This is 100% true.

Unfortunately it doesn't tell the whole story. The second part is that unique items in general are garbage. Being the best garbage still means it's garbage.

It's not a good mage item compared to custom enchants at all.

Uh yeah, you obviously must be new otherwise you wouldn't have said what you did rofl. I've been around since the beginning and have seen how the game has gone down with the ship - not even the captain was spared lol! And that's why we have the modding community to make this game playable and worthwhile.

You haven't been married yet and found typical marital problems such as E.D. That's where the M rating comes from.

I rather liked the Archmage's Robe just because in other clothing, it can be kind of immersion-breaking to see my character wandering a frozen tundra dressed for springtime. That thing looks warm. Also, pretty good enchantments if you are not willing to spend hours grinding away at the Enchantment skill yourself. (I did that on one character, found that 100 Enchantment = game no longer challenging, and started a new character shortly after.)

That said, I did think it was kind of hilarious and sad that the errand boy got promoted to Archmage over all the senior wizards there. (I was pushing for Mirabelle, or even Tolfdir.) Then again, Aren's back story implies that he was kind of a tool himself, so I'm thinking that Archmage is mostly an honorary title awarded to the first guy in line to get killed when bad stuff goes down.

Also:


This comment wins.

Oh god please... I have Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim all installed. I'm making active comparisons - Morrowind had the most variety with everything - that was an EPIC game in many ways. Granted there were bugs - but hey, Bethesda + TES = Bugs it's like peanut butter and jelly. But the major issues I have with Skyrim is the utter lack of variety.

Clothing - no variety + ugly = FAIL;
Few spells + no way to create your own = FAIL;
Quest lines are static + broken quest lines = FAIL.

Beth REALLY needs to release that modding tool ASAP so modders and myself can work some magic. I can only mod this game out so much without the modding tool. Until then, I'll be rifting along in Rift and then off to SWTOR. Something's got to give with all the money we, as a gaming community, are shelling out for these just passable for playing games...

It is part of the modding community to criticize and that's what i'm doing - using my god givin right to point out what's wrong

I must be new because I think you're disrespectful?

You do know that the modding community only exists because of the game, right? I understand your anology, but it doesn't make sense. How can Skyrim be sinking if the modding community exists to save it? You even agree with that.

Oh course Newb... That's the Ouroboros of TES and the modding community - duh, what's so hard to understand????

I just want to pitch in on the argument. Where's it written that the PC must become the head of whatever guild they're a part of? Couldn't the story have been just as fulfilling and rewarding if you'd ended up as just a high-ranking member? Like, if you finished the College quests and ended up as the assistant to the new Arch Mage. That would have been pretty cool and far more believable. The ONLY guild where it's necessitated that you become the leader is Dark Brotherhood, and that's just because they use PLOT MAGIC to make you the Listener. What if Nazir had been the Listener? Couldn't that story have been just as cool? Or cooler?

I think someone else already said it, but when you end up being the special, Chosen One in every single situation you end up in then it starts to make it all feel a little less special and a lot more forced. Kodlak had a dream about me and the Night Mother picked me to speak to and Nocturnal accepts me as a Nightingale and the Psijic Order knows I'm the only one who can stop the disaster that's coming. And I'm the Dragonborn. There's such a thing as making one character TOO special. I feel like the writers of the game made my PC their Mary Sue.

I like the look too. Just wish I had a new set and they let me enchant my own insted of getting n alredy enchnted one thats fresh off the corpse.
Also the College is lacking, completely.

As for being archmage I felt there was little to do and being mage of a collage which has [censored] all, I felt more achivement getting "your winner" in big rigs.

Not only am I speaking to a wall, but a magical one that knows how to say 'noob'. Enjoy your lair, troll, because I'm out of here.

my problem is that after three dungeons all of a sudden im archmage. all the guilds had way to short of questlines.

i enjoy the stuff you can do afterwards but those questlines were just anemic.

Half priced deals from Enthir is the real reward.

+1 to this. I liked being the Hero of Kvatch. I didn't need to be Mayor of Kvatch, too.

K bye

Best remark ever.

But this is how it's ALWAYS been in TES. Either do some quests for each guild, defeat a baddy or defeat the current head of the guild and bam, you're the new leader. And most of the time, after that, you didn't do anything. At least in this game, you're still doing stuff. With the Black Hand, the Night Mother still gives you quests but yeah... should be something epic to be done after you're GM otherwise big deal, now I'm bored... move on to another guild to do quests there or just wander the world slaughtering anything that crosses your path or gets on your nerves. Hell, wipe out entire towns and villages as a side amusemant...

I believe someone already said that... sigh...

agreed 100% and skyrim showed everyone exactly why it is silly to become head of everything precisely because of its extremely short questlines. i also had to laugh because they said that i had been a member of the guild for several months when i fact i had done all the quests in less than a week. basically they just handed over the college to someone who hadnt even been there a week. stupid game logic.....really stupid.

i would have been much happier if tolfidor had been given the archmage ship and then they could give me some nice gear a better room and better prices and i would have been more than happy and it would have made alot more sense ingame.

Wellll, if it isn't my faaaaavorite drinkin' buddy!

(I agree.)

Uh, no. TES quests have always been ridiculously cliche and predictable. What made TES popular is a giant open, non linear world. Their writing has always been a joke.

"If you are interested in magic, you should visit the college in Winterhold"

I am wearing the robes of the Arch-Mage, bud. I think I have visited them before.

Once I became Arch Mage, Brelyna's tone of voice changes a lot for the better. She sounds like she is ready to lip-lock me. I usually wear armor, but when I need the magical boost I wear the Arch Mage robes and the Morokei dragon mask.

So your argument is that because it's always been done this way we should continue to do it? That's some pretty poor logic by any and all accounts. Perhaps you're saying, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." I agree with that, but I would argue that it is, in fact, broken. It's extremely limiting from a story perspective and it's also very difficult to craft a story that would lead to your character's leadership that also makes sense. I want the guild quest lines to be engaging, interesting, and rewarding, and I don't believe that any of those necessitate my character being the guild's "chosen one" or eventual leader.

Well, Morrowind had a nice system where you couldn't advance in ranks till your skill is high enough, and also it had plenty of quests. It's just the ULTRA-short questlines of Skyrim make it so annoying.
And I can guarantee you, if you wouldn't be able to become a guild leader in this game a large part of fanbase wouldn't like it.