The BIG Skyrim Thread

[Costello]

1) Satangel: what kind of stuff do you find by pickpocketing?
for now i've been focusing on sneaking, when i reach a high enough level I will consider pickpocketing (after all no point in even trying to pickpocket if people know I'm here)
2) also, when your pickpocketing skill is very low like me, how does it affect pickpocketing? you get detected easily?

 

[Joe88]

gold was stashed in it.

Also came across a woman lying dead in her tent, killed by a bear, and barely visible there was her diary, which said she was from Cyrodiil and was going to live with her loved one in Helgen. She mentioned in the diary he had a vault where he kept all kinds of valuable stuff, hidden away in a trunk of a tree. I found the treasure! Just really cool that you really have to pay attention to get some good items/loot, if I didn't see that book I would have never found that diary. Also cool the game doesn't give you any clues in those cases, in Oblivion that wasn't the case. I like it!

well sometimes they didnt hold you hand when it had to do with misc treasure hunting
usually you come across a note, or a map describing the location the location and you had to go find it with no points or anything

 

[Hells Malice]

Smithing all I did was travel across the globe and bought iron ingots/ore everywhere. Simple but kind of expensive after a while. Though i'm also using them to train enchanting, so you get profit on your investment...eventually. If you want a bit more bang for your buck, you can rob Dwemer (sp?) ruins or the Dwemer musuem for scrap to fuse into dwarven ingots, and make dwarven bows. They sell for a lot more, but the exp difference is pretty minimal.
Also make sure you use the warrior guardian stone. Improves exp gain by 20%.

If you wanna go all out, you can use alchemy you create potions that will improve the effects of your smithed/enchanted items. You can buy elixers, but alching your own is far greater in the end, or so i've heard. Then 100 smithing with a potion to make insane gear, then 100 enchanting with potion to make insane enchantments.
I'll be aiming for that eventually. I hate alchemy.

Satangel, you can check the version number in the main menu (before you choose continue/new/load/whatever). Should be in a bottom corner unless i'm remembering incorrectly.

Has anyone found an enchantment that increases destruction magic damage? I really wanna know if such a thing exists.

 

[Satangel]

1) Satangel: what kind of stuff do you find by pickpocketing?
for now i've been focusing on sneaking, when i reach a high enough level I will consider pickpocketing (after all no point in even trying to pickpocket if people know I'm here)
2) also, when your pickpocketing skill is very low like me, how does it affect pickpocketing? you get detected easily?

1) Arrows, Potions, Money, Keys and mostly Jewelry (weighs almost nothing, can net an amazing amount of money, even with the fences)
The first times pickpocketing is of course quite hard and frustrating, but like I said, just quicksave a lot and you'll get it It levels up really really fast, then it gets easier. AND if you invest 3 points in it (or maybe 4) you can pick a perk that adds a whopping 100 capacity!

2) If it's really low the percentage you get to pickpocket an item is lower than if you would have a higher pickpocketing skill. You can see the percentage you have in the right lower corner, it's lower for more expensive items. So if you would try to pickpocket an item that's worth 800 coins with a skill of only 30, the percentage would be 40 or so, maybe less. But when the skill is higher, it adds up quickly (you can also pick perks that really help here)

Smithing all I did was travel across the globe and bought iron ingots/ore everywhere. Simple but kind of expensive after a while. Though i'm also using them to train enchanting, so you get profit on your investment...eventually. If you want a bit more bang for your buck, you can rob Dwemer (sp?) ruins or the Dwemer musuem for scrap to fuse into dwarven ingots, and make dwarven bows. They sell for a lot more, but the exp difference is pretty minimal.
Also make sure you use the warrior guardian stone. Improves exp gain by 20%.

If you wanna go all out, you can use alchemy you create potions that will improve the effects of your smithed/enchanted items. You can buy elixers, but alching your own is far greater in the end, or so i've heard. Then 100 smithing with a potion to make insane gear, then 100 enchanting with potion to make insane enchantments.
I'll be aiming for that eventually. I hate alchemy.

Satangel, you can check the version number in the main menu (before you choose continue/new/load/whatever). Should be in a bottom corner unless i'm remembering incorrectly.

Has anyone found an enchantment that increases destruction magic damage? I really wanna know if such a thing exists.

Where do you find the Warrior Guardian Stone?
And where/how can I get an item that has a soul trap spell on it?
And how do I refill enchanted items?

I'll look now for that destruction magic thingy, maybe I have one.

 

[Hells Malice]

The Warrior, thief and mage guardian stones are right near the first town, pretty much right on the path you follow to get there after escaping the dragon assault via that underground path. I missed them too, but my friend pointed them out to me and I felt stupid for missing them.

I'm amazed you haven't found a weapon with soultrap on it yet. Look in shops, I always see them carrying a ton. Break the weapon and enchant it on one you prefer, give it 1 or 2 seconds soultrap time, it'll give it a ton of charges and that just means you need to use the weapon to land a killing blow, so you don't need longer than a second really.

Go to your weapon inventory, highlight an enchanted weapon, it'll say "Press *insert button* to recharge" or something. You then select a filled soul gem and it'll fill the charges.
If you want a good thing for enchanting and refilling charges,
Find Azura's shrine. It's south of Winterhold, there's a big ass statue of a chick. The shrine is by it so find a way to it. Do the quest and give the broken star to the dude you talk to at the inn, you get the Black Star, which is a black reusable soul gem. To fill that you just kill ANY human and it is filled with a grand soul. So you can fill weapons EASILY with it during most dungeons and stuff.

 

[AlanJohn]

I can't load D:
When I load my save, it shows the model of a thing and some text, and its stuck on that!

 

[YayMii]

The first times pickpocketing is of course quite hard and frustrating, but like I said, just quicksave a lot and you'll get it It levels up really really fast, then it gets easier. AND if you invest 3 points in it (or maybe 4) you can pick a perk that adds a whopping 100 capacity!

I know this is somewhat unrelated, but FYI increasing stamina also increases your capacity by 5. Not as much as that perk, but still.

Where do you find the Warrior Guardian Stone?
And where/how can I get an item that has a soul trap spell on it?
And how do I refill enchanted items?

1. It's one of the 3 stones you pass by at the very beginning of the game, on your way to Riverwood.
2. I dunno...
3. Soultrap creature souls into soulgems, then use the soulgems on your weapons. There might also be someone at the Winterhold College that can recharge them for a fee.

 

[Costello]

And where/how can I get an item that has a soul trap spell on it?

a bit spoilish but i have an answer:

Spoiler

after completing first couple of quests from the main questline, I was given a battleaxe that has a soul trap spell.
I'm pretty sure it was given to me by the jarl of whiterun after killing the first dragon.

 

[Hells Malice]

That's not really a spoiler /\ but i'll hide my reply anyway, lol.

Spoiler

Oh right.
I remember that thing. I immediately dropped it for being so useless, lol.

Dudes a jarl...so he gives me a useless title that gets me out of petty crimes once in a while, a companion i'll never use and a craptastic axe with soultrap on it.
FML jarl, fml.

 

[Costello]

I found all of that pretty helpful tbh

Spoiler

- the companion is helpful in attacking enemies and beasts, besides she's decent looking
- i didnt know about avoiding bounties, that could be interesting... i need to try it
- the axe IS useful for re enchanting items. though i need to find azura's star otherwise its pointless (dont wanna be buying craptons of soul gems)

also how do you quick save & quick load?

 

[Hells Malice]

F5 is quick save, F9 is quick load.

I never use companions so she wasn't helpful to me, and the axe was about the 6th weapon i'd found with soultrap so it being a mediocre default steel or iron (I forgot) axe didn't do much for me.

He coulda just given me a room full of gold and called it even.

 

[Costello]

cant you quick load/save from the 360 controller directly?
my keyboard is unplugged due to a lack for USB ports on the front... haha

 

[Satangel]

The Warrior, thief and mage guardian stones are right near the first town, pretty much right on the path you follow to get there after escaping the dragon assault via that underground path. I missed them too, but my friend pointed them out to me and I felt stupid for missing them.

I'm amazed you haven't found a weapon with soultrap on it yet. Look in shops, I always see them carrying a ton. Break the weapon and enchant it on one you prefer, give it 1 or 2 seconds soultrap time, it'll give it a ton of charges and that just means you need to use the weapon to land a killing blow, so you don't need longer than a second really.

Go to your weapon inventory, highlight an enchanted weapon, it'll say "Press *insert button* to recharge" or something. You then select a filled soul gem and it'll fill the charges.
If you want a good thing for enchanting and refilling charges,
Find Azura's shrine. It's south of Winterhold, there's a big ass statue of a chick. The shrine is by it so find a way to it. Do the quest and give the broken star to the dude you talk to at the inn, you get the Black Star, which is a black reusable soul gem. To fill that you just kill ANY human and it is filled with a grand soul. So you can fill weapons EASILY with it during most dungeons and stuff.

Ah ffs, I've seen so many of those stones already, but didn't know they were actually usable things. I feel so stupid now....... Those benefits are amazing according to the UESP page!
I'll check them out ASAP. Also, in my game I have one enchantment (dunno where from) that 'makes Destruction magic cost 8% less magicka'.
And I'm getting that Black Star too, so handy, I remember they had a very similar item/way to get that item in Oblivion, should have thought of it earlier.

The first times pickpocketing is of course quite hard and frustrating, but like I said, just quicksave a lot and you'll get it It levels up really really fast, then it gets easier. AND if you invest 3 points in it (or maybe 4) you can pick a perk that adds a whopping 100 capacity!

I know this is somewhat unrelated, but FYI increasing stamina also increases your capacity by 5. Not as much as that perk, but still.

Where do you find the Warrior Guardian Stone?
And where/how can I get an item that has a soul trap spell on it?
And how do I refill enchanted items?

1. It's one of the 3 stones you pass by at the very beginning of the game, on your way to Riverwood.
2. I dunno...
3. Soultrap creature souls into soulgems, then use the soulgems on your weapons. There might also be someone at the Winterhold College that can recharge them for a fee.

Thanks! I'll find the Azura's star and already have some soultrapping items.

I found all of that pretty helpful tbh

Spoiler

- the companion is helpful in attacking enemies and beasts, besides she's decent looking
- i didnt know about avoiding bounties, that could be interesting... i need to try it
- the axe IS useful for re enchanting items. though i need to find azura's star otherwise its pointless (dont wanna be buying craptons of soul gems)

Same, I use the companion a lot. Really a lot, but mainly because the battles are really tough sometimes (I play on Adept)

If you're in the Thieves Guild you can pay your bounty off to the guards, by stating your in the guild and pay them around 400 gold. That counts as a speech check thingy, which levels up your Speech skill! And afterwards you can just take your money back from the guard
I don't know if it's the same with the Thane (you become a Thane in Whiterun if you kill the dragon) thing, should try it.
also how do you quick save & quick load?

cant you quick load/save from the 360 controller directly?
my keyboard is unplugged due to a lack for USB ports on the front... haha

I don't know, couldn't you quicksave on Oblivion 360? Probably just the same button. Would be a real bummer IMHO if you can't quicksave on the consoles.

 

[prowler]

I don't know if I'll be able to get married again.

He pissed me off, saying the same things over and over again so I asked him to follow me, we went to the middle of some swamp and I killed him.

FOREVER ALONE.

 

[Nujui]

There is a funny way you can steal things in the game. If you put a basket onto the NPCs head, you can steal everything around them, and they won't do anything.

And I'm not joking, it actually works

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cosEePMUf0[/youtube]

 

[prowler]

The original video (which is more funny), not some crackhead talking in the background and it's been posted before somewhere.

 

[Nujui]

Ah, didn't know it was already posted .

But anyways, I've been running into a lot more wildlife now that I've traveled pretty far. I just got killed by a Bear >:.

 

[Hells Malice]

That trick doesn't work very often. NPCs need to stand perfectly still, and some seem to emit this "fuck off with your trickery" aura that doesn't allow the items to fall over their head. Though I have used it a few times for great success. I prefer just stealing keys to places and then raiding them at night.

 

[Satangel]

I don't know if I'll be able to get married again.

He pissed me off, saying the same things over and over again so I asked him to follow me, we went to the middle of some swamp and I killed him.

FOREVER ALONE.

I've promised some pretty woman to marry her the next day, 3 weeks ago. We're both evil as fuck

Ah, didn't know it was already posted .

But anyways, I've been running into a lot more wildlife now that I've traveled pretty far. I just got killed by a Bear >:.

Wildlife is so much fun, it's really worthwhile to hunt and collect the hides, then tan them in leather. Love it Bethesda, great job

That trick doesn't work very often. NPCs need to stand perfectly still, and some seem to emit this "fuck off with your trickery" aura that doesn't allow the items to fall over their head. Though I have used it a few times for great success. I prefer just stealing keys to places and then raiding them at night.

True, it sometimes works, sometimes the bucket just does inexplicable things.

Also, great news!

Skyrim sells 3.4 copies in 48 hours

"Skyrim actually set a record on Steam, with more than 280,000 concurrent players in the first 24 hours of its release, far outdistancing all other titles. More than 50 percent of launch units across all platforms were sold in the first 48 hours."

 

[MelodieOctavia]

When you kill a dragon, just for kicks and grins, cast a spell like Ice Spike on it's corpse. Just be sure to loot it for everything you want first.