In Skyrim it's easier to get a weapon that does it for you. I occasionally have the wherewithal to cast the spell, but that doesn't happen often.
The best place to find them with souls already stuffed inside, is dwarven ruins, those guys sure did love to trap the souls, lemme tell you!
Made it to the old dudes last night, don't know what their problem is, they hardly even have a lawn.
Anyway, time to learn my yellin'
And I noticed they have Legion on Hulu, interesting.
They do. It's good. Watch it.
I'm gonna have to rewatch the first episode.
I missed parts trying to both watch that and play Skyrim at the same time.
It is good, very, very good. :-)
Been working on my smithing and breaking magic items to see how they work. Haven't found any full soul gems yet, but I'm a looking. :-)I don't think you'll find many from a loot drop. If I remember correctly, you fill soul gems by casting a spell, then killing stuff.
And since this isn't Deep 6, I'm still dressed. So there. :P
You can fill soul gems by killing an enemy with a weapon with the 'soul trap' enchantment. You can buy them from vendors (mages tend to have them, so visiting Winterhold or a jarl's court mage is good, but other general store vendors might have them), or by casting Soul Trap on an enemy and promptly killing them. They are occasional loot drops as well, particularly in warlock lairs (places with a lot of mages). More powerful gems provide stronger enchantments when used. A full petty soul gem might provide a soul trap enchantment that says 'if you kill an enemy within 4 seconds of hitting them with this weapon, fill a soul gem'. The grand soul gem if used for the same soul trap enchantment might bump this from say 4 seconds to 20. Your level of skill in enchanting makes a difference, of course.
Well, me and not as subtle as she thinks Delphine smote the shit out of that dragon (and a few wolves, and Sabercat on the way).
After that it was a simple fast travel back to the Windbeards for initiation into their porch sitting club. And some more yellin'. Then I had Arngeir show me where I'll die next while we chased that young'un Kinnek off the lawn (oh, right, I should tell him I did his errand).
All in all, it was a full day. Time to join Wulfgar (not the one you're thinking of) for some Matlock.
Goddamn it, Arcwind or whatever the place is called that Arngeir sent me is a clusterf@#&!
A dragon not enough! Don't worry! We have a Draugr Overlord and his skeleton entourage to complicate matters! What's that, you want more! Well, for a limited time only, we hid a Draugr A#~%~$+lord behind one of these outbuildings, guarding the most useless potions found on this side of VikingTolkienLand!
One of these days, I'm going to murder those greybeard a#@%%*#s in their sleep. >:-(
Bah, you get used to the Draugr Deathlords and Draugyr Death Overlords. They have miserable ability to detect sneaky people and go down hard as a result. Their shouts are the only problem. I'm with Serana: "I wonder if the draugr are as easy to fool as when I was a child."
Though using Auriel's bow DOES make things a bit too easy when you hit the undead for triple damage. I don't think an undead dragon could survive one shot from me at this point, good thing there aren't really many of those....
Dot
I keep forgetting I should do something with my armor skills. I always get up to around levels 10-35 and I'm like "why am I dying in two hits" [bad French accent]"Because your armor is like tissue paper!"[/bad French accent].
No no, I don't mind it bugging out and not acknowledging that I learned the word, killed the dragon, skeleton army, and the Draugr Overlord and Draugr Overlord Supervisor, and then another dragon who just happened to be in the neighborhood.
Is there a level limit on Skyrim.
Not any more. Used to effectively be 81 (every skill at 100) but you can now make skills Legendary, resetting them back to 15, keeping all earned levels and perks, and then level them up again. So level is effectively infinite.
I made it up to 38 level, once.
Went to NOTHappyfundragonland. Can't say I enjoyed it, what little I saw.
Speaking of dragons! The last one I took out (who was perching on top of a tower) had mad loot! Iron Armor of Major Health, a Steel Axe of Sapping, some stupid amulet I don't need (amulet of Talos, I already have) and Iron boots of ice resistance.
Yay for treasure!
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So they got me looking for this Darda crystal thing (Star of Azura) Asked around a bit finally spent some money to get info. Elf tells me about these necromancers and their boss trying to become immortal.
Where are they located
MY BACK YARD.
Literally that lake I built my house next to. So old ruined half sunk tower in the lake is home to a Necromancer Cult.
Which would explain that whole sacrifical altar I can see from my porch.
Welp nothing for it but to grab my mage killing axe and have at them.
damn squatters
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So they got me looking for this Darda crystal thing (Star of Azura) Asked around a bit finally spent some money to get info. Elf tells me about these necromancers and their boss trying to become immortal.
Where are they located
MY BACK YARD.
Literally that lake I built my house next to. So old ruined half sunk tower in the lake is home to a Necromancer Cult.
Which would explain that whole sacrifical altar I can see from my porch.Welp nothing for it but to grab my mage killing axe and have at them.
damn squatters
That's what makes Lakeview Manor my favorite home: ready renewable xp resources. There's even a dragon that likes to stop by from time to time. The Dawnguard like to come by for tea. So do some bandits. I don't even know what that one monster was that brought some skeletons over for a poker game this past night, I just couldn't search its remains. There's even a mudcrab just up the street, if I get bored. Lost wolf puppies like to play on the porch too. It's a lively community!
Yay!
Making progress, sort of.
Took out another dragon. Since the quest for the words is hung up, i'm forced to use the internet. which is super annoying, but it beats starting over. :-)
Time to break some more magic items!
It's like I'm ten again with the crappy handheld radio that i got from Vinnie's for 50 cents.
Poor radio, never had a chance!
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WELP. Dot.
I killed like 50 Draugr in Dustman's Cairn.
Recipe for success in Dustman's Cairn.
1 Silver Greatsword.
Unrelenting Force Shout.
Flame Atronach for added chaos (optional).
The only reason Furkus (or whoever they sent to weigh me down) got hit at all was because the dumb dick a+@#+#! kept trying to get in front of me.
Dude! I got this!
Joining the Companions, I see?
I am 1 point away from 50 smithing and getting Advanced Armors. So of to Riften I go to get some quick training from Balcus(?spelling?) Plus I got those fire salts he wanted.
He doesn't show up for work
I'm looking around and.....
He's dead lying in the middle of the street
5 feet away from the body of...Master Vampire
God Damn it
Joining the Companions, I see?
I was mostly using them to get experience and the dragon shout they had stashed up in there, I don't really like being a Werewolf.
Joining the Companions, I see?I was mostly using them to get experience and the dragon shout they had stashed up in there, I don't really like being a Werewolf.
Moonlight Tales makes being a werewolf pretty fun, and a lot like being an actual werewolf (adjustable percentages for forcing transformations at night, only on the full moon, or off entirely) in addition to makig them actually powerful to play as.
If you're up to modding, I whoelheartedly recommend Moonlight tales for any werewolf character, and either Brehanin's Better Vampires (for the "vampirism as a superpower" type vampire) or Sacrosanct (for the "vampirism as a horrible curse with disturbing and powerful upside" type vampire).
I'm playing on my good ole trusty 360.
I have this on my laptop (which... is dead) and have enjoyed modding the heck out of it. There's so many that rework the balance of the entire game that I'm not sure I can go back to the original without getting frustrated anymore. Oh well. I'll just wait until sometime in the next fifteen years when I finally have enough money to buy a computer T_T
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Yay! I got to use a potion of stamina!
So i fast travel to this mill on the edge of the hot springs. And right away it gets attacked by a dragon.
Well, I'm like "shit, I can't have all these innocent people getting attacked" so I run off into the swamp, summoning my flame Atronach, the dragon following.
It turns out, the hot springs are lousy with cavorting giants and their mammoth entourage, which of course, the dragon insisted on attacking.
Alas, so did my flame Atronach, which meant, after the dragon was dead, they decided to attack me. But I can't just run away with a dragon soul to be absorbed! So I used up all my stamina literally running circles around the dragon body, dodging giant clubs (and poorly, I'd like to add) until the soul is absorbed.
I then got to use the stamina potion and snort some vampire dust for invisibility (I can stop whenever I want to! It's just getting clubbed by giants is a huge trigger for me) to run the f#$# away before they killed me.
Luckily, the actual dragon I was looking for found me after I'd successfully lost the giants, otherwise I would've been the one screwed, and not the dragon. Which didn't stand a chance.
Rampageth!!!!
This rampage was brought to you by Troll Skull! "C'mon! Pick it up, you know you want to!"
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For the future, Dragon Souls will literally follow you from one end of the world to the next to be absorbed.
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Know what kills Giants dead
Mammoths
and a seldom used Shout called Animal Alligence
Never seen a giant drop so fast as when his own mammoths turn on him.
It was still worth it to play ring around the dead dragon with the giants.
Know what kills Giants dead
Mammoths
and a seldom used Shout called Animal Alligence
Never seen a giant drop so fast as when his own mammoths turn on him.
Animal Allegiance is my second favorite shout! Man! So much fun!
There's some camp where they have a saber cat in a cage and I sneak up to it before anyone notices, open the cage, Animal Allegiance shout and return to the shadows, now readied to deal with any survivors.
Don't remember the name of it, but man, good times!
Traps, traps always suck.
Especially when you're fighting 6 Draugr. And it's one of those slam you into the roof spikes traps. And the Draugr that went up with you didn't die either. Dickhead.
But, it really sucks when you realize you hadn't saved it since the beginning of the dungeon.
*bangs head against the wall*
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Arg...I've reached one of those points where you discover it's been a while since you upgraded your armor significantly and suddenly everyone is insta-killing you.
I'm always deep in a 2 part dungeon when that happens
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Yay! I got to use a potion of stamina!
So i fast travel to this mill on the edge of the hot springs. And right away it gets attacked by a dragon.
Well, I'm like "s#%$, I can't have all these innocent people getting attacked" so I run off into the swamp, summoning my flame Atronach, the dragon following.
It turns out, the hot springs are lousy with cavorting giants and their mammoth entourage, which of course, the dragon insisted on attacking.
Alas, so did my flame Atronach, which meant, after the dragon was dead, they decided to attack me. But I can't just run away with a dragon soul to be absorbed! So I used up all my stamina literally running circles around the dragon body, dodging giant clubs (and poorly, I'd like to add) until the soul is absorbed.
I then got to use the stamina potion and snort some vampire dust for invisibility (I can stop whenever I want to! It's just getting clubbed by giants is a huge trigger for me) to run the f*$* away before they killed me.
Luckily, the actual dragon I was looking for found me after I'd successfully lost the giants, otherwise I would've been the one screwed, and not the dragon. Which didn't stand a chance.
Rampageth!!!!
This rampage was brought to you by Troll Skull! "C'mon! Pick it up, you know you want to!"
One of my favorite Skyrim moments: Being attacked by two dragons in rough terrain, fighting with all I had, running around long enough to pull a dragon priest into the fight, tumbling down into some old ruins with a couple of skeleton warriors who join the fight.
I win, using literally every potion I have with me.I wait for a few moments to catch my breath and regenerate enough mana to cast a healing spell so I can at least see my hitpoints again...you got to be kidding me, a wolf, I got nibbled to death by a friggin wolf?, I cry a little over my keyboard.
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I've had something similar happen to me after killing a few sabrecats and bears. No armour can withstand the grisly snip of the mighty mudcrab!
I suspect there's a maximum effective armor value, hence the damage I still take when fighting the native fauna. With mods, my armor rating is over 8000 right now and my upgraded bandits can still damage me. They won't win the fight, because I'll beat them to a pulp, but the significant increase in my armor rating recently had no noticeable effect upon the damage I take in battle.
Yeah, the armour rating caps out around the 700 mark from what I remember and is easily attainable with light armour.
Poison resistance, frost resistance and the like caps out at 85%. Interestingly, this means that as a vampire you can not be fully immune to poison despite your 100% resistance but NPCs can since the cap doesn't effect them.
I'm not sure if the armour rating cap affects NPCs.
Max damage reduction caps out at 85%. This is consistent across all Bethesda games, as far as I know. Other resistances like Magic resistance can reach 100%, but not damage reduction against physical attacks.
All i know is, that last person (or persons, it was pretty chaotic) to kill me is going to die!
Or not.
I guess it depends how easy it is to kill me next time (it wasn't too hard this time, though i did myself no favors).
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I thought that was the case, but since I've modded my game, I wasn't sure where I was in relation to my upgraded humanoid foes. It's sad, but my bandit blademasters, bandit rangers, and bandit berserkers generally do more damage to me than a revered dragon!
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And now we set my feet to wandering. Needed to start in Dragon Bridge and head into the mountains until I found some forsaken camp....somewhere...in the mountains.
can't be that hard
Followed the road at first...right up until I ran into a trio of Cultists out to kill me. Got chased into the hills while Sniping them with my bow, feel into the river swam to the other side and hid until they went away. Found a trail of some sort seemed to be going the right way decided to follow that
Ran into a trio of Thalmor out to kill me.
Ended up deeper in the mountains and sent out to bee line right to my arrow on the map. Screw the roads, just cross country up the mountain until I find what I am looking for.
Which as it turns out is on the opposit side of this great big cliff.
So two options, turn around and find my way down the mountain or Jump and continue strait ahead.
Good thing I have Become Ethereal shout. Turn into a ghost and jump
and land on a Dragon
This has been the worst day.
Could've been much worse. You could have been bored!
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Going back to basic skyrim brought me a lot of fun when SE came out, some of my favorite builds:
God of Fire: So, there's a perk in the illusion tree called Aspect of Terror, which requires you to get 50 in Illusion to take, however the perk is bugged, adding 10 damage to all fire spells, including Flames, which means 10 extra damage per second:) . Combine this with the perk that increases fire damage and the Ahzidal mask to make fire spells deal buttloads of damage to everything, a Fire weapon and Weakness to Fire poison with the Fire shout to complete the ensemble. Ahzidal's Ring of Arcana also lets you use Ignite, a unique firebolt that deals lots of burn damage. The temporary meditation buff Fire Within increases your fire shout damage even more if you don't mind fast traveling to the greybeards every so often.
Immortal Mystic: Pretty much everyone is probably familiar with this build in some form or another. Take a Khaajit, get him to Heavy Armor 35 for Fists of Steel, Smithing 80 and Enchanting 100 to craft Daedric Gauntlets enchanted with the Unarmed Damage+ enchantment. Make him a vampire lord and pick up the Ring of the Beast, which adds 50 unarmed damage (intended for VL form, works all the time). Dual Flurry and Dual Savagery work with unarmed, pick em up. Next, get 5 amulets of talos, give them to your follower Faendal, find a nice secluded spot and simultaneously talk to faendal while transforming. if done right you should be in menus while transforming. Go to the amulets and equip them one at a time from faendal to you (equip, not trade). Now you have 5 amulets of talos worn at once, giving you 100% shout cooldown reduction, you are the immortal mystic, master of shouting and fists.
Stealth n' Wolf: The scarediest orc in tamriel. Max sneak and archery and immediately pick up lycanthropy and hircine's ring so whenever you actually need to fight for real, you can wolf out. Werewolves benefit from all pre-transformation buffs, so regen and other buff potions, ebonyflesh and the orc racial active are all gravy. Dump as many levels into health as you can, combine with Regeneration and Avoid Death from Restoration, Snakeblooded from Alchemy and the Lord stone, Sailor's Repose and Agent of Mara plus the alteration Magic resistance and spell absorption perks to make yourself an unkillable tank of death and destruction. Quiet Casting makes transform harder to detect, might be worth grabbing. Pick up Ring of Bloodlust for massive damage while transformed or Ring of the Hunt to be even tankier.
The Merchant of Death: This is a fun one. Restrictions are has no combat experience, and never takes any perks in block, light or heavy armor, destruction, one handed, two handed or archery. Instead, he maxes his Smithing, Alchemy and Enchanting, and uses them to fund his mercantile empire, OF DEATH! Imperial is the most thematically appropriate race for this build. The idea here is to use the outrageous power of crafting to replace all your typical damage buffs. a single Fortify Destruction potion made at 100 alchemy while wearing enchanted gear with Fortify Alchemy on it can make your spells deal so much damage as to make the actual destruction perks irrelevant. Same goes for weapons and armor, pop a fortify smithing potion, build some fortify smithing gear and go to town on some legendary equipment. Then when combat actually starts, pop your fortify onehanded/twohanded/archery pots to take your damage to maximum derpage. The merchant of death isn't always going to be this super powerful though, but the one thing he's real good at is making friends. Feel free to recruit the strongest companion you can find, max Conjuration and acquire as many summon powers and shouts as you can find and let your hired muscle do all the dirty work until you're a master craftsman!
The Bully: This character is all about knocking people down and kicking sand in their faces while they're stunned. Fus Ro Dah and Ice Form are going to be your staple shouts, but you're also going to want to pick up Dragonrend for those pesky dragons, as well as Whirlwind Cloak and Paralysis for more ways to throw people around. Then the coup de grace is maxing your Block skill for Shield Charge. Now you can keep people on the ground where they belong and slowly beat the crap out of them with your shield. Become a vampire lord and use Vampiric drain while people are down to slowly attrition them to death and make them suffer, because they're weak and they deserve it. Grab VL's Paralysis and Vampiric Grip to add to your options for dumping people on the ground like the trash they are. The other cloak spells, Ebony Mail, Targe of the Blooded and Hack & Slash perks are great options for slowly bleeding out your opponents, and to inflict even more pain, set them on fire! Make your axe a burning axe to torture your opponents because they're ants on a hill, and you're a kid with a magnifying glass.
I think the game is telling me that I am taking too long with the main quest.
It dose this in subtle ways like attacking Winterfell with two Elder Dragons at the same time
I think the game is telling me that I am taking too long with the main quest.
It dose this in subtle ways like attacking Winterfell with two Elder Dragons at the same time
Do you mean Winterhold, or are you playing some sort of Game of Thrones mod? :)