I have 355 carry limit at the moment. Partly from stamina upgrades, partly from leveling up, and partly from Volsung mask.


I guess what I'm wondering is, do you guys always carry a ton of stuff with you wherever you go? I play as a Spellsword-archer type, and I have two bows (one for soul traps, one reg), two glass swords (dual wield 90% of the time, 1 shield (just in case), glass armor, and then like 100+ lbs in potions and probably 50 lbs. of various foods/stews (my guy is a veg.)

I mean, I feel like I should be on Hoarders on DSC channel. Ugh! Thank God I have my follower to carry all of the dragon bones/scales and whatever loot I find.

What about you? Do you have your guy/gal loaded nearly to max capacity at all times?

I always find what weighs me down is potions. But I can never bring my self to drop hem. You never know there might be a time I need 100+ potions.

Firstly, what difficulty do you play on? Because on Expert or Master, carrying every potion under the sun kind of helps.

Secondly, does RP factor into the game much for you? If yes, would your character really carry a shield round, though you virtually never use it? Otherwise, just sell it, seeing as it's not your mode of play. You can almost always find a way through combat via your own style.

Thirdly, are you carrying lots of useless stuff? Books, oddities, materials etc, can all safely be stored in a house or companion (though of course you mentioned you had one). Also, perhaps only carry a maximum of 3 to 4 meals?

Fourth, do you have a house? Owning a home can slightly alter gameplay, as you have a base of operations to work from. Perhaps get into a routine of taking only what you need for 1 or 2 quests at a time, before returning home. Try to pack according to what dangers you might face.

Fithly (?), get Azura's Star. Max. capacity, infinite use soul gem. Done.

Lastly, be efficient. Being prepared for every single situation can be detrimental to gameplay. Go out, live dangerously; and when you find yourself getting pwned, tone the difficulty down briefly, rethink your strategy or reload back at base to re-equip.

:thumbsup:

Yeah, after one dragon I have to go sell that stuff. I usually have around 80-90 to spare (365 total). Potions and soulgems are weighing me down aswell, I feel naked without them.

I use the steed stone all the time. Helps so much... and makes it easier to wear heavy armor.

I also have enchants to boots and gloves to +carry. I went from 300 carry weight to 495 (as a mage).

Playing on expert as a conjurer.

Carrying my armor, some potions, quest items (sigh..) and some soul gems...about 40-50 lbs, rest is loot.

Since finding the "Close Wounds" spell, the only thing I need are my axes and my armor.

No, in fact in every game with carry limit I try to limit my base(without loot) encumberance as much as possible. All I have on me is armor, weapons, a pickaxe, few Hawk Feathers to cure diseases and whatever Ore I couldn't smelt into ignots when I was visiting the city last time.

All good advice. But, I mean I know that I don't probably need so many things... I just have a hard time letting go :wacko:


I have a lot of soul gems too, to recharge my weapons. I think that I'm going to sell my shield. It just has to be done.


As far as food and potions, there haven't been many, but there have been a few times where I'm in an epic battle (first hagraaven, for example, when your like lvl 5) and I just plow through all of them just to stay alive.

I don't carry junk either. No books, no cheap loot, not pots or plates (lol)


I'm just going to have to trim the fat!

Nothing to heal yourself with?

You start with a Heal spell.

Ah, smart guy, eh? Touche.

Ja'Skar, a rouge, has about 75-100 units and carries 2 dagger, 1 bow, his db set, a pickaxe, and more potions then I really need

Ahnaski, a sneak based Mage, has a 75-85 units and carries a few staffs, enchanted forsworn armor, a Mage robe, and a lots of magika potions.

There's also a mod that adds in the "cure poison" and "cure disease" AND a combo of both to your healing spells. It depends on which spell you're using that has the added effects of course. Annnnd I hope I didn't break any forum rules by saying that :/ [goes to read forum posting rules]

Stamina/Carryweight is one of my Major gripes with Skyrim, more so since in the older games we always started with 2-300 Fatigue and hardly needed to rely on it for anything and your Carry weight was boosted pretty quickly as a Warrior through the "Strength" attribute.

I personally think when Choosing Stamina at Level up, we should get +25 Stamina and +10 Carryweight, it would make it much more worthwhile in my opinion.

I have a ridiculous number of soul gems on me, all sizes.

I have to have souls. Every one I can take.

And I really like the soul trap effect.

lol if u are really worried about it u can do what i do spend 3 perks in pickpocket get extra pockets and put in points in stamina and fortify weight enchants i wear daedraic armor and weapon 1h and shield i have over 500 carrying limit thats enough 4 me to go through most dungeons and picking up everything also i have companion the lowest i can get by withe bare essentials is 197 but im limited to 250 cuz of quest items i cant complete due 2 bugs its a habit i picked up from other TES games even my mages would have high strength never know might get some really heavy and powerful stuff hard to leave loot laying on the ground after killing everything in site i earned it i dont pick and choose

That's actually a good idea. I'm invested in the light armor perk, and my next point was going to go to making all my armor weight zero.

But, yea, investing in pickpocket for that reason alone isn't a bad idea.

I've had the same issue but it seems to go away once you stop taking useless stuff of corpses, the money is not a problem in this game, seriously lol.

My sneaky archer always go out on mission with 100 of my 400 kg occupied, by 2 bows, potions, and some bling bling for different types of danger (mainly with frost/fire enchantments) i hardley ever take any loot if it not giving me any bennefitts for disenchant or have any sell price above 100g or have a very low weight compared to sell price. I normaly do 4-5 cave /castle before i go and sell stuff. Except if find a dragon im lvl 40 and have about 75k gold for now. And still have a s* load of things stored that i wanted to sell but waiting for some merchant that have enough of money.

You could use the Steed stone to have 100 carrying weight.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Standing_Stone

There is a pickpocket perk that also adds 100 carrying weight.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Pickpocket

Usually I'm around 150 or so with just my armor and a few weapons. And then it gets up to like 170 or a little bit more with potions/ingredients/food if I haven't cleaned them out in a while. But I make regular trips back to my house to drop off all my excess stuff and sell off the other stuff that I don't want to keep in town.

I have my companion carry the extras. Like a mobile potion chest.

What should I say, I have 600 carrying capacity and I am always above 500... And I got a ton of potions and ingredients stocked in my house in Whiterun. Not to mention I got the weightless perk for armor.

Try storing some types of objects in your house.

I save 1 of every book I find, but leave them at my house.


If you have too much of something store it or sell it.


I love looting and I am always irritated when I can't carry all the loot back to the store in one run. And then the merchants don't have enough gold...arrghh!!!!



"What do you MEAN you don't have enough gold to buy these 15 ancient drager axes!!!!!"