Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim General Chat | PC/PS/XB/NSW

ITSMILNER wrote:I did a side quest tonight (Bleak Falls Sanctum with the Golden Claw) and I got a ‘Power word’ or something what does this actually do?

Once you collect 10 of them you can bold Wordle as complete in the GRcade gaming alphabet

ITSMILNER wrote:Started playing this yesterday (Nintendo Switch) and I’m really liking it so far. I did a side quest tonight (Bleak Falls Sanctum with the Golden Claw) and I got a ‘Power word’ or something what does this actually do?

Also, used Amiibo’s and now I’m rocking the Master Sword, Hylian Shield and Champions Tunic

You'll learn what it does soon enough!

Corr, I wish I could experience it all again for the first time. I can't even remember what it was like, not knowing what any of this stuff means...

Still yet to finish Skyrim main quests. Put almost 200hrs into Switch version, plus over 50 on X360. It sits unplayed on my PS4 and XSX too.

One day. One. Day.

That first time through Skyrim is quite special.

It's not the deepest RPG you'll ever play, but as a world to explore and move around it's phenomenally good. You can get so OP if you want.

Little bit jealous.

I love games when you stray off the path and just explore you find lots of cool places! Like I was exploring last night and came across a cabin in a wooded area which a little old lady lived in. I went in and started to steal her stuff, next thing I know she’s hurling magic spells at me

Also found some kind of shrine and there were bodies of worshippers all on the floor around it

Have you become a stealth archer yet?

It would be amazing to play Skyrim again for the first time

Robbo-92 wrote:Have you become a stealth archer yet?

It would be amazing to play Skyrim again for the first time

I’ve seen you all mention that a lot is that a play style using purely a bow? Right now I’m rocking the Master Sword and melee combat

I too have just started this for the first time on ps4 special edition. I'm trying to do a fem Aragorn play through / swords and bows with bit of healing magic.

I was tempted to play with some mods on as well but looks like they disable trophies. Not sure what's more important too me atm a better version of the game or internet points.

ITSMILNER wrote:

Robbo-92 wrote:Have you become a stealth archer yet?

It would be amazing to play Skyrim again for the first time

I’ve seen you all mention that a lot is that a play style using purely a bow? Right now I’m rocking the Master Sword and melee combat

Yeah it’s a very popular play style, mainly as sneaking around in the various caves and picking foes off with the bow is so satisfying! I’ve tried quite a lot of the popular play styles over my time with the game and only really enjoyed a couple of them, stealth archer being the top one.

Dual wrote:I too have just started this for the first time on ps4 special edition. I'm trying to do a fem Aragorn play through / swords and bows with bit of healing magic.

I found on a few of my runs I gravitated to investing fully in archery, light armour and sneak, then the increased damage for 1h weapons and then a few perks into restoration school of magic just for healing as it’s a lot more convenient being able to heal yourself rather than fully relying on health potions.

Edit, I still play mainly with no mods, I recall the unofficial patch has neutered a few of the almost game breaking things you can do with some builds

ITSMILNER wrote:

Robbo-92 wrote:Have you become a stealth archer yet?

It would be amazing to play Skyrim again for the first time

I’ve seen you all mention that a lot is that a play style using purely a bow? Right now I’m rocking the Master Sword and melee combat

It's the style most people tend to fall into, because the combat difficulty scales with your level, and you'll start to find that it's easier to just pick people off from the shadows, as sneak attacks do increased damage.

Plus enemies usually go flying when they ragdoll, which is always amusing.

Chocolate-Milk wrote:

ITSMILNER wrote:

Robbo-92 wrote:Have you become a stealth archer yet?

It would be amazing to play Skyrim again for the first time

I’ve seen you all mention that a lot is that a play style using purely a bow? Right now I’m rocking the Master Sword and melee combat

It's the style most people tend to fall into, because the combat difficulty scales with your level, and you'll start to find that it's easier to just pick people off from the shadows, as sneak attacks do increased damage.

Plus enemies usually go flying when they ragdoll, which is always amusing.

So if I was to choose this route, would I just equip the bow and keep upgrading my sneak and two hand skills?

Just do what you want, you will become OP regardless so don't worry about it

ITSMILNER wrote:

Chocolate-Milk wrote:

ITSMILNER wrote:

Robbo-92 wrote:Have you become a stealth archer yet?

It would be amazing to play Skyrim again for the first time

I’ve seen you all mention that a lot is that a play style using purely a bow? Right now I’m rocking the Master Sword and melee combat

It's the style most people tend to fall into, because the combat difficulty scales with your level, and you'll start to find that it's easier to just pick people off from the shadows, as sneak attacks do increased damage.

Plus enemies usually go flying when they ragdoll, which is always amusing.

So if I was to choose this route, would I just equip the bow and keep upgrading my sneak and two hand skills?

Only put perks into 2H if you’re going to use 2H weapons, bows don’t class as a 2H weapon.

Another thing that’s always pushed me to the sneak archer is that you’d be moronic to wait for a dragon to land Togo and slash at it with a sword A bow just makes sense so even if you’re more likely to focus on a melee style of play, getting perks that increase the damage of your bow are still worthwhile in my opinion.

With the level up screen, have I got it right, every time you level up you get a perk point. It takes 1 perk point to open up the skill tree for each section? Once you have opened up the tree, some have 0/5, I assume you need 5 perk points to unlock that skill next?

Is this levelling up separate to what you do in world, like when you sneak past someone and a meter goes up for sneak, is this a separate thing to the tree above?

Robbo-92 wrote:Another thing that’s always pushed me to the sneak archer is that you’d be moronic to wait for a dragon to land Togo and slash at it with a sword

The only character I've beaten the main quest with was a two handed Nord, it wasn't a problem at all really

ITSMILNER wrote:With the level up screen, have I got it right, every time you level up you get a perk point. It takes 1 perk point to open up the skill tree for each section? Once you have opened up the tree, some have 0/5, I assume you need 5 perk points to unlock that skill next?

Is this levelling up separate to what you do in world, like when you sneak past someone and a meter goes up for sneak, is this a separate thing to the tree above?

It's one perk point per perk, 0/5 means you can put 5 perk points total into it to get the bonus stacked 5 times.

Higher up perks in the skill tree require that skill to be at a certain level so that's what the skill level is about.

OrangeRKN wrote:

Robbo-92 wrote:Another thing that’s always pushed me to the sneak archer is that you’d be moronic to wait for a dragon to land Togo and slash at it with a sword

The only character I've beaten the main quest with was a two handed Nord, it wasn't a problem at all really

It’s not a problem, I just don’t think it makes much sense

That's fair!

I think the dragons have to take the blame for that one, doing the one thing that makes them vulnerable..

OrangeRKN wrote:

ITSMILNER wrote:With the level up screen, have I got it right, every time you level up you get a perk point. It takes 1 perk point to open up the skill tree for each section? Once you have opened up the tree, some have 0/5, I assume you need 5 perk points to unlock that skill next?

Is this levelling up separate to what you do in world, like when you sneak past someone and a meter goes up for sneak, is this a separate thing to the tree above?

It's one perk point per perk, 0/5 means you can put 5 perk points total into it to get the bonus stacked 5 times.

Higher up perks in the skill tree require that skill to be at a certain level so that's what the skill level is about.

Ahhh ok, got you now.

So, the bit where you level up whilst playing the game, are they purely meters for unlocking perk points yeah?

That and you get to increase one of health/stamina/magic with each level