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Mar 22nd, 2012 04:38 PM
Zomboid Yeah, those guys got me a few times when seemingly nothing else was really doing much damage. If you're playing as a melee guy and level up the right stuff, you can be pretty much invincible until that sort of shit.

I think Chimp's right about the two-handed hammer thing. I remember some random bandit had killed me twice with one, even after I'd killed all of her buddies without taking a scratch.
Mar 22nd, 2012 02:03 PM
10,000 Volt Ghost Those forsworn jerks that dual wield and spin when they attack almost got me a few times. They remind me of the Barb-icanes from Diablo 2.

Mar 21st, 2012 07:22 PM
AChimp I think there's something with 2-handed hammers that does crazy damage and ignores armor if you stand around and let them power attack you or something. I was pretty close to invincible for the last half of the game after crafting the shit out of some stuff and I still got one-shot a few times.
Mar 21st, 2012 11:35 AM
Pentegarn That happened to me once or twice, turned out the guy had an ebony bow and ebony arrows.
Mar 21st, 2012 03:28 AM
Supafly345 Finally playing this, and getting kinda confused how suddenly enemies are able to 1 hit kill me. Normal enemies. I kill like 15 in a row who can barely hurt me, then one knocks me on my ass in a single shot. This happens from time to time, and I'm wearing ebony armor, with a decent level in it. I don't understand it.
Feb 9th, 2012 01:12 AM
Zomboid That was certainly...very, very enjoyable. And it was probably a real bitch to make.
Feb 8th, 2012 11:43 PM
10,000 Volt Ghost
Feb 4th, 2012 10:50 AM
10,000 Volt Ghost that sounds like the worst breakfast ever though.
Feb 4th, 2012 10:09 AM
AChimp Giant's toes and wheat combine to make a potion that gives you the most skillup. Plus you can just train alchemy every level.

It's pointless to pay for training on combat skills unless you're close to a perk you want or something, because you're constantly using those skills and they'll just level up on their own.
Feb 2nd, 2012 04:09 PM
kahljorn
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I made like twenty potions, but I didn't even go up a point. I think the secret lies in making expensive potions, but I don't have the patience to go looking online for the right ingredients.
hm i remember gaining a shitload of levels just by clearing my inventory of all the shit i picked up. i could be wrong though i guess but i always had an inventory full of alchemy shit and it woudl be stored in a bunch of places and i had to sell most of my potions cause tht shit weighed a lot

it sucks they took out the mortar and pestle cause thats how i used to get rich in those games
Feb 2nd, 2012 09:10 AM
Pentegarn
Feb 1st, 2012 10:35 PM
Chojin My character was a sneak/assassin build with minors in archery, 1h, and some alteration for mage shields because power armor is for pussies.



I stopped playing because I wasn't really interested in the main quest and because shit got way too easy. I have a 30x backstab and can usually sneak up on peeps so shit got ridic. Still, stealth is more fun than other scrolls games since you can hide again after being seen, and you aren't completely invisible at 100.
Jan 31st, 2012 09:21 PM
Zomboid Yeah, I got about that far before I quit. Enchanting your own stuff helps a lot in that regard. Before I got to that point, though, it took me like an hour to get past this one fucking Wisp Mother.
Jan 31st, 2012 08:26 PM
Dr. Boogie
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Originally Posted by kahljorn View Post
15-20 minutes? rob a few alchemy stores
I made like twenty potions, but I didn't even go up a point. I think the secret lies in making expensive potions, but I don't have the patience to go looking online for the right ingredients.

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I kinda tried making my own potions, and it was taking a while. Then I stopped playing because I got a few new games at Christmas, and I haven't played since. My mage was doing pretty decent damage, but it was pretty difficult to go from the warrior Nord in my first game, who ended up being pretty unstoppable, to having to actually try to evade attacks and use potions regularly.
I forget the name, but getting the perk that lets you stun enemies with a dual cast destruction spell helps a whole lot, especially when you're fighting dragons. And once you get your hands on some equipment that lowers the casting cost a lot, things really start to take off.
Jan 31st, 2012 02:07 PM
Pentegarn Should have gone with the unarmed badass build above
Jan 30th, 2012 11:37 PM
Zomboid I kinda tried making my own potions, and it was taking a while. Then I stopped playing because I got a few new games at Christmas, and I haven't played since. My mage was doing pretty decent damage, but it was pretty difficult to go from the warrior Nord in my first game, who ended up being pretty unstoppable, to having to actually try to evade attacks and use potions regularly.
Jan 30th, 2012 10:25 PM
kahljorn
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but how f'ing long is that gonna take?
15-20 minutes?
rob a few alchemy stores
Jan 30th, 2012 08:58 PM
Dr. Boogie I put away my mage character because I maxed out Destruction and made some equipment that, all together, let me cast all Destruction spells for free. Dragon fights were lasting less than a minute.

I started playing a thief/assassin which has turned out to be great fun... when you're fighting humans. Everything else is turning out to be a bit of a struggle, particularly when I can't sneak. I especially hate fighting enemies face-to-face, dominating the fight for a little while, and then being done in because the enemy decided to initiate a scripted death sequence out of nowhere.

I decided to try and level up pickpocketing because I was curious to see how useful it was. I thought it might take a while, but then I discovered you can pickpocket the gold you spend on training. Every successful pickpocket was netting me almost 2 whole points. Maxed it out before I even left Riverwood. That kind of screwed me. During that quest when you and Dipshit McGee from the Companions get ambushed by silverhands, he would promptly get killed, then leave me to feebly swipe at a group until one of those scripted deaths occurred. The worst part was that they were too strong to stealth kill.

Some people are claiming the way to go with a build like that is to get Alchemy up to the point where you make great poisons, but how f'ing long is that gonna take? And outside of stealth, things still take forever to kill, even with these twin Legendary Skyforged Swords and the equally legendary elven bow I made.

Is my only recourse to just grind up enchant and make some sick shit to bolster all my non-throat cutting skills?
Jan 22nd, 2012 11:00 AM
Nick I did the Dark Brotherhood first. You get mad cash and some nice training to get you ready for the garbage the thieves make you do. Also Shadowmere is a bro.
Jan 22nd, 2012 02:31 AM
Pentegarn the3 nightingale sword and bow are nice too. But you don't mess with that faction for a good story, you mess with it for easy early game coin by doing sweep and rampage quests at the same time in a city
Jan 21st, 2012 06:55 PM
Nick The Dark Brotherhood quest line is so much better than the Thieves Guide, you don't even know.

Only decent thing from the Thieves Guild is the Nightingale armor, which is pretty much the same as the Ancient Shrouded Armor anyways.

Unless you're not playing as a thieve or a character that uses light armor- then it's worthless.
Jan 20th, 2012 09:37 PM
dextire
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Originally Posted by Dr. Boogie View Post
In other news, I'm starting to wonder if I should adopt a different combat tactic than "pour your strongest dual cast spell into your enemy and hope you don't run out of magicka before they die".
Nah, that strategy should work just fine.
You just need to enchant circlets, rings, and amulets to reduce the cost of the spells.
Jan 20th, 2012 08:12 PM
Dr. Boogie Finally started playing it myself.

I'm starting to worry that my kleptomania in games like Skyrim and Fallout may be indicative of some other, larger problem. I've been playing a mage, but every time I go to a town, or shop, or house, or whatever, my thoughts immediately go to how I can steal everything that isn't nailed down. Even stuff I don't really need. I even get annoyed when stuff that's available to buy isn't on display somewhere where I can just grab it.

In other news, I'm starting to wonder if I should adopt a different combat tactic than "pour your strongest dual cast spell into your enemy and hope you don't run out of magicka before they die".
Jan 19th, 2012 09:37 AM
Pentegarn
Jan 16th, 2012 12:16 AM
Pentegarn
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Originally Posted by 10,000 Volt Ghost View Post
IM NO WHORE
We all know better than to believe that
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