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Why have you drawn a yellow circle around some empty space?

There's no one there?!

This joke isn't going very well...

I'll not only catch them, I'll even eat them to see what effect is has.

 

It does make me giggle when I eat a load of ingredients to find out what their effect is, but nothing really happens until I've left the menu and my character exclaims just how disgusting eating all those things were.

I see where your subtle humour was leading me now! Well played, sir.

Aye, that is funny.

I've stopped doing it though because I think levelling up alchemy is a bad idea (increases my level without increasing the skills that matter (i.e. stabbing))

I did find it somewhat unrealistic in Morrowind that you could get out your alchemy equipment and ingredients mid-battle, set it all up, concoct a health potion then drink it, then continue fighting.

Level it up loads then apply some lethal poisons on your blades :D

Yeah but: 30 levels and 15 perk points spent in alchemy to put poisons on my blades.

Vs.

30 levels and 15 points on stabbing shit.

The poisons do sound cool though! Poison arrers!

They would be cool if they lasted for (significantly) more than like 3 shots. I would use them mainly for wizards. Some anti-magicka potion and then see how they like fighting me.

So you apply them and you get about 3 arrows with poison on? Can you separate them out of the normal arrows? Can you enchant arrows? I LIKE ARROWS.

Yes and no and no. Not sure about enchanting.

Poisoning is rubbish. There are perks to make the poisons last for more strikes/arrows etc. but... it's not enough. If I could poison a whole quiver or /permanently/ poison my blades then yeah, sure. But no. So fuck you alchemy.

I tend to use Alchemy for the odd poison for tough enemies (or when there's a lot of them to help me quickly dispatch a couple), and for making shit to sell. It's also useful having a few health potions, but I do like that you can now cook food to restore health and fatigue - even if it is a bit unrealistic to stop in the middle of a battle and scoff half a dozen stews!

Aye, all that is true, but you're still essentially putting skill points into something that can be bought for very little money. Which seems unideal.

I definitely haven't just gone and bought a new computer so I can play this...

:'D

So worth it.

I started following this thread with only a passing interest, but you bastards have got me wanting this game.

 

However, I'm fairly naive when it comes to RPGs. The last one I played was Baldur's Gate Shadows of Amn, which was awesome, but would seem to pale in comparison to this new offering.

 

So, has the RPG genre moved on massively from then? I remember character creation, exploring, fighting, fiddling with inventories, sleeping in inns, collecting swords, choices between good and evil, hamsters and using magic.

 

From what people are saying it sounds similar and because of that it appeals to me.

Pretty much the same, except replace hamsters with mudcrabs, which aren't quite as friendly.

:D

 

I'll get right onto buying it. As soon as I've finished the other games I've bought but haven't had chance to play yet. :C