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Oblivion is crappy, it probably was it.

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Why is Oblivion bad? Isn't Patrick Stewart in it?

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Why is Oblivion bad? Isn't Patrick Stewart in it?

Very briefly, I think. Very briefly.

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Because of level scaling.

Basically EVERYTHING scales with you, enemies, quest rewards, loot, everything.

So if you go in a dungeon at level 1 you'll only find loot around that level, weak-ass enemies, etc.

If you go in the same dungeon at level 30 you'll find loot suitable for a level 30 and enemies around that level.

Basically, no surprises.

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Why is Oblivion bad? Isn't Patrick Stewart in it?

Very briefly, I think. Very briefly.

He has like 20 lines.

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Is Skyrim good? I've only played like one hour of it.

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Better than Oblivion, a tad less scaling but ultimately it's really similar.

At least combat is better (though TES combat is still mediocre) and dragon encounters are pretty interesting.

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Thanks.

Is there any way to get a third person perspective of my character? I'd like to see her as the world sees her.

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Tab.

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yep, Tab Key. You may as well look at all the controls in the options menu in case there are other commands you didn't know about.

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Did a few more Vivec quests, nothing to talk about. Got a new quest from the fighter's guild, they told me to find an Argonian, I think he's in another city, but I couldn't find it on the map. Here I am right now.


I wissh I could easily raise willpower, even basic restoration spells fail a lot for me.

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Ah, yeah, that quest. The Mages Guild can transport you to that city. But before you complete that quest... pay a visit to the Fighter's Guild leader in that city, and talk to him about it.

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Skill level has a much bigger effect on success rate than willpower.

If you'd like you can go in one of the mageguild and have a spellmaker make spells you can cast with a good success rate.

Something like, Heal 5-10 on self, good to use out of combat, low mana cost and 100% success rate, will raise your Restoration level pretty fast too.

Oh and if you join the mage guild you can empty the Mage Guild's Supply Chest, contains restore magicka potions.

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Skill level has a much bigger effect on success rate than willpower.

If you'd like you can go in one of the mageguild and have a spellmaker make spells you can cast with a good success rate.

Something like, Heal 5-10 on self, good to use out of combat, low mana cost and 100% success rate, will raise your Restoration level pretty fast too.

Oh and if you join the mage guild you can empty the Mage Guild's Supply Chest, contains restore magicka potions.

I was unaware using potions raises your skills. But the spellmaking interests me, I've ignored it so far.

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Nah using potions don't raise skills, but as an imperial you'll run out of magicka fast!

Eating alchemical regeants increase alchemy though!

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Well, spellmaking allows you to make pretty much any kind of spell, so long as you know that spell effect. You know that spell effect if it's in one of your spells in your spellbook, or one of your Greater/Lesser Powers.

I'm more interested to know how you're going to handle that quest once you have all the information, actually. Heck, the Fighter's Guild questline in it's entirety.

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pfft, Spellmaking. Enchanting all the way.

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Oh, that reminds me of this Dragoon Jump spell I made. Fortifies Acrobatic and Jump by 100, IIRC. Maybe Athletics too, I forget.

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Sometimes, all the transports and teleportations just aren't enough.

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The world record speedrun uses the Scrolls of Icarian Flight to jump straight to the end of the game.

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Oh, I think remember watching that.

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Is there any way to move the camera around in third person mode so I can get a frontal view of my character?

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Okay, I have a few questions. First: can you dual wield in this game? Second: which of these should I use?
Steel Dai-Katana
Chop: 1-27
Slash: 1-23
Thrust: 1-14
20 pounds

Iron Sparkslayer
Chop: 1-25
Slash: 1-21
Thrust: 1-14
27 pounds
Casts When Strikes
Shock Damage 1-4 points
Charge 10/10

Does that mean its shock damage only works ten times? How do you recharge it?

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1. No.

2. Go for enchanted, though you may want to keep the steel one to enchant later. Then again, you'll most likely find better material stuff. Anyway, yes, after ten strikes, the weapon no longer deals additional shock damage. It will still harm ghosts and it's like though. To recharge. Visit your local enchanter where he will recharge it for a price... or use a filled Soul Gem to charge it yourself.

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Or, if there's no hurry, you can just wait. If memory serves, unlike the other games, enchanted items slowly regenerate charge in Morrowind.

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It does? O_o

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Yup, in Morrowind enchantements recharge over time, and it's pretty fast too!

Oh and to rotate the camera in third person just hold tab and play with the mouse.

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And if that doesn't work, just press nothing for a minute or two and the camera will automatically go into third person and slowly rotate around you

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Oh God oh God oh God

I loaded up Morrowind to play for a bit, and finished exploring Vivev (finally, though I haven't done any sewer trudging yet), but I realized I somehow lost both the package for Caius Cosades, the main quest, and a medium armor worth 5000 gold. I don't know what happened to them.

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XD

Seriously though, that is a BIG problem. You need the package.

Load up a previous save and see when exactly you lost it.

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You probably sold it to a merchant, if you can't reload a previous game just check out every merchant that buys paper (bookstores, general stores) you dealt with for it.

Usually they don't get rid of what you sell them.

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I've talked to every single damn merchant in the entire city, and I've made multiple dumps in various containers of things I didn't feel like carrying, it could literally be in any district, and my last save I can reload to where I had it is like five hours of gameplay ago.

Argh this is super annoying, I don't suppose I can go back to Seyda Neyn or whatever it's called and get a new package?

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No. Just the one.

Luckily, PC players have a fix. CONSOLE! From the wiki:

If lost, the package is irretrievable in the XBox version; you will not be able to continue on in the main quest. The package can, however, be restored to your inventory in the PC version by opening the console and typing:
Player-> additem "bk_a1_1_caiuspackage"1.

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You should probably pick a single location to drop stuff off that you don't want to carry so these kinds of things don't happen again. Just do Caius's house or something like that since you'll go there pretty often.

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Well that's a relief.

I'm going to try checking a few merchants in Vivev I think I might have sold the package to, but I have no idea of what happened to my 5000 gold armor. I know I didn't sell it because I couldn't even find a merchant with more than 2000 gold to spend.

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Was it stolen? Were you ever caught by a guard?

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I was caught by a guard once, but I dumped everything I owned on the ground first so that he wouldn't touch any of my stolen property. The guard wouldn't have taken the package, though, so I don't know.

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Could be that you forgot to pick everything up.

Ahh well, live and learn.

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Very rarely when you drop things on the ground they'll kind of clip through the ground and be barely sticking out of the floor (or even not at all). It might have slipped through somewhere

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Still can't find the merchant I might have sold the package to.

Also, an invisible man asked me to talk to a wizard for him. Wizard told me it's 400 gold to remove the spell, I paid it, expecting a reward from the guy. Got nothing. Ah well.

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Think I'll go to Ebonheart next, since it's nearby. I have no idea where silk striders are, the only one I've ever seen was in Seyda Nein or whatever it was called.

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The one in Vivec's outside the city, close to the only exit, by the Foreign Quarter bridge.

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Still can't find the merchant I might have sold the package to.

Also, an invisible man asked me to talk to a wizard for him. Wizard told me it's 400 gold to remove the spell, I paid it, expecting a reward from the guy. Got nothing. Ah well.

talk to his dad in the store right next to the invisible guy

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A hare like me had no chance against Black Turtle.

Accepted a quest to deliver an apology to a mage, did not realize the quest was to deliver an apology in the form of a book, sold the book without knowing, am not even going to try to figure out which of the eight thousand book vendors I sold it to. Also accepted a quest to find a serial killer, have not begun it yet. Reached level 9, made a spell to train my restoration skill, works perfectly but is really boring to use.

I've given up trying to find the package for the guy. I have no idea what happened to it. Also: is there a maximum level in this game?

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Still messing around in Vivec eh.

Not sure if there's a hard cap for levels... But once your minor and major skills are all 100, you can't level up anymore. Which also means if your stats aren't maxed out, you're out of luck.

Though I think if you serve your time in jail, you randomly get a skill reduced, so there's that.

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Actually there are still ways to level up after maxing out all skills. What you do is fortify a Major/Minor skill above 100 and then go to the Master trainer for that skill. He'll train it, but the skill won't increase. If it's a major or minor skill, though, it will still count toward a level-up.

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I doubt it'll matter. I already have 79 strength, that sounds like enough for anything and I'm only going to increase it. Really, I need to pump up my crappy sub-40 agility, which is making melee attacks a pain.

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Yeah, low agility is a real pain.

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