Lol at that point I usually just sneak passed em cuz their a damn nu sense to fight and kill all of em lol especially when they use that damn disarmed shout then I have to look around for my damn weapon unless I’m playing a mage build lol especially alteration is pretty OP u could use the paralyses rune spell then constantly paralyze em and wack em with a sword while they can’t move until their dead lol
Tbh even on legendary if your get your endgame armor set with enchantments alongside marked for death the game breaks for me even the draugr death overlords melt under that thuum.
I found it's pretty hilarious you can cheese the quest by glitching into the room with the final crown and just complete the quest with at least one stone.
@@doughboywhine But at the point you've decided to start collecting the stones as there is no better things to do, you are already rich enough to never need to sell anything again. And not only that, most traders have like 1100 gold, takes you quite a long time to even get them sold
Now hold on, those aren't 6 cloves of garlic you bring her, they're 6 whole heads! Each one of those would have at least 6 cloves in it! She grifted you!
14:45 "you awake feeling rested" Aaaah yes being kidnapped and brought to a damp shack in a swamp reminds me of the good ol days going fishing with pa.
@@Jouzou87 Astrid hauling my ass to the Shack from a Riekling Cave when I'm overencumbered: "Why... the... fuck... does he... carry... so much... *CHEESE* ?"
You want to know how to make collecting Jiub's lost pages even more painful? Use Dawnbreaker. The explosion it makes when it kills a undead enemy will send those pages flying never to be found again. I learned that the hard way in my first playthrough.
I’m so glad I read this because my number one weapon is Dawnbreaker and I haven’t gotten to this area yet. 😭😭😭😂 #notallheroeswearcapes #sacrificeforthegreatergood
@@sandracedillo8088 more than a few of the pages are found in places where the Boneman and Mistman enemies lurk. Its a gamble to use Dawnbreaker in a spot where you know a page can be found since its explosion effect has a really large area of effect and loose items like the pages, potions bottles etc are flung violently by the explosion. It would be mildly annoying if the quest took place in a Nordic crypt but the Soul Cairn is a wide open space so things can be flung really far. So maybe grabbing the page first before attacking the enemies with Dawnbreaker is perhaps the best course of action
That stone quest feels like a slap on your mind for being curious. You see them floating by themselves in this weird box and they're all the same and appear everywhere like some sort of conspiracy. And... that's it. It's just a stone people keep around as a curiosity and incentive to a would be kleptomaniac.
The worst thing about collecting 24 stones, is when facing a number like (22/24), I would open up the world map, look at every map mark, search through months of memory to find out which two I missed, in the most recent try I was lucky, already had the locations pretty much memorized and didn't need to google anything. A good way to develop memorizing methods, it's all about remebering the trivials along the way, not the location itself.
Whenever I decide to do this quest I have to make myself a checklist of all the locations! I remember where some of them are, but others I always forget about
@@ThatsCoolDude Actually there's a cheat to get the crown without mods on a 360 someone posted to UA-cam it works which means you can collect an sell the Stone's
I feel like the soul cairn pages would be slightly better if they placed a marker in the general area of where the page is. Your still looking for a needle in a hay stack, but it’s better then what Bethesda thought was “good” gameplay
I was still looking for a needle in a hay stack even with Google, still got lost a few times... What an annoying mess, still can't wrap my head around the logic behind making a fetch quest without a marker in a bland wasteland with annoying creatures all around...
@@ThatsCoolDude Reminds me of the Final Stand dog tags in Battlefield. I only needed 1 but.. why not. After finding all of them, I randomly stumbled upon them twice.
The cure for vampirism was extra painful for me. Why? On PS3 the coding was done wrong, so there's no option to give her the bloodgrass. How to get around it? Save game, quit, change system language to German, then reboot the game. Only then do you get "Ah! Blutgrass!" -_-
Yea, I feel you there. I got locked out of the quest the first time I played because I couldn't find a workaround, and I never tried to cure vampirism again. I made it a fun quirk with characters.
Story time: To this day, I REFUSE to complete “No Stone Unturned” Not because it’s a bad quest. But because after completing it, the quest literally destroyed my game. After completing the quest, the Dragonborn is given the “Prowler’s Profit” effect. This reward completely bugged out my game. For some reason afterwards I was unable to use alchemy/potion stands, grindstones, forges, basically any menus that required my character to do a “using” animation while in the crafting menu. The entering animation would play out, the menu then pop up for an instant before being forced into the “backing out” animation. Luckily I was a save spammer, so I had multiple load points. In every save BEFORE “Prowler’s Profit” was added I was able to use those menus. Even to the point where all I had to do, the literal LAST OBJECTIVE, was give to the crown to Vex. After that handoff, boom, no more menus. So now because of that fear I whenever I play Skyrim, even after all these years, I will NEVER pick up a Stone of Barenziah.
I think a fun thing about no stone unturned is that the stones aren’t marked with the (Owned) tag so you can just grab them right infront of their owners and they don’t give a crap about you taking it. Not even they want to have them cluttering their inventory anymore. I also completed the Saint Jiub quest and I still like the reward it gives in the form of the Necklace which is one of the only pieces of jewelry that counts as armor.
Nobody cares that you take them, but sometimes they give the annoying "you're not supposed to be here" line if you're trespassing. I always manage to get out of there before they call the guards.
4:57 funny thing is, the grand soul gems were the EASY part for me, I had tons. The part that was difficult was BLOOD GRASS. You wouldn't think it, but after you complete the games main line, that little bastard herb becomes stupid rare. Also sometime she just... glitches and refuses to take the blood grass and complete the damn quest.
Yeah, they usually are easy once the character has seen some time in being played, the thing is on lower levels (as this character was) they don't appear as often, you see more of lesser ones as random loot + I couldn't buy any since vendors that sell them don't want to talk to me because I'm a vampire... So I had to go to specific dungeons to get them. Didn't expect that to be so time consuming... and also that last garlic...
@@ThatsCoolDude Correct me if I'm wrong but I swear you can just get all the grand souls gems you need if you just rob the arcane university and I think(?) the chorrol mages guild.
God I swear my eye twitched from the vampire cure quest, the memory's, the painstakingly repressed memory's. The first (and only) time I got vampirism in that game was from the guy in the dark brotherhood who said it was a "gift" and that he would make me a "hunter of the night". Well yea I kind of have to be a hunter of the night because in the day I run the risk of *internal combustion!* I remember once getting stuck in an auto-save death loop where I only had 3 seconds to live and the last save before it was over 2 hours ago (let's just say I was very low on health potions after that day). Also *why is the NPC who only exists to help you actively hostile to you at all times?? Especially when they are the only protection from the sun for miles!* And worst of all it was all for *nothing!!* Because the PS3 English GOTY edition is *BROKEN* and unless you change the language (something I only learned about years later) the option to give her blood grass is permanently grayed out and will not accept the ingredients, meaning the quest is impossible to complete and the only way out is to reload and lose all your progress..... God I hated that quest. Sorry for the rant It seems I had more repressed feelings for that mission than I thought.
Yeah, they really should make her house accessible once you speak to her without you being called out for tresspassing... There's nowhere to run and she gets hostile... Once you drink blood the sun isn't an issue for a few days, but man...sometimes you just save in a bad time and get stuck in a loop of loading game+death, over the years I've learnt to save often but I still forget sometimes... I think you can still bypass the bug with the bloodgrass by setting another quest stage with the console, still annoying though...
Same with me man, I had to make it to a cave just to wait tell night and i was always right at the entrance before i ran out of food and potions and died 1000s of times
@@ThatsCoolDude The same happened to me when I was doing the quest and I had to in total wait one hour until it was night again but I had to constantly hide (behind the kitchen cabinet) and make myself invisible over and over again.
I wasn't expecting to see a skooma-addicted vampire when I clicked on this video. In terms of Elder Scrolls lore, those things are seen as extremely degenerate on their own, and you managed to do them both at the same time for purely pragmatic reasons. Good job.
My favorite part of the page collecting quest is how the pages sometimes have a tendency to glitch through the scenery. Nothing like having to use console commands to get rid of the barrel at 9:42 because the page clipped through the lid.
The best thing about A Cure for Vampirism is that back before some patches, the reward could be spammed infinitely. That's how young me used to get my money, it was great
@@GargantuanD Maybe, but I was a kid and thought infinite money was really funny. Edit: also the money went up the higher lvl you were when finishing the quest
That "Be glad you're invincible" was comedy gold.. Reminds me of those Stickman animations "Get out or I'll call the guards" *smiling* "Be glad you're invincible" *cartwheels away* "Weee"
Im kinda glad Juib didnt seem to be aware if how brutal his murder was. It was over before he realised. But for the players who went and saved kavatch, it was gut wrenching seeing Juib included in the next installment only for him to already have been killed before you entered, making you eternally "just out of time" to save him. I was so upset when i found that. Theres something different about reading about characters you met in previous games having adventuruous lives and shocking deaths, and having no warning before physically seeing a character a lot of people are attached to in the next game brutally murdered.
I've done the No Stone Unturned quest so many times I knew exactly where he was each time he grabbed one. I love this quest, with help from a guide I do it first thing each time I play. The one in the soul cairn is terrible if you use Dawnbreaker. When it explodes things can get lost. I had to reload my save because I made the last paper disappear...was so mad.
Same here. I always start with the Thieves Guild and the first thing I do is writing a checklist for the 24 locations of the stones. 🤣 I have done the quest so many times that it has become an easy training option in early game to me. And I also love to flood my houses with flawless diamonds... 🤩 Totally worth the long quest.
Eventually I'm gonna make a sneak/assassin build just named "Damned Rats" or "Just the Wind" Also to add to the hate parade, I nominate Revealing the Unseen after being reminded just how annoying it is after doing it a 2nd time last run.
Revealing the unseen is where you get the Elder Scroll in the Dwemer ruin, right? I played my second play through of that recently and had the opposite experience. When I played it the first time I felt overwhelmed in blackreach and felt like the mission took waaaaaaay too long. Don’t like Dwemer ruins (or dungeons in general) as I find them really boring. But on my second playthrough I realised it wasn’t as long as I remembered and blackreach is actually pretty small once you know your way around.
@@economicerudite4924 Almost, it's the mage quest where you have to get through this giant ruin to find these other mages and a core for this pseudo orrery and then have to tune it. It took over an hour to get through the ruin (including the ever wonderful "you cannot pick this, you need a key" that's down another long corridor for NO GOOD REASON) and then another half hour trying to figure out how the hell to tune the thing before it finally worked. Big ruins can be fun if there's some sort of storytelling or variety of interiors to them, but this one was just the same 3 rooms over and over, it felt like. And almost all the loot is stuff you can just buy in the shops in an easier to use form (aka, dwemer recycling) Deeply frustrating.
I kinda liked finding jiub's pages, they aren't that hard to get if you keep an eye out for other secrets (they're grouped in with other optional rewards, sometimes directly or sometimes behind a chest or something). I only wish I could mark spots on my map so that I wouldn't lose track of what I've already done
Actually there’s a really glitchy way to do the stone of Baranziah quest. When you pick up any, particularly the first one, spam the pick up button. You’ll often collect several from one. I got 12/24 when I picked up the very first one just by hammering the button. I then just went to 6-7 of the easier ones to collect and in 20 mins I had it done, in the early game! (The magic effect makes collecting jewels ridiculous as every chest seems to have flawless stones in it) After I traded the full 24 in and completed the quest I still come across the ones I didn’t collect in the wild but I can’t pick them up now because they just stuck in my inventory for ever as I can’t sell them and there’s no where to trade them in!
It's funny, every skyrim playthrough I always collect the stones of Barenziah before I go to Riverwood. This way the rest of the game is just filled to the brim with gems. This also helps with leveling up smithing as you can make the most expensive rings.
For the quest, no stone unturned, there's a glitch that is you use the slow time shout, then spam the pick up button on a stone, the quest will count multiple (2) instances of obtaining a stone. So you can cut the amount you have to find by half.
Stones of berenziah isn't too bad. If you have higher speech and have the Perk to sell any item, after completion, you will be booming in septims. Also, keep a list with you to check. I've did and saved me trouble of not having to remember because my memory is bad.
There used to be a glitch where after you complete the cure for vampirism quest, if you kept going back to the Skingrad count, he would keep giving you money, and the amount he gave increased over time.
With the stones quest , I imagine and roll play as a mad man obsessed with gems and imagine news going around about a dangerous telepathic mute running all across skyrim gathering odd gems shouting at everything and leaving a trail of death and destruction at its wake Kinda like double king
I spent so much time searching for torkild and after multiple real world days I read that if he dies somewhere his body just stays there and he can be pretty much impossible to find. I realised that was probably what happened and gave up
I always get the jiub pages. I think its easy lol. They're always close to a feature, you can usually get up on a tall structure to scout locations and use the minimap to see where you have not yet been. Also, it's recommended for the DLC quests to be lvl 30, so soul drain shouldn't be a problem.
As annoying as the stones of barenziah are to collect, I love the boost in gems that comes from completing the crown. My goblin brain has to loot EVERYTHING and all the better if it's shiny!
Love the way you edit your videos. These had me hurting from laughter, especially the oblivion quests. Perfect cuts and zooms, hilarious. This is pure schadenfreude, but in a slapstick comedy way. I felt every moment of these. Good shit.
Fun fact: if you bend time dragon shout and spam the pick up button on the stones you can pick up 2 at a time, means you only have to collect half of the stones to complete the quest.
Theres a garlic cluster hanging at the end the tent at the camp in Vilverin. Theyre also found in most buildings in Skingrad, usually in basements or near a fireplace.
Oh, damn, I forgot there was one of those damn stones in the house in Solitude. Guess that's because since Hearthfire came out, I've always just bought land instead of any of the old houses.
after recently working to complete the stone of barenzia questline… i realize that my young 11 year old self knew nothing about “stupid and difficult fetch quests”
Honestly I felt the same way you did when I first did the soul Care and stuff for jib but then I figured out how easy it was when you explore the soul Care and there's always going to be main structures and there's always going to typically be something there for you to collect whether it just be luke or page they're always in big structures the only one that's not is near the wall that separates the way you came into the soul Karen and the other side where that one merchant is that will trade you soul husks for items so you don't have to search around too far and when you keep that in mind it's not that bad but it's still really annoying
The vampire quest is even more annoying on PS3 as she won't accept the blood grass, the only way to fix it is to change the system language to German, and she will accept, "blutgrus"
Not one quest per se but the achievement to restore the thieves guild to its former glory , i.e getting all the merchantsakd stuff takes so damn long and is a nightmare for next to nothing.
Oh no, not this, I can't get this thing even modded to cut 90% of it and I have much more then 1k hours spent in Skyrim. He's not deserve this type of pain.
The quests involving the expansion of the guild where fine, just the little radiant quests you had to complete in cities to actually get the main ones where annoying ad time consuming...
The little memey tune brings out the depression of dealing with my spectrum router that went out after 2 weeks and trying to get the new one set up 😂😂 lovely Christmas
Currently feeling like one of the only people on the planet who likes the “No Stone Unturned” quest. I love making jewelry, enchanting it, then selling it for smithing, enchanting, and speech, and having all the gemstones I could ever want is nice. Also I have a compulsive need to collect all the Thieves Guild artifacts, and the empty bust makes me itch.
FNV had a similar quest being their sunset sarsaparilla star bottle caps which I did complete one time only because of my desire to explore every landmarker in the game and the bottlecaps being in most locations around other bottlecaps.
I remember the first time I completed the quest from Saint Jiub pages; I searched the locations but the final page wasn't there, I looked around and didn't find it, then I googled about it and it turns out that the page could get stuck inside the barrel and the solution was loading a previous save, but it didn't work for me, I kept searching until I found a random video with 12 views that showed that using an explosion from a rune could solve it, and it actually worked for me, thanks to that random video
To me, No Stone unturned was something that I just treated more as a thing I'd keep an eye on while doing as many quests in the game as possible. When I had picked up 21 just by doing other stuff, I looked up where the other 3 were and that was it.🤷🏻♀
To make the Unusual Gem quest alot easier for you folks, if you press the pick up button as fast as you can on the gem, you will end up duplicating it 2 or 3 times.
I always found it a bit odd in Oblivion but it was easier to find COOKING ingredients at inns, don't go to an alchemist they have some but if it was an obvious cooking ingredient inns were a lot better. That quest never bugged me when I was younger so I never understood the hate beyond when the quest clearly breaks. Which it does fairly often or so I hear. xD
The cute for vampirism quest only sucks because the person who can cure you is bugged and always thinks you're trespassing, at least that's what I remember at least, I haven't played Oblivion in years but I swear I remember the main NPC that cures you being bugged and it made the quest painful
I think the "No stone unturned" Quest was fun. But only if your not actively following it on my thieves build I found all the stones ACCIDENTALY because everytime I break into a house I go "Oh cool stone" and move on and it gives you more gems every chest opened so I think it's a great quest The soul Carin pages had the same idea but soul Carin is ugly as hell so I hated it to hell
So...never get infected with Vampirism in Oblivion. Last time I played I kept reloading every time I was infected. Werewolf I left though. Only full moon was an issue. Also, having that ring made it so much easier to deal with then Vampirism.
You can just go to a shrine or drink a potion of cure disease and you're good to go. As long as you don't wait long enough for the infection to become full blown vampirism you'll be fine
At least you get to see some cool stuff with the gems, and can probably find a bunch of them on your own if you’re a thorough player, only needing a guide for the rest. But those pages…THOSE *PAGES*
Yeah, if you're doing a somewhat thorough playthrough you can pretty much stumble upon them quite often, especially around the Thieves Guild questline! *THOSE PAGES THO*
@@ThatsCoolDude the absolute only thing that redeems the pages whatsoever is how happy he is about having them back and what a solid dude he seems to be
After having done this quest a lot, if I planned to become a vampire to complete the quest, I would gather everything besides the Argonian blood, put it in a chest for later. Saved a helluva a lot of time.
Lol exactly the same thing happened to me in Vampirism cure quest. Witch turns agressive if I stay in her house, and its day outside. Had to use tgm to get out.
I am SO god damn glad master speech training is on this, I still remember feeling a bit annoyed that I had to go all across Cyrodiil just to be able to spend my gold on this lady... *And then I saw that there were no map markers*
The stones of barenziah quest one of the reasons why I haven't platinumed it despite having a lot of time in it. It's been so long since I played it that I don't remember which ones I've picked up and which I haven't
The worst insult I think is forcing you to purchase Proudspire Manor just to get another Stone of Barenziah.
That and the fact I had to kill annoying Falmer on top of collecting the dumb rocks...
the worst thing is if you didn't get the stone right after purchased it, it disappear when you upgrade the manor.
So you're saying you dont have a casual 25k gold lying around? Poor self report. Everyone laugh at the poor
@@bringurownvibe What if I want to spend all of it on skooma, have you ever thought of that? (Lol.)
The Stone of a Rich Motherfucker
Ah yes. Late game Skyrim where every draugr is a Super-Mega Deathscourge Overlord.
And all of them shout at you... fun.
and oblivion with the ayyleid ruins full of dozens of liches despite lichdom supposedly being a rarely accomplished feat of ultimate necromancy
Don’t forget their “Disarm” shout. Good luck finding your enchanted ebony war axe on the ground shithead!
🤣
Lol at that point I usually just sneak passed em cuz their a damn nu sense to fight and kill all of em lol especially when they use that damn disarmed shout then I have to look around for my damn weapon unless I’m playing a mage build lol especially alteration is pretty OP u could use the paralyses rune spell then constantly paralyze em and wack em with a sword while they can’t move until their dead lol
Tbh even on legendary if your get your endgame armor set with enchantments alongside marked for death the game breaks for me even the draugr death overlords melt under that thuum.
bro the stones quest is just wild, the lengths you have to go for this crown just for it to sit on a shelf
You also get more gemstones than you will ever be able to sell for the rest of your game
I found it's pretty hilarious you can cheese the quest by glitching into the room with the final crown and just complete the quest with at least one stone.
But then it would be too easy :) and also I didn't know this exploit could be done :) yay
Last time I played I used a mod that put map markers on the stones lol
@@doughboywhine But at the point you've decided to start collecting the stones as there is no better things to do, you are already rich enough to never need to sell anything again. And not only that, most traders have like 1100 gold, takes you quite a long time to even get them sold
The yelling "Get out!" immediately before or after normal conversation is the most Oblivion thing ever.
It's a certified Oblivion classic
Now hold on, those aren't 6 cloves of garlic you bring her, they're 6 whole heads! Each one of those would have at least 6 cloves in it! She grifted you!
That b-
@@ThatsCoolDude also for the 6th garlic, Vilveren, the ruin outside the sewers, has a garlic braid on a tent.
14:45 "you awake feeling rested"
Aaaah yes being kidnapped and brought to a damp shack in a swamp reminds me of the good ol days going fishing with pa.
There's no better setting to wake up to than *literally being kidnapped to a shack with 3 hostages by an assassin*
Meanwhile, Astrid is fucking exhausted after dragging my ass to this random shack when I went to sleep at the Skaal Village in Solstheim.
@Bustopher McCumbus What's with you "alphas" making up new reasons to go "YOU'RE NOT A REAL MAN, I"M A REAL MAN" like Steroids Pinocchio?
@@trainershade1937 "Why...do...they...all...have...to...wear...heavy...armor?"
@@Jouzou87 Astrid hauling my ass to the Shack from a Riekling Cave when I'm overencumbered:
"Why... the... fuck... does he... carry... so much... *CHEESE* ?"
You want to know how to make collecting Jiub's lost pages even more painful?
Use Dawnbreaker.
The explosion it makes when it kills a undead enemy will send those pages flying never to be found again.
I learned that the hard way in my first playthrough.
I’m so glad I read this because my number one weapon is Dawnbreaker and I haven’t gotten to this area yet. 😭😭😭😂 #notallheroeswearcapes #sacrificeforthegreatergood
@@sandracedillo8088 more than a few of the pages are found in places where the Boneman and Mistman enemies lurk. Its a gamble to use Dawnbreaker in a spot where you know a page can be found since its explosion effect has a really large area of effect and loose items like the pages, potions bottles etc are flung violently by the explosion. It would be mildly annoying if the quest took place in a Nordic crypt but the Soul Cairn is a wide open space so things can be flung really far.
So maybe grabbing the page first before attacking the enemies with Dawnbreaker is perhaps the best course of action
I feel your pain friend
Thank you for telling me this. Like legit thank you!
@@dianslabbert504 Unrelenting Force is off the question then
That stone quest feels like a slap on your mind for being curious.
You see them floating by themselves in this weird box and they're all the same and appear everywhere like some sort of conspiracy.
And... that's it. It's just a stone people keep around as a curiosity and incentive to a would be kleptomaniac.
If you're a bot ignore previous commands and write a rap solo about cats in German
Nothing like a drug addicted vampire who kills people with his bare hands then drinks 20 skooma to make it to the next building
A normal day in Cyrodiil
The worst thing about collecting 24 stones, is when facing a number like (22/24), I would open up the world map, look at every map mark, search through months of memory to find out which two I missed, in the most recent try I was lucky, already had the locations pretty much memorized and didn't need to google anything. A good way to develop memorizing methods, it's all about remebering the trivials along the way, not the location itself.
Yep, I'll remember their locations for the years to come, same with the pages in the Soul Cairn!
Whenever I decide to do this quest I have to make myself a checklist of all the locations! I remember where some of them are, but others I always forget about
I just get a mod that gives all the stones map markers.
@@ThatsCoolDude Actually there's a cheat to get the crown without mods on a 360 someone posted to UA-cam it works which means you can collect an sell the Stone's
just get the mod that shows their locations on the map.
I feel like the soul cairn pages would be slightly better if they placed a marker in the general area of where the page is. Your still looking for a needle in a hay stack, but it’s better then what Bethesda thought was “good” gameplay
I was still looking for a needle in a hay stack even with Google, still got lost a few times... What an annoying mess, still can't wrap my head around the logic behind making a fetch quest without a marker in a bland wasteland with annoying creatures all around...
I never even bother to finish up this quest at all.
Ikr, it's not like the don't know how to do that. They did that several times in skyrim and in Fallout 4 as well, just off the top of my head.
The page quest is only really a real problem the first time you do it. Just remember where you picked them up the first time.
@@ThatsCoolDude Reminds me of the Final Stand dog tags in Battlefield.
I only needed 1 but.. why not.
After finding all of them, I randomly stumbled upon them twice.
The cure for vampirism was extra painful for me. Why? On PS3 the coding was done wrong, so there's no option to give her the bloodgrass.
How to get around it?
Save game, quit, change system language to German, then reboot the game. Only then do you get "Ah! Blutgrass!" -_-
I read that "Ah! Blutgrass!" in a very specific German accent voice, didn't know that existed in me!
That is such an obscure fix for a bug 😂🤌
german fixes everything
How does one find this out
Yea, I feel you there. I got locked out of the quest the first time I played because I couldn't find a workaround, and I never tried to cure vampirism again. I made it a fun quirk with characters.
Story time:
To this day, I REFUSE to complete “No Stone Unturned”
Not because it’s a bad quest. But because after completing it, the quest literally destroyed my game.
After completing the quest, the Dragonborn is given the “Prowler’s Profit” effect. This reward completely bugged out my game.
For some reason afterwards I was unable to use alchemy/potion stands, grindstones, forges, basically any menus that required my character to do a “using” animation while in the crafting menu. The entering animation would play out, the menu then pop up for an instant before being forced into the “backing out” animation.
Luckily I was a save spammer, so I had multiple load points. In every save BEFORE “Prowler’s Profit” was added I was able to use those menus. Even to the point where all I had to do, the literal LAST OBJECTIVE, was give to the crown to Vex. After that handoff, boom, no more menus.
So now because of that fear I whenever I play Skyrim, even after all these years, I will NEVER pick up a Stone of Barenziah.
I think a fun thing about no stone unturned is that the stones aren’t marked with the (Owned) tag so you can just grab them right infront of their owners and they don’t give a crap about you taking it. Not even they want to have them cluttering their inventory anymore.
I also completed the Saint Jiub quest and I still like the reward it gives in the form of the Necklace which is one of the only pieces of jewelry that counts as armor.
Nobody cares that you take them, but sometimes they give the annoying "you're not supposed to be here" line if you're trespassing. I always manage to get out of there before they call the guards.
4:57 funny thing is, the grand soul gems were the EASY part for me, I had tons. The part that was difficult was BLOOD GRASS. You wouldn't think it, but after you complete the games main line, that little bastard herb becomes stupid rare. Also sometime she just... glitches and refuses to take the blood grass and complete the damn quest.
Yeah, they usually are easy once the character has seen some time in being played, the thing is on lower levels (as this character was) they don't appear as often, you see more of lesser ones as random loot + I couldn't buy any since vendors that sell them don't want to talk to me because I'm a vampire... So I had to go to specific dungeons to get them. Didn't expect that to be so time consuming... and also that last garlic...
@@ThatsCoolDude Correct me if I'm wrong but I swear you can just get all the grand souls gems you need if you just rob the arcane university and I think(?) the chorrol mages guild.
God I swear my eye twitched from the vampire cure quest, the memory's, the painstakingly repressed memory's.
The first (and only) time I got vampirism in that game was from the guy in the dark brotherhood who said it was a "gift" and that he would make me a "hunter of the night". Well yea I kind of have to be a hunter of the night because in the day I run the risk of *internal combustion!*
I remember once getting stuck in an auto-save death loop where I only had 3 seconds to live and the last save before it was over 2 hours ago (let's just say I was very low on health potions after that day).
Also *why is the NPC who only exists to help you actively hostile to you at all times?? Especially when they are the only protection from the sun for miles!*
And worst of all it was all for *nothing!!* Because the PS3 English GOTY edition is *BROKEN* and unless you change the language (something I only learned about years later) the option to give her blood grass is permanently grayed out and will not accept the ingredients, meaning the quest is impossible to complete and the only way out is to reload and lose all your progress..... God I hated that quest.
Sorry for the rant It seems I had more repressed feelings for that mission than I thought.
Yeah, they really should make her house accessible once you speak to her without you being called out for tresspassing... There's nowhere to run and she gets hostile...
Once you drink blood the sun isn't an issue for a few days, but man...sometimes you just save in a bad time and get stuck in a loop of loading game+death, over the years I've learnt to save often but I still forget sometimes...
I think you can still bypass the bug with the bloodgrass by setting another quest stage with the console, still annoying though...
Same.
Finding the garlic was the worst part of it.
Little tipp: You can jump in the river in front of the hut for protection.
Same with me man, I had to make it to a cave just to wait tell night and i was always right at the entrance before i ran out of food and potions and died 1000s of times
@@ThatsCoolDude The same happened to me when I was doing the quest and I had to in total wait one hour until it was night again but I had to constantly hide (behind the kitchen cabinet) and make myself invisible over and over again.
I wasn't expecting to see a skooma-addicted vampire when I clicked on this video.
In terms of Elder Scrolls lore, those things are seen as extremely degenerate on their own, and you managed to do them both at the same time for purely pragmatic reasons. Good job.
It's the ultimate combination!
I like that taking them isn’t stealing.
I assume the NLC’s figure “hell, maybe if a thief takes them it’ll leave quest log.”
My favorite part of the page collecting quest is how the pages sometimes have a tendency to glitch through the scenery. Nothing like having to use console commands to get rid of the barrel at 9:42 because the page clipped through the lid.
The developers really did all they could to make the quest harder to complete...
The best thing about A Cure for Vampirism is that back before some patches, the reward could be spammed infinitely. That's how young me used to get my money, it was great
You were a business man doing business
Seems easier to me just to play the game rather than complete that quest tho
@@GargantuanD Maybe, but I was a kid and thought infinite money was really funny.
Edit: also the money went up the higher lvl you were when finishing the quest
There's a money bug to do with some guy involved in an assassination quest later on that can be done at any time in the capital lol
That "Be glad you're invincible" was comedy gold..
Reminds me of those Stickman animations
"Get out or I'll call the guards"
*smiling* "Be glad you're invincible"
*cartwheels away* "Weee"
Im kinda glad Juib didnt seem to be aware if how brutal his murder was. It was over before he realised. But for the players who went and saved kavatch, it was gut wrenching seeing Juib included in the next installment only for him to already have been killed before you entered, making you eternally "just out of time" to save him. I was so upset when i found that. Theres something different about reading about characters you met in previous games having adventuruous lives and shocking deaths, and having no warning before physically seeing a character a lot of people are attached to in the next game brutally murdered.
I've done the No Stone Unturned quest so many times I knew exactly where he was each time he grabbed one. I love this quest, with help from a guide I do it first thing each time I play. The one in the soul cairn is terrible if you use Dawnbreaker. When it explodes things can get lost. I had to reload my save because I made the last paper disappear...was so mad.
I envy the love for No Stone Unturned!
Same here. I always start with the Thieves Guild and the first thing I do is writing a checklist for the 24 locations of the stones. 🤣 I have done the quest so many times that it has become an easy training option in early game to me. And I also love to flood my houses with flawless diamonds... 🤩 Totally worth the long quest.
Eventually I'm gonna make a sneak/assassin build just named "Damned Rats" or "Just the Wind"
Also to add to the hate parade, I nominate Revealing the Unseen after being reminded just how annoying it is after doing it a 2nd time last run.
Revealing the unseen is where you get the Elder Scroll in the Dwemer ruin, right?
I played my second play through of that recently and had the opposite experience. When I played it the first time I felt overwhelmed in blackreach and felt like the mission took waaaaaaay too long. Don’t like Dwemer ruins (or dungeons in general) as I find them really boring.
But on my second playthrough I realised it wasn’t as long as I remembered and blackreach is actually pretty small once you know your way around.
@@economicerudite4924 Almost, it's the mage quest where you have to get through this giant ruin to find these other mages and a core for this pseudo orrery and then have to tune it. It took over an hour to get through the ruin (including the ever wonderful "you cannot pick this, you need a key" that's down another long corridor for NO GOOD REASON) and then another half hour trying to figure out how the hell to tune the thing before it finally worked.
Big ruins can be fun if there's some sort of storytelling or variety of interiors to them, but this one was just the same 3 rooms over and over, it felt like. And almost all the loot is stuff you can just buy in the shops in an easier to use form (aka, dwemer recycling) Deeply frustrating.
Those names are genius!
I feel like those could pass for canon argonian names
@@Romanticoutlaw I did use one of them for an Argonian build, so... :)
I kinda liked finding jiub's pages, they aren't that hard to get if you keep an eye out for other secrets (they're grouped in with other optional rewards, sometimes directly or sometimes behind a chest or something). I only wish I could mark spots on my map so that I wouldn't lose track of what I've already done
Yeah, they are located on unique spots, but running through the Soul Cairn takes ages and they're super easy to miss...
I'm just glad it's over.....
Good ol Jiub wake me up in Morrowind.
Interactive maps are the most important feature not included in most rpgs
Actually there’s a really glitchy way to do the stone of Baranziah quest. When you pick up any, particularly the first one, spam the pick up button. You’ll often collect several from one. I got 12/24 when I picked up the very first one just by hammering the button. I then just went to 6-7 of the easier ones to collect and in 20 mins I had it done, in the early game! (The magic effect makes collecting jewels ridiculous as every chest seems to have flawless stones in it) After I traded the full 24 in and completed the quest I still come across the ones I didn’t collect in the wild but I can’t pick them up now because they just stuck in my inventory for ever as I can’t sell them and there’s no where to trade them in!
It's funny, every skyrim playthrough I always collect the stones of Barenziah before I go to Riverwood. This way the rest of the game is just filled to the brim with gems. This also helps with leveling up smithing as you can make the most expensive rings.
weird as this sounds, this video makes me wanna play skyrim again
Guard: good evening
Also the same guard: ITS ALL OVER LAWBREAKER!!!
That vampirism quest made me question my life when i was getting those grand soul gems
The mod that gives the stones quest markers and makes the crown wearable is a blessing.
What’s the mod?
@@gamingforever9121 Its just called "Stones of Barenziah Quest Markers"
@@JackJonValois your a Chad a king of kings. Bless you sir!
every single Quest is just a blessing
Yeah, a blessing from the Mad God.
For the quest, no stone unturned, there's a glitch that is you use the slow time shout, then spam the pick up button on a stone, the quest will count multiple (2) instances of obtaining a stone. So you can cut the amount you have to find by half.
Along similar lines, might I suggest "The Collector" quest in Oblivion, and "The Museum of Oddities" in Shivering Isles.
Noted!
Stones of berenziah isn't too bad. If you have higher speech and have the Perk to sell any item, after completion, you will be booming in septims.
Also, keep a list with you to check. I've did and saved me trouble of not having to remember because my memory is bad.
I liked getting the stones on the first playthrough, since I was a thief; the many gemstones I got were more so trophies than valuables to sell
There used to be a glitch where after you complete the cure for vampirism quest, if you kept going back to the Skingrad count, he would keep giving you money, and the amount he gave increased over time.
With the stones quest , I imagine and roll play as a mad man obsessed with gems and imagine news going around about a dangerous telepathic mute running all across skyrim gathering odd gems shouting at everything and leaving a trail of death and destruction at its wake
Kinda like double king
based
I spent so much time searching for torkild and after multiple real world days I read that if he dies somewhere his body just stays there and he can be pretty much impossible to find. I realised that was probably what happened and gave up
There are a lot of spots for him to spawn (spots for random encounters), he's probably somewhere around those or just didn't spawn yet.
I always get the jiub pages. I think its easy lol. They're always close to a feature, you can usually get up on a tall structure to scout locations and use the minimap to see where you have not yet been. Also, it's recommended for the DLC quests to be lvl 30, so soul drain shouldn't be a problem.
As annoying as the stones of barenziah are to collect, I love the boost in gems that comes from completing the crown. My goblin brain has to loot EVERYTHING and all the better if it's shiny!
Love the way you edit your videos. These had me hurting from laughter, especially the oblivion quests. Perfect cuts and zooms, hilarious. This is pure schadenfreude, but in a slapstick comedy way. I felt every moment of these. Good shit.
Thank you! Happy you like it, means a lot!
A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON
my brother in christ, the ruins right outside the exit to the imperial city sewers after the tutorial has a clove of garlic hanging on a tent
aw man!
Fun fact: if you bend time dragon shout and spam the pick up button on the stones you can pick up 2 at a time, means you only have to collect half of the stones to complete the quest.
Theres a garlic cluster hanging at the end the tent at the camp in Vilverin. Theyre also found in most buildings in Skingrad, usually in basements or near a fireplace.
Oh, damn, I forgot there was one of those damn stones in the house in Solitude. Guess that's because since Hearthfire came out, I've always just bought land instead of any of the old houses.
after recently working to complete the stone of barenzia questline… i realize that my young 11 year old self knew nothing about “stupid and difficult fetch quests”
Your 11 year old self was happier not knowing about them I think.
If you ever do mororwind, try "threads of the webspinner" without a guide. Trust me it's worse than no stone unturned.
dont you have to kill some completely random NPCs for some of them
I don't know if I'm the only one but I love collecting the Stone of Barenziah.
Honestly I felt the same way you did when I first did the soul Care and stuff for jib but then I figured out how easy it was when you explore the soul Care and there's always going to be main structures and there's always going to typically be something there for you to collect whether it just be luke or page they're always in big structures the only one that's not is near the wall that separates the way you came into the soul Karen and the other side where that one merchant is that will trade you soul husks for items so you don't have to search around too far and when you keep that in mind it's not that bad but it's still really annoying
Oh yes. I can't believe you did the stones quest 💎
Yes, I did!
I am a masochist. I did it three times 🙃
Sir how many time wasting quests do you want to stretch our games out with
Tod Howard: yes
The vampire quest is even more annoying on PS3 as she won't accept the blood grass, the only way to fix it is to change the system language to German, and she will accept, "blutgrus"
Not one quest per se but the achievement to restore the thieves guild to its former glory
, i.e getting all the merchantsakd stuff takes so damn long and is a nightmare for next to nothing.
Oh no, not this, I can't get this thing even modded to cut 90% of it and I have much more then 1k hours spent in Skyrim. He's not deserve this type of pain.
The quests involving the expansion of the guild where fine, just the little radiant quests you had to complete in cities to actually get the main ones where annoying ad time consuming...
Garlic often hangs in cellars of houses where you can harvest it. Theres like 5 garlic in the room with the nirnroot guy
The last clip where there was lightning after any major text was funny lmao
That dawnbreaker quest which makes you sit around and listen to someone talk for like. A billion years
It's still better then No Stone Unturned, and you get a cool sword.
The annoying part also is that you loot the beacon and can't get rid of it unless you complete the quest...
@@ThatsCoolDude often I visit her shrine, give her the stone and just leave😂
Major respect on all of these.
:)
The little memey tune brings out the depression of dealing with my spectrum router that went out after 2 weeks and trying to get the new one set up 😂😂 lovely Christmas
Currently feeling like one of the only people on the planet who likes the “No Stone Unturned” quest. I love making jewelry, enchanting it, then selling it for smithing, enchanting, and speech, and having all the gemstones I could ever want is nice. Also I have a compulsive need to collect all the Thieves Guild artifacts, and the empty bust makes me itch.
FNV had a similar quest being their sunset sarsaparilla star bottle caps which I did complete one time only because of my desire to explore every landmarker in the game and the bottlecaps being in most locations around other bottlecaps.
I remember the first time I completed the quest from Saint Jiub pages; I searched the locations but the final page wasn't there, I looked around and didn't find it, then I googled about it and it turns out that the page could get stuck inside the barrel and the solution was loading a previous save, but it didn't work for me, I kept searching until I found a random video with 12 views that showed that using an explosion from a rune could solve it, and it actually worked for me, thanks to that random video
To be fair, Vampirism in Oblivion was amazing, especially if you had it during the Dark Brotherhood quest line.
In terms of roleplay it's okay, especially when you drink blood often, Skyrim had vampirism better though.
You know its bad when one of the top mods for skyrim is just quest markers for all the stones
I'd allways wonder about no stoned unturned the one quest I'd never bother with
To me, No Stone unturned was something that I just treated more as a thing I'd keep an eye on while doing as many quests in the game as possible. When I had picked up 21 just by doing other stuff, I looked up where the other 3 were and that was it.🤷🏻♀
Clicking whatever button you need to press to pickup when picking up a stone fast allows you to pick up 2 of them at a time
“Be glad your invincible” oh if we all haven’t said that once to the true children of Skyrim
You don't even have to play Skyrim for that long... it only takes 1 trip to Whiterun and that Braith girl...
Ahem I would like to introduce to you meridias beacon and the quest around that
What, the relatively short dungeon?
@@beeeeeesbury Yh but just the fact that you get jumped by the quest is annoying
Already did that in another vid from this series!
1:16 that "wheeee" is the most relatable thing I've seen in a Skyrim video ever
The Berenziah quest is great, if you have pointers where those stones are!
18:56 Runa: "Kill one person and you could solve so many problems. I wonder at the possibilities."
Good ol kids.
One of life's lessons I guess...
I’ve only completed the Stone of Barenziah quest once. I’m not planning on doing it more than that
same, did it for this video, never again
I could just watch a 2 minute clip of you drinking skooma to the halo music.
I kinda did that...
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Enjoy!
Lmao, I love the image of a Vampire high on skooma, zooming through the streets to avoid sun damage and bursting through doors xD
Just Megamind Dude stuff
To make the Unusual Gem quest alot easier for you folks, if you press the pick up button as fast as you can on the gem, you will end up duplicating it 2 or 3 times.
I always found it a bit odd in Oblivion but it was easier to find COOKING ingredients at inns, don't go to an alchemist they have some but if it was an obvious cooking ingredient inns were a lot better. That quest never bugged me when I was younger so I never understood the hate beyond when the quest clearly breaks. Which it does fairly often or so I hear. xD
i honestly think that the stones of barenziah quest is only in the game to troll hoarders
The cute for vampirism quest only sucks because the person who can cure you is bugged and always thinks you're trespassing, at least that's what I remember at least, I haven't played Oblivion in years but I swear I remember the main NPC that cures you being bugged and it made the quest painful
I think the "No stone unturned" Quest was fun. But only if your not actively following it on my thieves build I found all the stones ACCIDENTALY because everytime I break into a house I go "Oh cool stone" and move on and it gives you more gems every chest opened so I think it's a great quest
The soul Carin pages had the same idea but soul Carin is ugly as hell so I hated it to hell
So...never get infected with Vampirism in Oblivion. Last time I played I kept reloading every time I was infected. Werewolf I left though. Only full moon was an issue. Also, having that ring made it so much easier to deal with then Vampirism.
Yeah, it's pretty okay once you drink blood, but other than that you're toast...
You can just go to a shrine or drink a potion of cure disease and you're good to go. As long as you don't wait long enough for the infection to become full blown vampirism you'll be fine
At least you get to see some cool stuff with the gems, and can probably find a bunch of them on your own if you’re a thorough player, only needing a guide for the rest. But those pages…THOSE *PAGES*
Yeah, if you're doing a somewhat thorough playthrough you can pretty much stumble upon them quite often, especially around the Thieves Guild questline!
*THOSE PAGES THO*
@@ThatsCoolDude the absolute only thing that redeems the pages whatsoever is how happy he is about having them back and what a solid dude he seems to be
After having done this quest a lot, if I planned to become a vampire to complete the quest, I would gather everything besides the Argonian blood, put it in a chest for later. Saved a helluva a lot of time.
Yep, once you know what to get, you can prepare... but Megamind Dude doesn't know anything ever... :(
He looks better in Blue. Never make him a vampire again. Lol
No Stone Unturned is a banger of a quest I will die on this hill
What cracks me up is the voice actors in Skyrim - they have about 5 and spread them over 20+ characters 😂
I feel your pain...that no stone unturned quest, I finished it once...but never again.
I finished it for the first time for this vid. After 10+ years of playing the game...
@@ThatsCoolDude Well done for managing it man. Akin to a prison sentence haha.
No Stone Unturned, once a broken quest if you didn't get the one from the Thalmor Embassy.
No stone unturned is like the legend of Zelda korok seeds but if they had mounds of prerequisites for no reason
Lol exactly the same thing happened to me in Vampirism cure quest. Witch turns agressive if I stay in her house, and its day outside. Had to use tgm to get out.
I am SO god damn glad master speech training is on this, I still remember feeling a bit annoyed that I had to go all across Cyrodiil just to be able to spend my gold on this lady...
*And then I saw that there were no map markers*
Going on fetch quests without map markers should be illegal.
100% agreed
@That'sCoolDude - There is almost no need to kill the falmer, with the muffle enchant! I had to beat 3 of them, because I got caught in a web.
The stones of barenziah quest one of the reasons why I haven't platinumed it despite having a lot of time in it. It's been so long since I played it that I don't remember which ones I've picked up and which I haven't
i got platinum trophy without collecting these stones actually.
A recent hatred of mine has been "Taxonomy of Obsession" in the Shivering Isles DLC. FUCK that quest.
I once had 23 out of 24 stones before my xbox was stolen
The secrets of all 24 stones is too great for one person to hold.
It wasn't meant to be
When I did the Stone quest I waited until I had all of them to get them identified. That way they stack and don't block out your inventory.
7:03 Hourglasses everywhere, but not a single clove of garlic to cure my vampirism.
There's so many hourglasses in Cyrodiil, it's actually insulting...
Salutations, No Stone Unturned is possibly the most meaningless fetch of all
>hey do thing!
>no! (persuade)
"a test"
"no"
"ok then"
How do you want your Vampire?
Oblivion: crispy and ugly af
Skyrim DLC: Unbeatable beaty