nord with my current character (straight melee warrior). With 4 pieces of +25% crafting gear and a bunch of heavy armor perks, almost any heavy armor is good enough.
Once you can smith and have all the perks (plus maybe some items and potions to further enhance your skills) you can make just about any armor into a kick ass set. Especially if you have enchant as well (being able to put multiple enchants on each piece of gear just puts stuff over the top, especially if you’ve collected the best enchants out there).
-XT
I’m hoping a mod will replace standard dragon armor with a non-hideous version.
At least heavy armour wearers have plenty boss-looking options to choose from, whether it’s legion armour, draugr, orcish or my fave, ebony (seriously, Ebony looks like liquid awesome. The 1h ebony axes are seven shades of cool as well).
Light armour… not so much. Dark Brotherhood armour looks like pajamas, thieves guild is OK but weak, and as for the standard armour types scale is ugggh, elven is plain bad and glass… it’s OK I guess, but it looks a bit too anime for my tastes. I like the light legion armour, but again since it’s just leather it’s hard to get proper defense out of it without completely breaking the crafting system.
Thanks for your answers. I guess I missed the quest, but it seems that the DB members are killable, so I’ll just kill them for the sake of it.
And yes, you can make the unkillable NPC killable. I’m still a bit reluctant to try, since I’m affraid it could crash my game.
I am late to the party (all copies sold out within a few weeks here) and am wondering if I need the official guide to get the best out of the game.
I don’t think so - I’m far from a hardcore gamer and I managed to “complete” it (that is finish the main quest line and achieve a state where I’m able to do anything I want to in the game world). If you’re familiar with other Bethesda titles (more the Fallout 3 series than previous Elder Scrolls games) then you’ll be fine. If you’ve played other RPGs you’ll probably be fine too.
About the leveling of followers : I discovered a weird thing : followers you have recruited seem to level up when they aren’t following you, and not level up when they do.
For instance, I alternate between several followers. Around level 20-25, I was playing with “Erik the slayer”. Before leaving him, I “updated” him by using the enable/disable command on the console.
Much later, I’m followed by Lydia. I leave her at level 40, “update” her, and take again Erik the Slayer. At level 45, I discover the “getlevel” command, check Erik. He’s level 40. Checking again at level 46, he’s still level 40. I then go back to Whiterun, see Lydia and check her : she’s level 46. Note that I hadn’t re-recruited her when I checked, so the update isn’t done upon recruitment.
So it seems that both Erik and Lydia leveled up after we “parted way” to keep up with me (repectively from level 25 to 40 and from level 40 to 46) but not when actually following me.
I’m yet to check a NPC I never recruited. I’ll try to check one to see if they really stay stuck at the level I was when I first entered the area or not.
I bought the guide, mostly just to flip through when away from the game. This thread, the wiki and a downloaded map in PDF form are what I use while playing the game. No, the guide isn’t necessary IMO if you have internet access.
I download important tables from the wiki like all Dragon Shouts, and put them into a Word document so that I can highlight the ones I have for my current character. Keeps me from marking up my guide and lets me see if I should conserve resources like dragon souls or perks for later. I’ve got my future perks mapped out to about level 50, so I don’t waste them on ones I won’t use.
The guide taught me a few things, like you can only enchant necklaces with Fortify Barter (not an entire outfit of clothing), but by this point I’m sure that info is on a table on the wiki by now.
That’s been true ever since there was a GameFAQs, and is even more true nowadays that every big game has one or more wikis dedicated to it. I’m amazed that game guide publishers still manage to sell paper in this day and age. Especially considering that 90% of the time, the info in them is based on early betas and outdated by the time the game is published :/.
Thanks clairobscur. I had to bench my first follower last night after dragging her through a level 25 dungeon. I didn’t have the heart to let her die in there, but she was out of her league for most of the fights. Luckily for both of us the game lets you shoot and cast through gates, so we tactically repositioned/ran away to an earlier part, closed an iron gate I had opened and mostly let my conjured atronarch kill the dungeon boss. Effective but boring. I’ll try out another follower, but only stick with them for a few levels based on your info, rather than 20 levels like I did with my first follower. I gave her upgraded armor and weapons, but there’s not much I could do to increase her health or stamina.
She did drink restore health potions, but I don’t think she drank any fortify potions I put in her kit. Maybe I’ll only put potions that do both in my next follower’s inventory.
Is there any mod that can reveal locations I haven’t visited yet?Something like the Fallout 3 perk that allowed you to see locations marked on your map even though you hadn’t visited them yet.
I’d like to go to more places I haven’t visited but systematically going through every part of Skyrim to find them would be too much like work.
Doesn’t the map shows places you have been to with a “Clear” ?
I’m not talking about the ones I haven’t cleared but the ones I haven’t visited. That is, the ones that appear black in your radar but don’t show up on your map.