12-13-2011, 08:06 PM
I think you are correct to suggest postponing making a choice in the war until after most everything else is done to avoid further fouling the already screwed up quest lines. Currently, the thieves guild line leading to Master is broken. I wish I had known that before my character went to the trouble of doing all those quests for Vex and Mallory. I even completed the quest for the Crown of Bereziah (and I did find a list of the locations of all the gems). I think this line must have been broken by the last patch or maybe the one before that. Even if it was not already broken, participating in the civil war would certainly screw it up. I am currently in pursuit of Alduin and am not sure what to do after I finish that. I still have the last of the main Dark Brotherhood quests to do. A previous character did that and I did not find it very gratifying. I have done few of the Deadric shrine quests and am not interested in most of the rewards. It seems like the game almost forces you to join all of the guilds in that you miss things that are encountered while doing those guilds quests (like word walls).