So, what are some good tips for starting out in Skyrim? I've never played the Elder Scrolls before, so...
Unless you know exactly what you're doing, prepare to make a second character soon after you find out what each thing does, if you want to be "pure".
Truly, the best method to get your bearings would obviously be to experiment and just try things out... see which methods suit you best. There isn't really "one true way" of playing the game because it's really different for everyone.
Yes, I did. There is also quite some ore up there. Funny thing is, I accidently sold it for 128 gold. Then he was going to sell it to me for 1000 gold. So im kind of sad right now. I whooped up myself some dragon scale armor, a daderic sword, and an ebony bow. I'm going to enchant them before I join the Dark Brotherhood.
Finally purged Labyrinthian of life for the College of Winterhold. A skeletal dragon, a spectral dreadlord, a whisp and finally a dragon priest. ****ing nightmare on adept with novice level flame spell and no potions. But the Arch Mages quarters are pimp, truly worthy of a successor to Frostcrag Spire.
I happened to kill that specific dragon priest in three shots from my bow. One shotted the skeleton dragon and the wisp mother, the only thing that really put up a fight was the spectral dreadlord because it detected me.
God damn, I want to do this so badly, but that stupid glitch with the Dwemer puzzle ****ed the questline up, and I've done too much to start a new character at this stage.
It takes only a few hours to do the quests, i would recommend you think about starting a new character and pursuing magic exclusively sometime, because it's well worth it. I can't say it's bad running multiple characters at once. I find that it's better when they are all similarly developed, because you don't feel like one takes precedence over any other.
protip: revert to autosave when you make a bad sale and don't feel like buying it back from the vendor.
protip: sneak arrow attacks are usually 1-hit kills. cast a 1-second soul trap enchantment on a good bow with a black soul and go hunting with your hoard of gems. then get azura's star, turn it in to nelacar, make it a black gem, BAM, never run out of juice.
I actually opted for not turning it into a black soul gem. I don't regret it. I now have 4 different bows I carry at all times for different occaisions. Hell Healer: 71 damage, Absorb 10 points health. Hades: 67 damage, 4 second soul trap. Nightingale Bow: 67 damage, freezes for 25 and shocks for 12. Witchhunter: 71 damage, absorb 13 points magicka. I personally enchanted all of them but the Nightingale, I tried to name them appropriately, but regret naming the one "Hell Healer" it sounds kinda stupid now.
Damn, this thread has grown in the week I haven't posted anything. My characters going pretty boss. At level 44 now, and about 60 hours in I think. Definitely a sneaky character, as my Pickpocketing is at 100, Sneak is nearly 100, Lockpicking is around 76, Light Armour is around the seventies, and One-Handed is nearly 80 I think. I've only just now started the main quest again, after about 40-odd hours of not going near it. Example of why I'm taking so long to do things; it took me about an hour or more to run from Windhelm to Riften yesterday when I played it, and I don't regret a second of it. So many random events happened that the run was nowhere near a chore. This game rawks.
Usually when I run the actual roads to places random Khajiit will stop me and try to take the skooma I have on me. I always end up killing them. That or the person will try to sell it to me and when I say I don't want it they attack me. So I kill them and take the skooma. Right now I have around 25 bottles of skooma. Oh, I also found a crashed ship with skooma in it. I am skyrim's official skooma/moon sugar dealer I think.
I usually get stopped all the time by random thieves trying to take my gold. Considering I have about 30k on me at most times, I'd understand why; my coinpurse must be as fat as a mammoths head. Have Moon Sugar on me, but no Skooma. Ran into a bunch of guys, just having a drink on the side of the road and they offered me some ale, so I thought, why not? Got attacked by some random bandits who were standing near a dead body, looted the body after killing the bandits to reveal a note saying the carrier had been on a quest to get back her families heirloom after the bandits looted and burned her town, killing everyone but her. Took a few mercs jobs by stopping them and asking what they were doing. Freed a few Stormcloak prisoners from some Imperials walking them to their likely demise. I just love the randomness of this game, longevity plus. I'm still waiting to find another random event just over the next hill, you get so much more out of this game when you don't use Fast Travel all the time.