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

She's from Mexico though. FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUU

My dreams are crushed again.

Not many grand souls in Skyrim even though they are plentiful in the stores.

Making the black soul azura star is the way to go because humans always have grand and there are a zillion bandits and forsworn.

Dragon Priests have grand but once again they might be humanoid thus black soul gem. Not sure on that.

About the only animal in the game with a Grand Soul are the Mammoths.

I'm beginning to think the expansion packs will unleash daedra on Skyrim. I just don't understand what happened to all the dremora and daedra. I guess my character from Oblivion really did a top notch job of cleansing the planet.

oh here you go, link to souls...

LINK

So what are the best gems to enchant with? Black or Grand?

At the end of the day it doesn't matter. This was another area of the game they made far too easy.

There are a zillion soul gems both filled and unfilled and they restock way too often.

I've been buying them since day 1 and I now have so many I keep about 75% of them in a chest to never see the light of day again.

In morrowind, you really needed to conserve and look around for them. Now you just need to hop to the magic store or general store and buy them out.

Once gold isn't a problem, you never need to actually harvest souls ever again.

I really wish I had a PC because the best mod is going to be one that limits resistances and removes the massive amount of gems to actually put some of the difficulty back into the game.

Since the Black Star is reusable it seems its biggest use is that I don't have to carry around or store the gems anymore.

Alright, I can't buy the house in Windhelm. It kinda pisses me off, but I've read around and I think it happens if you do the Stormcloak/Imperial quest before you buy the house. The steward keeps telling me "there's a house for sale, but it's unavailable now."

I also haven't been offered a housecarl in Riften, and I'm thane there.

One more thing, not a bug, but when I sided with the stormcloaks and finished, Ulfric and the other guy told me there's nothing else to do unless I see some imperials in the wilderness he said "you will know what to do." I figure that means kill them all. So I just found an imperial camp and killed everyone except for the leader. He won't die. Is there anything specifically else you can do for that part of the game?

Another thing, probably most of you know it, but if not this is so you will know:

I've found when mining that it's best to stop your character every time he picks up an ore. If you hit the mine and just let your character go, every three taps you should pick up something (9 taps total), BUT if you just let him go sometimes you won't get anything for your second one (sixth tap). I've found if you stop your character after every three taps you will definitely get the max amount of ore out of one vein. Sometimes you'll pick up two at once. So you can get up to 4 minerals out of a vein.

Where do you find the assistance quests? Are they just random ppl in the cities?

Just hit level 50 finally after abandoning a level 33 character, a level 31 character, and a level 47 character. Haven't even touched the main quest. I wish I had more perks. Wonder how slow leveling is actually going to be now.