re: Official The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Thread AKA Skyrim addicts anonymous

I think they mean the metal scraps you find.

Definitely stick to one side of the perk tree. I wish I had just done the heavy armor side. I wasted a pile of perks on things I won't ever touch again or won't touch for a long time.

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Which armor is better to smith, Dwarven or Elven?

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it was a conundrum for me

I am actually playing as a light armored sneak character but since I had all that dwemer metal to make Dwarven ingots I chose to go that route

i haven't found a plentiful supply of moonstone for Elven builds yet

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it was a conundrum for me

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Really shouldn't be a conundrum because you raise smithing so fast you will be beyond ever touching those again pretty quickly.

I just wish I hadn't used so many perks on both sides. Other than Daedric, I won't even smith anything again.

Just walked out of the apprentice mage quarters into the the main courtyard and an ANCIENT dragon was sitting there waiting for me.

It was last night so nobody was around to help.

I kicked his arse.

I think I'm going to move the difficulty to expert now. Ever since I got daedric weapons with lvl 100 enchants, I've been kicking everyone's arse.

Now that I can stick two enchantments on items, I need to rebuild a new set of daedric and daedric weapons but I am waiting a bit longer until I can make a real nice Fortify enchantment potion.

Then I will be a serious badass.

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probably true

I suppose it was just the first skill tree that I felt the need to develop both sides of

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I thought the same thing, but one Sunday of all day smithing had me at lvl 100 and I wasted a lot of perk points.

If your build uses light armor then best to go that way and if you use heavy, stick to that branch.

Leveling has slowed to a crawl for me now that I am 50 so I wish I had used my perk points a little better and I could really use those wasted smithing points.

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Ever since I got daedric weapons with lvl 100 enchants, I've been kicking everyone's arse.

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No shite

Just hit 81 alchemy, have been going from city to city just buying all ingredients. Just threw all of a shops ingredients from their shelves in front of the counter so I could crouch down and steal their shite since my character isn't exactly sneaky, haha.

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have been going from city to city just buying all ingredients.

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Where are you getting all the money? I am always finding myself low on gold

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Where are you getting all the money? I am always finding myself low on gold

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Early on gold is a problem but now, I don't really need it.

In Whiterun just make sure you sell things to ALL of the merchants.

Sell mage items and staffs to the court wizard.
Sell junk potions to the ALchemist

Sell weapons and armor to the general store, the armor shop and the arrow shop.

You do need to actually do some questing now and then. You don't have to do main quests, you can just ask the bartender for work.

As you level alchemy, the potions really do start to increase in price if you make the right ones. At this point I have more than I can sell without visiting a bunch of cities.