Elder Scrolls V - Skyrim

[jlb1705]

Left my companion in some random cave after telling her to wait...

Trouble is that was weeks ago and I don't have the slightest idea where she is.

I guess I'm stuck without a companion for the rest of the game... :tongue2:

Back at your house? Back where you originally met them? Perhaps dead? Perhaps the victim of a bug and vanished into thin air?

There are plenty of other companions you can hire or otherwise earn the ability to utilize.

 

[OneBuckeye]

I killed shodowmere last week. I fell off the damn bridge at the mages college after fast traveling there. I have read I need to wait 10-20 days and he/she will come back to life. SMH.

Also did the black star quest, one of the more challenging quests combat wise to date.

 

[Buckeye86]

Are you just doing autosaves? It's hard to remember (see some of my previous frustrations) but I try to do some manual saves too because on PS3 you only get 3 autosave slots and they get overwritten pretty quickly.

no, I was doing quite a few manual saves as well, but in the future I will make sure to manage them a bit better before and after dangerous situations to have a place to go back to if a companion gets killed

like I said, the trouble was I didn't know she was dead for quite a while since she had disappeared and shown up back at the house numerous times before

 

[jlb1705]

I killed shodowmere last week. I fell off the damn bridge at the mages college after fast traveling there. I have read I need to wait 10-20 days and he/she will come back to life. SMH.

Also did the black star quest, one of the more challenging quests combat wise to date.

I did that one early and had no problem with the actual quest. It was the damn bears and ice wraiths on the road outside Winterhold that gave me fits. I went with the Black Star option instead of Azura's Star too without a doubt. Black souls are much easier to come by (even without murdering) than grand white souls.

 

[OneBuckeye]

I did that one early and had no problem with the actual quest. It was the damn bears and ice wraiths on the road outside Winterhold that gave me fits. I went with the Black Star option instead of Azura's Star too without a doubt. Black souls are much easier to come by (even without murdering) than grand white souls.

I have yet to come across a list of the creatures that give a grand white soul. Mammoth is the only one I know of for sure. Feel free to list em.

 

[jlb1705]

I have yet to come across a list of the creatures that give a grand white soul. Mammoth is the only one I know of for sure. Feel free to list em.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Souls

Beyond mammoths, they're basically limited to very high-level or named undead. I've captured a few white souls lately - Draugr Death Overlords started showing up for me around lvl. 50.

 

[Hubbard]

Has anyone discovered an easy way to level up alchemy? Smithing was ridiculously easy, but for alchemy all I do is go to each alchemists in each city, buy alll there stuff and randomly create potions... Is there an alternative?

 

[jlb1705]

Has anyone discovered an easy way to level up alchemy? Smithing was ridiculously easy, but for alchemy all I do is go to each alchemists in each city, buy alll there stuff and randomly create potions... Is there an alternative?

You can buy training, up to five points per level. It gets really pricy at high levels, and in the case of Alchemy you have to have access to the Dark Brotherhood to purchase training past 80.

There's also the Oghma Infinium bug. Look it up, there's plenty of info and videos out there. I used the bug once I had maxed out everything I cared to improve though the normal flow of the game. It beats the shit out of spamming potions and other stuff that would have occupied the next two months of gameplay for me. I'll use the time I've saved to start collecting cheese wheels to roll down the Throat of the World.

 

[Hubbard]

You can buy training, up to five points per level. It gets really pricy at high levels, and in the case of Alchemy you have to have access to the Dark Brotherhood to purchase training past 80.

There's also the Oghma Infinium bug. Look it up, there's plenty of info and videos out there. I used the bug once I had maxed out everything I cared to improve though the normal flow of the game. It beats the [Mark May] out of spamming potions and other stuff that would have occupied the next two months of gameplay for me. I'll use the time I've saved to start collecting cheese wheels to roll down the Throat of the World.

Haha, i saw a cheese wheel video. Too funny. I train when i find people to do so, guess I will have to look them all up online, I have a ton of cash 190k+, so that wont be an issue. Ill check the bug too, I mean the crafting isn't taking THAT long, I would have it done in a week or so if I wanted with the way I am going now. Enchanting is going slow as well.

 

[jlb1705]

Haha, i saw a cheese wheel video. Too funny. I train when i find people to do so, guess I will have to look them all up online, I have a ton of cash 190k+, so that wont be an issue. Ill check the bug too, I mean the crafting isn't taking THAT long, I would have it done in a week or so if I wanted with the way I am going now. Enchanting is going slow as well.

Enchanting didn't take me very long by spamming enchanted iron daggers.

The alchemist in Whiterun can train you up to 80. That's who I used. It was only after I maxed out training with her that I started looking up other options. I have been hovering between 50K and 100K gold for most of this game. Haven't been able to get too far past that because of the price of houses and advanced training. That amount seems like it would be enough, but it starts to go fast when you're spending upwards of 3K per session to train a skill.

 

[Hubbard]

Enchanting didn't take me very long by spamming enchanted iron daggers.

The alchemist in Whiterun can train you up to 80. That's who I used. It was only after I maxed out training with her that I started looking up other options. I have been hovering between 50K and 100K gold for most of this game. Haven't been able to get too far past that because of the price of houses and advanced training. That amount seems like it would be enough, but it starts to go fast when you're spending upwards of 3K per session to train a skill.

Thanks for all the tips. Hows the training work, you train up to 5 levels, then how many levels on your own do you have to progress before you can train again?

 

[jlb1705]

Thanks for all the tips. Hows the training work, you train up to 5 levels, then how many levels on your own do you have to progress before you can train again?

You can train up to five skill points per level. I would usually train all five points the first chance I got after leveling up so I didn't forget.

 

[scooter1369]

Got pretty lucky this morning. Wandering around and ran into a dragon. As we battled, two giants came in and attacked the dragon too. two swings of a giant's club and a few arrows from me and the dragon was belly up in a pond. I'm at level 16 and most of leveling up has come from sneak and archery, my old Oblivion standby. Did get to kill a dragon with a sword and it went into a preset video of me climbing on the dragon's neck and impaling the back of its head with my sword. pretty cool stuff. Also, the 50% fire resistance of being a Dunmer has come in handy.

 

[Smooth Olaf]

I accidentally just had two Level Ups in one fight. I finished fighting an Ancient Dragon and I took all his stuff. I was too heavy to walk, so I did what any good Nord would do, I turned to give all the heavy crap to my wife. Once I did, a bounty hunter came out of nowhere and asked for a bribe to take care of my bounty in The Pale. I didn't want to, so I refused. He started attacking me, and for some reason I just decided to block him with my shield. I was thinking about how I wanted to kill him and just had my shield raised for the hell of it. The next thing I know, my blocking skill was going up with every five or six hits. This in turn led me to level up twice. I would have leveled up more, but my wife had had enough and put a few arrows in his throat. So in one fight with one mace-wielding bounty hunter, I leveled up twice and increased my blocking skill by about ten. Not too shabby.

 

[Wells4Heisman]

Back at your house? Back where you originally met them? Perhaps dead? Perhaps the victim of a bug and vanished into thin air?

There are plenty of other companions you can hire or otherwise earn the ability to utilize.

Sadly I can't pick up another companion as it still has the one that is lost registered as my current companion.