gone and bought this today,after reading this thread and speaking to a few others havent had my ps3 on for months,anything i should know before i start playing?apart from it been a massive game.

 

Read up on all the levelling up glitches which you can take advantage of. That'll make things much easier for you.

 

concentrate on smithing, enchanting, alchemy and your favourite weapon (either one handed or two handed)

 

main game done. killed alduin with the sovengarde heroes. ho hum, what to do now. join the stormcloaks or the imperials?

 

At level 36 now and have only just started smithing, enchanting and barely used alchemy!!!!

So I spent a day just smithing - running all over the place to get raw material and knocking our armour, daggers and jewelry like no tomorrow. Need to find somewhere to sell my massive stock of gold and silver jewelry.

 

If you invest in local businesses you can sell more to them. The market traders in Whiterun and the wizard bloke in Dragon's Reach are all worth doing. I purchased goods from the two smiths in Whiterun, created iron daggers, then went to Dragon's reach, enchanted the daggers and sod them to the wizard chap. If I had too many extras, I sold them in Riverwood.

 

Thanks - not worked out how to invest in local businesses yet - will work it out.

However I am now away from Skyrim for ten days!!!! Travelling!

 

It requires 500 gold. It should be an option in the conversation list, sometimes after you have completed a task for that person.

 

you also need to unlock the investor skill in the speach tree

 

This arrived in the post yesterday, so finally got to play it (ps3). Only a couple of hours in, so at level 5 at the moment and just finished the golden claw quest.

 

Turned on the Xbox, loaded Skyrim. All save games GONE

Level 54!

Restarted Xbox. All save games returned!

 

and underpants changed....

 

Wow 14 pages,didnt think it would be this popular

Ive not played much as i found it a little repetative,although after reading this lot,i will carry on

 

still level 74 and haven't started the civil war part of the story. i think i killed a companion the other day. aela the huntress was pretty pissed at me anyway after i killed him. wonder if i am a marked man in whiterun now?

 

There is a dead companion lying in the street in Whiterun. I have no idea why, I didn't kill her as far as I know.

And to top it off, outside of the Whiterun stables, I have not one, not even two, but 4 and a half versions Louis Letrush hanging around

At the moment, I haven't started the Civil War, or even throught about what side to join. I've got the Dark Brotherhood to the point where I need to assasinate the Emperor.

I've got the Thieves Guild to the point where I have just left Mercer Frey's home in Riften.

I still haven't been to do the Werewolf bit yet as I haven't read anything about it yet.

I think I need to go and shout a few times in some villages as the Greybeards haven't heard any more whispers yet.

 

sneak onto his boat. see if you can pass all the guards on 4 floors of the boat without killing one of them. then do the emperor any way you want. alternatively just have a bloodbath. most of them are sleeping in berths. sneak attacks with a deadric bow with ebony arrows enchanted with shock, frost and poison. Overkill on my part ermmmmm......... well I don't want them getting back up again.


never liked being a werewolf. Something about no armour or weapons just didn't sit right with me. i liked being a vampire even less. the cure for that was a major PITA for me. get to level 4 vampire and you will be attacked on sight by anyone. I had no black soul gem at the time and getting one of someone was a pain.

 

just finished the stormcloak civil war quests. I am now a hero of skyrin lots of imperial soldiers to kill. pity i didn't have a **** load of black soul gems to fill?

ah well. dragon masks to find, 14 other stones of berenziah to find as well.

 

Go mining in Blackreach. Geode veins, only found in Blackreach, give soul gems, sometimes black ones.

 

i cant. blackreach scares me and its a PITA to get to. any easy ways in. i still cant find the entrance at Alftand

 

You need the Attunement Sphere that you get off Septimus during a quest to open the entrances.

Have a look at this

Nowt really to worry about in Blackreach, mainly Falmer , couple of Chorus and trolls and a dragon. Unless you're scared of the dark that is, as it's not very well lit.

Once inside there are lift's that take you to the surface, giving you a fast travel point for easy return without having to travel through the ruins again.

 

i have the attunement sphere. it's the dark more than anything but also the vastness and no linear tunnels to follow. I will check the guide and maps. casting candle spell all the time just to see where you are going, I suppose i could go back to my house and collect the 50 or so torches i have. any dragon walls in there? will go in again and do a bit more exploring. falmers and trolls won't be a bother. i heard the dragon is respawnable.

 

magelight is very useful in Blackreach

 

+1

and I find it easiest to go clockwise (or widdershins) around the complete outside, completing all the small ingress points (towers / rooms / buildings) coming back to the point where you went in to the tower / room / building and carry on 'round.

When you get back to entrance, go in to the middle and look for other bits of interest - you pretty much catch it all

 

New beta patch out and the latest Whql Nvidia drivers have also been released

 

Bollocks!!!! my entrance to Blackreach via Raldbthar Deep Market is bugged. I can't interact with bones that are supposed to be stuck in the bridge cogs. They are on the floor and I can move them but they don't do anything. No power to the button on the bridge. Just have to use one of the other entrances

 

Have you removed them all? They are in a number of cogs around the room

 

sorry i should have said, I have been in here before and cleared the cogs out. this is my second time in this Dwemer ruin. yes all the bones are beside the cogs or are near about. no Activate or interaction. No worries I got into Blackreach last night and have 17 out of 30 nirnroot collected. bit dark but other than that no problems. using the laboratory as a base. been round most of the buildings on the perimeter, now to do the centre. don't know what I was worried about really nothing in here especially nasty. the Daedric battle axe soon clears the unruly inhabitants up

 

how's everyone doing. been 3 days since i had my xbox on. still in blackreach gathering nirnroot.

 

Chugging through all the side quests now, level 34 ATM

 

got to level 39 last Friday, but since summer is now here unlikely I'll be switching it back on until October