Noonan

Have you maxed Illusion? If not, just buy Muffle and use it as you run through towns. That should gain you a level or two by itself if your Illusion is currently real low like mine was.

Pickpock is easy to raise too. Go to inns late at night and steal from people sleeping.

superfro

Yes..I understand how to increase further, but that doesn't mean it really fits in with how they encourage you play the game up till that point. To shut off rewards unless you go around and do a bunch of shit you normally wouldn't is kind of lame. I guess I just don't understand why they didn't build any experience leveling into discovering locations and at least doing main story missions.

superdeluxe

lockpick skill everyone should up that sucker..You miss out on a LOT

superdeluxe

When I cross over rocky outcroppings or down hillsides/across rivers..she always gets stuck. Many times I just do this to 'unlock' areas so I can fast travel later.

orangecrush

Why would you need perks for skill trees you don't use

superdeluxe

Last until you hit another stone



Apparently they don't I thinkt he only ones that level when you level are the DB initiates.

superfro

Whatever helps you sleep at night dude. But now look what it got ya.

superdeluxe

Its alright, I was going to upgrade her with Mjoll anyways..and she CANT die

superfro

Well even the 3 or 4 skills I have maxed to 100 I don't have enough perks for at Level 39, but regardless, I wasn't so much looking at the perk angle but more just increasing base stats and leveling up in general. To get to 50 I'm just going to have to do a bunch of dumb shit I wouldn't normally do. For such an immersive game it seems counterproductive to the experience.

orangecrush

It could be better, but it is still miles ahead of Oblivion where you could literally stay at level 5 and max out all but a handful of skills. Or Fallout where you don't have to really choose anything and end up with all of your skills maxed out by the end.

superfro

Agreed. I'm just being a baby.

CaptainMarvel

So a new patch (1.3) is up on Steam.

That dragon note is ambiguous. I wonder if it fixes the reverse flying, invincible dragons... or some other error.

Drexl

What I wish they would do is make the maximum level higher for major skills. Say you would get up to 120 instead of 100, or something like that. That way, your late game character would still be better in the major skills, even if you can max out everything.

MoviePage

Maybe it's to encourage you to try new playstyles? I know that's counterproductive to a true RPG experience, unless you want to think of it as playing someone who's become so good at his specialties that he gets bored with them and decides to make learning a life experience.

Are you sure you've checked back at that exact same spot? As my favorite companion J'Zargo likes to say in a maybe-sarcastic tone when I tell him to wait, "Here? Right here?"

But yeah, I can't believe that a companion compass marker is something that Bethesda neglected to put in the game. Fallout: New Vegas started out without one, but there were so many complaints about missing or lost followers that they eventually added one in a patch (yeah, I know, game's not technically Bethesda, but close enough that they should have taken note).

Groucho

I want to roll a "Lord Fauntleroy" character who never goes on quests or gets in fights, but levels up purely from paying trainers.

Larry C.

What? Are you just gonna pickpocket everyone and pay the trainers?

mhg83

All I want patched is to stop the game from crashing to the desktop and categorized storage chests. Mainly I want the latter. Every things a mess in my storage chest.has the former or latter been fixed yet?

orangecrush

What benifit would it have to most skills though? All the magic skills just let you cast higher level spells (which max out at 100). Same with lockpicking. And there are no major skills in this game like there were in Oblivion. The inital bonuses you get don't really do anythign other than let you obtain the higher level perks sooner (or cast higher level spells sooner).

mh4268

Definitely the chests, if my Character can be categorized why not chests

House

If you add magic resistance does this help with all kinds of magic, including frost and shock?

Also for the shield resistance, does it only work when you are actually blocking whatever magic they are throwing your way, or is it constant?

MoviePage

Yes to the first question. Fire, ice, and lightning.

Not sure about the second question, as I have yet to use a shield in this game.

dom56

Just got my OXM magazine today and it received Game Of The Year 2011 award.

Congrats Bethesda.

foxdvd

Yes you have to have your shield up...but it seems to work even if they hit you from the back or side if your shield is up...also there is perk that lets you move at full speed while having your shield up...so if the magic user is backing up while hitting you with fire...you can close on them quick while not taking damage...


Also if you spend time on your shield...a bash will do almost as much damage as a sword...stun your target...and break even their power strikes...it makes combat much more enjoyable..and less a button masher. You have to time your blocks...bashes and sword swings..and if you do it right you can take out 5 or 6 hard enemies without taking a sliver of damage (that is when the game is set to one level lower than the hardest difficulty)

DeputyDave

Any word on the patch to fix the Xbox patch yet?

MoviePage

No update on the Bethesda blog or the forums since they said that it's "in final testing" 2 days ago.