Im currently playing as Mage style (Destruction tree) and can level up the skill by hitting my own horse. Isnt that lame?


So please, fix this in the next patch and disable this option. Thanks.

By the way, what you guys thinking bout this ?

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You level up your skills by using them. Why does that seem lame? Doesn't matter what you use them on, really.

If you think it's stupid, you don't have to do it.

Oh, the beauty of TES.

Because its considerd 'like a cheat' or can considerd as a bug also. theres no reason to visit the trainer of magic (unless you just wanna level up the skill faster) or trying to level by hitting enemies to level.

you're complaining about using lame tactics?
don;t [censored] use them
it's just a side effect from the game mechanics and far from a game breaking bug or anything

it's like people are looking for stuff to complain about

Just like real life, you can practice combat on horses. Not sure what the issue is...................?

PETA

Hitting women is easier and a lot more satisfying.

Magic levels by use, worked like this since forever.

WOW!

You can level up skills by hitting summons too, so I don't see how hitting your horse is any different. Besides that, you're not going to be feeling like you somehow exploited anything later on when you're spending your entire mana pool to kill anything but the most basic of enemies.

I just recently "stole" (I took the horse of someone who ended up getting killed by a bandit...) my first horse. After dismounting and it constantly running off to do it's own thing, I got sick of it and shot it in the head four times. Gained a rank in Archery too.

You act like you've never put on a gauntlet and punched your wife before.

I efficiently leveled a character in Oblivion using heavy armor by letting a mud crab attack me over and over.

The only thing that is lame, is the fact that people even do this to level up. Your not forced to do it, but if your lazy and want to cheat, then why not?

I really don't see what the big deal is, and I definitely don't see a need to patch it. If you or anyone else wants to skill up by beating your own horse, then go for it.

I will copy all the other replies to this thread...

If you don't like it, don't do it...

Get a horse and a sword, then start hitting the horse with your sword and you can see that you get better at hitting things with swords. Is it lame, or is it realistic?

Are you saying you can hit your horse and it doesnt die? Yea that should be fixed. Its lame.

Stop beating the dead horse, people!

This.

If you were, in real life, to get an animal, and hit it with a weapon, you would approve on handeling that weapon, it would be just like punching a punching bag, to improve on your punching power and accuracy. It is their horse, personally, my horses keep dying because they keep going after those who attack me and getting killed...

Let me ask you another question OP. If you were to get into a sword fight with someone who works at a slaughter house, who do you think would be more skilled in that fight? Who has killed more creatures with their weapon in hand? Something you should ask yourself.

or you could just not do it...

It's dumb but so what, if you feel it is cheap just don't do it.

This ^

I think they should take it further. You should be able to train offensive skills on test dummies, but at 1/3rd the rate.

I was waiting for a certain time of day outside the companions area, decided to take out my bow and arrow for some practice. I play first person without crosshairs so I have to use the notched arrow as a pseudo crosshair (which actually works, the arrow doesn't go level over the crosshair anyway so you have to guage distances, and the arrow goes straight over the tip of the notched arrow). I shot at the dummies in the courtyard until I could hit the targets dead center with 3/4 of my arrows from across the courtyard, I could hit all 3 of the small targets of the target with 3 4 inch targets as hands/head one by one, and I could double tap each of the 3 other dummies in rapid succession while on the move (hitting the 3rd one in the neck and shoulder where the armor is weak, bypassing the shield/helmet/sword). For all this practice, I got no experience.

Honestly it seems weirder you can't gain XP by practicing moves/accuracy than it does you can skill up on your horse.

(while on the subject of arrows against armor, anyone else think it would be a cool mechanic/talent for dual weilding to be able to both deflect arrows and deflect power attacks why doing a power side attack with 2 1-handers at the right moment? I think you should be able to TBH... modders go nuts)

In the end? It's a SP game. If you don't want to use the dummies, you can level up the old fashioned way... but if you want to RP as a trader/smither that practices until he is in some of the best armor out there while traveling around trading with other cities and only starting the main quest when everyone is in epic leveled gear... why shouldn't you be able to? It's the main reason I almost always leave the main quest till the end of the game. Ever since ES games have been leveled, it's much more epic fighting enemies in magnificent armor and fully formed daedric soldiers than scavengers in iron/fur or scamps... I mean, the fate of the world is at stake right?

Yeah, its lame...so don't use it?