The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim announced

Mark A · 15 Nov 2011 at 17:16

Sorry, I haven't read any of the thread as I don't want to see too many spoilers. Just wondering if I would need to have played any of the other games to play this one?

sniffy · 15 Nov 2011 at 17:18

Since getting 200% magicka regen and the fire perks within the destruction tree I'm ripping everything apart now. Bit too easy if anything!

Mark A said:
Sorry, I haven't read any of the thread as I don't want to see too many spoilers. Just wondering if I would need to have played any of the other games to play this one?

No, get stuck in

matt_fsr · 15 Nov 2011 at 17:19

LizardKing said:
Eat at least one of everything you come across (flowers/butterflys etc), to learn there affects.

Yea I only just learned this last night, after having wasted loads of ingredients at an alchemy lab trying to work out what to mix up.

Ah well, no harm done. Except my character might put on a few pounds

I'm currently playing primarily battlemage oriented, light armour with a superior Skyforge blade in right hand, and destruction/conjuration/restoration in my left.

I fancy a sneaky archer/thief build for the next character. Goodbye social life... it was nice knowing you.

CaptainRAVE · 15 Nov 2011 at 17:24

Two swords

LizardKing · 15 Nov 2011 at 17:24

SkScotchegg said:
Do you guys have this same problem? Do you think I should just skip and ignore all miscellaneous quest?

Cheers.

I've found a lot of the side quests take you far away from your current location so to see the reticle you need to zone around your map. (Getting the tree SAP is just one instance!)

Neil79 · 15 Nov 2011 at 17:26

According to the guesstimate on VGChartz, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has sold over 3.4 million copies in 48 hours, a figure which does not include digital sales. They say: "59% of units were sold on the X360 (over 2 million copies) and 27% on the PS3, with 14% on PC."

nice

Smokey Deza · 15 Nov 2011 at 17:26

Being a Vampire!

Whatever you do, be wary when evolving to stage 4. Everyone goes crazy and tries to kill you. Trying to feed on someone at this stage is quite difficult they all seem to have extra sensory hearing. I had to get naked, use an illusion spell, and jap the forward key just to get close enough to a sleeping NPC to feed. You can also walk in daylight, but you lose several points of health/magic/stamima and there not supposed to recharge, but they do if you have magical items, like magic regen etc.

Regarding the skill perks. I wouldn't put any in locksmithing. I have well over a 100 lockpicks and takes 5 max for all but the hardest locks. The only perk worth having is the treasure perk but it's too far up the tree to bother with imo.

sniffy · 15 Nov 2011 at 17:27

When you highlight a quest within your journal you can press M to show its location on the map.

Neil79 said:
nice

That is nice

They deserve to be filthy rich for the stuff they knock out!

Neil79 · 15 Nov 2011 at 17:27

sniffy said:
When you highlight a quest within your journal you can press M to show its location on the map.

Good tip thanks

SkScotchegg · 15 Nov 2011 at 17:28

Some more questions if you please!

Killing Blows:
Sometimes I've shot my bow or used an axe and got a killing blow, and sometimes mobs kills me with a killing blow, this seems to happen more when either they or myself are on lower health? How does this work, does the system just role the dice and it does it on its own? So kind of just luck, no skill involved?

Poison:
I had a poison potion and it let me apply it to my bow, was that just on my bow for the first shot from one single arrow or several arrows? Or does it last a spacific amount of time? I read the description but it didnt really say?

Duel casting Spells:
Does the duel casting ability work on any spells? like fire+healing or fire+frost or does it have to be frost+frost or fire+fire

Horses:
When my Horse gets killed do I have to buy a new one each time or will it respawn like my companion?

Companion:
I got my first companion, lydia I think is her name, and she's a div, she blocks me in small coridoors in dungeons which is annoying and always stand in the wrong place when am trying to shoot my bow, but anyways...when I speak to her I've never pressed any of the options, but one of them says "I need you to do something for me", what does that option do? The reason I didn't try out any of the options yet is because I didn't want her to dissapear as I like her to tank giants for me, not that she last long, but it lets me go behind him and do some damage from behind, lol, that sounds gay, but you know what I mean haha.

Thanks in advance.

Calabi · 15 Nov 2011 at 17:31

SkScotchegg said:
When I've got stuck on the main quest I've been able to google search or post here. And now I've also got a spell which points you in the direction of your main quest objective which is handy (they copied that from Dead Space haha)...but the quest that I strugle with are the little miscellaneous quest, I have about 15 miscellaneous quest and I thought I'd like to complete them all but for most of them it doesnt show where to go on map like it does for other quest. And when I've done google searches I only find answers for main quest, not for miscellaneous quest, and every town I enter I usually do round talking to everyone, exloring and going into houses...

But it's like person A says to go speak to person B or go find a sword and bring it back to him and I never know where the sword is or where the person is. I think they should have made the game easier in that sense. It's very hard for people like me that havent really played these sort of games before.

Do you guys have this same problem? Do you think I should just skip and ignore all miscellaneous quest?

Cheers.

Clairvoyance works on any activated quest. It should work, but its not always a hundred percent as I had it leading me in the opposite direction once.

LeJosh · 15 Nov 2011 at 17:32

SkScotchegg said:
Some more questions if you please!

Killing Blows:
Sometimes I've shot my bow or used an axe and got a killing blow, and sometimes mobs kills me with a killing blow, this seems to happen more when either they or myself are on lower health? How does this work, does the system just role the dice and it does it on its own? So kind of just luck, no skill involved?

Poison:
I had a poison potion and it let me apply it to my bow, was that just on my bow for the first shot from one single arrow or several arrows? Or does it last a spacific amount of time? I read the description but it didnt really say?

Duel casting Spells:
Does the duel casting ability work on any spells? like fire+healing or fire+frost or does it have to be frost+frost or fire+fire

Horses:
When my Horse gets killed do I have to buy a new one each time or will it respawn like my companion?

Companion:
I got my first companion, lydia I think is her name, and she's a div, she blocks me in small coridoors in dungeons which is annoying and always stand in the wrong place when am trying to shoot my bow, but anyways...when I speak to her I've never pressed any of the options, but one of them says "I need you to do something for me", what does that option do? The reason I didn't try out any of the options yet is because I didn't want her to dissapear as I like her to tank giants for me, not that she last long, but it lets me go behind him and do some damage from behind, lol, that sounds gay, but you know what I mean haha.

Thanks in advance.

Killing blows seem to be random for me at least. I've died a few times to them.

Poisons are one use only I've also found, same as oblivion. I don't think every arrow gets tipped with the poison.

Dual spells can be cast seperately. I've used Frost and Flame for both hands, it's very cool. And I had Healing and flames at one point, very useful.

I have no idea about companions in this game but generally they're just meat.

ChrisJSY · 15 Nov 2011 at 17:32

SkScotchegg said:
Duel casting Spells:
Does the duel casting ability work on any spells? like fire+healing or fire+frost or does it have to be frost+frost or fire+fire

You can use fire and frost, however if you want a more powerful version of one you need to have it in both hands, also you need "Dual Casting" in the destruction tree to make it into a more powerful version.
Instead of fire coming out of both hands seperately, it forms into one beam.

Respective spells Illusion/Conjur etc have their own Dual Casting perk you need to upgrade.

Smokey Deza · 15 Nov 2011 at 17:34

Poison acts like soul gems afaik where you get a number of charges. Maybe there's is a grey bar above your stamina bar?
Dual casting only works same type.
The option 'I need you to do something' gives you the option to direct your companion to a specific position. Like if you have an archer and want a good vantage point for

JHeaton · 15 Nov 2011 at 17:38

SkScotchegg said:
Companion:
I got my first companion, lydia I think is her name, and she's a div, she blocks me in small coridoors in dungeons which is annoying and always stand in the wrong place when am trying to shoot my bow, but anyways...when I speak to her I've never pressed any of the options, but one of them says "I need you to do something for me", what does that option do? The reason I didn't try out any of the options yet is because I didn't want her to dissapear as I like her to tank giants for me, not that she last long, but it lets me go behind him and do some damage from behind, lol, that sounds gay, but you know what I mean haha.

Thanks in advance.

You can tell them to wait somewhere, attack a specific target, search bodies/chests etc.

Ripcord · 15 Nov 2011 at 17:38

sniffy said:
When you highlight a quest within your journal you can press M to show its location on the map.

Very nice tip, thanks for that.

just Scott · 15 Nov 2011 at 17:42

Can anyone explain what the Azura's Star actually does? I can't figure it out. (I gave it to Aranea, btw)

Craig1981 · 15 Nov 2011 at 17:42

If I tell Lydia that its time for us to part company, what happens to her? Does she go back to the Yarls palace and would I be able to take her back as my companion? Also would you still have all the stuff I gave her to carry?

just Scott · 15 Nov 2011 at 17:44

Craig1981 said:
If I tell Lydia that its time for us to part company, what happens to her? Does she go back to the Yarls palace and would I be able to take her back as my companion? Also would you still have all the stuff I gave her to carry?

Yes she goes back to Dragonreach. Also, if you buy a house in Winterfell she starts living there. She keeps your stuff too.

SkScotchegg · 15 Nov 2011 at 17:44

JHeaton said:
You can tell them to wait somewhere, attack a specific target, search bodies/chests etc.

Smokey Deza said:
Poison acts like soul gems afaik where you get a number of charges. Maybe there's is a grey bar above your stamina bar?
Dual casting only works same type.
The option 'I need you to do something' gives you the option to direct your companion to a specific position. Like if you have an archer and want a good vantage point for

ChrisJSY said:
You can use fire and frost, however if you want a more powerful version of one you need to have it in both hands, also you need "Dual Casting" in the destruction tree to make it into a more powerful version.
Instead of fire coming out of both hands seperately, it forms into one beam.

Respective spells Illusion/Conjur etc have their own Dual Casting perk you need to upgrade.

LeJosh said:
Killing blows seem to be random for me at least. I've died a few times to them.

Poisons are one use only I've also found, same as oblivion. I don't think every arrow gets tipped with the poison.

Dual spells can be cast seperately. I've used Frost and Flame for both hands, it's very cool. And I had Healing and flames at one point, very useful.

I have no idea about companions in this game but generally they're just meat.

Calabi said:
Clairvoyance works on any activated quest. It should work, but its not always a hundred percent as I had it leading me in the opposite direction once.

Thanks for your replies, the only question you didnt answer was about the horse, do I have to buy a new one for 1000k every single time it dies?

Cheers.