The big problem with unarmed is that the one perk that gives armor to power is the ONLY perk that affects it. One and two handed weapons get +100% damage just from the first perk in their trees, and get a ton of other benefits like increased attack speed, bonus damage, crit chances, faster and cheaper power attacks, 25% decapitation chance, and so on. Unarmed just lets you stay lower level since it doesn't raise a skill, and has a pretty quick swing speed in exchange for no range at all.

If one-handed perks applies to unarmed, then yes it would be amaze. But instead its just viable.

>>18907
Unless you are Khajiit, you don't need to worry about unarmed combat.

If you are Khajiit, you need to worry about unarmed combat, because there are some people you want to hurt but not kill and those people are quite fragile. True story: I had to reload once or twice because of this fact.

Also, daggers are the most powerful weapon. 60x sneak attack damage? Yes, we can.

I'm going for a one hand / spell build and I can't decide what would be most beneficiant: Heavy armor or light armor

Heavy armor, since you won't be able to block for shit. I'm pretty sure there's perks associated with magic that make it so that your spells aren't affected by armor, either.

>>18909
Heavy armor if you tend to use your weapon as your main attack, light armor if you use magic as your main attack.

Heavy armor has no downside.

>>18913
WRONG, BITCH.

It's heavy.

That means you can't carry as many potions you never use anyway.

By Talos, I don't even want to guess at the number of Minor Healing Potions stashed in the chest in my house. And I'm lucky arrows have no weight. I must be carrying thousands (at least 950+ Ancient Nord Arrows, 600+ Steel Arrows and Clavicus Vile knows how many Iron, Falmer and Forsworn Arrows, with a few handfuls of Glass, Dwarven, Orcish, Elven, etc. arrows).

>>18915

1: Arrows have 0 weight
2: Heavy Armor 70 Perk: Heavy Armor weighs nothing and does not slow you down

>>18916
How do you get hit enough to get an armor skill that high?

It's as if you weren't the sneaky type. Absurd!

>>18918
To be honest, I'm a "run in swinging" type, and I still have trouble getting hit enough.

>>18915
>That means you can't carry as many potions you never use anyway.

Heh so I'm not the only one. Does anyone here actually use potions as a part of their play style? Because apart from occasionally chugging a health potion I've never bothered.

>>18921
I use them during tough battles when I need every bit of advantage I can get. But I use poisons much more.
Problem is, the toughest enemies are usually draugr, which as far as I'm aware are immune to poison.

>>18921
Well, Five-Claw Discount considers it a failure if she is detected in the first place, and sneak attacks usually kill anything in one shot that can, indeed, be killed in one shot to begin with, so poisons and archery potions just aren't usually worth the effort (but I'm looking into paralysis and stamina poisons because 1) the paralysis and fatigue spells from that Oblivion mod kept me entertained for days and 2) maybe some of the not-one-hit-kills will be more humiliatingly easy to handle).

However, I've been in a couple of tough spots AND I'm a veteran STALKER, so I just can not leave the house without backup systems. Mostly I've just needed health potions in some exceptionally tight spots (FUCK YOU ALDUIN) and needed a couple of stamina potions to beat two mammoths and three giants in one go. Only once did I use an invisibility potion for the highlight performance of my Dark Brotherhood career.

But I am getting a mage character started and I'm already looking into alchemy at level 1, so I'll probably be using stuff for nukes and protection.

Maybe spoilers, nothing major.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu4LSB8JPF4&feature=channel_video_title

Weight penalties mean nothing in a game where at any given time you can teleport (or, how they prefer to call it, "fast travel") to your house and store anything that could slow you down.

So yeah, heavy armor has no downsides.

>>18936
Only downside is early on if you want to sneak. Shits noisy. Solution? Sneak in the nude and put it all on if your detected.

So I was fucking around during the early DB missions, and I did something with my armor that lead to me not wearing any clothes and totally not realizing it, in turn leading to me walking around some town in the nude. And the townspeople actually commented on it! "You're, uh, not wearing any clothes. You should do something about that."

This game, man. The little things just make it golden.

>>18941
Yep. They've noticed nudity since at least morrowind.

Oh. Well, shit. It's been years since I played Morrowind, but I don't recall anything like that happening in Oblivion.

S-stop taking away my simple amusement! ;_;

>>18874

I also need help finding it, been ALL over the place not finding it what so ever.. And why would you make a thane questline as a miscellaneous quest arrow that does not point towards a target?

>>18943
>>18941
>>18947
When this didn't happen in Oblivion, I was bothered.
Now it's back and I am happy!

>>18874
>>18953
The quest arrow leads me straight to it, I don't know what you're doing wrong. Just go into the dungeon, shank a few Forsworn, and it's in a chest I think.

>>18975
No quest arrow on mine. Never shows me where any of the miscellaneous quests are.

>>18976
You have to check Misc quests twice for them to show: first you need the "quest" Miscellaneous active, then you need to activate the specific Misc quest in the list.

>>18978
>>18976
To put it simply:
1. Activate Misc Quests in the Quest List
2. Move over to the list of Misc Quests and activate that one
3. ???
4. Profit

>>18980
Lol that was easy.

Problem with Steam purchases, I never bother to read the manual, and I never realize what I can do. Hell took me a day of playing before I found out I could sprint.

Main Quest is hella short compared to the other elder scrolls games. Hell, a lot of the quest lines seem shorter.

IF I wasn't taking my sweet time doing a mixture of other questlines, I could've gone student to archmage of a fucking college within a week instead of the month or so it did take.

Cisqur 2011/11/27(Sun)15:14 No. 19083 ID: be6914
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I was wondering--I haven't played Skyrim myself, but I found this guy in another Skyrim-related thread. Is he an important character or a very generic NPC? I ask because I want to draw him and it would be nice if I could have a name to attach to the image.

>>19083
I may be mistaken, but I am pretty sure that that is the Player Character wearing one of the Dragon Priest masks, which sometimes glitch out and make your head disappear while you are wearing them.

>>19083
Those are the Arch-Mage robes and a dragon mask on a PC.

 

The hell?

What's with all you cowards and your sneak attacks? Tricks and subterfuge don't matter when you can simply burn a man in seconds with your thoughts!

>>19134
>In seconds
Not unless you play in casual babby mode

Winston 2011/11/30(Wed)08:29 No. 19137 ID: 0d7a83
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>>19136
YOU HAVE NOT MASTERED THE FLAME.

>>19137
You use the fire yes? You wield it well. But not as well as J'zargo.

Bob 2011/12/08(Thu)16:19 No. 19371 ID: 70268b
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My Altmer Conjurer Valaeros throwing a cart off a cliff for fun and profits(mainly fun though).

Bob 2011/12/08(Thu)16:29 No. 19372 ID: 70268b
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Again with Valaeros. I want my thrall spells so badly... level 90 conjuration is so far away.

OVERLORD!!AwZwHkBGWx 2012/01/08(Sun)22:06 No. 19881 ID: 0db8d2
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OH HEY DON'T MIND ME, JUST LATE TO THE PARTY.

HERE IS MY KHAJIIT, ZAPPY. SHE IS A COOL GUY. SHE IS MEDIOCRE AT A LOT OF THINGS AND NOT REALLY GOOD AT ANYTHING EXCEPT FOR BEING KILLED BY GIANTS AND FROST TROLLS.

Oh look this thread.

>>19881
I HOPE ZAPPY IS IN THAT PLACE TO KILL ALL THE NASTY ASSASSINS, AND NOT BECAUSE SHE IS PART OF THEIR EVIL WAYS.

Also >>19160
>Talk to J'zargo for first time
>"Have you yet mastered the expert level destruction spells?"
>Load earlier save
>train destruction for 2 hours up to 100
>Come back
>"Have you yet mastered the expert level destruction spells?"
>"Yes. Yes I have."

WHAT NOW J'ZARGO?
WHAT NOW?

>>19890
There can be only one.

Your destiny is clear.

You must become J'zargo.

>>19890

Holy shit. I talked to him and all that served to do was make me feel inferior.

>>19890
Does he say anything different? What exactly?

J'zargo and Ma'iq are total bros.

Bob 2012/01/11(Wed)06:25 No. 19911 ID: 84387c
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Alright, I can't post a screenshot of mine because I xbawx, but here's a nice picture I saw of someone the same general shape. My dovahkiin is yet another lizard wizard archmage, Lumi. She wanted to be a healer, but ended up more the type who sets everything on fire. She also enchants, and alchemizes, and picks locks in order to get things to enchant and alchemize, and sells the things she enchants and alchemizes for profit using her feminine lizard wiles, and once killed a man who made the mistake of telling her he was going to sic his mates on the mages' college when he was alone in a room with her and her hired goon deep inside an ancient labyrinth where no-one would hear him scream. She tells people she put a dragon skeleton in the college courtyard for study and decoration, but this is only half true at best.

I like to think she does experiments on how the Voice works, for the greater good of wizardly knowledge.

OVERLORD!!AwZwHkBGWx 2012/01/11(Wed)08:11 No. 19912 ID: 7a3a6b
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I hope this dude is important to a quest somewhere, because if not, having this guy do nothing but move from seat to seat all day seems awfully shallow. Quite what I shouldn't expect to see in such a highly-rated title.

Oh yeah and I finally got some better armour. Took fucking long enough, and it was on a filthy bandit, of all things.

>>19910
He says something like "Really... already? Truly this is the place J'zargo should be, amongst those with such talent."

yeah yeah keep flapping your gums asshole, you'll never be as good as m-
>finds out J'zargo is the only character in the game that continues leveling up past 50, all the way to the 81 cap.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-

J'zargo is objectively the greatest companion
Next to the that one werewolf Companion chick
Then Barbas the immortal doggie

>>19911
That is desctiption is extremely similar to how I normally play TES games (except for the most recent time, when I played an Orc mage just to spite the natural order of things {an example of what I am referring to is how in Oblivion, the Orcs are the only species without a single member in the mage's guild}).

Also, that is a very nice drawing which makes me kind of sad I don't have Skyrim yet.

 

<- multi related

>>19984
As an observant commenter noted, that's actually a retextured Rainbow Dash. The hair's wrong.

This clearly ruins all and any enjoyment of the video.