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Contents 1 Jan. 17. 2008 2 Jan. 16. 2008 3 Jan. 15. 2008 4 Jan. 14. 2008 5 Jan. 11-13. 2008

[edit] Jan. 17. 2008

For anyone who wants Oblivion to be somewhat hard again, Put the difficulty meter on easy and USE HAND TO HAND. Not only does it add some element of challenge, it's also tons of fun.
What I'm doing is exploring (I know, what a concept. The actual basis of the game and I just fast travel between cities). First I train H2H if and when I can, then just go out into the wild and level another few things up. It's shocking how fast skills go up like H2H, Light Armor, Acrobatics, and Athletics when you're just screwing around in the wild. Hell, I may not even have to train. Go out in the wild at 0/10 skills.
And for the first time in a long time, I'm actually roleplaying this character somewhat. I'm wearin a black hood (IE: Necromancer's hood), huntsman vest, huntsman pants, and fur boots. It's the perfect garb for a wanderer. Hood only worn on rainy days. I avoid the Imperial City, except to sell stuff, but immediately leave.

Oh yeah, I did the arena with just fists too. I've never had such a hard time while having tons of fun at the same time.

I don't know how else to explain. A great skill. I assume with 100 H2H and these +20 bracers, I may eventually be doing 12-13 damage with my fists, which is ONLY half of what swords are with a blade of 90-ish. No weight. No disarming. Great stuff.

[edit] Jan. 16. 2008

Character making sucks, especially when you're trying to make something exactly specific. A while ago I had a pale argonian, trying to duplicate that got so annoying I did the exact opposite by making the argonian very, very dark red.
Just yesterday I was trying to remake my battlemonk, stealth/combat hybrid, mostly using fists. It was level 3 at first and had the cutest face evar. Tried to remake it and could NOT for the life of me, get the same face. I spent an hour using the "random face" thing, editing around to try and make the same character. I failed, I'll have to suffer with what I have.

Anyway, powerleveled my Battlemonk to level 16. Even though Hand-to-Hand is left in the dust (powerleveled Alteration to 100, Illusion about 50 points (5 levels) and snuck around the Dark Brotherhood's pet rat for a while, leveling sneak a few points so I won't be completely nüb when I actually *start* playing the game. Might have to spend a few K's to get H2H back on par. I powerlevel mostly for leveled loot, armor, and rewards. Most in-game rewards give you items that are on par with whatever level you are, and that's what I'm hoping for. Getting powerful items early on. Oh yea, and daedric quests.

I went to the Dark Brotherhood at level 3, didn't leave untill level 16. Took about two hours. Fighting will be annoying but some training sessions will fix that (and the Arena, which will be pretty annoying unless I do the training first.)

Before that, I actually DID roleplay. First thing, I avoided the Imperial City Completely. Just exploring, I got the entire space above Anvil explored. Any quest I will have in that area, I have about 7 explored places I can travel to and go from there. I thought about doing this some more, but at level 16 it will be a little more difficult than one-hitting wolves and bandits (Bandits who are now probably level 12-ish instead of, say, 2-ish.) So I'm a little wary of "living off the land" some more. I will try to stay on paths and continue to avoid the Imperial City.
I want to explore more but I don't want to fistfight a fucking minotaur either. Then again I've fistfighted Daedroths before and that wasn't TOO terribly bad.

Either way, I pray I won't have to branch off into a weapon category since I've never had a fistfighter this high a level before. Good news is my hitpoints are on par with a warrior's, so even though It may take me a while to kill something, I will take a beating that of a warrior (even though I'm wearing Light armor as well).

Eh, it's going to be an interesting character to play. If I can't handle the wilderness, it'll be interesting to try and stya secluded to cities (at least untill my H2H becomes non-suck).

[edit] Jan. 15. 2008

I skipped out on the Daedric armor for my level 38 battlemage-assassin. I just put it into storage for another time. Joined the thieves guild, did a few jobs. Amazing how quick and easy things are done with invisibility.

I hopped on my unique nord guy. Unique in the sense that I made him black (when do YOU ever see a black nord?) storyline wise, he's half redguard. A dangerous and badass combination. Two warrior-type races in one bulking package. He's a custom class, but essentially a warrior. I threw Alteration in there for 3 things: Powerleveling, unlocking, and shield spells. Mostly powerleveling, spamming "open very easy lock" on doors and crap. Does NOT take long at all.

Got him to level 6 before raiding rockmilk cave in hopes for Dwarven armor, got nothing, and went to bed. Zzz.

[edit] Jan. 14. 2008

I have something to say after all!

Debating whether I should have full Daedric on my new hybrid mage character. Got the armor, but I am so god awefully slow it's not even funny. And my light armor is 37 while my Heavy armor is still at a pathetic 7. I may just set the daedric to the side (in my Skingrad house) and stay as I am now. Still, daedric seems so much more fitting for battlemage-type character. I got one hell of a to-do list for Oblivion when I get home today.

I'll be archiving this soon, at the 32k page limit.

[edit] Jan. 11-13. 2008

Nothing BUT Oblivion. My mage went from level 7 to 38 in just a couple of days. You could say "powerlevel", as I spam low-level spells untill the skill is 100. Did that for about 4 different magic schools. Then I got smart.
I would spam-level one thing 5 times then train something else different 5 times. Should have done that a WHILE ago. For this case, I trained in blade. Not the most useful skill but I leveled it for many reasons: Backup. Magicka does run out. And loot space, each strength gives 5 pounds more to my encumberance, to which I use a lot when looting. To date I have about 370 encumberance+more with enchantments, which is much better than the 150 I started with. (Which was fine for levels below 20, as I never had/needed more than 30 pounds of equipment, I didn't bother with armor.) Untill level 30-ish, I armed this mage with some enchanted glass equipment from bandits. Light armor skill may be low but 27 armor rating is better than 4 that I had from random boots and gloves.

Yeah, Carol my mage is all I've been playing. She's very hybrid-like, does a bit of everything ranging from magic and into stealth and a little into combat. I recently discovered the sheer power of Invisibility, so I blew a whole through the dark brotherhood quests, even with a sneak skill as low as 35 (which is low when I'm sneaking around things leveled with me, as they would obviously have a higher sneak than me at this point.) May get into the thieves guild eventually, and even fighters since my blade is now on par with my level. (still 75-ish, but it would have been stuck at 25-ish had I just ignored it.)

Customized my own Destruction spell that basically does 80 damage, 20 points from 4 different sources. So when I encounter something that's immune to say, fire damage, it will still take 60 points from damage health, shock, and frost. Better than spell-switching.

A neat discovery on-par with invisiblity. The main quest I was always scared to do without anything but a warrior-type character. This scar comes from trying to shut an oblivion gate down with a high level thief, and it ended very badly. Didn't die, but I barely did any damage and the damage I did relied on sneak attacks -- which couldn't be done every time. Try fighting a fucking daedroth with a fucking dagger. I dare you.

But with my customized 80-damage spell, I one hit those damn daedroths and 2-3 shot everything else. And I am armed with Goldbrand and it is a worthy backup (22 damage, as opposed to 16 or lower from daggers) when magicka is run out. Oblivion Gates aren't so scary with my battlemage. Customized class, "domini", I couldn't think of anything at the time because I knew this character wasn't going to be a pure mage from the start. And what I'm doing with her now, "Mage" does not do her justice.

So I'm just on the beginning of "Allies for Bruma" untill I had to surrender the xbox to my cousin to play Guitar Hero 3, which is my brother's and I never touch that cursed game. But yeah, that's why this entry is entered on the day I actually played this particular session (read the second notice on the top of this page). Hell, tomorrow at school I might not have much to say since today's entry was actually entered today! Still, my gametime is not over yet.

Toodles.