This is a total flashback. was playing Elder Scrolls, Marrowind and then WOW went live..ES feels the same as it did, plays the same and levels the same. That is both good and bad in my opinion. I did enjoy the game a lot, but I also realize why I went on to other games.
Level 23 double axe wielding redguard who kicks ass first, asks questions later. Getting pretty good at taking down dragons, as long as it lands. Hate those flying bastards but at least my dude is decent with a bow.
Yeah, making daggers is basically a cheat. As long as the blacksmiths have iron ingots in stock you can get your smithing up to 100 in a few game days. However enchanting doesn't work quite so easily, so even if you are able to build great weapons you still can only enchant them a little unless you train that skill a lot, too.
Game director Todd Howard stated that the game's "mathematical" level cap is 70;[4] however, the Prima Official Game Guide states the level cap is "around 80."[5]
I'm level 36 Nord with legendary Deadric armor and weapons (bow, mace, warhammer, shield). Kickin ass! I finally have the Heavy Armor - Conditioning perk. A must have. My armor weighs nothing so I can now carry more toys.
Personally, I think the game should be set-up that way to begin with. If we assume you put all your loot in a separate bag, surely the armor you're wearing shouldn't effect the bag capacity! I may be wrong, but wasn't Oblivion set-up like that?
Apparently the new patch is creating even more problems for the game http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/30/users-reporting-issues-with-skyrim-1-2-patch/
The glitches so far haven't been so bad. I've had a few freezes, a little texture pop-in here and there, some trouble equipping followers, and that's about it. Ok sometimes if a villager is talking to you and you go into your house or another building, boom, they are in there with you to finish their sentence. Also Mjoll the Lioness keeps offering non-sequitur comments about her history during important dialog sequences, washing out the stuff I need to hear from quest-givers, etc.. That chick just has poor timing with her quips. Not really a glitch I guess, more or an irritating habit. When I fought giants I never got launched into the air (a little disappointing) but it didn't seem like the physics on that made any sense to begin with.
I've had almost no technical problems (playing on a Window 7 system). Some quests can't be finished (because I killed the wrong person at the wrong time, etc.) and I have had it crash to desktop twice... but for the dozens of hours I've played that's nothing. Ed O.
At about level 42, game is getting pretty easy... will probably need to put the difficulty up a notch.
I'm level 37ish, and it's pretty easy. It might be because of my build (heavy armor/sword, shield/healing) but I almost never die. It is fun killing so many dudes in the civil war battles (I feel like a Homeric hero amongst lesser mortals!) but I'm not sure that it's supposed to be that easy. The only way I've died in the last week or so is when I get hit by a very big spell and die almost instantly. I think I'm just gonna finish this one out (whatever that means... I haven't decided) and then try a more challenging set of skills next time. Ed O.
stealth path with bow and daggers (plus heavy on alchemy, enchanting, illusion and smithing) is ridiculously fun. The Thieves guild side-plot is pretty good as well as the Dark Brotherhood so far (which I just got into at around level 30).
I've started both of those... doing the intro quest to each... but I don't want to do everything. Plus it seems silly that my character build would be in the Thieves guild, especially. He's already an arch-mage. Hah. The build you're talking about does sound like fun. Maybe as one of the cats, too... I'm an Imperial. Ed O.
I haven't really done the min/max thing or tried to hit everything in the game. It looks like there's so much damn content that I'll probably be able to do 5 or 6 playthroughs with distinct styles and barely overlap any of the areas or "quests" ... damn this thing is crazy big.
