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Started by jagilki, December 19, 2011, 08:34:52 PM

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So, first time playing any sort of Oblivion esk game, and I must say, this is much harder than Fallout NV (which I wasn't expecting). I'm playing on the hardest difficulty as I always do, was there any tips you guys can share? I was just doing my first quest and got ambushed by some guys and died! lol.

Any/all advice is welcome :D


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The one thing I really preferred about Morrowind, and that I don't know why they stopped doing, is that you can't do all of the guilds with one character.  And in fact can't advance in the guilds unless certain stats are high enough to allow you to do so.  It just feels kinda odd to be the Grand Poobah  of the Mage's College in Winterhold when I don't have a single magic stat above 20.

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Quote from: ! JDM The Professional ! on June 18, 2013, 02:12:33 PM
So, first time playing any sort of Oblivion esk game, and I must say, this is much harder than Fallout NV (which I wasn't expecting). I'm playing on the hardest difficulty as I always do, was there any tips you guys can share? I was just doing my first quest and got ambushed by some guys and died! lol.

Any/all advice is welcome :D


The number one thing I can say is to decide what you want to do as far as combat goes, and min-max that as early as you can.  If the plan is to go mage, make sure to pic a race that emphasizes that, same for the others.  Its possible to be any kind of class as any kind of race, but if you're playing on hardest difficulty you'll want to specialize.

The big thing is that in Fallout you gain XP like any other game, killing everything you see.  In Elder Scrolls games, it doesn't work like that.  You get levels by using your skills.  So the more you use magic, your various magic stats will go up depending on what spells you use.

Since you're posting in this thread, I assume you're playing Skyrim.  When you first get out of the tutorial area where the dragon is burning the city, follow the dude that escapes with you to that first city.  He can tank for you in combat a little.  It might also benefit you to be in stealth mode a lot since its one of the most overpowered skills in Skyrim.

If you go the mage route, don't rely on your Destruction magic too terribly much.  Later in the game the Destruction Magic doesn't scale as well as the other combat skills.  You'll be able to do more damage with a well enchanted/refined weapon than you would with higher level Destruction magic.  Early in the game its fine, but later on you'll find yourself wishing you had invested in some of the other skills instead. 

If you find enchanted equipment, always pick it up.  It sells better than other equipment but more importantly you can disenchant it(usually).  Doing that allows you to add that enchantment to equipment in the future.  Grab all of the Soul Stones you find as well.  And enchant EVERYTHING before you sell it.  Only use the weak Soul Stones to enchant things you intend to sell, and save the better ones(Grand and Black Soul Stones) for the things you intend on actually using.

Even if you don't plan on doing the main storyline, do it at least up until you meet the Greybeards.  They teach you some good Shouts and its required to do one of the DLCs anyway.





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Kinda like how Fallout 4 wraps up the storylines but you can still play afterwards?