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Notme

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I only have Morrowind and its useless in that game, guess they upgraded it though xP
Oh, probably I used shield on my first mission - where you had to escape from Helgen.
Just use cheat.e- I mean use your "expert skills" and kill it.Exeasy.
I'm playing on Novice difficulty, so.... :p

FUS RO DAH Lydia off a cliff the first second you get; her only use is extra pocket space, but she will get in your way more often than not. You will get much better companions later (or you could just conjure up some) :D

Minor tips: Stick with the two-handed weapons and go for the conjuration magic. It will help greatly for the last few story missions. Also, you want to get enchanted armor with certain spell resistance (go for ice) as enemies with magic can be extremely annoying if you are fighting w/o a ranged attack especially in the final few missions.

Also, PLAY THE STORY MISSIONS FIRST (to a point, go for the other random missions to level up in order to beat the missions)! You will unlock a lot of very useful stuff that will help with the side quests later :D

Wait, raxo, where are you in the story?
Yeah, few times I killed accidentally Lydia XD



Here we go.
 

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So it appears that you are on the mission Diplomatic Immunity from what I see (I might be wrong).

It is going to get pretty difficult soon in a few more missions, so a little training now never hurts :D
(Try to focus on enchanting and smithing)
 

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So it appears that you are on the mission Diplomatic Immunity from what I see (I might be wrong).

It is going to get pretty difficult soon in a few more missions, so a little training now never hurts :D
(Try to focus on enchanting and smithing)
I actually used all my leather to train my smithing skill.
I also enchanted my newly gained armor (steel plate).
I already finished Diplomatic Immunity ;)

Also:
Don't stand in my way...


Well then...
 

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How to increase merchants cash pool? It drains quickly, when selling armor and weapons.

Well..... you really can't without investing money into the merchant or getting a specific skill from the speech tree. When you complete a quest for a merchant, you can invest 500 gold, I believe, into them and they will permanently have 500 more gold from that point on. The one for the speech skill is one of the last skills you can unlock there and it adds 1000 gold to every merchant. There really isn't much else after that though :(

You just have to spread out the selling to different merchants all over skyrim if you don't want to do the above.

EDIT: I just checked, you actually need a skill to invest money in them :(

So...... yeah, if you want to do this, you need increased speech :(

Personally, I wouldn't waste the skill points, but it is your game so...... yeah :D (DOn't forget, there is a level cap so you can't get every perk from every skill tree!)
 

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Yeah, few times I killed accidentally Lydia XD.
Companions can be a pain, they're really only useful if you want a distraction and in some cases summons are better. On my first playthrough (On Xbox, I also own it on steam) I played a heavy armor character and tried really hard not to have Lydia killed, I remember this one time I was about halfway through a dungeon, we had just killed like 2-3 bandits and I swung at the last one right after Lydia did, instead of my killing the bandit or swinging at the air I accidentally cleaved her head clean off and had to restart the entire dungeon.
 

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Werwolves are OP

The first time Lydia died was in that cave from the CoW Questline, she took a Fireball to the face... and a chaurus too...

Personally my fave quests are

No One Escapes Cidhna Mine (But it got boring now)
Scoundrel's Folly (Fun shadowing Gulum-Ei and headshotting bandits with my Nightingale Bow (Keep in mind I spawn stuff in :D) And all the TG quests in General
Diplomatic Immunity (Pots of Prolonged Invis (or being a High Elf)=Win)
Hard Answers (When you get to the balcony ish so pretty)
At the Summit of Apocrypha (Dragonborn; Was a ton of fun minus Apocrypha scaring the hell out of me every time)
Bound Until Death (After 4 Tries I finally kill Vittoria with no bounty)
Hail Sithis! (You get to kill the F***ing Emperor. And get a crapton of gold.)
A Night To Remember (Too funny!)
 

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How to increase merchants cash pool? It drains quickly, when selling armor and weapons.

Well..... you really can't without investing money into the merchant or getting a specific skill from the speech tree. When you complete a quest for a merchant, you can invest 500 gold, I believe, into them and they will permanently have 500 more gold from that point on. The one for the speech skill is one of the last skills you can unlock there and it adds 1000 gold to every merchant. There really isn't much else after that though :(

You just have to spread out the selling to different merchants all over skyrim if you don't want to do the above.

EDIT: I just checked, you actually need a skill to invest money in them :(

So...... yeah, if you want to do this, you need increased speech :(

Personally, I wouldn't waste the skill points, but it is your game so...... yeah :D (DOn't forget, there is a level cap so you can't get every perk from every skill tree!)
There is no limit for levels since 1.9 ;) - you can reset your skill to continue level up.
Also I knew about these perks.

Yeah, few times I killed accidentally Lydia XD.
Companions can be a pain, they're really only useful if you want a distraction and in some cases summons are better. On my first playthrough (On Xbox, I also own it on steam) I played a heavy armor character and tried really hard not to have Lydia killed, I remember this one time I was about halfway through a dungeon, we had just killed like 2-3 bandits and I swung at the last one right after Lydia did, instead of my killing the bandit or swinging at the air I accidentally cleaved her head clean off and had to restart the entire dungeon.
LOL, thats why I save often.

EDIT:

I managed to make it round number o.o

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Anyone else here is removing Stormclocks, Forsworn, Dark Brotherhood, Vampires, Werewolfes, Alduin and Miraak just to get rid of competition? >XD
 

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Um..... what do you mean by getting rid of? D:
You need to keep those peeps to do their quests.
Well, I joined imperials, raiding caves, where Forsworn live, I choose to nuke to destroy dark brotherhood, I'm planning to join Dawnguard, and kill Alduin.
When I finish business on Skyrim, I'll go to Solsteim to remove Miraak.

After it, I'm planning to be EVIL :D
 

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I wish you could actually join the forsworn and take back Markarth... but there's a mod for that XD
I LOVED Cidhna Mine but I didn't like the negative baggage that came with it even though I killed everyone before they got out and got both rewards :D
I only did the Stormcloaks once, and it was honestly more fun than the Imperials. (But Ulfric's a narcissistic turd).
Hail Sithis. The DB shouldn't be touched lol. (I hate the Penitus Occulatus forever for killing Veezara ;-; (Spoiler alert..) The DB are my second favorite faction (Under the Theives Guild ofc)
I might actually do a Vampire playthrough, but I won't use the Lord form often...
Werewolves are OP.
Alduin and Miraak were easy (Provided I was on Godmode) but anticlimactic.

So.... Anyone getting Falskaar? I might
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/37994//?

but @raxo222 Solstheim is HARD. Well, only Apocrypha. Make sure you've got Candlelight, it'll help. The DG questline is tough, mostly the Soul Cairn and Forgotten Vale... So many Falmer in there.... and the Soul Cairn is creepy and hard to navigate through. And those Gargoyles....
 

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So.... Anyone getting Falskaar? I might
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/37994//?
I have actually, I'm kinda in the midst of it, I'm pretty sure I'm mostly finished it. It's kind of just "Okay", there's nothing really new or spectacular about it, it easily could've been written into Skyrim as a standard side quest but it's a pretty harmless mod. A similar mod I would recommend is Helgen Reborn; you pretty much rebuild Helgen after the dragon attack, also the voice acting is pretty okay (if I remember correctly). http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/35841/?tab=1&navtag=/ajax/moddescription/?id=35841&preview=&pUp=1
 

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Only a couple more missions until you get to the best (in my opinion) :D

You also might want to focus on raising your health, a lot. I am assuming you are a two-handed, heavy armor peep (which is what I was) which is exactly the reason why I recommended conjuration. Conjuration magic requires little mana and will help a lot in the fights to come :D
 

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Only a couple more missions until you get to the best (in my opinion) :D

You also might want to focus on raising your health, a lot. I am assuming you are a two-handed, heavy armor peep (which is what I was) which is exactly the reason why I recommended conjuration. Conjuration magic requires little mana and will help a lot in the fights to come :D
Thanks for tips ;)

I already finished Civil War questline. But still there are Stormcloaks camps over here and there.
 

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Only a couple more missions until you get to the best (in my opinion) :D

You also might want to focus on raising your health, a lot. I am assuming you are a two-handed, heavy armor peep (which is what I was) which is exactly the reason why I recommended conjuration. Conjuration magic requires little mana and will help a lot in the fights to come :D
Thanks for tips ;)

I already finished Civil War questline. But still there are Stormcloaks camps over here and there.

If you want to do a really hilarious dungeon, do Kagrenzel, it's really high up in the Velothi Mountains (Near Windhelm) and it exits at Stony Creek Cave. Don't bring followers unless you really need them..... and Don't look down!
 

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Alright, time to type this.

I bought the game when it first game out and was still full price. I played the game but seeing as it wasn't anything like Fallout (Which I expected it to be) I didn't understand the game, and therefor I did not like it. In Fallout 3 you gain skills when you level up, in Skyrim you level up because you gain skills. I barely understood this and I thought you leveled up by killing things and earning Experience points for your level, so I spent a lot of time killing things leveling up too slow. I completed the game when I was level 23 and I had not enchanted, brewed any potions or smithed anything at all. I did only the story quests, played for only 56 hours and threw the game in the old box of shit.

But then, five days ago I started playing it again. I had a friend explain a lot to me, but to the point where it would get me started so that I could still have the fun of figuring it out. My smithing is level 78 and asides from Heavy Armor, Two-Handed and most of the magic skills, all other skills are above level 50. I play a light armor, one handed sneak-thief character and I plan on mastering the Smithing skill. Also, if you haven't already; buy the house in Riften and decorate it, unlike the house in Whiterun this one has an enchanting table (and mannequins which is fucking kick ass)
 

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Well, I bought house in Solitude and fully decorated it.
But nearest smelter I know is in Whiterun >.>

Why I can't have full blacksmith set nearby + enchanting/alchemy in my home? Where I should buy home?

BTW Making potions is most efficient way to make money.
If you want high value/mass ration at low cost and train several skills, then it would be like that:

Find and buy all iron ore you can (it has veeery low value).
Transmute it to gold (+Alteration) and smelt it.
Make jewelery (+Smithing). Gems are optional, but they increase value.
You can enchant it to futher boost its value (+Enchanting)
Then sell it for $$$$ (+Speech)
 
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