Anyone Played Skyrim (Elder Scrolls V) Yet?

[Minty]

As Caspin's going to be in a Skyrim mood this weekend on her travels, thought I'd add a few tips on sneaky ways to level up in Skyrim with minimum risk to yourself.




Creakies are the most useless enemies in all Skyrim. Their health is poor, their movement walking pace & both their weapon & combat skills non-existant. They are however very useful if you want to level up your Block & the two Armour skills.

Once you have armour at a decent enough level, find yourself a single creaky with a sword or axe (if they are wearing a cape, watch out, they are a skeleton mage!), preferably in a confined area to limit its movement choices.




When they swing their weapon back to hit you with, press your "block" button & wait for the clang. Your player will make a grunt, but your health should remain unaffected or the dent is so low that you have regenerated while the skeleton is recovering from the effort. That is how poor an opponent creakies are (only in numbers, with arrows or as part of a group of other monsters are creakies any threat).




If you are feeling ambitious (or just downright cruel) & have plenty of health back ups such as enchanted rings & necklaces of health or fast health restoration, step back & let Mr Creaky do his worst. The blood may flow, but all it's doing is building up your armour skills.




You can even swap your weapon & shield for Healing spells & use this as an opportunity to level up your Restoration at the same time Mr Creaky is levelling up your Light/Heavy Armour skill for you!




If you do find your health or magic going down too much, you can always fire an apprentice level Turn Undead (the "fear" spell for use against creakies & Draugr) spell to gain 30 seconds of breathing space. As this is a Restoration spell, it is a useful one to practice in conjunction with healing yourself.




Boosting up the Illusion skill like all the magic skills can be a pain in the early days because they are weighed down with carrying lots of bottles of magicka potion for battles against even the simplest opponents. There is however a simple way to boost up your Illusion skill rating.




Horkers are large & the slowest creatures in the game. You really have to be not paying any attention at all to get gored by one. This makes them ideal for practicing spells on.

Get yourself a reasonable distance away from a horker. Arm one hand with a Fear spell (this will make them run away, or at least try to), the other with Courage. Fire Fear at the horker followed by Courage a second later to negate the effect. Keep doing it until your magic is out & needs to regenerate.

Once you get the hang of it, you can do this to two or three horkers together. You should find yourself advancing up with Illusion very quickly doing this.