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7thKnight

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Going slightly RPG on Skyrim. Just beat the main storyline and the Winterhold college with my pure mage. Time to go and make my Obligatory Heavy Nord with the companions and then just run away with my axe. Then of course the Rouge. My fisticuffs guy went kinda down the toilet around level 30 where my fists can only do 50 damage, it's not nearly enough to do anything when anything can two shot you.
 

strongholdx

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How do you guys have more than one character? I havn't even done a fraction of the stuff Skyrim offers let alone enough for two characters
 

Iarbobray

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My xbox has two memory things, so the bigger one I use for my main guy, and the smaller one is the one I race my friend with.
 

xexorian

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I have about 125 hours invested on 2 chars, about 80 on the first, but it was a waste, recently started over since spell damage is too low on harder difficulties to survive anything at all at high lvl. 91 destruction and it take my entire mana bar several times to fight just a few mobs.

edit; how did you do it domitius? I had far too many levels doing other things and invested my perks mostly in destro, then a little resto, then in like smithing and non combat so i was fucked by like lvl 39 or so, im not at home to check. Like Ancient dragons just eat me whole. pluck me right out of line of sight behind objects and snap my neck. 1 Breath breaks my shield and takes me to like 5% health, its scary as hell!
 

xexorian

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Creation Kit is going to totally kill any spare time I have for like 2 weeks. I LOVED modding Warcraft 3 TFT, I cannot wait to re-learn some of the new and exciting stuff the creation kit will include.

edit; can already see myself designing maps and terrain and new mobs and animations and picking up tuts for havok animations and shit like that, hahaha
 

Iarbobray

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I have about 125 hours invested on 2 chars, about 80 on the first, but it was a waste, recently started over since spell damage is too low on harder difficulties to survive anything at all at high lvl. 91 destruction and it take my entire mana bar several times to fight just a few mobs.
That's why you also level conjuration. Dual Zombie/Flame Person? Yes please!
 

Steamed

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That's why you also level conjuration. Dual Zombie/Flame Person? Yes please!
yes, conjurations is very useful for mage types because you can have something to tank for you. either that or get the spectral assassin from the dark brotherhood quests.
 

xexorian

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Ohh I did unlock them, Could do it on the mage for the tank.. that would work -- good idea!
 

xexorian

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Yeahwell my problemis restoration,and alteration, shouldve gotten 30% magic resist, 30% magic absorb, and advanced restoration for high end wards I can maintain much longer,I dont even have the 25or 50% magicka regen from resto perks yet lols. fail.
 

Iarbobray

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xexorian, get the stagger from dual destro, and these items: Morokei, Archmage robes, ring of destro, and the Gaulder Amulet and you mana regen is amazing.
 

xexorian

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well im uing adept robes of restoration, gaulder amulet, 24% magicka regen ring, and the adept hood, but I heard there'sthe Nahkiir helmet or something thats fridden ridickulous,like 50 magicka,-20%destro/resto cast cost

insane, but i need to fight an ancient dragon frost dragon and dragon priest simultaneously with draugr overlords+ and many of them on my difficulty. its ridiculously absurd, I get the dragons down tolike 20% each and get one shot via biting my head off, from like 95% hp and 75% stam, I finally found out alt runs so Im able to dodge and hit and run a LOOOT better. but it's still stupid hard, I have to use firebolts for the stagger effect, I can't use fireball,its still like a third or more of my mana per dual cast, and about a quarter each single cast almost.. its insane, they only do like 60 dmg, the firebolts do 37 per,fireballs do like 60. ButI can cast 2-3x as many firebolts, ice spears,or w/e in the same timeframe anyway, and it evens out my hits to my miss ratios, though ive gotten pretty good, I really should've done enchanting destro resto and the rest intoalteration. Then just rely on guards/mecs/housecarls/etc lols.

however, My khaajit is freaking ridiculous, archeryis insane, my friends archer does 137 dmg with his bow, and its not even capped, I could dual enchant fire/storms and cap smithing and use a blacksmiths pot with enchanted gear to do improved legendary upgrades (yes it scales beyond legendary, though the titledoesnt change,the dmg and armordoes) anyway, that wasmyplan, maxsmithing without using perks in it, and go fullHP until 35,or40. I'vegotlike 290 hp right now, and I do over 45 dmg at lvl 19. It's gonna scalehard, anyway, be back in awhile.

lunch
 

Iarbobray

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I'm confused, how does dual casting take off a third of your mana? Its not like that for me.

EDIT: I'm level 8 or 9 and got roughly 200 mana. Or maybe a little below that.
 

xexorian

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im sitting on 300 mana,270hp 110 stam and dual casting fireball takes like 80-90 mana, its almost a third. the firebolts take like 18 or 27 mana for 23 less damage, 60 to 37, which means i get more damage per mana, and more casts, which means a higher avg dmg output, besides, out of cmbat my mana regen is higher, in combat its lower. i end up hiding beind things for awhile
 

whitemagehealu

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How are you guys getting such high damage with your weapons? The highest damage weapon I have is 33 damage and I'm level 25 or 26 on my Nord. T-T
 

xexorian

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uhm im using an improved imperial bow to 28 or something, and a +10 frost dmg enchant ontop of that, plus you can crit and do 3x stealth dmg which i BELIEVE scales the enchant dmg 3x and crit affects it as well.
 

whitemagehealu

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I think I'm going to work on Enchanting and Smithing... I've already got what I want from One-handed and Heavy armor trees.
 

xexorian

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Well, you can max them to 100, without speccing into them, and you can still improve every item, but the improvement is twice as good on the items you get specced for, however, you can stack potions and enchants which affect blacksmithing improvements.

be warned, they willincrease your total lvl, and gain your perks, so youllonly get healthstamina or magicka and free perks, but the thing is, unless ur combat unlocks thoseperkstoo, you wont do enough damage by unlocking better improvements, your best bet is a mix of balanced defense andoffence depending on your build

high stealth and archery, and i almost amNEVERhit by dragons or melee attackers, even when fighting many targets at a time, i sprint away and snipe several off one to two shotting them, furthermore, i usually stagger or crit heavier targets except like mammoths, i take down giants with ease, sabertooths are a tad dangerous in packs, its usually harder high lvl mobs that encounter rarelyat 19-20 lvl that take more than 1 stealth hit. mammoths take about 8 hits, 6 of which i can crit before im in detected mode.

and you can forget it if ive got an archery potion, 50% dmg plus scaling is stupid good.

keep in mind dual enchanting light armor after upgrading it with 100 base smithing, with no perks, all archery and bow dmg % with two elemental enchants on your bow is like theoretical max dmg aside from30x stealth crits with daggers and max 1handed, but it requires light armorcapped where archeryis total ranged.
 
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