So Fish, you just carry your arrows all the time so you don’t need to waste a hotkey for them?
Those who are trying the mod: let us know what you think. I haven’t gotten far enough to pick up the amulet to open the mod.
I haven’t yet had a reason to unequip my arrows, yeah, so I wear 'em all the time. Since I have a whole buncha characters who are all levels 1 and 2 I haven’t found a variety of arrows I’d need to swap in and out, or anything else you’d need to wear in place of a quiver, so… I haven’t run into any reason to change my arrow-wearing tactics.
Why do you ask?
I mean, are you asking because I’m doing something stupid by wearing the same arrows everywhere? Or because you have been unequipping them and wonder if you need to do so?
Yep. D’oh :smack: 'cause I’m stoopid.
I keep seeing invisibility as a potion option, and it’s listed in the manual. However, I’ve been unable to locate it as a spell, I’ve checked every mages guild that I know about (and I’m Arch-Mage, so they’d better not be hiding any from me!).
Anyone know where it can be obtained, or is it NPC-only? My illusion stinks, so I’d need a low-level one, but I think I could learn a high-level one and spellmake a lower one.
Reporting back, now that I’ve had a little time to play on my new system. Despite all the alarm on TES forums, my 7900GTX is performing wonderfully on my new system. So you were right, Athena; any glitches were likely unrelated to the card itself. I’m playing at 1280 resolution (native to my monitor), HDR enabled, grass shadows off, Vsynch off (needlessly slowing frame rate), specular lighting turned off ingame, card set to Highest Quality. I’m getting great framerates, and the world is gorgeous!! I sort of wish the environments were more fantastical, which is what I loved in FFXI, but I’ve got a lot of world to see yet. I’m a happy camper at last. I’m playing a dark elf male Lifetaker custom class as presented in the Game Guide.
Btw, the game doesn’t recognize the 7900 series cards, so it set you at medium by default. Just up the video options and all works well.
Minimum skill needed for invis that I’ve seen is 50. I think I got the spell in that city NW of leyawin… B-something, at the mages guild.
I forgot to mention that I’m also running this using the fantastic LOD replacement mods recommended in tweakguides.com (distant landscapes replaced with improved high-resolution ones).
I can pretty safely say that there isn’t a single flower remaining in the city of Skingrad and surrounds, and that the tomato and grape crops are pretty much in my backpack. I don’t know what it is, but I can’t stop harvesting. When I stroll in the woods I lose time and direction following every spot of color that might be something of use. I wish there were a Harvesting skill I could be improving. The harvesting mod vanishes the flower or fruit when picked, making it much easier to know where I’ve already harvested. And the lighten ingredients mod is very helpful, and makes hoarding ingredients much more feasible.
The up side is that I can sell the novice potions I make for more gold than selling the ingredients. If I could only remember to use them in battle…
I’m doing the Nirnroot quests, the largest in the game, according to the guide.
Hi, I’m brightpenny and I’m an alchemyholic.
At the moment my Alchemy skills are pretty low, so there’s not a heck of a lot I can make that’s any use. I’m better off using the Weak Potions of Healing I find and selling the poor potions I make.
The only exception is poison; it’s nice to be able to mix up a poison, dab it on a weapon, and fire away from stealth.
Your potions will improve in quality as you make more of them and your Alchemy skill improves; you’ll also be able to buy better equipment.
At level 15, my highest skill is Alchemy – I’m an Expert in it now, with a skill of 77. I just had one of the NPCs suggest to me, as I was standing around in the Bruma Fighter’s Guild, “How about mixing up some potions? You look like quite the alchemist!”
Fortunately, it’s a minor skill for me, so I’m not leveling too fast.
I hate all of you.
If I’m lucky, there’s a small chance that I’ll get my system back by Friday. Chances are it will be sometime next week though.
My alchemy was at expert level by like level 12 or something. It levelled me way too fast. It’s a cool skill, but if you just make every potion you can, and sell the extras like I did, if you take it as a primary skill you’re going to have crappy stat bonuses because you level too fast.
On all new characters, I still use alchemy a lot, but don’t take it as a primary - now I’m pretty much guaranteed a +5 int bonus, and it doesn’t level me that fast.
Well, thanks to a particularly nasty hard drive corruption, and piss-poor backup procedures, I’m back to the start.
So, to try something different, I’m going with a dark elf jack-of-all-trades. Levelling should be fairly slow (I will probably buy a few levels). Every time I do level, though, I should get some good stat bonuses. The only major skills getting use regularly are marksman and athletics, two relatively slow skills.
I do love that someone put out a save game at the end of the sewers. Last thing I need is to go through that tutorial yet again.
That’s what my character is, in it for the long game. Alchemy is only a minor skill so I don’t level too fast.
My marksman skill is hard to use, just exploring around. Deer move too fast and everything else just attacks me from behind while I’m picking flowers. I don’t want to use a trainer, but I’d like to find a way to use my marksman skills more, out in the wild.
I stole a couple of things. Can I wear them publicly without getting arrested? Can I sell them without doing Thief quests?
If you gather food from barrels, plates, and crops, you can make lots of restore fatigue potions. If you use a calcinator with it, you can sell them for about 12 gold each. I made 500 gold pretty fast selling baby potions.
I buy and sell everything one piece at a time. I’m assuming it’ll help me increase my mercantile skill and make the npc happy.
Yes to #1, no to # 2, in my experience.
What’s the bug here? I did that quest on the 360 and haven’t noticed a problem. Am I missing something?
Is that what you do with the negative power potions??? I am such an idiot!!! I always figured they were just a downside to alchemy - as in “Be careful what you mix up, you might add some drain health to that potion.” Damnit!! Now I’ve got to sit here at work for 7 more hours before I can go home!
I have nearly finished my first hand-made quest, The Storyteller’s Brother. It even has voice acting, from a very talented member of the Oblivion Voice Actors Guild. I’ll post a link when I have it ready. Still working on importing the audio.
This isn’t exactly relevant, but I was seriously blown away by how good my voice actor is. What made it all the more interesting was that I’ve reviewed two adventure games in the last two weeks, both of which had at least some voice acting that was significantly worse than what this guy did for me, for free. And in one of the games, CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder, all the bad voice acting came from the stars of the television show.
So here we have multimillion dollar actors who’ve been regulars on a TV show for, what, five years, who did a worse job playing characters with which they were intimately familiar than a volunteer modder for a computer game working out of his home with nothing but a computer and a microphone.
Basically if you get the Ring of Burden quest, and dont do it within 3 days, the body and ring in the well disappear. Without that, you cant complete the mage quests, and you wont be able to get into the arcane university. It really sucked for me because I got the quest at like lvl4…went back around lvl9 to try and complete it, and couldn’t do anything. So I started over…
BTW…I just finished the Vampire Cure quest, and holy cow what a freakin pain. If you get bitten, get to a temple, or a potion, fast!!
I use the bow to sneak attack often. Shoot, retreat, change weapons. Other times, I’ll just run circles around a slap while pelting the ineffective zombie.
My main skills, from memory, are Marksman, Heavy Armor, Restoration, Security, Illusion, Athletics, and Mercantile. None of these rise fast. The skills I use most are Sneak, Marksman, Athletics, Blade, Light Armor, Speechcraft, Alchemy, and Armorer. I will be very personable, intelligent, strong, and speedy. Willpower, however, will be an issue.
Yes and no, respectively.
It worked that way in Morrowind. I think they tweaked that for Oblivion, but I’m not 100% sure. It does help disposition, though.
Ah thanks - that really sucks. I did it immediately (I think) so I didn’t run into that problem.
Another one to watch out for is the one where an Aragonian shopkeeper wants you to go to a town to rescue her daughter. If you do the quest, the shopkeeper gives you something to boost your mercantile (its a book or maybe just an insta-boost, I can’t remember. It is NOT an article of clothing that could be removed). Ever since, my mercantile has been frozen and I can’t get it to go up no matter how much I buy and sell.