What Are These Called? : V

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 5:08 am

What are these called and is there any history behind them?

http://i42.tinypic.com/250v6eu.jpg

Also, is there an "official" way to get around them without getting hit? I usually use a shout to activate it but was just wondering.

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 10:34 am

looks like a rune

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 1:06 am

Yep, it is a rune, use a magic spell to set them off. not sure if an arrow can set them off though, anyone know ?

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 9:11 am

That's a Rune, summon something on it. Every time I try and jump them I enevitably land on it so, summoning has been my recourse.

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 4:39 am

Just pick up a piece of equipment and throw it on the Rune. Standing well back.

Either use something lieing about or use something from your inventry and then collect it back up again.

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 5:55 am

That is a rune, they are usually fire, frost or shock and are quite powerful, the way I get around them is by using the novice level destrucion spell flames, you can stand far enough away to avoid the blast, and not take any damage, from my experience, shooting arrows has no effect on them

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 3:57 am

It's a rune, looks like a frost ruin to be precise.

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 7:23 am

There are many traps in those old dungeons, left to catch out dastardly grave robbers. Well, maybe not so much the dastardly ones, but the stupid ones :biggrin:

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 12:25 am

Yep, it is a rune, use a magic spell to set them off. not sure if an arrow can set them off though, anyone know ?

Nope, only magic or walking on em will set em off.Arrows are useless!

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 11:12 am

Just pick up a piece of equipment and throw it on the Rune. Standing well back.

Either use something lieing about or use something from your inventry and then collect it back up again.

or this^

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 1:12 am

I use a shout to set them off, frost breath I think it is, took me a very long time to figure that out and not get hit by them.

It's one that is a shock rune, in Saarthal.

Runes.

Thanks.

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 5:00 am

I think I've only done one or two dungeons where I have found any runes.
And no, arrows wont work.

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 3:15 am

Nope, only magic or walking on em will set em off.Arrows are useless!

Disappointing as i refuse to use magic with my warrior, although i never knew you could throw a piece of equipment on the rune. Shall remember that next time.

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 6:50 am

i just whirlwind sprinted past em

unless i got clipped on a wall i usaully got away with barely a scratch

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 12:01 pm

Just pick up a piece of equipment and throw it on the Rune. Standing well back.

Noob question- how do you pick up something and throw it, without having telekinesis? Or can you?

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 11:57 am

Noob question- how do you pick up something and throw it, without having telekinesis? Or can you?

you hold down the action key that you use for opening doors searching bodies etc. xbox (A) ps3 (X) or pc (E)

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 5:05 am

Noob question- how do you pick up something and throw it, without having telekinesis? Or can you?

Very carefully. You have to kind of spin and release. I just hold it front of me real high and drop it and back up.

Or, just cast any spell at it. It might have to be an elemental damage spell, but this will give you something to do with all those scrolls you have been collecting.

Me, I never notice the rune until it blows up in my face.

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 10:16 am

you hold down the action key that you use for opening doors searching bodies etc. xbox (A) ps3 (X) or pc (E)

Yeh but to my understanding, you can't throw an object without the spell telekenisis. Dropping an object onto a rune from far away, enough to activate it always ends up with me dieing, because I'm well in the radius. Smokeyman and I are wondering if you can throw objects as Karniest suggested we should.

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 2:18 am

Ar! The old magical landmine shtick, I think we have finally come up with a use for Lydia.

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 1:26 pm

Yeh but to my understanding, you can't throw an object without the spell telekenisis. Dropping an object onto a rune from far away, enough to activate it always ends up with me dieing, because I'm well in the radius. Smokeyman and I are wondering if you can throw objects as Karniest suggested we should.

You can you just pick it up by holding the e-key until it picks it up instead of placing it in your inventory then swing it using the mouse and press e again to drop it and the movement will continue just like throwing it.

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 12:46 am

One can trigger them and not get damaged. Not sure how it works, but I often just run across without noticing them, then they make a lot of noise, but I did not take any damage.

Might want to try to send your follower onto it. The trick with the action key may work on a corpse and by slinging it in an arc over the rune.

If I see them then I just walk over them and heal myself afterwards. It gets my restoration skill up...

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 1:00 pm

I always stand well back and shout at them. Unrelenting Force or Fire or Frost Breath does the trick.

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 12:50 pm

I use flames. But if it's too hard to throw something at it, you might be able to just kick something at it.

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 5:05 am

I haven't tried this but if you instruct your follower to walk onto the rune, will it kill them permanently? Just curious.

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 10:56 am

I set off runes with a firebolt or a magelight...those work too. Yes, stand well back.