Wait so if you upgrade all mage skills too level 100 and make all of the skills (novice,apprentice,adept,expert, master) cost half magicka to cast then equip helmet and chest armor that has restoration and destruction double enchanted at 25% then ring and necklace that has conjuration and alteration double enchanted at 25% then those 4 mage skills should cost you zero to cast right ?
@mike-thegamingdad4 сағат бұрын
@timo24n hey that would make sense yes, but the way the calculation works in game is the 25% magicka cost reduction gear is deducted from the cost of the spell AFTER the mage perks which reduce cost by half. So what happens if you only have 2 pieces of gear, is you end up taking a further 25% off the total, so the spell would be costing you 25/100 of the cost (each piece of gear would be taking it down by 12.5% after the inital halving) Or the other way of thinking about it, only take the perks which say they reduce the cost of novice/apprentice/adept/expert/master spells IF you don't plan on running a 100% cost reduction build. You can save yourself wasting perk points that way and invest them elsewhere.
@timo24n4 сағат бұрын
@@mike-thegamingdad Aw damn man I thought I finally mastered the arcane arts😂😂😂😂
@mike-thegamingdad3 сағат бұрын
@@timo24n 🤣🤣
@Mikedeela10 сағат бұрын
I try to get golden hills as my first property. It will earn steady money. Not huge quantities but worthwhile.
@mike-thegamingdad4 сағат бұрын
@Mikedeela yeah it's a great source of steady money for sure, and if you want to do a lot of alchemy you can make crazy money from it by making expensive potions from what you grow
@BobLazier-zk8gi14 сағат бұрын
Bethesda.. instead of releasing Skyrim for the 15th time so you can sell us dump sht like player homes.. how about you fix some of the game breaking bugs that have been there since 2011?? Getting real tired of sound effects sticking to my character and either having to deal with it for the rest of the game or restarting the entire thing.. Skyrim isn’t fckn fun when you’ve played the same gd part a thousand times.. I honestly think the new version are more broke because I played on the same save on the 360 for literal years.. can’t manage to get halfway through any of the other versions without something completely stupid breaking the game.. like chillrend or dragon soul sound effects following my character.. please n thank you.. fix your gd game.. I shouldn’t have to download mods to fix it.
@mike-thegamingdad13 сағат бұрын
@BobLazier-zk8gi interesting as I had the complete opposite experience, my PS3 original version was an absolute mess, I couldn't finish the game. Between 2012-15 I didn't play Skyrim anymore. Decided to give it another go when SE came out for the PS4 and it's been significantly better ever since. On PC now and that's been fine as well, I've never needed the unofficial patch or any bug fix mods
@jordanansley867521 сағат бұрын
Love this vid its great. Thankyou
@mike-thegamingdad13 сағат бұрын
@jordanansley8675 no problem 😁👍🏻
@Phantasm57Күн бұрын
Excellent video my friend, I feel that some of the most useful spells being classed as Master isnt so much of an issue even for lower level players because of having so many ways to mitigate spell consumption and cost without necessarily cheesing the game. Of course that is an option for anyone who wants to but overall I think that may have been the thought about setting some of the spells in a higher classes
@mike-thegamingdadКүн бұрын
@Phantasm57 thank you! Yeah very true, you tend to spend far longer in the 'end game' in Skyrim than the early stages. Lesser spells are only useful for a finite time
@Phantasm5723 сағат бұрын
@@mike-thegamingdad I just wish there was a way to get rid of the lesser spells because after a the spell menu gets too cluttered and the weaker spells feel redundant after being able to acquire the more powerful versions
@mike-thegamingdad13 сағат бұрын
@Phantasm57 yeah it's hard to cycle through them when it's so full. I have to rely on the favourites at that point and only have the ones I use regularly in that
@junewindross6221Күн бұрын
Ps thanks Mike for the video, but also, the previous comments have helped lots. All in all, big thumbs up!😊
@mike-thegamingdadКүн бұрын
@junewindross6221 yeah the comments were great, taught me so much about the game. It was like a crash course 🤣
@austenschneider9468Күн бұрын
Been playing since 11/11/11, but I'm still watching these videos...
@mike-thegamingdadКүн бұрын
@@austenschneider9468 that's awesome man thank you 😁. I wasn't quite that early, I picked it up Christmas a month later. But it's been with me ever since 🙌🏼
@junewindross6221Күн бұрын
Perfect for me, as yesterday I purchased this game. I love where you went from not picking up stuff to grabbing everything! Exactly what i did after finding the workshop. But I went a different way around the village and ended up there last lol.
@mike-thegamingdadКүн бұрын
@junewindross6221 ah excellent I hope you are enjoying it as much as I did at the start 😁 I came to this directly from Starfield. Now in Starfield a coffee mug is just a coffee mug, a clipboard is a clipboard. It's all just clutter. So my first reaction to it all was it's just inventory filler lol. I had no idea literally everything that isn't nailed down in this game can be scrapped 🤣
@noobster101Күн бұрын
the damage you dealt is so high. Lydia is carrying me the entire main quests. It is like im the follower.
@mike-thegamingdadКүн бұрын
@noobster101 hey what difficulty are you playing on? If the game is getting too hard and the difficulty isn't high, it could be how you have distributed your points in health/magic/stamina plus the skill perk points. The game levels with you as you level up, so it will naturally get harder unless you focus on your health, damage output, armor rating etc
@noobster10123 сағат бұрын
@@mike-thegamingdad I believe it was adept, I just increased it by 1. I have 2 characters, 1 is on melee build, very strong only if using 2 hand weapons, and magic, sometimes too strong then most of the times too weak damage. mana drain just by killing 2. Maybe im just too advance on quests that I need to do others.
@tattyman4191Күн бұрын
I didn't know about this secret😮. This is why I love Skyrim😊. Thanks for sharing
@mike-thegamingdadКүн бұрын
@@tattyman4191 no problem at all 😁
@peytkКүн бұрын
not me looking for berlin techno sex clubs when i’m visiting next year LMAOOOOOO
@mike-thegamingdadКүн бұрын
@peytk look up the KitKatClub Berlin if you want a bit of bedtime reading 😉🤣
@peytkКүн бұрын
@@mike-thegamingdad a client just told me about it today!!! on my list 🤪
@donnarussell3228Күн бұрын
Thank you so much, I'm enjoying the playthrough. Have fun and play on, sir.
@mike-thegamingdadКүн бұрын
@@donnarussell3228 thanks I appreciate it 😁
@kevlyonКүн бұрын
Come along way since making build videos 😂 thought i would comment to bring this highlighted up again
@mike-thegamingdadКүн бұрын
@kevlyon yeah i had a look, only done 3 in the last year, and the last one was 3 months ago. Interest in those seems to be dwindling sadly. I noticed the last couple I did really struggled to get going, maybe they were too niche I dunno. I don't feel like I've retired from them though, I just wait till the right idea. I appreciate the comment though thank you 😁
@TheDevastator6192 күн бұрын
Seeing you make your potions without putting on your alchemy gear the past couple episodes pained me lol
@mike-thegamingdadКүн бұрын
@TheDevastator619 oh yeah I always forget to put those on, they don't actually make a lot of difference at the minute, you're talking like a percent or two, it's pitiful. When this and Enchanting are high enough though, that's when we'll start the real fun 😁
@TheDevastator619Күн бұрын
@@mike-thegamingdad As a hardcore min-maxer, EVERY percent counts :) lol. But no biggie overall, indeed it’s not much.
@ye4thorn2 күн бұрын
You don't have to dismiss a companion before recruiting a different one, there is even special dialog for the swap.
@mike-thegamingdadКүн бұрын
@ye4thorn ah yeah of course, I've seen it a few times with Dogmeat
@TheDevastator6192 күн бұрын
Lucia probably saw the plantation was a farm and was like “nope, have had enough trauma with these places.”
@mike-thegamingdadКүн бұрын
@TheDevastator619 yeah there is that I suppose hadn't thought of it that way! "Nope this is just like the last time..."
@gourdy62972 күн бұрын
I swear this happened to me I started a new game got through the execution and the dragon never spawned but the game still ran like it did the dragon showed up on the tower and that was it so I did the usual part of a run got to the choice of imps or storms and suddenly the dragon spawned in again I went through the underground and no rumbling no crashing of the ceiling got out went back to the gates of helgen just for gicks and shiggles a random thalmor walking out of helgen gates and then the dragon was back as a normal dragon I couldnt kill and the thalmor got killed by the dragon and left
@mike-thegamingdadКүн бұрын
@@gourdy6297 haha jeez, I hope that happens to me someday because that would make one hell of a recording 😅
@scottpascoe5622 күн бұрын
56:10 Coffee should be black, that's the rule. If you need a bunch of crap in it, its either terrible coffee ( I'm looking at you Shitbucks ) or you should stick to tea.
@mike-thegamingdadКүн бұрын
@@scottpascoe562 haha very true 😅
@TheDevastator6192 күн бұрын
Sometimes it sucks having a character that strictly follows the Daedra and you miss out on this ring and The Black Star :/
@mike-thegamingdad2 күн бұрын
@@TheDevastator619 yeah it's a shame because those two items are the best I think, and it's not even close. I'm looking forward to using the ring when I start the Companions questline. Especially on survival. Will make travelling so much easier
@scottpascoe5622 күн бұрын
1:11:30 One of, if not the most chaotic parts of this game. Its really well done from a stress level perspective.
@mike-thegamingdad2 күн бұрын
@@scottpascoe562 yeah I love that fight, that whole sequence in the school is super tense, then when you finally think you are getting somewhere, the cutscene of you shutting the door to the gymnasium and BAM 🤣
@timo24n2 күн бұрын
Why isn’t the ancient tome chest popping up on my skyrim? I’m playing on the anniversary skyrim and I play with mods but only graphic mods and I have the unofficial skyrim patch could that be the reason the chest isn’t popping up ?
@mike-thegamingdad2 күн бұрын
@@timo24n if it's not appearing I'd check that you have the content installed. On the main start menu click on Creations/Creation Club. All of the AE content is in there, there's should be a menu option to look under verified creators or something, if you go on that there will be an option to 'download all'. Regarding the unofficial patch, I don't know if this is true for the AE content, but it may stop this method working once you have the spells. It patches a lot of the exploits/shortcuts in the game. But you can uninstall it, do the method, then reinstall it again.
@mike-thegamingdad2 күн бұрын
Ah okay makes sense, i read it as raw damage, that knife may not be as OP as I first thought then so ill shelve it. Thanks for the heads up regarding the mod which fixes the elevator issue. Ill make sure I get that! The glowing sea and survival mode seem like theyd be the opposite of fun 🤣
@TheGreatPanicker2 күн бұрын
This is still NOTHING like the spellcrafting system in Oblivion! In that game I made a touch spell that did fire damage and absorbed health and I went around one-shotting everything!!
@newagegaming20182 күн бұрын
If you have not got McCready’s perk perhaps you could take him along. You can find him in the vip room at the bar in Goodneighbor. He works for caps and he gives them back later.
@mike-thegamingdad2 күн бұрын
Thanks yeah I've heard his is good for VATS success/use 😁🙌🏼
@TheGreatPanicker2 күн бұрын
Are these for xbox as well?
@mike-thegamingdad2 күн бұрын
@TheGreatPanicker yeah Xbox and PC should have the full list 😁. PlayStation get a reduced Creations list (Sony only allow the mods that don't contain external assets)
@TheDevastator6192 күн бұрын
Seeing you send Baulder off cliff faces at the beginning was so funny as I’ve watched the evolution of you go from most careful traveling along roads to “what is the quickest way to get there without dying”
@mike-thegamingdad2 күн бұрын
@@TheDevastator619 haha yep I don't look after that poor horse anymore 🤣
@iamyourmuse3 күн бұрын
Yes, Virgil did that to himself, and was upset about them experimenting on people with it. But later you'll get a chance to help heal Virgil back to a human. It would be cool if they'd made a mission to do this with all the mutants except maybe strong, I don't think he wants to be human again...LOL
@mike-thegamingdad2 күн бұрын
@iamyourmuse I've not got Strong yet but I've seen someone else play with him as a companion, and no he seems happy as a super mutant 🤣
@iamyourmuse2 күн бұрын
@@mike-thegamingdad Yeah, he feels superior to humans but he likes you the player when he decides he is gonna find the milk of human kindness, he's funny, once you get his perk, he'll be a loyal companion and he's a good fighter too. When you hear the broadcast about rescueing ....can't remember his name, but from the trinity tower, that is a tough one so have lots of ammo.
@iamyourmuse3 күн бұрын
In reality, the world would have by 50 or so years gotten over much of the radiation...You can look at Nagasaki and other places affected by radiation like this it don't last that long the plants take over whole areas and growing hemp neutralizes radiation in the soil...yes, it screws things up for quite a while but not more than 50 years tops. But it makes for a good story. ;)
@mike-thegamingdad2 күн бұрын
@iamyourmuse yeah true, I was more thinking the radiation from places like Chernobyl. Chernobyl was hundreds of times more radioactive than Hiroshima. It was also an explosion at ground level so it's pollution runs a lot deeper and will take a lot longer to disapate. Whereas the Hiroshima bomb detonated in the air, so the levels of radiation at ground level never got near what Chernobyl did. But these were bombs so it's more likely they resemble Hiroshima than Chernobyl 😁
@iamyourmuse2 күн бұрын
@@mike-thegamingdad But even now Chernobyl has recovered and plants are growing there, you'd never know a nuke went off there except if you go to some of the old buildings that were there. They are actually having tourists come thru and the area looks normal.
@mike-thegamingdad2 күн бұрын
@@iamyourmuse a lot of that is in part to the sarcophagus they encased the reactor in, which they are building a replacement for because the original is decaying. Inside that tomb the radiation levels would be fatal to a human in less than a minute. Without it the exclusion zone and surrounding area would be a lot more radioactive, but yeah the radioactive materials outside of that have mostly expended their half life now. The stuff inside the sarcophagus like uranium and cesium will be radioactive well beyond our lifetimes 🤣
@iamyourmuse2 күн бұрын
@@mike-thegamingdad I'd heard about that place. I think it was in a movie about that area. That is so crazy to think they had so much radiation there like that and to even keep nukes around to even have such an event, like those nuclear power plants, to me seemed like the dumbest idea ever to have nuclear power.
@mike-thegamingdad2 күн бұрын
@@iamyourmuse have you seen the HBO series called Chernobyl? It was a 5 episode series, it's well worth watching if you haven't
@iamyourmuse3 күн бұрын
Hope you brought some radaway! Yes, it's called the glowing sea for a reason! LOL
@mike-thegamingdad2 күн бұрын
@iamyourmuse for some reason I assumed it was an actual sea, like I get that Boston is near the coast, so I thought maybe it was just a heavily radiated part of the coast line 🤣
@TheDevastator6193 күн бұрын
I tried playing Master from the start and got to like lvl 20 and I was just dying so much that I had to go down. And that was doing as much min-maxing as possible. Now my min-max has set me up to efficiently play legendary, but thanks to the armor cap I can still be popped in the jaw right quick if I’m careless ESPECIALLY to mages
@mike-thegamingdad2 күн бұрын
@TheDevastator619 yeah it is very hard playing the hardest difficulties from the beginning. In all my builds, even the legendary level ones at the end, start on adept and work up, to go straight in from level 1 is really tough and forces you to slow down on the speed levelling as you need to just focus on survivability early on
@iamyourmuse3 күн бұрын
Great job with Hangmans Alley.
@mike-thegamingdad2 күн бұрын
@@iamyourmuse thank you 😁
@gabrielrodriguesbrandao40983 күн бұрын
13:16 Hi Muir head with the helment.... (If you want to see how is hes face like a Monster now. Just go to the Wiki of Muir. And press a Big F for him..... )
@mike-thegamingdad2 күн бұрын
@gabrielrodriguesbrandao4098 barely recognisable isn't he apart from where his head/helmet are 😱
@gabrielrodriguesbrandao40982 күн бұрын
@@mike-thegamingdad Exatlyyyyyyyyyyyyy.......... And besides, it's very sad to think what the reaction will be from the families of everyone who was on the Pentrolio platform, mothers, fathers, grandchildren, grandparents, sons, daughters, etc... besides Caz. upon learning that the Platform "disappeared" and "exploded" killing everyone they loved on it and etc.... Happy 1976.....Hope you get a HUGE process Cadal.. no one will ever know the truth, unfortunately, of what happened there, and how their loved ones won't die because of an explosion or something like that that the news will talk about. and lucky for Dave, the guy in the room we see at the beginning of the game and who Caz says came back to land the night before the game started, and for everyone who went to spend Christmas with their Families and didn't need to stay there on the platform Summary? May everyone rest in peace forever....
@cwdrock3 күн бұрын
I'm a hoarder/collector/builder so I have to be strong, if I'm strong I want to bash things. I love guns so I want to shoot well and Jet well Jet is just plain fun but Nerd Rage is clutch when things get real rough!
@scottpascoe5623 күн бұрын
This is the single worst part of either game, I hate it. 19:36
@mike-thegamingdad2 күн бұрын
@scottpascoe562 it's hard that bit, it almost reminds of playing games with an inverted controller, left is right, down is up etc. 🤣
@freemindmusic28243 күн бұрын
You forgot the most important tip... if you're up in the throat of the world in the middle of the night obv you're gonna freeze so don't go up in the night. In the daylight you won't freeze anywhere obv.
@mike-thegamingdad2 күн бұрын
@freemindmusic2824 yeah that's true time of day does make a massive difference. I can't remember if I mentioned it as well, probably not, but any poor weather (snow, rain etc) can be cleared with the clear skies shout. This is particularly good in survival because if you stop the bad weather, it usually results in the temperature rating climbing up a level. Can make a huge difference between almost freezing to death and making it wherever you need to go.
@marts3253 күн бұрын
There's a weird pathing issue in Hangman's Alley where settlers don't go to that alley which leads out to the river, past the original wall. They're still technically performing their assigned duties, but they're just not doing the animation or manning their assigned posts. If you move your clinic towards the center of the settlement, your doc should in theory be at her station the next time around.
@mike-thegamingdad2 күн бұрын
@marts325 ah okay good to know thank you 👍🏻
@Leto853 күн бұрын
What Mike really needs is a Summon Unbound Mannequin spell. XD
@mike-thegamingdad2 күн бұрын
@@Leto85 haha oh no, that may be what turns me away from Skyrim 🤣
@naji_aka_Tracey3 күн бұрын
I knew. But I got it from one of the lore or hidden secrets videos I used to watch. Did you know about the hidden stash outside Bleak Falls? Just before you go in go left around the entrance. There's a lockbox and a potion tucked into a dark corner. And behind the shrine of Mehrunes Dagon is a loot chest and some gems. *On the south side of the peak with Dagon's statue is a stash of items, including a randomly enchanted helm and war axe, two potions, three gemstones, a burial urn, and a chest. The stash is to the right of a stone cairn and beneath a stylized dragon glyph. (Taken from the wiki because I can't explain directions 😂)
@mike-thegamingdad2 күн бұрын
@naji_aka_Tracey nice thank you I will look for those 😁 I may have seen them at some point but I can't remember, will have to check the location to see if I remember it 🤣
@fantasycamp40004 күн бұрын
I cringe everytime you pass up a desk fan...lol
@mike-thegamingdad2 күн бұрын
@fantasycamp4000 I'm over those things now a lot of the time lol, I collected so many they were often the cause of many a weight issue 🤣
@fantasycamp40004 күн бұрын
Mike. you can set up a settlement management console and assign settlers using that. You don't have to talk to the individuals.
@mike-thegamingdad2 күн бұрын
@fantasycamp4000 ah yeah I forget about those, I even have one at this settlement, it's up on the top level, between the power armor and the generator 🤣
@wesss93534 күн бұрын
Deleted the wrong extra comment. Thanks slow internet on the phone. Portal 2 with your kids, but we just have to see your side of the co-op campaign.
@wesss93534 күн бұрын
Comment for the algorithm. It's been like a month since I saw this channel
@mike-thegamingdad2 күн бұрын
@@wesss9353 trying to think what's happened in the last month. A few Hangmans Alley build videos, then a showcase of it, I had a weeks holiday in between, a few Skyrim mod showcases, just the usual really 😁
@user-hm2ch4qh6m4 күн бұрын
Berlin techno sex club? don't happen to have a number do you?
@scottpascoe5624 күн бұрын
1:13:00 Joel is so fucking oblivious lol
@mike-thegamingdad2 күн бұрын
@scottpascoe562 haha I know right, come on man wake up 🤣
@davidginn554 күн бұрын
You can give decon the pompador wig in your inventory.
@mike-thegamingdad2 күн бұрын
Haha of course 🤣
@amandahaines88694 күн бұрын
I enjoyed this episode thanks. Deacon should always have the loungewear in his clothing list he wears this and then, he changes his clothes himself according to where he is, cloak and dagger style.
@mike-thegamingdad2 күн бұрын
@amandahaines8869 thanks! 😁 ah okay so you think give him the loungewear back again?
@amandahaines88692 күн бұрын
@@mike-thegamingdad yes, leisure,lounge wear has to be in his itinerary for his diguises to work
@tlowey19514 күн бұрын
Another good episode Mike. In my game Curie picks up loads of weapons and ammo as we move around. When I did the Courser quest Curie was with me, next moment there are huge explosions all over the place. Curie had a fatman and somehow mini nukes no idea were from it was hilarious.
@mike-thegamingdad2 күн бұрын
Haha that does sound like Bethesda NPC behaviour 🤣 Starfield is notorious for NPCs getting happy with the explosions. You can give them 1 grenade and watch them frag out indefinitely lol
@TheDevastator6194 күн бұрын
I have very fond memories of going after a giant at like level 3 when I first played in 2011 and becoming an astronaut.
@Leto854 күн бұрын
I knew this, but not by myself.
@mike-thegamingdad2 күн бұрын
@@Leto85 ah well, I showed you one new thing this week at least 😅
@johnwpipes89274 күн бұрын
Lots of progress on this episode towards the main storyline, and great fun. Deacon can be a good follower, but boy…he never shuts up! 😂 I thoroughly enjoy the Mysterious Stranger perk and I think you will too! I’ve seen other comments regarding assigning Sheffield to a bed so I won’t mention it. Wait…sorry, that does count as mentioning it. 😅
@mike-thegamingdad2 күн бұрын
Need to look into assigning Sheffield for sure! He's going to be my nuka cola chugging Walter White 🤣
@johnwpipes89272 күн бұрын
@@mike-thegamingdad Yeees! Thought that was hilarious when mentioned in your video. 😆 Perfect job for Sheff! 🤣