Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

[WTF]

Re: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

I've been running with that first shout the entire game. I'm at level 33 now... Still nowhere near the original questline. I've only done random things.

[Flightwhite24]

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My Archery trainer is dead and I have not been training at all for like 4 levels now. Are there others? Also where can I find a Mage trainer? Thanks in advance.

Also after going the first 9-10 levels without ever seeing a dragon these beast are everywhere it seems.

Game is just a Masterpiece for me.

[st67]

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I can't get over how bad 360 controllers are for 1st person games.

I haven't played the game much because of it.

When my kids get older, I'll build a PC for them and probably play then, hopefully. Kind of sucks I got rid of the Windows computer.

[Sandman42]

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I love it when crazy **** happens in this game, like having a blood dragon attack me near a giant camp. So its me and the giants and mammoths vs. a blood dragon. I figure alright this should be pretty easy when all of a sudden another dragon comes out of the sky to help. It got pretty damn hectic at that point.

Spoiler for end of game shout:

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So I also had the shout that summons a dragon to fight for you. 3 dragons in the air now! With one chasing the other 2 in the air breathing fire at them. Just insane. Needless to say me, my dragon, and the giants won the battle. Surprised I didn't somehow aggro the giants into fighting me.

[sarlndr]

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I've been running with that first shout the entire game. I'm at level 33 now... Still nowhere near the original questline. I've only done random things.

That's awesome.

At least now you know.

[SlimKibbles]

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I love it when crazy **** happens in this game, like having a blood dragon attack me near a giant camp. So its me and the giants and mammoths vs. a blood dragon. I figure alright this should be pretty easy when all of a sudden another dragon comes out of the sky to help. It got pretty damn hectic at that point.

Spoiler for end of game shout:

Spoiler

So I also had the shout that summons a dragon to fight for you. 3 dragons in the air now! With one chasing the other 2 in the air breathing fire at them. Just insane. Needless to say me, my dragon, and the giants won the battle. Surprised I didn't somehow aggro the giants into fighting me.

I'm still early in the game for the most part but the most random thing I've seen so far was while running north from Whiterun, several bolts of flame flew in front of me coming from my right. I thought, "Are those fire arrows or something?" So I stop and look to my right and apparently there is a battle going on between a fire mage necromancer and some other mage shooting ice up on the hill across the river. Who the hell knows what their story is. That might have been the final battle between two long enemies for all I know. Oh yeah, while I was watching that from a distance, a blood dragon came from out of nowhere and completely torched my ***. How can you not love that?

[trobinson97]

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My Archery trainer is dead and I have not been training at all for like 4 levels now. Are there others? Also where can I find a Mage trainer? Thanks in advance.

Also after going the first 9-10 levels without ever seeing a dragon these beast are everywhere it seems.

Game is just a Masterpiece for me.

Archery training:

Spoiler

There is a trainer in the Thieves guild if you want to go that route.

also

Spoiler

There is a hunter named Angi who lives just south of Falkreath. She will run you through some archery drills that level you for free. I think you get 5 bumps in archery from the drills. Depending on how high your archery is she may be able to train you more. I don't know, I was in the 80's when I finished up the drills and at that point she told me I was better than her.

[Mabster]

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My Archery trainer is dead and I have not been training at all for like 4 levels now. Are there others? Also where can I find a Mage trainer? Thanks in advance.

Archery trainers

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Journeyman - Faendal, Riverwood
Expert - Aela, Companions of Whiterun
Master - Niruin, Thieves guild in Riften

Mage training is a little more complicated since there's different trainers for each school of magic.

[Burns11]

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I think most, if not all (I'm not sure since I'm not doing magic at all, but it seemed like everyone wanted to teach me magic) can be found at the college in Winterhold.

It might be just as easy to just keep casting to train magic though, especially at higher skill levels.

[TeddyKGB]

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I hate to admit it, but I totally cheesed Vokun.

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Holy crap is this guy tough as a melee fighter. I couldn't get near him. So after getting blasted to death about five times in a row what I did was exit the chamber and close the doors - leaving Anska to fight/die/regenerate over-and-over until the b*stard was dead. All the while I stood outside the door and waited.

[trobinson97]

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I hate to admit it, but I totally cheesed Vokun.

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Holy crap is this guy tough as a melee fighter. I couldn't get near him. So after getting blasted to death about five times in a row what I did was exit the chamber and close the doors - leaving Anska to fight/die/regenerate over-and-over until the b*stard was dead. All the while I stood outside the door and waited.

Those Dragon Priests are beasts. I've only fought two, but I'm hoping there's a lot more.

[Jonesy]

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Just curious for my next play through.

Can you do a sneak attack with a magic attack with a mage like a fireball or something and still get the sneak attack bonus?

[WTF]

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Wow, went through to the Graybeards place... learned the upgraded shout, VERY nice. Pretty fun for the main storyline thus far.

[Cyros]

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I can't get over how bad 360 controllers are for 1st person games.

I haven't played the game much because of it.

When my kids get older, I'll build a PC for them and probably play then, hopefully. Kind of sucks I got rid of the Windows computer.

360 controller feels fine for me when playing first person games.

[dan_457]

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Those Dragon Priests are beasts. I've only fought two, but I'm hoping there's a lot more.

There's 8 in total. I went through and hunted them all down as my mage to get their masks. Two of them are bad *** if you're a mage.

also

Spoiler

If you collect all of their masks and go to labyrinthian, there will be a wooden mask inside the dome shaped building, put it on and it will take you to a place where you can put all of the masks on some alter thing, and you'll get get a ninth one. It looks cool but it's not that great.