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Newcomer at Skyrim - advice please
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Ok so I finaly got this yesterday. I am playing as an Imperial. I am enjoying the scenery its breathtaking, however I kinda feel a bit overwhelmed with all the reading plus all the people talking to me , and having to ask them things etc. So far I have done 2 main missions but no sidequests. Does anyone have any advice for me to make things a bit easier?
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Don't worry it doesn't really play into quests or affect the story in any way, it's just for people who are really interested in it. If you're in it for questing, having fun then you can always just breeze through dialogue.
Also join the Thieves guild for the most fun you can have in the game!
Well for me the dark brotherhood is the most fun in the game but each to their own! It is well worth getting over to Riften and joining the thieves guild early on though and doing enough quests to get the skeleton key. Unless that is you are good with those extra brittle pieces of weakened metal that pass for skyrim lockpicks that is.
I don't think it matters all that much. You can always drop the difficulty level to almost nothing if you struggle. The close combat is kinda rubbish in the game though IMO. I have much more fun using the ranged magic or going sneaky and using bows/daggers for stealth kills with the damage multipliers you can get.
Not really, character variations do come with unique skills, but the differences are negligible, and I personally did not use any of them.
I agree with Toytown, ranged is far better in the game, archery is addictive, but I'd also bolster up my one armed fighting style for when you go into dungeons later in the game.
I think you'll need to give Skyrim some time, it is a long meaty game that has so many options. Once you have the fundamentals down, and figured out how you want to play it or approach the story, you'll have a great time.
With your first go through, might be best to just bimble a bit, and when you know how it all works, start again with a style of your choice (sneak archer, destructo mage, sword and board. berserker, summoner etc)
Sneak Archer with Conjuration has been the easiest of the many styles I have played, and I have played though 5 or so times clocking up a couple of hundred game hours.
Sooner or later some character / monster is going to give you savage beating and you'll wonder how can you can kill them next time round.
Look at your skills page and focus on building up a couple of offensive skills. I dont like the sword combat in this game so I prefer to use ranged attacks or mage destruction spells. Try and get a companion to tag along or use mage summoning spells to create a companion that will fight along side you. And make as much money as possible by doing side quests or looting caves etc and selling the artifacts.
I chose a Dark Elf for my first play. Big mistake. More often than not magical enemies use Frost based magic and that hammered me. So, next time, I chose a Nord. With Frost immunity at my back I was unstoppable.
Don't go hand to hand. For offense/defence - A few perks in Archery, One-handed/Two-handed and Light/Heavy Armour as a newbie should be your focus. If you fancy adding a bit of magic to that, that's a personal choice.
Some perks in Pickpocket can get you to an extra 100 pts in Carry Weight.
Some perks in Alchemy can't hurt either.
Do the main quest until you go to High Hrothgar and meet the Greybeards and get powered up. Then, leave it for a while and go exploring, there's lots to see and do.
As for not wanting to read the dialogue etc. Skyrim Isn't CoD. It's not a game to blow through in a weekend. It's a game to savour. I'm over 250 hours of gameplay and on my 3rd character. On none of them have I completed the main quest.
Talking to NPCs can lead to other quests.
The main plots are:
Mages Guild
Dark Brotherhood
Thieves Guild
Companions
So thats about 4 play throughs. You might find that you can do two of them in a single play through IF it suits the character AND you dont go off doing too many side plots.
Plus of course the additional bits of fun that you can add to any of them:
The Main Plot
Becoming a Vampire
Playing as a Werewolf
Civil War
Blades (Dragon/Shout hunting)
This is probably the worst advice you could be given. The plot/storyline in Skyrim may not be the best, but any game is better if you are invested in the story and know what and why you are doing.
You can create more than one character so if you decide the one you started with isn't quite what you wanted, then start again.
I have well over 200 hours in it so far and still not completed the main quest. Been far too busy exploring and doing side quests.:D
I'd also suggest doing some of the dawnguard plot assuming you have the expansion and aren't playing on a PS3 especially if you like having a companion as Serana is one of the best followers in the game in terms of usefulness (as she cannot die) and interms of character development. Although if you play as a vampire lord it may not be an idea to have her tagging along as for some reason her presence severely weakens vampire lord
Other than that combat wise as others have suggested stealth archery is the way to go. There is something satisfying about getting a one shot stealth attack on a bandit and then doing the same to their friends when they come to see what happened. And just explore. If you see a black location on the compass it means somewhere you haven't been so just head to it and see what's there
Finally have fun. And try and remember to dip back to real life every now and then
Also are sidequests in the journal under miscellaneous?
The beauty of them is you can do whatever you like. You can spend hours simply wandering about picking up flowers and mushrooms and making potions.
In Skyrim you can go walking with the giants as they herd their mammoths which is tranquil and pretty.
Anything under miscellaenous in the journal tends to just be a radiant quest usually along the lines of fetching or delivering stuff
Proper side quests (or main quests for that matter) will normally have a specific name for the quest along with a number of objectives
How close can you actually get to giants before they smack you upside the head? I've been too chicken to get really close as mostly I hide up rocks and fill them with arrows (then I tend to feel guilty about it because they seem like gentle- if club endowed- creatures):o
Giants and mammoths don't respawn. If you clear out their camps and kill the randoms they're extinct. Don't know if this is true, it's just what I've heard.
Giants and mammoths respawn.
Yes sometimes in double or triple strength.
Ooooh, they respawn alright:D I used one of their cleared camps as a jumping off point once to do a bit of mountain climbing and jumped right into a pair of them.
Ahh, just found it.... near the bottom in the TRIVIA section.
http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/The_Cursed_Tribe
I sneak and snipe a lot with an enchanted bow.
I've not done this mission yet on my 2nd & 3rd plays. On my 1st I was level 65-ish when i got around to this so I was pretty badass and they never caused me a problem.