howlingc

I remember seeing in some of the MCM menus a button to make citizens protected. Just can’t remember currently what it was, but I guess a similar feature is already included in one of the mods. The games very stable for me. Getting an occasional crashes after several hours of play (3+ hours), and mostly just when I’m using crafting stations. I’m getting those random crashes both with safehouse special stations and regular stations so it’s not directly related to the safehouse stations. I do have some slight performance issues that cause stuttering when I’m going forward around city exterior areas, but that’s mostly an issue on horseback because the terrain just doesn’t load fast enough.

First of all a huge thanks to Darth, Lexy, and Paul for the great guide, and Neovalen for SRLE. Your work is greatly appreciated. I've currently reached level 20 with my archer+1h/shield ranger using LOTD so here's some of my personal notes on combat. My only change to base LOTD that affects combat is that I'm using Wildcat injuries instead Vigor. Vigors injury system is just too much of a hassle in the long run for my tastes. I still have Vigor installed, but mostly only because I got bored maintaining my own CR patches. (You're updating too often :P) On the overall I like the current combat balance. Fights tend to be short and brutal where things die quickly and being aggressive is often key to victory. I only lament the fact that I tried to do a primary archer, but it's mostly only effective in starting a fight by sniping one or two key targets and then it's all melee or die. Mages tend to be the most dangerous generic opponent on the field. There's an old RPG saying "Geek the mage first", and it's currently very much true in LOTD. On the other hand, I tried the early game as a destruction mage, and as long as there's enough mana you're just as effective machine of destruction as the NPC mages. I'm considering on continuing leveling that character next to my ranger to see how they compare in the longer run. Another highly dangerous common opponent is a pack of wolves. They surround and perma stagger you unless you have followers to fight them off when you're helpless. On followers, I tend to keep Toccata with me at all times. Her heals have saved my bacon on several occasions although I can't rely on them too much because death can come so quickly that she might not heal you fast enough. Plus she's basically a bottomless bag of holding for all the stuff I need to haul to get the gallery filled with exhibits :) I like Minerva, but like other mages in LOTD she just nukes everything so I only take her along when I really want the firepower. Sofia was initially funny and a more balanced companion, but I got tired of her banter relatively quickly. It was mentioned few pages back that trolls have way too high level. Didn't check if they were already nerfed, but my 15-20 level character soloed both regular trolls and frost trolls easily enough. Somewhat challenging but not something I would call difficult. I didn't find vampires difficult at all even at level 8 even though most of my levels at that point were from fast leveling smithing so my combat skills weren't really up to snuff (only just above 20 or so). As long you have a silver weapon and/or fire magic you're good to go. Can't say the same about the civilians though. So far Solitude's been attacked by vampires with their hounds three times, and every time the body count has been high. The vampires seem to target the civies initially so they don't have time to flee to safety and die before you come to rescue them since the guards are somewhat helpless against them. Here's a couple of easy ways to get a silver weapon in the early game: - Get steel smithing and relieve some noble houses of their silverware that you can melt into silver ingots. My go to places in Whiterun are Battle-Born manor, the Jarl's quarters in the palace, and the Companions Circle members quarters (werewolves using silver utensils?). Those places net you easily more silver bars than you will ever need unless you're going to use silver arrows regularly. - If you start filling the dragonborn gallery with exhibits right from the start; one of the early rewards you get is Thornblade (at 50 displayed items). It's a good enchanted silver sword with infinite charges. My ranger has been using it as his primary melee weapon since around level 4-6. The only caveat currently is that it is missing material keyword; along with large number of other the Legacy of Dragonborn weapons; so Bring your Silver and AAE won't recognize it correctly as a silver weapon unless you fix that manually in a patch. Planning to try the first dragon fight after I get off work so I might post at later point how that went. After that probably onto leveling my mage character to a similar point to see how it will handle the dragon.