Skryrim: Random Facts,Questions, and Help.

[craftomega]

How do companions follow you if you ride a horse?

I dont really understand magic. The game seems to want you to use some, but unless you focus on your magicka score you're going to struggle to use decent spells as you won't have the energy (the description of the spell when you browse a vendor selling spell tomes doesn't say how much the spell costs to cast). I think that physical combat oriented characters are just going to struggle. I came across a foresworn ice mage that could kill me with frost attacks in one hit! THe rest of her allies were nowhere near as powerful!

Is there any point buying a house for 5000gold?

With magic its best you focus all your perks into 1 field (Destruction or Conjuration) and all your levels into magicka with some health. As you level up spells become cheaper and as you get perks spells become more powerful aswell as cheaper. But as a mage you are going to die.... and die.... and die.... Until about lvl 20, then you rape all face. Its rather oddd.

With companions if you lose them simply 'Wait' an hour or so and the spawn at you, and you will lose them, wether you are on a horse or not.

With the house, its a place for storage and some of your companions will wait for you in them, other then that, they are not really worth it. In fact gold is not really worth it; all the best items (with the exlution of low lvl armor) you find anyways. The only thing you really spend money on is spells (or buying houses), but that is only relevent if you cast em.

 

[Rylot]

Everyone needs to go to the College of Winterhold, and then pass it. Keep going north and find an island. Talk to the crazy dude inside. Have fun with your new five hour long quest.

Also, I found a goat walking on the bottom of the ocean

I returned the lexicon to him after transcribing it. The quest line says that he'll contact me when he's found anything. How long do I have to wait?

 

[EHKOS]

Everyone needs to go to the College of Winterhold, and then pass it. Keep going north and find an island. Talk to the crazy dude inside. Have fun with your new five hour long quest.

Also, I found a goat walking on the bottom of the ocean

I returned the lexicon to him after transcribing it. The quest line says that he'll contact me when he's found anything. How long do I have to wait?

I don't remember waiting too long, try 24 hours.

 

[TheCruxis]

1. Is it possible to leave or get expelled from The Companions? I joined them recently but I want to leave.^^ Do you need to commit a crime against them like in Oblivion with the Fighter's Guild?


2. Several times when I have assaulted someone in a city the guards attack me without attempting to arrest me first. Wtf is up with that? Don't I have to option to choose jail time or fees anymore? Or do I need to tell them "I yield" or something?


3. I know this has been asked allready but does anyone know where to find illusions spells such as invisibility? I can only find fury, calm, courage spells etc.

 

[hashtag]

How do you hot key on a console? I imagine I would just highlight the item and press an arrow on the d-pad, right?

 

[The Almighty Grigard]

1. How do you parry when your other hand is occupied? For instance, I have a sword in my right hand and a spell in my left. How do I parry with my sword? Likewise, how do I parry when I'm dual wielding? If the answer is "You don't!", that's just retarded...

2. Assuming that I can't parry unless I have a 2H weapon or a Shield, is there any benefit to using a single 1H weapon? Any at all? Also, is dual wielding worth it? I know I can attack with both weapons at once, but it seems a bit... gimmicky to me. Wouldn't I be better of with a 2H weapon which would let me block attacks as well?

3. Is there any point in using elements other than fire? Lightning and frost cost me more magicka for the same damage, and I don't see any effect that draining the enemy's stamina might have...

If your offhand is occupied with a weapon or spell, you can't block or counter. Sorry

If you are using a 2Hander or just a single one hander. You can block by pressing the key for the "empty" hand and you can push forward by blocking and then pressing attack while holding block. This seems to stagger enemies, especially if you time it so that your push hits them while they are attacking. Kind of like a counter. I can't verify this though, it's just how I experienced it when I tried 2handing. I favor the shield and it's mighty bash.

 

[Tallim]

How do you hot key on a console? I imagine I would just highlight the item and press an arrow on the d-pad, right?

You can hotkey from the favourites popup by holding the dpad. You can't seem to do it from the main item menu.

 

[TheSaw]

Anybody know where i can find some invisible and paralysis spells?

Somewhat bumping this because I'd also like to know as well, invisibility was my favourite spell in Oblivion.

 

[omega 616]

Quick question, does skyrim have a large city?

None of them are big, compared to vivec in morrowind or the imperial city in oblivion ... the ones I have found are villages at most

3. Is there any point in using elements other than fire? Lightning and frost cost me more magicka for the same damage, and I don't see any effect that draining the enemy's stamina might have...

Well, Frost slows down enemies, which is very useful when melee enemies are coming at you like a freight train.Not sure about lighting, i know it drains stamina but it's not very useful imo, much less useful than frost anyways.

Lightening drains magicka like a son of a beach!

 

[craftomega]

Quick question, does skyrim have a large city?

None of them are big, compared to vivec in morrowind or the imperial city in oblivion ... the ones I have found are villages at most

No not really, they are all the sizes of small towns or smaller.... One of them looks like a wee little fishing village.

 

[omega 616]

Quick question, does skyrim have a large city?

None of them are big, compared to vivec in morrowind or the imperial city in oblivion ... the ones I have found are villages at most

No not really, they are all the sizes of small towns or smaller.... One of them looks like a wee little fishing village.

I had two left to explore but I wont waste my time now, I was hoping one would be huge so there would be like 10 traders all really close to each other.

Instead I have to instant transmission my ass all over skyrim looking for traders, who all seem to be really broke!

 

[Anjel]

Another fact; a lot of guards in nearly all cities used to be adventurers like you. But they all got an arrow in the knee

Haha! Yes, I was thinking the bandits are extremely skilled with bows to be hitting all these guards in the knee. I keep trying for headshots and hitting the wall behind though

 

[Thyunda]

So, as it turns out, as soon as a character loses relevance to quests, they can die. I finished the Companion quests, and after losing Lydia, the housecarl, to bandits in Swindler's Den, I took Vilkas along for a stroll. Man, he took on a dragon while I fought its brother. I can hear him now... "Today is the day you die, dragon!"
He survived that encounter. Then I made the mistake of investigating the legend of Red Eagle. Turned out Red Eagle didn't want to be woken up, and while I cleared the room of skeletons, he took his hangover out on poor Vilkas.

I don't actually know how it works. Can they be knocked over a certain amount of times before it's fatal, or do certain enemies just attack them while they're down to kill them?

I actually don't want any more Companions to accompany me, in case they all die and can't give me quests anymore.

 

[Psycho78]

When you have a horse having a companion is awkward. They can't ride with you, and I don't think they can have a horse. So they get gradually left behind. They also get left behind when you drop down off rock and ledges and such.

However they always reappear behind me in a short time. I suspect they teleport behind your back. I wonder if you keep spinning in circles, maybe you can catch them appearing.

 

[Ickorus]

If you pickpocket and then kill a bandit he can send thugs to get you from beyond the grave.

 

[TheSaw]

Anybody know where i can find some invisible and paralysis spells?

Somewhat bumping this because I'd also like to know as well, invisibility was my favourite spell in Oblivion.

The spell system is tricky. You need to reach a certain skill to buy new spells. For invisibility you need a skill of 75 (then just buy it from the vendor at the college). To level up: cast courage on a random npc until you reach the skill ^^.

Edit: Neat profile pic Oo.

I did think of this because I knew to get Thrall Frost, flame and lightning atronachs you need to be a certain conjuration to buy them, but yeah, thanks for clearing that up for me.

 

[Mojo]

Can anyone please give me a step by step guide on how to
buy the house in solitude?
Ive gogled it but never found a clear answer.

Another fact; a lot of guards in nearly all cities used to be adventurers like you. But they all got an arrow in the knee

Also: A guard might get nervous, a man approaches with his weapon drawn.