Uses for Dragon Bone and Scales : V

» Tue May 15, 2012 9:22 pm

For a mage, are there any uses for Dragon Bones and Scales? I heard you could craft dragon armor, but as a mage I was planning on putting perk points into smithing. Is there another use or, more importantly, an NPC that will buy them?

Thanks!

» Tue May 15, 2012 5:12 pm

Not a lot of use for a clothy robed mage tbh. You can make light armour if you have the blacksmithing skills but it still wont be great for a mage as you will have to enchant every piece to make it more suitable.

If you are a battle mage on the other hand.....Enchanted Dragon armour may come in handy!

» Tue May 15, 2012 4:50 pm

Hmm thanks, maybe I will hang on to these. Not sure how I'm going to keep lugging these around without a house though.

» Tue May 15, 2012 9:57 pm

Just sell them.Belethor in Whiterun will buy them, as will all general traders.

» Tue May 15, 2012 8:09 pm

You need to store them in a house. Otherwise each Dragon kill will add 70+ to your inventory weight.

» Tue May 15, 2012 3:30 pm

Store them in containers in the house in Riverwood you get a key for at the beginning of the game.
I have stored stuff there now safely for about an in-game year.

» Tue May 15, 2012 7:29 pm

Store them on Lydia or a different "follower" and make sure they don't die. I didn't use her at all except for storage. Now I own a house and store it all there.

» Tue May 15, 2012 7:53 pm

You get a free house in riverwood??

» Tue May 15, 2012 11:29 pm

If you do I never got it lol. I won't tell you where I got my house because that's a spoiler

Edit: Oh, that one house you stay in that's located in Riverwood... that's not actually yours but I guess you could store stuff there.

» Tue May 15, 2012 11:44 am

You get a free house in riverwood??

Well, not exactly but you get the key to the house belonging to the family of whoever you chose to follow in the tutorial/intro chapter. This gives you free access to that house. You can store here until you buy your own house. Seems safe.

» Tue May 15, 2012 8:00 pm

Has anybody compared the armor rating available from dragon scale versus "mage armor" like stoneflesh? I think the "mage armor" would have to be *substantially* better to justify the fact that it's not always on and only runs for a minute at a time... just my opinion.

» Tue May 15, 2012 10:04 am

That's the problem with spells they don't scale, you can upgrade your even glass armor and hit the damage reduction cap but with ebonyflesh it's impossible, tho I heard there's an allternation spell that reduces melee damaged taken by 80% fot 30s so that would make armor obsolete for mages

» Tue May 15, 2012 10:41 am

If you're a cloth Mage then they're only good for selling! But the enchanting warriors love that Dragon Armour!