Don't install to your Xbox 360's hard drive: According to Bethesda, installing the game causes problems and at least for now, you should play the game straight off the disc.
Save often: This may be obvious, but it needs to be mentioned again. You have unlimited save slots, use them. With Skyrim, you never know what will happen, so be prepared and have a few different save files ready.
What not to sell while you adventure: Don't sell armor and weapons with magical effects, you can disenchant them (and learn how to enchant those effects on other gear). Early in the game, if you need to find an "Arcane Enchanter" (which lets you disenchant weapons and armor) there is one on the first floor of Dragonsreach. Also don't sell ingredients and materials, you can use them for alchemy, smithing, etc.
Where to sell weapons, items, loot, etc. in Skyrim: Early in the game, it may be a little confusing as to where you can sell all of your hard earned loot. A good place for a new character to sell their loot is in Whiterun. Just open your map, and fast travel to Whiterun. Once you arrive at Whiterun, run straight and follow the road all the way past the first 2 buildings on your right (Warmaiden's and Breezehome). The third building you see is Belethor's General Goods here you can sell all of your loot.
Keep the following items for quests: (1)gold ore, (2)flawless saphires, (1)black-briar mead, (1)flawless ruby, (1)silver ingot, (1)deathbell flower, (1)vampire dust, (1)mammoth tusk
Don't rush: Don't rush. It's amazing what you find by not rushing, forget about the main quest for awhile and just explore. There is more content in Skyrim than in Oblivion (Including a radiant quest system which is capable of generating an infinite amount of quests) so the amount of side quests and things to discover is staggering. Playing a game like this just for the main quest is like eating a sandwich for the bread.
Zooming in and out with the third person camera: The camera can actually be zoomed in and out. Push and hold the right analog stick in and then push / pull the left analog stick to move in / out the camera.
Free Holding Items: Instead of pressing A (Or whatever the use button is on your platform) to pick an item up, you can hold A to move an item within the world environment.
Multiple Weapons / Spells on Quick Select: When you are within the quick select menu for weapons/spells you can assign multiple spells when holding left or right on the D-Pad.
Hotkeying on the PC: You can hotkey weapons and spells to the 1 - 8 keys. First make the item a Favorite. Open the Favorite menu ingame (Q), highlight the item you wish to hotkey and press the hotkey (1-8) you want to use.
Stock up on health potions: Early on, health potions are very useful (And are much more powerful than your starting healing spells), so having an abundance of them for tough and unexpected fights is essential to your survival.
Light armor benefits: There are some good reasons to prefer light armors.
- 50% faster stamina regen perk
- 10% attack avoidance perk
- 10 points to get everything useful while heavy is 12 points with 2 arguably useless perks (50% damage from falls and fist fighting) needed to unlock lightweight perk
- Less weight in your inventory
As for heavy armor, it has a higher armor rating and 50% less stagger skill.
Dragonbones and dragon scales: If you are wondering whether dragonbones or dragon scales are useful later in the game, you can use them to create dragon armor with 100 in the smithing skill. But since dragons are infinite, you can sell both until you are ready to craft the dragon armor.
Dragon fighting tips:
- Dragons vary in strength depending on their color: Green is common and weak, bronze, metallic and white are strong.
- Dragons drop scales and bones which as mentioned above are used for crafting dragon armor (with 100 skill in smithing.) The other loot that they drop is random.
- Dragons give souls which you can spend on shouts.
- They are like random encounters and can be encountered near dungeon entrances that you may have already explored.
- Fighting them in areas without sufficient space for them to land is a bad idea because they will snipe you with their fire breath attacks. Lead them into the open for the kill. When they land, engage them.
- Warrior class characters should use power attacks as they deal a considerable ammount of damage to the dragons
- Dragon fights are tougher for stealth type characters, but are doable. You just have to improvise.
Is an enemy kicking your ass? Sometimes you just have to run away. The best way to deal with an enemy you can't handle is to come back later when you are stronger. Attacking tougher enemies like polar bears as a low level peon is a death sentence.
Skyrim Storyline and the previous games: If you are wondering whether you have to play the earlier Elder Scrolls games to understand the story in Skyrim, the answer is no. Skyrim picks up 200 years after the events of Oblivion, and it tells a completely different story.
Don't lower the difficulty right away: Although you may be tempted, the default difficulty of "Adept" is perfect for most people. Some fights are supposed to be hard, so don't expect to win them all. This game was designed to be hard, so switching the difficulty to something lower than adept without giving it a few shots first (leveling, doing some other quests first), could potentially ruin the game for you.
Save before you create your character: You may have noticed that you must watch about 5 minutes of the intro before actually being able to access the character creation screen. To skip this in future (for new characters), create a save when the guardsman is calling out names. Make sure you do this before he says "You, step forward", as at this point the game will enter a cinematic and you will not be able to access the save game menu.
Try out different races and keep your changes: Ever created an "okay" Breton and wanted to see if you could do better with a different race but didn't want to lose your changes? You wont! If you make changes to a preset on say, a Breton, so long as you do not change the preset of that Breton, you can go to the race screen and select another race. You can then make a face for that race and so on and so forth. Scrolling back down to the Breton will show your custom face.
Put that weapon away: Wielding a weapon in a town can be deemed as hostile.
Don't kill that chicken: Even killing a chicken could cause a town to turn hostile against you, so watch what you do, and who you do it in front of. (Relevant Reddit submission)
Don't neglect magic: In Skyrim magic is even more powerful and useful than in the previous Elder Scrolls games. For people who want to major in any kind of magic skill, it is recommended to stick to using one-handed weapons, so that you can also use magic with your other hand.
Two-handed weapons still viable: Since Dragon Shouts fufill all your occasional magic needs ("Man, some fire damage would be good right now") the only thing you'll need magic for is healing when the potions run out. Burning my entire starting mana pool of 100 is enough to bring me to 1/2 - 3/4 at a little under 200 HP max.
Is the smithing skill useful? Should you level it? Besides making weapons and armor, using the smithing skill you can improve weapons and armor you already have. You can also get the arcane smith perk allows you to enhace unique and legendary weapons.
The only time smithing is 100% useless is when you are a pure mage and wear robes, since you can't improve cloth or your hands.
Skyrim Smithing Tips: You can find ingots in lots of places or mine for materials. (There are mining points, look at a wall or ground that looks different and then approach. The option to mine will appear. Remember that you need a pick for this to work. )
Where to find mining points: Climb around some mountains, you'll find some veins.
Leather comes from animal hides: just click on a tanning rack and select your hide and bam, you have leather. Click on the forge to make new weapons, and use grindstones to improve your weapons. Also use the workbench to improve your armor.
Where to buy Spells in Skyrim: If you are looking to buy some new spells early in the game, there are good spells in Whiterun, at Dragon Search. There is an alchemist there that sells all kinds of spells. The catch is you have do a story mission there first.
Having a hard time out there? Get a companion: In Skyrim companions are more usable than ever before in the Elder Scrolls series. One of the first companions you get is in Whiterun (Lydia), use her to complete quests you can't on your own.
Fire, Ice or Lightning, which Magicka does the most damage? Fire does the most raw damage,
Ice and Lightning do the same amount of damage, but ice drains stamina, and Lightning drains magicka.
Tips for stealth characters in Skyrim: Daggers have a 6x damage multiplier on sneak attacks, so if you are going for a melee assassin, daggers are the way to go.
- Overall best stealth weapons: Daggers.
- Khajiits and Argonians are great stealth characters but other races can also be effective.
- Dark Brotherhood and Thieves guilds will be a good place to start for stealth characters.
- Pick up a bow pretty early on, and learn how to use it.
- Avoid big and flashy destruction spells.
- Stick to alteration spells because that's where you find cloaking type spells.
- Stick to stealth perks and skills such as Sneak, Archery, Lockpicking...and even perks like Alchemy and Illusion will be of great benefit.
Displaying your hard earned armor, weapons and items in your home: Drop the item out of your inventory, then hold down A (Xbox 360) (Or whatever button Use is on your platform), so that instead of looting the item, you can move it around and place it anywhere you want.
Respawning enemies: It takes 3-5 game days to repopulate areas that you previously cleared.
Spell Creation...where is it? Unfortunately spell creation was not included in Skyrim unlike the previous Elder Scrolls games.
Dual Wielding in Skyrim: Dual wielding is great depending how you play. If you want to use it effectively, buy a lot of potions (stamina and health) and smith some great armor for yourself because you won't be able to block. Then get your alteration up and cast a stoneflesh, which adds +60 to Armor Rating, before each fight. Dual wielding works well, but only if done right.
Level and Perk cap in Skyrim: There is no fixed "maximum level" (i.e level 50) for you attain. However, if you were to raise all of your skills to 100, this would - eventually - take you to around level 80. As you're only able to choose one perk each time you level up, and there are well over 200 skill-based perks, don't fixate on obtaining every single one.
Respecing your perks / skills in Skyrim: Currently it is not possible to respec, but in the future the option may be added with some DLC or if you play on the PC, a mod.
Daedric Shrine Locations:
- Boethia Shrine is NE from Windhelm. You get the Ebony Mail.
- Peryite Shrine is Northeast of Markarth. You get Spellbreaker Shield.
- Molag Bal's quest is from a Abandoned house in Markrath. You get Mace of Molag Bal.
- Sheogorath is from the Bartender in Solitudes bar
- Clavicus Vile's quest is started by finding his dog Barbas. You get Masque of Clavicus Vile or the - Rueful Axe
- Hircine's quest is started by talking to the werewolf Sinding in Falkreath Barracks. You get Savior's Hide or the Ring of Hircine.
- Malacanth's shrine is at the orc camp Largashbur
- Hermaeus Mora's shrine is to the far north of Winterhold at Septimus Signus's outpost
Training skills: In previous Elder Scrolls games like Oblivion, you could cast the same spell at the ground over and over and it would level. You cannot do this in Skyrim. To level your magic skills in Skyrim, you must use those skills in a situation where they're actually useful. So for example, casting Firebolt on the ground wont do anything, but casting it on an enemy will.
Leveling too fast? If it feels like you are leveling too fast, don't worry, it slows down a lot after level 10.
Buying houses: To buy houses in Skyrim, you talk to the Stewart of the head of the town. This goes for every town.
Save your gold: Many times spending gold on equipment and items is worthless since you find plenty while exploring dungeons and killing random enemies. Instead save up your gold and buy things like training, a horse, a house, etc.
If you find yourself with an abundance of gold, the first thing you should buy is a house so you can store your items.
Buying your very first house: (*MINOR SPOILERS*) After you've defeated the dragon at the little tower out in the middle of nowhere near Whiterun, where the guards standing nearby say "Hey, you're the dragonborn, that guy from legend" and "never would have believed it if I hadn't seen it myself", immediately go talk to the Jarl at Dragonreach in Whiterun, and he'll give you the title of Thane and offer you a house to buy for 5000 in the city. The house is conveniently close to the fast-travel spot to Whitehall.
Skill Book Locations: Check out our Skill Book Locations Guide to find them all.
How to get a town to stop hating you: Go to the capital of the hold you are currently in. A guard will likely arrest you. If they don't, talk to one. Pay off your debt or serve your sentence and you should be cleared.
How many quests are in Skyrim anyway? The radiant quest system is capable of generating an infinite amount of quests.
How to become a werewolf in Skyrim: Companion Quest-line starting in Whiterun. Look for the Jorrovakr.
Why are my stats red? To cure your stats use a potion of cure disease or pray to a shrine. If you can't find a shrine, there is one in Whiterun.
A few small tips:
- You can pull torches off the walls in caves to use them.
- You can look at a rulers battlemap and get map markers for yours if you click on the little flags.
- You can quickly issue a command to your companion by looking at them and holding A.
- Tired of seeing that quiver on your back, and not your weapon? Just go into your inventory and unequip any quivers you may have.
- Companion in the way? Sometimes a companion will block your path and won't budge. Talk to them, and then select "I need you to do something", then tell them to move out of the way by clicking (or hitting the use button) on the ground somewhere.
PC version with an Xbox 360 controller: If you are playing Skyrim on the PC, consider picking up a wired 360 controller. Unlike the previous Elder Scrolls games, Skyrim works really well with the controller and has an interface designed specifically for it. Even if you are a die hard keyboard and mouse fan, it is highly recommended giving the 360 controller a try with your PC version of Skyrim.
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