Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-124.6.181.98-20140225101629/@comment-24737663-20140603120428

ShadowFang the Khajiit warrior wrote: Any long underground or dark dungeon. I absolutely loathe Touching The Sky because of this.

The quest is excruciatingly long, starting off with a dark and falmer-infested cave (lucky for me I had nighteye to keep me from being blind). You make it to the surface, only to find it is just as dangerous as the cave. Next up you gotta go to a couple of shrines to get some water. This part seems okay...until you need to get to that last shrine. You have to go through a falmer village, and some more caves, fighting off groups of falmer and chaurus as you go. You finally get to the shrine, only to discover that you have to pour all that hard-earned water onto the floor to enter yet another hazardous area.

You go through the pretty castle, too busy fighting to admire its nice architecture. You reach the throne room where the evil elf is, glad to finally get to kill him. Unfortunately, the elf, wanting to delay you further (and make you more annoyed), summons a bunch of evil ice minions to try and kill you. After you kill them, the elf destroys the awesome castle as a last resort, but it fails. There is a short cutscene, where the elf explains he is a vampire, and created the prophecy. After this, you at last get to actually fight and kill the guy.

Your rewards for this overly-long and arduous quest are: Any loot you got from before you fight the elf, a set of snow elf armour, Auriel's Bow (This is what you came for-not really a great bow for actual fighting though, due to the fact it doesn't really have a decent damage rating. By this point in the gae you would likely have a bow that is better), a decent elven dagger with a good frost damage enchantment, access to The Forgotten Vale (though after this quest, there isn't much to come back for), and the next quest, which is, thankfully, short, and the last quest in the Dawnguard questline.

Overall, I think the quest is far too long and repetetive, as you are constantly fighting falmer and Chaurus. I only do this quest because I need to in order to finish the Dawnguard questline. i think the 'Touching the Sky' quest is one of the longest, single missions within Skyrim and her Official DLCs. not to mention all the time it takes to find the four books, 5 paragons and duking it out with the Twin Dragons near the Word Wall they protect.