Rolander on 8/7/2006 at 09:00
Quote Posted by Bugs
Man, played 50 hours and not visited all the big towns or visited the Imperial city yet! Been walking or riding from place to place until I've discovered them and then allowing myself to use fast travel (between towns only) afterwards, as I don't really feel that breaks the feeling. After all I can justify it as Morrowind had Mages Guild teleporters all over the place, Stilt Riders and Boats, plus with Mark and Recall plus the other teleport spells, I forget now, but they allowed you to go to temples and stuff, you could get pretty much anywhere in seconds. I just need to fill the gaps in from using fast travel in my head!
I avoided fast travell almost entirely for my latest games, my ranger-style char went almost everywhere on foot except for a quick ride on a very special white horse for fun and a fast travel at the end game when escorting two plot characters cos he ran so fast he lost the second horse rider!
I'm putting this up to encourage Bugs to cultivate a love of countryside strolling or horse riding. A new character for me is a non-Fast Travel pure mage who rides horses; why can't Bethesda let riders cast spells or shoot arrows (Horse Archers!)? Maybe not throw fireballs since horses are afraid of fire but sure the odd snowball or lightning bolt wouldn't hurt. Or at least cast something non-offensive like Invisibility to avoid interruptions on my enjoyable rides? That is the bad thing about horse riding; you have to get off your horse to toast the wolf trying to make a meal out of it.
Quote Posted by Bugs
My mage has toughened up a bit, found it hard going just doing magic all the time, and missing out on those stat bonuses. Have decided to use light armour and blades, was loving the mithril, what with being an elf, felt all very LOTR!
I hope you realise that wearing armour weakens the power of spells you cast. With increasing armour skill you can reduce most of the penality but not all, and you need to increase your armour skill by quite a bit to minimise the penalty.
One reason why you don't see Gandalf wearing chain mail ...
Shadowlord on 8/7/2006 at 22:00
What about traveling everywhere? That quest where you had to go from Chorrel to Leywin just to talk to some lady in the end and go back all the way to chorrel to report back to oyen? At that point, I just fast Travel there. Kinda pissed me off to go through all of that just to go back.
Rolander on 9/7/2006 at 09:58
That's a Fighters Guild quest which I never did. I do know what you mean, after all, I had to run across all of Cyrodiil to get all the Mages Guild Recommendations so I am aware of the time involved in 'slow travel'.
It is just that for some people like myself like slow travel. For myself, I get to view scenery, [SPOILER] shoot/fireball deer for venison, duke it out and loot bandits/highwaymen, fight/dodge more aggressive wildlife/daedra, etc [/SPOILER]. And most importantly, discover new places by wandering off-road or taking shortcuts through the terrain.
[SPOILER]When I wander past an Oblivion Gate and I don't want to waste time, I detour around it. Or if I want to waste time, I sneak up and start potshotting the Daedra surrounding it. Occassionally I might actually raid the Gate for the Sigil Stone for the unrealised plan of multiple equipment setup for special fights (I never used chameleon suits, but I was collecting Spell Adsorption for a 100% getup, which I never did cos I eventually got more Reflect Spell items instead, I still have 5 spell adsorb sigil stones in the backpack though)[/SPOILER].
So since this guy travels on foot, I bumped his speed up with the levels. It may seem to be a waste with fast travel, but high Speed also gives the option of fighting, running or changing battlegrounds at his discretion [SPOILER](it is generally a bad thing to stand up against 3 high level dremona fighters who can knock down using their daedric warhammers, a potential disaster if you have low agility because they will clobber you silly even if you can block and take the damage)[/SPOILER]. He doubles as an archer and sneak attacker (Marksman and Sneak Major Skills) so high Speed allows kiting (run backwards shooting arrows, IMO rather silly; they should slow down movement to walking speed when the bow is fully drawn for balance's sake) and faster stealth movement and makes it easier to sneak up quickly behind someone's back.
