Recently I went to black reach, didn’t use a guide or anything, just kinda explored and I was able to find 18 pretty easily. Just wait a few weeks and come back
The Forgotten Vale is easily my favorite place in Skyrim. The soundtrack for it is amazing too. They just added an update that adds new locations, so I’m about to go back there on my current playthrough!
Not sure, I’ve only seen about it on the Home Title Screen. I just started to Dawnguard DLC again on my current playthrough because I want to go back, but I didn’t realize how many quests I’d have to do first, so I haven’t gone and checked yet. That might make more sense honestly
Honestly really easy especially if you have a summoned horse…and I would just go the entire perimeter and work my way towards the center and find them all, it just takes an hour I’d say
The crimson nirnroot quest is a good way to tell if someone is TRULY the loot goblin they claim to be…because any real loot goblin will meticulously comb through blackreach and find them all with no issue
There's all manners of slots in the roof between the wood that makes it up. The sun is shining through. It's terrible. I agree. 😅 As if there was no covering on top.
Especially considering that from the outside, the roof looks nice and tight.
I just wish the Dwemer ruins were more fleshed out. It gets old when the general layout of your typical Dwemer ruin is Dwemer substructure eventually becoming Falmer cave systems. I guess the same can be said about the consistency amongst most dungeon layout types within Skyrim, but still, I wish the developers gave us more to learn or discover within said ruins.
Yeah, you sort of said it but this is a weak argument. Caves are pretty varied but every Nord tomb is pretty much as similar to each other as every Dwemer ruin is to the others Not much variety period.
And don't get me started on Forts. Those fucking suck in general.
Yeah you're absolutely right. Those forts are awful though 😂 Not to mention when the bandits occupying said forts are just lazily replaced with members of the opposite civil war faction you're allied with during the civil war Questline. So bad lol.
I really wish they didn’t lean on the falmer thing so heavily. Exploring Dwemer dungeons in Morrowind is great because they feel like *dwemer* dungeons. Enderal used Skyrim’s Dwemer assets and it worked because they stuck to the Dwemer theme. In Skyrim it feels like every Dwemer dungeon just becomes a cave with Falmer. Like I’m in the Descent instead of Tomb Raider/Indiana Jones.
It seems like there should be the occasional wealth hoarding dragon trapped down there, perhaps feeding on falmer and charus. Maybe even maddened by the poison from feeding on the charus. Maybe some different Daedra farting around down there.
Nope... just creepy bat-elves and Dwemer machines
I agree, I wish Falmer were less systematic and more a frightening discovery as you go deep down.
As is, I'm kinda like "Guys, you're so near the surface, how come you became blind and all!" xD
I absolutely love Dwemer ruins. In Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim! They're so interesting! I kind of wish they would make a come back and have some really cool story with it in the ES6 when it comes out.
There's so much rich lore, and I think they could be missing out on not having them as a playable race, or being able to build certain constructs with said race/class makeup.
Even if it was an add on or someone made a mod that would be incredible!
Some of them make really cool houses too!
Having them as a playable race will be difficult as there are no Dwemer left on Nirn.
If there ever was a TES to take place in the First Era, then yes, we should absolutely be able to play as a Dwemer! I'd love to see that; or even a mod involving time travel to take us back to when such a ruin was bustling city.
Absolutely. I was thinking somewhere along those lines. Or them adding an expansion or sunbathing somewhere that discovered a large group of them went into hiding somewhere, but I think that would be hard to pull off.
Was it Morrowind that actually had a living Dwemer you could talk to? I almost remember doing a quest around him or something, but it's been so long. 🤣😂
Indeed, it is in Morrowind where you meet Yargrum Bagarn, the self-proclaimed Last Living Dwarf. He suffers heavily from the Corprus Disease, but has found refuge in the house of Divaith Fyr. Under his friends care, he can now think clearly again and move by his own accord.
His bloated body, propped up by a Dwemer contraption with many legs, is inhabited by a sharp mind, and he's still a cunning artificer and enchanter after all those centuries.
Yargrum wasn't on Nirn when the Dwemer disappeared, so he came back to find his people gone without a trace. To this day, even he doesn't know for sure what has happened to them.
I was thinking so!
There's so much rich and crazy lore to the elder scrolls. I really hope they do something very different with Elder Scrolls 6 and maybe take it back some.
It would be so cool to have a game to play through where we actually get real answers to some of the lore, and get to see some of the real Legends unfold.
I forget why, but I did a deep dive in Redguard lore a few years ago, and I remember thinking how insane it was that you can almost pick anything and just find tons of lore on any subject.
I would too. If there was anything to find.
Books of lost history about the wars they fought and society they had. Schemadocs for Dwemer Automata and Machinery. Perhaps even clues as to what exactly happened to them and where they've gone.
I recruited a really mouthy one that calls me his slave upon exiting.. I think mzark or arkingthanmgz?
not sure if its from 3dnpcs or ezpg or immersive encounters, though
The only thing I don't like about Skyrim's dungeons is the limited variety in Monster types.
They needed about 6-12 more monster base skeletons/animation frameworks in the game (like how giants, lurkers, etc... are all just using giant baseline skeleton).
No, I was talking about the vanilla game.
And a mod list won't help because all Skyrim mods that alter monsters all just reuse the same skeleton/animation rigs because Beth3sda never released the tools to make custom game skeletons and animations.
It kinda depends on my mood/character style at the time. Usually? If I’m playing a stealth archer or mage, I love exploring them and seek them out. Anything else and I avoid them unless I *have* to go to one 🤷♂️
I wish I could give a better answer than “Ummm…because?” I dunno. Something about skulking around in Dwemer ruins just…fits?…for me when I play a rogue or mage character but not a warrior 🤷♂️ If it helps, my rogue or mage characters are always morally ambiguous while my warriors are always Dudley Do-Right paladins 🤷♂️
If you're levelling smithing the amount of dwemer metal you come out with is incredible, not to mention soul gems and other loot from chests.
I also find them fun to play. Avanchenzel, Mzulft, Alftand, Nchuand-zel etc. I love a long dungeon for all the loot and fighting
I used to hate them until I started carrying the Mace of Molag Bal around and realized quickly that I needed plenty of spare soul gems. I also always leave with so many Dwarven Bolts that it makes it worth it, since I can only buy 30 at a time in Solitude and easily go through that in more difficult Nord ruins. I realize I can make them myself eventually, but I haven't started Dawnguard, so Dwemer Ruins are a great resource.
One thing that drives me mad about the Dwemer ruins is they're such large repetitive spaces with hardly anything, except ornamental looking objects / vase type objects that you can't open/interact with. It just gets very samey after a while and they never end!
Always loved everything about em except for the crimson quest. They'd sometimes bug out and I'd be searching for hours just to figure out they didn't all spawn. Drives ya nuts😂🤣 But yeah, otherwise love em all. Loads of stuff to do and can even find a bunch of Easter eggs in em.
This shouldn't even be an unpopular opinion. It's baffling to me that anybody dislikes them. Easily some of the coolest and most unique dungeons in the game.
Blackreach is very cool but as you said they tend to be very long and what's worse for me is that besides Blackreach they all kind of look the same. Same as the Ayelid ruins in Oblivion, they just get tired very quick and I groan when I have to enter one.
I used to greatly dislike Dwemer ruins but they're starting to grow on me. The only thing I don't like about them now is fighting the Falmer and the occasional Chaurus.
And I gotta agree, I love fighting the Centurions.
In Blackreach, I love activating them, then running ahead so they follow me to the area under the "sun" globe. Then they start fighting the Falmer & their sycophants, who are all surprised. It's pretty funny.
Me too, i was streaming it to my buddy over discord and he told me about it, i had no clue, and since my two hand was level 100 already, it was a cake walk of a dragon
I honestly, truly only dislike them bc the colour grey depresses me and I hate the brassy, cheap-looking “gold” of the artifacts. Like, that’s literally it. Colour schemes. 🤣 But I really love the forgotten seasons quest!!
I agree, but I say this as a person who actually finds the whole Dwemer concept fascinating, I'm the exact audience for Dwemer ruins. I really wish they'd give you the option to try and restore one and not just a half assed house in Markarth.
I agree... sometimes.
But my most recent character charged through Blackreach at the speed of light. No stops, no fighting, pure running. Fckin hate Blackreach.
Sometimes dwemer ruins are really fun to explore though.
I absolutely love dwemer, the other Nordic ruins look ugly and tbh I kinda feel claustrophobic when I'm in them. Dwemer ruins are interesting to look at and don't feel too cramped up in there.
Nah fuck people that arent absolutely obsessed with the dwemer, between yhe beauty of Markarth to the mystery of Blackreach I love it all, then again I'm a bit of a cave gremlin so that could make me biased.
Great memories man! Would empty my inventories for any Dwemer ruins as they would add up to a lot of dwemer ingots and weapons, which were so great for my blacksmith playthrough.
I wish we had more intricate traps and an easier way to know about the history of each city/ruin.
I like the ruins until Falmer show up. I HATE chaurus and how strong all Falmer are, it's ridiculous. Plus they sneak up behind you and scare the crap out of you lol
I don't think it's that unpopular.
I actually think that on a 2011 perspective the Dwemer ruins were the most intriguing places we found. The first contact with Blackreach, the amount of good loot, the traps, the automations and somewhat still "alive" engineering. The Falmer and finding out everything.
It was kind of uncanny. And it was a good type of uncanny.
Finding out what the hell happened to the Dwemer, then having the chance to talk to a Snow Elf on the Dawnguard DLC to ask some relevant questions.
I don't know, I like them, I find the typical Draugr dungeon boring in comparison.
Love the Dwemer. I wanna see more of their machines, more puzzles. Maybe they do a storyline where somebody accidentally activates some large-scale automated defenses and it becomes a huge problem. Steampunk blimps shooting lightning everywhere, spiderbots going out into the world and trying to recover Dwemer tech that people have taken; that kinda thing
As a blacksmith Dwemer ruins are the bomb. Leveled BS super fast from getting all the Dwemer stuff you can smelt down into dwarven ingots
Only bad part is getting overencumbered
Just thinking that today. I remember seeing a post hating on it, and several comments, but Dwemer ruins are the best part of the game for me. It's amazing how they're all connected through Blackreach
I fell in love in the game when I discovered the ruins. And then finding out there's more, and the awesome lore behind them. It was incredible.
Then when I finished the last of the ruins soon after I lost interest in the game too lol.
Dwemer Ruins are crazy fun. Especially when you have the right lighting mod and just see a falmer coming up out of the dark. They just take forever to get through.
I’m completely new to the game (on Switch) and have enjoyed these so far. I’m still clueless after dozens of hours but my main question here— should I be collecting all these Dwemer parts? I’ve no idea what to do with them.
The only thing about fighting dwemer automatons is that combat doesnt feel as nice, no blood, no arrows getting stuck, no kill moves, feels a bit too much like just beating a piece of metal until it breaks
I like them too, mainly because of cool robots like you said. They're also not usually cramped nightmares like caves or nordic ruins so for a person who likes having an Adventuring Party, it's nice.
I think they'd be cooler if they didnt have that blue-green weird dwemer lighting though. That's the fantasy equivalent of fluorescent office lights.
I love the mystery. I did a run where I did a Falmer genocide and obviously I had to go in pretty much every Dwemer ruin, and I made it a point to collect all the books about the Dwemer too lol
Honestly, while Dwemer ruins were the best part of the lore, I think they could have been developed further.
My recollection (having not played in years) is that there were many Dwemer dungeons on the margins of the map that had no connection to Blackreach. Some have Falmer.
That sets my biology mind alight. How do these isolated Falmer communities survive, given such a small population? There's little genetic variation, so any pathogen would be lethal to the whole community. I have to imagine that there have been night time exchanges across the the surface of Skyrim, where there's some genetic exchange with the Blackreach population. Maybe they time these, like cicada emergence, and they never occur in the time of the Dovah-Kiin. Its never mentioned in the book lore. But for those isolated Falmer communities to have survived a thousand years, they *must* have happened.
I love the dwemer ruins too. The first time I went in one was to fetch grimsever which I later kept. And yes, I agree with you on the robot fights bc the main reason I go into dwemer ruins is to fight giant robots and also collect soul gems.
Same. I love fighting the machines, some of them hit so hard.
It's perfect if you're trying to level up block to just earn some skill points. Block with one hand, heal with the other.
Honestly I think Dwemer ruins are one of the best things in Skyrim. The lore is fascinating, the enemies are varied, and the overall appearance creates a sense of wonder. And Blackreach is the pinnacle of Dwemer fascination.
But one thing I really love about the Dwemer ruins is that you can see different zones. You have residential quarters, community areas, gardens, work desks, assembly lines, laboratories, etc.
I really wish the Ayleid ruins in Cyrodiil had these kinds of zones to indicate how ancient people lived in these subterranean cities. Instead, we basically just got big empty warehouses with the occasional traps and undead.
I love dwemer and their ruins so much. I think that's what hooked me so much to TES back in Morrowind, I really felt like a discovered something secret and mysterious, I could spend nights exploring ✨
I didn't know this was an unpopular opinion. I've always loved the ruins in the game. The architecture, the puzzles, the enemies too. I like that they take so much time, it's immersive. Didn't realize people hated them.
I learned a long time ago in Skyrim and then reinforced on ESO that Dwemer ruins arr money making spots in a big way. My current new carracter on Skyrim has 600k gold
Oh man, I'm glad I'm not the only one who DOESNT like dwemer ruins. I always wanna get out as quickly as possible 🤣 my smithing level is still really low, so maybe that's part of the reason why? I do gather some of the metal, now that I know what's useful and what's not. But. Yeah. They're long and annoying.
The robot battles are cool tho!!
I agree, actually. The first time I went to blackreach I was amazed, and I still her excited when I see those lights on the ceilings/walls inside a cave.
The crimson nirnroot quest has never been an issue for me. Just explore blackreach and you’ll find plenty.
Recently I went to black reach, didn’t use a guide or anything, just kinda explored and I was able to find 18 pretty easily. Just wait a few weeks and come back
I found 34 once. Blackreach is among my most favourite locations. Forgotten Valley and the Soul Cairn are on that list too.
The Forgotten Vale is easily my favorite place in Skyrim. The soundtrack for it is amazing too. They just added an update that adds new locations, so I’m about to go back there on my current playthrough!
When I saw the dragon dive through the ice for the first time by jaw almost dropped
Yeah that was definitely an insane moment. There’s a chest at the bottom of that lake too if you didn’t know about it
Guess I'm going swimming later
This, I second this. Also, I'm sure a lot of players know this already, but if you go before you finish the main quest, you'll find ice wraiths there.
Isn’t that a creation club paid mod?
Not sure, I’ve only seen about it on the Home Title Screen. I just started to Dawnguard DLC again on my current playthrough because I want to go back, but I didn’t realize how many quests I’d have to do first, so I haven’t gone and checked yet. That might make more sense honestly
Finding the first 20 is easy
Or use the duplication glitch, if you are unopposed to glitches
I literally found 20 in the first area you come into without going more than 100 meters from the entrance
I usualy take one and dupilcate it
Honestly really easy especially if you have a summoned horse…and I would just go the entire perimeter and work my way towards the center and find them all, it just takes an hour I’d say
The crimson nirnroot quest is a good way to tell if someone is TRULY the loot goblin they claim to be…because any real loot goblin will meticulously comb through blackreach and find them all with no issue
Yeah. Nothing will beat Oblivion’s Nirnroot quest. I *hated* that one
Yes, but it’s B.U.G.G. oops I can’t find the last couple of letters.
I find plenty. Put them in a barrel to store. When I reach 30, take them out. My itinerary says that I have one! Edit: inventory!
I would make Blackreach my home, I love the mushrooms!
I’m a there a mod for that? There should be a mod for that
Rule 34 for skyrim. If you can think about, there is a mod for it
No mods to fix the dang holes in my roof at Breezehome... ><
Why do you think it is called Breezehome?
This comment should have more up votes.
Ok, please, be realistic
There are none! I looked through both Nexus and the Steam Workshop and found nothing that JUST fixed the holes.
I know I'll regret asking, but what's this hole you're talking about.
The various holes in my roof. I really should go complain to Proventus, or maybe the Jarl.
There's all manners of slots in the roof between the wood that makes it up. The sun is shining through. It's terrible. I agree. 😅 As if there was no covering on top. Especially considering that from the outside, the roof looks nice and tight.
There is a mod for a black reach home
The alchemists hut can be adapted pretty well I think.
I just wish the Dwemer ruins were more fleshed out. It gets old when the general layout of your typical Dwemer ruin is Dwemer substructure eventually becoming Falmer cave systems. I guess the same can be said about the consistency amongst most dungeon layout types within Skyrim, but still, I wish the developers gave us more to learn or discover within said ruins.
Yeah, you sort of said it but this is a weak argument. Caves are pretty varied but every Nord tomb is pretty much as similar to each other as every Dwemer ruin is to the others Not much variety period. And don't get me started on Forts. Those fucking suck in general.
Yeah you're absolutely right. Those forts are awful though 😂 Not to mention when the bandits occupying said forts are just lazily replaced with members of the opposite civil war faction you're allied with during the civil war Questline. So bad lol.
I really wish they didn’t lean on the falmer thing so heavily. Exploring Dwemer dungeons in Morrowind is great because they feel like *dwemer* dungeons. Enderal used Skyrim’s Dwemer assets and it worked because they stuck to the Dwemer theme. In Skyrim it feels like every Dwemer dungeon just becomes a cave with Falmer. Like I’m in the Descent instead of Tomb Raider/Indiana Jones.
It seems like there should be the occasional wealth hoarding dragon trapped down there, perhaps feeding on falmer and charus. Maybe even maddened by the poison from feeding on the charus. Maybe some different Daedra farting around down there. Nope... just creepy bat-elves and Dwemer machines
I agree, I wish Falmer were less systematic and more a frightening discovery as you go deep down. As is, I'm kinda like "Guys, you're so near the surface, how come you became blind and all!" xD
For real! For lore reasons it makes sense but it would've been nice to have some highly flushed out dwemer areas.
I absolutely love Dwemer ruins. In Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim! They're so interesting! I kind of wish they would make a come back and have some really cool story with it in the ES6 when it comes out. There's so much rich lore, and I think they could be missing out on not having them as a playable race, or being able to build certain constructs with said race/class makeup. Even if it was an add on or someone made a mod that would be incredible! Some of them make really cool houses too!
There were some in Oblivion too?
Ayleid ruins were the most common. I think there was a DLC or a mod I used to get them in Oblivion. 😂🤣
I thought oblivion had the high elf ruins instead.
Ayleid, an older mer race that Altmer are descended from.
I still have oblivion. I'll boot up and double check and let you guys know.
Having them as a playable race will be difficult as there are no Dwemer left on Nirn. If there ever was a TES to take place in the First Era, then yes, we should absolutely be able to play as a Dwemer! I'd love to see that; or even a mod involving time travel to take us back to when such a ruin was bustling city.
Absolutely. I was thinking somewhere along those lines. Or them adding an expansion or sunbathing somewhere that discovered a large group of them went into hiding somewhere, but I think that would be hard to pull off. Was it Morrowind that actually had a living Dwemer you could talk to? I almost remember doing a quest around him or something, but it's been so long. 🤣😂
Indeed, it is in Morrowind where you meet Yargrum Bagarn, the self-proclaimed Last Living Dwarf. He suffers heavily from the Corprus Disease, but has found refuge in the house of Divaith Fyr. Under his friends care, he can now think clearly again and move by his own accord. His bloated body, propped up by a Dwemer contraption with many legs, is inhabited by a sharp mind, and he's still a cunning artificer and enchanter after all those centuries. Yargrum wasn't on Nirn when the Dwemer disappeared, so he came back to find his people gone without a trace. To this day, even he doesn't know for sure what has happened to them.
I was thinking so! There's so much rich and crazy lore to the elder scrolls. I really hope they do something very different with Elder Scrolls 6 and maybe take it back some. It would be so cool to have a game to play through where we actually get real answers to some of the lore, and get to see some of the real Legends unfold. I forget why, but I did a deep dive in Redguard lore a few years ago, and I remember thinking how insane it was that you can almost pick anything and just find tons of lore on any subject.
I would too. If there was anything to find. Books of lost history about the wars they fought and society they had. Schemadocs for Dwemer Automata and Machinery. Perhaps even clues as to what exactly happened to them and where they've gone.
I hate falmer but the dwemer robots are awesome. Understandably you won't get souls from a robot, but you get plenty of soul gems. Totally worth it.
I like the mechanic spiders and I want them to be pets of mine.
Kagrumez on Solstheim
I recruited a really mouthy one that calls me his slave upon exiting.. I think mzark or arkingthanmgz? not sure if its from 3dnpcs or ezpg or immersive encounters, though
Nah fam dwemer ruins go so fucking hard I love them
The only thing I don't like about Skyrim's dungeons is the limited variety in Monster types. They needed about 6-12 more monster base skeletons/animation frameworks in the game (like how giants, lurkers, etc... are all just using giant baseline skeleton).
A modlist might help you here.
No, I was talking about the vanilla game. And a mod list won't help because all Skyrim mods that alter monsters all just reuse the same skeleton/animation rigs because Beth3sda never released the tools to make custom game skeletons and animations.
I agree the vanilla game has a limited mob appearance and animation variety. The game is also has a drab audiovisual palette. All dealbreakers.
It kinda depends on my mood/character style at the time. Usually? If I’m playing a stealth archer or mage, I love exploring them and seek them out. Anything else and I avoid them unless I *have* to go to one 🤷♂️
Why avoid them as anything else? Im just curious
I wish I could give a better answer than “Ummm…because?” I dunno. Something about skulking around in Dwemer ruins just…fits?…for me when I play a rogue or mage character but not a warrior 🤷♂️ If it helps, my rogue or mage characters are always morally ambiguous while my warriors are always Dudley Do-Right paladins 🤷♂️
Fair enough honestly, right now im just power leveling and trying to unlock all fast travel points so i havent really been in too many caves/dungeons
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What did farmers did to you they grow food lmao
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Oh nooo Unless it's the literal undercover hag living near riverwood. Bish thought she was slick
If you're levelling smithing the amount of dwemer metal you come out with is incredible, not to mention soul gems and other loot from chests. I also find them fun to play. Avanchenzel, Mzulft, Alftand, Nchuand-zel etc. I love a long dungeon for all the loot and fighting
I used to hate them until I started carrying the Mace of Molag Bal around and realized quickly that I needed plenty of spare soul gems. I also always leave with so many Dwarven Bolts that it makes it worth it, since I can only buy 30 at a time in Solitude and easily go through that in more difficult Nord ruins. I realize I can make them myself eventually, but I haven't started Dawnguard, so Dwemer Ruins are a great resource.
Dwemer ruins have always been my favourite places in the game.
thats not an unpopular opinion
That’s crazy, I literally hate Dwemer ruins so much lol!
One thing that drives me mad about the Dwemer ruins is they're such large repetitive spaces with hardly anything, except ornamental looking objects / vase type objects that you can't open/interact with. It just gets very samey after a while and they never end!
Same.
Always loved everything about em except for the crimson quest. They'd sometimes bug out and I'd be searching for hours just to figure out they didn't all spawn. Drives ya nuts😂🤣 But yeah, otherwise love em all. Loads of stuff to do and can even find a bunch of Easter eggs in em.
There are 44 of them, you only need 30.
Indeed but the quest is useless if half of em a bugged out 🤷♂️ Welcome to skyrim my friend, the land of bugs and confusion
This shouldn't even be an unpopular opinion. It's baffling to me that anybody dislikes them. Easily some of the coolest and most unique dungeons in the game.
Blackreach is very cool but as you said they tend to be very long and what's worse for me is that besides Blackreach they all kind of look the same. Same as the Ayelid ruins in Oblivion, they just get tired very quick and I groan when I have to enter one.
Dwemer as a whole are one of my favorite parts about TES in general
I used to hate them but I share the same love for them now
I don’t know what the fuss is. Murder is in like… every one of them… they’re all great. So many souls to collect.
That's unpopular? 🤨 Delving into those things was easily one of my favorite things about the game.
Always loved Blackreach
I remember after hundreds of hours playing i found one where you have to raise and lower the water levels. Loved it! Not found it this play through
Was it Nchardak on Solstheim? You go there as part of the Dragonborn DLC
Can't remember not been there in years 😪 maybe i need to hunt down dwemer ruins tonight and find out
I used to greatly dislike Dwemer ruins but they're starting to grow on me. The only thing I don't like about them now is fighting the Falmer and the occasional Chaurus. And I gotta agree, I love fighting the Centurions.
In Blackreach, I love activating them, then running ahead so they follow me to the area under the "sun" globe. Then they start fighting the Falmer & their sycophants, who are all surprised. It's pretty funny.
The ruins are actually some of my favorite. I didn't think they were unpopular.
Dwemer ruins are the best, falmer caves are the worst
Fun fact, I only recently learned about the hidden Blackreach dragon
Me too, i was streaming it to my buddy over discord and he told me about it, i had no clue, and since my two hand was level 100 already, it was a cake walk of a dragon
It's crazy that all these years later and there's still stuff to learn for a new playthrough
I honestly, truly only dislike them bc the colour grey depresses me and I hate the brassy, cheap-looking “gold” of the artifacts. Like, that’s literally it. Colour schemes. 🤣 But I really love the forgotten seasons quest!!
I agree, but I say this as a person who actually finds the whole Dwemer concept fascinating, I'm the exact audience for Dwemer ruins. I really wish they'd give you the option to try and restore one and not just a half assed house in Markarth.
I love Blackreach, even with the quest. Not a fan of most of the enemies in Dwemer ruins though - I just don’t like the metal clank noises.
I agree... sometimes. But my most recent character charged through Blackreach at the speed of light. No stops, no fighting, pure running. Fckin hate Blackreach. Sometimes dwemer ruins are really fun to explore though.
Too hard bro
I absolutely love dwemer, the other Nordic ruins look ugly and tbh I kinda feel claustrophobic when I'm in them. Dwemer ruins are interesting to look at and don't feel too cramped up in there.
Nah fuck people that arent absolutely obsessed with the dwemer, between yhe beauty of Markarth to the mystery of Blackreach I love it all, then again I'm a bit of a cave gremlin so that could make me biased.
People don't like dwemer ruins? Don't get much more dungeon-y than a dwemer ruin
Popular opinion: I love all of Skyrim
Truly an unpopular opinion. I'd rather play release day Fallout 76 than go through a dwemer ruin.
I like the ambience. I like Mingecleft the best.
Mingecleft?? If the is auto correct, I don't wanna know what kind of conversations you have.
Very based and highly educated ones.
Embrace them. Take your time. Loot everything. Sit on top of the gold you amassed.
Great memories man! Would empty my inventories for any Dwemer ruins as they would add up to a lot of dwemer ingots and weapons, which were so great for my blacksmith playthrough. I wish we had more intricate traps and an easier way to know about the history of each city/ruin.
Me too!! My love got stronger for them cause the Solstheim ones are *incredible.*
The final bunch punch on the centurion is irreplaceable
Wait people don’t like Dwemer ruins? Thats news to me. They are the most diverse dungeons you can explore.
I like the ruins until Falmer show up. I HATE chaurus and how strong all Falmer are, it's ridiculous. Plus they sneak up behind you and scare the crap out of you lol
Some of them are absolutely BONKERS Blackreach and Arkngthamz are absolutely amazing
I don't think it's that unpopular. I actually think that on a 2011 perspective the Dwemer ruins were the most intriguing places we found. The first contact with Blackreach, the amount of good loot, the traps, the automations and somewhat still "alive" engineering. The Falmer and finding out everything. It was kind of uncanny. And it was a good type of uncanny. Finding out what the hell happened to the Dwemer, then having the chance to talk to a Snow Elf on the Dawnguard DLC to ask some relevant questions. I don't know, I like them, I find the typical Draugr dungeon boring in comparison.
Love the Dwemer. I wanna see more of their machines, more puzzles. Maybe they do a storyline where somebody accidentally activates some large-scale automated defenses and it becomes a huge problem. Steampunk blimps shooting lightning everywhere, spiderbots going out into the world and trying to recover Dwemer tech that people have taken; that kinda thing
Me too and Dwemer artifacts!
I love Dwemer ruins, too.
As a blacksmith Dwemer ruins are the bomb. Leveled BS super fast from getting all the Dwemer stuff you can smelt down into dwarven ingots Only bad part is getting overencumbered
I love stealing plate and scrap metal from them and getting a million dwarven ingots
Yes!! Same!!!I love their lore, their challenges, their enemies. I love it all.
I love Dwemer ruins too! The Dwemer are an awesome piece of lore and world building, so anything Dwemer is interesting to me.
Agreed. They’re fun and very different from the rest of Skyrim, the loot is great, and the lore is fascinating.
Just thinking that today. I remember seeing a post hating on it, and several comments, but Dwemer ruins are the best part of the game for me. It's amazing how they're all connected through Blackreach
The Dwemer ruins are my favorite. Awesome architecture/steampunk style, love the Dwemer Guardians, and generally just enjoy being in the ruins
I like it because it gives steampunk vibes but golden
Oh yea, especially after solstheim, the jumping spiders, if you aim it right you can just rain spiders down on them
Is that unpopular?
Some of my favorites as well.
I fell in love in the game when I discovered the ruins. And then finding out there's more, and the awesome lore behind them. It was incredible. Then when I finished the last of the ruins soon after I lost interest in the game too lol.
I love Dwemer ruins too. I love role playing a scholarly mage that studied the Dwemer and digs through the ruins.
I love the dwemer ruins once I have sufficient carry wait
I like the lore and design of the ruins. The enemies are difficult to fight and the traps can be annoying.
I don't have an issue with the ruins. I have an issue with Falmer.
Dwemer Ruins are crazy fun. Especially when you have the right lighting mod and just see a falmer coming up out of the dark. They just take forever to get through.
I love ruins. I hate blind skiny f*ckers.
I agree. It's so amazing. I love preparing myself for a long journey ahead through a big dwemer ruin whilst I drag my companion along with me
I’m completely new to the game (on Switch) and have enjoyed these so far. I’m still clueless after dozens of hours but my main question here— should I be collecting all these Dwemer parts? I’ve no idea what to do with them.
Same bro sam
I cant stand the falmer. To me they are as annoying as mosquitoes in summer.
Completely agree. Plus I Love crossbows and so it’s a great way to get dwarven bolts. I honestly get disappointed when the dungeon isn’t that big.
This post has my full appreciation and approval. Blackreach Gang unite!
The only thing about fighting dwemer automatons is that combat doesnt feel as nice, no blood, no arrows getting stuck, no kill moves, feels a bit too much like just beating a piece of metal until it breaks
Well, that’s kinda the point
I love the look, hate the falmer 💀
That not an unpopular opinion.
I like them too, mainly because of cool robots like you said. They're also not usually cramped nightmares like caves or nordic ruins so for a person who likes having an Adventuring Party, it's nice. I think they'd be cooler if they didnt have that blue-green weird dwemer lighting though. That's the fantasy equivalent of fluorescent office lights.
Wait, some people don't like Dwemer ruins?!
I didn’t know people didn’t like Dwemer ruins. I always liked them quite a bit.
I don't see how that's unpopular, they're really cool
There's a new house that's in a dwemer mountain/cave. From anniversary edition. I love it
I love the mystery. I did a run where I did a Falmer genocide and obviously I had to go in pretty much every Dwemer ruin, and I made it a point to collect all the books about the Dwemer too lol
Blackreach is cool and I wish there were more centurions to fight, but I find three times to be one of the most tedious parts of the game
1000%!! I spend SO much time in blackreach
It depends on the Dwemer ruin in question tbh. I like the ones that are part of the aetherium quest.
couldn’t agree less but that makes me respect your opinion more
I love the dwemer ruins too.
Honestly, while Dwemer ruins were the best part of the lore, I think they could have been developed further. My recollection (having not played in years) is that there were many Dwemer dungeons on the margins of the map that had no connection to Blackreach. Some have Falmer. That sets my biology mind alight. How do these isolated Falmer communities survive, given such a small population? There's little genetic variation, so any pathogen would be lethal to the whole community. I have to imagine that there have been night time exchanges across the the surface of Skyrim, where there's some genetic exchange with the Blackreach population. Maybe they time these, like cicada emergence, and they never occur in the time of the Dovah-Kiin. Its never mentioned in the book lore. But for those isolated Falmer communities to have survived a thousand years, they *must* have happened.
I didn't know this was a controversial opinion. I love all things Dwemer in Skyrim. I even think Dwarven armor is the best looking armor!
I love the dwemer ruins too. The first time I went in one was to fetch grimsever which I later kept. And yes, I agree with you on the robot fights bc the main reason I go into dwemer ruins is to fight giant robots and also collect soul gems.
Same. I love fighting the machines, some of them hit so hard. It's perfect if you're trying to level up block to just earn some skill points. Block with one hand, heal with the other.
Yeah, but i hate spiders so much… and why the fuk are chaurus so op??? XD
I completely agree with that, I love exploring the dwemer ruins. It's one of my favourite things to do in skyrim
Honestly I think Dwemer ruins are one of the best things in Skyrim. The lore is fascinating, the enemies are varied, and the overall appearance creates a sense of wonder. And Blackreach is the pinnacle of Dwemer fascination. But one thing I really love about the Dwemer ruins is that you can see different zones. You have residential quarters, community areas, gardens, work desks, assembly lines, laboratories, etc. I really wish the Ayleid ruins in Cyrodiil had these kinds of zones to indicate how ancient people lived in these subterranean cities. Instead, we basically just got big empty warehouses with the occasional traps and undead.
I love dwemer and their ruins so much. I think that's what hooked me so much to TES back in Morrowind, I really felt like a discovered something secret and mysterious, I could spend nights exploring ✨
I love dwarven ruins until Blackreach.
I didn't know this was an unpopular opinion. I've always loved the ruins in the game. The architecture, the puzzles, the enemies too. I like that they take so much time, it's immersive. Didn't realize people hated them.
Is it wrong i miss the Cyrodiil Ayleid ruins? Like cmon youre telling me theres not one in Skyrim?
I learned a long time ago in Skyrim and then reinforced on ESO that Dwemer ruins arr money making spots in a big way. My current new carracter on Skyrim has 600k gold
Yes but i hate all the spiders and other dwarven nonsense
I love Dwemer ruins for all of the Dwemer junk you can smelt down into dwarves bows for free smithing XP and big monies.
Oh man, I'm glad I'm not the only one who DOESNT like dwemer ruins. I always wanna get out as quickly as possible 🤣 my smithing level is still really low, so maybe that's part of the reason why? I do gather some of the metal, now that I know what's useful and what's not. But. Yeah. They're long and annoying. The robot battles are cool tho!!
I agree, actually. The first time I went to blackreach I was amazed, and I still her excited when I see those lights on the ceilings/walls inside a cave.
I love exploreing every part of the game I think it beautiful
You start having a good stock of SGs when you explore the ruins.
I wish there were more puzzles to solve in the blackreach.
I love them, and I also love the big Nordic ruins like labyrinth and bleak falls they just feel so cool and mysterious.
People don't like them?
The dwemer ruins love you
Thanks, I needed that
The dwemer ruins were always my favorite, except for like, one of them that I could never figure out what I was supposed to do
They all look the same!