General Questions.

[CptStern]

well yes, I managed to kill one ..but then re-loaded ...you want the bonus. Besides once you open the door beyond the last guard, you're pretty much done the quest as you wont have to sneak around after that

 

[The Monkey]

OK, thanks.... So the only way is invisibility?

 

[CptStern]

you might be able to sneak by but I could only do it when I had eaten a radish (gives you chameleon) ...you could always backtrack, get the spell and head on back

 

[Warbie]

I just shot the prisoner with an arrow, right over the guards shoulder. He didn't have a clue

Getting to that point didn't prove to be that tricky either, just take your time and sneak all the way.

 

[CptStern]

heh ..you could have waited for the guard to leave (right after his conversation with the prisoner) ..then shoot him

 

[Gargantou]

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Man, my favourite artifacts so far Skull of Corruption which creates a clone of the peep you use it on and the clone then goes on to attack him(The clone gets the exact same weps, stats etc, real useful!) and Wabbajack which transforms enemies/creatures into a random being, worth noting is that it can be a bitch, because you can't control what it transforms into.. so you could make an imp into a rat.. or a rat into an imp for example..

 

[Danimal]

I have a pretty bad problem goiz!

**SPOILERS (I THINK)**

So I need to fence just 70 more ****ing gold to meet the Gray Fox in person, problem is, whenever I sell stolen goods it dosen't count towards the amount fenced! It just sticks at "530 fenced"

D:

 

[The Monkey]

I've been playing this game for like 15 hours, and I'm still on lvl 1. Is that normal, or should I have advanced by now?

 

[Roland Deschain]

I've been playing this game for like 15 hours, and I'm still on lvl 1. Is that normal, or should I have advanced by now?

That is as abnormal as a hippie nazi grandmother. Find a bed and sleep for an hour and see if a level up screen pops up.

 

[The Monkey]

I haven't got any training whatsoever. Could that have something to do with it? What do you think I should train?

 

[Cormeh]

Nah, levelling requires improvements to your major skills Monkey, so just find a safe bed or bedroll in game and sleep.

The level screen should appear. Just check your major skills and see how filled the accompanying red bar is.

 

[CptStern]

I've been playing this game for like 15 hours, and I'm still on lvl 1. Is that normal, or should I have advanced by now?

really? have you just been wandering around, not questing/fighting/looting? the way you advance is by using your skills ..so you have to use all your major skills to advance to the next level (I think, not positive)

there are times were I've played for over 8 hours and hadnt advanced a level while at other times I've advanced twice in 2 hours ..it all depends on how often you use all your skills

oh and there's an icon that looks like a star within a half circle with an arrow pointing upward, that means it's time to level up ..but you have to find a bed to sleep in first

 

[The Monkey]

I've played a lot for all the three guilds and the DB, and I don't think I'm even half way to lvl 2 yet. I barely use any magic at all though... I've never felt the need to.

 

[CptStern]

just spam it ..if you have fireballs just go out and fire them at a tree, you'll advance in skill for that particular skill (destruction)

 

[The Monkey]

DO they reload automatically?

 

[Roland Deschain]

DO they reload automatically?

Ok, go to your character tab (ie: Press TAB and then click on your health/magic/stamina bar). There browse between the tabs until you get to the one where all your skills (blade, destruction, etc) are summarized. At the bottom of that page will be a progress bar. Is it fully red. If it is, you can level up by sleeping in a bed.

 

[The Monkey]

Ok, go to your character tab (ie: Press TAB and then click on your health/magic/stamina bar). There browse between the tabs until you get to the one where all your skills (blade, destruction, etc) are summarized. At the bottom of that page will be a progress bar. Is it fully red. If it is, you can level up by sleeping in a bed.

Yes I know. I'm not on my own computer right now so I can't start the game to check my level. Does the magic reload by itself after firing, or do I have to sleep or something before I can fire again?

 

[CptStern]

no, as long as your mana bar (the blue bar) has enough magika you can use magic ..it regenerates slowly depending on your level/skills

 

[The Monkey]

OK, thanks for all the help. I check on my level bar when I get home...

 

[Roland Deschain]

I have a question about light armor. Right now I'm level 88 and my glass armor gives me a protection of 40. Once I read expert its gonna go up by 50%, giving me about a ~75 armor rating. What about heavy armor. At level 90 what's the protection like (taking good armor into accoutn of course, like the red evil looking one ).

EDIT: As an afterthought, is glass armor the best light armor one can find. If its not, say so, but don't tell me what the armor is.

 

[Quixoticism]

I'm pretty sure glass is the best light armor. At least it was in Morrowind...(shed a tear for awesome glass armor ;()

 

[phantomdesign]

Your fireballs have to hit a target (npc/monster) in order to advance destruction. Some magic doesn't require a target and can just be spammed in general (conjuration). For alteration, you can cast a cheap unlock spell at a door.

 

[The Monkey]

I solved the issue. I ran through the gate but only two guards followed. I killed them both and then attacked the prisoner. Another two guards were killed. Afterwards I went to prison. I may have lost the bonus, but I got some great armout and a great sword for the dead guards, so I'm not complaining.

 

[The Monkey]

Some lizard gave me a couple of boots for killin his brother, tell, me are those better or worse than the steel boots?

 

[Unfocused]

Some lizard gave me a couple of boots for killin his brother, tell, me are those better or worse than the steel boots?

You can tell by looking at the value below the shield icon. Make sure both items are fully repaired before comparing them.

BTW, is it the first cRPG you have played?

 

[CptStern]

I solved the issue. I ran through the gate but only two guards followed. I killed them both and then attacked the prisoner. Another two guards were killed. Afterwards I went to prison. I may have lost the bonus, but I got some great armout and a great sword for the dead guards, so I'm not complaining.

heh I think that quest gave you some balance scales reward ...or was it the cool magic bow? ...dont know how useful it is but I still have it


oh and found out that if you kill someone silently (like a sniped arrow to the head) you dont alert anyone ...I had to sneak into a guarded fort to replace someone's medicine with poison ..I sniped 3 of the guards without raising the alarm and losing my bonus ...granted these werent city guards who can take a lot more punishment and wont die with a single arrow to the head

 

[The Monkey]

You can tell by looking at the value below the shield icon. Make sure both items are fully repaired before comparing them.

BTW, is it the first cRPG you have played?

Yeah, it's worth like 5 times more, but I can't see why.

And yes, it is.

 

[Unfocused]

Yeah, it's worth like 5 times more, but I can't see why.

And yes, it is.

I mean the value below the shield icon, not the coin one.

And if there's no big difference in defence, while it's worth 5 times as much, maybe that's because it gives you some bonuses to stats (attributes, skills, etc.)?

 

[Danimal]

I've come across a wierd bug on my assassin character, I won the first round of the Arena, it says I won but when I approach the Blademaster for my next match, he tells me I still haven't done the first one! D:

Has anyone ever encountered this before? Is there a way to fix it?

 

[JNightshade]

Eek, I've never seen that before...
and while I'm not technically an assassin, I'm extremely close.

 

[Raziaar]

I've come across a wierd bug on my assassin character, I won the first round of the Arena, it says I won but when I approach the Blademaster for my next match, he tells me I still haven't done the first one! D:

Has anyone ever encountered this before? Is there a way to fix it?

SLAY the blademaster! MUAHAHAHA.

 

[Danimal]

I can't, he's got that crown cursor thing.

 

[Cormeh]

I just last night freed Kvatch completely - does it get rebuilt, or does it remain a ruin for the rest of the quest?

 

[Laivasse]

I did have the same question myself, but from the amount of people calling for a 'rebuild kvatch' mod I guess it doesn't.

My questions:
1) Is the appearance of Oblivion gates random?

2) Do NPCs really travel between towns of their own accord, or do NPCs that you know just spawn near the player's whereabouts to give the illusion of travel?

They appear to travel, but it seems to me that the roads are SO dangerous that if they really were travelling half of them would be dead by now. Plus, so far I've not had the experience of an NPC I'm looking for being 'out of town' off holidaying.

 

[Dumb Dude]

1) Oblivion gates aren't radomly placed. There is just a ton of them.

2) The only NPCs I ever see traveling between towns are guards on horses, and they do seem like they have a usual route (as far as i can tell).

 

[Unfocused]

You know, maybe level scaling works for them so that they can actually win the fight

 

[Laivasse]

2) The only NPCs I ever see traveling between towns are guards on horses, and they do seem like they have a usual route (as far as i can tell).

I've seen a fair few people on the roads. I've seen Ida Vlinorman, the Imperial City athletics trainer on the roads twice. The first time was just outside the city main gate, so I thought she was just doing her daily business in the woods or whatever, but the second time was quite a long way between the Imperial City and Chorrol.

I also noticed a random Dark Elf NPC in Chorrol who i could have sworn I had also seen in the Imperial City.

Finally, one time I was fighting an atronach outside some elven ruins far from any town, and had my bacon saved by a bodyguard who was travelling with some Countess (of Bravil? or Leyawiin, something like that). Stuff like this suggests some NPCs travel between towns, but I can't be sure that they don't just spawn in my vicinity and then vanish when I'm out of range...