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Skyrim

ScorpioVI said:
About 10 hours in, not a single crash on the XBOX so far. Game's running smooth and stable.

Just killed my second dragon at Level 9. As if that wasn't bad enough, a damn sabre cat attacked me while I was fighting the dragon. Luckily I had that command animal power that Bosmers have, ended up zapping the sabre cat, and it turned and fought the dragon. I was at the dragon's rear slashing away while the cat was in front. Cat died just before I killed the dragon. Lucky!

Oh yea, don't fuck with the giants. I took a potshot at a giant from a ways back. Bastard charged after me and killed me with one blow, launching my sorry corpse like 500 feet into the sky. :laughing:
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Howdo you find dragons to kill? I have only killed the first one involved with the quest, at level 12 right now and I have unlocked 3 shout powers but I can only use one.
 
mel3535 said:
Howdo you find dragons to kill? I have only killed the first one involved with the quest, at level 12 right now and I have unlocked 3 shout powers but I can only use one.
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I am running into them all the time as I run over mountains. (Only way to get somewhere, straight towards it :teeth) Keep your ears pricked, you can hear them keening. There are some at mountain peaks with an icon of a dragon's face, but most of them originate at spots that don't show up on the map.

That said you may need to progress through the main quest a certain amount- I know I visited a dragon shrine mountain peak deal early on and there was no dragon. I want to say this was after the first one too.
 
They randomly show up. I've killed 4 so far. What sucks is I don't know what to do with dragon bones or scales. They take up so much weight. I had to sell a lot because I had no room in my inventory. Figures after I sell them I get a house.
 
Xenophonii said:
:laughing So true. Got mashed yesterday because I thought I could snipe a giant... I was sooo wrong...
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I killed a giant without taking any damage at all. I just found a large rock, and kept running around it as he followed. I periodicaly turned around to blast him with some fire. The giant is slow, and never could get a whack in. Took forever though
 
Does anyone know a easy way to make money in the game?
 
Lights_Guy3 said:
I killed a giant without taking any damage at all. I just found a large rock, and kept running around it as he followed. I periodicaly turned around to blast him with some fire. The giant is slow, and never could get a whack in. Took forever though
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Like your riding! SNAP!
 
mel3535 said:
Does anyone know a easy way to make money in the game?
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Taking everything that's not nailed down and selling is a start.

Alchemy. Harvest/forage/hunt/buy/steal ingredients, turn them into potions. Keep the ones you want/need, sell the rest. Even buying ingredients you can easily double your money by combining two cheap ingredients just to make a nothing potion that you can sell. You're raising your alchemy skill the whole time so you end up making more effective potions which are worth more money.

Smithing. Not as profitable as alchemy but same principle. Buy (or mine) iron ore for $5 each. Use the Transmute magic to convert iron ore to silver ore, then silver ore to gold ore. Smelt two gold ores to make one gold ingot. Forge a gold ring out of the gold ingot. You've just taken $10 worth of iron ores and turned it into a $180 gold ring. You get less of course depending on your speech/haggling skills but even when I first started doing it I was selling the rings at $45. Mainly doing it so I can boost my smithing to craft better weapons and armor.
 
ScorpioVI said:
Mainly doing it so I can boost my smithing to craft better weapons and armor.
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What I've been doing is run all over the place and kill a lot of wolves, bears, etc along the way, thus building up a lot of leather. Then buy all the leather and leather strips at a shop and build enough leather strips to have, say, 40 strips and 40 leather. Build 20 hide gauntlets and upgrade them.

You loose a little money doing this, but compared to the rapid progress of your smith skills, it's worth it.

I do the same thing for alchemy, buy out the shop and sell back potions. Tend to make money on that deal, balances out the loss on smithing.


In the end, besides simple strategies like that (and like remembering to wear your Necklace of Haggling) the best way to make money is to forget about money and just play the game. As you level up, the loot you find will explode in value. Finding a couple pieces of Dwemer, Orcish or Ebony armor will blow crime runs of stealing 5-gold books off shelves in no-time, and you don't even have to flee the guards.
 
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The books are annoying. Read, take/steal. Takes too much time. I generally leave all of them alone and just mouse over them to find the expensive skill books.




Oh yea, work sucks. 9 hours before I can play Skyrim again...
 
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Fucking game. I didn't leave my house this weekend.

It looks like you pretty much have to hire a mercenary companion. I'm a feline thief, light-armored, axe-and-shield, and a sabre cat is a tough match up. Now I'm finding shitloads of bandits grouped together, and now necromancers. WTF, the apprentices and novices are jacking me up? Damn. Hellooooo Jenna, here's 500 gold. Here, take this sword I don't use, and this helmet I don't use. BAM! She kicks ass, dual-wielding.

I think that guy wanted a cheat to make gold like in Oblivion you could replicate items with a bow. Funk dat. Play the game. I bought a house for 5000, all my gold, then quickly earned another 2000. Lame: the house chest doesn't store items by category. FFFFUUUU!

Hey I stumbled upon some Dwemer steampunk robot pieces in an unmarked area. I guess I should keep them.

Is there some kind of green faerie that commands/conjures animals? Near the Dwemer stuff I saw a green humanoid fighting a single animal, went to investigate, and got in a furball with 3 sabres and a wolf, and no humanoid to be found. The animals glowed green while alive.
 
2strokeYardSale said:
Fucking game. I didn't leave my house this weekend.
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+1

Stayed inside all weekend.

I haven't tried a companion yet. I kinda tend to despise having companions along from my experience with companions in Fallout. You try to get all stealthy and shit and your companions goes full-retard Leeroy Jenkins on you.

I'm finding myself in a perpetual state of broke in this game. Just finished furnishing the house. I am finding the menu annoying too, that's one of my chief complaints, it's more streamlined than Oblivion but you lose the OCD-friendly parsing system of Oblivion. No more sorting by name/damage/armor/weight. Ended up storing various items in various chests at the house. Weapons in one, armor in another, etc.

I ended up taking out a Dwarven centurion or something inside a dungeon. Something straight out of Metal Gear. I was bouncing arrows off it, like shooting a BB gun at an Abrams. Took forever but I finally took it down, looted the place and found a bunch of gears, cogs, scrap metal. Anybody have a clue what that stuff is for? It's not worth much so I'm guessing there's a use for it somewhere. Build your own companion robot?
 
Im pretty sticked up money wise thanks to scoring a free house with a quest. Also im bummed out the one companion I really liked the dog got killed while fighting a boss and im not able to buy another dog. I should have just had the dog chill at my house so I can see it when ever I am there. I want to find the werewolf so I can get that ability.
Any one do the animal spirit hunting quest. Im trying to figure out how to kill a pack of mammoths with out getting killed.
 
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