Official HCAF Skyrim Thread

meelosh123 · February 14, 2012

a couple of you guys have mentioned the game being boring after you become invincible, I don't really think its boring, i enjoy exploring and not having to worry about dying

I think I turn on my playstation for some excitement, not relaxation!

JR13 · February 14, 2012

I think I turn on my playstation for some excitement, not relaxation!

understandable, I'm not one for a challenge

chad_sux · February 14, 2012

every time I think I will be "set" with my gear, I almost IMMEDIATELY get checked...

1 round my save point kept loading me in between two giants, and I had to survive and save lydia... had to restart the save point so many times my xbox froze

finally did it though.

next one was after I crafted my smithing gear, and then made my dragon armor with ebony swords. upped everything I could with fortify 1 handed, hit 1 sword with absorb health, and the other with fire enchant. Dragon finds me almost immediately, and beyond raped me. I had scaled these mountains as a short cut, so lydia was gone... dragon would freeze me (there goes running and power attacks), land and then bite me in half... like 10 tries to get through that.

lesson learned? carry pots lol. I seriously never pick them up unless I see they have a high value, just to sell. I think I have used 10 health pots and im lvl 30.

I've ran into that same {censored}

I have always tried to have a decent amount of health potions available just in case. Haven't had the need for them much lately, but a couple of times, I've been caught off-guard and needed them. I NEVER use stamina or magicka regen potions. I rarely use any sort of poisons. Don't need waterbreathing. Don't care about invisibility. Don't give a damn about many potions...yet...I have so {censored}ing many that I carry around with me because I either made a bunch and haven't sold them, or I am too afraid of letting them go because I always think I'll need them

chad_sux · February 14, 2012

Just because you can be invincible, doesn't mean you have to go that route. You can always take the gear off if it's too easy for you. Seriously, this game is so variable that I can't see anyone really getting to the point that they were "bored" with it.

Kenny Powers · February 14, 2012

so whats your guy's recipe for yielding a profitable potion?

blue mountain flower + blue butter fly wings + wheat is pretty damn good

blue mount flower + Giant toe + wheat is another high yielder.

thats all I have figured out.

Ovid9 · February 14, 2012

You guys that never pick up potions make me lol and envy you. My orc death machine is carrying around probably 100 or so potions. WAAAAYYYY too many are stamina and magicka potions. (He doesn't use magic pretty much at all) that I have "just in case." I have a severe hording problem. Like, really really severe.

chad_sux · February 14, 2012

so whats your guy's recipe for yielding a profitable potion?

blue mountain flower + blue butter fly wings + wheat is pretty damn good

blue mount flower + Giant toe + wheat is another high yielder.

thats all I have figured out.

Giant's toe + wheat is a good one. If I were at home, I could find you a couple more. I think my best has only been around 1030 gold. My approach to making potions has been to find two solid ingredients that fetch between 4-500 gold, and add another random ingredient that isn't from the same style of potion. ie. If you are making a "fortify" potion, don't us an ingredient that does another "fortify." Try something in the "regenerate" or "poison" pool of ingredients.

If there is a better way of doing this, I'm all ears. My alchemy is pretty high now (maybe above 90), so It's only a matter of time before I hit 100.

chad_sux · February 14, 2012

You guys that never pick up potions make me lol and envy you. My orc death machine is carrying around probably 100 or so potions. WAAAAYYYY too many are stamina and magicka potions. (He doesn't use magic pretty much at all) that I have "just in case." I have a severe hording problem. Like, really really severe.

I've just started to be very selective in which potions I grab now. Anything with regenerate health is a must. But, if it isn't a fortify smithing or enchanting, I usually just leave it. Unless it's an "ultimate regeneration" potion. Nice to have a couple of those handy just in case.

Ovid9 · February 14, 2012

I've just started to be very selective in which potions I grab now. Anything with regenerate health is a must. But, if it isn't a fortify smithing or enchanting, I usually just leave it. Unless it's an "ultimate regeneration" potion. Nice to have a couple of those handy just in case.

I have severe hording issues. I mean, severe. You should see the cupboards, chests, barrels and end tables. I mean, I have literal tons of {censored} stored in them. In one barrel alone I have over 50 weapons I plan on "getting around" to maxing out and selling. That doesn't count the armor and staves. In my "smithing" drawer I have probably 250+ ingots, 75 leathers, and who knows how many leather strips I plan on using to upgrade stuff. I still don't know where my smithing robes disappear to. I have an endtable I started dumping pots into...i probably have 75 or so just sitting there...waiting for something.

This is on top of the 30K plus gold I just wander around with. My orc needs to be on an episode of horders. I haven't even gotten into the strange {censored} I have stored up.

chad_sux · February 14, 2012

I have severe hording issues. I mean, severe. You should see the cupboards, chests, barrels and end tables. I mean, I have literal tons of {censored} stored in them. In one barrel alone I have over 50 weapons I plan on "getting around" to maxing out and selling. That doesn't count the armor and staves. In my "smithing" drawer I have probably 250+ ingots, 75 leathers, and who knows how many leather strips I plan on using to upgrade stuff. I still don't know where my smithing robes disappear to. I have an endtable I started dumping pots into...i probably have 75 or so just sitting there...waiting for something.

This is on top of the 30K plus gold I just wander around with. My orc needs to be on an episode of horders. I haven't even gotten into the strange {censored} I have stored up.

I used to be a horder like you,

but then I took an arrow to the knee.

Ovid9 · February 14, 2012

I'm laughing like an idiot IRL right now and wifey is looking at me like I'm nuts.

chad_sux · February 14, 2012

I'm laughing like an idiot IRL right now and wifey is looking at me like I'm nuts.

-Assy- · February 14, 2012

so whats your guy's recipe for yielding a profitable potion?

blue mountain flower + blue butter fly wings + wheat is pretty damn good

blue mount flower + Giant toe + wheat is another high yielder.

thats all I have figured out.

I dont remember the recipes, but the highest yielding potions :

SLOW poison

fortify carry weight

fortify health

invisibility (Chaurus eggs)

Kenny Powers · February 14, 2012

{censored} just saw this

http://www.ripten.com/2012/02/10/adam-adamowicz-fallout-3-concept-artist-dies-mhib/

ss454 · February 14, 2012

I hoard {censored} too...Anything worth 500 or so gold I snag and take back to sell. I just finished the quest to rebuild the Dawnstar Dark Brotherhood hideout and gave them the whole 20,000 gold and withing 30 minutes I had earned the 20,000 back. I am actually having a hard time selling stuff because between Belethor, the Grey-mane smithy and warmaidens they never have enough gold at once to buy my better items. I have the Ebony mail and it's worth over $15000...who can buy that crap? I also have a couple of worn out single enchanted daedric swords and an enchanted soul trap daedric bow that I need to sell but nobody can afford those either. I easily filled up all the bookshelves in my house in whiterun and had 10x more books that went into the chest left over. I keep almost every unique weapon/armor for some reason too...

Also I agree that it gets a bit boring if you are a walking tank so I snagged the Blades armor and Dragonbane and gave back the Jagged Crown. That dropped my armor by like 200pts and my dmg went from 259/hand in dual wield to 238 single sword. Now a dragon might take more than one melee attack to finish...before all I had to do was walk up to his head and hold down both attack buttons and by the time his combo finished any elder dragon was DEAD! I'm about ready to sack Solitude too...

Dolf · February 14, 2012

Son of a {censored}ing bitch...

I ran into a REAL snag last night. I've somehow managed to legitimately glitch the main quest and here's how:

I'm at the part in the main quest where I have to capture a dragon in Dragonreach, but first I need to get the Stormcloaks and the Empire to negotiate a temporary truce. Easy enough, right? So I talk to Ulfric and he's down with it. Then I fast-travel to Solitude to get the guy from the Empire to come...

Here's where {censored} gets real. I arrive in Solitude to see people shooting me with arrows and generally trying to {censored} my {censored}. I think to myself "I must have a bounty". So I put away my bow and find out I DO, in fact, have a bounty. $1,500. No big, so I pay it off. The second I pay it off and the guard puts his sword away, he takes it BACK out and him and his friends start trying to kill me again. Hmm....confused, I am. And then it hits me.

I've already killed the Emperor via the Dark Brotherhood quest line.

I can't even go to Solitude without {censored}ers trying to kill me immediately. Including the guy to whom I'm supposed to talk for this quest. It's not like I can't murder them all. It's not like they could possibly kill me even if I stood still for a half hour and just took it. But I can't do this quest.

So I think "ok...what if I join the Stormcloaks and just eradicate the Empire first? Can I move the main quest forward then?"

So I try that. I get the first quest from the Stormcloak dude, to go kill the ice wraith. I do that. I come back to turn it in and all he says is "I don't know how you convinced Ulfric to do this stupid negotiation, because it's a waste of time" and WON'T LET ME TURN THE {censored}ING QUEST IN.

All Ulfric says is "yeah, I'll do your stupid negotiation" and WON'T GIVE ME ANY CONVERSATION OPTIONS.

At the moment, I'm completely {censored}ed as far as the "main" quest line and the rebellion quest line and I have no idea how to fix it.

Ovid9 · February 15, 2012