The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Catch-All

I don't think their are achievements on the Switch.

Done? There is no done!

jrralls wrote:

So it looks like I'm 65 hours into Skyrim and I have ZERO idea how close I am to being done. Half? A third? No clue! I'm level 26 but other than that is there any real way to see how far you are in this game?

I am 40 hours in (on the Switch) and feel like I am still in the early mid-game! I think I am level 24. It is like quest confetti on my world map.

Gravey wrote:

If you want to max out your character, aim for level 81 252.

Prior to Patch 1.9 you would have been right. Nowadays once a skill reaches 100, you can mark it "Legendary" to reset it to 15 and refund all the perk points you've put into it. If you keep doing it, you can keep leveling theoretically forever and gaining Magicka / Health / Stamina, but Level 252 is when you have enough perk points to max out every perk tree in the game.

If you are, you know, an actual crazy person.

hbi2k wrote:
Gravey wrote:

If you want to max out your character, aim for level 81 252.

Prior to Patch 1.9 you would have been right. Nowadays once a skill reaches 100, you can mark it "Legendary" to reset it to 15 and refund all the perk points you've put into it. If you keep doing it, you can keep leveling theoretically forever and gaining Magicka / Health / Stamina, but Level 252 is when you have enough perk points to max out every perk tree in the game.

If you are, you know, an actual crazy person.

Oh I didn’t mean to imply 81 is the end. It’s just a goal: hit 100 in every stat the first time, and get Legendary Dragons and the Ebony Warrior to appear.

How often do you all save? I don’t want to save scum the whole game, but I die a fair amount and I seem to be saving more and more often as a result.

I saved a ton. Pretty much before and after every fight. After entering every building...etc.

jrralls wrote:

How often do you all save? I don’t want to save scum the whole game, but I die a fair amount and I seem to be saving more and more often as a result.

I save every 15-20 minutes maybe but I think I've only ever gone back and restored once or twice. One thing I recently did was turn the difficult down one notch from Adept to Apprentice and so far it made the game more enjoyable. I think we are around the same level and for me some of the fights with multiple enemies were more frustrating than fun and I was having to drink too many potions or dying a few times until it felt like I got lucky. I am playing a caster though with very little armor, not sure if that matters.

I’m up to level 30 and I’m just not coming across high level spell books. I’m more or less using the same spells o had at level 7. Is that normal or am I missing something?

jrralls wrote:

I’m up to level 30 and I’m just not coming across high level spell books. I’m more or less using the same spells o had at level 7. Is that normal or am I missing something?

Buy them from mages. Finding high levels spellbooks as loot is pretty rare. Edit - The teachers at the College of Winterhold have all their schools spellbooks and each one has a quest for a special spell that unlocks when you reach 100 in their respective skill.

Yeah you can get them there or from the court mages. However I am level 30 also and I haven’t seen any new ones in probably 10 levels. For example I concentrate on lightning spells and I have nothing new above chain lightning which I got a while ago. My destruction skill is like 68, I am not sure if skill levels trigger when new books are for sale.

I've tried to buy higher level spells at the mage college but can't find any. Do they auto-level or something?

I found this:

Skill level determines which spell tomes merchants will have available for sale. Specifically, merchants begin selling apprentice tomes at level 15, adept tomes at level 40 and expert tomes at level 65. Master-level tomes are unlocked through quests that become available at a skill level of 90 or 100. Due to this randomization, it is impossible to provide locations for all tomes.

OK, but for the first part that's my overall level, not my Destruction/Whatever level, right? Man, it's taken me a long time to get to level 30 overall and level 65 for Destruction.

I fairly certain it's based on your skill level in each magic school, not on your overall character level. From UESP (emphasis mine):

Most spell tomes can be purchased from merchants. Novice- and apprentice-level spell tomes can be purchased from the regular spell vendors found in each of Skyrim's cities. Most higher-level spell tomes, however, can only be purchased from the specialist mages in the College of Winterhold. Also, adept- and expert-level spell tomes only appear in the mage's merchandise when your magic skill is high enough (40 for Adept and 65 for Expert spells). After reaching the required skill level, you must wait for the mage's merchandise to be reset (typically two days in-game), or, save, then attack the merchant and reload, before the new tomes will appear. Master-level spell tomes can only be acquired once that school's ritual spell quest has been completed.

I'm at 80 hours now, which is two weeks of a full time job. It's rare for me to reach that long in a game.

I'm curious; What is everyone's total hour count for Skyrim?

Probably approaching 400, with the majority of that on PC, and the rest on PS4.

Across the 2 versions I'm over 600 hours. There will be many, many people on more than that but it's incredible to think that cost me £30, and I'll have at least one other run through in the next 12 months

630 on Original and only 10 hours on the SE.

jrralls wrote:

I'm at 80 hours now, which is two weeks of a full time job. It's rare for me to reach that long in a game.

I'm curious; What is everyone's total hour count for Skyrim?

Over nine thousand! breaks scanner.

No not really but I do have over a thousand hours in Skyrim.

Yeah, probably close to 1k, not counting various Steam counter resets, and Steam not registering any time played in offline mode.

My first run back in 2011 on the 360 was around 250 hours. By now I’d say coming up on 400 total across all platforms.

Steam says I've played 242 hours of the original release and 61 of Special Edition.

330 hours on Xbox + 25 on Steam.

Did you binge play it, or was most of that spread out over years?

Original recipe Skyrim 755 hours, Enhanced Edition 263 hours. So I guess I have a Sands' worth of game time, all total.
I should probably finish the main quest one of these days!

I think it was two years after Skyrim’s initial release before I finished Dragonborn’s main quest? I would play for weeks at a time, switch to something else, then come back. It was just a relatively constant gaming presence for that period. I did all the faction quests, main quests, and completed very nearly all the dungeons and locations. There were a couple achievements I didn’t get like having a high bounty in every hold, getting all the Daedric artifacts, and taming a dragon. I did pretty much everything else tho.

jrralls wrote:

Did you binge play it, or was most of that spread out over years?

Most of my original 330 hours was over the first 15 months. Not so much bingeing as it was the only game I was playing most of the time. What else could compete?

I'm a lightweight at 274 hours, but some of that is because it took me 3 or 4 tries before I stuck with it. So, probably 50-75 hours were do to restarts. I wasn't a fan of the combat. Eventually I decided exploring the world made up for it.

I'm 420 on the original and 95 on the Special Edition, but about 3 hours of that total was spent doing other things while the game was running. So it's not nearly as bad as it looks.