Ironwood
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So is looking to the left or right of your screen.
Oh come on, that was funny.
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Nayr
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So is looking to the left or right of your screen.
You forgot the top and bottom. :p
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Magic seems like it is seriously fucked up and cumbersome in this game. Is there a way to hotbutton this stuff? Or do I have to go through the magic menu every time I want to change a spell?
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Ingmar
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Magic seems like it is seriously fucked up and cumbersome in this game. Is there a way to hotbutton this stuff? Or do I have to go through the magic menu every time I want to change a spell?
Yes, you can assign things as favorites, and assign numbers to those favorites.
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Any way to shake a dragon once you've got one on your tail? I seem to have attracted the attention of one that is much too strong for me to kill just yet.
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Mrbloodworth
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Run, don't look back.
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Kail
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Any way to shake a dragon once you've got one on your tail? I seem to have attracted the attention of one that is much too strong for me to kill just yet.
My general solution is to pull them in to a group of hostiles (like bandits or Stormcloaks or someone else who you don't care about) and let them duke it out. If they kill the dragon, you still get the soul, and you can loot the body afterwards. If they die, hopefully they'll at least weaken it enough for you to kill it. If I can't find any nearby NPCs, I generally just say "fuck it" and cheese the fight by finding some rock or something I can stand behind and use ranged attacks to hit the dragon's massive hitbox with while he can't hit me (the Bound Bow spell is really helpful here). Otherwise, I'd just run. Unless your mission objective is outside, you can generally ignore dragons since they're really only super lethal if they land and get those bullshit one hit kills on you (if you've got some healing magic, you can generally out heal their breath damage).
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rk47
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Run indoor.
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K9
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I love the smell of facepalm in the morning
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Arinon
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Any way to shake a dragon once you've got one on your tail? I seem to have attracted the attention of one that is much too strong for me to kill just yet.
Lower the difficulty, kill it, raise the difficulty back up.
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Merusk
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Yeah, or let your companion get aggro, run/ dragonsprintshout away as fast as possible and they'll catch up if they don't die.
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Signe
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I would have bought this game had I known shlohngs were involved.
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Lantyssa
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What do you think a Wyrm is?
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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HaemishM
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I couldn't stop... I had to look this mod up.
I just... why? WHY? I can almost understand putting in the time on a multiplayer thing like this for say, Second Life. I wouldn't do it, but you know, I can understand creating something like this. But on a singleplayer game? I... just... WHY?
The Internet has broken me. Again.
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rk47
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LoversLab can help you Haemish.
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satael
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rk47
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But RK, why would you want to play with it on? Because backstabbing a bandit chief while he's pissing in a corner is fun. Also, he removed his armor for more damage.
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Ceryse
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Skyrim mods have definitely gotten weirder since I last played.
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Stormwaltz
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They said I was too concerned with realism in Mass Effect. They were wrong, full stop. THIS is too much realism.
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"Isn't that just like an elf? Brings a spell to a gun fight."
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satael
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Skyrim mods have definitely gotten weirder since I last played.
there are some great mods still in development like this (they are not all just weird ones)
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HaemishM
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They were wrong, full stop. THIS is too much realism. This. THIS. THIS.
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Lakov_Sanite
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You wanted open world, fuckers. YOU wanted true sandbox, ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!
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rk47
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I shot a bandit once on the back with my arrow while he's taking a dump. As the sneak attack does its magic and take his soul back to Azura, he slumped down on the floor with his pants down. I walked closer to loot him, when suddenly I was interrupted by the sound of a fart coming off the dead man. Poop followed in two small chunks. An ignoble end. I totally lost it.
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cironian
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You wanted open world, fuckers. YOU wanted true sandbox, ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!
Most people should have learned at a young age that pooping in the sandbox is not acceptable.
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Lakov_Sanite
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Someone always pees in the pool. Always.
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rk47
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What's crazier is that NPCs do pee and poo during conversation as well. Making those lessons in the Thu'um quite hilarious when accompanied with the Greybeards squatting and letting it rip. Jarl Ulfric does it on his throne.
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ghost
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Okay. Am I missing something here or is magic seriously weak in this game?
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Kail
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In terms of straight up damage, I think a lot of the destruction stuff is pretty mediocre (some of it does decent damage, but eats tons of mana to do so). A lot of the other schools are still pretty useful, though. Kind of sucks for pure mages, but for a lot of hybrid characters it works pretty well.
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Vampire and Werewolf also seem pretty lame.
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rk47
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Vampire and Werewolf also seem pretty lame.
Overhauls fix most of these issues. Tweak it for taste, but in general they have a better idea of making what works better and toning down some other stuff. Vamps & werewolf only gets a perk tree in DLC expansions. For magic, in vanilla you can actually deliver a lot of pain if you are conjuration specced. Magicka wise, just have 150-200 capped - then invest in alchemy.
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satael
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there are tons of mods for magic when it comes to Skyrim (l ike these 10 for example). I'd kind of recommend Apocalypse Spell Package for some good and interesting spells that aren't ridiculously overpowered (though the conjuration summons can be pretty powerful compared to skill level required).
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Kitsune
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I consider the Empowered Magic mod fairly mandatory for playing a dedicated caster. What it does is changes the skill system from making spells cost less mana as you level to making spells do more damage as you level. The damage done per mana is kept more or less the same as a result, but you can put the damage out much much faster rather than casting fireball fifty times at a mud crab before it keels over. It also fixes some bugs and livens up some spells.
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ghost
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It really fucking irritates me to have to mod something to make it work.
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Ironwood
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Links people. Links.
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Merusk
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It really fucking irritates me to have to mod something to make it work.
You don't have to. Magic works fine in Skyrim without mods. There's plenty of NPCs that have killed me throwing ice spikes and frost fingers and nothing more. You just have to mode it to make it not be a pain in the ass to you, the player.
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