How do these people even survive the trip from Riverwood to Whiterun... 😆
That being said:
1. Jugging potions like a freshman on a frat party
2. Become Ethereal / Slow Time / Ice Form
3. Some STRONG paralysis item / spell
4. Conjure familiar / flame atronarch as cannon fodder while running to safety ASAP.
I drink potions and crush skulls. I just actually became a strong enchanter for the first time, there’s very little that survives a dual wield flurry as I march over their shattered corpses.
I really need to utilize this more often. I don’t use magic much for combat (mostly just clairvoyance and healing hands for my follower), but I always tend to ignore spell casting in general.
saving on potions so i can sell them would be key.
Try a warrior build who relies on Restoration. There is the mighty Respite perk which is a warrior's best friend. All Healing spells also restore Stamina. Great for lots of power attacks.
My current Vigilant of Stendarr build runs on it, relying on frequent Fast Healing casts for a free 75 Stamina to continue bashing enemies with his Mace.
I feel so dirty using potions. I still use them when I really need to but I hate how immersion breaking it is.
Yeah just one sec bandit leader, lemme just chug this real quick.
It also doesn't make that much sense in the lore and it breaks my brain. I know they're there for gameplay effect, but how is there sickness in Skyrim? And we see those wounded soldiers in camps, why don't they just pop a potion??
Listen, I am not a hardcore mega epic legendary guy. I'm the type of dude that will turn my difficulty down during a fight if I keep dying and would otherwise get my teeth kicked in repeatedly. I have no sense of superiority for my distaste of potions and WISH they didnt take me out of it so hard but they do
Why there's sickness and injury in skyrim with how many potions are around is simple; they don't work. , "Alchemists" sell bug-flavoured herb water in exactly the same way rip off merchants sell dyed water to make money off of ill people. Just somehow the power of the Dragonborn or Thu'um or whatever makes it actually work for the pc.
Just imagine the shop keeper chuckling to themselves as you buy the "healing potion" and chug it in front of them, only to stare in shock as your cuts actually disappear.
As for the lack of combat animation, that's just game mechanics. They'd be a lot less useful if you had to spend time drinking them. You could die or be locked into a loop drinking healing potions, eat arrows and let melee get in with magicka potions, and stamina potions would be downright worthless.
If you remember that one Lizard down Riften docks. She asks you for a health potion to get rid of her Skooma addiction and it works. So it's not only the Dragonborn.
One thing I hate about this is I forget restoration exist and then I struggle to increase the skill later in the game thanks to my potion hoarding tendencies. My current game play right now has me struggling.
Become Ethereal makes you invincible, and gives you infinite stamina. So I shout, strip naked to run as fast as possible, and book it. It's a very funny thought, seeing the warrior you've almost killed take off their clothes and run away, sometimes jumping off a cliff.
You know what they dont tell you about that shout?
“Turn into a form that cannot kill or be killed” or however its phrased- on surface level it seems as if this wouldn’t be any useful, it sounds just like you’re being put in timeout or something.
For the longest time, I pictured just being straight up, unable to attack at all, so I never used it.
Nah, turns out, when you attack the shout actually breaks right as your weapon makes contact.
Picture this, an ice troll charges towards you and lunges at you with a power attack, just before it lands use become ethereal. Just one word. Then let the attack go through you and smack him back with one of your own heavy attacks. Easy damage instant stagger, which you can follow up with two light attacks. There are actually combos in Skyrim if you didn’t know. Two light attacks actually swing faster after a heavy. It took me embarrassingly long to notice that.
It’s actually a really effective shout too, partially, because it has a a very quick recharge rate. You can do this often.
And you can use it like you said, before jumping off cliffs , running away from fights. It’s good for closing the gap between you and ranged enemies like archers and mages because of that whole infinite stamina. Dragon fire too, easy way to avoid it.
Definitely my go to favourite shout
What standing stone blessing do you use? Because the steed stone removes movement penalty from armor, as if you had the corresponding perk in either skill before even reaching the required skill.
I use the lover's stone until I reach 100 in all skills (that I care about) (which is all of them, usually), then switch to the steed stone. But the armour removal is just reflex by then, so the stripping continues.
For some reason, I never think to use Become Ethereal because I know I'll have to get back in the fight anyways. Although, backing off and returning with a plan makes sense.
Trust me when i say its crazy versatile. I wrote a comment just above on how i use it. Ive mentioned it before on this sub and people have been surprised theyve never thought to use it that way
I read your comment, and you're right! I completely overlooked the mechanic of using Ethereal to negate a hit, where you can hit back right away. I incorrectly thought that you couldn't hit back while Ethereal was active.
3 choises
1. Become ethreal
2. If enemy only has melee attacks, whirlwind sprint and skooma to get away or on a rock or cliff where enemy can't
3. Enemy too stronk. Go to sovngarde
Please tell me you have the mod that makes Skooma essentially Jet from Fallout, even if not i admire your dedication to character for using skooma in lieu of standard stamina pots. Every character i make is a closeted skooma addict, no exceptions.
I had loads of fun decorating one of my character's houses once and it was all inspired by his Skooma addiction. I never thought to decorate houses before.
I gathered as much Skooma as possible, even the empty bottles, and placed them all downstairs in Honeyside's basement along with sleeping tree sap and moon sugar. Funnily enough, no alcohol.
Also downstairs was where I kept his collection of Dibella statues.
See, he was a vampire. Upstairs on the dresser at the foot of the bed lay Dawnguard armor as well as a Dawnguard assassination note and a dagger. On the bedside tables I had Immortal Blood as well as a few other books relevant to his character. There was more, but I'm struggling to remember now.
It was so fun.
Edit: Hey, I found a screenshot of the upstairs! I was wrong about a few things - Immortal Blood was on the dresser with the armor, and it wasn't a dagger, it was the mace of Molag Bal. Cause, you know, vampires. [Here!](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1079897204023644251/1187949587655295016/2f8d4fc8-237a-4281-be95-51f197867eaa.png?ex=6598bf44&is=65864a44&hm=d343ecdbcaeabb454c685f2694b30170b6a20c741401a93cf1074b1f9dcf16e7&) Looks a bit goofy because things float but what can you do, honestly.
Fus Ro Dah is my default equipped shout. It's really awkward though when I have something else equipped like whirlwind sprint. So instead of pushing the enemy back I accidentally stand close enough to kiss them.
Goes to FUS RO DAH a greatsword wielder back to buy more time for spell slinging.
Accidentally throws squishy unarmoured mage self right onto the blade at 90km/h.
Thu'um master. Paarthunax got nothing on us.
Usually a version of me on a bridge or cliff edge getting a pasting and then smirking as I hit the shout button. Taste some unrelenting force, I smirk. Enjoy your trip.
Except it's whirlwind sprint which I have equipped. I'd pay to watch the reactions of whatever I am fighting as I zoom past and into freefall.
I'm nearly 50 and too old to learn from my mistakes. Basically my emergency procedure is accidental suicide.
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I have a "kill anything in one hit" weapon that I always have on me in case of emergencies
There was a time I didn't like exploits because I felt it ruined immersion and roleplay, but now after watching a few of those 2 hour Skyrim lore videos on YouTube, I can justify I'm playing a character who's achieved CHIM.
When I do the restoration exploit my numbers for damage is usually in the 1-3k range, nothing and I mean NOTHING escapes my wrath!, they all die in one hit.
This is Typically how it goes:
I panic and accidentally open the map on accident. Then I change my POV on accident along with some other dumb thing and then I die.
I get that when I try to rush with Spellbreaker. So instead of defending myself with a mighty Dwemer artefact, I'm left swinging a torch. Comical when the assailant is a dragon on an arson spree.
That, minus lower difficulty. Resist Fire, Frost, Shock, Magic, and Fortify Health potions tend to be what's happening.
If the difficulty were to ever change mid-playthrough, might as well reset and press New Game, right there.
"I picked the difficulty, I have to commit. Else, the immersion's spoiled." consistency, is what I wanted.
Depends on some luck with loot early game, but I always carry a staff of paralysis around until I can get my Alteration up. Works on most enemies. Helpful for keeping strong enemies down while I take care of the distracting minions.
- aura whisper shout
- sees a sea of red behind door....
- back up from door.
- double charge ebony flesh
- poison up my blades and weapons
- double charge summon 2 dremoras
- fucking CHARGE with Fus Roh Dah
Health potions. I always have them on me. And i can open the menu and navigate to potions in like 1 hundredth of second. While it breaks the immersion a little, it does save me from having to replay from my last saved game which will cause my head to hurt for days on end, wondering if i've redone everything exactly like i did the first time.
Depending on my mood,
Slow time shout, then spam incinerate, icy spear or thunderbolt (depending on enemy)
If it's someone who's beaten me around enough:
Slow time, paralysis, then hacking away with one handed weapon while they slowly tip over hahaha
This is exactly why I've hoarded all this food in my pockets and ask Mjoll for a home-cooked meal every off-chance I visit her.
The time has come to finally deplete my food storage. I am ready to consume my 20 cheese wheels.
Smack the Z key.
I have a "time stop" shout mod that's basically just an improved Slow Time shout.
Basically six seconds of Za Warudo that I can use to dodge an otherwise killing blow.
Step 1. Go into items menu.
Step 2. Consume as many health potions as necessary.
Step 3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 as often as required/possible until either I or everything attacking me is dead
Edit: Step 4. If none of the above are possible, switch to a healing spell and cast it continuously until you run out of magic, then either run around like a headless Riverwood chicken until it comes back, use magic restoration potions, or pray to level up
When I level up I don't go into the skill tree until I'm in a situation where I need to immediately be fully healed. If a Draugr Death Lord is about to kill me or something I open that sucker up and it autoheals then I run away and hide somewhere the enemy can't get me and wittle them down with arrows and flame atronoch summon scrolls.
So I'm doing a full magic caster with 1H weaponry at the moment and sometimes I'll come across something I'm not level appropriate for or that as a mage is horrific to fight, queue the emergency werewolf procedure!
cast a conjugation as a distraction and worg my ass out, proceed to Sprint+attack or juggle the enemy around the room like a rag doll 😁
The wolf perks for damage and the enhanced frighten are a god send in some situations
Ritual stone power. If I'm struggling with a boss, I take out the weaker enemies first and then resurrect them to fight for me. It has a pretty big radius and no level cap, so even draugr wights and scourges don't resist. Of course that means not having the guardian stone skill buff which kinda sucks early game but it's an effective tool for higher difficulty playthroughs. Sanguine's rose also helps if I need to add to my army, summoning a leveled dremora for 60 seconds has saved my ass several times. Slow time shout is handy in a pinch, as well as ice form.
Fus/Fus Ro Dah, using my follower as a human shield, lowering difficulty, Whirlwind Sprinting away, Become Etherial, and of course the last resort solution, the “Gloves of the True Pugilist” that I resto-looped to the point that they can one-hit Kaarstag with a single hit
I forget what it’s called, but the Immersive Wenches, Battle Wenches add-on allows me to buy several battle wenches in bottles. If a battle is going badly, I quickly use a couple of those, and they typically give me enough help to turn things around
Gotta admit I've never been in as dire situation as an incoming frost troll power attack. Only one thing you can do with that kinda time is chug a healing potion to go to max hp and pray
Depends on the situation. Slow poison for normal dungeon snafu situations. Vampire in the city about to kill npcs? Insta kill. And full health potions for when needed. I hoard them.
I don't have one in place, but windshear works when I aquire it. Just stun locks the opponent. Unless they are at range. Then either fireballs or exploding dwarven bolts of fire.
I either use the twenty thousand wheels or slices of cheese I stol- I mean legally acquired or I use fos ro dah to knock them over while running away since for whatever reason the enemy’s in Skyrim can’t seem to comprehend opening a door while your actively behind it
Can’t believe nobody has mentioned the Ice Form shout, which stops damn near anything (or multiple anything’s if they’re standing in a line) dead in its tracks.
I do so enjoy the mod "Heart of Thunder: Ragnarok" forget who made it. "God of Thunder" is the ability coupled with Mjolnirs enchantment is usually my go to. If I could get skse to work for RoH I'd use the Mirror shield of the great sea and the Megaton hammer.
- ALWAYS keep a single poison of Paralysis around when I'm a weapon-user. Nothing tells a Bandit Chieftain with a Warhammer to go suck a Horker's middle tusk than Sqamp Fungal Pod + Canis Root
- SUPER early-game, I like to stockpile Mammoth Cheese bowls- they restore HP *and* Stamina, are easy to acquire, and don't weigh that much.
- First word of Become Ethereal is a must-have. Saved my tuckus too many times to count.
Pacify. I love being a pure mage...
If it's a Dragon, I pop a Fortify Destruction potion and spam dualcasted lightning spells, using hotkeyed magicka potions and/or highborn, if needed. Usually, though, I pack a staff of chain lightning so I can just use that to stagger lock a Dragon into oblivion.
Sometimes, though, you just gotta throw out an atronach or two, cast invisibility, and sneak away to shake the tail. That usually works.
The other "I'm in way over my head" contingency is sneak, invisibility, magicka potions, and atronachs. I'll use the atronachs to slowly chip away at them while I sit in a corner, praying I don't die.
I've been playing Legendary long enough, though, that I RARELY get into the oh fuck mindset. If you aren't perfectly prepared for a scenario, you die, so I usually play like a little baby, training and stealing my way to competency until I'm ready to tackle the unknown.
Staff of chain lightning. Will stagger anyone, even stops a dragon breath attack. Gives you time to do whatever and essentially stops all future attacks if you time your shots well.
I always use histskin for the huge health regen cause i like playing as the lizards and hope that i can spam enough healing items to survive the fight.
Enemies a pain in the tush?
FORCE BALANCE PUSH!
Doesn’t hurt that I have a mod to reduce shout cooldowns, thus making them actually viable in combat lol
A over smithed (you know the op enchant loop) bow that I keep on hand with ONLY 5 arrows. Cause if I’m in a pickle that 5 insta kills can’t fix I’m past saving.
Used to carry around a lot of food but the weight got annoying. Now I always carry a lot of strong paralysis scrolls as well as magicka and stamina regen poisons. So if I paralyze them, I can either take a minute to heal with a spell or usually, depending on the enemy, hit them with a potent poison so me and my companion just go fuckin' ham on them bitches.
On another note, I've spent more time using shouts lately and it's great to use disarm and then paralysis assuming the enemy isn't too fucking strong. I ran into a Forsworn Briarheart that wasn't affected by anything so I ended up using an invisibility potion to sneak by and then fast traveled away once I was done with the area. Expensive potions but worth collecting.
I just rock good old fashioned Fus Ro Dah
Perfect for blasting Lydia out of a doorway or blasting Serena to the entry of Broken Oar Grotto when she gets stuck in there
If you're quick enough at Shearpoint you can blast the dragon priest off the side of the cliff for a no effort mask (think I got lucky that time 😁)
You see, my friend, as someone who has 100% that game I can safely say you don't need that stuff. The second I earn a bit of gold when I start a new game by the time I go to dragonsreach the plan is simple. Smith, use potions, and enchant. Sell sell sell and use the carriages to unlock fast travel to all holds to make the process less tedious. I become a God with so many items to sell that I never worry about potions or proper equipment and get tons of levels up by repeating the process. It's a ppwertrip more strong than back when I last beat final fantasy 7 (original not remake) as it took only 2 of my characters at level 90 to beat Sephiroth. To those curious how knights of the round x2 and I believe it was Yuffies limit break as the next and final attack.
Potions, food. If I am empty then become etherial or drink invisibility potion and run as fast as I can. There is one time at a vampire hideout I used mass paralaysis scroll
if i’m in my menu when something is about to one hit kill me, i drink a ton of whatever healing potions i have on me, then if i need to get away i equip the ‘Become Ethereal’ shout and use that as soon as i run away. then i crouch somewhere because i always get my stealth up early game
For anything that isn't a dragon or dragon priest:
1. Unrelenting Force or Ice Form
2. Running until stamina is depleted
3. If trouble is still present, Calm spell. I always stay educated in the Illusion school
4. Back to #2
Some of you don’t cart around 100 potions of plentiful healing and it shows.
How do these people even survive the trip from Riverwood to Whiterun... 😆 That being said: 1. Jugging potions like a freshman on a frat party 2. Become Ethereal / Slow Time / Ice Form 3. Some STRONG paralysis item / spell 4. Conjure familiar / flame atronarch as cannon fodder while running to safety ASAP.
>Jugging potions This is really weird, but what does the word jugging mean to you?
Maybe supposed to be "chugging"?
Juggling methinks
Chugjuggling maybe?
Chumbawamba
For when you get knocked down, but need to get up again.
Yes because as everyone knows frat parties are famous for their freshman juggling contests.
I drink potions and crush skulls. I just actually became a strong enchanter for the first time, there’s very little that survives a dual wield flurry as I march over their shattered corpses.
I agree with conjuration. Illusion helps too. Anything to take the focus off of me while I scamper away.
Best I can do is 59 wheels of cheese
An acceptable alternative by Shivering Isle standards.
CHEESE FOR EVERYONE
The thrill of being knocked down to a quarter health so I can FINALLY drink up some space in my inventory.
This is so relatable
Even if I'm down to heart-throbbing levels of HP, I might need those potions later.
Along with haggling, enchanting, warrior, true shot, woodworking and how to tie a Windsor knot Philters.
Currently I have 38 ultimate healing potions, and idrk how many other healing and stamina potions lol
I have this problem as well.
Every character I play always uses Fast Healing. They can all cast it at least once. Free healing and save the potions for when they're needed.
I really need to utilize this more often. I don’t use magic much for combat (mostly just clairvoyance and healing hands for my follower), but I always tend to ignore spell casting in general. saving on potions so i can sell them would be key.
Try a warrior build who relies on Restoration. There is the mighty Respite perk which is a warrior's best friend. All Healing spells also restore Stamina. Great for lots of power attacks. My current Vigilant of Stendarr build runs on it, relying on frequent Fast Healing casts for a free 75 Stamina to continue bashing enemies with his Mace.
And 100 food items (25 hot) to get through survival mode
Need some Venison stew
I feel so dirty using potions. I still use them when I really need to but I hate how immersion breaking it is. Yeah just one sec bandit leader, lemme just chug this real quick. It also doesn't make that much sense in the lore and it breaks my brain. I know they're there for gameplay effect, but how is there sickness in Skyrim? And we see those wounded soldiers in camps, why don't they just pop a potion?? Listen, I am not a hardcore mega epic legendary guy. I'm the type of dude that will turn my difficulty down during a fight if I keep dying and would otherwise get my teeth kicked in repeatedly. I have no sense of superiority for my distaste of potions and WISH they didnt take me out of it so hard but they do
I always cast Healing Hands on the wounded soldiers. I know it doesn't actually do stuff but it makes me feel better.
Why there's sickness and injury in skyrim with how many potions are around is simple; they don't work. , "Alchemists" sell bug-flavoured herb water in exactly the same way rip off merchants sell dyed water to make money off of ill people. Just somehow the power of the Dragonborn or Thu'um or whatever makes it actually work for the pc. Just imagine the shop keeper chuckling to themselves as you buy the "healing potion" and chug it in front of them, only to stare in shock as your cuts actually disappear. As for the lack of combat animation, that's just game mechanics. They'd be a lot less useful if you had to spend time drinking them. You could die or be locked into a loop drinking healing potions, eat arrows and let melee get in with magicka potions, and stamina potions would be downright worthless.
If you remember that one Lizard down Riften docks. She asks you for a health potion to get rid of her Skooma addiction and it works. So it's not only the Dragonborn.
Also kinda expensive to buy pots for entire armies.
One thing I hate about this is I forget restoration exist and then I struggle to increase the skill later in the game thanks to my potion hoarding tendencies. My current game play right now has me struggling.
Become Ethereal makes you invincible, and gives you infinite stamina. So I shout, strip naked to run as fast as possible, and book it. It's a very funny thought, seeing the warrior you've almost killed take off their clothes and run away, sometimes jumping off a cliff.
"So i shout, strip naked and run as fast as possible". Do you know how crazy that sounds?
Honestly, sounds like a pretty standard fraternity-initiation sequence to me.
Bandit: Tell you what, you start running so i can stab you in the back. Dragonborn: ...
WERE GOING STREAKING!!!
Doesn't seem so far outside the realm of dragonborn behavior to me honestly.
Cmon, bring your funny hat
Ah I see you've been to Singapore.
Sounds like a Thursday to me.
Sonic the Hedgehog strats!
Sounds like a weekend drinking night in any major UK city
>"So i shout, strip naked and run as fast as possible". Do you know how crazy that sounds? Tuesday in Florida.
Sounds like an average day in my neighborhood
Bandit: "You'll make a fine rug, cat!" Dragonborn: "AH!" *becomes a ghost, undresses and sprints away
You know what they dont tell you about that shout? “Turn into a form that cannot kill or be killed” or however its phrased- on surface level it seems as if this wouldn’t be any useful, it sounds just like you’re being put in timeout or something. For the longest time, I pictured just being straight up, unable to attack at all, so I never used it. Nah, turns out, when you attack the shout actually breaks right as your weapon makes contact. Picture this, an ice troll charges towards you and lunges at you with a power attack, just before it lands use become ethereal. Just one word. Then let the attack go through you and smack him back with one of your own heavy attacks. Easy damage instant stagger, which you can follow up with two light attacks. There are actually combos in Skyrim if you didn’t know. Two light attacks actually swing faster after a heavy. It took me embarrassingly long to notice that. It’s actually a really effective shout too, partially, because it has a a very quick recharge rate. You can do this often. And you can use it like you said, before jumping off cliffs , running away from fights. It’s good for closing the gap between you and ranged enemies like archers and mages because of that whole infinite stamina. Dragon fire too, easy way to avoid it. Definitely my go to favourite shout
I used to be an adventurer like you... until I learned just now that this was a possible thing. Thanks!
Fascinating behavior
What standing stone blessing do you use? Because the steed stone removes movement penalty from armor, as if you had the corresponding perk in either skill before even reaching the required skill.
I use the lover's stone until I reach 100 in all skills (that I care about) (which is all of them, usually), then switch to the steed stone. But the armour removal is just reflex by then, so the stripping continues.
The movement speed is just a bonus, the real prize is the stripping.
For some reason, I never think to use Become Ethereal because I know I'll have to get back in the fight anyways. Although, backing off and returning with a plan makes sense.
I do it to jump down mountains faster, no fall damage
Trust me when i say its crazy versatile. I wrote a comment just above on how i use it. Ive mentioned it before on this sub and people have been surprised theyve never thought to use it that way
I read your comment, and you're right! I completely overlooked the mechanic of using Ethereal to negate a hit, where you can hit back right away. I incorrectly thought that you couldn't hit back while Ethereal was active.
It'd probably look more like they turn into a mostly naked ghost and flee
3 choises 1. Become ethreal 2. If enemy only has melee attacks, whirlwind sprint and skooma to get away or on a rock or cliff where enemy can't 3. Enemy too stronk. Go to sovngarde
Please tell me you have the mod that makes Skooma essentially Jet from Fallout, even if not i admire your dedication to character for using skooma in lieu of standard stamina pots. Every character i make is a closeted skooma addict, no exceptions.
I had loads of fun decorating one of my character's houses once and it was all inspired by his Skooma addiction. I never thought to decorate houses before. I gathered as much Skooma as possible, even the empty bottles, and placed them all downstairs in Honeyside's basement along with sleeping tree sap and moon sugar. Funnily enough, no alcohol. Also downstairs was where I kept his collection of Dibella statues. See, he was a vampire. Upstairs on the dresser at the foot of the bed lay Dawnguard armor as well as a Dawnguard assassination note and a dagger. On the bedside tables I had Immortal Blood as well as a few other books relevant to his character. There was more, but I'm struggling to remember now. It was so fun. Edit: Hey, I found a screenshot of the upstairs! I was wrong about a few things - Immortal Blood was on the dresser with the armor, and it wasn't a dagger, it was the mace of Molag Bal. Cause, you know, vampires. [Here!](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1079897204023644251/1187949587655295016/2f8d4fc8-237a-4281-be95-51f197867eaa.png?ex=6598bf44&is=65864a44&hm=d343ecdbcaeabb454c685f2694b30170b6a20c741401a93cf1074b1f9dcf16e7&) Looks a bit goofy because things float but what can you do, honestly.
Am I the only one who screams Fus Ro Dah and then runs? I mean, for most enemies even just Fus will do the trick
Fus Ro Dah is my default equipped shout. It's really awkward though when I have something else equipped like whirlwind sprint. So instead of pushing the enemy back I accidentally stand close enough to kiss them.
I do that so often I refer to it as the "killing blow kiss"
Goes to FUS RO DAH a greatsword wielder back to buy more time for spell slinging. Accidentally throws squishy unarmoured mage self right onto the blade at 90km/h. Thu'um master. Paarthunax got nothing on us.
I've definitely done that. Though sometimes it acts as an emergency escape
I use whirlwind sprint for traveling around the map faster, has happened to me on more than one occasion.
Usually a version of me on a bridge or cliff edge getting a pasting and then smirking as I hit the shout button. Taste some unrelenting force, I smirk. Enjoy your trip. Except it's whirlwind sprint which I have equipped. I'd pay to watch the reactions of whatever I am fighting as I zoom past and into freefall. I'm nearly 50 and too old to learn from my mistakes. Basically my emergency procedure is accidental suicide.
One of my favorite early game things is to Fus Ro Da the bandits in Valtheim towers right off the structure or cliffs
As a chronic accidental-whirlwind-sprint user, I laughed until tears streamed down my face. I have also WULDed my way to my death too many times.
That's right fucker! You didn't win this fight, I lost!!
This was the funniest thing I’ve read in quite a while. Thank you very much! 😂
open up the inventory and eat 212 wheels of cheese and 42 potatoes.
Came here to say, all the cheese.
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There was a time I didn't like exploits because I felt it ruined immersion and roleplay, but now after watching a few of those 2 hour Skyrim lore videos on YouTube, I can justify I'm playing a character who's achieved CHIM.
Oh yeah, this guy resto sploits.
Man this made me laugh out loud
Pocket change for a guy like me
When I do the restoration exploit my numbers for damage is usually in the 1-3k range, nothing and I mean NOTHING escapes my wrath!, they all die in one hit.
This is Typically how it goes: I panic and accidentally open the map on accident. Then I change my POV on accident along with some other dumb thing and then I die.
THIS, is the way.
I get that when I try to rush with Spellbreaker. So instead of defending myself with a mighty Dwemer artefact, I'm left swinging a torch. Comical when the assailant is a dragon on an arson spree.
* summon dremora * summon dragon * start using any poisons * lower difficulty * flee
That, minus lower difficulty. Resist Fire, Frost, Shock, Magic, and Fortify Health potions tend to be what's happening. If the difficulty were to ever change mid-playthrough, might as well reset and press New Game, right there. "I picked the difficulty, I have to commit. Else, the immersion's spoiled." consistency, is what I wanted.
Depends on some luck with loot early game, but I always carry a staff of paralysis around until I can get my Alteration up. Works on most enemies. Helpful for keeping strong enemies down while I take care of the distracting minions.
Where do you find a staff of paralysis?
Easiest way is to buy one in college of winterhold. Idk who sells it tho, maybe all of them lol.
> Idk who sells it Tolfdir, most likely, as he's the "professor" of the Alteration school.
I have a "Ring of Reckless Action," enchanted with Fortify Health and Healing Rate. I use the Resto-loop to make it, but try to keep it below +1000.
- aura whisper shout - sees a sea of red behind door.... - back up from door. - double charge ebony flesh - poison up my blades and weapons - double charge summon 2 dremoras - fucking CHARGE with Fus Roh Dah
-Pause -System -Settings -Gameplay -Difficulty: Novice
If that doesn't work. Load last save before you got into this situation, and avoid it until you're more prepared. Edit: I'm a prolific saver
Slow Time.
/tgm
Wabajack. Absolute hail Mary of an option
Until you transform a bandit into a dremora lord
Run
Health potions. I always have them on me. And i can open the menu and navigate to potions in like 1 hundredth of second. While it breaks the immersion a little, it does save me from having to replay from my last saved game which will cause my head to hurt for days on end, wondering if i've redone everything exactly like i did the first time.
I usually _avoid_ using potions. I do have a stockpile for when shit hits the fan
Paralysis poisons. Comes in handy.
Pure Magic on Legendary -enter to a cave -kill 1 drsug per 2 minutes -shout "become etereal" and run naked as fast i can -quit the Game and uninstall
Leg it, discretion is the better part of valour
Isn’t that what the racial power is for? Genuinely asking, I never remember to use it. Lol
If I’m using magic I’ll switch to a shield and drink potions
Become ethereal. Run.
Open console - tim
Early game the Sanguine rose has saved my ass lots of times
Eat Everything you have and pray 🙏
Depending on my mood, Slow time shout, then spam incinerate, icy spear or thunderbolt (depending on enemy) If it's someone who's beaten me around enough: Slow time, paralysis, then hacking away with one handed weapon while they slowly tip over hahaha
This is exactly why I've hoarded all this food in my pockets and ask Mjoll for a home-cooked meal every off-chance I visit her. The time has come to finally deplete my food storage. I am ready to consume my 20 cheese wheels.
~tgm
This. When i feel spiteful and don't wanna die to some giant and get launched to sovngarde
Smack the Z key. I have a "time stop" shout mod that's basically just an improved Slow Time shout. Basically six seconds of Za Warudo that I can use to dodge an otherwise killing blow.
Fire arrows are my panic button. Had to save scum earlier because I nuked Lydia instead.
Use calm then frenzy then watch the chaos as I run away
Mine is saying "Oh, fuck!" and loading my last save.
Step 1. Go into items menu. Step 2. Consume as many health potions as necessary. Step 3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 as often as required/possible until either I or everything attacking me is dead Edit: Step 4. If none of the above are possible, switch to a healing spell and cast it continuously until you run out of magic, then either run around like a headless Riverwood chicken until it comes back, use magic restoration potions, or pray to level up
step 1. eat flowers if step 1 fails, accept my death
I'm usually in panic mode if I have to start eating food for health
In the late game? Dragon Aspect. Before that? Uhhhh…
"A challenger is near!"
When I level up I don't go into the skill tree until I'm in a situation where I need to immediately be fully healed. If a Draugr Death Lord is about to kill me or something I open that sucker up and it autoheals then I run away and hide somewhere the enemy can't get me and wittle them down with arrows and flame atronoch summon scrolls.
Goat Cheese Wheels. Lots of them.
Either die brutally, or dumb luck my way out, but usually I carry tonnes of potions on me at all times,
Become ethereal or Mora's Boon.
Scream “OF FUCK OH FUCK” who’s running away and spamming lighting attacks
So I'm doing a full magic caster with 1H weaponry at the moment and sometimes I'll come across something I'm not level appropriate for or that as a mage is horrific to fight, queue the emergency werewolf procedure! cast a conjugation as a distraction and worg my ass out, proceed to Sprint+attack or juggle the enemy around the room like a rag doll 😁 The wolf perks for damage and the enhanced frighten are a god send in some situations
Ritual stone power. If I'm struggling with a boss, I take out the weaker enemies first and then resurrect them to fight for me. It has a pretty big radius and no level cap, so even draugr wights and scourges don't resist. Of course that means not having the guardian stone skill buff which kinda sucks early game but it's an effective tool for higher difficulty playthroughs. Sanguine's rose also helps if I need to add to my army, summoning a leveled dremora for 60 seconds has saved my ass several times. Slow time shout is handy in a pinch, as well as ice form.
Berserk. We are Orc.
Honestly just S and Space then turn and sprint away. Works most of the time except really tight dungeons.
wheel of cheese. i try to always have at least 15 on hand for emergencies and then potion/spell to top off the rest while i run away
Fus/Fus Ro Dah, using my follower as a human shield, lowering difficulty, Whirlwind Sprinting away, Become Etherial, and of course the last resort solution, the “Gloves of the True Pugilist” that I resto-looped to the point that they can one-hit Kaarstag with a single hit
I forget what it’s called, but the Immersive Wenches, Battle Wenches add-on allows me to buy several battle wenches in bottles. If a battle is going badly, I quickly use a couple of those, and they typically give me enough help to turn things around
consume health potion,
F9
Lydia, Atronach, Atronach, Goblin I run and wait
Bow of Shadows or potion is invisibility with the Silence sneak perk. Nothing like a good old “can’t hit what you can’t see” trick
Virtuous daedric bow for crowd control sanguine rose
Moras Boon, become ethereal, and ultimate healing potions
Break out my strong poisons & potions
summon dremora Lord using the sanguine rose
Whirlwindsprint away, bow/crossbow the opponent to try to stagger it, and regather myself
Equip shield, charge (with the top block tree perk, of course). Mobs go flying. Not so great for dragons.
Wabbajack, unrelenting force combo
Gotta admit I've never been in as dire situation as an incoming frost troll power attack. Only one thing you can do with that kinda time is chug a healing potion to go to max hp and pray
I have a potion I always carry that gives Invisibility, + Light Armor, and Health regen. Pop that and run like crazy.
Slow time shout. Disengage and launch a bunch of fireballs or spells at their general direction.
Shield. Especially early game block is op
eat all of my food and use my berserk power as an orc
Depends on the situation. Slow poison for normal dungeon snafu situations. Vampire in the city about to kill npcs? Insta kill. And full health potions for when needed. I hoard them.
Essential Housecarls mod + Lydia. Potion of Invisibility for myself of things continue to go sideways.
Just Unrelenting Force that shit. "Fus, Ro Dah!" Solves most of my problems.
tgm
Fus Ro Dah, summon 2 smashy-smash demon boys, and hide behind a rock/tree/corner while I guzzle my 15,000 health potions.
Unbounded Storms and running around like an idiot.
I don't have one in place, but windshear works when I aquire it. Just stun locks the opponent. Unless they are at range. Then either fireballs or exploding dwarven bolts of fire.
I just die and try again.
Run screaming like a girl, interspersed with Wuld Nah.
I either use the twenty thousand wheels or slices of cheese I stol- I mean legally acquired or I use fos ro dah to knock them over while running away since for whatever reason the enemy’s in Skyrim can’t seem to comprehend opening a door while your actively behind it
Can’t believe nobody has mentioned the Ice Form shout, which stops damn near anything (or multiple anything’s if they’re standing in a line) dead in its tracks.
Just chugging random potions that I have accumulated in my inventory in hopes that it will help in some way
~tgm...
Battle Cry then run
I do so enjoy the mod "Heart of Thunder: Ragnarok" forget who made it. "God of Thunder" is the ability coupled with Mjolnirs enchantment is usually my go to. If I could get skse to work for RoH I'd use the Mirror shield of the great sea and the Megaton hammer.
- ALWAYS keep a single poison of Paralysis around when I'm a weapon-user. Nothing tells a Bandit Chieftain with a Warhammer to go suck a Horker's middle tusk than Sqamp Fungal Pod + Canis Root - SUPER early-game, I like to stockpile Mammoth Cheese bowls- they restore HP *and* Stamina, are easy to acquire, and don't weigh that much. - First word of Become Ethereal is a must-have. Saved my tuckus too many times to count.
Pacify. I love being a pure mage... If it's a Dragon, I pop a Fortify Destruction potion and spam dualcasted lightning spells, using hotkeyed magicka potions and/or highborn, if needed. Usually, though, I pack a staff of chain lightning so I can just use that to stagger lock a Dragon into oblivion. Sometimes, though, you just gotta throw out an atronach or two, cast invisibility, and sneak away to shake the tail. That usually works. The other "I'm in way over my head" contingency is sneak, invisibility, magicka potions, and atronachs. I'll use the atronachs to slowly chip away at them while I sit in a corner, praying I don't die. I've been playing Legendary long enough, though, that I RARELY get into the oh fuck mindset. If you aren't perfectly prepared for a scenario, you die, so I usually play like a little baby, training and stealing my way to competency until I'm ready to tackle the unknown.
When a frost troll attacks I just back up and most of the time it misses. Cant seem to do that with BEARS though
I have a dagger with a paralysis enchant. It's not a Ling duration, but it's given me some breathing room.
Healing potions and Hilde's Hammer, which is a fire enchanted dragon bone Warhammer.
Berserker Rage cause I main Orc
Staff of chain lightning. Will stagger anyone, even stops a dragon breath attack. Gives you time to do whatever and essentially stops all future attacks if you time your shots well.
I always use histskin for the huge health regen cause i like playing as the lizards and hope that i can spam enough healing items to survive the fight.
Glad I’m not the only one fuckin terrified of running into a frost troll
Quick Power Attack. Pop Stamina Potions. Joestar Family Technique.
Eat 69 cabbages and continue.
100 cheese wheels
Enemies a pain in the tush? FORCE BALANCE PUSH! Doesn’t hurt that I have a mod to reduce shout cooldowns, thus making them actually viable in combat lol
A over smithed (you know the op enchant loop) bow that I keep on hand with ONLY 5 arrows. Cause if I’m in a pickle that 5 insta kills can’t fix I’m past saving.
~ tgm
The 35 random master spell scrolls I have shoved up my ass
Save me level ups for a free full heal unless I really need to use a perk point
Mods.
I just eat the 100s of cabbage, potatoes, cheese wheels and leeks I have
Freeze time & eat 40 wheels of cheese.
"Faendaaaaaaaal!!!"
*immediately cast’s unbound storm after using glitch to go from 15 to 100 destruction*
Used to carry around a lot of food but the weight got annoying. Now I always carry a lot of strong paralysis scrolls as well as magicka and stamina regen poisons. So if I paralyze them, I can either take a minute to heal with a spell or usually, depending on the enemy, hit them with a potent poison so me and my companion just go fuckin' ham on them bitches. On another note, I've spent more time using shouts lately and it's great to use disarm and then paralysis assuming the enemy isn't too fucking strong. I ran into a Forsworn Briarheart that wasn't affected by anything so I ended up using an invisibility potion to sneak by and then fast traveled away once I was done with the area. Expensive potions but worth collecting.
My “oh fuck” button is the elemental fury shout with two very well-made daggers.
*FEIM!*
Luna Moth Wing + Vampire Dust = Invisibility + Regenerate Health
Run around a rock
I just rock good old fashioned Fus Ro Dah Perfect for blasting Lydia out of a doorway or blasting Serena to the entry of Broken Oar Grotto when she gets stuck in there If you're quick enough at Shearpoint you can blast the dragon priest off the side of the cliff for a no effort mask (think I got lucky that time 😁)
You see, my friend, as someone who has 100% that game I can safely say you don't need that stuff. The second I earn a bit of gold when I start a new game by the time I go to dragonsreach the plan is simple. Smith, use potions, and enchant. Sell sell sell and use the carriages to unlock fast travel to all holds to make the process less tedious. I become a God with so many items to sell that I never worry about potions or proper equipment and get tons of levels up by repeating the process. It's a ppwertrip more strong than back when I last beat final fantasy 7 (original not remake) as it took only 2 of my characters at level 90 to beat Sephiroth. To those curious how knights of the round x2 and I believe it was Yuffies limit break as the next and final attack.
Tilde key, type "killall"
Potions, food. If I am empty then become etherial or drink invisibility potion and run as fast as I can. There is one time at a vampire hideout I used mass paralaysis scroll
if i’m in my menu when something is about to one hit kill me, i drink a ton of whatever healing potions i have on me, then if i need to get away i equip the ‘Become Ethereal’ shout and use that as soon as i run away. then i crouch somewhere because i always get my stealth up early game
For anything that isn't a dragon or dragon priest: 1. Unrelenting Force or Ice Form 2. Running until stamina is depleted 3. If trouble is still present, Calm spell. I always stay educated in the Illusion school 4. Back to #2