[brocken]

I'm playing a mish mash of roles. Heavy armor but points into dest. and resto. Also use archery a lot. Started out using one handers a lot but now I switch to two handers when I need melee.
I beat him pretty easily the other day. I went back out, got more arrows, picked up the fireball spell and hired the mage follower in Riften. I hadn't unlocked the mage followers in Winterhold yet.

The problem I can see with a follower all the time is that it slows your level progression. You're not using your weapons or spells as often.
But it was definitely nice on a tougher boss fight to have help.

I agree that the side quests have been more satisfying than the main quest so far (killing your first dragon is awesome though). I finished the Companions chain first and that was awesome. Definitely some 'wow' moments. The mage chain was pretty cool too.
I'm part way through the Thieves quest line... what other side quests are a blast?
I haven't even visited all of the cities yet.

[number335]

What happens if you decide to become a warewolf with the Companions? I decided to hold off on accepting that until I knew what that turned me into.

[skinrock]

Originally Posted by brocken

How many followers can you take with you at once? Just one?

I need some help on Morokei, he's kicking my butt.

Go to the Arch-Mage's quarters at the College and steal the boots that give you 40% resistance to shock. That will cut down his main point of attack immensely.

[jasonn]

Originally Posted by number335

What happens if you decide to become a warewolf with the Companions? I decided to hold off on accepting that until I knew what that turned me into.

click HERE for Pros and Cons

Beast Blood
Becoming a Werewolf bestows the Beast Blood ability, which grants a 100% resistance to all diseases in both human and beast forms, but does not allow you to acquire resting bonuses.


Beast Form
As a Werewolf, you get the power Beast Form. This lets you transform into a werewolf once per day. Once transformed, you are in your beast form for 180 seconds. You can stay in beast form longer by feeding on humanoid corpses. This gives you 50 points of health and another 30 seconds of beast form.

Advantages while in Beast Form:

• Max health increases by 100.
• Max stamina increases by 100.
• Faster sprint (even faster than horses).
• Wolves don't attack you.
• Crimes committed as a werewolf don't give you bounty.
• Can let out a loud roar with the Shout/Power key to cause all enemies nearby to run in fear for 60 seconds. There are two other roars, which you will have to unlock.
• Can perform a leaping power attack that insta-kills most opponents. To do this, perform a power attack while sprinting towards the target, in Beast Form. Be careful though, your aim must be good to hit the target and you do travel a small distance past them, possibly into hazards such as traps and dangerous falls.
• Can occasionally pick up (by the neck) and throw humanoid enemies great distances, as well as biting off their heads, both for an instant kill.

Disadvantages of Beast Form:

• Can't switch out of third person view.
• Can't loot the corpses of anything you kill.
• Can only regain health when you consume corpses.
• Can't pick up items.
• Can't use Weapons, Spells, Items, Equipment, Shouts, or Powers.
• May have trouble fitting through doorways.
• Can't speak with anyone.
• Almost everyone becomes hostile (Some other werewolves will sometimes not object to you changing in front of them).
• If someone sees you transform there's a 1000 gold fine.
• Can't use the character menu at all.
• Can't sneak.
• If you have the Beast Form ability, you are not eligible for being "rested" or "well rested".

[number335]

Originally Posted by jasonn

click HERE for Pros and Cons

Thanks for the info. So it sounds like if I become a werewolf, I can choose to change form when I want to. So I won't experience any of it's cons as long as I don't change form.

[jasonn]

Originally Posted by number335

Thanks for the info. So it sounds like if I become a werewolf, I can choose to change form when I want to. So I won't experience any of it's cons as long as I don't change form.

Yeah and it's totally not a big deal either. There was a dungeon and I changed to werewolf. Killed everyone, then just waited to become human again. Then looted.

[UltimateBMW]

There is also a cure for the beast blood.

Easy way to get 1500g per day without hex-editing, after you complete the companion's quest line you can pickpocket the sky forge smith, Eurland, for 1500g per day. He may catch you, but you'll never get into trouble. At least I don't. Easy money.

[Nexus_One]

It's also a hell of a lot better than becoming a vampire. In Oblivion being a vampire was great because you could control how far along you were in the progression of the disease, so if you needed extra strength for looting or fighting a bigger battle you could sleep and let the disease progress. In Skyrim though the disease progresses on its own, regardless of whether or not you sleep. Once you get to be a full fledged vampire you're pretty much f@#$ed as no one, not even the one guy who can cure you will help you. They'll just all try to kill you instead, and your stamina and health and magic will all reduce greatly during the day.

Werewolf doesn't seem to really have any downsides that I've encountered yet, plus its fun to just go on a random rampage and not get in trouble for it.

[UltimateBMW]

Originally Posted by Nexus_One

It's also a hell of a lot better than becoming a vampire. In Oblivion being a vampire was great because you could control how far along you were in the progression of the disease, so if you needed extra strength for looting or fighting a bigger battle you could sleep and let the disease progress. In Skyrim though the disease progresses on its own, regardless of whether or not you sleep. Once you get to be a full fledged vampire you're pretty much f@#$ed as no one, not even the one guy who can cure you will help you. They'll just all try to kill you instead, and your stamina and health and magic will all reduce greatly during the day.

When you feed, I believe it will still reset the 4 day progression.

[Syndicategt]

This game is sorta pissing me off at high levels. I'm having an issue with money! Vendors just do not carry enough of it! It's like they don't scale with the items in the game. I'm not complaining, I have earned (legitly) over 100K gold, but I find myself stashing items or having to travel all over the world selling stuff. Anyways, just a rant....oh and I hit level 40 and still have not done the "Elder Scroll" part of the main quest.

[MidwestGolfBum]

Originally Posted by Syndicategt

This game is sorta pissing me off at high levels. I'm having an issue with money! Vendors just do not carry enough of it! It's like they don't scale with the items in the game. I'm not complaining, I have earned (legitly) over 100K gold, but I find myself stashing items or having to travel all over the world selling stuff. Anyways, just a rant....oh and I hit level 40 and still have not done the "Elder Scroll" part of the main quest.

I have actually been having the same issue! This, though minor in the long run, really bothers me. Vendors in many other games actually have an "unlimited" supply of gold, and that makes things near the end game, much, much easier to live with.

[brocken]

Yeah, most vendors have 1k or less. REALLY frustrating when I've just gathered a ton of items.
I'll usually wait until I need to buy a bunch of stuff from that vendor and then sell back other stuff.
Otherwise, I end up stashing a lot and disenchanting items.

Being a werewolf is pretty awesome. i haven't seen a downside other than no sleep bonus and you can only change once a day. I used it a lot early on but not as often now.

I haven't done much on the main quest either. Keep getting sidetracked with other fun quests. Done a few of the daedric lords quest. Kinda cool they worked those in. Gets you some nifty items too.

[Syndicategt]

Originally Posted by brocken

Yeah, most vendors have 1k or less. REALLY frustrating when I've just gathered a ton of items.
I'll usually wait until I need to buy a bunch of stuff from that vendor and then sell back other stuff.
Otherwise, I end up stashing a lot and disenchanting items.

Being a werewolf is pretty awesome. i haven't seen a downside other than no sleep bonus and you can only change once a day. I used it a lot early on but not as often now.

I haven't done much on the main quest either. Keep getting sidetracked with other fun quests. Done a few of the daedric lords quest. Kinda cool they worked those in. Gets you some nifty items too.

I've only found 2 or 3 of the Daedric lord quests....the one with the lost dog was pretty funny. I guess I should search around to find more.

I wasn't a fan of the werewolf, my enchanted daedric swords can do way more damage than the wolf ever could and I can drink potions/cast spells etc. Luckily you can get rid of it if you wish. I'm playing a "good guy" on this playthough so the stealing and killing in towns doesn't interest me.

I've been running around and finding all the new words to learn. I'm getting sick of killing dragons, never thought I'd say that. They should be more difficult and less of them to battle. Even on the hard difficuly I can whack them down in like 30 seconds, hardest part is waiting on those buggers to land!

[Templar]

Personally I think the Dark Brotherhood quest line is better than the main quest.

Nothing like public assassinations of royalty

[jasonn]

Originally Posted by Syndicategt

...hardest part is waiting on those buggers to land!

Yah same! Then I played the main quest and learned a shout to make them land. So many wasted minutes!

[Syndicategt]

Well I tried a War Dog companion today that was a waste of 500g. Either my AOE or sword shlash killed it off immediately. I wish there was an option for the companion to sit back and watch then follow....they awlays die. Better yet, I need a armored mule to carry the items I find which is the only thing companions are good for.

[UltimateBMW]

Originally Posted by Syndicategt

Well I tried a War Dog companion today that was a waste of 500g. Either my AOE or sword shlash killed it off immediately. I wish there was an option for the companion to sit back and watch then follow....they awlays die. Better yet, I need a armored mule to carry the items I find which is the only thing companions are good for.

Give them a bow to use.

Archer war dog. Brilliant.

[Augenbrauezug]

Just got this game a few days ago and I love it. I've strayed far from the main quest and there is plenty to do that doesn't feel like filler. Dual wielding spells is neat too.

[Templar]

Originally Posted by Augenbrauezug

Just got this game a few days ago and I love it. I've strayed far from the main quest and there is plenty to do that doesn't feel like filler. Dual wielding spells is neat too.

Definitely!

I've avoided most of the main quest on this other player I started, after finishing the main quest on another character I noticed it was kind of lacking.

[Tranic335i]

[Tranic335i]

Nearly fell out of my chair on the second trick shot

[Augenbrauezug]

WHere do you get glass arrows, or making them flaming?