That's another thing I was disappointed to see remained the same from Oblivion.
Very much would've liked a dynamic economy, but now it's just merchant x gets
x amount of money every x hours.

Dragon plate isn't ugly. Nope, its FUGLY. (which is worse then ugly if your not familiar with the term. :O: ) The funny thing is, on my first play through , i totaly bypassed wearing ebony, said, "screw daedric" because each piece wanted a heart, and went straight to the fugly armor because i had a veritable dragon graveyard stuffed into a chest. (edit: Go go gadget Smithing powerlevel)

I wonder though, what makes you feel end game heavy armor is a joke? I have to wonder because two sets of it i completely missed. The only experience i have is with dragon plate.

My next run through, im really considering light armor, regardless if theif or warrior. My only gripe is the selection seems more limited as compared to heavy armor. Also, Ancient nord armor looks like it should be light armor to me. Or something in between light and heavy, oh and by the time you have access to it, its already obsolete in its protective values. pphhhhttt.

I don't know if they have changed the stats since the patch I last played on,
but back then the difference between the three end-game heavy armor sets
(Ebony, Daedric, Dragonplate) was very small when comparing the stats.

I made some ranting posts in this thread, but I don't really feel like going through
the whole thread to find them and check what the stat differences were,
but they were in the range of 3-8 points per armor piece at that level I was on.

I've found that one of the advantages to investing some time in Alchemy is that rare ingredients like Daedra (and Briar) Hearts start becoming less and less rare. I've been able to buy them from alchemy shops for a while now, usually a round trip of the better shops across Skyrim nets me at least a couple of each. Plus there is one Daedra Heart in Kodlak's quarters in Jorrvaskr that becomes available (without stealing) if you play through the Companions quest line. I'm pretty sure that it respawns every so often, I seem to remember collecting 2-3 that way with my last character. Never actually made the armor, though. I will this time.

Yeah I was kinda excited when it suddenly became available in the smithing menu until I looked at it a little more carefully, and then I wasn't impressed. And by that time it was so completely linked in my head with creepy Draugr stuff that I really didn't see the appeal in wearing it.

Quite fond of the dragonscale set.

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/j...eenShot122.jpg
Team dragonborn! *cough* sorry... :nope:

Also, recognition:
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/j...eenShot128.jpg

If only I could paint the dragonplate some other shade... that whole family of yellowish/off-white/beige tones just looks awful with my coloring. The design wouldn't be so offputting if I didn't hate the color with a vengeance.


Edit: One thing I found out this week, don't know if it's happened to anybody else... Drinking Contest "Sam" showed up in The Bannered Mare a while back and every time I've gone in there I've just ignored him because I was already in the middle of a bunch of stuff and didn't want to do that quest again at the time. Well, the last time I went in and ignored him, he followed me home. Then he stayed in my bedroom, of all places, and kept challenging me over and over until I finally took him up on the contest.

This is very embarrassing when your husband/follower and housecarl are also in the same house. :O:

The only advantage is that I usually run up to The Bannered Mare alone after coming home, just to sell off anything I have that they will buy - especially if it's the middle of the night and they're the only place open for business - so the last time, I ended up in Markarth all by my lonesome. At least this time the Magigolo followed me there because I hadn't switched him out of follower mode yet when I took up the challenge.

Indeed, well, at least you get a cool staff.

Also note that with ebony+ and with glass armor you can hit the armor cap of 500something. This is with tempering and smithing perks. Thus it is somewhat more efficient in perk points to go light armor.

Or go alteration... and you can nearly be immune to phyiscal and magical attacks with a breton.

True, but I don't like to rely solely on Magic. If I'm going to kill something I want to stab it rather then throw a fireball at it :O:

True enough I suppose, but I get tired, and sweaty swinging around a sword or some such brutish tool of death. A simple flick of the wrist and everything in the immediate area is dead, fireball. Or two flicks of a wrist and a boss is dead, thunderbolt.

Sooo..... I made a little modelet..... that....

Makes ancient Nord armor
- As light armor
- weigh as much as dragon scale
- same protective values as Glass armor
- requires advanced armor for the X2 improve (same perk required for scale armor)

Originaly i had it as basic smithing, but figured youd be able to jack it up to legendary too easily, so i upped the perk requirement to be the same as scale. (EDIT: you still need to finish the companion questline to make the armor however)

I threw it up on my gamefront directory, along with the compass adjustment. Their at the bottom of the page.
http://www.gamefront.com/files/user/ducimus554


I made this mainly because im thinking my next toon will be a Nord/barbarian/ranger type. Light armor, a major in a big honking axe, and a minor in bow.
Alchemy and enchanting too i suppose, oh and some smithing couldn't hurt... anywhoo.. I redid this primarly as a replacement for glass, which really clash's with the rest of the light armor in terms of the conanesque artistic motiff.

Anyone noticed any easter eggs in this one?

I found an ice cave (can't remember it's name) and inside was an ice troll, and also skeleton hanging upside down from the ceiling, with a sword on the ground just out of reach.................... very Star Wars - empire strikes back.

Haha, that's a good one. :DL

Here's a list of easter eggs found so far if anyone's interested:
http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/E...s_%28Skyrim%29

Came across an interesting quest, they could be anywhere right no arrow pointing to where each one is so this is a dungeon crawl. Oh goodie. :D

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