Oh, my God - I clicked on People - and there it was! I have never thought about clicking on People before, because it's always grayed out and so I assumed I hadn't high enough Personality or something for me to have that topic open. :banghead:

Thanks!

No problem! :celebration:

They'll show up in both places sometimes. Sometimes you are looking for a person's name, sometimes you are looking for the building they are in. So if the keyword is "Eadwyn Mastercroft" look under people. If it's "the Mastercroft Residence" look under general.

Does anyone know what the following items are for?

Holy Tome
Icon
Scarab
Bandages

They're under Clothing & Misc. The only one I seem to be able to sell is the Bandages, which isn't worth much at all. The Holy Tome on the other hand is worth around 1500 gold, if I recall correctly.

By the way, like Tabris, I assumed the People section was unavailable to me and so never considered clicking it. Thanks for that!

They were going to try to have the bandages be useable but didn't get it done. The others are just personal items of citizens. The holy tome and the icon of course are for religious purposes. You can sell them at pawn shops.

Can I get help for a veteran please? I have levelled up three times and trained in Restoration, Destruction and Mythology, and my spell points haven't gone up. What do I raise to get spell points added to my current total?

Intelligence raises spell points, raising magic skills just makes them more successful to cast. Are you a mage? Did you take "increased magery x3"? That advantage multiplies your int x3 to get your total spell points, otherwise I think it's just the same as your total INT.

I'm fairly sure you have to increase your Intelligence for mana to go up.

Well,my intelligence is 70, so i'll try raising that when I level up, but is that the only way to add on spell points? If it is,then every single gamer needs an avatar with 80 INT to start, because with 70 I can;t even use recall!

You need the advantage increased spell points, which can be set from cargen, to have a decent amount of them. Mages need at least 2x increase in int, while 3x gives you more breathing room. If you are saying you can't cast recall, chances are you didn't set those up. You can't add those advantages after chargen.

Raising magic skills only decreases the amount of magic you expend with each casting, but doesn't gives you more magic to expend.

Thank you very much. I managed to sell them.

The Holy Tome was actually worth 2500 gold.

A newbie question in a way, but I want to be sure. If I equip a enchanted diamond or mark or whatever, does the equipping of it make them 'used' so thy start working and continue working? I understand the concept of enchanted weapons and armour and assuming other equipped items are the same, but I just want to make sure.....!

the only other way to increase spellpoints is enchanted items.

It depends on the item. Items that are in effect while wearing them work by "casting" the spell every eight hours or so (I don't know the actual number). So, for example, you can equip a Eudoric of Wisdom (or whatever its called) and you'll immediately hear the "spell cast" sound, and the icon (a white starry looking thing) indicating you're under a magical effect. And every so often, the effect will recast. This recasting consumes a charge, as does donning the item, so I'd recommend taking it off before fast traveling.

However, a Eudoric of Fireballs will only work when used (for obvious reasons). Weapons and armor are the same way. Some take effect by casting when you put them on. Some take effect when you use them. Some take effect when you hit something with them. And some items provide skill increases, and take effect when you put them on WITHOUT consuming a charge.

The description will indicate what they do, so you'll figure it all out with experience.

Thanks Tarvok!

Hello,

can someone tell my, how I can swim? I am currently in a dungeon, where I have to swim through, but my char is somehow walking underwater... I won't need any special spells (I suppose, water walking works like in morrowind, so it won't be useful in that situation)? except of water breathing, which is essential if you not intend to die after ten seconds..

and how does climbing exactly work? I walk against a wall and wait till there's a message telling me, I am in climbing mode. sometimes, I climb up the wall, sometimes only one meter or less. underwater climbing seems also impossible.

Swimming is heavily affected by your encumbrance. If you are carrying a lot (and by a lot, I really mean practically anything at all) you will sink straight to the bottom and have trouble getting back up, and you'll move slowly. Anyhow, you're looking for whatever is mapped to "float up/float down" in your control scheme, those will help you control your depth.

Water walking is NOT like it is in Morrowind. Water walking lets you walk through water without resistance. Water breathing, yea, is self evident. Basically, anyone who can cast a spell should cast water walking and breathing before doing anything underwater. Doing otherwise is just silly

I am not given any message when I get a disease. It's only if I want to fast travel I get a message warning me. That sometimes is too late. When you're running around a town or wherever, you are used to not seeing the bars full. Should there be message?If not,this is another bad design decision by Bethesda.

Right, so, you know how sometimes (a lot of times?) early in the game levelwise, dungeons often have creatures the player is completely incapable of killing? And the advice in this thread was to run from them? Well, if you're running from one through a door, and close it, then use one of those lock spells, will it keep them from coming through after you?

No, any creature capable of opening a door can open all locked doors.


You don't get a notice when you get a disease, but you'll usually notice that your stats are in red and have gone down, if you see this then click on health and it will say if you are diseased.

Hm. Does the lock spell serve any purpose at all then?

I've never noticed that.

My favourite tactic is to close a door on a lich, lock it and shoot the creature to death.

I used a shadow spell to sneak past an Elder Lich (that could've killed me with one blow easily!) - and it died as I snuck past! Very kind of it, if you ask me!

It probably saw you, unleashed a massive area-effect spell and blew itself up in the process.

You probably saved against magic (or picked immunity to magic in the character creation screen) and was unaffected... This is unfortunately my second tactic in killing liches, I tend to die around half the time

Actually, at level 2, I have none of that magic stuff! So who can say!


Also, earlier on I asked about using magic, and got answers like they automatically go off every 8 hours etc. Well, for the first time, I have discovered the 'U' key (using the View mode, don't know what key it is in regular mode), this bring up you magic items for use, like my stamina giving bracer, It comes up as a grey box in the bottom middle of the screen. As I didn't know about it, I thought there might be one or two others..... Although maybe there aren't!