Why not: After completing this quest, Skyrim will be full of dragons.
Why: Completing this quest early ensures a large number of Dragon Souls by exploring, if the player is capable of surviving the dragon's attacks. It is also possible to have the same effect result from completing Forsworn Conspiracy, then completing Season Unending before Cidhna Mine, even if you have not joined the Stormcloaks. if you side with the Stormcloaks in the Civil War and if you complete Forsworn Conspiracy before Compelling Tribute and then wait until after Compelling Tribute to start Cidhna Mine, it will become unavailable permanently. The Forsworn Conspiracy and No One Escapes Cidhna Mine There are numerous glitches associated with this quest, and the best fix is to start the quest as soon as possible and complete it all at once. Why: The Necromancer Amulet is a Legendary-quality item very useful for low-level spellcasting characters, especially those interested in Conjuration, and can be sold for a lot of gold for a low-level character. I'll be adding some of the most notable quest categories and the quests under those categories related to your question: Quests to Do As Soon As Possible The whole article is too big to be included here. It also recommends if a quest has to be done early or be postponed before/until another quest has been finished or another game event has happened, to prevent bugs or a negative impact on other quests, or the game. Some of them are due to bugs, and some are because they are designed to be that way. The UESP wiki, ' Quest Timing' article has a detailed list of quests (and notes about those quests) that will have a significant impact on other quests and the game, in general.
This is somewhat related to that question. I still want to explore on my own, but want to be aware of which choices are important. It doesn't matter too much which of the love triangle guys in Riverwood I support: That's not nearly significant enough.Īre there non-obvious, hidden decision points in the quests and story lines? When playing in a certain area, doing a certain quest, what do I need to make sure to do or not do, to not accidentally prevent me from getting or achieving something significant? This includes accidental problems possibly caused by bugs: It appears it's easily possible to lose the option to buy one or more of the houses due to bugs, and one needs to be careful about the order of playing through some quests. This would be relevant for this topic if I could easily miss it otherwise while doing that question. If someone told me It's not that significant, you still get to choose sides (or, rather not told me "This is important"), that'd help.Īnother example: Based on a question I read here, I should probably make sure that I don't throw away any of the dragon priest masks and need to make sure to collect one during a specific quest. If I recall correctly, in Morrowind, I had to progress through a few different guilds' quests in the right order, otherwise it'd have stopped my progress in a few guilds.Īs a Skyrim example, it doesn't appear that the very first choice made in Helgen at the very beginning has much significance. On the other hand I don't particularly like the feeling of having made a significant, bad choice in the game, among the lines of Yeah, that dialog option you selected hours ago? This amazing quest line is now off limits. If I don't want to follow the main story line for a while, and just explore, I can do that, and the game won't break. What's amazing about these open world games is the freedom I have as a player.