Skyrim Problems

You need to make sure you are using the dragon souls to unlock the words of shouts as you pick them up. This took me 2 weeks to figure out (and I was unemployed when this game came out so it was all I was doing). When you go into the shouts screen, you should see it asking you to unlock a shout by pressing a certain button. This will use a dragon soul, and also give you one more word during that shout. After all 3 words are gathered, there is no more way to power them up.

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Short answer: No.

Long Answer: The Fire Enchantment (regardless of strength) is one enchantment. You cannot disenchant an item without destroying it, so you’d have to find a duplicate of whatever you want (or craft another). Then you basically need to max out your enchantment tree, because the strength of the enchantment depends on your skills in that tree. If you have a low enchantment skill, you can only enchant weapons with low effects. Thankfully, there is a short-cut to maxing out your blacksmithing/enchantment trees and gaining a few levels in the process. You can find the guides online.

Well that depends on a multitude of factors. Are you playing the reluctant hero? Are you playing the Saving Grace/Called to Action hero? Or are you playing someone who’s evil, but was given this great gift? Is this person someone who treasures human life and tries not to kill if possible, or are you playing someone who would slaughter his own mother for a chance at power? Personally, anyone you can hire is a safe-bet, or anyone you have to punch once. That never made sense to me. “You’ve beaten me in a fist fight, I’ll totally follow you around since you humbled me!”

I would love some dungeons for magic-specific characters, but then it would also have to be the other way around. There would have to be dungeons where magic based characters couldn’t damage anything. I’m old school D&D (second edition, yo!) so I prefer to see my Mage’s not fighting with swords and war hammers. I like my Mage’s to have staves or wands or RUN MUTHER FUCKER CAUSE YOU ONLY GOT MAGIC AND THAT’S A GOD DAMN DRAGON!

As far as I’m aware, you HAVE to become a werewolf to become the Harbinger, but you then have the ability to kill your beast-spirit. I think all of the guilds could really use some work, especially the College of Winterhold, It’s really disappointing to me to have to join the College to continue one of the quests in the game. I had a character who was not magically inclined and by the time I joined, I was unable to keep a Ward spell on long enough to block the instructors fireball because I had not invested any points in Mana.

I think the Guild specific quests should have been done in this way regardless of DLC. We were too quickly able to get through the ranks and it seemed meaningless. I think instead of constant “protect this” or “steal that” missions, things like helping Rune locate his family or recruiting new thieves (like in Assassin’s Creed) would have been more awesome.