Dungeon: Bleak Falls Barrow
Set-up:
- Melee: Steel Battleaxe
- Magic School: Conjuration
- Ranged: Hunting Bow w/ Iron Arrows and Ancient Nord Bow w/ Iron Arrows for Sanctum
- Armor: Iron Set
- Companion: Faendal (Hunting Bow, Steel Arrows, Imperial Leather)
First Thoughts: Because this dungeon is divided into two areas I will assume that the dungeon only recognizes playstyle during the second part. On top of this, the boss will recognize playstyle up to the encounter while the chest will take information until it is opened. I will be opening the chest once before the Word Wall is activated, take note of the loot, reload, activate the Word Wall/Boss and loot the chest. My boss battle will already have the "trend weapon" so I will be fighting with a different playstyle/weapon to try altering the chest.
Note1: As I go through this dugeon I will also record random chest loot to see if there is a trend there as well. (I apologise if I miss any chests)
Note2: The chest might be random/partially random
Play-By-Play:
- I entered the dungeon and found that I had forgotten how to aim without my crosshair (thanks Dark Souls), but managed to get a sneak on the female bandit.
- Nearly died due to forgetting to assign favorites.
- Once again favorites messed me up again:
- Having multiple favorite items will remove it from the hotkey... who knew?
- This caused the "Trap Bandit" to die from the dart trap
- The Giant Spider, not sure if it counts as a boss or not due to only dropping Frostbite Venom(2).
- Arvel... he will attack eventually so this does make him a hostile mob, but will killing him affect the trend? Killed him before he is murdered by Draugr/trap.
- On to the Sanctum, still haven't died... I recieved Bone Break Fever from one the swinging blade trap, so this poses a problem now due to the fact I'm trying to trend a battleaxe in the dungeon, and it requires a ton of stamina to power-swing this thing.
Chests/Bosses:
Chest1:
- Difficulty: Novice
- Loot: Garnet, Gold(61), Lockpick(5), Potion of Minor Magicka, Potion of Minor Stamina, Long Bow
- Affected: No
Chest2:
- Difficulty: Unlocked
- Loot: Gold(14), Lockpick
- Affected: No
Chest3:
- Difficulty: Unlocked
- Loot: Gold(2), Iron Arrow(9), Iron Sword
- Affected: No
Chest4:
- Difficulty: Unlocked
- Loot: Amethyst, Gold(15), Petty Soul Gem, Potion of Minor Healing, Potion of Minor Magicka, Scroll of Fireball, Hide Helmet
- Affected: No
Chest5:
- Difficulty: Novice
- Loot: Gold(17), Potion of Minor Healing, Potion of Minor Stamina, Iron Arrow(11)
- Affected: No
Chest6:
- Difficulty: Apprentice
- Loot: Hide Shield, Gold(17)
- Affected: No
Boss Battle:
- Boss: Draugr Overlord
- Weapon: Greatsword
- Playstyle: Iron Mace/Iron Shield with Conjured Familiar
- Loot: Dragonstone, Ancient Nord Greatsword of Cold, Bone Meal, Gold(7)
- Affected: Maybe? I used a Battleaxe throughout maybe the trend is for 2h weapons?
Boss-Room Chest:
- First Loot: Gold(76), Petty Soul Gem, Hide Helmet of Alteration, Iron War Axe of Souls, Iron War Axe, Novice Robes of Restoration
- After Boss Loot: Gold(76), Petty Soul Gem , Hide Helmet of Alteration, Iron War Axe of Souls, Iron War Axe, Novice Robes of Restoration
- Affected: Yes, not sure what affected, but it has something to do with the first part of the dungeon. The first loot was done from a save at the beginning of the Sanctum and the second was a seperate save, also at the begining. Because the loot was identical we know that the boss didn't affect this chest, and playstyle throughout the Sanctum had nothing to do with it either.
Final Chest:
- Loot: Gold(71), Lockpick(4), Potion of Minor Magicka , Scroll of Conjure Storm Atronach
- Affected: Maybe? This could be random loot, but my main school of magic throughout was Conjuration.
What are your thoughts?
What was your playthrough like?
Happy Posting
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