How the fuck do you people keep playing WoW, don’t you ever get bored with it?

How the fuck do you people keep playing WoW, don’t you ever get bored with it?

nope

How the fuck do you people keep playing WoW, don’t you ever get bored with it?

How do you keep listening to rap, don’t you ever get bored with it?

Won’t spoil anything, but just did a quest in a new city where I was telepoted through a painting into a closed off forest that was "painted" Think What Dreams May Come shit. I had to rescue the painter from his own painting and the painted killer trolls that were there. Trolls, and I was level 3. Me and him both couldn’t take one down, using every cheap trick and potion I had. Trolls are fucking hard, and fast. Eventually I got them (all 6) but it was dicey, had to use turpentine. Anyway, when you see the forest, it’s some amazing graphics, the painted sky undulating….

Also, got rid of the corrupt captain of the legion in the same city. His death was gloriously disgusting and satisfying. I chose not to go the sissy way out and have him rot in jail. Plus he had chainmail armor.

Lockpicking is such bullshit. I’d say 90% of the very hard or hard locks I pick contain nothing of worth at all, or nothing at all. Seriously, I get better loot from very easy locks. Very frustrating to reload multiple times to break the lock only to get jack shit. And I’ve gone through countless caves and dungeons traveling between cities but there is nothing good in any of them. They are long, time consuming, and there is no payoff.

I’m now a Bandit in the Thief Guild. Very fun. Just did a quest where I had to steal a bust of the countess, with guards guarding it. Thank god for Moonshadow. It is invaluable for being a thief. After I got the bust, guards were swarming the waterfront looking for my connection so I had to plant it in another persons house and frame them :twisted:

Great thing about being in the thief guild are the fences. I can sell all my hot loot to them, and I usually get 500-800 gold each time I go to them to unload. Not only do you get the gold, but your standing in the guild also increases as you steal more.

Right now I’m rocking a Silver Bow and still using the frost sword I got for completing the Killing Fields. Did get a badass apron from the painter that is great light armor.

Edit: 1000th post, w00t!

How the fuck do you people keep playing WoW, don’t you ever get bored with it?

nope

Nope here as well. Sure grinding and farming and such gets a little tedious. But thats the nature of an RPG. And hell, i want to see some of those big raid areas.

[quote author=“DigitalRebel”]
How do you keep listening to rap, don’t you ever get bored with it?

I ain’t listening to the same album on repeat.

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I’ve gone through countless caves and dungeons traveling between cities but there is nothing good in any of them. They are long, time consuming, and there is no payoff.

Yeah, I musta cleaned out 5 dungeons early in the game with no real reward at all. Each time I was like, "this dungeon is bullshit". So now I’m not really interested in the whole dungeon thing. There never was much gold to be had, or cool shit to loot, the enemies were unexciting besides the one time I encountered a ghost and didn’t know how to hurt it and proceeded to phone a friend. Apparently Silver always kills ghosts in games… Silly me.

According to my friend you can improve your sneaking just by holding forward and walking into a rock or a wall and just leaving it and you’ll continually level up long as you’re looking at an enemy

yeah, there are a lot of bs ways to up skills like that.  Not that I’m above bs techniques, but since sneak is a major skill for me, if I left my character walking into a wall in sneak near an NPC, I’d keep leveling up too, which is no good.

The loot in the dungeons seems to be one of the most scaled parts of the game.  I think I’m level 17 or so now and starting to see it in the loot.  I don’t think we’ll ever find an uber anything until higher levels.

Gonna try to find that into the painting quest one of these days.  It sounds cool.  I’ve decided my three main goals are, main quest, random exploration of dungeons, and becoming the arch mage of the guild.  I think it would be funny if my character, who uses spell casting as a third option, became the highest ranking mage in all the land…

I’m taking a different approach, doing all quests BUT the main quest.

Did a lot today.

One quest had me freeing the spirit of a sailor who died in a shipwreck on some rocks. Apparently he was freaking out the locals by showing up near their town and gazing into the distance…

Another quest had me dealing with the "Dream Amulet". Some famous mage became trapped exploring his own dreams. I had to go into his dreams (which turned out to be a horrific nightmare) and explore, taking on tests, and eventually freeing us both from his sick mind. Again, like the painting quest, this one had amazing graphics, very American McGhee’s Alice shit going on. Floating platforms in space, just very, very weird shit.

I’ve also now a "Cat Burglar" in the thief guild. One memorable mission had to bust my fellow thief out of a cities dungeons, but I found he was missing. Had to follow a blood trail through secret passages until I found a horrific room with blood everywhere, and a vamp bitch feasting on a prisoner. Apparently she had been milking the towns prisoners, taking them one by one for a late night snack, and putting them back in their cells. Wicked shit.

Another weird mission called "Paranoia" had me doing weird tasks for this guy who is clearly going insane. I indulged him because I wanted the gold, but he starts asking you to do some really bad things and you have to make a choice…

Very close to getting to meet the Grey Fox. After I complete the next thief mission I should get to meet him.

Also, if you want to join the Dark Brotherhood (basically a shadier version of the Fighter’s Guild, for all you people who went "Dark" in Knights of the Old Republic) all you have to do is kill someone in cold blood, and not get caught. After you do it, go to sleep in a inn and you’ll be contacted to join. You’ll know if you killed someone right because a sentence will pop us "The forces at be have seen what you did…" or some shit like that.

I’ve picked so many damn locks that I can now pick a lock and if I fuck up, only 1-2 tumblers fall. Makes things much easier.

Still haven’t found a "named" bow, right now using a Black Bow I got off an orc helping an Orc Knight become a real knight (you’ll understand when you do the quest).

Okay, just got in 3 hours of Obliv after a three day hiatus. I got the vampire cure and man, that vampire glitch is bad. I racked up 26,000 gold and just called it good. YOu have to not use the cure on yourself before you talk to the guy.

Anyhow, I’ve been getting a little annoyed with the load times as every quest has you running all the fuck around. I’ve been meaning to do more work (the encoded msg doesn’t make sense to me) on the main quest but got side tracked buying a house that had some sort of seal in the basement (don’t know how it operates as hitting A did nothing on it). I don’t think I’ll get terribly wrapped up on side quests but playing the arena. I noticed that higher level you get the better the bad guys become. My friend said its "Variable level" so enemies stay in retrospect to your level which seems kinda silly as there’s no point to level up.

I don’t have much interest in this game, but I’m enjoying reading everyone’s exploits…

Yeah, the Elder Scrolls series has always been one of those series that I love to hear tales about, but didn’t really enjoy playing.

Yeah, the Elder Scrolls series has always been one of those series that I love to hear tales about, but didn’t really enjoy playing.

I’m a fan of the series, but they are very hard to get into, and the quests in Morrowind at least were pretty boring. Is Oblivion any more exciting?

well, you’ve heard tales of some of the quests.  They sound pretty exciting.

I think it’s exciting.  Almost all my quests have led me to some sort of interesting battle.  One thing that bothers me about the load times is that they vary so much.  I can’t get into a rythym with them (which would allow me to know if the wait will be long enough to run to the fridge or maybe take a hit off the vaporizer).  Sometimes a Fast Travel will have a long load screen, sometimes short.  Hell, you can enter a house, get a load screen, leave the house, get a load screen, re-enter the house, get a longer load screen, and then leave the house with zero loading.  There’s clearly a lot of caching going on, but I don’t think it works too well.

Greg, the coded message isn’t really for you to figure out as far as I can tell.  You need to talk to Tar-Meena again, the scholar at the arcane university place.  She’ll let you know what it means and add a marker on your map for the next part.  If you want to test your mettle, do the next part.  I found it to be one of the toughest fights yet (though if I had waited until now to do it, I think I could really kick some ass).

I think I’ve given up on fighting any more until I can get my Armorer skill up to 50, so I can fix enchanted armor and weapons (which is everything I have right now).  You can find me this evening outside the walls of the imperial city, wearing cheap light armor and allowing crabs to pound on me, so I can repair it to skill up and then repeat.

My marksman went up to 75 last night, so my shots now sometimes knock people down.  It’s great.  My sneak is also up high enough now it seems that I can shoot people from afar with a zoomed bow and then easily rehide to get a couple crit shots in.  Good stuff.

Where are the marksman trainers at?

I agree about the load times, after you play for hours, they begin to be a bitch. And like you pointed out, they are very inconsistent. I’m playing Oblivion without a HD, so I wonder what the difference is…

You don’t need to buy a horse. When you take the amulet to whats his name at the very beginning of the game the guy offers you a free horse in your travels.

Also, anyone know where I can find a forger? The current thief quest requires me to have a note forgered by someone who has such skills, but it gives you no direction. Being in the thief guild, in every town I go to I just have to talk to the homeless people, pay them 10 gold, and I get all the secrets in the city and they have all the answers to my quests. Saves me alot of money, instead of bribing innkeeper 100+ gold for one answer.The poor people really are the "eyes of the city".

Also, you guys know Lex in the imperial city? Two of the thief quests I’ve done so far I’ve fucked with him. One quest had me sneaking into his private room while he was sleeping and leaving a note in his drawer mocking him. The one I’m currently doing I have to get him reassigned to another city so he’ll stop raiding the waterfront for the Grey Fox.

Also, I recently did a quest where there is this woman in a house and people are complaining about a smell coming from it. I investigate, and discover she is cursed. Apparently a spellsword coming through town sold her this magical staff, and when she used it, it bound to her and summoned a brood of gremlins that follow her around. They are harmless, they just eat, shit, stink, and make loud hissing noises. Another side effect of the staff is it slows down your speed immensley. Basically, one fucking annoying staff. I had to take it from her, and with my gremlin brood, journey to a far away cave and place it back on a stone table and free myself of my obedient underlings. Got a cool ring out of it.

Edit: Beware buying a house in Anvil. The one you buy will seem cheap and a steal, but the ghost of a dead necromancer pissed as hell haunts the basement

How cool a ring?  That quest doesn’t sound like the best, but I have it too and was thinking of checking it out sometime.

There is a marksman trainer in Anvil I think it is.  Trying to think of his name… starts with a P…  Damn. I can’t think of it (something like Pinorius but that’s definitely not it).  He has his own house.  He isn’t in a guild or anything easy to find like that.  He’s a hunter.

I’ll say it again, I regret using my 5 training points per level to train major skills for a while.  I wish I had always used them to train up useful minor skills.  They’re tougher to improve and they don’t level you up.  (if you’ve done a lot of stuff before your next level up, like improving a bunch of minor skils, you get better ability point bonuses at level-up).  Of course, since I leveled up so quickly and am now almost 21, the loot and mobs are more interesting now, so that’s nice.

Last night I witnessed some funny AI moments.  I was the bait for a bandit mage robbing and killing people on a certain stretch of road.  I had two mages from the guild trailing me to step in and kick the bandit mage’s ass when she tried to attack me.  It all went really well, except that we stumbled on a couple imperial legionaires out on their rounds.  They joined in the fight, but must have gotten hit by one of the good guild mage’s spells, because they then started to attack everyone but me.  In the end, 1 legionaire and I were left standing.  The legionaires killed the two high level guild mages, who managed to kill one of the two legionairs!  No one seemed to care that they were dead, so hopefully no big deal.

Then, at the end of the night, I decided to ride back to town instead of Fast Travel.  I came upon two archers filling eachother with arrows from about 100 yards apart.  Stranger yet is that they were both imperial foresters.  They both took a ton of arrows, but one finally fell.  While this was going on, I decided that they must have gotten in a fight with some monster who wandered too close to their route (which I’ve witnessed before) and one of them must have accidentily shot the other, which led to the duel I witnessed.  Sure enough, once one guy died, the other one started running away like he was running back to a battle or something.  I followed him on horseback.  He ran a while and I lost him, but caught up with him a few seconds later, and he was chasing a stag and shooting at it.  The deer in this game usually just run away, but I have run into a few stags that will take a quick horn shot at you before running, so I guess that must have happened, triggering the guards’ actions.  The best part was that the guard was yelling at the deer while he chased it like it was some lawbreaker.  He finally killed it with a "take that you bastard!" or some such thing, looted the little deer body, and then strolled off on his patrol.  I love shit like that.  Just had to share.