16-09-2004 14:05									#91
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Not having the manual with me (or at all), can someone please explain the soul gems and what you do with them?

	16-09-2004 18:29									#92
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quote: Not having the manual with me (or at all), can someone please explain the soul gems and what you do with them?

Cast a soultrap spell on a creature before you kill it, then its soul fills the gem. These can later be used to enchant items.

And buy the game!

	16-09-2004 18:48									#93
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I haven't downloaded the game, if that's what you're implying!

My friend owns it on Xbox, and he sometimes asks for help when I go around to visit him. I'd buy it (Ted - ), but I still haven't finished NWN or BG I or II.

	17-09-2004 00:27									#94
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I have finally finished the game. I was hoping for a little more on the ending. But this is the type of game where it's not the ending that matters, it's the journey.

You can't have everything. You can't have a scripted epic journey, and have such freedom to go wherever you please.

I still wonder, though, if I can kill Vivec .

I must say though, it was quite a journey. And that is the big selling point in this game. The main quest had a pretty good plot. Though there wasn't much tension- or urgency needed to complete it. Not much motivation to do so either. In games like Baldur's Gate you wanted to finish the game to answer the mysteries of your existance. Same thing with Planescape: Torment. In this game there is little need to complete the main quest. But it is fun exploring around the huge world they have built. And despite some balance issues, I think the character skill system isn't that bad. Though some skills are more of a pain to raise through practice than others. But perhaps that is realism. You can't expect the road to master jumper to be easy now .

I may get the expansions. I'm not sure if I'll buy them or borrow them from my brother. Can I install the expansion in the middle of a game? Because I do want to start my thief character.

While I could choose a thief character wielding a long blade and having high strength, I won't for roleplay purposes. I will use a short sword. Perhaps I will get more challenge this way.

Because I must say playing a fighter (with some mage skills thrown in) it was very easy. Although being level 46 helped as well . The final battle was pathetically easy. The only thing that can challenge me is when they lower my strength and I become encumbered. Technically I played a fighter/mage. But I found there was little use for mage spells. My long blade slices through all.

And to answer the 2 hand or 1 hand debate. I'll go with two hand. Killing things faster is just better in this game. I finished the game with the daedric 2 handed Katana thingy.

Of course I could play on, but I want to play other styles (namely straight thief, and straight mage). Although I may end up drifting back towards a fighter build because they are so powerful. I will try to restrict myself from doing that for more challenge.

	17-09-2004 00:32									#95
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P.S. Anybody ever use spear weapons? I was thinking about doing that to boost my endurance (since I'll be wearing light armour- not heavy or medium). Although it doesn't fit with a straight thief roleplay I guess- but who's to say a thief can't use a spear?

Also how do those critical hits hidden characters work? Can I do it with a spear type weapon? Or does it have to be a short blade? If it has to be a short blade, I'll do that.

I don't see many spear type weapons, I was just going to do something different. Bows might be interesting too. I tried that when I first got this game. I didn't care for them that much. But I may have a second go round with them.

	17-09-2004 05:46									#96
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Spears are very good weapons. Long reach and decent speed. Also, you get an excellant one (Bitter Mercy, dam 15-60) as a reward from a daedra shrine quest.

EDIT
A very good use for a dwemer spear is to enchant it with 'cast when strikes - soul trap 50 seconds'. Dwemer spears are light so it's not much extra weight to carry and it's faster to change from a weapon to a weapon than from a spell to a weapon.

As for bows, ever had a cliffracer hovering overhead and waiting to attack when you aren't watching? With a bow, you can give them some encouragement.

Last edited by Qilue on 17-09-2004 at 05:51

	17-09-2004 06:14									#97
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Anyone know how to improve the sneak skill through practice? I can't seem to figure it out.

And I can never seem to get the sneak icon to light up when I'm around people. I currently have the skill at 47. Pickpocketing is no easy task right now.

And I am going with bows and spears. Something different. Bows for ranged. And spears for melee and sneak attacks. The instructions only states you must be using a melee attack for those critical strikes. So we'll see how they work. Of course I need to figure out how to sneak successfully first...

	17-09-2004 06:24									#98
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident Anyone know how to improve the sneak skill through practice? I can't seem to figure it out.

There's two ways. One is through normal usage and the other is an exploit .

Normal usage - sneak everywhere and the skill will slowly rise. Caveat, stop sneaking when you want to speak to someone.

Exploit - enchant an item with CE invisibility. Put it on and go into any biulding with people. Then tape down the sneak key and go to the movies.

	17-09-2004 17:50									#99
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quote: Normal usage - sneak everywhere and the skill will slowly rise. Caveat, stop sneaking when you want to speak to someone.

I think you need to be around people for it to rise, I snuck around the map a bit and it didn't rise at all.

I started my character,
Every Attribute is at least 40 Endurance is 65 (thanks to the lady) Strength and Personality are a little higher. I decided against Speechcraft since I never used it before. Left out sneak as well. Im hoping to get by on Illusiion.

Major: Long Blade, Heavy Armour, Light Armour (I like to fully loot places), Block, Enchant.
Minor: Illusion, Conjure, Alter, Alchemy(gives you something to do when exploring), and Mysticism.
So basically I'm a Battle Mage.

	17-09-2004 20:01									#100
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I may end up giving up on sneak. I did take Illusion as a minor skill. Sneak seems to be too much of a pain. With a skill of 47, you'd think I'd have an easier time successfully sneaking.

	17-09-2004 21:00									#101
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Mages are the best anyway. Why bother with anything if you can kill and steal with magic, AND do both more effectively than pure fighters or thieves?

	18-09-2004 04:07									#102
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The best characters, in my opinion, are those which meld multiple areas of expertise. A straight stealth character or straight mage or a straight warrior in Morrowind is less advantageous than being a hybrid. I've found stealth/magic and battle/magic hybrids to be more effective than any other combination or straight set, personally.

	18-09-2004 05:39									#103
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I have a question, does getting 100% resist magic make you immune to ALL magic attacks, whether its fire ice etc?

	23-09-2004 00:51									#104
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I found a use for speechcraft - Taunting. Kind of wish I had chosen Restoration, for cure disease etc. Have to carry potions and scrolls so far.

The Magic I've really used so far is alteration and alchemy. BTW alteration seem better then security for opening doors. I've used illusion and mysticism each once. More to use the majic then to actually do something useful It is early in the game though, level 4.

	23-09-2004 22:27									#105
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pretty fun game, but I think I'm bored of it now

But I finished the game, and it was pretty fun run through.

I got kind of bored of my thief character though. Sneaking is just too hard, and I couldn't find anyone in the Balmore mages guild who could sell me any kind of chamelion spell.

I did start a new game as a mage though. Straght mage. Almost all of my major/minor skills are mage skills except light armour and blunt weapon. I'm a female Breton.

She seems pretty cool. I've read that the Astronach is a good sign to take, but it seems like a pain to me. I may go and restart and take a different sign (unless someone knows a way to change your sign in the middle of a game). Not being able to recharge mana, is difficult. I figured I would use my alchemy to make potions to recharge mana, but I haven't found a set of equipment yet to make potions.

Also, if I have 50% magic resistance, and 50 points spell absorption. Won't they interfere with each other? If I resist the magic, then I won't ever get a chance to absorb it.

Like I said, I probably won't play as much as I was before, but I'll play occasionally. And I'll see about getting the expansions. Being a werefolf seems cool. Unless it has the drawbacks of being a vampire. Being a vampire doesn't seem cool, so I've never done it in this game.

	23-09-2004 22:30									#106
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also I heard you can get a house somewhere. How does this work?

I never did it my last game. But having some place to put my alchmey equipment in this game seems necessary. That stuff is heavy. I don't want to wait to do any of those great house quests (because I heard they give you something). I need something now.

I'm looking for a base of operations in Balmora. That seems to be the city I go back to the most. Any recommendations? Should I just kill someone and take their house?

	24-09-2004 01:30									#107
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quote: (Well unless you take the route of the Tassadarian cult and abuse the alchemy stacking bug)

In defense of Tass, he uses the console.

	24-09-2004 01:44									#108
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quote: You can't expect the road to master jumper to be easy now

Sure you can, just bunny hop everywhere

quote: Normal usage - sneak everywhere and the skill will slowly rise. Caveat, stop sneaking when you want to speak to someone.

The easiest way to train it is to raise it to a decent level through buying it up 40-50 will do, then find a stationary person you can sneak behind. Then when you're behind them just sit there, dont move a muscle, so long as you're in sneak mode your skill will raise.

quote: also I heard you can get a house somewhere. How does this work?

do the quests for one of the great houses.


As for the critical strike skill. You need to sneak up to your target unnoticed (chameleon or invis spells/potions/etc help a lot) and then hit them.

	24-09-2004 01:48									#109
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Diss: If you already won the game I would try some of the Mods some of them look quite good. Personally there are very few RPGs I've gone back and played after I beat them, in fact only 3.

Fallout 1 & 2
Ultima 7

	24-09-2004 04:55									#110
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that's true, I've been meaning to find some mods for this game. Let me poke around and see what I find.

	24-09-2004 06:18									#111
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well I found nothing . I just did a google search. Some of them don't have good descriptions, so I can't tell what they are before I download them.

one I downloaded didn't seem to work. I'm not sure if I'm putting the files in the right place or not.

	24-09-2004 19:22									#112
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You can kill people in towns and just take their houses from them. Of course, if you are prepared to do loads of quests for a guild or House then you'll get a far finer abode, but you'll need somewhere to keep all the junk you either can't sell because no-one's got the cash or you suspect you might just need one day. Get a small house!

	24-09-2004 20:30									#113
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one more thing. can you place items on the ground. will they disappear?

I haven't figured this part out. It seems like corpses disappear after a while, but I'm not sure about items. So if you have a house, do you place the items on the ground or in a container?

	24-09-2004 20:34									#114
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Containers are best - put them in chests or baskets or whatever you want. Magic bags of holding......

You can leave items in dungeons (generic term) if you want, and they will be in the same chest when you come back for them, but the monsters will most likely have respawned.

	25-09-2004 04:02									#115
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Dont put items into boxes and chests, they will disappear. The safest place is on something. (ie the ground, a table, etc) In the beginning (before I get a house/dungeon/cardboard box) I usually keep objects I dont use on the ground in the wide open spot in Balmora

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	25-09-2004 04:37									#116
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quote: Originally posted by Space05us Dont put items into boxes and chests, they will disappear.

This has never happened to me.

But yes, you can put items on the ground without fear of them disappearing.

	25-09-2004 07:42									#117
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I funny thing happened to me on the second Blades quest (the one for the scull) Any I get the skull and head back to Shar gra-Muzgob. But she has dissapeared. I figure she must have been taken away for Necromancy. I then proceed to ask everyone in the mages guild about where she is. No one knows. Ok, So I go talk to Casius about her. He says nothing new, but he does mention that she's afraid of the temple puting her in a fire. So I head on over to the temple. No one there will talk about her.
At this point I'm about to consult a walkthrough, but I have one last idea. Last time I went to jail I was released at Ft. Moonmoth so I head there to check out the prison. Problem is despite calling the tower a prison there are no cells
So now I go check the walkthrough. No mention of her disapearance. So I search the official Forums. It's a bug Luckily you can type a consule command to bring her to where ever you are standing. Supposedly she can fall through the floor in the Mages guild. I've actually done this twice myself when I was hopping along.

About stuff disapearing. It better not, I've got at least 70,000 worth of stolen stuff sitting in the crates outside of the Southwall corner club.

Last edited by Moral Hazard on 25-09-2004 at 07:49

	26-09-2004 02:00									#118
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quote: I've got at least 70,000 worth of stolen stuff sitting in the crates outside of the Southwall corner club.

Miight want to move it...if its still there that is.

	26-09-2004 02:19									#119
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Luckily it was. I moved it into my house.

spoiler(highlight to read): Nerano's Manor makes an excellent house, lots of tables to put stuff on, I've got everything neatly sorted in there. I'm glad I killed him, to get the key.

	26-09-2004 02:27									#120
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spoiler(highlight to read): Hlaalo (i think thats its name) Manner works well too