Don't take offense, deepnau, but reading about your struggles had me laughing in recognition quite a bit. No ES game since has had the kind of challenge and near death experiences you get from Daggerfall.

The good news is there's almost always some way out of every predicament--that's a great part of what makes the game so much fun. On my first play through I must have played about 3 months straight with a single save game slot, and although I was trapped in certain dungeons a lot longer than I'd like to admit, eventually there was always a solution, and my character's life went on. Definitely something I missed in MW and OB.

Anyway, good luck in your adventuring--there's no better game for getting horribly stuck than Daggerfall.

For some reason, my Illusion skill has stopped going up. It's stuck at 95% for some reason, I like cast 100 spells, waited hours in between, but it did not go up once!

Have you hit 100% in some other thing? If so, IIRC you can't get past 95% in any other.

The way to get around this is avoid getting 100% in anything until you've gotten over 95% in all the things you want to get past 95%.

Great advice, except it's impossible to plan to have potions if you haven't yet reached the rank in any guild/temple to have access to the potion-maker/seller.. I've had this problem many times. Of course, if you're lucky, you my find enough potions in loot, but that doesn't happen often for me.

I see what you mean, it can be hard to get hold of potions at a low rank if you're not a member in certain temples. I always tend to join Arkay, especially if my character isnt very good with magic, so I can get access to potions quite early in the game.

http://www.svatopluk.com/daggerfall/temples.stm

Yep, I've experienced that as well, and figured that out. What's weird, though, is that on occasion I could get to 100 in a second skill that had been below 95 after hitting my first 100... I don't know what was the cause of this, which I presume was likely a glitch. I unfortunately wasn't able to test this much, and see a possible relation between the skills and whether they were tagged as primary/major/minor/misc.

Try an add-on program called Dfskills. You can find it http://www.uesp.net/dagger/files/dagfiles.shtml#addons

Are we having fun yet? :spotted owl: