SKYRIM: Let's kill some Dragons!

[Serafina]

You can sneak-attack draugr while they are still lying around, and you can distinguish draugr that will attack you from those who are just containers because they always wear armor. Works incredibly well for draugr-heavy dungeons.

[Tanasinn]

That was particularly true for me in Dustman's Cairn, which was chock-full of 'stealthy' draugrs. Once you can recognize them, they're basically free kills.

[Chardok]

2.5 more hours, still no random dragon encounters. (1.1 360)

[Tolya]

I had one. I was approaching Mzulft and suddenly a mamooth about 10 meters from me lit up like a christmas tree. I was around level 6-7, didn't note down the playtime, was busy running

[Tolya]

Had two more. One stupid dragon attacked Solitude and was obliterated. The second one tried to reopen the Whiterun guard tower chapter.

[LaCroix]

A friend of mine had one, as well.

He was so busy putting the correct spell on each hand that he got sneak-ambushed by a dragon in an open field...

"That's a good combination!"
*Character suddenly drops to ground, dead*
*Dragon shadow passes over*

Best laugh in days.

[Chardok]

Yo mangz, how do you get into dwarven ruins? I have yet to find one that didn't require a key to get into.

[Joviwan]

Look around more. There's entrances hanging out all over that mountain range.

Spoiler

Go to the mage's college, then point yourself straight out at the ocean and walk/swim until you find a cave on an iceberg. I think it's north or east or something from the college? There's a crazy man there who will give you a quest that leads into dwarven ruins of some significant depth.

[Mr Bean]

Well I've beat Skyrim, I'm the head of the mages guild, head companion, the Listener and head of the Thieves guild. Also I killed all of the Dragons (Or at least the ones trying to kill me and the Stormcloak rebellion is broken. Spoiler

Blackrock, it's a great place, real pretty. Shame it's not used more except as an underground highway between ruins except you can't get into any ruins without having first visiting them, but it's one of only three areas that does not look like something I can't see in Europe somewhere in person, it looks fantastical which is something The Elder Scrolls games have been lacking since Morrowind.

[Rahvin]

Well I've beat Skyrim, I'm the head of the mages guild, head companion, the Listener and head of the Thieves guild. Also I killed all of the Dragons (Or at least the ones trying to kill me and the Stormcloak rebellion is broken.

I've done the Dark Brotherhood and College of Winterhold...and honestly I thought they were both better than the main questline, which I felt was disappointingly short, with an anticlimactic ending.

I'm having tons of fun doing some of the Daedric quests though.

[Chardok]

in the middle of DB quests and I can honestly say I hope I get to kill me an annoying little....man. Hard.

Also - anyone else seeing Arkham Asylum/Arkham City parallels in that questline?

Also - for the curious - 1.3 appears to have fixed my no random dragon encounters problem. Last night I had my first dual dragon attack (Blood/Frost) right in the middle of stupid Solitude, no less. My role int he fight was 1) Shout at dragons, 2) Absorb souls when guards kill them. 3) bask in the adulation of the townsfolk as if I singlehandedly murdered the scaly brutes myself.

[Themightytom]

in the middle of DB quests and I can honestly say I hope I get to kill me an annoying little....man. Hard.

Also - anyone else seeing Arkham Asylum/Arkham City parallels in that questline?

Also - for the curious - 1.3 appears to have fixed my no random dragon encounters problem. Last night I had my first dual dragon attack (Blood/Frost) right in the middle of stupid Solitude, no less. My role int he fight was 1) Shout at dragons, 2) Absorb souls when guards kill them. 3) bask in the adulation of the townsfolk as if I singlehandedly murdered the scaly brutes myself.

Yeah I've been leading dragons back to solitude for a while, sometimes over quite a distance. I figure if any characters die, it's people I'd have to kill later anyway as a stormcloak

[Serafina]

You don't actually kill any civilians when you take the enemy capital. Just nameless soldiers and the leaders of the opposing faction.

[lordofchange13]

You don't actually kill any civilians when you take the enemy capital. Just nameless soldiers and the leaders of the opposing faction.

The soldiers will sometime glitch and attack the civilians if any happen to be around, they might start helping which makes them enemy's to the guards.

Does anyone know a decent merchant who can buy my dragon bones and scales? ive already got 2 sets of the armour, but i just love killing dragons.

[Executor32]

Any of the 'random shit' merchants like Bits & Pieces, the Riverwood Trader, and the like.

[Chardok]

Anyone else spoiled by sneaking? My DB quests always boil down to
1) Wait until midnight
2) sneak in to marks' bedroom
3) Shoot in face
4) walk away
5) profit!



kind of boring.

[lordofchange13]

Anyone else spoiled by sneaking? My DB quests always boil down to
1) Wait until midnight
2) sneak in to marks' bedroom
3) Shoot in face
4) walk away
5) profit!

kind of boring.

The last few main DB quest's you can't do that, and the radiant quest's will often have a random guard you got to kill, you can slice their throat.

Any of the 'random shit' merchants like Bits & Pieces, the Riverwood Trader, and the like.

The genrial good's shopes always seem to give crappy prices.

[SilverWingedSeraph]

The genrial good's shopes always seem to give crappy prices.

All stores give crappy prices unless you have a really high Speech skill or you do what I did and find an enchantment that gives you better prices, then slap that enchantment on every goddamn thing you can. I usually sell Dragonscale and Dragonbone to blacksmiths or whatever. Usually so I can then buy any other precious metals/enchanted weapons/armors that I want, which they have.

[Serafina]

You actually make a profit from crafting dragon armor, so selling the bones and scales is a bad idea unless you have a massive surplus of one that you can't craft into more armor.

[lordofchange13]

You actually make a profit from crafting dragon armor, so selling the bones and scales is a bad idea unless you have a massive surplus of one that you can't craft into more armor.

Good idea, thanks

[Chardok]

Oh, I have recently discovered "smithing" That is, improving weapons and armor. Makes a HUGE difference. See, I THOUGHT that before you could improve weapons of a certain type, you HAD to have the smithing perk for said items (Elven smithing to improve elven stuff) This, I have discovered, is wrong, of course. This is okay, though, because I took a regular ass glass bow (45 dmg for me w/archery perk) and now, after improvement to exquisite does *chortle* 69 damage.


Also Glass armor w/120 armor, elven boots of dwindling flames = ~80. Even thieves guild armor can be improved! Weeeee! I'm really a glass cannon now! LOL, right?

[lordofchange13]

Oh, I have recently discovered "smithing" That is, improving weapons and armor. Makes a HUGE difference. See, I THOUGHT that before you could improve weapons of a certain type, you HAD to have the smithing perk for said items (Elven smithing to improve elven stuff) This, I have discovered, is wrong, of course. This is okay, though, because I took a regular ass glass bow (45 dmg for me w/archery perk) and now, after improvement to exquisite does *chortle* 69 damage.


Also Glass armor w/120 armor, elven boots of dwindling flames = ~80. Even thieves guild armor can be improved! Weeeee! I'm really a glass cannon now! LOL, right?

Invest in some strong ward spells, and those flesh spells to make your self a stone wall with plasma cannons.

[Serafina]

You DO get better at improving an item when you have the appropriate perk.
Also, you can actually improve an item past legendary if you have effects that grant +smithing. That can get very broken very quickly, even if you don't abuse the Alchemy/Enchanting-loophole for this. With just a couple of powerfully enchanted items, every kind of armor can give you maximum damage reduction (which can actually be kinda cool, considering that you can choose your looks freely that way). And of course weapons have no damage limit, so that's pretty much a way to killfuck everything.

My advise: Don't use +smithing effects when you are already at high smithing, they make the game too easy. On armor they are fine, since armor has a hard cap, but on weapons they break the game pretty easily IMO.

[Chardok]

No, no, no. My Dued (Argonian) does not "believe" in magic. Unless it's imbued into a weapon/armor.

[lordofchange13]

No, no, no. My Dued (Argonian) does not "believe" in magic. Unless it's imbued into a weapon/armor.

you flat-earth atheist. but that's alright, the only magic i use is destruction and the healing spell.