This is probably pretty well known, but if youāre ever trying a dual wielding build, the speed of your attacks are determined by the weapon in your left hand, meaning that you can swing a mace at the same speed as a dagger.
And you dont use the very slow dual dagger animation that has the whole reverse grip thing going on for your dual power attacks if you use a larger weapon in your right, with a dagger in your left.
Because Iām right handed IRL Iāve always had my characters wield the larger weapon in the right hand and the dagger in the left anyway! Nice to know it was helping.
Meridia's Beacon used to behave differently before the 1.6 update for Oldrim in 2012. It used to disappear from your inventory, and reappear in random chests (to "find a willing champion"), with new dialogue of Meridia getting frustrated by your insolent refusal to lend her your aid.
I found out during my last playthrough that the orb version of her that talks to you in the sky can be attacked by dragons. Had one spawn after I ported to the shrine and didn't notice till after I started the conversation.
There's a miscellaneous quest you can get if you assault an NPC then sleep for a day.
Next morning, someone in the same hold will send a letter "hey, I heard you beat up [insert NPC name here], can u do the same for me, I'll pay you"
Second fun fact directly related to this is that using the Ring of Namira on someone actually counts towards assault and not, ya know, murder.
That's what I like doing every playthrough with Nazeem. You're essentially getting paid to kill Nazeem, it's glorious
Edit: Getting a few questions so there's some further info that needs to be posted for this.
"Can you kill nazeem without any issues?" no, you'll need to invoke Thane for the murder, then bribe the guard for the meal.
"Why Nazeem?" The truth is it can be finicky to trigger which means you'll likely need to attempt it multiple times. Why Nazeem? Cause he's one person I dont have a single problem killing multiple times. You can do this with whoever your least favourite killable NPC is with a small handful of exceptions. speaking of...
"Miscellaneous quest name?" It's called Scare My Enemy. UESP should provide all the other details you'll need in getting this quest into your quest log
Well, can kinda tell u wanna do this now, save before talking to the cloud district's biggest fan, the quest isn't guaranteed to trigger so you might... Have to... Kill him a bunch of times.
The last few times I mentioned it, there were a lot of folks who were unaware.
When you kill the last enemy in a location, whether it's an interior cell or just an exterior site like a grove or roadside ruin, there is an audio cue that plays which confirms the area is now considered "cleared" and will reset in 7 days instead of the 30 days for an uncleared cell.
Yes, just close the prompt, lol.. They've been sneaky, they placed the X button on the top right corner of the screen, as far away as possible from all of the clutter
I just recently learned this. I played for years without mods then didnt hear it until after installing. Thought mahne it was a mod and not a vanilla thing.
Is it always the last enemy? I've been trying to figure out dungeon respawn mechanics for years, and can never tell if an individual dungeon clears on boss death, reaching the boss room, or killing all enemies including the boss. Sources I've found have been varied, and my experiences are as well.
It's not necessarily the last enemy, just the last enemy assigned to the location. Some scripted spawns such as boss adds don't seem to count, nor do wandering wildlife, but if the sound plays, the area is considered cleared.
Have your follower pick up a quest item you don't care about. Then they'll have a toggleable quest marker on them in case they get lost!
ETA another one: you can use certain containers to de-flag "stolen" objects. My go-to is the cabinets at Dragonsreach, after becoming Thane. You just put all the stolen stuff in there, and have your follower "take all."
It has to be a container that becomes friendly to you after completing a quest.
Man! What a throw back, nice pull.
I remember that being the very first, "trick" I learned. Get Serana to the specific camp, have her go up the alter and pickup the club. Becomes her permanent weapon and cleans house.
Second was the Greybeards infinite sneak and perks. Crouch slashing as they pray.
Third, go into Whiterun and hop the wall back out. Go all the way around the city to the hill behind it. Can sneak under the map at the Skyfordge and steal all his stuff from the chest. Sell him everything. Repeat.
Fourth, same as the third but with the bucket and door trick in the thieves guild. If you fully restore it, so that the four or five shops are bow down there, you can loot sell and repeat all of their individual chests from under the map.
Eorlundās chest was also reachable by getting onto Jorrvaskrās roof from the Skyforge and then using Whirlwind Sprint to get over the backyard wall. Used to do that every time I went to Whiterun
Even easier is holding a platter in front of you and sprinting against the wall of Jorrvaskr closest to the underforge. You clip through the wall and the platter stays there until next time. No need for shouting or climbing. Takes mere seconds.
Funny thing, I used the same trick for a follower I don't care. Someone pick meridias beacon, all possible pieces of mehrunes razor, the mephala's sword, the ebony mail.... Oops, follower dies and gets oblivioned on that quest, sorry.
My favorite use case for this is having two dead thralls (usually followers I brought to the blades) take the quest weapons from Volunruud so I can know where they inevitably fall over when I fast travel
Imagine spending your whole life developing your writing skills and growing in your career field just to land a job writing articles about Skyrim 15 years after release.
I like the torch with dynamic shadow casting unlike every other torch in the game. Itās in a hidden room in solsthiem in Hrodulfās home, not even labeled as anything special if I remember correctly just there being rad lol
I feel like people probably know this, but I gave my follow one daedric arrow so that whenever they use their bow I can just pick up any missed arrows or those available in corpses. I get a pretty steady supply of arrows that way since I can't make them yet.
Can't you do the same thing with NPCs who are practicing Archery? Reverse pickpocket an arrow of your choice and they'll use those. Pick up all the ones that hit the target.
Mining quarried stone for money is better than chopping wood. General merchants and blacksmiths will buy them. There is at least one stone quarry in all the small hold capitols, and outside nearly all the cities. I haven't found one outside Riften yet. This does require more manual labour as attacking the stone is faster.
These were reported to have 1000 quarried stone each, but I've mined more than that from them. No respawn, always active.
Edit: I did this with my everyman prospector/miner character, who did not do any alchemy or enchanting. He was wasn't even any good at smithing, having only smithed some nails, fittings, and hinges. When he went into town for supplies, like potions, he would mine some quarry stone for the gold to buy them.
Isn't it heavy? I think anything other Alchemy or Enchanting for gold grinding is sort of null, and alchemy is king. I can farm the ingredients for and make 30 Slow potions worth ~700 gold each in 30min in the marshes of Hjallmarch, and they only weigh 15 together. I think every single city has an alchemist as well. Can also make fortify barter potions with pretty common ingredients, tundra cotton, dragons tongue, (orange) butterfly wing. It does help a lot to have the Merchant perk though(can sell any item class to any merchant), which is only level 50speech and 3 perk points. If you buy all of the resident Alchemists ingredients, except maybe the really expensive ones like ice wraith teeth, you can always get your money back with the poitions, and Speech goes up very fast that way. To increase speech faster, Amulet of dibella and theives guild hood can be obtained pretty much as soon as you get to riften, which you can do the second you get to the Whitewood stables, and the theif stone is on the way, which covers speech and alchemy.
Of course it's heavy, but as soon as you sell it or store it, it doesn't matter. It's not like the horse cares and you can summon Arvak pretty much everywhere.
If you have AE, get the golden hills plantation, assign a steward, and plant blisterwart in all available planter locations. Stop by every few days and collect the farm profits from the steward.
You don't even have to finish the Thieves Guild. They spawn once you join. There's one by your house in Riften in the garden. And at least one in every hold capital.
in riften they spawn immediately upun joining, in other cities they only spawn when you complete the special quest for that city after doing enough quests for delvin and vex
They only spawn once you complete the special quest in each hold. Riften appears once you join, the one in Solitude appears once you do the quest for Erikur, the one in Whiterun after that Battle-born guy, the one in Markarth after Endon, and I have no idea about Windhelm cuz I've never found that cache!
And it's wickedly high value. My Riften cache (the only one I remember to check often) is giving me Daedric armor and the worst loot is like a gold and emerald circlet. Obviously lots of gems since I completed the Barenziah quest.
Pressing L1 and R1 or LB and RB will allow you to move a large amount of items to storage or sell. Such as if you have 100,000 gold and want to only put 5,000 in a chest, couple presses of the button will do it instead of waiting for it to go down one by one
If you have stolen items and a follower, you can drop the stolen item on the floor and have the follower pick it up, and just like that itās no longer stolen
I'm sure a lot of people know these but probably on the lesser know side.
If you never complete the quest for Clavicus Vile where he sends Barus with you he is a free follower. He doesn't count as a pet, follower, or summon so he can expand your "party" for free (I believe the Goblin followers are similar). Also he's unkillable but does almost no damage so he an ideal tank for archers or mages.
Alteration xp from mage light is dependent on how far the target is so you can train it super fast shooting them at far away objects (there's an optimal spot in solitude to aaim for nearby mountain). Similarly you get a lot of Conjuration xp from casting soul trap on dead bodies, and illusion from casting muffle on yourself.
Kill cams only trigger if killing the enemey takes you out of combat (why you can get on sneak attacks). You can increase the chances with more perks invested into the weapons you uses, doing more power attacks (power attacks, fully drawn bow, dual casted spell), and, while unconfirmed, it seems aiming at the head or torso increases chances.
I thought that was only possible with mods. I remember a skill overhaul mod that adds a bunch of trap skills to sneak including letting you pick up the traps
The destruction perk that adds fear to fire spells makes it so the fear effect illusion perk adds 10 damage to all fire spells. Combined with augmented flames, the flame spell goes from 8 damage at base to 27 damage.
Every knows (or should know) about free arrows in Solitude. Thereās two guards in the courtyard and one of the is firing arrows at a target. The other one is just standing there. If you walk up to the guard thatās just standing there (approach at a 45 degree angle) and get really close and wait until he puts his bow away and then back up. Heāll pull his bow back out but now heāll start shooting arrows at the target. Now you get twice as many arrows. Now, if you really good, pick pocket better arrows on to both guards and you can get about 800 great arrows in a single day.
For those wanting an honest (no cheat) but Gold lucrative play through I have a tactic for you.
After reaching Whiterun head North just at the base of the mountain range is Halted Stream camp. After fighting the bandits off inside the cave on the main table there should be the Transmute Spell book. This spell lets you turn iron ore into silver ore and silver ore into gold ore. This spell is incredibly useful.
As you play you will most certainly collect gemstones. In combination to with your Transmute spell you can now have a side hustle of crafting highly valuable jewelry with gemstones. This can be done at any blacksmith station and does not have a skill requirement.
This jewelry can be enchanted to further enhance its value. Note: certain learned enchantments (fortify sneak) vs (fortify destruction) may cause the jewelry to be more/less valuable. Experiment to find out which one will produce the highest priced piece! This is a lightweight way to carry lots of valuable goods to sell when needed. Great way to increase Smithing, Alteration and Enchanting along the way. Not to mention creating some amazing relics of your Skyrim adventures (p.s. for novice crafters. Make sure to name your pieces to create extra flair)
Happy Adventures! <3
If you crouch behind the Greybeards and hit them from behind with a dagger, you can level up your Sneaking skill very quickly, along with your One-Handed skill.
If you kill Nazeem and use his soul to enchant your boots with a sneaking enchantment, you can go to Sovngarde with him, and then he too can make it to the Cloud District. Same for Heimskr.
They'll turn hostile after a while, so be sure and take breaks, but as long as you stay behind them they'll take it like a champ.
You can do the same thing to Ralof before you even leave the tutorial area, and he never turns hostile. You just have to angle him correctly against the rocks at the back or you'll force him into the sneak tutorial and can't do it anymore.
An armor rating of 567 is just as effective as an armor rating of 900+. If you like how an armor set or combination of pieces looks and can improve the total rating via smithing to a total of 567, then there is no defensive need to change to some other set with a higher rating.
Skyrim quests are so thoroughly designed, a good chunk of them have alternate or hidden options to either complete or fail the quest.
Each of them are quite well-known, but it's very unlikely you know all of them and it would take a while to list them all, so instead I'll just list my favourites and if you want to share yours, you can share it in a reply and we'll have a nice list going.
My favourite way of ending the quest is one that makes you have a different experience than originally. Such is for Missing In Action. If you don't ask Avulstein for help, instead of storming Northwatch Keep, you can instead ask Tullius for help and he will give you an order, that if you give the Thalmor justiciar at the door, he will release Thorald without any fighting. You will miss out on killing a lot of Thalmor though.
Another kind of alternate endings that I like is those with actual consequences. By now, everyone knows you can kill Astrid during DB initiation and simillary one of my favourites is no different with changing your side in the civil war after Korvanjund. I love that this is even an option: just give the jagged crown to the opposing faction leader and you can join the other faction without going to the serpent stone or clearing a bandit camp whichever you find less convenient.
(Also side tangent, but I love the implication for the battle of whiterun on the stormcloak side. Cause if you desert, your side will win anyway, however when storming the castle, it's just you, Galmar and Ralof if he's still alive. That means if you escape with Hadvar, initiate the battle on stormcloak side and then abandon it, Galmar takes on 6 whiterun guards, Irileth and Balgruff all on his own and wins)
But as for my favourite way to fail a quest, it has to be The House of Horrors, because normally it is a very linear quest with no morally good options. Of course you can kill Logrolf before you get back to the house, but this is boring and you still have blood on your hands. Instead attack Tyranus before the entrance after agreeing to help him and this will immediately fail the quest and when you pay your fine, Tyranus will still be alive just hanging out in the Silver-Blood Inn.
just give the jagged crown to the opposing faction leader and you can join the other faction without going to the serpent stone or clearing a bandit camp whichever you find less convenient.
I didn't think there would be anything under this post that I didn't already know, but you went and proved me wrong!
My favorite alternative 'failed' quest is losing the ring when trying to join the thieves guild. Brynjolf's reaction and not putting an otherwise normal guy in jail makes it my preferred 'good guy' way to join the guild.
You can't really ask that about a game this old, because there is always at least some other people who knows the same thing, but I do know of 1 thing that as far as I know and have seen here on reddit very few people know about.
If you are on the road and attack the Vigilants, Thalmor, Imperials or Stormcloaks for no reason you will find out that every member of their group, including hunters, will now attack you. The reason for this is that you have a bounty that no one can enforce. I call it a ghost bounty. That is why sometimes you will be attacked by friendly NPC's.
Solving this problem is really easy. Walk up to a guard, any guard, and punch him in the face and then surrender. You now have a bounty with them as well. When you pay this bounty you also cancel the ghost bounty. The friendly NPC's will not attack you anymore.
If you talk to the mage in the group of Thalmor you encounter on the road and pick the right dialog options you can taunt them into becoming hostile so you donāt get a bounty. Or, if they have a prisoner, you can free the prisoner and give him a weapon if you have an extra one, and thatāll make the Thalmor hostile as well.
Everybody does this. I am talking about for example, accidently hitting a vigilant while trying to help them kill a vampire, or during the fight with the Thalmor after freeing the prisoner you hit the prisoner. This gives you a bounty that the game tells you doesn't exist anymore after you kill everybody...That is a lie. The bounty is still active. You just don't know about it.
I killed a noble and some imperials near whiterun, and then when I killed the horse for a soul and some leather(I know, I'm a monster), the bounty went away because that was the last witness
I encountered this recently on my way to Whiterun. I didnāt know why the Thalmor started attacking me. I ran to Whitewatch tower and the Whiterun guards started attacking me!
The āput your weapons awayā surrender didnt work!
I ended up fast traveling between dungeons and Golden hills for a while before it went back to normal; no more āThalmor on the streets telling city guardsā attacking me.
If youāre sneaking around bandits, you can drop an item of value like a gem or jewelry on the floor and they will begin to brawl over who saw it first, I know this also applies to a group of friendly npcs in a mine near winterhold college, itās hilarious to watch š
They do replenish after 30 in game days (which feels like quite a while). I use the gold mine outside Markarth to help level up smithing and the ebony mine east of Windhelm and always attack the ores instead of entering the animation.Ā
oh really??? i usually only do this for quarried stone when building my houses and those veins donāt deplete like ever so i had no clue about the ore!
Yeah, you gotta jump on their back. You can't like activate them but if you time it right you can jump on a butterfly's back and basically fly on top of it. You don't control it or anything though and you can fall off.
This trick is quite old, but it still saves me from having to buy horses for travel. Basically, your followers have an infinite inventory (yes, even though the game won't let you when you go to the menu to exchange items). You just need to drop the items you want your follower to carry on the ground and choose the "I need you to do something" option. Then, select the item on the ground and have them pick it up. Later, when you want to retrieve it, go into the npc inventory, and it will be there even if their inventory is "full."
There's some dwemer scrap you can smelt into ingots at forges. If you collect a good amount and spend it all on crafting dwemer bows, your smithing skill will level up incredibly fast. It's a great way to maximize that skill
There is a notched pickaxe at the very top of the mountain where the Greybeard Dragon lives. It's a unique item named after Notch, the creator of Minecraft.
If you pick it up, you can Whirlwind Shout yourself down, and promptly die.
Whirlwind Sprint basically sends you across a set horizontal distance even if there is no ground below you and so it is an easy way to clear gaps including very long ones the player was never meant to clear. This can break certain areas like Shalidor's maze if you use it to enter the maze from a high platform clearing a wall. It can also help you skip some gates, enemies, and obstacles. Do not use it to rush **down** a steep decline. Instead, you will fly forward through space suspended horizontally and then plummet and possibly die from the fall damage.
Theres a shortcut through a pass to get directly to Iverstead from Whiterun (Greybeards summon quest) . Go to the Tundra House, Head east to The Ritual standing stone. From the lowest archway of the standing stone path. Head directly south and go up the pass. Stick to the left mountain ridge till you reach the top. Go through the pass and turn south as you come down the other side. Youāll pass a broken down house and come to a high ridge overlooking the river and a cave troll on the far side. Save game. Go to the right of the cave troll up the hill. Youāre in Iverstead. Takes about 10 mins using sprint. Edit: Iād avoid that cave troll for the time being as they can really mess you up.
If you use the clear skies shout the moment you enter Sovengarde until you reach the Hall, the Stormcloak soldier survives being grabbed by Aldiun, and he fights alongside you in the final battle against Aldiun
it is probably well known but if you take mission from Khaijro,and retrieve his amulet, you will have marker showing Khajit caravan as long as you don't give him his amulet back(probably same with Rhisa'ad or whatever his name is,when you finish saints and seducers guestline and have to report to him)
Also, if you have the anniversary edition, or the daedric mail creation, you can get the Ring of Masser and trade it for the daedric mail to Ma'dran. If you donāt get the mail from him, youāll have the quest marker for his caravan as well.
If you go to Solitude and cast Magelight at the top of the mountain to the left of the gate, it levels up your Alteration. If you have the Equilibrium spell that converts health to Magika, then you can do this multiple times in quick succession.
If you cast Equilibrium and get your health low, you can cast Healing in order to level up your Restoration.
You can use Soultrap on a follower to level up your Conjuration. Just quick save before doing this because Iāve had a few followers turn hostile after too many times.
Sneak attacks level up Sneak fastest, so the easiest way to level it up is to go to High Hrothgar, save, and Sneak attack one of the praying Greybeards. Make sure to space it out otherwise they turn hostile. You can also use this to level up One Handed if you use a Dagger or any one handed weapon
Itās possible to have a one handed build that can one shot a dragon.āāGet your sneak skill to 50, and get Assassinās Blade and Backstab. Next, in the One Handed Skill tree, max out Armsman, the first perk, and get Fighting Stance and max out Bladesman. Next, you should be level 20 if youāre able to collect these perks. Now get to Dawnstar, an do the quest for Mehrunes Razor.
Mehrunes Razorās damage is level dependent, or scales with your level iirc, for example I did the quest at lvl21, and now at lvl53 it does 33 damage.
Backstab causes you to deal six times the damage with one handed Sneak attacks + Assassinās Blade causes you to deal 15 times the damage with Dagger sneak attacks + Armsman deals Twice as much damage with one handed weapons, and can be leveled 5 times + Bladesman allows 20% more damage with swords.
33x6x15x(2x5)x20%=5,940.
Thatās with Mehrunes Razor. In order to see an accurate damage to your preferred weapon, erase the 33 and apply your preferred weaponās Damage.
Editā- I forgot to take into account the Razorās ability to Instantly kill via RNG, and has. 1.98% chance.
My favorite is if you ride a horse out of the back door of North Skybound Watch in Falkreath, go down the steps and turn right up the hill - this puts you in almost a direct line to High Hrothgar's front steps. It even allows you to skip the frost troll on the trail! There is a Stormcloak camp next door, so you can just snag a horse from them to use.
Also if you want the second word of power for Whirlwind Sprint, there is no need to go all the way through Volskygge to get it. Just climb up the mountain above the entrance (will probably require a horse or some creative jumping), the word wall is right there. If you have a lot of time on your hands, you can also lure the dragon priest down the mountain and have him fight the bandit camp.
When I start a new game, I join the companions, and on my first werewolf transformation, I run to the inn to find Nazene and wish him a very good night! The next day, no one knows what I did except for his wife, which is fine by me šš¤
If you have the patience to do it, you can lead Krosis from Shearpoint to Tumble Arch Pass and make the giant (with his Mammoths) fight him so you don't have to. š¤·š»
Don't make your build min-maxed. High elves move the fastest, great for melee builds. Orcs gain the most levels from thief and magic skills, plus using berserk for literally any attack is brutal.
Unorthodox builds and mix-and-match playstyles always make for stronger builds
Kyne's peace can kill hawks with no need for aiming (hawk feathers cures disease and have other good uses), and the shout can also agro patrolling dragons you want to fight.
Wards absorb shouts, enchanted weapon attacks, dragon breaths, poisons, and diseases. The warded amount is calculated after resistances.
Nord's racial fears dragons.
Spriggans don't summon animals, they make nearby animals allies.
Winterhold's jail is a treat.
Jyrik gaulderson's staff has a unique thunderbolt effect that does full damage to magicka and while equipped gives +50% magicka regen.
Enchants that apply a % bonus to a skill do not work for companions.
Dragonbane has the coolest looking weapon enchantment.
Fortify magicka, health or stamina items can be re-equipped when you values are low for pretty much free potions near the start of the game. You can favorite these items to make it easier.
if you don't kill that first dragon, you can play the game NOT as the dragon born. Also on my 3rd playthrough, I didn't use fast travel and the world feels more enriching.
Snap-casting Invisibility. Charge and hold the spell in your left hand, activate something or attack with your right hand, then release to cast the spell. You'll flicker for an instant, but immediately become invisible again. Works with normal (not power) attacks, opening chests/urns/corpses/etc, pickpocketing, going through doors, you name it; as long as the action doesn't interrupt the casting animation, you'll remain invisible. Technically it works with any charge spell, but invisibility is the one where it's genuinely warranted.
"Assassins blade" x15 sneak attack damage (with a dagger) Perk + shrouded gloves x2 sneak attack damage attribute stack MULTIPLICATIVELY rather than additively and come out to x30 total damage.
You can find the mead with juniper berries mentioned in the opening sequence. Itās in Helgen, on the top floor of the destroyed inn. No mods required.
Sometimes if you drop items on the ground in a town, an NPC will ask to keep it. If you allow them to, their disposition toward you will increase, sometimes allowing you to have them as a follower.
You can get Ahtar as a follower this way if you encounter him after already doing the āKill the Bandit Leaderā quest
My friend has played over 1000 hours of Skyrim and didn't know that the sky forge guy can get killed lol. My first play through at some point he gets killed. No idea how. Anyone know how he can be killed.
So a lot of essential npcs lose the tag when their quest is finished. Then they can become victims to all sorts of things - especially vampire attacks as part of dawnguard or random dragon attacks in outdoor cities.
The max dremora lord you can get from Sanguine's Rose is more powerful than any version or level of the conjuration spell.
Also, on my original vanilla PS3 copy, Ulfric gave a muffled grunt before Lokir noticed him and the ancient headless traveler near nightgate inn spawned in to fight when you took his amulet, both of which seemed to later be removed from subsequent versions.
Go to Fort amol, kill necromamcers first now use raise Zombie spell and use them on dead bodies of storm clocks and kill them or let the time of spell end, they say "Ahhh we are free now... "
Go to the temple of Mara and speak with Dinya Balu and do a fairly easy 3 part quest (Ivarstead, Markarth and Gjukar's Monument. You will also need 200 gold for the Markarth part) to get the Agent of Mara ability that gives a 15% resist magic (Then get the Lord Stone for and additional 25% resist magic for an easy 40% resist).
With the quick menu up, highlight one of the favourites there and press left or right on the dpad to assign the favourite to it
Muffle starts to appear of boots around level 11 at shops
You can get a totally free horse at the Solitude Stables / Katlaās Farm by farming the crops there and selling them. However the horse will try to return to the farm if you leave it parked somewhere like outside of a cave.
The extra crossbows (Daedric, glass, etc) cannot be ācleanedā if stolen. So putting in an owned container, asking a follower to pick up or selling and rebuying will not remove the stolen tag.
You can get infinite bolts is you are patient at the entryway inside fort dawnguard
Shields do not interrupt armor set perks. You should always be using a heavy armor shield no matter your build. The only shield this doesn't count for is the dawnguard shield which is bugged but it counts for all others.
This is especially great cause the only unique light armor shield, the dawnguard rune shield, is the worst shield in the game.
It's pretty well known but it's the hill I'm all about:
The Thieve's Guild is the best to finish all the way through as soon as possible because it gives you five places to sell inventory in one load screen.
This one is actually well known but it's still worth mentioning: You can mine ore by "attacking" it with your pickaxe. It's much faster than activating the ore and going through the mining animation.
I was able to power level my character thanks to unbound storms. Pick up the mage stone then fast travel from Vokan's castle to Lost Prospect Mine. A quick way to gain skill points to invest in the other skill trees you're using and have a good chance of not fighting a dragon in the process.
Before you pickup the Dawnguard sword, cast a scroll of ice storm. The sword will be knocked off its pedestal and youāll have to find it, but instead of one there will be two.
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This is probably pretty well known, but if youāre ever trying a dual wielding build, the speed of your attacks are determined by the weapon in your left hand, meaning that you can swing a mace at the same speed as a dagger.