The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim announced

"As we heard last year, however, these add-ons will be released exclusively on the Xbox 360 and, after a certain period, will make their way onto the PC and PlayStation 3 platforms."

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voorhees1979 said:
"As we heard last year, however, these add-ons will be released exclusively on the Xbox 360 and, after a certain period, will make their way onto the PC and PlayStation 3 platforms."

Sucks
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Meh, just means they're on MSs payroll thats all. If you were torn between PC and a console for this game you'd be an idiot to pick anything but the pc version purely for the mod support. The prospect of official DLC on xbox is hardly going to tip the balance. Don't really see the point, the game is gigantic so unless the DLC is more than just piecemeal its not exactly gonna be an urgent purchase.

From that thread it sounds like the re-introduction of crossbows is likely which should be good. Bit of variety in ranged combat.
 
Evilsod said:
... Also started spamming random enchantments on everything so I keep going to the shop loaded with Boots of Sneaking and Absorb Health weapons.
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Banish i think is the best one to enchant. you get minted pretty quickly... if you find wealthy enough merchants that is...:rolleyes:
You can always install the Dark Brotherhood Tower/Outfit and the traders there seem to have much more coin...
 
xxShinobixx said:
Banish i think is the best one to enchant. you get minted pretty quickly... if you find wealthy enough merchants that is...:rolleyes:
You can always install the Dark Brotherhood Tower/Outfit and the traders there seem to have much more coin...
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Aye I know, but the only time a merchant had it for sale it was about 8k which was WAY out of my price range at the time. Finally got hold of it earlier (30% better prices from dragon mask/amulet is nice) for just over 3k, followed by using up a bunch of my petty gems on Banish to add 800 to a load of weapons value.

Tbh there really isn't much issue with merchants not having enough cash unless you are just never buying anything. Later on it becomes a bit limiting but its not too serious. I've been picking up every single item of clothing (Boots, Gloves, Hats, etc) for enchanting purposes because you can sell them to magic merchants. Handy when you visit them, clean them out of empty soul gems, buy training which costs you an arm and a leg, then sell them back a bunch of enchanted clothes and jewellery.
Whiterun is great anyway. You have a magic/clothing trader (Farangar), a general goods trader, an alchemist (handy for training alchemy, then selling a bunch of high value potions to get it all back) and 3 weapons merchants, 2 of which generally have over 1000 gold.

Given that I'm now almost lvl40 I may just cheat and add the Master Trader perk to add 1k gold to all shops because while its not much of a problem, they should really have more gold at this stage in the game.
 
I don't know how people manage to have so much money in the game tbh. I have been playing for 25 hours in my current game and my highest ever gold at one time is 5500(i then bought Breezehome and lost most of it). Does nobody buy anything?:p


I have spent a fair bit on Speech and alchemy training so far, as they were not levelling particularly quickly. Also Dynamic Merchants is a nice mod to change the Merchants a bit.

I haven't levelled enchantment at all, and am kind of regretting it a bit now, but not being bale to enchant your own stuff does make finding random gear a bit better! and I don't want to max everything.

PS. Some kind of gambling game along the lines of Caravan would have been great for this game, I am very surprised that there is nothing like it at all!
 
Pighardia said:
I don't know how people manage to have so much money in the game tbh. I have been playing for 25 hours in my current game and my highest ever gold at one time is 5500(i then bought Breezehome and lost most of it). Does nobody buy anything?:p


I have spent a fair bit on Speech and alchemy training so far, as they were not levelling particularly quickly. Also Dynamic Merchants is a nice mod to change the Merchants a bit.

I haven't levelled enchantment at all, and am kind of regretting it a bit now, but not being bale to enchant your own stuff does make finding random gear a bit better! and I don't want to max everything.
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Probably not. You can easily spend every scrap of cash you have on training, never mind actual items. 2k+ per point so 10k minimum for training above rank 50 and at rank 75 its over 50% higher.

Enchanting is slow to level but much less of a grind than Smithing since you can actually use it regularly for all your loot and make a profit off it, unlike trying to improve items where only the top tier gear with high level smithing actually makes a profit (since you normally have to buy those materials). Alchemy is a bit tedious though since the only potions you generally want don't have very high values and its only the useless megapotions with mixed effects that are worth lots.
 
A tip to make selling stuff easier, if you don't mind using a shortcut, is to sell your gear, hit quicksave, hit the merchant until they say "ow!", hit quickload, you will find the merchant has all their money back AND has refreshed/changed their stock. Also useful for trying to find a specifc enchant on an item. This saves you doing it the legit way of waiting 24 hours in game and so is a very low grade "cheat".

This is even better after you work your way up the thieves guild till you get a fence to sell stuff to, they have more cash that standard merchants.
 
No need for any exploits or "cheats" really. In Whiterun there are plenty of people to sell stuff too, 7 I can think of. If you have the Merchant perk then it is even easier as you can sell anything to anyone of the merchants/blacksmiths/alchemists. The alchemist buys dragon bones and scales too. Also trainers who are merchants are good, train 5 levels then make all your money back selling stuff to them.
 
I got up to 85k gold doing all the quests and looting literally everything. Then i smashed that away levelling enchanting, smithing and alchemy. Got 3k now!

Then i realised with Alchemy it needn't cost you a penny. Oh well.

Edit - Also you can pickpocket back the gold you spend on training.
 
Yeah but that kinda feels like cheating...
Unless you're playing a proper pickpocket type character with loads of perks in the skill (so you can steal peoples clothes :p) its pretty much just abusing a rather silly game mechanic because its so easy to do.

I think on my next character, since I'm playing a mage type who uses alchemy atm (and by use I mean, randomly creates potions but never actually drinks them), I'll just use the console to add the top level Experimenter perk to discover all the alchemy ingredients effects. I've used up a ton of ingredients so far figuring them out and it is a very tedious mechanic thanks to the complete lack of helpful documentation within the game. The recipe's are pretty poor and the odd resource from books are few and far between. Theres no point me creating restore health potions simply because its far better to use a healing spell every time to help level restoration.
 
God damn that was a long dungeon. Found Forelhost (think that was it) south of Riften so came back to it once I'd cleared my inventory. 170 space and Lydia as backup wasn't even close to enough. If I'd of known how long it was going to be I'd of properly cleared out everything I could. By the end of the dungeon I was dropping Elven gear on the ground to make room for yet more Ebony/Glass loot! Even the random corpses of Draugr occasionally had an Ebony item on them and there were 100s of them.

And the dragon priests helm was ****. 77 Stamina? Seriously? On the bright side the sheer number of Draugr Scourge in there have filled up every last Common gem I had and also got a fair number of Greaters from Deathlords too.
 
I just did a bounty on a giant, he was next to 2 Mammoths, so I made use of the potions I have made and used paralyze on my bow, paralyzed the Giant for 60sec, then went in for the mele kill whilst mammoths ran around me...then they chased me all the way back to Whiterun, where the guards helped me take them out(almost ran our of arrows).

They are MUCH quicker than I thought!! was a great moment though.
 
I've taken to just wandering around and letting Lydia and a Dremora Lord take the heat, then occasionally using Heal Other on Lydia. Works quite well even against Mammoths.

I really should swap follower to someone specialised in Heavy Armour/Two Handed. Mjoll would be my first bet but she has that stupid thing that messes up her equipment. I've just done the Conjuration Ritual and got the stone for the atronach forge so I'll have a full set of Daedric Armour+Greatsword very soon, unless I decide to go for a Sword+Shield. Either way finding the Centurion Gyro thingy will is gonna be tedious. Then once I hit 100 Enchanting I'm gonna put some mega-buffs on them. Tempted to go for max Fire Resist in the hope she doesn't get ****ed at me for using Firestorm (once I reach 90 Destruction) and blasting her constantly :p
 
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Bethblog: As mentioned before, the first content drops for Skyrim will be releasing exclusively on Xbox 360 before it’s available anywhere else.

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I am really ****ed off!

On my new game, I just fought the first Dragon outside Whiterun, with Deadly Dragon on it took me ages to whittle his health down with arrows, probably about 15 minutes in all, it was raelly fun, until I finally went in for the kill, so I went to swap to my dual-wielding axes....only I forgot that I had changed my controller config, and the button combo which was favourites yesterday, is now QUICKLOAD!!!!! FFFFUUUUU

Seriously....who uses quickload anyway???
 
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