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The nightingale armor, upgraded to legendary, it's awesome indeed.

Daedric armor looks silly on this game, in fact I think the best looking armor it's glass. It just looks like a proper armor and, unlike past games, it actually looks that it can protect you instead of making you look like a Faberg? egg. In the end, with every perk upgraded there's little difference between dragon and glass, if any.

The nightingale armor, upgraded to legendary, it's awesome indeed.

Daedric armor looks silly on this game, in fact I think the best looking armor it's glass. It just looks like a proper armor and, unlike past games, it actually looks that it can protect you instead of making you look like a Faberg? egg. In the end, with every perk upgraded there's little difference between dragon and glass, if any.

Glass armor makes you look like a power ranger. They should have made the stronger armors look a little more humble, imo, instead of "badass"

Glass armor makes you look like a power ranger. They should have made the stronger armors look a little more humble, imo, instead of "badass"

To some point I agree, however I do like looking like a badass sometimes :p

I take you really love the ebony armor look (sans helmet).

BTW, If glass armor makes you look like a power ranger Daedric looks like one of the bad guys in that show.

To some point I agree, however I do like looking like a badass sometimes :p

I take you really love the ebony armor look (sans helmet).

BTW, If glass armor makes you look like a power ranger Daedric looks like one of the bad guys in that show.

Ebony armor is that classic Knight look. I like it a lot, but ebony ignots are just a pain to buy and find. I found a few orc camps who's blacksmiths sell 6 eb igs at a time, but then you are spending like 4k on them.

To some point I agree, however I do like looking like a badass sometimes :p

I take you really love the ebony armor look (sans helmet).

BTW, If glass armor makes you look like a power ranger Daedric looks like one of the bad guys in that show.

Yeahhhhh, Lord Zedd!

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Ebony armor is that classic Knight look. I like it a lot, but ebony ignots are just a pain to buy and find. I found a few orc camps who's blacksmiths sell 6 eb igs at a time, but then you are spending like 4k on them.

I have around 60 Ebony Ingots in my chest at home in Whiterun. Once I hit about level 30, the blacksmiths constantly had between 4 to 6, so I continually bought them, until I realized they were abundant now.

Ebony armor is that classic Knight look. I like it a lot, but ebony ignots are just a pain to buy and find. I found a few orc camps who's blacksmiths sell 6 eb igs at a time, but then you are spending like 4k on them.

Whiterun's blacksmith (The one just next to the entrance) sells around 10 of them every two days. If you have decent enough speech skill they arent expensive. Also I have this mod that allows to recycle weapons in the smelter. You should try it. http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=874

The nightingale armor, upgraded to legendary, it's awesome indeed.

Daedric armor looks silly on this game, in fact I think the best looking armor it's glass. It just looks like a proper armor and, unlike past games, it actually looks that it can protect you instead of making you look like a Faberg? egg. In the end, with every perk upgraded there's little difference between dragon and glass, if any.

But will other armor I get at higher level shatter the nightingale that I get stats wise.

Nightingale is my favorite armor look...

so I downloaded a mod to change my dragon armor into nightingale. :)

It's just the look though, the armor still has the same stats.

There is a mod on skyrim nexus called nightingale prime,, reason I'm going for the nightingale armor

Whiterun's blacksmith (The one just next to the entrance) sells around 10 of them every two days. If you have decent enough speech skill they arent expensive. Also I have this mod that allows to recycle weapons in the smelter. You should try it. http://www.skyrimnex...file.php?id=874

The one in whiterun only sells me 1 or 2 at most every 2 days. And nope, not putting any points into speech :p I talk with my blades!

I wonder... My character is a Orc... So do vendors have race preferences? Do they sell more to a human than a orc? Is that why orcs sell me more goods in the camps???? Hmmmm

Yep, I got that mod at the same time. Here's my video showing it off:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-4FCxrfE_0&feature=plcp&context=C24053UDOEgsToPDskLkwgusNDqQ12fz-TFlGYQ3

I upgraded the look with the Prime mod, then switched the dragon armor graphic

out for it as well.

To some point I agree, however I do like looking like a badass sometimes :p

I take you really love the ebony armor look (sans helmet).

BTW, If glass armor makes you look like a power ranger Daedric looks like one of the bad guys in that show.

Aesthetically, I think some of the least strong armors in the game look the best. I like the iron armor and the steel plate armor. The steel plate armor from the back looks very elegant, with an intricate, subtle design. The ebony armor still looks clunky and heavy in comparison. I thought part of the point of magic armor and strong metals was that you could make better armor that was also lighter at the same time? I wonder how difficult it would be to move around in ebony armor if it were real.

Whats the deal with the arrow to the knee comments? I saw something yesterday but I can't see images here at work.

There's a character in the game that you meet who says that he used to be an adventurer until he took an arrow to the knee. Someone created a picture of that exact conversation and then right next to it imagine a picture of your character with 6 arrows coming out of his face. In context it's friggin hilarious.

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There's ALL the character in the game that you meet who says that he used to be an adventurer until he took an arrow to the knee. Someone created a picture of that exact conversation and then right next to it imagine a picture of your character with 6 arrows coming out of his face. In context it's friggin hilarious.

Fixed that for you :p I hear it from basically everyone except vendors.

Just finished the quest where you go investigate the dragon being reborn by the black dragon ( second dragon ) , but ended up killing a dragon on the way ( where dragon word frost storm was learned ), now trying to get a house to store magic items, as don't really want to sell them. And started Thebes guild to get the nightingale armor. Lvl 8 ATM,using only bows

So far it's very fun, world isn't as big on foot/horse as I thought it was though , fast travel makes it seem even smaller.

Keep in mind that the earlier you get the armor, the lower the stats will be. I went and did the assassins guild quests first, then went back and did the thieves guild story line. Although I kind of mixed them up a bit but I didn't finish the nightingale line until like 25 or so.

Keep in mind that the earlier you get the armor, the lower the stats will be. I went and did the assassins guild quests first, then went back and did the thieves guild story line. Although I kind of mixed them up a bit but I didn't finish the nightingale line until like 25 or so.

Well crap, looks like I don't finish the quest till level 32 or something. ( skyrim wiki says it maxes at lvl 32 )

I'm level 35 and have to stop playing. I'm the type of person who can't play a game twice, because I know all of the spoilers and it's boring for me to rehash what I have already done. I really want want to enjoy the mods but since the release date for the SDK has been pushed to January, I'm afraid that I will finish the majority of the game by then! So I am going to try to wait for the SDK before I work on any of the major plotlines.

The random bounty missions are boring as hell. The bandits did not not level with me so I just walk around and one-shot everybody.

Is there a way to count hours played in some sort of log file, or something?

It says in your save file how many hours you have played.

But will other armor I get at higher level shatter the nightingale that I get stats wise.

There is a mod on skyrim nexus called nightingale prime,, reason I'm going for the nightingale armor

Nightingale Prime - http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1896

One of the best looking re-textures I've ever seen, it's amazing. I've been using it for several days.

It says in your save file how many hours you have played.

Nightingale Prime - http://www.skyrimnex...ile.php?id=1896

One of the best looking re-textures I've ever seen, it's amazing. I've been using it for several days.

That is bad ass. Wow.

Best one so far with a great top post "I? used to be a physicist, but i took an air cannon to the chest"

That was awesome,, didn't notice the Dragon Shout till second play through.

1.3 is out

Update 1.3 for Skyrim is now available on Steam and is being submitted to Sony and Microsoft. As soon as we have more information on the update hitting PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, we'll let everyone know. Below are the release notes for the update:

Update 1.3 Notes (all platforms unless specified)

General stability improvements

Optimize performance for Core 2 Duo CPUs (PC)

Fixed Radiant Story incorrectly filling certain roles

Fixed magic resistances not calculating properly

Fixed issue with placing books on bookshelves inside player purchased homes

Fixed dragon animation issues with saving and loading

Fixed Y-look input to scale correctly with framerate

We?re also planning on rolling out support for 4-Gigabyte Tuning (Large Address Aware) next week for our PC users. Stay tuned!

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