Or try something fun like the Illusionist guy in the blog I posted.
It really is hilarious.
He will not use a weapon or any ability that causes damage directly.
Yeah I've probably played 5 times or so in the past 5 months. It helps me enjoy it more when I actually do sit down and play. Reading about what other people are doing with their character makes me want to play.
Before starting up a new game I'm going about filling up my mods list.
Here's what I got so far:
- High Quality 3D Map
- Ambience Music Overhail
- Arise - Chapter 1 - The Black Sacrament Armour
- Deus Mons
- Dragon Falls Manor
- Immersive Armors
- Project Reality - Climates of Tamriel
- Ranger Ridge
- Shooting Stars
- Sleeping Tree Sanctuary
- Spouses Can Live Everywhere
- The Asteria
- UFO - Ultimate Follower Overhaul
- W.A.T.E.R
I'm currently downloading Omegared99's Armour sets.
Does anyone have a suggestion for a good mod that increases the amount of NPC (Monsters, NPC's, Animals, etcetra) in the world, while also adding a few new monsters as well?
Have any Giants tried to do a home invasion on your place yet?
No, I've had Skeevers in the basement. I had a dragon overfly the house a couple of times but he went away. The house I have is Lakeview Manor which I hear attracts moderate amounts of attention. My wife is Aela and I've given both of my kids Daedric Daggers so I figure they can handle themselves
I am gonna do a Magic only character, that is gonna be a challange.
3 characters at the same time now
I played like that with my character for awhile.
What was interesting is that my character was fairly high-level but my spell skills were quite low, which added to the challenge.
It's not that hard if you select a good balance of spells. Most importantly, you need "fury" or "summon" spells for allies to absorb damage while you safely wipe out your foes from afar. Calm can be incredibly powerful in that it reduces groups of foes down to fighting 1 at a time.
Once your enchanting is up high enough, you can enchant 4 or 5 items of your armor with "reduce destruction casting cost" down to 0, and then you don't even rely on magicka to blast your foes into smithereens. You can literally cast destruction spells indefinitely. If Enchanting is at 100, you can put destruction and another school in there (say, conjuration) and both schools won't cast a single point of magicka.
It's pretty fun to wipe out an entire nest of foes with two-handed lightning spells. (in general, I prefer lightning because it's instantaneous, plus it hits the magicka reserves of casters which tend to be the most dangerous foes) Fire and frost are projectiles so it's easy to miss.
I hate to sound like a broken record, but read the Illusion-only blog that I posted earlier. Now THERE's a challenge. Half the time he's running away from foes and hoping to run into some NPCs to help him out.
There are some good mods that turn "protect" spells into toggles that run indefinitely (but reduce your magicka pool) so that you're not constantly recasting them. (e.g. the armor spells) Whether or not that is a cheat is up to you. I'd recast them immediately anyway before every fight so it was really more of a logistical fix than anything else.
What was interesting is that my character was fairly high-level but my spell skills were quite low, which added to the challenge.
It's not that hard if you select a good balance of spells. Most importantly, you need "fury" or "summon" spells for allies to absorb damage while you safely wipe out your foes from afar. Calm can be incredibly powerful in that it reduces groups of foes down to fighting 1 at a time.
Once your enchanting is up high enough, you can enchant 4 or 5 items of your armor with "reduce destruction casting cost" down to 0, and then you don't even rely on magicka to blast your foes into smithereens. You can literally cast destruction spells indefinitely. If Enchanting is at 100, you can put destruction and another school in there (say, conjuration) and both schools won't cast a single point of magicka.
It's pretty fun to wipe out an entire nest of foes with two-handed lightning spells. (in general, I prefer lightning because it's instantaneous, plus it hits the magicka reserves of casters which tend to be the most dangerous foes) Fire and frost are projectiles so it's easy to miss.
I hate to sound like a broken record, but read the Illusion-only blog that I posted earlier. Now THERE's a challenge. Half the time he's running away from foes and hoping to run into some NPCs to help him out.
There are some good mods that turn "protect" spells into toggles that run indefinitely (but reduce your magicka pool) so that you're not constantly recasting them. (e.g. the armor spells) Whether or not that is a cheat is up to you. I'd recast them immediately anyway before every fight so it was really more of a logistical fix than anything else.
So far i found it to be quite okay. Conjunction is easy to level and really good. Destruction can be great too. But i lost 2h of playtime due to i forgot to save and i died
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The biggest problem is your health and weakness to physical attacks.
I removed autosave for shorter loadingtimes. Before, it could take 5 seconds to enter a trader/skyrim. Without autosave it barley takes 1 second sometimes.
I was trying to give Forge Fingers to the Orcs, but couldn't find their chieftain. In the meantime, I accidentally stole a bucket. I didn't want to pay the 1 Gold bounty, so I slaughtered the whole tribe, then disenchanted Forge Fingers and called it a day.
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Down in the basement, I've got a Craftsman lathe. Show it to the children when they misbehave.
I was trying to give Forge Fingers to the Orcs, but couldn't find their chieftain. In the meantime, I accidentally stole a bucket. I didn't want to pay the 1 Gold bounty, so I slaughtered the whole tribe, then disenchanted Forge Fingers and called it a day.
Starting to have fun with the game again. There are still a few more achievements that have eluded me that I plan on getting. I'm eventually going to make one set of every armor once I get the materials and get them fully upgraded as well. I also want to start using two handed weapons since I mainly just use a sword or a bow, change things up a bit. I have some quests to do as well. I'm going to finish the Stormcloaks(sp?) vs. Imperials quests. I finished it once but I think it glitched so I went back to a previous save file from before I finished.
I've been having a terrible time lately with the game crashing before starting. It's a title update issue that I can't seem to resolve. Frustrating as hell.
-First playthrough is a sword/shield Nord male, with a prefix that I must consume ales and beer as much as I can
-Go through main quest, civil war stuff ASAP
-After they've been dealt with, mess around with Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood
-Along with all the other tomfoolery that goes with Skyrim
-At some point realize that this character build (One-handed, Blocking) is REALLY not suited for TG or DB
-Re-roll, the character I always wanted to do (I did the Nord to stay true to the setting), a Dunmer Sneak/Archery/Lockpicking male, with I guess a Chaotic Neutral prefix
-Straight away murder someone to get to DB, gain access to TG too
-Steal everything I can, Iron Dagger my way 100 Smithing, hello Legendary Daedric Bow that does an obscene amount of Shock Damage on Strike (I also have a collection of enchanted Leather Braces that you wouldn't believe)
-Sneaking at 90's now, Archery at 80's
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-having one of the better times I've ever had playing vidya
-Sneaking 100, Archery 90something
-Dawnguard, side with the Vampires, naturally
-Quests are really meh
-Comes a time when you're required to collect 3 Elder Scrolls, which is ridiculous regarding earlier games, but whatever, this is Bethesda, they're idiots, so roll with it
-Apparently Dawnguard added a guy in Riften who's a Tamriel version of a plastic surgeon, as in a character editor, but of course he won't deal with vampires
-At this point I've grown tired of the whole Vampire fad, I just want to be able to be outside during daylight (in the game, I mean), with a new face (this applies in real-life, too)
-Speedrun through the "Collect 3 (****ING 3!!) Elder Scrolls!)
-Get 2 of them, one more to go!
-It's the one from the Main Quest
-That I haven't started yet with this character, now they do send you straight to Mages College to that Orc guy, who sends you to see that guy (I'm terrible at names, especially when they're in games, who even cares) studying Dwarven Ruins
Aand that's where's we are. I am now officially done with Skyrim. There are rumors that the new DLC will be set in Solstheim, if that's the case, I'll return, but I'm not going through the whole Elder Scroll chase again.
The recent bumping of this topic has got me started playing again. I'm still in awe at how amazing the graphics are. The scenery and the soundtrack just make this game.
The only problem I have is that I'm so used to playing Borderlands that I'm screwing up the most basic things. Want to open a door...press X instead of A.
See a guy hiding behind cover...want to throw a grenade to smoke him out...instead turn on Night Eye.
