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QFT45

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Wow, that video was pretty incredible. The loping run, the length of the arms, the means of regenerating health, the howls, etc. Worth watching if this thread has already dropped a gibbous spoiler on you.

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I like it.

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  1. Wait - the game only just went gold today, and it’s supposed to be in stores in one week?

  2. Vampires and Lyncanthropes have been a big part of the game lore from the very beginning. In Daggerfall, it was possible to be both a werewolf and a wereboar (well, not at the same time…). Supposedly wereboars are the most common in the province of Skyrim (no idea about the game.) Here’s a lore book (On Lycanthropy) which claims that one can meet werelions in Elsweyr, werecrocodiles in Morrowind, werevultures in Valenwood, and - the author claims - weresharks in oceans around Tamriel. But I suspect he was embellishing his tale a bit there.

I am now never going to shut up in Bethesda threads until I get to play a wereshark.

Anyway, Oblivion was clearly the odd game out in terms of its lack of werewolf content. I’m not surprised to see it making a return in Skyrim.

  1. I have the second TES book sitting on my Kindle but I can’t bring myself to read it. The first one was so aggressively bad.
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Without going into detail, this is the first thing I’ve seen about Skyrim I didn’t care for.

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Going “gold” doesn’t mean what it used to. It no longer means the game is finished and will be sent for production, as should be clear since there are legitimat copies of the game out in the wild already. It just means that the devs basically consider the game done, pending whatever new bugs show up after release. What it really means is that the day one patch is probably done and ready to go.

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The whole idea of Day 1 patches makes my eyes twitch. Just another sign of my descent into geezerhood, I guess.

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I was able to delete my own posts just fine, thanks.

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Yeah, I just didn’t read the rest of the thread and homed in on the good stuff. So…

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All the good “min-maxing” stuff is actually covered by other spoilers. You need to know the perks in the game to know which things are uber. :)

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You know Kunikos, we do have multi-quoting now . . . ;-)

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Odd. Almost the opposite for me; it felt like the first thing that felt genuinely new - other than the dragons of course.

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Kerzain needs to turn in his/her geek card. :P

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How else can he climb to 13k posts?

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Legend also tells of the fabled weregerbil, but such tales are now mostly lost to the ravages of time.

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So do you. Obviously not a spoiler, FACT.

Why the mead hate though? It’s better than wine or beer.

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The soundtrack to this game is fucking fantastic. I’ve been listening to various tracks that have been posted on YouTube.

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You might be stretching it a bit when you say Mead is better than any wine, or any beer.

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WURWILF

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Eh, opinions; can’t obviously say it’s better than any, but certainly, in my opinion, better than most.

Back to topic, not sure if it has been posted before, I had not seen it online before either, full listing of all racial bonuses:

hey, just so people dont rage at me for spoiling their game this one gets hidden

I couldn’t find this information online, so I went through the trouble of creating this list for anyone else that wanted this information.
Argonian
+10 Lockpicking, +5 Restoration, Alteration, Light Armor, Sneak, Pickpocket
Histskin : Invoke the power of the Hist to recover health ten times faster for 60 seconds.
Resist Disease : Your Argonian blood is 50% resistant to disease.
Water Breathing : Your Argonian Lungs can breath underwater.
Breton
+10 Conjuration, +5 Alchemy, Illusion, Restoration, Alteration, Speech
Dragonskin : Absorb 50% of magicka from hostile spells for 60 seconds.
Magic Resistance : Breton blood grants a 25% resistance to magic.
Dunmer (Dark Elf)
+10 Destruction, +5 Alchemy, Illusion, Alteration, Light Armor, Sneak
Ancestor’s Wrath : For 60 seconds, opponents that get too close take 8 points per second of fire damage.
Resist Fire – Your Dunmer blood gives you 50% resistance to fire.
Altmer (High Elf)
+10 Illusion, +5 Conjuration, Destruction, Restoration, Alteration, Enchanting
Highborn : Regenerate magicka faster for 60 seconds.
Highborn : High Elves are born with 50 extra magicka.
Imperial
+10 Restoration, +5 Destruction, Enchanting, Heavy Armor, Block, One-Handed
Voice of the Emperor : Calms nearby people for 60 seconds.
Imperial Luck : Anywhere gold coins might be found, Imperials always seem to find a few more.
Khajiit
+10 Sneak, +5 Alchemy, One-Handed, Archery, Lockpicking, Pickpocket
Night Eye : Improved night vision for 60 seconds.
Claws : Khajiit claws do 15 points of damage.
Nord
+10 Two-Handed, +5 Smithing, Block, One-Handed, Light Armor, Speech
Battle Cry : Target flees for 30 seconds.
Resist Frost: Your Nord blood gives you 50% resistance to frost.
Orsimer (Orc)
+10 Heavy Armor, +5 Enchanting, Smithing, Block, Two-Handed, One-Handed
Berserker Rage : You take half damage and do double damage for 60 seconds.
Redguard
+10 One-Handed, +5 Destruction, Alteration, Smithing, Block, Archery
Adrenaline Rush : Stamina regenerates 10x faster for 60 seconds.
Resist Poison : Your Redguard blood gives you 50% resistance to poison.
Bosmer (Wood Elf)
+10 Archery, +5 Alchemy, Light Armor, Sneak, Lockpicking, Pickpocket
Command Animal : Make an animal an ally for 60 seconds.
Resist Disease and Poison : Your Bosmer blood gives you 50% resistance to poison and disease.
Every character starts with these two spells:
Flames : A gout of fire that does 8 points per second. Targets on fire take extra damage.
Healing : Heals the caster 10 points per second.
Breton’s also start with…
Conjure Familiar : Summons a Familiar for 60 seconds wherever the caster is pointing.
Dunmer also start with…
Sparks : Lightning that does 8 points of shock damage to health and magicka per second.
Altmer also start with…
Fury : Creatures and people up to level 6 will attack anything nearby for 30 seconds.
Just to clarify, these spells are available to any race in the game. The races listed just start with those spells as a bonus for their +10 proficiency in certain magics.