Since no one else seems to have mentioned it, before going to Riverwood, you should actually go back through Helgen and head east. First, there's a nice little dungeon called Greywater Grotto near the path heading south. It only has a few wolves inside for enemies, but you can also find a few dead bandits with a chest, and an iron vein as well as a gold vein. Now that you can do any time. However, this next one will disappear after you get to Riverwood. If you keep following the road east of Helgen, you will find an ambushed Khajit wagon with a few bandits and a skill book inside the wagon. Further up the road, near where a Stormcloak camp will be, you will find a tiny cave with two wolves. Inside the cave is another skill book. Both skill books vanish once you arrive at Riverwood.
...and find out that you have missed something at the very beginning of the game. I didn't know about the bandit camp and the Talos shrine near Helgen.
In case you don’t want to watch the video here’s a full run down ESO Skyrim best start simplified: ------------------- Play as a High Elf or Breton Break out of helgen Check weight to value ratio on all looted items for max selling price (get the spider venom, wine, and all weapons) Take other path out of helgen (left) Once you see the tree stump kill the bandits loot the bodies to find a treasure map Make sure to take the skill book in the tent Oh and the mage robes Head west onto stone path Walk up to the shrine of talos Get the shrines blessing Loot the thalmor Continue the path Choose a guardian stone depending on playthrough Check out embershard mine at some point Take the pelts off the wolves Head onto Riverwood Talk to faendal (get the fake note) Use him to train your archery if you’d like Head onto the Riverwood trader Give fake letter to Camilla (make sure to pick lie option) Get golden claw quest from Lucan at the Riverwood trader by asking him about the fight Do not sell anything here Talk to faendal You now have your first follower Sell your weapons and armor to the blacksmith Do the faendal archery training trick we’re you train and then just take your money back as much as you like/are able Use treasure map BEFORE talking to Gerdur Find the log take the treasure Continue down the riverside path Follow to the the house map marker (compass I mean) Discover the location anises cabin and make sure to read the alchemy book Pick the lock and open the cellar Raid the ingredients Kill anise Celebrate your new free player home Make sure to only store things in the cupboard, as this is the safe storage spot Sleep for a free xp buff Go back to Riverwood Talk to Gerdur and take all her gifts Continue main quest and head to white run Help the companions kill the giant and then talk to them (for a free quest) Discover whiterun Persuade the guard for free entry and a speech level Go to the companions long house Take a left and rush downstairs Run through and take a right Open the left door Have some fun lock-picking and obtaining a free elven bow Speak to kodlak to start the companions quest line Wait for kodlak to finish his conversation at the table, wait for him to leave, then go ahead and pick the cases to the elven sword and war hammer Always speak to bartenders at new towns with the rumor option to get free quests Fin No hate ESO, love your videos
Yo he’s playing Khajiit? Why does ot list Breton or High Elf? Are they better? Sorry I’m playing it for the first time tomorrow as its just come out on gamepass but never really played RPG’s before
This will be invaluable when I step into the land of Skyrim for the very first time. Thanks ESO appreciate the knowledge and passion that goes into every single video.
ESO - Fallout & Elder Scrolls Guides 6 days away is agonising I cannot wait! When will you be doing another livestream they are the best streams to watch and I really enjoyed your Dishonoured play through. Wolfed down my dinner to get back to my computer for 7:30pm. Being a fulltime youtuber can be daunting but you have my loyalty and support XD
Same. Played it for years but never got into it. Never did a single main quest. Now I’m hooked. It’s so much fun. It’s no morrowind- but it’s sure beautiful
you can actually get these fast before even getting near riverwood for the first time! I did and it spared me two quests and some time (also speedrunners, maybe use this strat? I don't know what speedrunners do for strats in skyrim lmao
@@k-man4 they skip the first quests im pretty sure, by bucketing into the thalmor embassy and stealing the stuff u need for a quest where u go to a party there, then u go get esbern and the rest is normal i think
There's also a skeletal deer laying under a rocky overhang on the Cabin-side of the waterfall that ALWAYS has an emerald inside its ribcage, really great early on money.
I've been playing skyrim since it came out, and I consider myself a veteran, but this was hands down the best tutorial/ walk through I've seen. Great video
Quick tip for those wanting to play stealth at a high difficulty: You can redirect your enemies with your arrows. They follow the sound, allowing you to get past them.
Yes like hitman. I never knew till like a month ago. It just really goes to show how amazing this game was for its time. I still think overall it's the best game ever made. And theres no way they couldn't do the exact same thing but better. Lol
If you do the vanilla start you can get Sneak lvl 100 and One handed lvl 100 before you even leave the cave. Just sneak attack the dude you’re with right before the bear and keep sneak attacking him with an iron dagger. He can’t die.
The very first thing you should do is max out sneak by sneak attacking Ralof (Stormcloak that guides you in the first scene when Alduin is attacking) in the back for an hour. I got my sneak to Legendary 5 + level 100 in a couple hours just by swinging at his back with a dagger every few seconds. He falls to the ground after a minute - Wait for him to get back up and resume slicing. Tip: If you select perks for sneak while leveling, try to avoid upgrade your sneak damage. You will kill Ralof faster and it'll take more time overall to level up. Tip: Don't forget you can make a skill legendary more than once, this means you can leave the starting area as a level 50 (I did) with tons of perk points for current & future use. Tip: The best spot to do this (in my opinion) would be indoors, after killing the Imperial woman & guard. I started my slicy slice time when Ralof asked me to unlock the door. *Downside* - He will ask you to unlock the door for 2-3 hours so it's best to turn your volume down. Tip: When Ralof revives, most of the time he'll come back with very little health, instead of waiting for his health to regenerate, quickly kill him again - about 1 in 3 revives he'll come back with full HP.
Mike Anthony my tip to you: turn your difficulty up to legendary. it increases rolafs health well past the damage you can deal, so he recovers faster than you can hurt him. it removes all of that time you took letting him recover, so that you can just rapidly hit him and level up. I think you'll find your hour long method is reduced to about 15 minutes
Kill enemies on easy, switch to Legendary once you've killed them. Ralof doesn't attack you and as long as you don't unlock the gate you're not going to find any either. Once you've gotten your level high enough - switch back to normal or easy and proceed from there. The point is - Ralof doesn't attack you, he's a friendly unit. So you can hit him as many times as you like in the back to develop your sneak skill and he'll never take a swing at you.
I think a good tip to add is when you get to the Torturers Room in Helgen when you get the Lockpicks, to Lockpick all of the cells and the locked doors down the following corridor. This will boost your lockpicking right off the bat.
My thought is that nobody is a better guides man than ESO cause he gives the most important informations! Just keep the good work up bro ur the best!!💪💪👌
When you do the quest that takes you to Bleak Falls Barrow, bring Uthgerd The Unbroken (you can find her in Whiterun in the Bannered Mare, you get into the brawl with her, win, and she can become a followers). You will eventually come across a trap with huge axes swinging left and right. Once you cross Uthgerd will have to cross and at this point she will either cross with low health or be on the floor almost dead. You can then kill her easily and take her chan armor. You will not get a bounty or any penalties for this and you get strong armor at an early level.
What happens if you just kill her? Jw, I'm just starting to play Skyrim as of last night when I bought it. Just barely passed that mission this morning, too, lol. That's why I'm asking.
It's much better to leave her be. She is one of the best companions, and her armor is heavy, which is bad for light or sneak armor mains. The best way is to find much better armor and weapons by WATCHING THIS DAMN VIDEO
Paljit Singh I know I’m super late but what a fucking dumb idea. Her armour sucks, you should go to bleak falls barrow before whiterun, and killing her has literally nothing to do with going to break falls barrow
@@Brosyphus - - Bleak Falls Barrow has the axe traps used to kill her... That's what it "literally" has to do with the method mentioned above. Have you ever played Skyrim? Also, Steel Plate armor isn't bad. "Fucking dumb idea" ... Grow up.
Just so you people know you when you're in the tutorial tunnel there's a part where you go into sneak mode and wait to attack a bear. You can instead of immediately killing the bear, change the game to legendary difficulty temporarily so you level a little faster and you can just endlessly hit Hadvar or Ralof and they won't fight back. It's great for quickly leveling early game. I got to level ten before leaving the tunnel. My 1 handed was 40 something same with my 2 handed and my destruction was 30 something. It was really op
Additionally, as you level up your skills, don't go to the level up screen, and raise your character level. Keep it at level 1. Go to as many mines/dungeons as possible early on, and the enemies will be relative to your character level of 1. You just have to enter the mine/dungeon. Once you discovered a few (east of Whiterun has several good ones), level yourself up, skills as well, and go back in to the all the areas, and you'll be stronger than most bandits. Only a Bandit Chief may give you some trouble.
@@patogames5099 You ruin the savegame that way. The world is stuck with trash mobs forever. Bethesda did an awful work at balancing the game, to have a proper fun experience never temper weapons or armor, never invest more than 1 point in first perk of archery, onehanded, twohanded, never go higher than 500 HP build if you are melee. never use onehanded, two handed, archery enhacement enchants. Only offensive enchants allowed are elemental ones, never spend point on increasing each elementaldamage from destruction, break enchants. Dont play higher than adept because bethesda in their infinite wisdom messed up npc combat, they deal less damage between them too and take forever to end battles. If you are building necro build or assasin. For necro 100 health max, with vampirism and necromage perk 25 HP. For asassin no more than 300 HP. If i had patience i would make a complete guide on how to have a balanced and fun experience on skyrim. With these choices weapon quality and rng enchantments make a difference withouth breaking the game.
@@CommanderTato yes, I'm aware of that, but OP was looking at how to power level early on. Which, by your reasoning, is also breaking the game. The beauty of a game like Skyrim, with bugs and flaws, is we get to play it however we want. We can be over, or under, levelled as much as we want. I think that, along with a top modding community, is what has us talking about the game in 2021 still.
I think the best thing a new character can do is finish the Agent of Mara questline. It's very easy quest to do, and grants 15% magic resist as a perma buff. You essentially get a free perk for the rest of the game.
How to have a lot of gold early too: Go riften, talk to Maramal until you buy a mara amulet. Go to Whiterun, and go to the Jarl quarter in Dragonreach. In one of the room there's a mammoth tusk, take it. Now to to Whiterun market and talk to Ysolda until she ask for a mammoth tusk. Give it to her and then equip the mara amulet you bought before. Talk to her again and she'll ask if you're interested in her. Say yes and go back to Maramal at Riften to marry her. After defeating the dragon at whiterun, you can buy a house for 5000 gold. Buy it and then talk to Ysolda and ask to move to that new home. She will say that she has openned a market and now you'll get 100gold everyday.
Not that there's anything to buy after you buy and upgrade what houses you want haha. Never bought one piece of equipment in any playthrough. Nabbed or made potions, even then I just used Restoration mostly. At best I would buy filled soul gems to level up Enchanting. Shame the game never did very good at making gold relevant after playing for longer than 10 hours or so, maybe even less to buy every house and max level Enchanting. I guess there's skill trainers but...eh.
6:38 weird i was playing a *twohanded* warrior while you were an *archer* character.I got the iron gaunlets of minor *archery* but you got the iron gauntlets of sure grip Maybe just a coincidence
2019 it’s still relevant and Skyrim is still king and enjoyable and fun and giving. Great work eso and love watching and re watching your Skyrim and fallout guides.
+Shannon “Shanbob” Cheeseman if we're being specific it's actually elder scrolls skyrim special edition, remastered isn't part of the name you fucking idiot.
Nice video - but you'll get much more gold if you pick up every single flower and mushroom you come across o nthe way to Riverwoood and then make potions out of them. Also, it's easier to carry than weapons and armor. (And by the way, Gerdur is not Ralof's wife.)
I jumped into this as it was first es game I played. It was On offer and thought why not. I fired up for the first time my intended hour of play, turned into 6.. and now I'm here watching a video on everything I missed ... Great video thanks 😊
Everything I’ve heard about Skyrim made me want to side with the Imperials. I played this game when I was younger and completely ignored the Civil War questline. On the special edition, I am still finishing the game without doing too much Civil War stuff. Now, I’m on the Switch version and you mentioning that the Nords (Stormcloaks) are the indigenous people to Skyrim made me completely change my view.
well the Nords conqered (probably butchered that spelling) Skyrim from the Falmer (Snow Elves) and drove them underground where the Dwemer preceded to blind them and they turned into the Falmer of Skyrim's era. so technically the Nords aren't the original peoples of Skyrim
I was removing some of my bookmarks and I clicked on this one. Little did I know it was going to give me Nostalgia back to when I was watching this video as a 9-year-old. Thanks ESO for aiding my Skyrim conquest.
Another cool tip for archers: You could get an orcish bow once you finished Bleak Falls Barrow and have returned to Farengar. Delphine will be there and you can sneak behind her then pickpocket her orcish bow and other free loot like potions of healing and arrows. The bow has 6% chance to steal if you're undetected so just save scum your way through it lmao, same for the other items. OR Just get the bound bow everyone knows about lol
pro tip save 1 level up for tough boss fights so you can heal for free 1 time during the battle I think it works even if you dont choose to upgrade your health.
Ben Mitchell It's where you move your controller for aiming rather than using a control stick, for top of line aiming. Nintendo has started using it in their newest gaming systems like the 3DS and Wii U, if it's back on the Switch, it'd be great to use that kind of controlling in Skyrim, because to me it is more efficient :)
stater pro tip. I myself carry everything from the start all the way through helgen and to riverwood its takes about 6 mins to walk there overecumbered and the joy of this is now your free to grab everything from anyone u stumble across on the way I suggest finding the hunter it's also possible to go get to whiterun hy floating in the river overecumbered.
I Always go with Hadvar, and when we reach Riverwood and he talks to his dad inside the house I steal everything downstairs (including armor and coins upstair).
@@Cassian2506 no you can still trade with Alvor. i know this comment is late and whatever, but you can still trade with Alvor if you go with Hadvar at Helgen you just have to talk to him when he's using one of the smithing tables. i think it's like that with most blacksmiths that are found at their forges
Just a correction friend, Archery is effected by the Thief stone because it's classified as a stealth skill. Unless they changed it in the remastered edition. Otherwise great video for beginners or people looking to get back into the game.
I was wearing headphones at night in my room and at like 10:02 of the video my headphones were all the way up I thought a woman was right next to me 😂 I legit almost had a heart attach
After the shrine of talos, if you go to the left on the path. You'll find a ritual site, with a necrophiliac mancer. He will summon a wolf familiar, and use a oakflesh spell. As well as frost bite I believe. But he's easy to defeat, and has another black robe on him. Plus a conjuration skill book, and a burial urn behind the table he was standing behind. Depending on spawns, there may be a couple of wolves and deer on the road.
I got a copy of Morrowind on GOG recently, and got really sucked into the lore. Haven't played Oblivion yet. but that's next on my list. I'll buy this when it's on sale.
Minor correction--the Thief Stone benefits archery too, so it is a great choice for a stealth archer build. Thanks for the great guides--they're helpful and enjoyable.
Yes, I also choose The Thief Stone first because sneaking, lockpicking, pickpocketing, speech and archery are simply the skills I use most in the beginning.
In the beginning you welcomed new Skyrim players to the community, you just earned my respect for being such an entertaining, respectful and all around funny guy. you earned a sub and a like :-)
This is a good video for beginners because I play skyrim all the time since 2012 and I showed showed this video to my brother now he understands it now and he has the free "house" and you did a good job thank you ESO for this video
I played this game for 10 hours when it first came out on PS3, it never really got me hooked. It's a pity since I loved Oblivion. But since that time I've played and loved both Dragons age Inquisition and The Witcher 3. So now going to give Skyrim another chance on th Ps4 pro in 4k. I'll be following your starting guide just to get a leg up.
The place where you get the eleven weapons.. how do you get them to leave the room.. I stood around for an hour.. and by then the rest of the ppl returned to the other rooms... I did get the bow...
Your contents are amazing. I played the game way back in 2012-13 but quickly quit because of so many glitches & bugs in game. But seeing your content convinced me to give it a go again. Hopefully the bugs will be absent this time
INSTA Plays this shows how long I've played skyrim. 2 in Windhelm 1 in whiterun 1 in dawnstar 1 outside markarth 1 outside solitude 1 in riften 1 in the college of winterhold I will edit this comment if I find more!
Ok. I've done the beginning dozens of times over the years and I totally didn't know about that shrine! This whole video was interesting also. Thanks!!
I know the might sound crazy... but I think it would be more worth it to get a PC capable of running Skyrim and just mod it instead of dealing with whatever Sony is doing to their consumers.
Edwin Gonzalez Actually recently Bethesda and Sony confirmed that PS4 mods will be a thing. However, will be limited to only 1GB rather then Xbox One's 5GB. But 1GB should be enough for most mods.
I played this game a year or two ago, but after watching many of your videos, I just had to buy it again! I had it first on Xbox, now PC! There's so much more to this game that i never found, such a missed opportunity!
+Colin Kelley additional content meaning the legendary edition stuff, mounted combat, legendary skills, legendary difficulty and other stuff, also some patches annoying bugs, but a lot of the good fun glitches are still going to be in the game
Thank you so much!! I played this game a long time ago when I was 12 and stopped cause I didn't know wtf I was doing & i always got caught stealing from people in the villages, but 5 years after I quit I'm deciding to reinstall my game into steam!! I never really understood why everyone liked skyrim so much, but it looks fun as hell now that I'm older.
Dude I'm 12 and I've been playing for 3 years now. I know everything about it, and stopped playing simply out of boredom because of lack of good mods and quests.
George-Elio Ghantous yeah not in the same sense as the PC or Xbox has them. It is pretty much limited to stat changes and rebalancing because Sony is not allowing any outside content to be entered into the game.
I love Skyrim so much. The first time I played it 5 years ago I saw a rabbit as soon as I emerged from the cave with Ralof. I chased it and by the time I returned to Riverwood I was level 47.
ESO, you had me hooked from the start. Straight to the point and with enough detail to get it done, unlike many of the other videos out there. You got my sub and notifications set! Awesome video
Barokai Rein I'd beg to differ, there's some textures in the mod packs that dont look all that great. I definetly think that the water and lighting is better in the remastered version than most mod packs- as well as the stone pathing. However this mod does have better grass and tree textures
Since no one else seems to have mentioned it, before going to Riverwood, you should actually go back through Helgen and head east. First, there's a nice little dungeon called Greywater Grotto near the path heading south. It only has a few wolves inside for enemies, but you can also find a few dead bandits with a chest, and an iron vein as well as a gold vein. Now that you can do any time. However, this next one will disappear after you get to Riverwood. If you keep following the road east of Helgen, you will find an ambushed Khajit wagon with a few bandits and a skill book inside the wagon. Further up the road, near where a Stormcloak camp will be, you will find a tiny cave with two wolves. Inside the cave is another skill book. Both skill books vanish once you arrive at Riverwood.
Wesley Molt I appreciate this, deffinitely going to use this.
Dude how u get dia info
Nice
Can't find the last skill book after Buying Game(Khajiit Wagon)
Wesley Molt m
When you've played skyrim 30 times and have done every mission but you watch the video anyway
Same
I’ve never done this but I will now it’s a amazing start
...and find out that you have missed something at the very beginning of the game. I didn't know about the bandit camp and the Talos shrine near Helgen.
ONG
Same
In case you don’t want to watch the video here’s a full run down
ESO Skyrim best start simplified:
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Play as a High Elf or Breton
Break out of helgen
Check weight to value ratio on all looted items for max selling price (get the spider venom, wine, and all weapons)
Take other path out of helgen (left)
Once you see the tree stump kill the bandits
loot the bodies to find a treasure map
Make sure to take the skill book in the tent
Oh and the mage robes
Head west onto stone path
Walk up to the shrine of talos
Get the shrines blessing
Loot the thalmor
Continue the path
Choose a guardian stone depending on playthrough
Check out embershard mine at some point
Take the pelts off the wolves
Head onto Riverwood
Talk to faendal (get the fake note)
Use him to train your archery if you’d like
Head onto the Riverwood trader
Give fake letter to Camilla (make sure to pick lie option)
Get golden claw quest from Lucan at the Riverwood trader by asking him about the fight
Do not sell anything here
Talk to faendal
You now have your first follower
Sell your weapons and armor to the blacksmith
Do the faendal archery training trick we’re you train and then just take your money back as much as you like/are able
Use treasure map BEFORE talking to Gerdur
Find the log take the treasure
Continue down the riverside path
Follow to the the house map marker (compass I mean)
Discover the location anises cabin and make sure to read the alchemy book
Pick the lock and open the cellar
Raid the ingredients
Kill anise
Celebrate your new free player home
Make sure to only store things in the cupboard, as this is the safe storage spot
Sleep for a free xp buff
Go back to Riverwood
Talk to Gerdur and take all her gifts
Continue main quest and head to white run
Help the companions kill the giant and then talk to them (for a free quest)
Discover whiterun
Persuade the guard for free entry and a speech level
Go to the companions long house
Take a left and rush downstairs
Run through and take a right
Open the left door
Have some fun lock-picking and obtaining a free elven bow
Speak to kodlak to start the companions quest line
Wait for kodlak to finish his conversation at the table, wait for him to leave, then go ahead and pick the cases to the elven sword and war hammer
Always speak to bartenders at new towns with the rumor option to get free quests
Fin
No hate ESO, love your videos
*-Not-* the hero we wanted,the hero we need
how do you steal the warhammer and sword?
when they finish talking they dont leave and if i talk to kodlak, to join he stays behind.
krlZegers same
Yo he’s playing Khajiit? Why does ot list Breton or High Elf? Are they better? Sorry I’m playing it for the first time tomorrow as its just come out on gamepass but never really played RPG’s before
This will be invaluable when I step into the land of Skyrim for the very first time. Thanks ESO appreciate the knowledge and passion that goes into every single video.
WELCOME, i'm jealous. Playing this game for the first time is overwhelming.
ESO - Fallout & Elder Scrolls Guides 6 days away is agonising I cannot wait! When will you be doing another livestream they are the best streams to watch and I really enjoyed your Dishonoured play through. Wolfed down my dinner to get back to my computer for 7:30pm. Being a fulltime youtuber can be daunting but you have my loyalty and support XD
ESO - Fallout & Elder Scrolls Guides You said you were going to make another lets play with voice for the Skyrim Remaster is that still a thing?
I'll be doing a live stream lets play of skyrim remastered on release day! Ill also be doing some streams on different games before hand.
Matthew B yo i hope you enjoy the heck out of skyrim. Its amazing. In my top 3 games of all time
Just started this game yesterday.... Can't believe it took me 10 years to to start playing this. Simply brilliant.
Same.
Same. Played it for years but never got into it. Never did a single main quest. Now I’m hooked. It’s so much fun. It’s no morrowind- but it’s sure beautiful
After talking to Gerdur at Riverwood I always head to the dungeon where you get the dragonstone for Jarl Balling and the Claw for Lucanus.
Dreamland z me too because I really don't feel like just going back to get it and plus you get some gold if you bring the claw back so it's a win
you can actually get these fast before even getting near riverwood for the first time! I did and it spared me two quests and some time (also speedrunners, maybe use this strat? I don't know what speedrunners do for strats in skyrim lmao
@@k-man4 they skip the first quests im pretty sure, by bucketing into the thalmor embassy and stealing the stuff u need for a quest where u go to a party there, then u go get esbern and the rest is normal i think
Same m8
That Giant took an arrow to the knee! He won't be adventuring soon
blackbomber72 NOOOOO
OMG with the new skyrim coming we should do our best to make this meme live again.
he got married!!??
Evandro Barbosa you the real mvp
TheSlightEuphoric im the ebony warrior bane of casuals
There's also a skeletal deer laying under a rocky overhang on the Cabin-side of the waterfall that ALWAYS has an emerald inside its ribcage, really great early on money.
+Pretty Boy Percy, value of items are significantly decreased when barteting with traders anyways
Stephen Stine no the value it is, is how much gold you get lol
Riverwood's barter skill over-rolls your barter skill so while you do get less of the exact amount, you still get an easy 230 something gold.
"From the camp we're going to go right."
*proceeds to go left*
I've been a subscriber for a quite a while and that has always surprised me, but after hearing he is dyslexic I haven't mind much more
KommunistGaming wow i didn't knew he was dyslexic?
kidding right?
Didn't know dyslexia can affect your sense of perception, too.
System32 KNAWLAGE
I'm so stoked for this, I'm one of the few who never played it before!!
Cory Finken you're one of the lucky ones aha
Cory Finken it's my fav game of all time
Danny Dallas he gets to experience the game from scratch, a luxury most of us don't have😔
mylzers Same here so excited to return home
Gazza whizz agreed
I've been playing skyrim since it came out, and I consider myself a veteran, but this was hands down the best tutorial/ walk through I've seen. Great video
Quick tip for those wanting to play stealth at a high difficulty:
You can redirect your enemies with your arrows. They follow the sound, allowing you to get past them.
Yes like hitman. I never knew till like a month ago.
It just really goes to show how amazing this game was for its time.
I still think overall it's the best game ever made.
And theres no way they couldn't do the exact same thing but better. Lol
If you do the vanilla start you can get Sneak lvl 100 and One handed lvl 100 before you even leave the cave. Just sneak attack the dude you’re with right before the bear and keep sneak attacking him with an iron dagger. He can’t die.
yeah but it would take a while
Just did it with sneak yes but with one handed it would take awhile
Nar bro you need to use a wooden sword haha
The very first thing you should do is max out sneak by sneak attacking Ralof (Stormcloak that guides you in the first scene when Alduin is attacking) in the back for an hour. I got my sneak to Legendary 5 + level 100 in a couple hours just by swinging at his back with a dagger every few seconds. He falls to the ground after a minute - Wait for him to get back up and resume slicing.
Tip: If you select perks for sneak while leveling, try to avoid upgrade your sneak damage. You will kill Ralof faster and it'll take more time overall to level up.
Tip: Don't forget you can make a skill legendary more than once, this means you can leave the starting area as a level 50 (I did) with tons of perk points for current & future use.
Tip: The best spot to do this (in my opinion) would be indoors, after killing the Imperial woman & guard. I started my slicy slice time when Ralof asked me to unlock the door. *Downside* - He will ask you to unlock the door for 2-3 hours so it's best to turn your volume down.
Tip: When Ralof revives, most of the time he'll come back with very little health, instead of waiting for his health to regenerate, quickly kill him again - about 1 in 3 revives he'll come back with full HP.
Mike Anthony my tip to you: turn your difficulty up to legendary. it increases rolafs health well past the damage you can deal, so he recovers faster than you can hurt him. it removes all of that time you took letting him recover, so that you can just rapidly hit him and level up. I think you'll find your hour long method is reduced to about 15 minutes
Garrison Hoke Excellent point, wish I thought of that earlier.
Mike Anthony But wouldn't enemies be stupidly strong and all you have is your iron sword, Imperial armour and long bow with iron arrows.
Kill enemies on easy, switch to Legendary once you've killed them. Ralof doesn't attack you and as long as you don't unlock the gate you're not going to find any either. Once you've gotten your level high enough - switch back to normal or easy and proceed from there.
The point is - Ralof doesn't attack you, he's a friendly unit. So you can hit him as many times as you like in the back to develop your sneak skill and he'll never take a swing at you.
Saboor Azizi You would just turn the difficulty back down
Why did that wolf have a ring? Fancy wolf
He ate another Nord, so the character found it in the Wolf’s stomach
Even a skeever have a chance to have it lmao
A chicken had a ring lol
She ain't single no more.
I found a deer that had a ring on it
I love this channel so much. I just drop everything to watch the videos. It could be a "paint drying video" and I'd still give it a like and watch it
Your the real MVP Conor!
Je, he's dyslexic you dickhead
EDIT: Oh he deleted his reply
heh
Conor O'Callaghan same here, only discovered it a week ago and I'm watching as many as possible before Remastered is released.
Conor O'Callaghan let's rub mayos
ESO he's not kidding! You have fantastic content, and the subscriber count shows it!
I think a good tip to add is when you get to the Torturers Room in Helgen when you get the Lockpicks, to Lockpick all of the cells and the locked doors down the following corridor. This will boost your lockpicking right off the bat.
My thought is that nobody is a better guides man than ESO cause he gives the most important informations! Just keep the good work up bro ur the best!!💪💪👌
I never played Skyrim. This is gonna be my first time. So pumped!!
Thanks for the good starting tips. Never noticed that hidden cellar before.
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When you do the quest that takes you to Bleak Falls Barrow, bring Uthgerd The Unbroken (you can find her in Whiterun in the Bannered Mare, you get into the brawl with her, win, and she can become a followers). You will eventually come across a trap with huge axes swinging left and right. Once you cross Uthgerd will have to cross and at this point she will either cross with low health or be on the floor almost dead. You can then kill her easily and take her chan armor. You will not get a bounty or any penalties for this and you get strong armor at an early level.
What happens if you just kill her? Jw, I'm just starting to play Skyrim as of last night when I bought it. Just barely passed that mission this morning, too, lol. That's why I'm asking.
Paljit Singh I normally just take her to a unpopulated area take her weapon and butcher her for the armour
It's much better to leave her be. She is one of the best companions, and her armor is heavy, which is bad for light or sneak armor mains. The best way is to find much better armor and weapons by WATCHING THIS DAMN VIDEO
Paljit Singh I know I’m super late but what a fucking dumb idea. Her armour sucks, you should go to bleak falls barrow before whiterun, and killing her has literally nothing to do with going to break falls barrow
@@Brosyphus - - Bleak Falls Barrow has the axe traps used to kill her... That's what it "literally" has to do with the method mentioned above. Have you ever played Skyrim? Also, Steel Plate armor isn't bad. "Fucking dumb idea" ... Grow up.
Welcome back to Tamriel (Though some of you never left) Please Share this video with your friends to get them into Skyrim too!
ESO - Fallout & Elder Scrolls Guides Do you plan on making a let's play of Skyrim remastered? I would really enjoy watching you play through it.
Ill be live streaming it, so you can all play it with me!
ESO - Fallout & Elder Scrolls Guides is it a review copy that Bethesda handed out that your playing?
Awesome! What time do you plan on streaming?
ESO One quick ask, please do not do clickbait mod videos with skimpy armour or girls because your content is great, i dont want it to be tarnished
Just so you people know you when you're in the tutorial tunnel there's a part where you go into sneak mode and wait to attack a bear. You can instead of immediately killing the bear, change the game to legendary difficulty temporarily so you level a little faster and you can just endlessly hit Hadvar or Ralof and they won't fight back. It's great for quickly leveling early game. I got to level ten before leaving the tunnel. My 1 handed was 40 something same with my 2 handed and my destruction was 30 something. It was really op
Is it possible for them to die though? When you do that, I mean
Additionally, as you level up your skills, don't go to the level up screen, and raise your character level. Keep it at level 1.
Go to as many mines/dungeons as possible early on, and the enemies will be relative to your character level of 1.
You just have to enter the mine/dungeon.
Once you discovered a few (east of Whiterun has several good ones), level yourself up, skills as well, and go back in to the all the areas, and you'll be stronger than most bandits. Only a Bandit Chief may give you some trouble.
@@princeking8608 no they are a essential np can therefor they can’t die
@@patogames5099 You ruin the savegame that way. The world is stuck with trash mobs forever.
Bethesda did an awful work at balancing the game, to have a proper fun experience never temper weapons or armor, never invest more than 1 point in first perk of archery, onehanded, twohanded, never go higher than 500 HP build if you are melee.
never use onehanded, two handed, archery enhacement enchants. Only offensive enchants allowed are elemental ones, never spend point on increasing each elementaldamage from destruction, break enchants.
Dont play higher than adept because bethesda in their infinite wisdom messed up npc combat, they deal less damage between them too and take forever to end battles.
If you are building necro build or assasin. For necro 100 health max, with vampirism and necromage perk 25 HP.
For asassin no more than 300 HP.
If i had patience i would make a complete guide on how to have a balanced and fun experience on skyrim.
With these choices weapon quality and rng enchantments make a difference withouth breaking the game.
@@CommanderTato yes, I'm aware of that, but OP was looking at how to power level early on. Which, by your reasoning, is also breaking the game.
The beauty of a game like Skyrim, with bugs and flaws, is we get to play it however we want. We can be over, or under, levelled as much as we want.
I think that, along with a top modding community, is what has us talking about the game in 2021 still.
I think the best thing a new character can do is finish the Agent of Mara questline. It's very easy quest to do, and grants 15% magic resist as a perma buff. You essentially get a free perk for the rest of the game.
A one handed skill book next to a bed? :D
How to have a lot of gold early too:
Go riften, talk to Maramal until you buy a mara amulet.
Go to Whiterun, and go to the Jarl quarter in Dragonreach. In one of the room there's a mammoth tusk, take it.
Now to to Whiterun market and talk to Ysolda until she ask for a mammoth tusk. Give it to her and then equip the mara amulet you bought before. Talk to her again and she'll ask if you're interested in her. Say yes and go back to Maramal at Riften to marry her.
After defeating the dragon at whiterun, you can buy a house for 5000 gold. Buy it and then talk to Ysolda and ask to move to that new home.
She will say that she has openned a market and now you'll get 100gold everyday.
Samuel Normand marry aela and wait a skyrim week for 1200 gold
Pikachu Skittle or..... go exploring and get 10000 gold selling stuffs
Samuel Normand you can just sleep in a bed or wait a lot too
Samuel Normand you could have just said get married and wait -_-
Not that there's anything to buy after you buy and upgrade what houses you want haha. Never bought one piece of equipment in any playthrough. Nabbed or made potions, even then I just used Restoration mostly. At best I would buy filled soul gems to level up Enchanting. Shame the game never did very good at making gold relevant after playing for longer than 10 hours or so, maybe even less to buy every house and max level Enchanting. I guess there's skill trainers but...eh.
I just started a new build (one of which I've never done) and I ALSO just got special edition so this video was very helpful. Thanks ESO
Did anyone else notice that the giant took an arrow to the knee?
Zachariah Hood ahhh ooh oh jesus.. stop my side hurts
Zachariah Hood He used to be an adventurer like you
DAMN YOU!
I took an arrow to the knee and I'm still a adventurer!!!
@@mjrdngr2440 8jjjiioji
6:38 weird i was playing a *twohanded* warrior while you were an *archer* character.I got the iron gaunlets of minor *archery* but you got the iron gauntlets of sure grip
Maybe just a coincidence
Yes...yes, it is just a coincidence...
2019 it’s still relevant and Skyrim is still king and enjoyable and fun and giving. Great work eso and love watching and re watching your Skyrim and fallout guides.
skyrim is so f#cking good
Fucking* Little bit of a typo bro, no worries, I got you!
Lewis Vine yeah and so is remastered
Skyrim Remastered*
+Shannon “Shanbob” Cheeseman if we're being specific it's actually elder scrolls skyrim special edition, remastered isn't part of the name you fucking idiot.
James Love if we are being more specific it actually THE elder scrolls skyrim special edition.
26:10 It's strange, the rain is so beautiful but I have been playing 100 hours now and it's never rained once!
2021. 1500+ Hours in Skyrim (Thanks Legacy of the Dragonborn) and I learned quite a few new things!
Excellent!
There goes another few thousand hours of my life. And I'll love every nanoinstant.
Nice video - but you'll get much more gold if you pick up every single flower and mushroom you come across o nthe way to Riverwoood and then make potions out of them. Also, it's easier to carry than weapons and armor. (And by the way, Gerdur is not Ralof's wife.)
I jumped into this as it was first es game I played. It was On offer and thought why not. I fired up for the first time my intended hour of play, turned into 6.. and now I'm here watching a video on everything I missed ... Great video thanks 😊
Everything I’ve heard about Skyrim made me want to side with the Imperials. I played this game when I was younger and completely ignored the Civil War questline. On the special edition, I am still finishing the game without doing too much Civil War stuff. Now, I’m on the Switch version and you mentioning that the Nords (Stormcloaks) are the indigenous people to Skyrim made me completely change my view.
well the Nords conqered (probably butchered that spelling) Skyrim from the Falmer (Snow Elves) and drove them underground where the Dwemer preceded to blind them and they turned into the Falmer of Skyrim's era. so technically the Nords aren't the original peoples of Skyrim
Played and beat skyrim, but I'm still pumped to buy it all over again.
Ah for Pc it's free, and that's understandable
In America you beat Skyrim
In Soviet Russia Skyrim beats you
I was removing some of my bookmarks and I clicked on this one. Little did I know it was going to give me Nostalgia back to when I was watching this video as a 9-year-old. Thanks ESO for aiding my Skyrim conquest.
I miss these tutorials for the newcomers like me, even 10 years later.
Can't wait to jump into skyrim again
Same first playing was greay
Great
PhantomRisk 24 Which race should I chose in the beginning? I just bought the remastered version & I'm not sure what to be
@@mutualdecline2174 best race is the breton tbh..
High elf if you want to run a mage character
Orc if you want tonuse a warrior
OH YEAH?! WELL *I* CAN'T WAIT TO JUMP INTO IT FOR THE FIRST TIME!
Another cool tip for archers:
You could get an orcish bow once you finished Bleak Falls Barrow and have returned to Farengar. Delphine will be there and you can sneak behind her then pickpocket her orcish bow and other free loot like potions of healing and arrows. The bow has 6% chance to steal if you're undetected so just save scum your way through it lmao, same for the other items.
OR
Just get the bound bow everyone knows about lol
pro tip save 1 level up for tough boss fights so you can heal for free 1 time during the battle I think it works even if you dont choose to upgrade your health.
If Skyrim ends up being on the Nintendo Switch gyroscope controls would help massively
Augustine Vega i think it will in the switch promo video they show the guy playing skyrim
lucky43113 yea I hope it will be, I'll definitely buy it!! especially if there'll be gyroscope integrated!!
Ben Mitchell It's where you move your controller for aiming rather than using a control stick, for top of line aiming. Nintendo has started using it in their newest gaming systems like the 3DS and Wii U, if it's back on the Switch, it'd be great to use that kind of controlling in Skyrim, because to me it is more efficient :)
Steam controller gyro is awesome
Augustine Vega I saw the trailer too! Why on earth would they be playing skyrim on a Nintendo console? CONFIRMRED?
Eso always finding another way to teach me new things about skyrim(i have played and beat like 30 times)
so many links in the descripition... except all the things you said you would put in the description...
12:20 no one else seems to have noticed that ESO's running around nekkid.
stater pro tip. I myself carry everything from the start all the way through helgen and to riverwood its takes about 6 mins to walk there overecumbered and the joy of this is now your free to grab everything from anyone u stumble across on the way I suggest finding the hunter it's also possible to go get to whiterun hy floating in the river overecumbered.
you know if you have done the golden claw side quest and went straight to the witch's hut it's a garenteed* random encounter
Joseph Tom That quest was so hard for me lol
I Always go with Hadvar, and when we reach Riverwood and he talks to his dad inside the house I steal everything downstairs (including armor and coins upstair).
I always go with Ralof, because if you go with Hadvar you won't be able to trade with Alvor, and that really sucks.
@@Cassian2506 no you can still trade with Alvor. i know this comment is late and whatever, but you can still trade with Alvor if you go with Hadvar at Helgen you just have to talk to him when he's using one of the smithing tables. i think it's like that with most blacksmiths that are found at their forges
I am an experienced Skyrim player and I found the beginning of the video unique and had things that I didn't know was there.
Just a correction friend, Archery is effected by the Thief stone because it's classified as a stealth skill. Unless they changed it in the remastered edition. Otherwise great video for beginners or people looking to get back into the game.
I was wearing headphones at night in my room and at like 10:02 of the video my headphones were all the way up I thought a woman was right next to me 😂 I legit almost had a heart attach
After the shrine of talos, if you go to the left on the path. You'll find a ritual site, with a necrophiliac mancer. He will summon a wolf familiar, and use a oakflesh spell. As well as frost bite I believe. But he's easy to defeat, and has another black robe on him. Plus a conjuration skill book, and a burial urn behind the table he was standing behind. Depending on spawns, there may be a couple of wolves and deer on the road.
F#ck there's only 6 days left but I can't wait
ExtinctZach fuck me 2
ExtinctZach How do you know it comes out in 6 days?
It's coming at 28th
Ben 351 How do u know?
Steven Lane bethesdas trailer and psn store
I think I must be the only person who has never played this game. Looking forward to it though.
It's an epic game. I've poured over 800 hours into it, and I've never been bored once.
Lamer Gamer Only?
Lamer Gamer skyrim is the best game to exist. How could anyone get bored?
Holy shit, another person who has 800+ hours in Skyrim.
I got a copy of Morrowind on GOG recently, and got really sucked into the lore. Haven't played Oblivion yet. but that's next on my list. I'll buy this when it's on sale.
I've been playing this game for the past 9 years and that was still rather informative.
Minor correction--the Thief Stone benefits archery too, so it is a great choice for a stealth archer build.
Thanks for the great guides--they're helpful and enjoyable.
Yes, I also choose The Thief Stone first because sneaking, lockpicking, pickpocketing, speech and archery are simply the skills I use most in the beginning.
I'm so ready to get back into skyrim!!
In the beginning you welcomed new Skyrim players to the community, you just earned my respect for being such an entertaining, respectful and all around funny guy. you earned a sub and a like :-)
I like the fact that you called a dwarven greatsword an elven sword
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I remember the days that i played this nonstop, now...
This is a good video for beginners because I play skyrim all the time since 2012 and I showed showed this video to my brother now he understands it now and he has the free "house" and you did a good job thank you ESO for this video
Can u please make a part 2 cuz it's really helpful
Even though I beat Skyrim on 360, I still didn't know about those secret areas at the beginning! Awesome guide.
I like the content, but the overly frequent ads, constant social media pop ups, and reminders to subscribe are a bit much.
agreed, too many ads :'(
PhoenixPalmer stop whining it only adds up to 30 seconds
PhoenixPalmer there's 4 ads on a 30 minute video what are you saying too frequent for? There would be 8 minutes of ads on TV for a 30 minute slot.
cmon, what would u do with 1.2 million views?
PhoenixPalmer welcome to this channel! Subscribe!
best armor to get at the beggining *shows a dedric armor in thumbnail* LOL 😅
I love the way you narrate the quest dialog. Nice little touch. Keep up the great work, we love your videos :)
Those two dudes never left lol am I supposed to talk to them?
Hey did u know Talos is actually Tiber Septim.Talos is his nord name.
Bro everybody knows that, and who tf asked you
Jan 2021 first time at skyrim here. Now this is a proper no spoiler beginner tips guide. Thanks! 💜👍🌈😍
If only there was transmog in skyrim
Tom Lee for real
World of Warcraft xD
Tom Lee hopefully a mod will add that
There was actually be, but they chose not to for some reason
Elias Lee hi my name is tyler lee
23:43 "quite a hard fight" you could've killed her in 5 seconds with a sword or axe or if u didn't miss the shots with your bow
I've heard it's pretty awkward to aim a bow on a console compared to PC. Don't know if it's true.
I played this game for 10 hours when it first came out on PS3, it never really got me hooked. It's a pity since I loved Oblivion. But since that time I've played and loved both Dragons age Inquisition and The Witcher 3. So now going to give Skyrim another chance on th Ps4 pro in 4k. I'll be following your starting guide just to get a leg up.
The place where you get the eleven weapons.. how do you get them to leave the room.. I stood around for an hour.. and by then the rest of the ppl returned to the other rooms... I did get the bow...
Gerdur is not Ralof's wife! She is Ralof's sister!
Your contents are amazing. I played the game way back in 2012-13 but quickly quit because of so many glitches & bugs in game. But seeing your content convinced me to give it a go again. Hopefully the bugs will be absent this time
You think you'll redo your earlier "silent" uploads?
Do you think i should?
yes
ESO - Fallout & Elder Scrolls Guides yes
I shall then =)
ESO - Fallout & Elder Scrolls Guides I like your voice :3 it's so soothing
The warrior stone does NOT include archery, the theif stone does.
I used to play Skyrim with all the dlcs on xbox 360, finally going to replay it today. Glad this video is here 🙌
does the dawnstar chest still work
I love Akari's chest best for far ingredients smith ingredients and enchanting in the game I hope it still works as well
aadil sidat I think so
They removed nothing they are just improving graphics and adding mods for XONE
aadil sidat there's one in Dawnstar, 2 in Skyrim, one in Markarth, and one in Riften, if they're still in this game, idk
Mats Pager and mods for PS4 it was comfirmed
INSTA Plays this shows how long I've played skyrim.
2 in Windhelm
1 in whiterun
1 in dawnstar
1 outside markarth
1 outside solitude
1 in riften
1 in the college of winterhold
I will edit this comment if I find more!
change ur location to new Zealand to play 12 hrs ahead on xbox
princeminato But if your American than change your time to Australia cos I'm 14 hours ahead
Hazza Playz No matter where you are in the world New Zealand is always ahead. Besides, depending where you are in Oz you're 3 hours behind us.
I'm in new York and new Zealand is the furthest on my xbox
Ok. I've done the beginning dozens of times over the years and I totally didn't know about that shrine! This whole video was interesting also. Thanks!!
I'm just gonna start over on an a new account
are the capes mods?
Tumblintom1 cloaks of Skyrim and winter is coming
Tumblintom1 maybe for xbox but definately not for ps4
I know the might sound crazy... but I think it would be more worth it to get a PC capable of running Skyrim and just mod it instead of dealing with whatever Sony is doing to their consumers.
Yh but they will need to be ported over shouldn't take too long however
Edwin Gonzalez Actually recently Bethesda and Sony confirmed that PS4 mods will be a thing. However, will be limited to only 1GB rather then Xbox One's 5GB. But 1GB should be enough for most mods.
I saved it to favs and then he tells me to do it. Okay "Sold on watching the rest of the video". tyvm.
You just earned a sub
gerdur is ralof's sister
I played this game a year or two ago, but after watching many of your videos, I just had to buy it again! I had it first on Xbox, now PC!
There's so much more to this game that i never found, such a missed opportunity!
ESO, what ENB mod do you use?
I have Skyrim and the DLC's, so I get this for free on the 28th, do I also get the DLC's for Special Edition?
Remaster includes all DLC
remaster has all DLC already in the main game plus some addtional content
xgc666 It does not have any additional content besides the game and the original dlcs Bethesda has explicitly said so many times.
Colin Kelley guess i read wrong info somewhere, my apologies
+Colin Kelley additional content meaning the legendary edition stuff, mounted combat, legendary skills, legendary difficulty and other stuff, also some patches annoying bugs, but a lot of the good fun glitches are still going to be in the game
Thank you so much!! I played this game a long time ago when I was 12 and stopped cause I didn't know wtf I was doing & i always got caught stealing from people in the villages, but 5 years after I quit I'm deciding to reinstall my game into steam!! I never really understood why everyone liked skyrim so much, but it looks fun as hell now that I'm older.
You're still just a kid
Dude I'm 12 and I've been playing for 3 years now. I know everything about it, and stopped playing simply out of boredom because of lack of good mods and quests.
Does anyone know if special edition improves enemy ai at all.
Discerning Daniel probably not. but that's why everyone had mid access now. just add it.
Deandre Laskey Whats that. You mean a mod?
Yes. Autocorrect. Lol
Deandre Laskey Oh okay. Thanks.
Mods
Not even getting Special Edition Skyrim since Sony said they are not going to let mods on it.Yeah i'm just saving up money for a new gaming pc.
Ryan Clemons1 Mods are allowed. Skyrim will have them at launch and fallout 4 for ps4 a month ish later
George-Elio Ghantous yeah not in the same sense as the PC or Xbox has them. It is pretty much limited to stat changes and rebalancing because Sony is not allowing any outside content to be entered into the game.
Colin Kelley That is sadly the case, you're right.
George-Elio Ghantous
to limited options on the mods sadly.
+Colin Kelley I feel that eventually through more pressure it'll change.
I love Skyrim so much. The first time I played it 5 years ago I saw a rabbit as soon as I emerged from the cave with Ralof. I chased it and by the time I returned to Riverwood I was level 47.
Sister*** Shes Ralofs Sister
Jacob Coutts-Distel ikr
yep
Your amazing. Anyone still play this in 2019 who cares about Fortnite
Dovahkiin Dragonborn oh hello
Hello
Fuck FORTNITE 😀
skygazer 247 apparently the Fortnite map imploded and the servers shut down haha
So it seems like fortnite saw my post and decided that they should just explode it haha
ESO, you had me hooked from the start. Straight to the point and with enough detail to get it done, unlike many of the other videos out there. You got my sub and notifications set! Awesome video
Did u also got game early or this is your modded pc version with xbox controller?
oh it's modded version
Michael Mishko Golubich modded with Xbox controller
It's modded
Michael Mishko Golubich modded,the actual remaster does not look good if you're used to modded pc version.
Barokai Rein
I'd beg to differ, there's some textures in the mod packs that dont look all that great. I definetly think that the water and lighting is better in the remastered version than most mod packs- as well as the stone pathing. However this mod does have better grass and tree textures