>Heard they're reforming the Dawnguard.

>>712427567 (OP)
Fus

>Wait, I know you...

>Get your groove on, soldier! These boys work hard and play harder.

>>712427567 (OP)
why would the dawn need guarding? who is going to try and kill the sun lmfao

I'm joining. I want to destroy Serana.

>want to make vampire hunter DLC
>add vampire attacks to cities

>dragons attack cities by default
why is there no dragon hunting guild?
formed by those whos farms burnt down and those who wish to avenge the ashes of their children

>>712427567 (OP)
>Heard they're reforming the Sneedclave, janitor hunters or something, in the old farm near Springfield. Might consider joining up myself.

Being a vampire is cooler than joining the Failguard.

>>712429071
This but also capturing dawnguards and shoving them in your sex dungeons.

>>712429071
t. Underage edgelord

>>712429071
But you can get the upgraded dwarven crossbow with the dawnguard.

>>712427567 (OP)
h-his arms are so veiny...

What job can I get that lets me play TES games for most of the day

>>712428819
*destroy Serana's anus

>>712429835
crossbows are the lamest weapon of all time

>>712428715
>Harkon is actually trying to destroy the sun
>the group that tries to stop him is called the Dawnguard
had no idea they got Kojima in to write this one

>>712430231
night shift at the gas station
night concierge at the hotel
night watchman at the warehouse
disability fraudster
groundskeeper at a facility with no grounds to keep
home sitter
theres a bunch of jobs that mostly involve sitting around waiting for a customer to show up

>>712430353
>oh no lord harkon is going to build a giant disk to block out the sun!
simpsons ass storyline

>>712430472
actually he was just going to shoot an arrow covered in vampire blood at the sun with a magic bow which is somehow even dumber

>>712430526
if not for magic people would realize how anime the elder scrolls has been since at least morrowind

>>712429071
>serving Cucklord Harkon willingly

>>712429906
my cock is veiny too, Ebina-chan

>>712429835
A crossbow is not equivalent to all the content you get on the other side of the DLC with the vampires. Honestly the Dawnguard are just underwhelming in general. The fortress is barely used, you get a funny dog and trolls, there are a couple of spells but they're pretty weak compared to other stuff you can get. The armor looks cool at least, but you don't have to join them to get that, you can just kill them for it.

>>712430289
too late

>>712427567 (OP)
Why does the Dragonborne take this vampire back to her castle with an elder scroll?

>>712431919
>not only did your parents take you to be raped as a group by supernatural beings but you are now immortal and have to live with those memories fiveever
honestly curing/killing serana is the decent thing to do

>>712432654
because, you see, this specific vampire is fuckable. would you kill a fuckable vampire? of course you wouldn't! it's a silly question, really.

>>712432654
Her hands are on her BOOBS lol

>>712430810
you literally end the questline by killing him and taking over his castle and wife and daughter

Guard might get nervous, a woman approaches with her weapon drawn...

>>712434260
>You come up to me, fists raised? You looking for a beating?

>>712428954
Uhhhh
Anyone going to tell him?

>>712427567 (OP)
the guards being nameless nobodies was always weird.
where did they live before becoming guardsmen?
where are their families?

>>712436264
they were born guardsmen
they have always lived in the barracks and the guards are their family
it is not a cult they have some kind of homo mitosis thing going on

>>712428954
ackshually it was a vampire DLC, the hunters were the tacked on part

>>712432654
Because... Because...
It's the only way the quest moves forward.

>>712436264
>where did they live before becoming guardsmen?
They used to be an adventurer like you until they took an arrow in the knee.

>where are their families?
Their brothers are out there fighting dragons and they get guard duty.

>>712435949
one of them helps fight one dragon
not even going to pretend that counts

Skyrim guard is cool, but he can't compete with Oblivion guard.

>>712427567 (OP)
I love when like, 3 of them say this exact same line at the exact same moment and all of their voicelines overlap

>>712441530
True, it's near impossible to compete with Wes Johnson

>>712432654
She asked you real nicely.

>>712432654
Because Skyrim is shit and barely constitutes as a role playing game.

>>712432654
I hated how this game forced me to take this bitch's side.

stop making me want to play this shit fucking game please

>>712427567 (OP)
Let me guess, someone stole your sweet roll?

>>712443394
Contrarian seethe

is the ostim community modlist good or should i go for some other modpack

>>712434260
Hail sithis!

>>712427567 (OP)
>vampire hunters or something, in the old fort near Riften
>might consider joinin up meself!
ahhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Merussy

>>712444960
>HIGH Elves
>Tallest race in the game

>>712427567 (OP)
Worst DLC ever. Yes even the vampire waifu.

>>712427567 (OP)
As always, this thread makes me want to play Skyrim but I don't want to go through the process of modding it again. Has anyone in the last 10 years played this game vanilla? I assume it's pretty shit

>>712445339
I have decided to play the game vanilla, but the temptation to make 100000 damage swords is too great. Nice world map though.

>>712445339
>Has anyone in the last 10 years played this game vanilla?
I played Enderal 2 years ago which is almost the exact thing (you get to throw oil that makes people slip instead of ragdoll shout but both have a cooldown longer than the entire fight) and was too lazy to install any additional mods. I ended up dropping it about 1/3 through

>>712445589
If you get the shield rush ability at 100 block you can permastun every enemy in the game.

>>712446267
Indeed, that and infinite Destruction stunning

>>712432654
because killing her would have ruined Harkon's plan right from the start duh

>>712446387
Eh, stagger is hardly a stun. It's much more satisfying to send giants flying.

>>712445339
The vanilla UI is unusable

Stellar Blade is winning so much we might need a CHUDGuard!

>>712444778
Ostim is reddit trash with barely any content with it

>>712428954
There is. It's called the blades. Retard.

>thinking you can escape the Dawnguard
You fool
Durak would rather warp the fabric of space time itself to tell you about the vampire menace rather than actually go out and do something about it

>"Everything's for sale, my friend. Everything. If I had a sister, I'd sell her in a second."

>>712434158
and become a servant of the god of cockoldry in his stead? wow what a bargain

>>712428954
>he never recruited people into the Blades.

>>712428954
>why is there no dragon hunting guild?
You can recruit new Blades members

>based

>>712430526
Well it helps the sun isn't actually a star in this universe and is just a hole in dimensions.

>>712449830
Magnus must have been quite large

>>712448007
cute

I'm getting tempted to reinstall again but I fucking hate Skyrim and will uninstall after playing a couple minutes after modding it for days.

>>712447546
>>712448268
>>712449685
one day blinding stew

>>712430613
it's just jeet inspired

>>712445589
>Use Alchemy exploit to make a "Damage Stamina Regen for 100000000 seconds"
>Use it on bandit
>Let him live, but a cripple for the rest of his life

>>712428321
>OH NOE
>I slipped

>>712429071
Not in Elder Scrolls where all vampires are just molag bal cuckolds and/or rapebabies. Garbage fucking fate.
Only reason you'd go there is for muh immortality or some shit but as the dragonborn player character even that makes no sense, you are special and overpowered in so many other ways that gifting off your soul to a daedra of cuckoldry is just a straight downgrade in every way.
>why yes I am the reincarnation of shezzar and have dragon blood in my veins, I visited sovngarde and destroyed the world-eater delaying this entire cycle's kalpa, and also if I walk outside during the day the sun hurts me ow yeowch
Mediocrity.

>>712432654
I like when you bring her to the dawnguard and they say you should just bring her to the castle instead. You know the vampire hunters are fine with letting a vampire go back to her castle with other vampires.

>>712450819
>He doesn't keep a vampirism cure fake tooth vial just in case

>>712450819
Maybe I like rape?

>>712447245
Okay, what should i go for instead then?

>>712445339
If you own the game on steam, you can use a redditjak pack to get a completely average modded experience that is usually at least stable
Not the same as autistically hand-picking 400 mods, but realistically out of those 400 at least 80% are just going to be basic quality and graphics mods that every wabbajak modpack will also have, and for the rest just pick a pack that looks inoffensive enough. It's going to be better than vanilla and it's going to be fun enough as long as you find skyrim fun.

>>712450809
I'll have you know there's no PUS-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>712451081
Then knock yourself out but that doesn't make you cool

>>712451290
I think rape is pretty cool.

>>712451194
I LIKE YOUR ASS
https://youtu.be/VGxYdsUEWL4?si=sMVA--hWGO7z0ibD&t=31

I'm replaying Skyrim right now, ordinator/apocalypse as usual. I normally go pure mage because it's just so satisfying but this time I decided I'd branch out and go heavy armor spellsword. It's neat and all, but it's weaker than pure mage and the perk requirement is astronomical. You CAN'T skip alteration in ordinator/apocalypse it's too convenient. You need a destruction type. You need either conjuration (bound sword) or smithing. You need enchanting for the spellsword perks. You need one handed. I've practically finished half the content already and none of my trees are finished and I haven't even put any fucking points into heavy armor yet. Eventually I'll replace conjuration with smithing to improve my armor and windshear instead of using a bound sword, but by then the game will be fucking over and I still probably won't have even gotten the cool heavy armor perks yet. I didn't realize just how spread out all the stuff to make a complete spellsword in ordinator truly was.

I should have just tried illusion/sneak, I've never used either in ordinator/apoc.

>>712452362
You could set it in uncapper so that each level gives you two or more perk points per level. Might make you build come along faster.

>>712447546
>>712448268
>>712449685
Not gonna join Delphine’s Retard Gang

>>712427567 (OP)
Interesting. Tell me more, fellow mortal human.

>>712450513
upon further reflection daggerfall was also definitely very anime with the dragonbreak
would arenas plot points be considered anime? necromancer steals the kings face and gets freaky with it, kinda anime but not so overt

>>712452362
>2025, anon discovers skyrim's piss poor balancing for the first time
Ranged options allow you to hit others without getting hit. It's strictly superior in every way. There's a reason why sneak archer is considered the most overpowered build.
Mage is just as good for similar reasons, except less tedious since you're not sneaking everywhere, and with magic mods it can easily be even more overpowered.
Guy with big sword always has the issue that the big sword is only useful once you're in the face of the enemy. This means that if there's multiple enemies you can only walk up to one at a time. If any enemies are themselves ranged then you have to run towards them while they shoot you. And once you do get in the enemy's face, the enemy can also hit you even if he's not ranged. It's a lose-lose-lose. Skyrim is not a difficult game so it's not like you have to go meta, but if you've only ever played mage it feels very crippling.
And yes, if you're going for multiple skill trees, you don't magically get more levels, you just spread them out and become a jack of all trades, master of none.

I don't know of any mod that comprehensively fixes these issues; your main options are bandaid fixes like >>712452624, or just treat it as a meme/challenge run that's intentionally suboptimal and harder.

>>712433105
t. faggot monk

Why is your average skyrim modlist like 1.2tb? What the fuck?

>become a vampire
>pick ritual stone
>maximise conjuration
>always have 2 zombies wherever I go
>always use Serana as a companion
>carry more black soul gems than there are actual souls in the universe
>”A new hand touches the bacon…”
I hate this bitch

>>712436264
>>712436739
Maybe they're like Janissaries where the entire guard force doubles as its own clan.

>>712455780
>2025, anon discovers skyrim's nonexistent roleplaying
I'm pretty sure I remember seeing memes about gorbluck orcnigger becoming the archmage of winterhold back in like 2013 at least. Who you are does not matter for any quest in the game, and the sky is blue

I hate how the DLC expected you to join the vampires. I wanted to kill vampires not join them this DLC was terrible.

>>712456046
Just a tiny bit of reactivity would be nice. There’s at least 3 different reactions to you being a werewolf but not a single one to you being a vampire

>>712456434
The whiterun guards having an extra stock voiceline if you're a vampire still wouldn't have fixed meridia's quest. Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure no questline anywhere reacts to you or locks you out or anything if you're a werewolf. Bethesda intentionally decided that every player should be able to do basically every quest, that's a core property of the game.

>run 200 graphics mods
>play vampire
>can't see shit because you have to play at night

>>712455961
Cute!

>>712445339
>>712446801
If it's been a while just run it vanilla, and like anon said just download like ~5 mods for basic things like UI

>>712428819
based, TVD

>>712429071
Being a vampire is just annoying in the game, the eyes are cool though

>>712429906
>>712431261
kill yourselves trannies

>start skyrim
>rush to get the spell that turns iron to silver to gold
>get to whiterun
>spend the next three hours getting speech and all the crafting to 100 through merchant inventory resets

how do i stop myself from doing this

>>712450304
kill yourself and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oX8Ih9r4oI&list=RD4oX8Ih9r4oI&start_radio=1&ab_channel=FabianFloresSalazar your life

>>712452625
>kicked out of the badass dragonslayer fraternity because he had feels for a filthy dragon
sucks to be you bro.

>>712458437
gain self control?

>>712444960
mogged by dunmer.

>>712428321
Shouldn't we invite some wooommeeeennnnn???

>>712445339
I played it for the first time vanilla like last year. I mostly just wished I was playing Oblivion the whole time instead.

>>712445339
>Has anyone in the last 10 years played this game vanilla?
I'm trying to get all the achievements vanilla right now

>>712458437
At least put some effort in and travel between towns on the carts that sit outside.

Will Hammerfell's redGUARD have any iconic lines?
You can't match up to arrow to the knee or curved SWORDS

>>712450819
>gifting off your soul to a daedra
The dragonborn sells his soul to no fewer than 3 daedra in an average playthrough anyway. It's funny to picture them fighting over it after you die.

>>712428819
okay Molag Bal

>>712459737
Only if you have a skill issue and zero self-respect.

>>712427567 (OP)
>heard theyre rimming the foamguard

>>712459989
you're just blitzing the main quest then

>>712428954
Aren't dragons immortal without (You) present to absorb their soul and prevent them regenerating?

>>712460525
dont think they were all personally sucked by the emperor when they were buried in those dragon mounds so no they can be killed its just that alduin can cast res

>>712445339
Vanilla still holds up

>>712460076
There are more sidequests out there than selling yourself out to a daedra
Even most of the daedric artifacts don't require it, only a few of them

>>712460991
to be clear I mostly wanted to see if it would stop me from doing any of those others after Nocturnal got first dibs. Unsurprisingly no, Skyrim did not consider that.

ok time to install combat mods

>>712458640
>badass dragonslayer fraternity
>nobody has ever killed a dragon on their own
Bunch of posers. They should stick to cowering from the Thalmor. It’s the only thing they’re good at

How to make the distant terrain not look disgusting? Using Only Skyland AIO.

he should have been a pretty girl under the armor

>>712461424
>>712461424
idk dyndolod?

>>712461558
This already has dyndolod but no xlodgen. Everytime I try to fiddle with it's settings either the grass landscapes look right but the snow looks awful or vice versa.

>>712429906
>being gay for a fucking skyrim guard

>>712427567 (OP)
I'm downloading Oblivion remastered right now. I have never played it before, Skyrim was my first Bethesda game. What am I in for, bros?

>>712444960
I was like 16 when Skyrim came out. I remember spending a lot of time in the character creator and fapping to working on the "nude" female models.

>>712463678
even more jank

i never liked tes but i played daggerfall for the first time recently and it has become one of my favorite games
should i go back and try skyrim again

>>712457509
use vampire's sight my ligga?

>>712444960
Cute tummy

>>712463678
Refund while you still can

>>712463678
Great quests, same great music like Skyrim and decent overworld. Dungeons are generally forgettable though you don't want to burn out on trying to explore a bunch of them.

>>712463678
It's kinda trash

>>712466808
>>712468168
Retard

>>712458437
Late game skyrim is the worst why rush too it?

>>712463678
Oblivion gives you more freedom, but it's debatable if that's completely good. Like if you can just cast a Charm +100 spell, does that complete invalidate doing quests for NPCs to get them to like you? If you can just cast a Lockpick EVERYTHING in 50 feet spell, does that completely negate the thief skills?

Spell making in Oblivion does put Skyrim's spell perks to shame though. Frenzy + Invisibility completely destroys high level enemies.

>>712428954
>why is there no dragon hunting guild?
Because dragons literally didn't exist until (You) showed up.

I miss Ilx and Ewa..

>>712463678
Don't bother exploring dungeons unless you have a quest there. Maybe hit up an Ayleid ruin or two if you really need some initial funds, but other than that they're almost always a waste of time.

>game fucks over a beloved character for an ephemeral joke
fuck you Todd, Jiub deserved better

>>712461424
dindu lawd

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPZtRmx1Dyk

>>712469838
ooooooh