Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

[willIam9387]

Re: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Just got this game for X-Mas...been playing it non-stop. I've died about 5 times is that normal?!?!?

Yeah that's definitely normal, depends on your character and your play style too. My current character, a two-hand Nord hasn't died as much as my first character, a stealth wood archer. Although, on my last run with my Nord I died three times in a row before I finally was able to complete this one quest:

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It's the one where you help a person you meet on the side of a road back to his camp, and then he and a bunch of his thugs ambush you. Turned out these thugs he hired all had warhammers and weren't exactly as easy as previous bandits I had faced, add in the fact I didn't have any potions and I was kind of stuck. Luckily on my fourth try, I realized maybe I should use some shouts and I sent two of the bandits flying over the cliff

Also I had one of my craziest most **** battles yet:

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I was traveling to the start of the Alduin's wall quest out in forsworn territory to meet up with esbern and Delphine. A hargraven in one of the forsworn settlements sees me and starts to attack. All of a sudden, a blood dragon is attacking me. I wait for him to land, which takes forever, but eventually he does and I dispatch him with my warhammer. I have to give a shout out to some random named Perth who was helping with fight the blood dragon with his pickaxe as he was killed in the action.

So now after I kill the blood dragon, I see I have the whole forsworn settlement all stirred up so I decide to go and take care of them all. I see esbern is spamming his magic attacks and is getting handled by a forsworn looter and hargraven, so I jump into the action and with a couple swings take out four forsworn and a Hargraven. I leave Esbern as he is doubled over trying to recover some HP

Next I move further into the settlement and see Delphine has gotten into some trouble, and help her out. After some intense combat, I cleared out the whole settlement without dying. It felt like quite an achievement.

Now my big decision is who to join in the Civil War. I'm going to say the imperials because I can't stand Ulfric and Windhelm.

[aukevin]

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I got the game for Christmas too and am dying a good bit. I wanted an archer and the arrows just don't seem to hurt people very much, and to draw them takes so long. Hopefully that gets stronger. So I end up just changing to a sword or something and hack away. I die if I have to go up against more than two people at a time though. I don't play first person games so this is a big change for me. I have changed the view to third person but I'm struggling with lining up a reticule to hit someone with a sword.

[TeddyKGB]

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Anybody know at what level the shops and drops start getting better? This steel mace is slow and cumbersome now :P

I also need to start increasing magicka when I level up. I can't even summon the flame atronach I bought because I don't have enough magicka lol. Firebolt also takes like half of my magicka too. Still stuck with flames until then I guess.

Sounds like you're playing a magic-focused character, which is the hardest type of character to play early in the game because, like you have said, you'll run out of magic a lot and you will be very squishy. Also, early on as mage it is very difficult to find items (especially staves and +magic gear) that help you. It gets better if you stick to it and pump points into mana though.

[trobinson97]

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I got the game for Christmas too and am dying a good bit. I wanted an archer and the arrows just don't seem to hurt people very much, and to draw them takes so long. Hopefully that gets stronger. So I end up just changing to a sword or something and hack away. I die if I have to go up against more than two people at a time though. I don't play first person games so this is a big change for me. I have changed the view to third person but I'm struggling with lining up a reticule to hit someone with a sword.

Depending on what race you chose, Archery starts at different levels. In any case though, stick with it. Archery is extremely powerful, stick with it, use your perks and you'll be be face rolling in no time.

[aukevin]

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Depending on what race you chose, Archery starts at different levels. In any case though, stick with it. Archery is extremely powerful, stick with it, use your perks and you'll be be face rolling in no time.

I started at a 25, I think it is a 26 now. Only played a little while. I've used two perks on Over-Draw to make it more powerful. I'll keep putting them there.

This is a fun game, just very overwhelming at the start when you've never played something like this before.

[cardinals57]

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Nothing better then hunting deer with your bow, throughout the wilderness. When I have to go long distances that's what I do. My archery level is 44 while one handed and two handed are 32 and 37. My guy is a true warrior right now.

[Moses Shuttlesworth]

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I haven't finished all of the miscellaneous missions, however I feel this game has run its course for me.

~100 hours and done.

[TeddyKGB]

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Some tips for archers just starting out:

- Conserve the better arrows. Save them for a rainy day. Also, go into every shop that sells arrows and buy them all (except iron arrows).

- Level sneak like crazy.

- Get Steady Hand ASAP; you might not think it, but it makes a HUGE difference. Hunter's Discipline is underrated as well; it allows you to use more powerful arrows more often and still maintain your supply.

- Hit and run is a legit strategy - especially against bosses. You do not want to get into a close-quarters slugfest. You want most of your damage against bosses to come from sneak attacks. So stay hidden until they come out, hit them, then run and hide until they forget about you. Rinse and repeat.

- When travelling through the wilderness, keep your eyes peeled if you're going off-road and use sneak if you have the patience. Being surprised in the open is the worst thing that can happen to archers.

[jfsolo]

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I'm at 116 hours, and I still need to finish the two main story arcs. Even now I am still getting surprised by little things, Insignificant spoiler. I gave a little girl in solitude a coin, so now when she sees me, she says,

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"you're the best, will you be my father?"

I'm trying to finish these last two big arcs, but guards keep casually mentioning stuff that needs to be done, and I feel compelled to go clean those places out before the end game.

[Flightwhite24]

Laying here in bed next to my wife waiting for her to fall asleep so I can sneak back down to the "Mancave" and continue exploring the Skyrim world with "Maximus".

Restarted last night after realizing how much I was missing out on just from not having a clue my first time out and I'm so glad I did. You know the game is good when you wait for the spouse to pass out. LOL. I'm too old for this


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[Mabster]

I haven't finished all of the miscellaneous missions, however I feel this game has run its course for me.

~100 hours and done.

You'll never be able to finish all the miscellaneous quests anyway due to the radiant quest system.

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[DarthRambo]

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Laying here in bed next to my wife waiting for her to fall asleep so I can sneak back down to the "Mancave" and continue exploring the Skyrim world with "Maximus".

Restarted last night after realizing how much I was missing out on just from not having a clue my first time out and I'm so glad I did. You know the game is good when you wait for the spouse to pass out. LOL. I'm too old for this


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Classic! LOL!!!

[shorty12345]

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Got a Skyrim hangover today, stayed up playing til 5am...had practice at 7am. So basically ruined my day and made me feel completely horrible and slept the rest of the day. Totally worthit!

[MelMan1486]

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You'll never be able to finish all the miscellaneous quests anyway due to the radiant quest system.

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(In my best Barney Stinson voice) Challenge accepted!!!!

[Fresh Tendrils]

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I started the adventures of Redbone yesterday. He is a wood elf that is going the native american route: archery, hunting/tanning/skinning, with an emphasis on stealth. I've upgraded archery the most (at least the point where I must wait on my leveling on it to acquire perks) and my 'secondary' perk I'm going after is sneak.

Anyway, I managed to play for only about 6 hours yesterday so not a whole lot going on thus far. Is there a Thief Guild to join?