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Damnt Mountie why pay for a hardback guide and not read the damn thing. 1. Never buy a weapon..you can find better ones off corpses or in chests. 2. If you're sick go to the alchemy shop in whiterun and purchase a cure disease potion. 3. To Improve your weapons select the grinder at the blacksmith station. 4. Find a spell tome for Clairvoyance..you'll never get lost again. I think I got mine at the College of Whitehold..could be wrong. It's a fairly common spell.

You will find better and better weapons as you progress. As you go on you will find weapons made out of better material with better enchantments.

Also to cure an illness all you have to do is find a Shrine of Akatosh(SP?) and activate it to receive a blessing. This will cure most illnesses. There is usually one in every town. I always use the one in Riften because I am there quite often.

There are plenty of weapons that are one handed that do more than 18 damage. I am not sure where it says on a weapon if it is 2-handed or 1-handed, but usually the breakdown is as such:

One handed:
Dagger
Mace
Sword
War Axe

Two handed:
Warhammer
Greatsword
Battleaxe

If you are having trouble upgrading you have a couple options:
Make one - if you are doing lots of smithing you can make great ones and then upgrade them by using the grindstone. FYI the higher your smithing skill the better you can upgrade (barely any smithing - Fine, 20 - Superior, 40 - exquisuite, 60 - ???, 80 - ???, 100 - legendary)
Find one - when you clear out an area always look the whole place over and check high, low and in chests and you can find good stuff usually
Buy one - very expensive option, but if you need an upgrade and its your only option you can do this

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When you finish the Companions main quests and are brought in as a Companion the guy who uses the Skyforge makes you a weapon that will be amazing. I chose the sword, and used the grindstone to make it do 30 points of damage and it is one handed.

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Hope that helps you out. There are plenty of options, I can try and help out if you need it. I am using Smithing and One handed weapons so I know what you are going through.

Depends on what you want to do. If you want to do alot of magic definitely be a dark elf. If your thinking more sword and shield, go with Redguard or Nord. The others have their ups and downs, but they're not all that special besides a few class specific nuances.

btw, love this thread. I have been playing for four straight days and am a level 16 redguard with the manliest beard possible. Lots of pillaging has been awry

Search in the tavern. I found her in the tavern walking around. That quest is quite the interesting one.

Glass Armor is light armor. I did the advanced armor but not sure what it does. Nothing new pops up when I am forging so I don't have any idea.

Yeah but I think the only new armor that popped up was under leather and it was only one piece. Maybe it will come into play later on when making the Dragon Armor. I haven't been doing as much smithing lately.

By the way I found the jackpot for dwemer stuff to melt into ore. It is a Dwemer Musuem in Markath. You could loot that place five times and still not get it all.

I am now looking for Moonstone for the Elven smithing. I am not having much luck right now.

Honestly I haven't found much ore or minerals beyond Steel. It might be that I am just outpacing the area and leveling Smithing too quickly, because I am buying a fair amount of materials.

I will have to find that place so I can upgrade Lydia's armor. I am in full Orcish and she is still in Iron

Just finished the Mage Guild quest..I got a ton of good stuff along the way.

SPOILER... Well, at least I hope not.

The first dragon fight was a little disappointing to me. I ran to the top of the watchtower and fired arrows at the beast on the ground... and that's all it took to kill him. He never flew up to where I was to attack me. I know the rest will be better, I'm actually wondering if I got glitched on here.

Naw, I think they make that first dragon fight real easy so you can get a soul without trouble

Whenever I see one in the wild its always flying, and thus I dont even bother fighting it. Chances are it would die on top of a rock that I couldnt get to.

Soljund's Sinkhole has about 4 veins plus about 4-5 loose pieces of ore sitting around. The final boss in the cave is pretty hard, but has some pretty good enchanted loot. Just fininshed my complete set of exquisite Elven armor, looks pretty sharp.