Skyrim Discussion

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If anybody else is playing on ps3, April's patch 1.5 introduced a bug that freezes the game whenever the camera goes below water. To fix, just go into Game Data Utility and delete your Skyrim files (both game and patch files). Don't touch the Save Data Utility because those are your character files. On the next start up you'll have to reinstall Game Data and the patch, then the game should work fine.

My latest character Vladimir the Imperial Spellsword is in the early 40's already as I eagerly await Dawnguard. Of course, PS3 is going to get the content a month(s?) after it goes online for Xbox but who's counting? Certainly not me. On an unrelated note, now that the Xbox is getting a browser I'm going to get an Xbox, put the PS3 away and use it only for exclusive Sony content thereafter.

At any rate, might start a vampire-hunter character since Vlad is going to be a vampire. Plus, I wasted two of Vlad's perk points on Light Armor but then completely switched to Heavy Armor after joining the Blades. (most Blades pieces are better than Ebony but you can get it when Dwarven is the best random drop, everything was so much easier)

Vlad is a heavily modified version of the spellsword archetype; normal SS take one-handed, destruction, light armor and illusion, but I traded out illusion for restoration and light armor for heavy armor, added blocking for deadly bash and smithing for arcane blacksmith, plus I only upgraded basic perks to free up points for enchanting mastery. Altogether the build takes 38 perks. Enchanted gear brought the cost of spells down, raised weapon damage and armor protection, plus magic resistance, and a set of fortify smithing gear + smithing potion let me temper the Blades armor up to legendary (the only way it can be done).

Body: fortify destruction, fortify restoration
Head: fortify destruction, fortify restoration
Hands: fortify one-handed, fortify stamina regen
Feet: fortify one-handed, fortify heavy armor
Ring: fortify destruction, fortify magic resistance
Neck: fortify destruction, fortify magic resistance

Got pretty close to 600 Armor Rating even without maxing the armor skill, most of the armor perks, or a shield. Zero-mana spells and having a sword that absorbs 1 stamina per hit is great; I have unlimited casting and unlimited power attacks. Thinking about trading out stamina regen for another armor buff, no point in speeding up the regen since the sword takes care of it.

After beating Alduin and a few dozen dragon-hunting radiant quests from the Blades, doing the mage guild quest on Adept difficulty was a cakewalk. I'm doing the Conjuror Ritual Spell quest now so I can raise a permanent zombie, then it's time to up the difficulty to Expert and join the Empire for the war. I don't believe that I can raise Ulfrick from the dead, but I hope that I'm wrong. ;O