Skyrim, or, How I Ruined My LifeFollow

I like Lydia but I wish I could change her AI settings. I want to smack her upside the head and tell if she sees a stream of fire coming from my hands, do not stand between me and the target! She complicates fights so much for my caster character. That and my best spells are AOE so I can't even use them when she and/or the horse is around. Friendly fire is a real problem in this game.

I remember in oblivion, jumping often while traveling. Whirlwind Sprint is the new jump but occasionally guards yell at me about using it.

I never figured out how to manually have a companion equip stuff. There didn't seem to be that option in their inventory menu. I've been running without a companion ever since Lydia died, and frankly I haven't missed them at all. I'm working on smithing so I can make better armor and then I shouldn't need a tank at all.

I've read that you can. And you cast heal others on her.

Edited, Nov 15th 2011 10:13am by MrTalos

Spell casting is fun in this game. Much more fun than melee combat, in my opinion (haven't really tried archery, so can't comment on that).

Ice Spike holds a special place in my heart. And the heart of my enemies, if you know what I mean.

I leave Lydia sitting home all the time. You'd think with all her free time the b***h would have dinner ready. Of course not. Typical woman (jk). I think I'll put her to work on the streets and then check my stats to see how many diseases I contract.

On a serious note, I just started the Companion quest line and did the one with Farkas. Wow, what a long, fun quest. Then I get back to wrap it up and the npc's waiting for me in the back was icing on the cake. Made me feel like me and ol' Farkas did something grand.

I usually aim Ice Spike at the groin.

This. Unless, of course, I'm fighting things I can one-shot... =X

The head, for things that don't have groins (like those nasty centipede things...).

I thought the same thing!! I am not going to be happy to find those; the spiders are scary enough...



I find that, as long as you're out in the open, they circle and land and fight you. It's happened that way with the two I encountered so far, at least.

I thought the Companions story line in general was excellent. I just finished it last night. Now I can sleep restfully (and get the buff) again. SpoilerIt was fun being a werewolf in some ways but I rarely remembered to use it and the transform was so slow that I was dead if I tried to do it in combat without pre-loading it.

And Digg you have to **** off the dragons you encounter randomly sometimes. Plink them with your bow even if its not skilled. I mostly fight with SnB but I keep a bow handly for ranged moments like kiting a mammoth or making sure a dragon knows I want to fight him.

If there is high ground you can go to it and sometimes that seems to make them land faster. I have had to chase down a couple dragons that decided to go BBQ a pack of wolves for example. Just try and stick with them and when they land it's stabby time.

That brings me to my next question--what weapon type are people using?

I'm doing one-handed, but can't decide. On the one hand, armor ignore on maces sounds great. But I think I want to use swords, just because I like them more aesthetically. But the whole crit thing is kinda meh to me.

I'm guessing from your posts that you are playing a Pure Mage, Drown?

When I had to fight those spiders in the beginning, before I found out you could zoom out to third person view, and even better, shoot stuff dead before it comes near, I looked away and spammed those mouse buttons until the guy I was following (Ralof? Rolaf?) told me to move on.

Another thing is, I'm having a hard time figuring out what quests to do when. I seem to be skipping stuff, or doing it wrong, because I'm not high enough level to be taking on dragons and giants and stuff, but the quests lead me to them.

For instance, the first dragon you kill, to unlock your Shouts, took forever and a few deaths because of my low level and lack of spells and perks. I got the distinct feeling that I had skipped something somewhere, but the game is so nonlinear that I have no idea where to go.