Wow, nice effects.

I also became Guild Master last night after nearly 100 hours. Reason I took so long was because I was saving the Skeleton Key because it made life so convenient.

And I agree there are a lot of boring jobs you have to take before you can finish Under New Management. The worst jobs were the "fishing" pickpocket ones because my pickpocket skill so low, and even with a lot of Fortify Pickpocket items still couldn't finish some. I quit some of them because to get the 4 special city jobs (Windhelm, Solitude, Whiterun, Markarth) you need to be do around 5 boring jobs in each one first. The last one I needed was Markath so I quit a lot of jobs not related to Markarth.

I also discovered that even though Guild Master Armor base armor for each item is better than Nightingale Armor, Nightingale Armor gives better armor rating overall thanks to it's set bonus. I've upgraded both to Legendary and Nightingale Armor is definitely better.

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Added on January 25, 2012, 9:58 amJust keep backstabbing the Greybeards. They very rarely attack you back (only happened to me once), and only when their health is very low.

This post has been edited by Andrew Lim: Jan 25 2012, 09:58 AM

I'm playing with GT335M on Medium settings. Doesn't really lag.

Sneak attacks level up sneaking a lot faster though.

I also wish the 1.4 patch went official and out of Beta. From the changelog it fixes a lot of annoying quest bugs. I want it to be live before I create my 2nd character.

The Dark Brotherhood quest has you killing someone very important on a ship at the end of the questline.
The Thieves Guild questline sees you getting betrayed and then later helping a Daedric goddess.

Sorry, they are not part of the main quest line (Alduin), but I consider them one of the more important questlines.

Old granny is dragon-born!?
Based on base armor ratings, best heavy armor is Daedric. Best light armor is Dragonscale armor.
But the truth is all armor can be upgraded to have rating maximum rating of 567.
That's why I'm still wearing Nightingale armor, I've enchanted it to around 420+ rating. It looks better than the other armors in my opinion.
Haha many times even though I see an empty urn/chest I still automatically check it without thinking.

This post has been edited by Andrew Lim: Jan 30 2012, 09:45 AM

I made my Daedric armor and weapons after completing the Pieces of the Past and The Black Star quests. That's about 7 Daedra Hearts dropped from the Dremora you encounter during these 2 quests. Some of these Dremora respawn after a week or two of in game time.

UESP Wiki has more information about where to get other Daedra hearts.

This post has been edited by Andrew Lim: Jan 30 2012, 10:59 AM

I think there are more advantages to not killing Astrid, because DB quests give you a lot of gold, I think the final quest is like 20,000 gold. Also you can get the Ancient Shrouded Armor which is very useful for sneaking/thieving/assassinating.

After you become thane, make sure you ask the Steward or whoever is in charge of the house decoration to clean up the house before purchasing other decorations. Otherwise you will be left with bloodstains forever. A future patch 1.4 should fix this problem, but right now it's still in Beta I think.

Yeah the quest is hard to initiate. I also encountered the crime scene by chance. I went late at night, around 11pm-2am.
BTW I went before joining Stormcloaks or Imperials.

This post has been edited by Andrew Lim: Jan 30 2012, 06:11 PM

Wear apparel (ring, necklace, gauntlets, etc) that has Fortify Smithing and drink potions like Blacksmith's Potion before you upgrade your apparel.

Yes. And so are the Dark Brotherhood quests given by the Night Mother.

30x backstab damage with the right perks and equipment

Thanks. Must have been released less than day because I checked the Nvidia site yesterday but didn't see any new drivers.

This is the most hilarious Skyrim video I've seen yet.

The Portal gun is basically a teleportation spell. I wonder if it has a distance limit? If I shoot at a far mountain, will I teleport there?

Yay the 1.5 patch allows me to marry Lydia without using console commands!

158 hours later, finally unlocked all the achievements.