Hi all

been played this great game for a while now and a few things i cant quite seem to work out

1. how to you get rid of weapons you cant seem to drop as they are quest items? ive got the 'dagger of woe' that i must have picked up from somewhere and really as sick of seeing the bloody thing! ive also just got the soul catching sword thing from the tough arse girl in the dungeon south of imperial city (the one with the full set of ebony armour) - and i might want to drop that soon as its great when yooure low leveled but apparenly theres better later on

2. how does the soul charging sword work? does it simply fill whatever soul gems youre carrying when you strike with it - or do you still need to cast a soul charge spell as well?

3.whats the best way of raising your heavy armour skill? is it by simply wearing it all the time? or repairing it (although isnt this a reapiring skill instead?)

any help with any of the question swould be great and cheers in advance

You need the blade of woe for when you complete the Dark Brotherhood questline.

The soul catching sword, apparently is needed for some daedric quest. One I have yet to do.
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You cast the spell on the target with strike, so its like you cast the spell on them. And when they die, their soul gets trapped in a gem. Its basically like casting a spell, and attacking then, but this time in one motion, if you know what I mean.
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Wearing it all the time, and having enemies attack you. If you are on PC, set your health to some absurdly high number, and let something attack you. Then it will level your heavy armour. Watch tv, or go out for a while, but be back before you die, repair your armour, and repeat.

thanks for your help

ah - ive been leaving the leaving dark brotherhood quests till id done all the other guilds - cheers mate!

the sword (cant remember the name) i dont think is a quest item. i read about this really tough charector that hangs out in a tomb near the imperial city that when you beat drops a set of ebony armour and weapons. i read about it on another forum - apparently she / he appears in morrowind too

thanks very much for your help mate - can you also tell me how to get armour and weapons disenchanted? and is theyre any way to drop quest items? ill keep the dagger of woe - but i might need to drop the sword? (im on the xb260 by the way) but your heavy armout tip will work - nice one!

Umbra is the name of the person who owns that sword, though the character was a male in the last game i'm sure.

Disenchanted? Not sure thats possible. If its got constant effect, I don't think it is. If you mean enchanted, as in a weapon ran out of enchantment thats a whole different kettle of fish.

Quest items can be dropped when the quest is done. For example, in one game, I was playing an honourable character who killed a bandit somewhere, but they weren't aggressive to me, so it counted as a killing of an innocent. So I killed Lucien when he came with his offer.

I could immediately remove the blade of woe, as the quest was no longer open to me.

The sword weighs nothing so there is no absolute need to drop it.

nice one! i never noticed the sword doesnt weigh anything - nice.

no i dont mean enchanted like in charging up a new sword when tis run out

ive noticed that on the armour selection screen (and one of my bows actually too) - the picture has a little sphere on the buttom - and its only since i started fighting a load of necromancers. i havent notieced anything odd - but just wondered if that meant it was cursed or damaged?

also how do i check if i have any constant effects active? wither good or bad?

and cheers for the help

The sphere as in when you apply a poison, or the sphere to show its enchanted?

Or do you get it with unenchanted weapons, all of a sudden having a sphere? If its that, I don't know what that is.

As for checking effects, go to the tab with magic, and check the screen that should have a list of things saying "fortify" for example... It will tell you any diseases you have also.

No worries

dont really know what the sphere means - never had it before!

its a small filled white sphere on the bottom left of the picture if that helps?

and cheers for the active posions/effects tip

Sorry that I can't help you out with that white sphere thing. Can you tell me what items you get it with?

No worries.. Though i'm stumped by this white sphere you speak of.

lol - i dont know what it means either

ive probably been playing for about 20 hours or so, charector is level 6, and it only happened recently

the last couple of missions ive fought mecromancers who were casting spells on me left right and center! so i wondered if it was something to do with that. ive also recently fought and killed umbra in her tomb and she was using that soul catch swrod on me - could it have been that?

so far it has appeared on my bow (x2) and one set of armour that ive been wearing recently. incidentally when i now try to wear the armour - as i select it - i appear naked on the screen as if im not wearing it but am! - could that mean its cursed not allowing me to wear it?

hope that makes sense

oh and im at work at the moment so cant check the game - but im starting to think its a curse that i can see by using the fortify effects tab to see whats afflicting me

cheers for the help so far!

safehands wrote:

the last couple of missions ive fought mecromancers who were casting spells on me left right and center! so i wondered if it was something to do with that. ive also recently fought and killed umbra in her tomb and she was using that soul catch swrod on me - could it have been that? so far it has appeared on my bow (x2) and one set of armour that ive been wearing recently. incidentally when i now try to wear the armour - as i select it - i appear naked on the screen as if im not wearing it but am! - could that mean its cursed not allowing me to wear it? hope that makes sense

Well, I never noticed anything like that from all the necromancers I faught, and the soultrap that Umbra uses wears off after 120 seconds, so its not that either.

On your bow? Was it like a steel bow or something or an enchanted one, with fire for example?

As for the armour, is it shrouded armour or something?

Is the armour damaged?

Or are you playing PC, and some glitch caused by a scratched disc? I'm playing on the 360, and I got a glitch that the floor in the prison cell's graphics weren't there so I fell through, and out the other side of the secret door, might be something like that as a clutching straws option.

playing on xb360 - and havent noticed many glitches (get the occasionally 'your disc is dirty' messages once every blue moon)

its on two steel bows (my level isnt high enough to get me anything better than taht sadly - not yet anyway!) - and an apron of something i cant remeber - half decent set of armour i got from some place or the other

so it looks like a curse - cos the bow isnt enchanted or anything, nor are the steel arrows - and that might explain why i cant wear it. but like you - this is the first ive seen of it and ive killed loads of mages before so.......

maybe its a glitch - hope not though - as i dont want to start again really!

Apron of adroitness? You saved the painter for it. Yeah, its pretty good. I kept using that till I got the shrouded armour from the Dark Brotherhood. Then I sold it.

If you figure out what form of curse it is later, please post about it, its not one i've encountered yet, and i'd like to know what caused it.

thats the one! yeah i liked it - kept it till i won the arena and the special light armour, and then fought umbra to get her set of ebony heavy armour so thought id upgrade my heavy armour (cos i move at a snails pace at the moment with it on)

is the dark brother hood armour good? was thinking about doing there missions next (already murdered the person to get the password for the basement)

what specials has it got?

and as soon as i know what the hell taht sphere is - ill post it here - its really starting to bug the hell out of me - probably be tonight sometime (uk)