Drakhaoul

You have a hole in your floor.

To you and the other person above claiming I'm being impatient/unstealthy: I am using sneak. It's my highest skill and I sneak everywhere and always get the 3x critical. I still do crap damage

I have modified it at the grindstone, my Nightingale bow is upgraded to do 37 damage (originally 27). Also I have the Bow damage enchant on both my ring, neck and Dark Brotherhood hood. I still do absolutely s*** damage. Meanwhile enemy archers can kill me in about 4 shots.

How are you supposed to build a ranged character? Pretty much everything takes 6-10 shots to kill and why bother with archery if it takes so long to draw the damn bow back? I could kill 3 mobs with swords before I killed 1 with a bow. I'm level 19 I have my skills/perks as: L50 archery with all available perks. L60 Sneak with the perks on the right side up until the bonus sneak damage with a bow. L40 Alchemy with poison perks L40 enchanting with only the first perk (2 points in it). I'm using the Nightingale bow and Orcish arrows (the best type of arrow I can find in semi-large quantities) although I have a few glass arrows for harder mobs. I apply a 30dmg poison and get a sneak attack critical and it takes out less than 20% of a mobs hp, and after that I don't even get the sneak attack bonus so it goes downhill real fast. What am I doing wrong?

I forgot about Cicero...He was pretty amusing. I'd put him at #3 after Brynjolf.

When you're talking with an NPC about a quest/mission and another NPC (usually a guard) bumps into you and starts talking about how he took an arrow to the knee, and their voice is always louder than the NPC I was talking to so I can't hear what they're saying. Too lazy to turn subtitles on btw.

Rofl well said

Haven't seen this type of thread yet so I decided I'd make one. Curious who you guys like as far as NPCs go, whether it be because they're funny, badass, or both. Personally my favorite is either Parthonaax or Brynjolf. I just like the way Parthonaax talks, he's just this super chill wise old dragon. Whereas Brynjolf is just...Brynjolf. What about the rest of you?

This. I keep hearing people complain that you can't drop quests in Skyrim (which by the way is the answer to your question OP - you can't), but I don't see what the big deal is, just ignore it. I mean if you have OCD or something and 30 lines of quests is threatening to give you a heart attack I guess I see where you're coming from, but otherwise why not just ignore the quests you don't want to do? I have like 12+ quests I accidentally picked up and have no intention of ever doing so I just don't pay attention to them.

I lol'd My favorite part was the tumbling ice troll

I lol'd My favorite part was the tumbling ice troll

I thought the same haha

Then why is it that every unique weapon I've found with the exception of the Blade of Woe is less effective than anything higher than Dwarven/Glass even after scaling?

I'm an avid Fallout player and my two favorite things about the Fallout games are the near endless exploring you can do and collecting unique weapons. However the unique weapons -for the most part- go beyond simple collection items, they're generally quite good in specific situations, I generally have 4-5 unique weapons on me at any given time because they're better than normal weapons (again, for the most part). In Skyrim this just doesn't seem to be the case. Many of the unique weapons you come across are, to put it bluntly, pretty damn bad. Some of them have good effects (Chillrend is awesome, as is the Dagger from the Dagon quest chain) but their damage is total trash after you hit like level ~25 and start finding dwarven weapons. Basically every unique weapon in fallout have the damage stats slightly higher than steel weapons. There are some exceptions of course, like the unique elven bow you find on the Dark Brotherhood chain (and the dagger itself - which is probably the best unique weapon in the game) but generally speaking if you put any investment into Smithing you can make far better weapons than any unique you'll find in this game. And even if you ignore smithing (as I choose to do because I think it makes the game boring - never getting an upgrade) your unique weapons will still be crap compared to the stuff you find on the ground after level 25. There's two ways this could have been fixed: 1 - Allow you to disenchant unique weapons and gain their effects - like Chillrend - to be used on future weapons. 2 - Have the damage scale much better with the weapon skill associated with that weapon (1 handed, 2 handed, bow, etc) As it is now I've wound up selling every unique weapon I've found with the exception of Chillrend for the amazing effect, and the Blade of Woe because it's damage is actually comparable to a Daedric dagger. How do you guys feel about the unique weapon system in this game?

The cat part towards the beginning made me lol :)