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 From:  af (CAER)  
 To:  MrTrent     
39098.644 In reply to 39098.630 

With a high enough smithing skill (boosted by potions) you can get to the armour cap (530 or so I think) just by using steel plate armour – anything above that is just for looks.

 

There's also a way to create a 'potion loop' such that you can make ludicrously powerful potions fairly easily. I've avoided the temptation to make weapons with 5 million damage on them, and limited myself to reducing destruction spells cost 90% less.

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First, you need a Fortify Alchemy gear set. Basically, just buy Grand Soul Gems with Grand souls and enchant a set of armors/jewelries. Your enchant skill doesn’t matter, but if you have some skill, things will be quicker. If you don’t know Fortify Alchemy, you need to find an item that gives Fortify Alchemy effect, then you need to disenchant that item to learn that effect. Alternatively, you can use the alchemy items you find, just 3 or more would suffice, but it may take a while to find, so enchanting is better.

Next, you need ingredients for Fortify Restoration potion, those are:

  • Abecean Longfin
  • Cyrodilic Spadetail
  • Salt Pile
  • Small Antlers
  • Small Pearl

(the first three are the easiest to get – the fish can be found is pretty much all rivers and lakes)

You should have at least 20 potions worth of ingredients. If you aren’t skilled at enchanting or alchemy, it will start of slow at first because of low percentages, but, if you keep doing it, soon it’ll start rapidly increasing.

Now, how to make thing work:

  1. Wear your Alchemy set
  2. Create 1 Fortify Restoration potion (just one), and drink it
  3. Go to your inventory, unequip your alchemy items and requip them
  4. Create another Fortify Restoration potion (again, just one), and drink it
  5. Unequip and reequip your alchemy items.

Repeat this as long as you want, every time you do this (correctly), your alchemy gear stats will increase, and the next fortify restoration potion effect will also increase. After getting a satisfactory increase (entirely up to you, either 850% or 50000%, your choice), create 10 or so fortify restoration potions, so that you can use that on Fortify Smithing/Alchemy gear (use the potion and equip/unequip/reequip your gear).

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 From:  Dave!!  
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)     
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The fire breath one can be useful in battle as it also knocks opponents back a bit. I've also used the "disarm" one occasionally, plus the speed one is very useful for reaching some hidden areas in dungeons. As for me, only just come back from holiday, so just slowly getting back into it again. I also agree with the Dragon armour point, although I'm sure there'll soon be a mod around to tweak Dragon armour to make it better than Daedric!
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 From:  Radio  
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Grr, just killed fifth dragon, but then learned another word of power, and so I still can't unlock the shout.
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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)  
 To:  Radio     
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Confused. You're trying to unlock new shouts or some quest won't give you.one? I assume you know you have to use the souls to unlock new shouts and each shout can be made from 3 words.

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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)  
 To:  Dave!!     
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I've only recently got the speed shout and have used that a couple of times. I can definitely see that being handy at times. Still got some to find though.

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 From:  Radio  
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)     
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You have to do something to the souls to unlock the shouts?
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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)  
 To:  Radio     
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Yeah, you have to use a dragon soul to unlock each level of a shout. If you go to the shouts in the magic menu there's a key to unlock them, R I think.

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 From:  MrTrent  
 To:  Dave!!     
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although I'm sure there'll soon be a mod around to tweak Dragon armour to make it better than Daedric!
I don't actually want dragon armour to be better than deadric, as deadric looks way cooler anyway.

MrTrent A young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless. In a world of criminals who operate above the law.

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 From:  Dave!!  
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)     
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You have to look for them. In certain dungeons, you might see a doorway at the end of a broken walkway, or a way over some broken walkways to a ledge. There's often some nifty loot hidden in these places and you need the sprint shout to get them.
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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)  
 To:  Dave!!     
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Oohh, I hadn't noticed any of those sorts of things. I've seen hidden doors and passageways under water so I will look out for places that need sprinting too. And some word walls are hidden this way?

 

I got the fire breath shout last night, wasn't expecting what I found at the throat of the world.


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 From:  af (CAER)  
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)     
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If/when you get the Storm Call shout, beware using it when there are friendly NPCs about, as it'll quite happily target them as well.
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 From:  Dave!!  
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)     
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As far as I know, all the word walls are in pretty-obvious-you-can't-really-miss-them places. So far!
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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)  
 To:  Dave!!     
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Ah, that's what I thought, I misread your post. I thought you meant you have to look for word walls in dungeons with unreachable ledges. I see what you meant now. Most of the ones I've seen have been at the end of dungeons in a big room with a boss dude to kill.

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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)  
 To:  patch     
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Just reached Blackreach. What an awesomely bizarre place. Love this game :)

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 From:  Manthorp  
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)     
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Me too. Mental, but not Shivering Isle mental.

"We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked."
James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks 1951

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 From:  MrTrent  
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)     
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I spent ages just wondering around Blackreach taking screenshots. Awesome place.

MrTrent A young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless. In a world of criminals who operate above the law.

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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)  
 To:  MrTrent     
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Just wondering what?
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 From:  MrTrent  
 To:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)     
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Just wondering how to spell wandering, clearly.

MrTrent A young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless. In a world of criminals who operate above the law.

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 From:  af (CAER)  
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)     
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There's a secret dragon in Blackreach, apparently.

Use a full-power Unrelenting Force on the big orange ball thing.

I've not tried it myself yet so I dunno what happens.
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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)  
 To:  af (CAER)     
39098.663 In reply to 39098.662 
I accidentally read that about that last night. You don't need full power force to do it. The big dome makes a chime /gongy noise and a dragon flies across from somewhere, one with a name. fairly tough bugger who managed to kill me once

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