The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Catch-All

Dakuna wrote:
EverythingsTentative wrote:

Doesn't disenchanting items also level enchanting?

I don't think so, I think it only gives you the recipe for that enchantment.

Actually I think it might level up Enchanting.

Nevin73 wrote:
Dakuna wrote:
EverythingsTentative wrote:

Doesn't disenchanting items also level enchanting?

I don't think so, I think it only gives you the recipe for that enchantment.

Actually I think it might level up Enchanting.

Doing anything tends to level something up.

Bring back Acrobatics!

That always made sense to me. You level something up by doing it. You don't magically know something new because you passed an experience threshold like in most other systems.

Note there are a few total conversions. Enderal is even on steam for free. The mod is free regardless of platform but for people that don't know how to mod they can get it up in running without messing with stuff. I haven't played it yet but hear it is pretty good.

Heh, I have been playing TESO with Mrs. Abu for over a year now. When Bethesda gave away Morrowind for the Elder Scrolls anniversary, I grabbed it, played a little, and realized I needed mods. Not knowing how to mod, I went down a YouTube rabbit hole with Gopher and his excellent tutorial videos. The videos were all filmed with Skyrim, so I got the urge.

I want to play Morrowind (and got it modded to my liking.. for now), but I can certainly see another visit to Skyrim sometime soon. (I have it on both Xbox and PC. I played about 150 hours on Xbox but only got through about half of the story, never even met a dragon, and have only partially modded it on PC and watched the intro movie about 100 times. )

I'm really getting the itch to play a mage who morphs into a sneaky archer. Or a warrior who morphs into a sneaky archer. Or maybe even an archer who morphs into a sneaky archer.

Godzilla Blitz wrote:

I'm really getting the itch to play a mage who morphs into a sneaky archer. Or a warrior who morphs into a sneaky archer. Or maybe even an archer who morphs into a sneaky archer.

All of my characters tend to morph into sneaky archers eventually. There is just something about being able to take down your enemies before the can even get to you. Doubly cool when you also fill up all your soul gems for your trouble.

Sneaky mage archer is good fun -- especially if you have the right mix of combat mods + bound bow changes + other conjuration tweaks. I need to pick up with a dormant run where my lower level bread and butter was conjuration archery + exploding wolf familiar.

edit / aside gripe: I'm 'ok' with Bethesda and 'Creation Club' in general, but why the Sam Hill 'F do the damn Creation Club ~storefront 'updates' have to constantly break SSE SKSE (resulting in the trickle down wait of mods having to be updated, and hoping the creator will constantly support them). I've placed the aforementioned character on hold three, maybe four, times now on account of this. Sorely tempted to tear it all down and remod in Oldrim.

Dangit, I guess I'm doing another Summer of Skyrim.

It’s official, spent the last couple of nights setting up Virtex and downloading mods. I even got as far as Character Creation in the Alternate start dungeon! Who knows. I may even get around to finding some time to play on the weekend.

Oh, Vortex! How is it?

Rat Boy wrote:

Dangit, I guess I'm doing another Summer of Skyrim.

Record scratch.. "Sending out an SOS"... record scratch.. "Sending out an SOS".. repeat.. /Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner

Godzilla Blitz wrote:

Oh, Vortex! How is it?

Seems like Nmm and Mod Organizer had a baby and From my understanding that’s basically what happened

Seems intuitive and makes it easier for you to manage conflicts.

Prozac wrote:
Godzilla Blitz wrote:

Oh, Vortex! How is it?

Seems like Nmm and Mod Organizer had a baby and From my understanding that’s basically what happened

Seems intuitive and makes it easier for you to manage conflicts.

Excellent. Glad to hear they finally hooked up.

Nexus hired the creator of Mod Organizer to work on Vortex.

I’ve only done one play through as a magic user. I’m level 39 and haven’t felt the need to complete the main quest. How much overlap is there in a second playthroigh?

Godzilla Blitz wrote:

Oh, Vortex! How is it?

You say that like it’s a bad thing!

Eleima wrote:
Godzilla Blitz wrote:

Oh, Vortex! How is it?

You say that like it’s a bad thing!

Like I was swearing or something?

It was intended more as excitement. I thought that improvements to NMM over the past couple of years were the result of hiring the Mod Organizer guy. I didn’t realize they were making a whole new thing.

jrralls wrote:

I’ve only done one play through as a magic user. I’m level 39 and haven’t felt the need to complete the main quest. How much overlap is there in a second playthroigh?

I put 30-40 hours in on the Switch and then replayed probably 50 hours on the PC version and while there is overlap with some of the quests, it is more like you are better at knowing where to go and can do things faster instead of just being boring repetition. Plus you know better from the start what play style and skills you want to pursue, so I think the second playthrough is actually the better one.

jrralls wrote:

I’ve only done one play through as a magic user. I’m level 39 and haven’t felt the need to complete the main quest. How much overlap is there in a second playthroigh?

Depends entirely on how you played the first playthrough and how you play the second.

If your first playthrough involved completing a whole sh*t-ton of the main questlines, then you've effectively exhasted a good portion of the content. If not, maybe you only did the Winterhold questline to be Chief Mage Poobah, and you didn't even touch the other guilds, then there's lots of alternative content.

Likewise, if you're planning on playing a radically different build for playthrough #2 (as opposed to starting a radically different build that ends up being a stealth archer anyway ), that'll give you a different experience.

And finally, the best possible reason for a subsequent playthrough: Skyrim VR!

Jonman wrote:
jrralls wrote:

I’ve only done one play through as a magic user. I’m level 39 and haven’t felt the need to complete the main quest. How much overlap is there in a second playthroigh?

Depends entirely on how you played the first playthrough and how you play the second.

If your first playthrough involved completing a whole sh*t-ton of the main questlines, then you've effectively exhasted a good portion of the content. If not, maybe you only did the Winterhold questline to be Chief Mage Poobah, and you didn't even touch the other guilds, then there's lots of alternative content.

Likewise, if you're planning on playing a radically different build for playthrough #2 (as opposed to starting a radically different build that ends up being a stealth archer anyway ), that'll give you a different experience.

And finally, the best possible reason for a subsequent playthrough: Skyrim VR!

I'm confused, you seem to imply there are builds besides stealth archer... i don;t understand/ My stealth archer is the best Archermage the College of Winterhold has ever seen.

There's a whole lot of starting-game builds, and they all end up as a stealth archer in the end-game.

Always? Not, entirely, true. Mod in command whistles and better follower AI. Then you can be a.. sneaky tank that commands everyone else to loose their arrows on command. Good pincushiony fun for the whole family!

...and by 'family', I mean them poor scallywags who are busy carrying your burdens

[in Khajiit voice] Eeentsy weentsy spider, Inigo shoot you in the mouth /Inigo

Recreational Villain wrote:

Always? Not, entirely, true. Mod in command whistles and better follower AI. Then you can be a.. sneaky tank that commands everyone else to loose their arrows on command. Good pincushiony fun for the whole family!

...and by 'family', I mean them poor scallywags who are busy carrying your burdens

[in Khajiit voice] Eeentsy weentsy spider, Inigo shoot you in the mouth /Inigo

Khajiit has arrow if bandit has coin.

Jonman wrote:
jrralls wrote:

I’ve only done one play through as a magic user. I’m level 39 and haven’t felt the need to complete the main quest. How much overlap is there in a second playthroigh?

Depends entirely on how you played the first playthrough and how you play the second.

If your first playthrough involved completing a whole sh*t-ton of the main questlines, then you've effectively exhasted a good portion of the content. If not, maybe you only did the Winterhold questline to be Chief Mage Poobah, and you didn't even touch the other guilds, then there's lots of alternative content.

Likewise, if you're planning on playing a radically different build for playthrough #2 (as opposed to starting a radically different build that ends up being a stealth archer anyway ), that'll give you a different experience.

And finally, the best possible reason for a subsequent playthrough: Skyrim VR!

LeapingGnome wrote:
jrralls wrote:

I’ve only done one play through as a magic user. I’m level 39 and haven’t felt the need to complete the main quest. How much overlap is there in a second playthroigh?

I put 30-40 hours in on the Switch and then replayed probably 50 hours on the PC version and while there is overlap with some of the quests, it is more like you are better at knowing where to go and can do things faster instead of just being boring repetition. Plus you know better from the start what play style and skills you want to pursue, so I think the second playthrough is actually the better one.

Exactly all this. There's overlap of the main quest and the Dragonborn stuff, but you can also choose a different side in the factional war. That'll change things up a bit more than running down the same path you did the first time.

Also, playing the game and not going down the main story is *completely* normal in a Bethesda game.

Wait... we're still trying to sell the idea that Skyrim is good for more than one go-around?

I'm historically a broken record on this point: Skyrim is worth going through at least 1x [more] if you haven't rambled around with Inigo and/or Prefessor Benjamin Doon of the Bard's College before.

Inigo, especially,tends to be very environmentally aware (and chatty) of the base game quests, locations, and vanilla game NPCs, children, certain horses etc etc.

I laughed several times whenever we stopped at an inn and he'd want to essentially D&D it up or read excerpts from his WIP book about, what was it, 'Inigo the Brave' I think.. ~ "a tale suitable for any gender, or race... at any time!"

Godzilla Blitz wrote:
Eleima wrote:
Godzilla Blitz wrote:

Oh, Vortex! How is it?

You say that like it’s a bad thing!

Like I was swearing or something?

It was intended more as excitement. I thought that improvements to NMM over the past couple of years were the result of hiring the Mod Organizer guy. I didn’t realize they were making a whole new thing.

Dang it. I missed up my quote on my phone. This is what I actually wanted to quote:

Rat Boy wrote:

Dangit, I guess I'm doing another Summer of Skyrim.

My post made no sense at all.

Recreational Villain wrote:

Wait... we're still trying to sell the idea that Skyrim is good for more than one go-around?

I'm historically a broken record on this point: Skyrim is worth going through at least 1x [more] if you haven't rambled around with Inigo and/or Prefessor Benjamin Doon of the Bard's College before.

Inigo, especially,tends to be very environmentally aware (and chatty) of the base game quests, locations, and vanilla game NPCs, children, certain horses etc etc.

I laughed several times whenever we stopped at an inn and he'd want to essentially D&D it up or read excerpts from his WIP book about, what was it, 'Inigo the Brave' I think.. ~ "a tale suitable for any gender, or race... at any time!"

For me, it's the richness of mods that make it so replayable. If you come back a year later there are additional mods that modify/improve gameplay, crafting, add characters, quests, areas, etc. I've particularly enjoyed the mods that change combat/magic.

Grandma Shirley is a special person. Yall should watch this.

Not that it would be my method of modding the game, but:

Ultimate Skyrim 4.0 is out now, the easiest way to overhaul the game