How you get that much money?
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim |OT2| Team Edward's Revenge
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How you get that much money?
Just selling stuff I find in the world.
It gets much easier to make gold as it takes longer to level
looting and selling, quests... i've probably also only spent 15-20k total during my entire playthrough.
How exactly do Soul Gems work?
I came across a sword with the description "Fills a soul gem if enemy dies in 5 seconds"
I had a lesser gem and a common gem on me and I walked up to a weak as hell skeleton, killed it in one hit, and got the message "Soul gem not large enough".
Should I only really fool around with greater gems? Is there a way to tell if an enemy is too big to fit in my current gems?
My Dawnbreaker is all out of juice and I need to fill it.
I came across a sword with the description "Fills a soul gem if enemy dies in 5 seconds"
I had a lesser gem and a common gem on me and I walked up to a weak as hell skeleton, killed it in one hit, and got the message "Soul gem not large enough".
Should I only really fool around with greater gems? Is there a way to tell if an enemy is too big to fit in my current gems?
My Dawnbreaker is all out of juice and I need to fill it.
Normal questing and selling stuff, stealing a lot and then fencing it helps too. I've got about that much too, just trying to get the 100k achievement before I splurge on skills and houses.
You can also come across 20,000 during (major guild spoiler)
the end of the dark brotherhood questline
Decided to call it quits for tonight, not because I'm bored, I love it. I just need a night of rest. The game is so overwhelming. I have like hundreds of things I need to do. I'm rocking an enchanted war axe and enchanted sword together, and I have to say, out of the melee combat, this feels the best.
Woo-Fu
Banned
If you find the dead body through exploration before getting the quest this is what happens. It is in my log too.
On the money topic money is only tight early game, once things start dropping glass/ebony your money worries are over. There really isn't that much to buy, outside of houses and power-leveling smithing/alchemy.
Yeah I'm waiting until after I get the achievement for that stuff.
HawksWinStanley
Member
Is there any reason to keep all these books I'm finding? I know you open quests or something when you pick some of them up. I wanted to read them eventually but I've got a fucken library on my back and it's too much weight.
Oh yeah, and is there any way to carry more weight?
Oh yeah, and is there any way to carry more weight?
humanoids need black soul gems (which are incredibly rare, afaik... though i hear you can buy them at college of winterhold for 1300 each)
basically the petty/lesser/common/greater are for animals and creatures
just read them and throw away, no need carrying them around unless you want to actually read them
you carry more weight by a) leveling up your stamina or b) getting enchanted armor that gives you more strength (i have a pair of nice boots that give me 35 more points of carry weight)
Woo-Fu
Banned
Get the house in Whiterun instead. It is only 5k and is very convenient, particularly when you get around to building up your smithing.
Fuck.
Well where is another place i can get a house? I'm not to sure about the one in Whiterun. Is there another affordable one?
EDIT:
Good point. I guess I'll go with this one.
If you increase your stamina when you level up your carry weight will increase by 5. There also potions that increase your weight for a limited amount of time.
There are so many books. I've only managed 2-3 a day.
Hey you want to start using spoiler tags?
iNvid02
Member
selling the strange amulet to that cortx guy (forgot his name) gives you 500 gold.
stealing it back gives you 1 level of pickpocket due to the amulet being worth 1000.
then you can sell it to him again - rinse repeat for thousands in gold and a very
fast way to level up your pickpocket
stealing it back gives you 1 level of pickpocket due to the amulet being worth 1000.
then you can sell it to him again - rinse repeat for thousands in gold and a very
fast way to level up your pickpocket
Flame Lord
Member
How do cna you make your carrying weight higher? Seems like it's pretty much been the same since I started.
edgefusion
Member
Stamina governs your carry weight. There are some perks which make it higher too, I think one is in the pickpocket tree?
Yeah, Alchemy is your friend when it comes to doing mage business. You can apply poisons to bound weapons, for curious budding wizards. I don't really use Destruction magic, but I sometimes make potions of Fortify Alteration and Weakness to Magic poisons so I can troll people harder with Paralyze.
Given how much control you wind up with as a mage, I think it's fair enough that damage increases can't be passive.
Resisting the temptation. HNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
Luckily I have no idea who that guy is...phew!
What quest and where? I am desperately looking for the magic resist enchantment, I'm tired of getting pop-shotted by mages.
I am a tool.
-Walk into Bee and the Barb for the first time in 37 hours of play
-See Marcurio
-Take all of Vorstag's load
-Dismiss Vorstag after ~20 hours of glorious time spent together
-Hire Marcurio
-Marry Marcurio
It's like a prostitute husband. At least Skyrim is all for my gay-for-pay mage groom.
-Walk into Bee and the Barb for the first time in 37 hours of play
-See Marcurio
-Take all of Vorstag's load
-Dismiss Vorstag after ~20 hours of glorious time spent together
-Hire Marcurio
-Marry Marcurio
It's like a prostitute husband. At least Skyrim is all for my gay-for-pay mage groom.
TSAGoodness
Member
When I go to the skills menu, the numbers for my health are red, and the max health is lower then it used to be, what happened?
You could also seek out the Lord Guardian Stone, which will give you 25% magic and physical resist as passives. There are also resist magic potions you can quaff, and an Alteration perk for 10%/20%/30% magic resistance, though that requires a total of five perks invested.
Check your active effects in the magic menu.
So I just had the best dragon battle ever.
A dragon was circling around a mini hill and I shot at it. It saw me and started attacking. There were two groups of giants and mammoths that helped me out. There were also 3 guards escorting a prisoner who left him behind to come and attack the dragon. To top it off, the dragon disturbed an old hag in her small hut and she started attacking him too.
The outcome? The dragon died, a solider died (the prisoner was escorted by two guards instead of three) and the giant killed the old hag. Awesome.
edit: I downloaded the killable children mod and it works nicely. Probably won't use it but it's nice to have.
A dragon was circling around a mini hill and I shot at it. It saw me and started attacking. There were two groups of giants and mammoths that helped me out. There were also 3 guards escorting a prisoner who left him behind to come and attack the dragon. To top it off, the dragon disturbed an old hag in her small hut and she started attacking him too.
The outcome? The dragon died, a solider died (the prisoner was escorted by two guards instead of three) and the giant killed the old hag. Awesome.
edit: I downloaded the killable children mod and it works nicely. Probably won't use it but it's nice to have.
iNvid02
Member
theres a bug with the Oghma Infinium book so you can
max all your stats. wouldn't recommend unless you really
want to go beast mode as it takes away the fun
vid here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sppwru7wfqs
max all your stats. wouldn't recommend unless you really
want to go beast mode as it takes away the fun
vid here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sppwru7wfqs
Faralda will sell what you're looking for once you get a higher skill level. All of the mages there increase the variety of tomes they sell as your skill increases.
go_la_clips
Member
Troll, no problem...
Giant + Mammoth, please...
Bear... BEAR!!! EVERYBODY RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
Giant + Mammoth, please...
Bear... BEAR!!! EVERYBODY RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
I can't believe how much fun I'm having with this game. I've never really liked an Elder Scrolls game before, but I'm really into this one. The setting is a big contributing factor, I think, but also (earlyish sidequest spoiler, concerning the Companions)
I'm a total sucker for that stuff. I'm also loving all of the unique and interesting dungeons.
when Ferkas turned into a werewolf, the game caught me.
So the guards in whiterun are insensitive assholes. I was doing the companion questline and
So hilarious. But i missed most of the
:/
This game is so awesome, but if they make me restart because i'm on PS3 it's gonna break the game for me. Something always breaks bethesda games for me in the middle, but it's usually my own fault because i can't help myself and my min-maxing ways :X
I'm doing a one handed/shield/destruction/summoner build, but the shield is really returning diminishing effects i feel, bosses are straight out one shotting me all the time. Maybe abandoning the shield will give a better payoff in the end.
when i'm running through town to attend the funeral of the harbringer, i somehow did a dragonshout instead. No worries, nothing harmed, i get to the guildhall and the funeral starts. And in the middle of the funeral a town guard suddenly barges in and interrupts the whole funeral just to tell me to stop "doing that shout in town as it upsets people".
funeral
This game is so awesome, but if they make me restart because i'm on PS3 it's gonna break the game for me. Something always breaks bethesda games for me in the middle, but it's usually my own fault because i can't help myself and my min-maxing ways :X
I'm doing a one handed/shield/destruction/summoner build, but the shield is really returning diminishing effects i feel, bosses are straight out one shotting me all the time. Maybe abandoning the shield will give a better payoff in the end.
PumpkinPie
Banned
I was escorting a ghost and lost him, I know he isn't dead because he can't be hurt but the map marker is just pointing to the destination. I've travelled between the two locations with no luck, any ideas?
Instead of grinding smithing and leaving the scaling out of wack by it leveling me up, I just used the console.
Repeat "player.advlevel smithing 9999" until 100. Perk out the branch (I did heavy, had exactly 5 perks to spend for it)
"player.setlevel 32" to bring me back down to the level I was at before
Before the game came out I was excited for smithing, but it is such a chore.
Not using it to make any armor though, since that was not my reasoning behind doing it. Just so that I would be able to improve what I already have without being impeded by needless grinding.
Repeat "player.advlevel smithing 9999" until 100. Perk out the branch (I did heavy, had exactly 5 perks to spend for it)
"player.setlevel 32" to bring me back down to the level I was at before
Before the game came out I was excited for smithing, but it is such a chore.
Not using it to make any armor though, since that was not my reasoning behind doing it. Just so that I would be able to improve what I already have without being impeded by needless grinding.
moojito
Member
Just got into my first dwemer dungeon as part of the mage college quest line. Beautiful!
Also, soul gems.
And this, as well. I stumbled across a ninja bear hiding in some reeds last night and he kicked my ass all over the tundra.
Also, soul gems.
Bear... BEAR!!! EVERYBODY RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
And this, as well. I stumbled across a ninja bear hiding in some reeds last night and he kicked my ass all over the tundra.
Question about Markath Mine Prison quest:
Was I not supposed to start killing all the guards after I got out? lol there's corpses everywhere and I went to the Understone Keep and now even some of the non-guard NPCS are attacking me...feels like I messed up somewhere along here. Should I re-load my save at the beginning of the prison?