Rouge's Skyrim Guide: May 2012

· Extracting an Argonian – None – Derkeethus – Darkwater Pass (interior) – Snapleg Cave/Darkwater Pass, open a hidden door with a Northeast lever when you’re above Derkeethus. Hidden in a jar is the key to his cell, or simply lockpick him out and lead him to safety – A follower

Kynesgrove

· Salt for the Stoneweaver - None – Dravynea the Stoneweaver – Kynesgrove (around town) – Bring her frost salts – Find them – +1 Alteration skill

Windhelm

· Crew Cut – None – Kjar – Windhelm docks – Kjar will pay you if you kill a bandit leader – bandit place – Leveled Gold
· Nightshade for the Unliving – None – Hillevi Cruel-Sea – Stone Quarter or Marketplace – Bring Hillevi’s Nightshade Extract to Wuunferth the Unliving – In the Palace of the Kings (upstairs) – 100 Gold
· Malborn’s Long Shadow – Main Quest: Diplomatic Immunity where Malborn lives – Malborn – Gnisis Corner Club – Malborn and Brelas are worried they’re being targeted by assassins, help them escape Windhelm – Speak to the khajit caravans who visit until they tell you the assassin’s name, J’Datharr, whom you must kill – Leveled Gold

Skyrim Tip #4 Werewolf Bonus

Want to be a werewolf? Do the quest Ill Met By Moonlight first! It’s really easy, and will give you a ring that lets you become a werewolf twice a day (instead of once).

Thieves Guild Quest: The Pursuit

Thieves Guild Quest: The Pursuit

Prerequisites: Thieves Guild Quest: Hard Answers

Intersecting Quests: Thieves Guild Quests: Larceny Targets, Additional Jobs, Trinity Restored

Reward: A Larceny item (sellable), Chillrend (Mercer’s sword), the ability to loot Mercer’s house

A Perfect Heist

The quest begins by telling you to meet Karliah at the Ragged Flagon. The entrance through the Hall of the Dead Mausoleum will be locked. Everyone talks a lot. Karliah shows proof that she’s innocent and everyone goes into the treasury vault to check. It’s totally empty. This is also the only time you get inside, since it’s always locked. Long story short: it’s time to loot Mercer’s house. Guarding his house is a man named Vald. He is immune to bribery or intimidation, but can be killed or persuaded. You can also do some miscellaneous quests to erase his debt.

Erasing Vald’s Debt

Locate Maven Black-Briar, who is either in the Bee and Barb, the marketplace, or Black-Briar Manor. Nearby, in lake Honrich, rests some special quill, which Vald lost. Retrieve it and he’s free. You’ll find the Quill halfway between Riften (east) and Goldenglow Estates (west) right below a small island. There will be a mini bay in front of you (with a big rock in the middle), and in the distance, some building with a boat. The water is dark, but the boat isn’t very deep. It will be the front half of a rowboat sticking up beside large, flat rocks on the ocean floor. If you swim up to the surface, you will find yourself between two boats, one in Riften, one in Goldenglow. Inside you’ll find Vald’s Strongbox (average). Bring this back to Maven, or keep and sell it.

Ransacking Riftweald Manor

Whether you simply killed Vald and hid the body or paid off his debts, you’re finally alone (note, sneaking is possible). You can take the key off of Vald or unlock the gate. To get into Mercer’s house, you’ve got to hit a drop-down ramp. It’s just below and to the left of the upper platform. See that cylinder-looking, black lump under the platform? Hope you’ve got a bow and arrows on you. Once inside, there’s two bandits on the upper floor (I remember one being khajit and the other a redguard? They were silly). On the bottom floors, there are maybe three more? Can’t remember. So, kill and loot your way through Mercer’s house, taking any pretty things, and you’ll come to a suspicious cabinet downstairs in a dining room. On the table is a note that hints at multiple (dart, fire, and swinging) traps in the room beyond. Take out the false back to the cabinet and there’s a long passageway that leads to Mercer’s secret room. Head through this uber-long passageway full of traps. In the next room is larceny target: The Bust of Gray Fox as well as (sword) Chillrend and a bowl of gems. To further the quest, be sure to grab Mercer’s plans. If you left your companions behind to wait, you may want to collect them now since the next door will drop you into the ratways next to the entrance to the Thieves Guild. Once in the Ragged Flagon, present these plans to Brynjolf, which commences the next quest: Thieves Guild Quest: Trinity Restored.

Skyrim Tip #3 Leveling Up

The level bar increases by skill increases, for example, leveling up 20 skills points will get you roughly from level 40 to level 43

Friday, May 25, 2012

Follower Level Caps

Follower Level Caps

Level 20: Roggi Knot-Beard, Sven

Level 25: Njada, Athis, Adelaisa Vendicci

Level 30: Vast majority of followers (everyone else)

Level 40: All mercenaries, Mjoll the Lioness, Illia, Erik the Slayer

Level 50: Cicero, Erandur, Aela, Farkas, Vilkas, all Housecarls

Level 81: J’Zargo, Dark Brotherhood Initiates (?)

Skyrim Tip #2 Leveling Up Quickly

Want to level up quickly, or get that teeny bit of the level bar filled? Level up a low skill that you don’t use, the Level bar increases by number of skill increases.

Masks of the Dragon Priests

Dragon Priest Masks:

Hold – Dungeon – Dragon Priest and Mask – Mask Ability – Associated Quest

Haafingar – Volskygge – Volsung - +20 Carry weight, 20% better prices, Waterbreathing – None

Hjaalmarch – Labyrinthian – Morokei – 100% Magicka Regen – College of Winterhold Quest: The Staff of Magnus

The Pale – High Gate Ruins – Vokun – Improve Conjuration, Illusion, Alteration 20% - Dungeon Quest: A Scroll for Anska

The Pale – Shearpoint – Krosis – Improve Lockpicking, Archery, Alchemy 20% - None

The Reach – Ragvald – Otar – Resist Fire, Frost, Shock 30% - Dungeon Quest: Otar’s Mad Guardians

The Reach – Valthume – Hevnorak – disease and poison resistance – Dungeon Quest: Evil In Waiting

The Rift – Forelhost – Rahgot – +70 stamina – Dungeon Quest: Siege on the Dragon Cult

Other Realm – Skulfadn – Nahkriin – +50 magicka, Improve Destruction, Restoration 20% - Main Quest: World-Eater’s Eyrie

Hjaalmarch – Labyrinthian (Bromjunaar Sanctuary) – None – Teleports you to the past sanctuary – Side Quest: Masks of the Dragon Priests

Hjaalmarch – Labyrinthian (Bromjunaar Sanctuary) – None – When the wearer is low on health, there is a chance the mask will knock back enemies, grant a brief fire cloak, heal the wearer and allies, and summon a spectral dragon priest to fight – Side Quest: Masks of the Dragon Priests

Skill Book Locations: Enchanting

Enchanting:

A Tragedy in Black – Glenmoril Coven – On the table with the arcane enchanter

A Tragedy in Black – Ilinalta’s Deep – On a table across from the Arcane Enchanter and Alchemy Lab

Catalogue of Armor Enchantments – Morthal – On the shelf in Falion’s House

Catalogue of Armor Enchantments – Kynesgrove – In Steamscorch Mine, on a table at the tunnel junction

Catalogue of Weapon Enchantments – Dawnstar – In the White Hall, between a large normal and mead barrel, in the room with the training dummy

Catalogue of Weapon Enchantments – Roadside Ruins – Leaned up against a chest in the center of the ruins

Enchanter’s Primer – Whiterun – In Carlotta Valencia’s house, on the floor between the upstairs bed and the end table

Enchanter’s Primer – Hob’s Fall Cave – On the Arcane Enchanter in the Ritual Room

Twin Secrets – Serpent’s Bluff Redoubt – In the Hagraven’s chamber inside the ruins, on the Arcane Enchanter

Twin Secrets – Treva’s Watch – On a table in the bandit chief’s room at the top of the tower

Skyrim Tip #1 Finding Skillbooks

Want to know if something is a skill book without reading it? Simply look at the value! If the value is 50 or more, it’s a skill book or a Spell Tome!