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[Trapezohedron]

Got glitched in that quest involving

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Esbern

, where he doesn't open the door.

Gah, glitches.

Speaking of enchantments, yeah, I miss the old enchanting system in morrowind. It was much fun in making useless Daedric weapons of Light and Healing. Either that, or using various useless spells and putting it in your weapon. I miss the day when you could put waterbreathing in your cuirass.

Speaking of armor... Morrowind has a ton of slots for enchantment, such as pauldrons.

Gosh, I miss the old days.

[Trapezohedron]

Am i the only one to hate npc followers ? After having to follow this imperial guy during the tutorial, i pretty much became allergic to the idea of having "help" from NPCs (ie babysitting them), so i never have any, unless... a quest puts one in my charge. God, i hate them.

There was this mage chick in one dungeon, she kept killing enemies just when i was about to hit them, and i had to stay away from her line of fire, cuz i know for a fact that enemy mages hit each other all the time.
And right now there's this quest for the Companions, where they put me under the supervision of some two-handed warrior. Except he feel more like a dead weight to me. Gotta be careful not to hit him in combat, and he's useless because i'm too high level for the quest.

And now i'll need to reload my save and do the whole dungeon with him all over again (yay), because i discovered that the zombie on which i had stored half the loot for convenience, had disappeared. I guess the body count inside the dungeon got too high and the game cleaned up a bit... 

Don't worry, quest followers are invulnerable, but really, it's still annoying, when a mage is raping you from behild with firebolt spells.

But the one thing that annoys me the most is the followers. If their health gets depleted, they crouch down, but if they get hit again while exausted, they die. And couple it with an AI that never seems to catch up with you, then it's useless getting a follower.

[Crustypeanut]

I love my follower to death.. I mean sure in the wilderness she gets lost, but she eventually finds her way to me.  In dungeons, yea occasionally she'll get in my way and I'll wack her in the back of the head with my sword, but most of the time she's a great help.  She'll keep one or two enemies occupied while I kill the rest.  If she gets knocked down, they come straight after me instead of delivering the finishing blow on her, which I'm grateful for, as she'd have died a hundred times by now. 

It seems when they use magic items with charges, those charges either deplete slower or don't at all. 

Anyways, I never leave home without mah Huscarl.  We be jammin'.

[Shadowlord]

I switched from heavy (flawless orcish) to light (flawless elven) yesterday, with an elven magic resistance shield (17%), and despite my light armor skill (~20) being much worse than my heavy armor skill and having four armor-boosting perks in heavy compared to only one armor-boosting perk in light, I've been doing just as well in light armor, and far better against mages than even the magic-resist shield could account for.

Quest followers invulnerable? I had a guy tagging along with me to some grove for some giant tree for a quest to restore the tree in Whiterun. He ran up to a giant with an orbiter and I never saw him again.

[Trapezohedron]

Hmm, is there random equipment that enhances enchanting skills?

[Shadowlord]

I've found random (I assume) alchemy boosting circlets, so perhaps. It wouldn't surprise me.

[Rhodan]

Use the alchemy boosting gear to make better enchantment boosting potions to make better alchemy boosting gear with.

[DrKillPatient]

Giving Skyrim a try... it works solidly through Wine on Arch GNU/Linux so far. Considering my computer's three years old (although quite powerful for its time), the framerate is fine if I turn the graphics down to medium. The music I'd been listening to as I played (top left) ended up being eerily fitting, as it too pertained to a formidable, furious force of fearsome fire-flinging foes.

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(Sorry for the jpeggy quality. IMG.ie wouldn't let me upload my png for some reason. Also, the blanked out spots are where my username/computer name was, of course. I might have been a bit paranoid getting rid of them, but one can't be too careful, I suppose.)

[Azkanan]

Personally I just miss making lunactic enchantments, like +100% run speed for 20 seconds, +acrobatics, aoe frenzy.....

Enchant everything with on-use 1sec Jump -> make 100pt jump spell -> activate everything at once. (Or just uncap the spell creator with MCP and make a 400pt Jump spell)

There are jump buffs in Skyrim? Where can I acquire some? D;

[Jay]

Personally I just miss making lunactic enchantments, like +100% run speed for 20 seconds, +acrobatics, aoe frenzy.....

Enchant everything with on-use 1sec Jump -> make 100pt jump spell -> activate everything at once. (Or just uncap the spell creator with MCP and make a 400pt Jump spell)

There are jump buffs in Skyrim? Where can I acquire some? D;

I believe he's referring to Morrowind.

[Azkanan]

Personally I just miss making lunactic enchantments, like +100% run speed for 20 seconds, +acrobatics, aoe frenzy.....

Enchant everything with on-use 1sec Jump -> make 100pt jump spell -> activate everything at once. (Or just uncap the spell creator with MCP and make a 400pt Jump spell)

NO. DON'T RUIN MY HOPES.

There are jump buffs in Skyrim? Where can I acquire some? D;

I believe he's referring to Morrowind.

[Microcline]

Is it just me or does Skyrim's suffer from the exact same thing Oblivion's did?  Namely, that none of the questlines have any relevance to a larger plot.  The main plots in Morrowind underlining the faction quests (Dunmer vs outlander, the Tribunal Temple, the disappearance of the dwemer, house wars) were all inexorably linked to the main plot of stopping Dagoth Ur.  I kept expecting Skyrim to develop something similar.  The pieces were all there:

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there could be conflict between meric aedra worship (believing that Alduin had come to undo Lorkhan/Shor's treachery) and human Shor worship, the Blades could then have conflict with the Thalmor, the College quests could explain why the PSJJJJ disappeared at around the time of the Thalmor's rise to power, and the Companions (the group that originally drove the mer from Skyrim to make it safe for men) should certainly have more involvement than just being werewolves.

Whenever the setting is given a choice between being interesting and intelligent and being generic and derivative, it always seems to go with the less interesting option.  When I first encountered the Blades in the main quest, I thought it was going to be a return to Morrowind's calculating and pragmatic spy  agency rather than Oblivion's generic knights in samurai armor.  I was expecting to carry out espionage and sabotage against the Thalmor in the interest of preserving the Emperor's peace.  Instead Bethesda decided to go with an order of generic dragonslayers that we're always subjected to in penny-dreadful fantasy fiction.  Given that their first order is to kill humanity's greatest ally, the dragon who rebelled against Alduin and gave the Nords the power of the voice and is actively involved in helping you fight Alduin, it's no wonder that the Thalmor were able to wipe them out.

The game had so many opportunities to take the plot beyond the generic Euromedieval dragonslaying  mythos and it blew every one of them.  The game succumbed to the same problem as Oblivion: that instead of presenting a living, breathing world it produced a set of non-intersecting questlines existing in a vacuum.

edit: sorry about the spoilers

[Crustypeanut]

Microcline, spoiler some of those spoilers would ye? I know yer not giving exact spoilers, but they're damn well close enough.



Edit: Thanks

[Rose]

I went to do some bne, and realized halfway through my companion was more a hinderance than a help, I wanted to tell her to get lost. All she would do is accuse me of being where I'm not supposed to.

[umiman]

Microcline, concerning 'humanity's greatest ally':

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He isn't as altruistic as you might be led to believe. It's implied he didn't actually save humanity to save humanity, just to replace Alduin. His name means Ambition Overlord Cruelty after all. At the end of the game, you learn that he's flown off the unite the remaining Dragons under his rule.