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[theweaselking]

"Any inventory item marked with a small arrow means it is probably more effective than what you currently have equipped"

YA THINK THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN NICE TO TELL ME IN FUCKING NOVEMBER, BETHESDA?

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[zenmonkeykstop.livejournal.com]

When you start getting an fps with nothing left of the decimal point, then you can complain...

It hardly matters at this point anyway, surely. If you've been playing this long you have to be massively overpowered.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

On three characters. And I'm not exactly unable to figure out what's better.

It's just... I've wondered what that meant for months. Literally. I never managed to put together the pattern.

Personally I never bought into that

[disgruntledgrrl.livejournal.com]

Otherwise the fucker would have me using staffs all the time.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Well, of course. If it had been ACCURATE, I would have figured out the connection a long time ago.

Thing is, it's batshit - and that batshittery meant I couldn't see the pattern.

[kowh.livejournal.com]

I knew what it was from early on, but couldn't still figure out the pattern. In what way is a strictly inferior (on all stats) piece of equipment, that I have equal or lesser skills in, "probably more effective"?

[spartonian.livejournal.com]

Bethesda does tell you that... in the console (or at least the PS3) version.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

It showed up on one of the loading screens. I just have a PC not a console, so I don't see very many of them and they never stay up long enough to shift through multiple tips. So that "tip" never appeared.

[dgg.livejournal.com]

Game console (xbox360) only shows one or two tips between loads. They often repeat but I still read them. I'm at level 15 and I still encounter tips I have never seen before.

But Bethesda has my soul...I even splurged for the Strategy Guide.

[soappuppy.livejournal.com]

OMG, is that what that means?? I've been staring at those for weeks >.

[jerril]

Oh. I'd figured it out, but that's because my first character was a heavy plate, big smashy weapon type. With Stealth, because wow Stealth is OP.

What it's doing is looking at raw armor value, and raw damage-to-the-face value, and comparing those to what you have equipped. So never mind your talents and being eleventyzillion points into the light armor tree and NONE in the heavy armor tree, it'll recommend Dwarven plate if it gives more raw armor value.

Which is pretty dumb, but happened to coincide with my interests for much of my first playthrough.

[jerril]

So yes, I'd sneak up to someone as far as my heavy armor would let me, arrow them in the head, and then run in screaming bloody warcries to kill all their friends.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

A point of order: Your eleventy-zillion points in the light armor tree will cause light armor's numbers to go up, even if it's just sitting in your inventory.

[jerril]

Yeah, but it doesn't seem to be looking at that, as far as I can tell. At least, not the matched-set bonuses.

[spartonian.livejournal.com]

Daedric Armor and a high Heavy Armor skill makes the game almost unfair against non-magic users.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

I shouldn't have laughed... sorry.

(*pfffffff*)