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[jmcev]

Barry giving us his blue steel.


Barry keeping his **** in line.

[Ripper.]

Ripzor the Orc- (Dual wield, heavy armour.... yet to use any magic apart from enchanting, lol)


Finally finished grinding smithing & enchanting skills so I can wield a pair of these bad boys!


Oh and he has a bit of a fetish for skulls...

[Bicketybam]

I'm going to guess it is the Masque of Clavicus Vile.

Ta... and I found it.




and coupled with this necklace, it makes prices 49% better!

[Sathias]

hahaha love the name on the necklace Bickety

[jmcev]

you should make a ring too. just put them both on when you go shopping.

[Bicketybam]

you should make a ring too. just put them both on when you go shopping.

Unlike most of the other enchantments, the fortify barter option can only be done to necklaces.


Anyway, after finally figuring out how to rename things (with my configuration it would say to use one 'key' when in fact it was another key I had to use), I went on bit of a renaming frenzy.

Also after going through a circle of building up my equipment to get the maximum percentages to add to equipment I created the following items.


These two together dual wielding is deadly as..








The only problem, when you make a typo enchanting an item you either have to just toss it in a cupboard somewhere (or away) or give it to your follower to use as no shop has $15000 to buy that bow off you. Now Jordis is running around with a 'Hawking's bow of paraylsis"

[Matty]

Well at least the enchant wont run out while your followers using it. I never understood their design for uses in an enchanted weapon. Or the colours. I want a sword that has electricity running up and down it.

[Tas]

Do you have to level enchanting an smithy to make those weapons or can you find them in the world.

[Matty]

You can find enchanted weapons but I'm fairly certain Bickety made those ones. I think?

[Jez]

You can find enchanted weapons but I'm fairly certain Bickety made those ones. I think?

Somehow I'm guessing that Bethesda didn't name a paralysing bow after Hawking. ;p

Do you have to level enchanting an smithy to make those weapons or can you find them in the world.

You can find Daedric equipment (not that often, but you can) and enchanted stuff naturally, but to get it to the insane levels in Bickety's post you'd need to put points into enchanting and smithing. I think you'd need at least 15 odd points in smithing, enchanting, and alchemy to 'max' a piece of equipment, given the odd way in which Skyrim's crafting system works.

[Tas]

I haven't tried smithing, but everyone seems to think it ruins the game making it too easy.

[MunchY]

I haven't tried smithing, but everyone seems to think it ruins the game making it too easy.

I decided to try abuse the smithing like everyone else on my 3rd character. Started making daedric stuff before I even finished a quest line. Level 25 now and I have hardly done anything, smithing is 90 something, most other skills are pretty average. I personally felt like I was back in morrowind abusing the creeper/talking mudcrab glitches to get my levels.

You get to look real badass and show off your sick high level character, but I probably wouldn't take this path again. It's a shame though that it seems really uncommon to find/obtain through quests really top items on Skyrim. On Morrowind and, to an extent, Oblivion you had to do some tough **** to get the best stuff. Now you can have a full set of the best armor/enchants without hardly leaving a town lol.

Don't even get me started on the **** you get from finishing the main quests.. Apart from maybe that mask. Gah

[Bicketybam]

Yeah I made those myself. I went straight ahead and put everything into smithing and when I discovered how much I liked enchanting, into that. I've never had a TES game before so most of this was new to me. Then I started on the Alchemy, but I liked the idea that I can use enchanting to increase the 'output' of any Alchemy potions.

What I did with these weapons was first I would smith some apparel items (for alchemy you need headwear, gloves, necklace and rings) out of leather and then enchant them with fortify alchemy, which would then allow me to make better enchanting and smithing potions and then continue around in a circle improving each enchantment etc until I hit the maximum limit (for enchanted items with fortify alchemy it is 29%). I then used one little exploit :p to stuff that little bit of extra power into my potions until I got the maximum percentage for both Smithing and Enchantment. Then when I was going to enchant or improve some item I would guzzle the potion and enchant/smith away.

I haven't tried smithing, but everyone seems to think it ruins the game making it too easy.

You know what you say to people that whine about this.. don't use it then! Such a simple concept.

No one is forcing them to use Smithing, so if they don't use it then they get their wish on how to play the game and at what level. If they already started smithing, either stop or re-roll with a new character.

But only douchebags whinge that because someone else likes playing their single player game one way, that it is NOT the right way to play. Each to their own. If you want to max it out then go right ahead as you're the one that will be playing it!

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As for the Alchemy exploit, if you make the headwear you want to enchant with fortify alchemy a falmer helmet, you can equip both the falmer helmet and Krosis at the same time and you get an extra 20% added to Alchemy. :p

[XViper]

How do people get these views of their character? I can't see to turn the camera around?

[Sathias]

How do people get these views of their character? I can't see to turn the camera around?

If your weapon is away you can press F to go into third person view and then swing the camera around. If your weapon is out the camera view is locked behind you, but you can hold down F to swing the camera around instead.