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I've picked up potions of water breathing, so that enchantment/effect is still there. Water walking, I'm not sure about.
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I haven't even noticed anything related to drowning yet. Mind you, i never dived that long, but i'm still curious whether it's actually in the game or not.
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how do you fucks keep mastering smithing? I find so little ore and other ingredients that I don't think I'd ever even get close! I just purchased a house and have about 200 gold to my name. Barely enough for the carriage ride to Hogwarts and to buy the magelight spell.

Oh, when the wizard lady asked me to cast Mage Light on the rune on the ground near her as a test, I wish there was a dialogue option to say "No, but if you want that bitch set on fire I got you covered."
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Fun fact she can ask you any one of the first set of spells you can buy in the first town except set people on fire or heal yourself which apparently everyone knows and she picks one at random.

Also "Hogwarts" is small as heck, there were Televani Wizards with bigger places back in Morrowind.

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If only I had the cashola to do that. as a wimply, pimply high-elf my carrying capacity is pathetically low.

Also - anyone know if there's a way to break down things like Jewelry into their constituent components?



RE: Carrying capacity - I meant to say that I cannot carry a large amount of junk back to town to seel to get mo' moneez.
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Chardok wrote:RE: Carrying capacity - I meant to say that I cannot carry a large amount of junk back to town to seel to get mo' moneez.
Dump all their stuff at the start of the dungeon, make multiple trips.

Also, if you're grinding smithing then enchant everything you make with a crappy enchant and sell it for moneiz and boost your enchanting ability as well.
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Blackreach is fucking nuts.

I thought this game was huge. Oh, how wrong I was.
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Smithing? You know where Whiterun is? It has a smithy right by the entrance.

There are five things: a grindstone, a workbench, leather-thingy, anvil-with-furnace and a smelter (it's a bit in the back). The workbench can be used to improve armor, the grindstone to improve weapons (both for which you need their corresponding material).

You can turn ore into usable ingots in the smelter.

Starting out, you will want to use the leather-thingy a lot. Hunt down some animals (not bunnies: they're too cute and more importantly, don't provide hides). From animal hides, you can make leather. From leather, you can also make a few leather strips, which you should.

Then go to the anvil-with-furnace and select leather. There is no difference towards XP as to what you make (you'll get as much XP for making the highest grade armor as making the cheapest hat), so make leather braces, which cost only one leather and one or two leather strip (IIRC).

Later, once you have the money and moved beyond steel or iron equipment, you can buy iron ingots by a large number. Do so and make as much leather strips as possible. Then make iron daggers like crazy.

That's how you do it. Being under the Warrior stone also helps.

I actually sort of wish they had a more elaborate xp-reward system. Making a high-grade armour with hard-to-find materials (ebony is a bitch to get) should reward you more, not as much as making the cheapest.
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Serafina wrote:I haven't even noticed anything related to drowning yet. Mind you, i never dived that long, but i'm still curious whether it's actually in the game or not.
Yes, there's no visible air meter but if you stay under too long you start losing health. Unless you are Argonian, of course.
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Chardok wrote:how do you fucks keep mastering smithing? I find so little ore and other ingredients that I don't think I'd ever even get close! I just purchased a house and have about 200 gold to my name. Barely enough for the carriage ride to Hogwarts and to buy the magelight spell.
Make sure you have enough spell effects to make enchanted weapons. Buy all the filled petty soul gems you can get your hands on, then enchant them for turn undead or something fun like that. Then sell them for massive profit which you use to do that more. Do this all after having slept for more skill gains. Fun!
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North of Whiterun there is a mine or cave filled with bandits. In one of them there is an Alteration spell called "Transmute". It allows you to turn iron ore into silver ore, silver ore to gold (one at the time though). Quite handy.
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It's also chock full of mammoth tusks, which are relatively valuable and can get you into the good graces of a marriageable npc which is another source of income when you have a house since they can open a shop. It's really a one stop beginner shop if you can pull it off.
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Zixinus wrote:North of Whiterun there is a mine or cave filled with bandits. In one of them there is an Alteration spell called "Transmute". It allows you to turn iron ore into silver ore, silver ore to gold (one at the time though). Quite handy.
If you go allll the way west to near Markarth there's a place called Kolskeggr Mine.

I got 51 lumps of Gold Ore there from one run through it. (It's infested with Forsworn tho).
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Also, for end-level stuff, if you look at the giant swampy area northwest of Riften, there's a dragon area in the middle. Head directly northeast and there'll eventually be a mine and an orcish outpost with a mine next to it. That mine is chock full of ebony. Ebony is megafun to play with. You can also sneak into the mine if you're careful with your jumps if you haven't done their quest.
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Mr Bean wrote: If a Dragon follows you back to town and burns down the town... sucks to be you. However I'll note most quest npc's hang out indoors. The major towns where a good 60% of the quests are gotten are also instanced so you can't bring a Dragon into them (Yet... come on PC mods) but you can sure as heck murder a town by yourself with your own zombie minions.
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When I walked up the 7000 Steps there were several NPCs who said "Watch out for wolves on your way up to the high hrothgar."

That got really annoying.

I told my housemate: "The next guy who warns me about wolves gets stabbed."

I do the whole 7000 steps thing, investigate the barrow near town, learn a new dragon word, and then go back into the inn where I got the barrow tipoff.

Dude sitting at a table is like "Watch out for wolves on your way up to the high hrothgar."

STAB.

Other NPCs in the tavern: No reaction. At all.

WTF.

This game is seriously failing to live up to its fanbase's hype.
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Maybe nobody liked that dude so they were ok with you stabbing him? :)
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Stofsk wrote:Maybe nobody liked that dude so they were ok with you stabbing him? :)
He should try to see how far he can go before getting into trouble. I know I'd do it if I had the game. :)
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That varies wildly, as I mentioned before, hitting a chicken = whole town wants to murder you.
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I don't get it. I've killed two dragons, but bandit chiefs I have to run from. What am I doing wrong here?
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Nothing. They just made Dragons beatable whatever your character's level is, but not all wildlife/enemies scale like that.
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The regular dragons are lame, but the blood dragons are annoying. I wonder if that's something from the lore, or just poor balance?
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It's the scaling. Starting at about level 10 you start seeing blood dragons, at 20 frost dragons, something else at 30 and so on... presumably for as long as they can think up adjectives to stick in front of "dragon" as an excuse to make it 10 levels more powerful.
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