The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

The first thing I thought when I saw that lockpick picture was that it could (and should) be used for a drinking game.

I have a necklace and ring with sneak and lockpick 40%. So with my nightingale and gloves picking is easy. The extra 2-3 weight is worth the ease.

I'm surprised people have trouble with lock picking.

LOL that's awesome.

I have 100+ lockpicks and I don't have a single perk or gear to make it easier and I never run out of picks >.> I suppose it would be good if you're trying to break out of jail or something

same, i usually find tons of lockpicks, and after the first few dungeons when you skill you lockpicking up 20+, it gets incredibly easy to unlock anything below master

Finally got 100 enchanting on my 3rd character... I held no self control and put the best enchantments on my legendary daedric armor, and now the game isn't fun :(

Can literally run into any sized base with my sword out and just hack & slash everyone down without ever healing on master difficulty D:

Game goes from incredibly hard combat to insanely easy if you let it. Need "insane" difficulty pls

the christmas Pinocchio movie was on earlier and i heard "lady azura" and i was like O.O

There is an insane difficulty mod out there now it makes master mode 32x harder.

so my friend finally returned my 360, which means I can finally devote a little bit more time to skyrim and actually have it patched when and if it does, but my concern is my friend said the 360 version was the worse off one compared to both the PS3 and PC version (and obviously the PC version is better because of mods and whatnot) buuuut anyway... is he correct or is the 360 version around the same?

4-8 should be enough if you have deadly dragons, 8 can pretty much oneshot me with a breath without resistance gear with DD hard.

Ill just leave this here....

http://videogamedrinkinggames.blogspot.com/2011/12/skyrim-drinking-game_24.html

(dont recommend this game by yourself, its difficult to even make it out of whiterun)

You're going to get drunk off your *** just from this "3. An enemy says 'You never should have come here.'"

Ok im currently lvl 48 and working on light armor 51 blocking 79 and one handed 90, heavy armor, smithing and, two handed are capped , does anyone know what shop sells one handed augmented armor i still have seem not to come across any through my travels

Blacksmiths usually have some enchanted stuff and bosses should have. Best way to get good gear is to make it yourself, level your enchanting and smithing.

All loot is random unless you craft it. If you're looking for something to disenchant for the base enchantment, the only item in the game I know (leveled or quest reward) is nightingale gloves, which cant be DE'd. Just gotta keep looking unfortunately.

Great i guess the search continues, THIS IS SKYRIM!!!!, gonna go take my anger out on an ancient dragon now
P.S i have full dragonplate, dragonscale and daedric, just want to get the good enchantment for armor before i put the augments permently on and getting it to 100 first before i do my best armor

Quick question on magic in this game, does it ever not suck? I picked a high elf thinking I'd go with a baddass mage archetype, but I'm around level 20 or so now and I generally end up just bashing stuff with my mace or sneaking around shooting with my bow because my destructive magic is so laughably weak.

Mage seems to be hit or miss in this game, I gave up mine when mres was broken and everything could next to one shot me with spells/spellstaffs. My general opinion of mage is this.

1. You need to get some good vendor -destruction cost gear, or go all out, level enchant/alch/smithing and make a full set of -100% cost gear for destruction. This lets you spam cast as yes, magic is on the "weak" side until later levels, where the cost begins to offset high level spells usefulness, which is where your -cost gear comes in big time.

2. You need impact perk. No matter what impact perk + chain lightning is your bread and butter crowd control for a destruction heavy play through. You can obviously use illusion magic as well for cc, but destruction heavy, impact is a necessity.

3. Quiet casting (illusion tree) perk can make mage much more "efficient" if youre not going for gung-ho rambo mage throwing fireballs at anything in your path, or you want to play on master difficulty. My problem here and what lead to quitting my mage as well as mres was I was sneaking so much on my mage, I might as well be using bow/arrow, and began my archer character at this point.

4. Generally maxing fire will result in highest damage possible for mage, however, because I used chain lightning so heavily, I opted for capping Lightning perk tree in my playthrough. Had I played it longer I might have capped one other tree, but I don't know if I could have justified the loss of perks.

5. If you don't want to go the -cost route, keep one or two staffs of xxx destruction magic (of fireballs, etc) on you as a backup for when you run out your mp.

6. Keep your alteration leveled. Ebonyflesh with proper perks is 300~ armor for 3 minutes. If you plan on using robes, you will need this to survive next to anything.

Adding on to what Demomo said, if you want to increase your damage easily with destruction magic, potions are the way to go. You basically have to rely on them to increase your damage in any noticeable way.

This is pretty much the reason i havent joined either.

I finished both sides of the civil war on different characters, and just felt let down and disappointed when it was all said and done. Wanted to kill off the leaders myself.

Finally getting around to replacing my 2 video cards thanks to some of the modded screenshots I've seen of skyrim...I have two 900mhz evga 580 classifieds coming tomorrow, I'm curious of some of the graphics mods people are using with higher end PC's to tweak the game a little further. I'm currently running the half completed 2k textures mod, improved faces, improved beast races and realistic water textures, as well as various armor tweaks (HD Daedric is one of the most amazing imo). Are there any good graphics mods beyond these to look into, especially for the sky graphics, as I've yet to find one mod that does Night+Day sky.

Idk if it has been posted before or anything, but gave me goosebumps.

Ok there's 161 pages of posts, I have read some, have try google with my problems since I'm italian can't find the same problem I have. Anyway... have problem in menu where cursors doesn't show (load?).
I have to press 5 times or move and press menu button for make that cursor appear.... also when I try access that "cross" menu (items, map, magic, ability or whatever is) sometimes I can't choose anything, simple because that cursor doesn't appear and allow me to. Another bug when I try read a book, this book doesn't open but instead is stucked with target cursor... O.o ok my pc sucks :x but this problem never happen in any latest games I have played :X

Just some suggestions as I've never ran into this problem myself. Do you have mouse pointer trails enabled on your PC? If you do, turn that off, it may be causing a rendering glitch for the pointer. Also, if you have a controller plugged into your PC, but are not using it for Skyrim, unplug it as well.

I sort of ran into the same problem, but I don't really have any quibbles about enchanting my armor to have 0 mp cost for spells. Incinerate and lightning bolt (or is it thunderbolt..? the expert level ones anyway) will do pretty respectable damage, especially if you can fire them off quickly (as quickly as the short charge time allows). If you're not willing to do that, then you'd at least need a lot of mp regen + enchantments, a lot of mp, and still a good deal of -x% destruction cost (I regularly find armor with -22% give or take -- maybe master robes of destruction or something would be good if you're going totally mage -- no armor), and the -50% destruction cost perks for whatever tier spells you're using (presumably all of them as you go). Also, in case you didn't know, -x% destruction cost enchantments are additive while the perks are multiplicative (ie. -50% perk and -50% enchants makes 25% spell cost rather than 0% spell cost).

The biggest probelm (?) for me is that with totally free destruction spells everything is really very easy. I suppose I set it up that way though and the lack of difficulty doesn't bother me. Part of what makes it easy is also that I use dragon scale armor instead of mage clothes so even if I do get hit it doesn't hurt (also haven't raised mp above 200 because there's no need).

Oh, I almost forgot to mention you'd want the +25%/50% perks for whatever element(s) you're using, but that should be beyond obvious. What might not be obvious is that the master level spells for destruction are horrible and never (in my experience) worth using, so there's one perk you don't need to bother with.

EDIT: again forgot to mention, the dual casting perks for increased potency and chance to stun are both very important for mages. The stun thing, however, is probably what makes everything so unbelievably easy since nothing even has a chance to attack you that way.

Gonna try and make a destruction mage assassin hybrid formally putting perks heavily in destruction but also one-handed (dagger) and sneak skill/perks on the side to eliminate threats silently, yet having the ability to obliterate everything should my presence be compromised.
Also gonna take the effort to do silent casting to silently lay rune traps and reroute attention into them via Ful-Mey-Gut (Throw Voice).

Oh and this character will be a bit of a kleptomaniac as well.