Skyrim: The Post-Release *Spoiler-Free* Topic! NO SPOILERS HERE!

gambrinous · 2011-12-01T09:15:28.000Z

Giaddon:

You don’t need a shout for that. I’m surprised so many have trouble with animals because:

Very early main quest spoilers

Simply make the pilgrimage to High Hrothgar and read all the stones. After the last you will get the “Voice of the Sky” passive ability which prevents animals (includes wolves, cats, bears, and spiders) from attacking or running away from you for 24 real-time hours. If you attack an animal you’ll disable the power.

oo. I tried reading them all but there was an ice troll I had to climb around… guess I missed one!

Two_Sheds · 2011-12-01T09:27:13.000Z

Giaddon:

You don’t need a shout for that. I’m surprised so many have trouble with animals because:

Very early main quest spoilers

Simply make the pilgrimage to High Hrothgar and read all the stones. After the last you will get the “Voice of the Sky” passive ability which prevents animals (includes wolves, cats, bears, and spiders) from attacking or running away from you for 24 real-time hours. If you attack an animal you’ll disable the power.

Disable, like temporarily disable? Or cancel entirely?

I guess I missed a stone because I never noticed that. To be honest I’m glad I did, because that sounds boring.

Gordon_Cameron · 2011-12-01T09:27:15.000Z

>The feedback on these buffs is so bad (who is resistent to what? did that help at all?),

I think at least part of this is intentional design – at least, various creatures’ resistances to various effects might be found in random book on how to kill X creature. I think Bethsoft wants this knowledge to be found in-game or through common sense, rather than have every number totally transparent as an MMO might do. Not sure they nailed it, but I appreciate the philosophy.

RepoMan · 2011-12-01T10:02:27.000Z

So does anyone know if Bethesda has fessed up about screwing up resistances in this last patch? Any word on 1.3, God help us all? I can’t be bothered to read the Bethesda forums myself, too voluminous.

Giaddon · 2011-12-01T10:08:54.000Z

Two Sheds:

Disable, like temporarily disable? Or cancel entirely?

Cancel, expunge, remove, dispel, destroy. But you can get it again, the same way. It’s neat to be able to walk tranquilly through a clump of deer.

Fugitive · 2011-12-01T10:20:19.000Z

RepoMan:

So does anyone know if Bethesda has fessed up about screwing up resistances in this last patch? Any word on 1.3, God help us all? I can’t be bothered to read the Bethesda forums myself, too voluminous.

The only response I’ve seen is “We’re investigating.”

RepoMan · 2011-12-01T10:23:28.000Z

I can’t even read the forums at all this morning – timing out constantly. Alas, Bethesda…

Two_Sheds · 2011-12-01T11:12:14.000Z

Giaddon:

Cancel, expunge, remove, dispel, destroy. But you can get it again, the same way. It’s neat to be able to walk tranquilly through a clump of deer.

Ah ha. I probably did get it, then, and just lost it the first time I hunted a bear for its pelt.

Aeon221 · 2011-12-01T11:30:00.000Z

I love this whole resists are gone thing. Fuck you! You can’t hide from my icy death anymore! BAAAAHAHAHAA.

Also, sidenote, the whole lack of resists thing is clearly more realistic ducks.

Pogo · 2011-12-01T11:31:34.000Z

Zeitgeist:

I only keep health and magicka potions.

The game isn’t really difficult enough that you have to drink specific resistance potions for certain battles for example.

Well, a 30% frost resist potion against a frost dragon is… pretty damn useful sometimes. He’ll do enough damage that you have to chug health potions, so how about you chug about 1/3 less health potions? I don’t see the problem with keeping them on hand.

kerzain · 2011-12-01T11:32:54.000Z

There’s only so much wheat in the world.

Pogo · 2011-12-01T11:34:17.000Z

McKnight:

There’s 3 at the beginning near Riverwood, follow the path back up to Helgen and you’ll find them, that you are supposed to find at the beginning of the game because they speed up levelling. The others are strewn about the world and I don’t feel like I should post them all up, or at least the ones I’ve found (I’m missing one), in the Non-spoiler thread ;)

I think people miss them because they don’t follow <insert one of the two NPC guys in beginning of game> all the way down the mountain.

My first time emerging into the world I just ran off wherever. But starting up again yesterday I followed him and he basically leads you right to those stones and it’s on the path to Riverwood.

kerzain:

There’s only so much wheat in the world.

Well… yeah OK, but you can’t always search out wheat, and you can’t make good potions if you don’t have alchemy. If you’re level 30 with no alchemy skill, whatever you attempt to make is probably going to be useless.

kerzain · 2011-12-01T11:46:53.000Z

I wasn’t being sarcastic.

Skipper · 2011-12-01T11:47:10.000Z

kerzain:

There’s only so much wheat in the world.

I know you’re joking [EDIT: perhaps not?], but for some of the other folks here, whenever you see “harvest XXXXX,” it eventually respawns. Right there.

Wheat is pretty much unlimited. As I’m approaching 50+, this got pretty important when I bumped the difficulty up. I’ve even seen nirnroot regrow, despite people and game tips saying it would not.

Not that Nirnroot.

I do know about the farm full of nirnroot, I’m talking about even the normal spawns for it. The ones near Whiterun have respawned multiple times for me now.

Pogo · 2011-12-01T11:50:17.000Z

Nirnroot is pretty easy to spot if you have light fade on max.

kerzain · 2011-12-01T11:51:18.000Z

Skipper:

I know you’re joking [EDIT: perhaps not?],

I was being sarcastic.

Skipper · 2011-12-01T12:00:29.000Z

kerzain:

I was being sarcastic.

Sorry man. My detector is off today. I blame too much Skyrim, and my very unhealthy addiction to it at this point. Still, some might not know that.

Sarkus · 2011-12-01T12:02:38.000Z

I actually kind of wish they’d made potions and ingredients weight free, like ammo was in the default settings of the recent Fallout titles. You can easily end up with 50 pounds of that crap, when all you are really doing is hauling it around so you don’t have to rush back home everytime you want to make a potion.

Zeitgeist · 2011-12-01T12:08:27.000Z

Pogo:

Well, a 30% frost resist potion against a frost dragon is… pretty damn useful sometimes. He’ll do enough damage that you have to chug health potions, so how about you chug about 1/3 less health potions? I don’t see the problem with keeping them on hand.

No problem with that at all, I’m just lazy ;)

And even with only health and mana I have a bazillion potions. To be honest, I do keep the odd invisibility potion or lock picking potion around, just in case. But then I never need it.

mjgreeny75 · 2011-12-01T12:35:51.000Z

Thanks for the tip on the High Hrothgar stones, this character hasn’t been there yet so it’s a good option.

I think part of the problem with the beasties is me playing without a companion on this char (because they keep ruining my stealth…). Means I have to be my own tank now…