On one of my many characters I have all the shouts in the game (vanilla and dlc) fully unlocked (all 3 words) and have about 40+ dragon souls to use. I hope they add a way to use up the remaining souls.

Maybe you could use them to fill soul gems or be able to sell them to a merchant for powerful weapons and artifacts. Even trade them with the GreyBeards or something.

Anyone else have some ideas how to use the unused dragon souls?

Someone said you could add in a specific Dovahkiin perk tree and use them on that. Either that, or maybe let us spend like 5 or 10 a pop to unlock an extra perk point, I like that idea too. And before everyone whines and moans about being overpowered, let me remind you that if you reach a point where you are sitting on enough Dragon Souls that you can afford to spend 10 of them for a single perk point, you are probably already overpowered. Becoming overpowered is kind of the end goal of the game.

That doesn't apply to everyone.

I don't see this at all. But I do agree that at some point you should be able to use your dragon souls towards a perk. Otherwise they just build up and up. I'm sure I could only absorb so many souls.. I think.

And to the original point. I don't want to be trading souls like they're game cards. That seems kind of silly unless there was some way to cast a spell to pass it into a gem first. Otherwise it just seems like I'd be walking up to a greybeard and passing gas, hoping he catches it and absorbs it in.

You can use them to make you stronger. By that I mean you can use them to increase either your Health, Stamina or your Magicka by half of what leveling up would do. To keep it balanced you would need 5 or 10 Dragon souls in order to increase one of them. You can do this as many times as you want to. So it doesn't have the training skills limitations(You know how you can only train 5 times per level.). The only limitations would be the amount of Dragon souls you have captured.

Also this would give people a better incentive to hunt Dragons.

I think if you could just use them to over charge a grand soul gem for each soul. Isn't it 1200 points for a grand soul gem? Maybe you could fill one to 1600 with a dragon soul.

I like this idea.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RISJ--pvxmU&feature=related

I like the sound of the Dovahkiin perk tree as long as the perks dont turn you into a too powerfull character.