I'm at level 43 and I am master destruction mage. Also expert in restoration , adept in illusion, apprentice in conjuration as well as an arcane smith+ skill 80 with enchanting+ level 60 in alteration. I got a few points into Alchemy too.

I have finished the main quest at level 37, so I'm just strolling through (trying) the side quests see what else is out there.

So far so good, beside the fact that it seems like everything can kill me with either a few shots from the bow or let's say a dragon is more deadlier (one firebreath and I'm done), despite wearing the best robes you can find (master of destruction + the destruction mask ...+ the amuletts+rings+gloves+boots all enchanted to be geared towards boosting destruction magic and magicka.
At the leveled creatures, it can be a problem, but I like challenge so sometimes it takes 6-10 dying/reloading to find a way to defeat them , so this isn't even my major concern right now.

Despite the nurfed mage feeling compared to let's say a warrior class character on the same level, this isn't my major concern, as I said, I like challenge, and there is plenty of that after level 40.

My main complaint isn't about that.


Reason #1.

The fact, that my inventory is littered with quest items that I don't even know what to do with them, and also my quest menu log is also littered with quests that I cannot complete.
Take for example, just from memory, this is not a complete list: Shalidor Insights; Ethnir Staff's (or whatever his name is); Power of Elements; Broken Phial; Helm of Winterhold; Talk to him, and talk to her- without a clue where they are or what the mission is (the map is either greyed out or misleads) and their dialog won't open anyway if I find them.

These are some of the broken quests I can't compete for one or another reason.

Quest items stuck in my inventory are ranging from swords, and staffs and flute and books and notes and other miscellenous items (leftover from the main quest I guess) and so on.

And then the list of quests, that I have no clue where I supposed to go or what I should be doing or whom to see, since the map won't help me, neither the severely limited info in the misc.quest list, or they are requesting an item, that the game won't let me pick up or find. (briar heart, I have 10 of them, the Phial quest cannot be completed).

Imagine walking around with all sorts of sh1t that you don't need, can't sell, can't even throw away. It takes more time to scroll through my list of apparel and misc. items than actually going through a dwemer ruin.

Basically I'm not even playing the game anymore, but trying to figure out what to pick up and what to throw away while picking up, but at the same time I don't even want to pick them up anymore. I don't have any use for an ebony armor, neither some super duper greatsword of this and that.
I can actually make a better one, since as I said I'm an arcane smith, and with a set of apparel (I made one just for smithing), I can forge a legendary sword with super duper enchantment and the loot from any dungeon or ruin is crap compared to it. (Either way I don't use them, since my weapons are fireball/freeze/lighting balls)

So I got 2 chests (one in the arch-mage quarters, the other in Soltitude home), full of "DA-sh1t" daedric weapons, armor, items, all sorts of stuff, I can't sell, because the merchant don't have enough money and I don't feel like fast traveling to 6 different towns to distribute my loot around, because one merchant can only buy 3 gold rings and the next one "may" be able to buy my ebony greatsword with some crazy enchantment, since I have no use for it as a mage with no sword skill.

Reason #2.

On the other hand, having a lot of gold doesn't really help me much. There is not much to do with all the gold, beside buying houses all over the place and putting decorations into them. Of course, I can spend money on training myself, but it just sux to see me going to level once more, since if I level up, because I trained on merchant or archery, guess what? I'm not going to spend my points into archery or merchant, since regardless if I'm better at archery and yet I don't use archery and I neither want more gold, but I wish I could advance my major skill, which has reached it's max level and while everything else levels , becomes more stronger+ deadlier ~~~
I don't.
So, for example:
If I would put my skill point into archery, that doesn't do any good for me, since I am NOT an archer and my archery skill is like ...nothing!'
Like..."now I'm an adept archer! at level 43, that's a joke! LOL! Or merchant? I am not even at level 1 in it, so putting that extra point just to get 10% better prices will not make me a better mage and I really don't care about the 10 extra gold!

So I just pick and choose and add a skill point to one of the mage skills, like "ward absorb", even though I don't use a ward spell, because it simply svcks and ties up one hand and I can't kill anything unless I am dual casting anyway.

Making potions - beside "regenerate magicka + regenerate health" is useless. If I could sell them maybe...but the damn merchant runs out of money after selling her 10 potions that I didn't even make, but just randomly picked up in the ruins. So i just drink them all out of fun, while I throw away the poisons, I have no use for them.

So at this point, the game just isn't as much fun anymore, perhaps if the broken quests would actually work, or perhaps going for these side missions would actually be worth to complete, and find something useful for a mage/magic based not just for a barbarian character. I don't need a staff either. They are weak as hell and I keep finding the same garbage lighting bolt staff everywhere.

So at this point, I feel no motivation to do go any further, despite it's fun to look at the un-leveled creatures flying away from a fireball, but at the same time looking at my journal is pain, since I know the quest either broken or at the end of the Fedex run, I get a 100 gold or an iron shield. I started the imperial quest, and as soon as I received an iron shield for finishing a quest at level 40, I laughed and I said, that's it, this quest line didn't level, and no, I have no use for an imperial armor from the smith.
At this point I "may" restart the game with another character, or just put Skyrim aside and wait until either Bethesda start fixing the quests and the glitches, or wait until the CK is released (January?) and perhaps the modders help me out to make the game more fun.

Why don't you just do the sides quests and leave the main quest? I've not done much of the main quest myself and I'm getting the sides quests' list done slowly and I'm on 85 hours level 33.

Well since you're on PC you can use the power of the console right now, mod-less, to:

--- Remove quest items from your inventory.

-- Advance quests beyond broken parts, and sometimes fix quests.

Both involve using sites like http://www.uesp.net.

To remove a quest item from your inventory, go to http://www.uesp.net and look up the item's reference ID (just look up the item, it'll have it in the chart), then go to your console and type in:

player.drop referenceid #

Where referenceid is the id you just looked up and # is the number of items you want to drop (you can use something like "100" and you'll still only drop as many you have).

To advance the quest or get quest fixes, search for the quest on http://www.uesp.net. Usually it has at least stubs for the Miscellaneous quests, and all of those quest wiki pages have instructions on how to use the setstage commands.

LOL, I didn't know at the time that I was doing the last mission for the main quest.

Sorry to hear that.


:rofl:

Start again and avoid going up the mountain to get training on your shout and just go around doing side quests.

IMO Skyrim's a game where you're meant to make multiple characters. Make new ones, try different things, roleplay a little. There's a lot more to Skyrim than what appears at first glance

I, too, have an inventory full of quest items that I have no idea where to use or turn in.

Some valid complaints, but you won't get much love from this crowd.

I might try something new, appearantly if I put myself in "God mode" through the console and then edit my race/character through there, then it won't reset my health/magicka/stamina, but my perk points will be reset and I can redistribute them the way I want it.

Can't really speak on the broken quests because I'm not in your shoes, but every time I want to "take a break from Skyrim" it's usually related to being bogged down with inventory. I kind of consider this a "me" problem because I dont really need to be holding all the stuff Lydia and I do, but that's just how I play. Inventory/Encumbrance has svcked for me in every game I played...(well except for the SNES FF's which I'm pretty sure you could carry everything).

If you go to your journal and the list of quests come up, deselect every quest that has their little arrow highlighted and select the quest you want to finish, sometimes you forget about a quest and need a compass arrow and sometimes it won't show unless you do this, well for me anyway.
some quests need to be researched and a compass arrow won't show.

Yeah i was about to say the same, personally i haven't had any quests bug yet, i have completed 71 quests.

@Sarmatian
To locate the objective of your current quest, hover your mouse over the "description" of the quest, at the bottom of the screen it says "Show on Map" the "M" key, so press "M" and the map will move your to the target location automatically, not sure if you knew that already but worth to mention.

For the quest items, i guess i'm lucky the ones i have have 0 weight so i don't mind keeping em until i finish the related quest.

About destruction and mage survival, have you got any magic resist? i'm at 71% with 2 items + agent of mara, sure help a LOT, playing on master.

May i suggest looking at these, might revive gameplay for your mage
http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=2275 Destruction fixed
http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1269 Spawns/scaling
http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=769 Rich Merchants

edit: oh and yes i use those mods without issues, i'm at level 60 battlemage, not done main quest yet.

This. Don't just make one guy, run into a couple of problems and get pissed and quit. Make another, play differently. Try just doing side quests for a while without even touching the main quest.