Yes, I started the whole thing. I'm a cat, meowwwh.

Mmmh, people kill me in couple seconds and I don't get how to manage development of my cat properly :D the game is huge for sure...

Should I kill some random wolf just to get started with the combat mechanics? Maybe I suck just because I never play 3D fighting... wolf training is a bad idea? Should I rather start finding a way to get better weapons? I'm just level three, can I handle quests? I don't know if I should train myself in fighting or I should find better stuff. Any tip?

Follow the main quests a bit until after you slay the first dragon. Your a khajitt right? You are playing a stealth/merchant class, Develop your pickpocket/sneak/archery/merchant skills. Also, Khajitt typically wear light armor since it is quieter to move around in - though this is entirely eliminated by a perk later on and light armor practically becomes useless.

Also - get used to blocking but more importantly, if you block at exactly the right moment there is almost 90% chance the enemy will stagger if you are evenly matched. the exact right moment is as they begin to swing their weapons (Well kind of.)

Is blocking a kind of magic? Yes, I'm that noob and I still have to try magic out. :|

Thanks for everything, I'd like to mess around in this huge world but maybe you're right and I should follow a little main quest just to get started with stuff. :)

Blocking is when you put your shield up to defend against an enemy attack - Have you equipped a shield yet?

You can also do it with one one-handed weapon. Which sucks, I want a dedicated block key. Well not really since I'm not playing Skyrim anymore.

I agree. But the shield's stagger makes up for it and there are some great combat mods. I wish parrying was as effective as it was in Dark Souls though. (Risky, but paid off)

This is a feature of Duel but I don't think its in the base game.

It's in the base game, I don't have duel and yet it still happens quite often...

I thought it was some freezing magic... yes I have a shield, I didn't know you could use it to make the enemy stagger, thanks for the tip.

This game doesn't have some in-game manual? When I don't know what to do with objects or levelling I have to Alt tab and search the internet, I know they have to sell their nerdy giant manual but come on!

Started a new character now that I am back home, plan to use him for Dawnguard if it launched before I return to Europe. Am I crazy or is a two-handed warrior basically God mode?

It is god mode... But then again, With proper use a shield and sword are god mode as well, Just not as godly as two-handed.

Melee seems OP In skyrim compared to magic and archery. Then again, With good sneak archery kind of pays of. I wish archery was just more of a combat skill then a stealth skill.

My last character was an archer and it's God mode after level 20 or so, toward the endgame. Early on it could be difficult. My first character was a mage and one handed swordsman using the new dual wield system and that was by FAR the hardest. Magic is so weak in the game.

It has a peak, valley, peak...valley progression. At least with combat mods (shorter hit range). In the base game you can just kite and use backwards power attack from meters away.

Early on you dominate just because you can one-hit creatures a few levels above you. Around level 10-13 it just starts to even out. You begin to take serious damage from levelled enemy two handers because you block less. The enemies deal more damage because they can now take a hit from you and keep coming, meaning you get surrounded.

You really start to hurt for crowd damage, relying on shouts or spells during the agonising wait for the Sweep perk (hit all enemies in a arc power attack). Smithing your weapon to top shape becomes an obsession.

Then you get the sweep perk and you're unstoppable again, against everything but a crowd of magic users. Its then that you might miss the shield only elemental protection perk in the blocking tree. I don't recall crowds of magic users being common in base Skyrim, but they are frequent with the Warzones mod.

The biggest draw back for two handers is the slow swing (less noticeable on greatswords). There's a well protected hammer that is the bees knees for speed and can still be used with Elemental Fury (the haste shout), making you whirling death.

Even with that though, at higher levels with superior metals, one hander speed and damage beats out two handers eventually, and a shield offers much better protection.


Mostly this comes down to fixed damage spells, your damage output doesn't scale as well with your level. Probably why 90% of magic mods try (and overkill) to fix this.

With good enchantments you can cast spells without pause, so dual wielding for damage and stun becomes a breeze. I found it incredibly easy to beat the game just by dual wielding lightning spells. Everything just kept staggering.

I've always used the Better Magic mod since then, its a little more conservative with the damage boost as you level, doesn't add new spells and reduces the stagger chance.

Bethesda does it yet again

http://www.vg247.com/2012/10/29/skyrim-premium-edition-listed-by-amazon-contains-no-dlc-report/

"Skyrim Premium edition confirmed by Bethesda, contains no DLC"

Looks like we are going to have to wait for another year or so for the "Super Premium dub edition remix" edition

I buy digitally and couldn't give a shit less if they ever bundle them. Acting like Skyrim was not worth full price by itself is batshit crazy.