1. Can I have a husky without joining the vampire hunters in Dawnstar? Are the husky immortal?

  2. How often dragons and vampire attacks in towns? I haven’t do the quest in Whiterun where you need to talk to the yarl about the dragon. So I’m safe from the dragon attacks and my character is not yet prepared.

  3. Can you survive skyrim without maximizing smithing, alchemy and enchantment?

  •  ragnarokonline   ( @ragnarokonline@vlemmy.net ) English
    3•1 year ago

    1. No clue, sorry.

    2. It looks like dragons tend to spawn more often after fast traveling. For vampires, it looks like frequency of attacks escalates as time goes on: https://steamcommunity.com/app/489830/discussions/0/1648791520840376016/

    3. It’s definitely possible to survive without these, but survival is easier with them. I recommend playing the game for a few dozen hours, then go to Whiterun and use all of your stores-up materials to binge on smithing. Alchemy and Enchanting didn’t matter as much to me as Smithing did.

    Enjoy having fun with a great game!

  •  worfamerryman   ( @worfamerryman@beehaw.org ) English
    1•1 year ago

    I’ve played Skyrim a lot and didn’t level any of those skills. I played so much that I just crawled the map and tried to complete every quest. There is a good chance that I did, but I could have missed one or two. I never knew about the huskies though.

  •  ursakhiin   ( @ursakhiin@beehaw.org ) English
    1•1 year ago

    Hmm. I have roughly 1500 hours logged in Skyrim and I don’t actually know the frequency answers.

    Vanilla Skyrim levels most of the fights you are asking about with your character level. You absolutely do not need smithing, alchemy, or enchanting. They only unlock more powerful effects. The running joke is “While you were learning smithing the drauger were training.” https://imgur.io/8M1cj3Q?r

    Ultimately, you either want to level those things slowly or not at all on your first playthrough.

    I don’t know if Huskys are immortal, but most companions only die if you finish them off. I honestly don’t even know if you can have a husky companion, though.

  •  ono   ( @ono@lemmy.ca ) English
    1•1 year ago

    Some spoiler tags might be appropriate in this post. Your questions give away some things that are more fun to discover as surprises.

  •  Cevilia (she/they/…)   ( @Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English
    1•1 year ago
    Spoiler: 1. Huskies

    You must complete the quest A New Order to recruit them. That means you have to side with the Dawnguard and get as far as listening to Isran mouthing off. What you do after that point is up to you.

    They aren’t quite immortal - what they are is Protected, which means they can only be killed by a direct hit from the Dragonborn. They won’t die from NPCs, fall damage, or stuff like that.