[Japo]

Originally Posted by yoga

@Senior Japo,
i need a strong and loyal companion! Possible? Brothers in arms.

Sorry I was unavailable. But I played a little this weekend.

I'm level 5, but just started looking around, not far in any faction. I did all of Ajira's errands at the Balmora magues guild, to befriend her, since she buys potions. I stole a grandmaster's mortar and pestle and the rest of the alchemy gear of master's level from a store uptown. I finally have decent armor: orcish pieces that I stole from a friendly orc's house in Caldera, bonemold boots, imperial heavy gauntlets, and the helm is the only nice piece of armor from the clothes mod, also heavy. Together it looks very good.

I continue with my companion Marianne, and I bought a guar (from a mod) that's great for carrying lots of stuff, and for riding (although the graphics for that are very poor, but in 1st person it doesn't matter), and it can carry Marianne too.

My greatest feat so far was killing the five Camonna Tong people in cold blood, at the behest of Larrius Varro. It was a tough fight: I cast dragonskin and bound longsword, shield, cuirass, helm and boots; but I still had to heal myself in the middle. I have to start increasing my very low endurance, because of my low hit points, and because it caps my armor skills.

Originally Posted by DarthHelmet86

I am pretty sure the Light next to the weight means it is Light armour.

Originally Posted by yoga

The glass armour should be pretty good for what i remember.

Hope to find this glass armor. Better than Dark Brotherhood's one?

That armor is light indeed. That's what the word between parenthesis means. You should have told us you had such a high rating in light armor, and as a major class skill. Use it. You should probably also use a light shield, not sure what's that you're carrying.

What's your class? Did you pick a standard class, answer a list of questions at the census office, or made a custom class?

Glass armor is arguably the best armor in the game. It's more protective than any medium armor. The best heavy armor can protect you more but it's too heavy, you need to make your strength super human to use it.

In my opinion this Dark Brotherhood armor introduced by the Tribunal expansion is a bit hax, to make the game even easier. The only downside of light armor was that you didn't get strong protection until you found glass armor. Although if you know the game you already know where to steal it right at the start, but that would be a spoiler. With Tribunal they give you right at the start a full set that's as strong as orcish (far stronger than any medium or heavy armor that you find at that point), doesn't weight a thing, and uses the same skill as glass (also whose governing attribute is agility instead of endurance). It's basically a legal cheat.

Originally Posted by yoga

I tried to challenge goblins in the sewers but they regenerated and still i feel weak against these creatures. No, i killed them all with their Durzogs, but these continuous battles damages my armor.

But consider that getting hit is the only way to train your armor skill on your own. Wearing it alone trains nothing. Instead of having smiths repair it, you can buy repairing tools and train the armorer skill.

Originally Posted by yoga

The madman had a Ebony cuirass which weight is 60 kg and costs 30 k.
I can not find the merchant with such big sum.
How do YOU solve similar problem?

Selling equipment is a HUGE problem in this game, because merchants are ridiculously poor. That's why I absolutely needed a mod to multiply merchants' money. You'll start to get very annoyed now that you start finding very expensive stuff. When you're above the merchant's limit, for example if the limit was 5k, the only option is selling 30k and buying 25k in the same transaction, waiting 24 hours, selling 25k and buying 20k...

And no merchant will even have 25k worth of stuff for sale to begin with, so you'll have to have sold him before stuff that you can buy back (and waited 24h every time). And every time you buy and sell back you lose money (depending on how the merchant likes you and your mercantile skill). And there are very few merchants with even 1k limit.

There is one "cheat" merchant in Caldera, in a house full of orcs: he's a friendly scamp called "Creeper", who's a merchant with 5k limit, and he always pays the full "value" of items when you sell, and doesn't charge you anything above the "value" when you buy--so you don't lose money. But although very few other merchants have as high a limit as 5k, it's still way too little, after you start killing dremora who have daedric weapons, for example. You'll end up leaving stuff worth 50k gold on the floor, specially after you've already paid for all the training you wanted, just because you don't feel like doing the 5k x 24h thing.