Shooting torches out of their brackets was something that surprised me early on. After that, I looked for more things to shoot, just to see if it would work. A useful technique when in dungeons with arcane traps!

I remember that from Oblivion, but have not been able to in Skyrim. Where do you guys get to know of all these things I don't know?

Maybe because you live on a mountain two miles up? I've done it three times this game and it's not like the first time so I think about why the dragons have returned, meditate on it. I haven't done the MQ yet so it fits with my character.

You can what? Seriously? I have now about 400 hours in the game and did not know that . Hahaha! I feel kinda embarrassed right now.

I was about level 40 on my archer (my first character) before I figured this out. Would have saved me a lot of pain earlier in the game, that is for sure!

What!? Why did I never try that on my own...? Crap.

WHOA! Mind officially blown.

And I'll bet that was spooky...

damnit. I just came back to brag about having killed half a dozen bandits by moving bear traps into their path...

...and now I read about the Voice of the Sky.


I spent my whole playtime last night in Brinewater sneaking around with traps and shooting arrows into walls so I could watch the bandits walk into them. I seriously LMFAO'd - that gag just never gets tired...

Now I know tonight I'll be walking up and down those damn steps looking for tablets.. argh!

You've got to be kidding me i have three 81s and i didn't know that about mining, torches or the stone things... Ugh i feel ashamed... Or the friggin bear traps.

New players can be funny at times.

And what's that supposed to mean Patti?! [img]http://erroraccessdenied.com/node/1300[/img]

Wow. I have played well over 500 hours and didn't know several things:

Didn't know about being able to sprint on horseback. My characters rarely ride a horse, but that may have to change. Hell, I was probably around 200 hrs in before I accidently found myself sprinting on foot.

Bashing with a bow is another new one for me. Never occurred to me to maybe try it.

While I've used a pickaxe as a weapon before, I never thought to just free swing away at an ore vein.

My first character I played was a rogue/wizard who wore robes and I never bothered with the Ironflesh/Stoneflesh protection spells and got her to level 49.

Needless to say, if my sneak attack didn't get them, I was burning through dozens of potions per fight,

Where do you get traps? I didn't know you could actually set them.

Bear traps are in a lot of mines and bandit camps. You can pick them up and move them around like any object.

You can't get them, as in have them in inventory, but some can be moved around the same cell. You can't pick them up as it's one button interaction, hold down to move, click to disarm/reset.

I never knew that!! I stopped reading after the few first tablets... Gotta go back up there and read them!!

A lot of great facts here! If I find something else useful, will come back here and share.

Noobs are cute.

Me: You should go to the college and get a few free spells.
Him: You like lightening and fireballs, I like blood on my warhammer. Oh, and I'm a Werewolf.

LOL!

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Is he any fun then? I mean, with him getting no Rested bonuses at all.

Wait, scrap that. That was just dumb.
Cool to see your husband playing as he wants to and trying out the game.

I ve been running around with a pick axe all day hitting every rock I see!

Bit off topic, but this thread reminded me of something from the Oblivion forum, about the first time you played, and I just had to copy this snippet from someone's post :
" My character was bitten and contracted a disease, and my brother being evil, told me that my character was going to die soon and that I had to stay in the inn until a doctor came. LOL
So I spent like 3 months in REAL TIME wandering around the Inn of Ill Omen. "

Anyway, OT, cool. If my first few days had resulted in lycanthropy or vampirism, I would have had to work real hard on my resolve so as not to just give up. Fair play to the man.

I think I was about 100 hours in before I realized I could shoot hawks out of the sky.

I have never seen a hawk. I've seen a shadow of something overhead, but since I'm playing in a dragon free world, I haven't looked up in time.

Sweet. My husband is finding hawk feathers on all kinds of dead bodies.... me, never.

LOL ... I discovered this by accident early in my playthru. I'm nerdy enough that I read all the tablets on my way up but never noticed getting the blessing. After coming back down the mtn, I headed north to head back to Whiterun when a fox ran straight up to my PC and just stood there looking at me, then seeming to follow us a good 1/4 mile up the road. Later I noticed deer/elk stopped running away ... then wolves paying me no mind.

At that point I still had no idea about the blessing and it being temporary and just thought, "Wow, it's good to be the Dovahkiin!" So after going a while without being attacked by mudcrabs, bears, wolves and having deer and foxes act all friendly, I got in the habit of petting all the local wildlife while walking around. I got so lulled by the passivity that I almost jumped out of my chair when the blessing wore off and that first pack of wolves jumped in my face.

Anyway, now I know to appreciate the reward for not FT up the 7k steps, while monitoring my active effects afterwards so I know when nature starts to bite again.