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This article gives some new details about Skyrim. Especially about the races and skill trees

http://pc.ign.com/articles/119/1196606p1.html

This is what it says:

"You can pick one of 10 races in Skyrim, each of which will begin the game with different statistics, along with custom bonuses and abilities. Which race do you think you'll want to play?


Orc: Berserker

Redguard: Adrenaline Rush

Wood Elf: Resist Poison, Resist Disease, Command Animals

Nord: Battlecry

Khajiit: Night-Eye, Claw Attacks

Imperial: Voice of the Emporer, find more coins while looting

High Elf: Regenerate Magicka faster

Dark Elf: Ancestor's Wrath, Resist Fire

Breton: Dragonskin, Resist Shock

Argonian: Histskin, Resist Disease, Breathe Underwater


Also listed were some of the skill trees you can dump points into as you level to power up your character:

Speech

• Buying and selling price 10% better (5 ranks)
  10% price buying from opposite sex
  Invest in shops and increase available gold permanently in invested stores
  Master Trader - every merchant in world gains 1000 gold for bartering
  Buy and sell from any merchant regardless of what they normally buy and sell
  Intimidation attempts twice as successful
  Persuasion attempts more likely successful

Alchemy

• *Potions 20% stronger (5 ranks)
  Potions for restore health, Magicka or stamina are 25% more powerful (maybe ranked)
  Poisons 25% more effective (maybe ranked)
  Poisons last for twice as many hits
  Two ingredients are gathered from plants
  50% resistance to all poisons
  All negative effects removed from potions and all positive removed from poisons
  2 effects of an ingredient are revealed when testing it for the first time (instead of just one)

Illusion

• *Dual casting overcharges effect for more powerful spell
  Cast Novice spells for 50% less Magicka
  Cast Apprentice spells for 50% less Magicka
  Cast Adept, Expert, Master etc spells for 50% less Magicka (more levels this time around)
  Spells work on higher level animals
  Spells work on higher level people
  All spellcasting (from ANY school) is done silently
  Spells work on undead, daedra and automatons

Conjuration

• *Novice for 50% Magicka etc (up to Master)
  Dual casting overcharges --> greater spell effect
  Bound weapons do more damage
  Bound weapons cast Soul Trap on target
  Bound weapons banish certain creatures
  Reanimate undead with 100 more health
  Summon 2 Atronachs or reanimated zombies
  Summon Atronachs at twice the distance
  Summoned Atronachs twice as strong

Destruction

• *More damage for each school (fire, frost and shock)
  Novice for 50% Magicka etc.
  Shock damage chance to disintegrate targets if their health is under 10%
  Frost damage chance to paralyze targets if health low
  Fire damage chance to make low health enemies flee
  Place runes 5x farther away

Restoration

• *Healing spells also restore stamina
  Novice for 50% less Magicka etc
  Healing spells do 50% more healing
  Something about recharging healing spells
  More is recharged with each hit with healing spells
  Spells more effective against undead
  Once a day chance to autocast 250HP restoration when health drops low
  Magicka regenerates 25% faster

Alteration

• *Novice for 50% less etc
  Alteration spells have greater duration
  Absorb 30% Magicka that hits you

Enchanting

• *Enchants are 20% stronger (ranked)
  Enchanted armor 25% stronger
  "Soul gems provide extra Magicka for recharging"
  Death blows to creatures but not people trap souls for weapon recharge
  Health, Magicka and stamina enchants stronger
  Extra effect on already-enchanted weapon can be applied
  Shock, Frost and Fire enchants 25% stronger (individual perks for each element)

Heavy Armor

• *Increase armor rating 20% (5 ranks)
  Unarmed attacks with heavy armor gauntlets - damage increased by gauntlets' armor rating
  Half fall damage if all in heavy armor
  Heavy armor weighs nothing and doesn't slow you at all
  Additional 25% armor if in matching set
  25% armor bonus if all in heavy armor (not necessarily matching)
  50% less stagger if all in heavy armor
  10% damage reflected back to enemy if all in heavy armor

2-handed weapons

• *2h weapons do 20% more damage (5 ranks)
  Attacks with warhammers ignore 25% armor (ranked)
  Attacks with battleaxes do extra bleeding damage (ranked)
  Attacks with greatswords do extra critical damage (ranked)
  Power attacks cost 25% less stamina
  Standing power attacks do 25% bonus damage, chance to decapitate
  Sprinting power attacks do double (critical) damage
  Sideways power attacks hit all targets
  Backwards power attacks have 25% chance of paralysis

Archery

• *Bows do 25% more damage
  Zoom in
  Zooming slows time
  10% crit chance
  Move faster with drawn bow
  Recover twice as many arrows from dead bodies
  50% chance of paralysing for few seconds
  Draw bow 30% faster

Sneak

• *20% harder to detect (ranked)
  Sneak attacks do 6x damage with 1h weapons
  Sneak attacks with bows do 3x damage
  Sneak attacks with daggers do 15x damage (end perk on skill tree)
  Noise from armor reduced 50%
  No longer activate pressure plates
  Sprinting while sneaking performs silent forward roll
  Running does not affect detection chance
  Crouching can make hostile enemies lose sight of you and search for a target "

Shockingly for a website of their size they literally too this info from a poster on the Bethesda Forums! This info is actually from Sammuthegreat and is already posted in the eorogamer thread. Pretty cheeky not even sure if they gave him credit.

Unless I am mistaken they even misspelled Hitskin? Shouldn't it be Histskin?

Spelling error.

So whatcha guys think Dragonskin means?

I thought Dragonskin was a shield spell reducing physical damage?

Dragon Skin in Morrowind was Shield.

Right. In Oblivion didn't it work to a similar effect? Reducing physical damage taken by attacks? I remember the Bretons had some unique race ability like that.

What does Hitskin, Battlecry, and Claw Attacks mean?

Histskin is an ability to rapidly recover some health, Battlecry makes enemies flee for a short while, and Claw Attacks mean that they do more damage with hand-to-hand.

Yep just checked Dragon Skin is a "shield" spell.
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Powers#Dragon_Skin
So unless they mentioned it did something new I am assuming it has the same function.

So it's the same effect in Morrowind and Oblivion. I wonder if Dragon Skin is going to be the same effect, 50 pts for 60 secs.

wait... 15x damage while sneak attacking with a dagger?? fifteen times the damage? fo realll?????

Enigma1027 wrote:wait... 15x damage while sneak attacking with a dagger?? fifteen times the damage? fo realll?????

Yeah, but it's also the last available perk on the perk tree, the description says...

River wrote:Shockingly for a website of their size they literally too this info from a poster on the Bethesda Forums! This info is actually from Sammuthegreat and is already posted in the eorogamer thread. Pretty cheeky not even sure if they gave him credit.

He didn't quote the whole article, just the information. They credit Sammuthegreat in the intro paragraph.
OT: Chance to disintegrate with shock spells if target has less than 10% hp! Awesome!!!!

RedDeadFred wrote:

River wrote:Shockingly for a website of their size they literally too this info from a poster on the Bethesda Forums! This info is actually from Sammuthegreat and is already posted in the eorogamer thread. Pretty cheeky not even sure if they gave him credit.

He didn't quote the whole article, just the information. They credit Sammuthegreat in the intro paragraph.
OT: Chance to disintegrate with shock spells if target has less than 10% hp! Awesome!!!!

Haha. :p I just copied and pasted this from my phone while I was walking home this morning from a friends. I found it interesting and thought I'd post it quick.

Some of these are simply DELICIOUS! Disintegration?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ALwKeSEYs - My reaction

Unarmed attacks with heavy armor gauntlets - damage increased by gauntlets' armor rating

I like this.

Argonanza wrote:

Unarmed attacks with heavy armor gauntlets - damage increased by gauntlets' armor rating

I like this.

Truth to be told though, I kind of expected that to be added in Oblivion. It's kind of awkward that it isn't

Some very nice perks, but most numbers/percentage seem really high. Means that an skill without the proper perks gets useless at higher level enemies?

I truly hope the "Claw Attacks" bonus is graphical as well. If you have claws, you should definitely use them too!

I'm pretty sure it's been confirmed there's a separate H2H animation for them kitty folk.

Ah, great!

Trelares wrote:Some very nice perks, but most numbers/percentage seem really high. Means that an skill without the proper perks gets useless at higher level enemies?

This is what I think. It seems that usually skills have 5-step perk tree to double (+100%) the efficiency, which would mean that you would carefully choose what skills you develop with perks (as you have limited number of those to be used). This of course would mean that skills in which you have not sacrificed perks are not going to be as useful as their value would indicate.

Bethesda definitely went through our Wishlist thread.

The problem is that in some categories you can get not only +100% , look at heavy armor, 5 points = 100% , a full set = + 25% and all heavy is another + 25% this means a full developed heavy armor gives you 150-200% more armor (depends if additive or multiplicative) this seems like a very heavy change.
Another example could be steahlt, you get 6 times the damage for 1 handed , I hope that the endperk of 15 times dagger damage replace the former perk or it would be crazy.