Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim - Out Now and Awesome!

[Rike255]

Is there any sort of bonus or anything for playing this game on a harder difficulty? I just realized it could even be changed

[MoulinBlu]

Originally Posted by Lucy Diamond

Man, it was a weekend of glitched quests and crazy happenings on the road.

Started cleaning up the misc. quest list and I got contracted to steel a horse named frost. Everything went off without a hitch and as I was riding frost back to his new owner, we got attached by a troll. While dismounting to slaughter the troll, an elder dragon attacked and frost ran right into his own doom.

Thankfully, there is a load save file feature.

Lastnight, I cleaned out a tower of evil witches only to have the quest end and the main witch (some chick's mom) NOT show up!?!? The arrow was there, pointing to the ground...no witch mom.

Gotta love Skyrim.

The game definitely seems to like killing people and things important to some of the less important quests. I've got one quest character lying dead in the street with no idea how he was killed. I figure a dragon must have swooped down and got him or something.

Speaking of dragons, anybody else notice that every time you fast travel to Winterhold, you get attacked by a dragon?

[MoulinBlu]

Originally Posted by Rike255

Is there any sort of bonus or anything for playing this game on a harder difficulty? I just realized it could even be changed

I don't think so. In Oblivion it was just to tailor it more to your difficulty preference. I'm just assuming Skyrim is the same. The game gets much easier as you level up and acquire better armor and stronger weapons. I guess the difficulty is to offset that for those more interested in a challenge than benefiting from all their hard work.

[tarvis]

Originally Posted by jsteinhauer

Are there any other items besides the Thieves' armor and the Daedric artifacts that I should keep.

Dragon Priest masks? If you want the last one.

[dereksworl]

anyone know any potion recipes to cure disease? i got more diseases than a Dublin prostitute...... stupid wolves

[tarvis]

You can receive the blessing of Arkay outside the Hall of the Dead in Falkreath. So only one loading screen.

For Potion of Cure Disease, the internets say the ingredients are: Charred Skeever Hide, Hawk Feathers, Mudcrab Chitin and / or Vampire Dust.

[vpn75]

Originally Posted by MoulinBlu

Speaking of dragons, anybody else notice that every time you fast travel to Winterhold, you get attacked by a dragon?

Seems to happen a lot for me too. The good thing is you have your college members to back you up and it is easy to hide behind the pillars in the courtyard and snipe the dragons with your bow.

Of course, now i have Dragonrend so I should be able to make quick work of them

[hellmonkey]

Originally Posted by dereksworl

anyone know any potion recipes to cure disease? i got more diseases than a Dublin prostitute...... stupid wolves

Have you been to a shrine/temple and activated the alter? You get a blessing and it removes all diseases.

[hellmonkey]

Originally Posted by MoulinBlu

Speaking of dragons, anybody else notice that every time you fast travel to Winterhold, you get attacked by a dragon?

3 out of 4 times in a row, I was attacked, once by 2 dragons at the same time, but I think that was part of a quest. The last 2 times, Ive arrived with out issue. Dual casting fireballs or ice thingies makes quick work of dragons. I have a crapton of magic regen (almost 300% i think) and 400 mana.

[MoulinBlu]

Originally Posted by vpn75

Seems to happen a lot for me too. The good thing is you have your college members to back you up and it is easy to hide behind the pillars in the courtyard and snipe the dragons with your bow.

Of course, now i have Dragonrend so I should be able to make quick work of them

Dragonrend: is that the fire-breath shout you get from the talking dragon? If so, I've got it too, the first of the three shouts anyway, but haven't used it yet on a dragon. The dragons are pretty easy to kill: I'll snipe them from undercover of the porch roof of the village trader or wait for them to land on the uphill path at the edge of town, which they always seem to do, and snipe them from a distance.

The dragon bones are getting rediculous in that village though; and for some reason they seem to be accumulating at the college, as if the wind blows them there, while I'm away. If I couldn't walk right through them, I wouldn't even be able to get into the college anymore. Their dancing around, long after the dragons been killed, makes the place a little eerie too.

[MoulinBlu]

Originally Posted by dereksworl

anyone know any potion recipes to cure disease? i got more diseases than a Dublin prostitute...... stupid wolves

I keep a cure disease potion on me, just in case I get a particularly bad disease that won't let me finish an important fight, but so far I haven't had to use it. Any temple or shrine will remove the disease when asking its blessing, which is free, and they're fairly plentiful in Skyrim. I've got the recipe too, though I can't remember where I bought or found it. A lot of potion shops and general stores sell the cure potion, already made,and pretty cheap.

[My_Two_Cents]

Originally Posted by hellmonkey

Have you been to a shrine/temple and activated the alter? You get a blessing and it removes all diseases.

Or just become a werewolf, and you no longer need worry about diseases or poison.

Originally Posted by MoulinBlu

Dragonrend: is that the fire-breath shout you get from the talking dragon?

It's the shout that forces the dragon to land.

[Navster]

I spent an hour last night creating my first set of Deadric Armor, also made it Legendary, my armor rating went from 230, to 576

[dereksworl]

Originally Posted by tarvis

You can receive the blessing of Arkay outside the Hall of the Dead in Falkreath. So only one loading screen.

For Potion of Cure Disease, the internets say the ingredients are: Charred Skeever Hide, Hawk Feathers, Mudcrab Chitin and / or Vampire Dust.

i believe i have those ingredients, thanks tarv.

Originally Posted by hellmonkey

Have you been to a shrine/temple and activated the alter? You get a blessing and it removes all diseases.

Originally Posted by MoulinBlu

I keep a cure disease potion on me, just in case I get a particularly bad disease that won't let me finish an important fight, but so far I haven't had to use it. Any temple or shrine will remove the disease when asking its blessing, which is free, and they're fairly plentiful in Skyrim. I've got the recipe too, though I can't remember where I bought or found it. A lot of potion shops and general stores sell the cure potion, already made,and pretty cheap.

the only shine i found was under the Winterhold college, really dont wanna make that trek again......I'll try to reach the one someone mentioned above though.

[RaijinUT]

Originally Posted by NavsterKing

I spent an hour last night creating my first set of Deadric Armor, also made it Legendary, my armor rating went from 230, to 576

Congrats

[RaijinUT]

Originally Posted by dereksworl

the only shine i found was under the Winterhold college, really dont wanna make that trek again......I'll try to reach the one someone mentioned above though.

Check the map...

http://www.gamebanshee.com/skyrim/ma...yrimmappdf.zip

[jsteinhauer]

Originally Posted by dereksworl

i believe i have those ingredients, thanks tarv.





the only shine i found was under the Winterhold college, really dont wanna make that trek again......I'll try to reach the one someone mentioned above though.

There are shrines all over the place. At least one in every major town, plus the ones in the Halls of the Dead.

[MoulinBlu]

Originally Posted by dereksworl

the only shine i found was under the Winterhold college, really dont wanna make that trek again......I'll try to reach the one someone mentioned above though.

I've happened upon several shrines in the wilderness when I had to go someplace for the first time and couldn't fast travel. Temples are more convenient to go to, as they're in the cities you're likely already going to for quests or to sell or make stuff anyway.

[tarvis]

Originally Posted by jsteinhauer

There are shrines all over the place. At least one in every major town, plus the ones in the Halls of the Dead.

I just prefer the one in Falkreath because you don't have to walk into any buildings to find it. Or walk to it from a fast travel location. Doors are the bane of my existence. Every time I see one I shake my fist! I will gladly forgo seeing pots and candlesticks if it means no loading into buildings.

[hellmonkey]

Originally Posted by tarvis

I just prefer the one in Falkreath because you don't have to walk into any buildings to find it. Or walk to it from a fast travel location. Doors are the bane of my existence. Every time I see one I shake my fist! I will gladly forgo seeing pots and candlesticks if it means no loading into buildings.

You playing on ps3? On my PC, the load screens are so fast, I can barely finish reading them sometimes.