I'm pretty sure this is OC but I can't guarantee I didn't see this meme elsewhere, forget that I saw it, and recreate it accidentally.

Probably nothing new for you all. But I think the Deathbrand Armor without helmet looks amazing. Really like that high collar.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9189173

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/17023069

A comparison I typed up 7 years ago that seems to have helped a few people choose between Dawnguard vs Volkihar.

Dawnguard gets:

• Pet huskies
• Pet armoured trolls
• Master Level trainers in Archery, Heavy Armor, Restoration, and Smithing.
• A couple followers
• Better crossbows
• Easier access to Dwarven and Elemental bolts
• Easier access to the spells Stendarr's Aura and Vampire's Bane
• Chance to convince Serana to cure her vampirism.
• Attacked by Volkihar Vampires. (I think) Guards/Citizens will get involved with the fight, risking their own lives to help.

Volkihar gets:

• Pet death hounds
• Master Two-Handed trainer and Expert speech trainer
• Thralls in the castle you can feed on
• The Ring of the Erudite, Ring of The Beast, Amulet of The Gargoyle, and Amulet of Bats
• The Bloodstone Chalice, to enhance your vampiric powers
• A free player home with merchants (the castle itself)
• The chance to turn your spouse into a vampire
• Easier access to Necromantic Healing and Heal Undead
• Attacked by the Danguard in the wild. Guards/citizens won't help with the fight.

Both sides get:

• Serana as a follower
• Auriel's Bow and Bloodcursed arrows
• Access to Vampire Lord form and Bloodcursed Arrows*
• Durnehviir
• Radiant quests to kill vampires**

• As long as Serana is still a vampire ** Yes, Members of Clan Volkihar will request that you go kill vampires. Don't think the Dawnguard are the only ones upset at random vampires attacking towns!

How do you choose to play the game? Do you enjoy questing, or prefer seeing the world and messing around? Do you consider yourself a roleplayer, or are you more "serious" about the game? How vanilla do you like your game? Fresh as a new download, a little bit of QoL, or total overhaul? Cheese or no cheese?

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I found out you can bind weapons to your number keys instead of going to your inventory each time...

This is my first elder scrolls game so here's my honest thought. I fought the first dragon in Whiterun, then the blood dragons a bunch of times, Durnehviir (he's okay because he can use necromancy) and Naaslaarum and Volslaarum. My question is does their fight gets better or they kinda samey with small differences? For example in monster hunter the raths have the same skeleton 3D build for diablos, yian kut-ku, yian garuga, khezu and etc. but when you fight them it's different. If you fight diablos he's slower because he's heavier and he doesn't have a fire breath attack but he will charge at you. Yian garuga is similar to kut-ku but smarter especially when it use it's peck attack. Khezu has his own unique movement. The dragons in skyrim share the same 3D skeleton structure but all they do is fly, land and fire breath. The hp pool is different from different dragons. It's not a fair comparison to use MH monsters in skyrim because their games are entirely different. But the MH monster fights and their ai makes the game differentiate from each other, even if they share the same 3d skeleton structure.

Edit* Guys after reading your comments well then it's underwhelming. They could have do something about it but they didn't.

Well met kinsmen, I'm glad you're all here

I like to behead him

The game is too easy to get lost in side adventures. I've sunk a lot of hours just doing my own thing, I forget all about High Hrothgar. Usually it's straight to the thieves guild and then I wander around til something strikes my fancy. That and Dradric Armor. Gotta hit up the College for that. Oh and let's not forget Dawnguard. Gotta go pick up my girl, Serena. Just a good game all around.

I found a easy way to get SKSE for work for Skyrim and Skyrim Special Edition.

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Skyrim

Install Skyrim In Steam

Download SKSE

Open the SKSE compressed and extract the contents into your Skyrim directory.

Go into your Skyrim\Data\SKSE folder and create the SKSE.ini file if there isn't one

Open the SKSE.ini and add the following lines of code into the INI and save the changes

[Loader]
RuntimeName=TESV_SKSE.exe

In your Skyrim folder rename the TESV.exe to TESV.exe.bak

Copy the TESV.exe.bak and paste a copy of it into your Skyrim folder and rename it to TESV_SKSE.exe

Copy the skse_loader.exe and paste a copy of it into your Skyrim folder and rename it to TESV.exe

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Skyrim Special Edition

Install Skyrim Special Edition In Steam

Download SKSE

Open the SKSE compressed and extract the contents into your Skyrim Special Edition directory.

Go into your Skyrim Special Edition\Data\SKSE folder and create the SKSE.ini file if there isn't one

Open the SKSE.ini and add the following lines of code into the INI and save the changes

[Loader]
RuntimeName=SkyrimSE_SKSE.exe

In your Skyrim Special Edition folder rename the SkyrimSE.exe to SkyrimSE.exe.bak

Copy the SkyrimSE.exe.bak and paste a copy of it into your Skyrim Special Edition folder and rename it to SkyrimSE_SKSE.exe

Copy the skse64_loader.exe and paste a copy of it into your Skyrim Special Edition folder and rename it to SkyrimSE.exe

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Enjoy!

I wanted to play some Skyrim. And instead I ended up getting drawn into, well, drawing my current character.

Meet Ahk-li, an Argonian apprentice of the college of Winterhold. Having been born with way too much magicka potential, she ended up learning how to shoot lightning at an early age.

At a certain point she had managed to channel so much of it at once that, one: she discovered Arclight, and two: she ended up with a permanent imprint of the element all across her body. Patterns that start glowing with power the moment she channels even the slightest amount of Magicka, which makes her an admittedly terrible sneaker.

She basically ended up all but blowing herself up with her own magic and only survived due to her as-of-yet undiscovered Dragon blood.

All of that lead to her getting sent to Winterhold for tutelage with a recent ship, as her father had some acquaintance with some of the masters of the college in the past.

So you're all finally awake

I float between Nord and one of the beast races but have also been a dark wood and woods wild in my 12 years of Skyrimming. What’s your fave and why?

Obviously I’m always a stealth archer too.

I have some points to make myself:

Immersion

• The map, which is a satellite/god view, rips you out of character. Paper maps keep more mystery.
• The quest icons that it relies on should be changed for better quest directions.
• Seeing enemies' exact health (and name) is also not great for immersion. More visual/audible damaged states is better.

RP

• Very few choices are made in the quests, instead one has to be in character by choosing what quests one embark on. It would be great to have some conversational options with consequences. Relations are important in RP.
• Few people acknowledge you, to the degree you don't actually feel that you are saving anyone unlike in Oblivion. IDK if it's the voice actors or characters or that I haven't got to actively save anyone, except DLC Serana. There's that guy in the web that dies. In Oblivion there are monks fleeing towards you for help and more noticeably the knight in the Oblivion gate. I miss such moments.

Serana Dialogue Add-on is still good, i'm just being silly