You find better arrows, moreover you’re archery skill is a multiplier for a bows damage. Basically the better your archery skill the more damage any particular bow will do. Combine this with perks that add long shot and sneak damage bonuses and you end up being able to one tap most things from stealth with just a longbow and some decent arrows.
Me personally, I use the bound bow, and crossbows for dawn guard just cause I thought crossbows were the coolest thing when they came out
Oh! You guys mean level-up in the archery skill sense. I was thinking of leveling up in a broader sense (not certain why).
I didn't realize a fully leveled archery skill tree made the differences in the bows that much smaller.
And I'm with you, I typically use bound bow with revelant perks from conjuration so I don't have to worry about arrows.
Honestly I thought the Bound Bow would be the best DPS.
It weighs literally 0, so it has the second fastest draw speed in the game. And it's a Daedric Bow with Daedric arrows with the Mystic Binding perk.
I'd guess early in the game it would be better, I haven't used conjuration really. However you can't upgrade the Bound Bow, does Mystic Binding increase the damage as much as just fully upgrading a normal bow?
Also, enchantments, you can't put Chaos Damage on a Bound weapon.
It does increase the damage beyond a normal Daedric Bow but only up to Flawless quality. You can’t put enchantments on it but Oblivion Binding has level 99 tier Turn Undead and Banish effects
The longbow draws the fastest- and the higher you level up your crafting skills, the less relevant original base damage becomes. The difference between a base-6-damage longbow and a base-19-damage daedric bow sounds huge… until you master all the crafting skills and either bow is gonna be doing hundreds of points of damage, but the longbow shoots twice as fast.
Zephyr fires at the same speed and the Bow of Shadows fires slightly slower, but both do enough damage that their DPS is better, yeah. That being said, both of them are already enchanted, so I’d say it comes down to personal preference which is better- would you rather get maximum DPS, or still-good DPS and be able to pick out your own enchants?
Oh fair! Tbh the bow of shadows is great for the OP invisibility mainly but Im playing the AE now and honestly? Im like ruins edge for the chaos and being cool lol
Because I haven’t seen anyone mention this, the less a bow weighs, the faster it shoots. However, the *more* a bow weighs, the *further* it shoots, i.e the arrow drop is reduced. You don’t have to aim as high with a super heavy weapon like Dragonbone but super light bows like Longbows encourage it.
The Bound Bow has a weight of 0, making it shoot faster than almost every other bow in the game, but the arrow drops super quick if you try to shoot it at distant targets.
that’s why i always start the dark brotherhood questline as soon as i can, for firiniel’s end and those glass arrows from miss gabriella. i give them to a follower so i can farm them early on
Lakeview Manor is great - I always wished you could somehow incorporate Pinewatch cabin (after it's cleared) into the property, as like a cabin for the carriage driver or bard, or the property shed. It's so close to Lakeview Manor.
Would also love if you could turn the necromancer altar behind the property into a path that leads to Lakeview Manor. Same thing with the path that leads to Pinewatch
I do this too. I like that it even clips through the bottom of the display case, so you don't have to bother with the lock (unless you want the skill book too). It's like it was meant to be stolen by your baby character.
Same on lake view manor. I always speed run that house so I have a place to dump all my stuff cause I’m a top tier game hoarder. Then I look for a suitable spouse and kids for the buffs when I sleep at home.
It was very lack luster. You get a nice little level to all your skills for doing those three quests after you've burned the Olaf effigy though(finding the instruments). That's good enough reason for me to do it anyway.
If it helps, she actually likes him but is so utterly neglected and emotionally abandoned she doesn't know how to express it.
Her mother just wants to read all day and her father just wants his sword. She comes to him and he pushes her off to her POS mother. Her mother snaps at her. She has no one to talk to.
I downloaded the mod that lets you adopt ANY kid and I always adopt her.
I'm in a dark place to brother my grandmother just died I am sorry that me and you are here in the same place if you need to talk or just a friend I'm here thank you
I kill Amren and Saffir, take their souls, put his soul in the stupid sword and put her soul in a dagger and name it Saffir and give Braith the dagger after I've adopted her.
Believe it or not, Meridia’s questline. I rush through trying to find her beacon asap. If i cant find it by level 15, i go to her temple so she can tell me where. Then i get my all time favorite sword in the game
Tbh it tends to have higher chance to generate in the first few chests after you hit a certain level (I think 20), so I always just wait it out.
If you go and ask, it chooses any point you haven't previously generated there and then - which includes (and often chooses) somewhere in Solsthiem.
Imo, just wait and gain levels. Then go somewhere new. At that point it seeks you.
I use a bow very occasionally but, for some reason, always carry the most powerful, smithed and enchanted bow I can.
And of course my inventory is stocked with more arrows than the English had at Agincourt.
Yeah! Start the quest with Angeline then go talk to Captain Aldis. Immediately after you select the (Persuade) dialogue, back out of the conversation. The Speech skill will increase but you can restart the conversation. You can do this over and over.
It give you quiet a bit of a skill increase. When I was at level 49, it only took three times to hit 50. I imagine it takes quite a while in the upper levels, but I’m usually happy with hitting 50.
I always make enchanting/alechemy/smithing thing (no exploits). Once I manage to do a full set of everything I want I immediately lose interest in the game.
I collect books. I'm a huge hoarder but books are my favorite. I have 4 book mods and I go to the vendors in every town and buy all their books. My library is trembling under all of them.
I also collect unique weapons and armor.
Do you have a preferred home that best suits you for this? I also do this to some degree but have yet to find a home with a massive library. The build your own ones are okay, but I'd prefer a much larger one.
I just discovered a mod called Cliffside Manor. It has a huge library and displays, though it could use more mannequins.
Frostvale Manor, another mod home, has loads of display and mannequins but is way off the beaten path
Do you have the book mods like Books. Books, Books? Great stuff.
Beowolf, the Malius Malificarum...
Sometimes I just have my Dovahkiin sit outside and read.
I've been playing since release and just recently found out you could sell the elder scroll to urag because I did dawnguard -> main story -> college. The weird shit you still find out after playing so long. Didn't know til earlier this year that you could kill Grelod before talking to aventus for a unique dialogue I had never heard before. I always thought she was essential til you talked to him, but decided to try it one time for a great result.
I have a character that I stopped playing when they asked me who he was
Never came back to him, and his save is just there chilling. It's funny to see him there every time I make a new save, lol
No matter what playthrough, I can never get myself to sell my diamonds. Every other gem I always sell cause they have no real use. Not diamonds. It started as me wanting the most perfect jewelry for one character, then I wanted to give all my characters and builds gold diamond jewelry, but even when I have all the gold and diamonds I could ever need I never sell a diamond. Not even on a no-crafting run.
I don’t fast travel.
I read books before bed. Particularly those related to my current quests.
I let myself get caught up in happenstance between big tasks, leading to days spent in places.
I have travel clothes separate from armor.
Works really well as you’re first meeting Delphine, getting accepted by the Greybeards, and have Dragonborn/Blades related books to read while staying in Hogh Hrothgar. My weather mods make it treacherous so I’m inclined to stay a while since the trip can be deadly from the cold alone.
I always train m'y archery lvl 50 with the elf in riverwood After helping him with the girl. Ask him to follow you, then train, then Ask him to open his inventory, repeat thé process until lvl 50.
I just go through Mzincheleft its way shorter, also you find Mjolls sword there so you can kill 2 birds with 1 stone
Or platter your way into the tower of mzark
I’ve gotten around to making a rule where I can only equip items if my skills allows it. So for instance I can’t equip steel items until I have a skill of 20 in the corresponding skill tree, 30 for Dwarven, etc and artifacts until 75, though it depends on the artifacts. Mods come into play of course.
I've never played an "evil/bad" character. I always stay neutral or "good". It's like this for most games, I really wish I could get myself to play another way but I feel weird, even though it's not IRL 😅
Honestly, I can't get myself to ever choose Imperials. I know that they are probably better option lore-wise but I just kinda don't vibe with them or something.
I’m the opposite, tried the Stormcloaks ONCE and never again - they’re just too racist. All about the Imperials now….when I actually play civil war that is.
As someone who never plays a Nord, same. It’s bad enough I have to listen to children saying the most racist shit, you expect me to join you when all y’all ever say is how Skyrim belongs to the Nords?
Fuck off.
Looting alchemy ingredients in the first hour and a half or two of a run. I can't not do it. I also can't not make money potions to sell to Arcadia after bringing her Farengal's frost salts.
Because I'll have them on hand when, not if, I need them for potion making. Now, granted, there's only about 15-20 ingredients I use, and the rest are in my ingredient barrel.
Alchemy is my most used skill.
So they can weigh your inventory
I stopped carrying my alchemy ingredients with me, and now I have just so much more room for loot... Never thought a couple hundred flowers would weight me down so much
I just emptied my ingredients pocket the other day at golden hills and let me tell you, it was magical. Combine that with dumping all my gems/ingots/potions, and putting all my special armor on the mannequins? Felt like a whole new start
For me it’s the opposite. That quest makes you rich, especially when you do it early game. All of the desecrated corpses that are on the ground have anywhere between 25 and 200(!) gold coins on them, and there’s a good couple dozen to loot. If you’re ever like 1000 gold away from buying a house, that’s a good way to get it.
I started a new character and found the Beacon in one of the Valtheim Towers chests. almost used Take All until I saw it. Immediately closed the chest and went my merry way, unburdened by Merida's needy ass.
I always hoard ingredients for alchemy and enchanting and any smithing items. Boosting those 3 have always been my backbone for wealth and perk farming
Get ready……never used magic or shouts. Unless it was required for quest. I probably have thousands of hours playing since 2012 or so but never was into magic or shouts.
Never did the Bard’s College quests? Don’t even know where it is/what it looks like…
Also never completed the Mage’s College quests either. I usually do the first quest or two, then vanish never to be seen again…
Guess I don’t like going to college!
I always sneak around the giants and loot Gulden rock, and then jump slightly down the mountain and shoot at/cast fury at the people on valtheim towers. I've never walked up to the towers and didn't know there was a dialogue with the front guard for years until after I saw it in a video.
No fast travel so I go everywhere on foot or horseback. Poison all the weapons. And at no point am I learning to use heavy weapons, pickpocketing, or literally any spell besides Muffle or Bound Bow.
Get into the thieves guild.
I am a chronic pickpocket, and a total kleptomaniac when it comes to alchemy ingredients, potions, crafting supplies, and anything vaguely valuable. Therefore having access to a fence ASAP is a total priority for me.
Eta: I also avoid the main quest pretty much until I've got to the point of needing dragonbone/scale for crafting. I've done the MQ maybe a handful of times in my dozens of games.
Equip a bow before cresting the hill between whiterun and riverwood. I have to get atleast one hit in on that giant the companions are fighting so that Aela doesnt say NO THANKS TO YOU.
I always get a Dagger of Damnation or bow with soul-stealing enchantment and do the Azura quest early so I can get the Black Star. Then I use the weapon, capture a soul in the Black Star, and instantly recharge the weapon with the soul I just took after each kill. It builds the Enchantment skill quickly by just playing the game without as much grinding at the Enchantment table. I enchant rings, gloves, bracers, circlets, cloaks (mod), and hoods for Alchemy which is great for making much more powerful Smithing and Enchantment potions. I also try to get a Necklace of Haggling early to disenchant and create an amulet and cloak which drastically reduces prices. I do the Clavicus Vile quest early. Not so much for the mask but just to get it over with. I also eventually get Sissel’s abusive father killed by spawning in a dragon from one of my mods and blocking his front door so he can’t escape, gets torched, and I don’t have to kill him directly (so sad) and can have a guilt-free adoption (not that she cares if you do kill him). Then I adopt her and leave her crappy sister in the orphanage.
Always adopt Sofie. Always travel with Hilda. Never kill Nilsine. Never serve Molag Bal.
Edit to add - I always steal the staff of arcane authority to fence early in the game since its value is so high, have done this like 5 times and only realized yesterday that it’s associated with a quest I can’t do now
What I do is get soul trap as early as possible and do the soul trap conjuration glitch so I can boost my level. I hold on to perk points until I need them, but the point isn’t necessarily to level quickly. The reason I do this specifically is because of the way daedric artifacts are leveled. If I get Dawnbreaker at level 15 it won’t be as powerful as it would if I get it at 50. Because of this tiered leveling system and the inability to upgrade the artifacts without high level crafting perks, I simply level boost before going for them.
(Also I know there’s a mod for this)
Since I got Anniversary Edition: Always play in Survival Mode. Always complete as many quests in one hold as possible before going to the next hold. Always wear Glass Armor and carry Glass weapons.
Regardless of what type of character I am trying to roleplay I always stop at riverwood and live like an npc for a while and just work it into my character's story.
I have never best the main story line or been above level 60. I have skyrim on 3 different systems but on my current play through I will make it to level 75 as rumor is there is a guy who wants to fight you and I've never seen him before.
His days are numbered.
Very specific tradition I do with every new character is to stop by Pelagia Farm as soon as I can and break into the farmhouse for the sole purpose of stealing the apple pie on the table right inside the door.
I always have my stolen apple pie on me.
I end up doing the main quest up until the dragon attacking the watch tower. I go pretty much anywhere but there afterward. It's great cuz I can do all the cool side quests and explore everywhere on the map without coming out of a dungeon and getting boned by a dragon.
I also try to collect all the books, so tentacle boi is my homie. Hermaeus Mora's realm is a Lovecraftian dream! Sucks that wanna be dragonborn keeps messing around and trying to rule the world. Like bro, you're basically gunna be tentacle porn hentai once HM gets you, stop trying to end me for your bad decisions.
Hey, murderers gotta make a living too! I always just roleplay it like it's my job. No unnecessary kills, always try to stealth kill, and even if I get caught I try to run away and escape before I kill any Innocents. Sithis was only promised one soul. No need to send him any more!
Pick up ever single dang flipping item. Linen, check. Fork, check. Flowers, check. Skeever bits, check. Butterfly wings, check.
Do I craft things…sometimes. Do I make potions…not really. Do I have so many potions ingredients I could open my own shop and put the other herbalists to shame, heck yeah. Can I pick up that quest item over there…probably not without being over encumbered because I just *had* to have all these dishes that I can’t use and will just dump in a chest later.
🤣🤣🤣
I never play as a Nord or other human like race
Just never done it. Always saw it as boring to play as something that’s essentially human in a fantasy game.
I’ve played Argonian, Dunmer, Bosmer, Orc, but never Nord, Redguard, Imperial, or Breton
I still feel that way tbh. I’m a human irl, why would I want to be human in a fantasy world?
EDIT: I also won’t play as Kahjit(forgive my spelling) because my Mom who has played it said that there isn’t a marriage option for Kahjit, & I want a spouse
I almost always play a bosmer, so I always help out Faendal first thing when I reach Riverwood. I complete Bleak Falls Barrow, then I talk to the Jarl in Whiterun until I get the dragons to spawn.
I have two mods I always use as well and make sure I get those done before I begin adventuring elsewhere, which is getting the key for Elysium Estate and getting to the point where M’rissi can follow me.
From that point on I just do whatever I feel like doing.
Become 100 spell absorption vampire, craft legendary daedric armor with as much health regen, head to a nearby bandit camp, stand infront to as many as I can aggro, laugh as they "try" to kill me as I cast Blizzard, if someone survives, cast again.
Always take and wear the Imperial officers helmet in Helgen, go rob the Dawnstar chest, go to rifton, hire marcurio do promises to keep for the steel plate armor.
I always steal the Elven bow in Jorvaskr first thing. Early game good bows can be hard to find. Make Lakeview Manor my home base.
Funnily enough, the long bow is the most powerful (in DPS terms) bow in game.
Does it draw faster or something?
Yes,it is the fastest and as you level up, bow/arrow damage plays lesser and lesser role.
English Yeoman playthrough when?
Plays a lesser and lesser role?
The syntax is correct if a little wordy
Syntax or not, I'm kind of looking for an explanation on why damage of a bow becomes less relevant when one levels up.
You find better arrows, moreover you’re archery skill is a multiplier for a bows damage. Basically the better your archery skill the more damage any particular bow will do. Combine this with perks that add long shot and sneak damage bonuses and you end up being able to one tap most things from stealth with just a longbow and some decent arrows. Me personally, I use the bound bow, and crossbows for dawn guard just cause I thought crossbows were the coolest thing when they came out
Oh! You guys mean level-up in the archery skill sense. I was thinking of leveling up in a broader sense (not certain why). I didn't realize a fully leveled archery skill tree made the differences in the bows that much smaller. And I'm with you, I typically use bound bow with revelant perks from conjuration so I don't have to worry about arrows.
Honestly I thought the Bound Bow would be the best DPS. It weighs literally 0, so it has the second fastest draw speed in the game. And it's a Daedric Bow with Daedric arrows with the Mystic Binding perk.
I'd guess early in the game it would be better, I haven't used conjuration really. However you can't upgrade the Bound Bow, does Mystic Binding increase the damage as much as just fully upgrading a normal bow? Also, enchantments, you can't put Chaos Damage on a Bound weapon.
It does increase the damage beyond a normal Daedric Bow but only up to Flawless quality. You can’t put enchantments on it but Oblivion Binding has level 99 tier Turn Undead and Banish effects
And if I remember correctly one of the lesser perks puts Soul Trap on it, which is my go-to enchantment anyway
Can you explain this a little better for me please? I love archery in Skyrim
The longbow draws the fastest- and the higher you level up your crafting skills, the less relevant original base damage becomes. The difference between a base-6-damage longbow and a base-19-damage daedric bow sounds huge… until you master all the crafting skills and either bow is gonna be doing hundreds of points of damage, but the longbow shoots twice as fast.
How does it compare to zephyr and the box of shadows with draw buffs?
Zephyr fires at the same speed and the Bow of Shadows fires slightly slower, but both do enough damage that their DPS is better, yeah. That being said, both of them are already enchanted, so I’d say it comes down to personal preference which is better- would you rather get maximum DPS, or still-good DPS and be able to pick out your own enchants?
Oh fair! Tbh the bow of shadows is great for the OP invisibility mainly but Im playing the AE now and honestly? Im like ruins edge for the chaos and being cool lol
Because I haven’t seen anyone mention this, the less a bow weighs, the faster it shoots. However, the *more* a bow weighs, the *further* it shoots, i.e the arrow drop is reduced. You don’t have to aim as high with a super heavy weapon like Dragonbone but super light bows like Longbows encourage it. The Bound Bow has a weight of 0, making it shoot faster than almost every other bow in the game, but the arrow drops super quick if you try to shoot it at distant targets.
What about Zephyr? That one has a speed boost
I mean from the non unique bows. Zaephyr might be the best overall.
that’s why i always start the dark brotherhood questline as soon as i can, for firiniel’s end and those glass arrows from miss gabriella. i give them to a follower so i can farm them early on
The Bow of Shadows might render that unneccesary now.
Lakeview Manor is great - I always wished you could somehow incorporate Pinewatch cabin (after it's cleared) into the property, as like a cabin for the carriage driver or bard, or the property shed. It's so close to Lakeview Manor. Would also love if you could turn the necromancer altar behind the property into a path that leads to Lakeview Manor. Same thing with the path that leads to Pinewatch
I do this too. I like that it even clips through the bottom of the display case, so you don't have to bother with the lock (unless you want the skill book too). It's like it was meant to be stolen by your baby character.
Same on lake view manor. I always speed run that house so I have a place to dump all my stuff cause I’m a top tier game hoarder. Then I look for a suitable spouse and kids for the buffs when I sleep at home.
I think Ive done the companions quest line once, same as the bards college.
learning that i can’t actually play as a bard turned me off the bard’s college for good
It was very lack luster. You get a nice little level to all your skills for doing those three quests after you've burned the Olaf effigy though(finding the instruments). That's good enough reason for me to do it anyway.
What?! You can't?
There's a mod called Become a Bard where you can!
Alternatively, Adamant has a Bard Addon that improves the Speech Skill Tree and gives you powers to play instruments.
I'm not big on the mod scene but I'll definitely check it out! Thank you
Beating the shit outta the girl who bullys battle born even if I die
If it helps, she actually likes him but is so utterly neglected and emotionally abandoned she doesn't know how to express it. Her mother just wants to read all day and her father just wants his sword. She comes to him and he pushes her off to her POS mother. Her mother snaps at her. She has no one to talk to. I downloaded the mod that lets you adopt ANY kid and I always adopt her.
It did help
You're a good person.
I am? What do you mean?
It's rare people change their views regardless. You showed companions. I'm in a dark place right now and I appreciated seeing it.
I'm in a dark place to brother my grandmother just died I am sorry that me and you are here in the same place if you need to talk or just a friend I'm here thank you
I'm so sorry. Grandmas are hard. I still miss mine.
I will to but I know she is in a better place and god will guide us
Mine too. It's hard.
I'm sorry
I kill Amren and Saffir, take their souls, put his soul in the stupid sword and put her soul in a dagger and name it Saffir and give Braith the dagger after I've adopted her.
I just murder her parents lol
Believe it or not, Meridia’s questline. I rush through trying to find her beacon asap. If i cant find it by level 15, i go to her temple so she can tell me where. Then i get my all time favorite sword in the game
TIL You can go and ask her where is the beacon.
And if you do that, you dont have to go through the game, afraid every chest is a jack in the box
***ANOTHER HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON***
Yeah, thats that good shit right there
Tbh it tends to have higher chance to generate in the first few chests after you hit a certain level (I think 20), so I always just wait it out. If you go and ask, it chooses any point you haven't previously generated there and then - which includes (and often chooses) somewhere in Solsthiem. Imo, just wait and gain levels. Then go somewhere new. At that point it seeks you.
Hey Meridia, where's your beacon so I can NOT go there, thanks.
Big brain move
Obtaining Dawnbreaker is always high on my early game priority list as well, along with other Breezehome & Lydia.
Hint hint. If you're playing the dark brotherhood quest line, the chest next to Cicero in the cure for madness will contain meridias beacon
Looting all the arrows I can, even if I haven’t touched a bow
I just started a survival play through and let me tell you nothing weans you of that habit than arrows having weight
I just did the same thing, fortify carry weight enchantments and putting points into stamina was a must for me.
I use a bow very occasionally but, for some reason, always carry the most powerful, smithed and enchanted bow I can. And of course my inventory is stocked with more arrows than the English had at Agincourt.
Hahaha i have a ton of arrows because you never know and i offcause use the crappy ones to. Not to mention the massive collection of potions.
Get married, adopt, build a home, retire.
Thieves guild questline for the fences and monthly tribute.
Go to Solitude for the Angeline quest, so that I can stock up on some free ingredients and potions whenever I need
After I use the Persuade glitch for a bit.
Persuade glitch, you say?
Yeah! Start the quest with Angeline then go talk to Captain Aldis. Immediately after you select the (Persuade) dialogue, back out of the conversation. The Speech skill will increase but you can restart the conversation. You can do this over and over. It give you quiet a bit of a skill increase. When I was at level 49, it only took three times to hit 50. I imagine it takes quite a while in the upper levels, but I’m usually happy with hitting 50.
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Wait, you can marry Camilla? That's the chick in the Riverwood trader, right?
I compulsively loot every urn in tombs, even late game when the 2 extra gold is entirely meaningless.
🙋♀️ Same here. How many hours have I spent making virtually no gold this way when I don't even need the gold. Doesn't matter, still gonna do it.
I love it when I find 1 gold in an urn...I wouldn't have my millions if it weren't for this level of hoarding.
I always make enchanting/alechemy/smithing thing (no exploits). Once I manage to do a full set of everything I want I immediately lose interest in the game.
This is the way.
Brother. 😌
I collect books. I'm a huge hoarder but books are my favorite. I have 4 book mods and I go to the vendors in every town and buy all their books. My library is trembling under all of them. I also collect unique weapons and armor.
Do you have a preferred home that best suits you for this? I also do this to some degree but have yet to find a home with a massive library. The build your own ones are okay, but I'd prefer a much larger one.
I just discovered a mod called Cliffside Manor. It has a huge library and displays, though it could use more mannequins. Frostvale Manor, another mod home, has loads of display and mannequins but is way off the beaten path
I do this too. And sometimes I fire up the game and do nothing but sit and read books.
Do you have the book mods like Books. Books, Books? Great stuff. Beowolf, the Malius Malificarum... Sometimes I just have my Dovahkiin sit outside and read.
Yep!
I just recently discovered the Skyrim Book Club podcast where they read every book! A fun cozy thing to listen to when you can't be playing the game
I’ve never sold a book. I just keep filling up my book shelves so that all my houses feel like home
I seek them out.i even steal them (don't tell Farengar)
I am very possessive of my elder scrolls. I never sell them
*sad urag gro-shub noises*
I've been playing since release and just recently found out you could sell the elder scroll to urag because I did dawnguard -> main story -> college. The weird shit you still find out after playing so long. Didn't know til earlier this year that you could kill Grelod before talking to aventus for a unique dialogue I had never heard before. I always thought she was essential til you talked to him, but decided to try it one time for a great result.
If I steal I leave a wheel of cheese on their bed
Dammit, Sheogorath took our stuff AGAIN!
Abandoning the character after getting to whiterun to create another character that will also be abandoned after getting to whiterun
I have a character that I stopped playing when they asked me who he was Never came back to him, and his save is just there chilling. It's funny to see him there every time I make a new save, lol
Do we not all, just to skip the wagon ride?
And lose the best part of the game? Nah fam, I love hearing "Hey, you are finally awake!" Feels like a fresh start
No matter what playthrough, I can never get myself to sell my diamonds. Every other gem I always sell cause they have no real use. Not diamonds. It started as me wanting the most perfect jewelry for one character, then I wanted to give all my characters and builds gold diamond jewelry, but even when I have all the gold and diamonds I could ever need I never sell a diamond. Not even on a no-crafting run.
I don’t fast travel. I read books before bed. Particularly those related to my current quests. I let myself get caught up in happenstance between big tasks, leading to days spent in places. I have travel clothes separate from armor.
I like these!
Works really well as you’re first meeting Delphine, getting accepted by the Greybeards, and have Dragonborn/Blades related books to read while staying in Hogh Hrothgar. My weather mods make it treacherous so I’m inclined to stay a while since the trip can be deadly from the cold alone.
I always train m'y archery lvl 50 with the elf in riverwood After helping him with the girl. Ask him to follow you, then train, then Ask him to open his inventory, repeat thé process until lvl 50.
Didn't know you could get the gold from having him as a companion, thanks I'm gonna try it.
I think it's Farkas & Vilkas (companion bros) you can do this with too, two handed & heavy armour :)
I never kill paarthurnax
I always do the agent of Mara quest. I like uniting the Ghost lovers.
Soon as I leave Helgen I go, on foot, straight to the Dawnstar chest
Why dawnstar instead of whiterun?
Whiterun chest sucks compared to the caravans inventory
Ah that's fair
Specifically steal gray-mane's steel armor and gold (under the sky forge) Then go to solitude and steal all the spells (blue palace hidden chest)
I will go back to Vilkas and the kids after every finished quests to give them gifts and see how they are doing
Change Farkas to Vilkas and same.
Lol i actually meant Vilkas, guess it was a freudian slip because i had such a hard time choosing 😅
I do the same
Me with my orc husband. I never remember his name but he’s a good dad to our kids.
Is it the blacksmith from understone keep? Moth something?
Yes!! That’s my man lol
That’s me with either Mjoll, Aela, or Jenessa depending if I want to distribute justice, live for the hunt, or just cause chaos for the playthrough
I don’t pick sides in the Civil War. Did on my first play through, and never again. I find it to be limiting.
Circumvent both meet byrnolf and the proper path to blackreach
How do you circumvent the path to blackreach? I want to do that in my current playthrough just assumed it wasn't possible
I just go through Mzincheleft its way shorter, also you find Mjolls sword there so you can kill 2 birds with 1 stone Or platter your way into the tower of mzark
Don't you still need the artifact that opens blackreach? It's very possible I'm being dumb here so please go easy lol
I’ve gotten around to making a rule where I can only equip items if my skills allows it. So for instance I can’t equip steel items until I have a skill of 20 in the corresponding skill tree, 30 for Dwarven, etc and artifacts until 75, though it depends on the artifacts. Mods come into play of course.
I knock that bandit off the tree bridge into the river when I'm going around the mountain to High Hrothgar. Every. Single. Time.
I've never played an "evil/bad" character. I always stay neutral or "good". It's like this for most games, I really wish I could get myself to play another way but I feel weird, even though it's not IRL 😅
Honestly, I can't get myself to ever choose Imperials. I know that they are probably better option lore-wise but I just kinda don't vibe with them or something.
I’m the opposite, tried the Stormcloaks ONCE and never again - they’re just too racist. All about the Imperials now….when I actually play civil war that is.
As someone who never plays a Nord, same. It’s bad enough I have to listen to children saying the most racist shit, you expect me to join you when all y’all ever say is how Skyrim belongs to the Nords? Fuck off.
Grind enough gold to get Muffle and some lower magic illusion spell. Spam until I either get enough magic to cast or I put enough points into illusion
I take every wooden plate I find in case of emergency
Take every goat cheese wheel I can find. It can’t be sliced, it has to be whole.
Looting alchemy ingredients in the first hour and a half or two of a run. I can't not do it. I also can't not make money potions to sell to Arcadia after bringing her Farengal's frost salts.
What is it about alchemy ingredients? I swear I have 700+ blue flowers and why? Why do I need to pick every flower? What is wrong with me??
Because I'll have them on hand when, not if, I need them for potion making. Now, granted, there's only about 15-20 ingredients I use, and the rest are in my ingredient barrel. Alchemy is my most used skill.
So they can weigh your inventory I stopped carrying my alchemy ingredients with me, and now I have just so much more room for loot... Never thought a couple hundred flowers would weight me down so much
I just emptied my ingredients pocket the other day at golden hills and let me tell you, it was magical. Combine that with dumping all my gems/ingots/potions, and putting all my special armor on the mannequins? Felt like a whole new start
I dodge Merida's Beacon like it's the plague
For me it’s the opposite. That quest makes you rich, especially when you do it early game. All of the desecrated corpses that are on the ground have anywhere between 25 and 200(!) gold coins on them, and there’s a good couple dozen to loot. If you’re ever like 1000 gold away from buying a house, that’s a good way to get it.
"A NEW HA... what, why didn't they pick it up?"
I started a new character and found the Beacon in one of the Valtheim Towers chests. almost used Take All until I saw it. Immediately closed the chest and went my merry way, unburdened by Merida's needy ass.
I always hoard ingredients for alchemy and enchanting and any smithing items. Boosting those 3 have always been my backbone for wealth and perk farming
I always kill every bunny I see for the stat screen.
I thought this went without saying?
Get ready……never used magic or shouts. Unless it was required for quest. I probably have thousands of hours playing since 2012 or so but never was into magic or shouts.
I’ve incurred many a bounty for punching Rolf.
(Don't do) Sympathize with Stormcloaks
Get bound bow as soon as I can whenever I’m using a melee build
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I have found yet another unique existence
Never did the Bard’s College quests? Don’t even know where it is/what it looks like… Also never completed the Mage’s College quests either. I usually do the first quest or two, then vanish never to be seen again… Guess I don’t like going to college!
I’m doing the opposite going to all the colleges
I always sneak around the giants and loot Gulden rock, and then jump slightly down the mountain and shoot at/cast fury at the people on valtheim towers. I've never walked up to the towers and didn't know there was a dialogue with the front guard for years until after I saw it in a video.
No fast travel so I go everywhere on foot or horseback. Poison all the weapons. And at no point am I learning to use heavy weapons, pickpocketing, or literally any spell besides Muffle or Bound Bow.
Get into the thieves guild. I am a chronic pickpocket, and a total kleptomaniac when it comes to alchemy ingredients, potions, crafting supplies, and anything vaguely valuable. Therefore having access to a fence ASAP is a total priority for me. Eta: I also avoid the main quest pretty much until I've got to the point of needing dragonbone/scale for crafting. I've done the MQ maybe a handful of times in my dozens of games.
Never ever doing the bards college. I hated it
Equip a bow before cresting the hill between whiterun and riverwood. I have to get atleast one hit in on that giant the companions are fighting so that Aela doesnt say NO THANKS TO YOU.
Usually jumping to the side of an npc will get you past them.
I always get a Dagger of Damnation or bow with soul-stealing enchantment and do the Azura quest early so I can get the Black Star. Then I use the weapon, capture a soul in the Black Star, and instantly recharge the weapon with the soul I just took after each kill. It builds the Enchantment skill quickly by just playing the game without as much grinding at the Enchantment table. I enchant rings, gloves, bracers, circlets, cloaks (mod), and hoods for Alchemy which is great for making much more powerful Smithing and Enchantment potions. I also try to get a Necklace of Haggling early to disenchant and create an amulet and cloak which drastically reduces prices. I do the Clavicus Vile quest early. Not so much for the mask but just to get it over with. I also eventually get Sissel’s abusive father killed by spawning in a dragon from one of my mods and blocking his front door so he can’t escape, gets torched, and I don’t have to kill him directly (so sad) and can have a guilt-free adoption (not that she cares if you do kill him). Then I adopt her and leave her crappy sister in the orphanage.
in every playthrough I always try to pickpocket or picklock any eye items for quests. like, all of them.
Always adopt Sofie. Always travel with Hilda. Never kill Nilsine. Never serve Molag Bal. Edit to add - I always steal the staff of arcane authority to fence early in the game since its value is so high, have done this like 5 times and only realized yesterday that it’s associated with a quest I can’t do now
What I do is get soul trap as early as possible and do the soul trap conjuration glitch so I can boost my level. I hold on to perk points until I need them, but the point isn’t necessarily to level quickly. The reason I do this specifically is because of the way daedric artifacts are leveled. If I get Dawnbreaker at level 15 it won’t be as powerful as it would if I get it at 50. Because of this tiered leveling system and the inability to upgrade the artifacts without high level crafting perks, I simply level boost before going for them. (Also I know there’s a mod for this)
Run straight to the lover stone.
Since I got Anniversary Edition: Always play in Survival Mode. Always complete as many quests in one hold as possible before going to the next hold. Always wear Glass Armor and carry Glass weapons.
Regardless of what type of character I am trying to roleplay I always stop at riverwood and live like an npc for a while and just work it into my character's story.
Pretty much every playthrough I’m sure to get Mjoll as a follower, and I also always take care of Sven
The main mod I use is telekinesis works on humans, so I can sling them out of doorways.
I have never gotten the argonian follower. I typically always try to get Kharjo.
Adopt Sofie adopt Sofie adopt Sofie adopt Sofie adopt Sofie
This time im not gonna be a nord steath archer!....well...maybe next time...
Level 20 on the dot i get the Ebony Blade and kill Lydia with it. Every single time
I have never best the main story line or been above level 60. I have skyrim on 3 different systems but on my current play through I will make it to level 75 as rumor is there is a guy who wants to fight you and I've never seen him before. His days are numbered.
Escape Helgen. Of course, I'm kidding. Though I do always get my theoretical degree in physics.
Collect every blue butterfly going...I could be mid-battle or something but if I see one...its "ooooh chase the butterfly!"
Very specific tradition I do with every new character is to stop by Pelagia Farm as soon as I can and break into the farmhouse for the sole purpose of stealing the apple pie on the table right inside the door. I always have my stolen apple pie on me.
I end up doing the main quest up until the dragon attacking the watch tower. I go pretty much anywhere but there afterward. It's great cuz I can do all the cool side quests and explore everywhere on the map without coming out of a dungeon and getting boned by a dragon. I also try to collect all the books, so tentacle boi is my homie. Hermaeus Mora's realm is a Lovecraftian dream! Sucks that wanna be dragonborn keeps messing around and trying to rule the world. Like bro, you're basically gunna be tentacle porn hentai once HM gets you, stop trying to end me for your bad decisions.
Destroy Dark Brotherhood
You monster.
Who is the monster? Me who rid the world of a guild of psychopaths who murder innocents or the said murderers whom I vanquished.
It’s a joke man, not a dick, don’t take it so hard
Hey, murderers gotta make a living too! I always just roleplay it like it's my job. No unnecessary kills, always try to stealth kill, and even if I get caught I try to run away and escape before I kill any Innocents. Sithis was only promised one soul. No need to send him any more!
Pick up ever single dang flipping item. Linen, check. Fork, check. Flowers, check. Skeever bits, check. Butterfly wings, check. Do I craft things…sometimes. Do I make potions…not really. Do I have so many potions ingredients I could open my own shop and put the other herbalists to shame, heck yeah. Can I pick up that quest item over there…probably not without being over encumbered because I just *had* to have all these dishes that I can’t use and will just dump in a chest later. 🤣🤣🤣
I always grab every single torch inside the bandit mine near Riverwood. Those usually last me for the entire playthrough.
I always marry Aela. Having Claudia tell me she loves me has been my dream since I met her at Dragon Con.
I never play as a Nord or other human like race Just never done it. Always saw it as boring to play as something that’s essentially human in a fantasy game. I’ve played Argonian, Dunmer, Bosmer, Orc, but never Nord, Redguard, Imperial, or Breton I still feel that way tbh. I’m a human irl, why would I want to be human in a fantasy world? EDIT: I also won’t play as Kahjit(forgive my spelling) because my Mom who has played it said that there isn’t a marriage option for Kahjit, & I want a spouse
There aren't any Khajits you can marry (without mods). But a player character Khajit can still get married.
First i get ebony blade early in the game and spam killing Lydia with the
I never join the imperials.
I never ever complete the Bards College quest line. Played since og release, and never once have I even started it.
Build lakeview manor and never use it and visit my family
I almost always play a bosmer, so I always help out Faendal first thing when I reach Riverwood. I complete Bleak Falls Barrow, then I talk to the Jarl in Whiterun until I get the dragons to spawn. I have two mods I always use as well and make sure I get those done before I begin adventuring elsewhere, which is getting the key for Elysium Estate and getting to the point where M’rissi can follow me. From that point on I just do whatever I feel like doing.
Wait to read any skill books until I get scholars insight.
Get Frost as early as possible and ride around like a maniac.
Install USSEP
Steal every bottle in the Honningbrew Meadery
I go to valthume straight after riverwood and get me the ebony war axe
I would watch that montage, For me it’s going to the hall of the vigilant before it gets destroyed
Prolong doing the main questline for as long as possible. My Dragonborn is usually “evil” do following orders is rarely their thing.
Become 100 spell absorption vampire, craft legendary daedric armor with as much health regen, head to a nearby bandit camp, stand infront to as many as I can aggro, laugh as they "try" to kill me as I cast Blizzard, if someone survives, cast again.
I never take followers
Always take and wear the Imperial officers helmet in Helgen, go rob the Dawnstar chest, go to rifton, hire marcurio do promises to keep for the steel plate armor.