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Shouting? heh, try punching, youtube that stuff, its hilarious.
Go try and punch a Dragon priest in the jaw, that's a good challenge, or a giant, Right in the lapland.
Most people be a Nord or something, why not try being a Khajit or argonian? if you become a vampire they look so cool! :3
also try doing sword and shield, or just bow, or maybe the roguish double knife! and only upgrade light armor? Too many people try and find the heaviest, largest two-handed sword they can find and that's them done.
Oh or be solely a Hand-to-hand combat necromancer!
Go try and punch a Dragon priest in the jaw, that's a good challenge, or a giant, Right in the lapland.
Most people be a Nord or something, why not try being a Khajit or argonian? if you become a vampire they look so cool! :3
also try doing sword and shield, or just bow, or maybe the roguish double knife! and only upgrade light armor? Too many people try and find the heaviest, largest two-handed sword they can find and that's them done.
Oh or be solely a Hand-to-hand combat necromancer!
fire awrrows at people and lurk until they somehow forgot they where shot like i do?
if that fails hit them with Mace of Molag Bal!
if that fails hit them with Mace of Molag Bal!
Orc Sneak Thief. Hard to do but pays off after a few levels.
Pacifist runs are also quite good. In that I also include non direct kills, which means kills by companions and summoned creatures are fine.
Pacifist runs are also quite good. In that I also include non direct kills, which means kills by companions and summoned creatures are fine.
It is neat, sadly it was abandoned so the Dawnguard shouts aren't included. Honestly it's a bit of a faff and doesn't work perfectly but it does make using shouts much more interesting.dragsaw said:
Edit: Ahem, link.
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/5626
Necromantic Illusionist Assassin. Nothing quite like getting your victim to kill themselves by getting them into a frenzy and having them fight their allies or using the dead to fight on my behalf.
My Fondest memory of that build was getting assaulted by a dozen city guards in whiterun after I botched an assassination. I cast a aoe Frenzy spell (Mayhem?) and then cast invisibility and proceeded to escaped as the ENTIRE CITY OF WHITERUN rioted. Ended up losing a dozen store owners in process. It was funny as shit, but I had to reload a save because I essentially made Whiterun a ghost town (bar a few essential npcs).
I'm currently running with this build as an imperial (early game use of Voice of the Emperor), it's pretty funny actually.
Say I sneak into a cave of bandits. I will proceed directly to the chieftain (using a combination of muffle and invisibility to remain undetected), calm him and slit his throat (Sneak Perk Assassins blade + Shrouded gloves = 30x backstab damage with daggers... Also using Mehrunes Razor for random chance to instakill), then I resurrect his corpse to kill off his fellow bandits.
The only problem is my character is like glass. Pretty much any 2 handed melee character above level 20 can kill me in one non-powered swing and high level archers and mages can obliterate me in a single shot. So I rely heavily on the sneak skill to avoid detection, Illusion to do most of the damage and conjuration to create distractions.
That said, despite the fact I have a bounty of well over 5000 in both the Haafinger and Whiterun Holds, I have not once been arrested or killed by the guards.
The only grief in the early game was dealing with Daedra, Dwarven Animunculi and the undead (particularly Vampires), since direct illusion spells don't work on them until I reached level 90 in the illusion skill and got the Perk "Master of the Mind".
Say I sneak into a cave of bandits. I will proceed directly to the chieftain (using a combination of muffle and invisibility to remain undetected), calm him and slit his throat (Sneak Perk Assassins blade + Shrouded gloves = 30x backstab damage with daggers... Also using Mehrunes Razor for random chance to instakill), then I resurrect his corpse to kill off his fellow bandits.
The only problem is my character is like glass. Pretty much any 2 handed melee character above level 20 can kill me in one non-powered swing and high level archers and mages can obliterate me in a single shot. So I rely heavily on the sneak skill to avoid detection, Illusion to do most of the damage and conjuration to create distractions.
That said, despite the fact I have a bounty of well over 5000 in both the Haafinger and Whiterun Holds, I have not once been arrested or killed by the guards.
The only grief in the early game was dealing with Daedra, Dwarven Animunculi and the undead (particularly Vampires), since direct illusion spells don't work on them until I reached level 90 in the illusion skill and got the Perk "Master of the Mind".
My Fondest memory of that build was getting assaulted by a dozen city guards in whiterun after I botched an assassination. I cast a aoe Frenzy spell (Mayhem?) and then cast invisibility and proceeded to escaped as the ENTIRE CITY OF WHITERUN rioted. Ended up losing a dozen store owners in process. It was funny as shit, but I had to reload a save because I essentially made Whiterun a ghost town (bar a few essential npcs).
Khajiit melee build.
Focus on heavy armor and enchanting and you should be able to get heavy gauntlets of the pugilist, and ~60+ unarmed damage?* I'm still unclear on how the bonuses to armor rating effect that, but I know it is what I want to try next time I start a new character.
*A bit of research says that unfortunately none of the bonuses change what is added to your melee damage, so the max you can get from the Khajiit claws and Fists of Steel is 33 damage. The Fortify Unarmed Damage enchantment will give you however much you can enchant it with, so I imagine with a strong skill you could probably still get 60+ in the end.
Focus on heavy armor and enchanting and you should be able to get heavy gauntlets of the pugilist, and ~60+ unarmed damage?* I'm still unclear on how the bonuses to armor rating effect that, but I know it is what I want to try next time I start a new character.
*A bit of research says that unfortunately none of the bonuses change what is added to your melee damage, so the max you can get from the Khajiit claws and Fists of Steel is 33 damage. The Fortify Unarmed Damage enchantment will give you however much you can enchant it with, so I imagine with a strong skill you could probably still get 60+ in the end.
A few suggestions:
Orc heavy armour+Blunt weapons is always fun. Smashing your way through anything. Combine with enchanting, armourer, and restoration for ridiculous armour buffs and the ability to shrug off hits with a quick restoration spell (this does require a little investment into magicka away from the health and stamina, but if you only plan on using restoration, it shouldn't be too great a drain).
Stealthy archer. Play if you want to be able to break the game and make it your *****. At first you'll feel a little underpowered (it shouldn't hurt too much to invest a little in one handed weapons, as to give you something to fall back on when the enemy closes in). Invest in illusion to become even better at sneaking, invest in conjuration for handy distractions, and invest in pickpocket/lockpicking if you wish to be a theif. Wood elves seem to best suited to this, but with enough investment, any race could become this unstoppable arrow-flinger. One of the great things about this is you can add your own spins pretty freely, as all you really need to invest in is sneak and archery, leaving you a lot of space to customize as you see fit.
If you plan on playing as mage, start as something with magic skill boosts, for gods sake. At early levels, magic is pretty hard to wield on it's own, such is it's reliance on magicka, and the relative weakness next to simple melee skills. It's rewarding and in depth, though. High elves are the best for this. Dark elves are good for sneaky types with magic thrown in, especially destruction. Bretons are good for adaptability, and Redguard can make for surprisingly good battlemages, as they come with buffs for one handed/sheild, and destruction.
Hope it helps!
EDIT: By the way, if you're planning on getting dawnguard, find somewhere out of towns to sleep, don't enter towns at night unless you have to. Vampires get in towns at night. You can kill them, but only if you're there. I've had vamps come in on the other side of whiterun from me and kill belethor. Usually, you can save people with a bit of savegame time travel, but it's best not to take the risk of losing valuable merchants and NPCs.
Orc heavy armour+Blunt weapons is always fun. Smashing your way through anything. Combine with enchanting, armourer, and restoration for ridiculous armour buffs and the ability to shrug off hits with a quick restoration spell (this does require a little investment into magicka away from the health and stamina, but if you only plan on using restoration, it shouldn't be too great a drain).
Stealthy archer. Play if you want to be able to break the game and make it your *****. At first you'll feel a little underpowered (it shouldn't hurt too much to invest a little in one handed weapons, as to give you something to fall back on when the enemy closes in). Invest in illusion to become even better at sneaking, invest in conjuration for handy distractions, and invest in pickpocket/lockpicking if you wish to be a theif. Wood elves seem to best suited to this, but with enough investment, any race could become this unstoppable arrow-flinger. One of the great things about this is you can add your own spins pretty freely, as all you really need to invest in is sneak and archery, leaving you a lot of space to customize as you see fit.
If you plan on playing as mage, start as something with magic skill boosts, for gods sake. At early levels, magic is pretty hard to wield on it's own, such is it's reliance on magicka, and the relative weakness next to simple melee skills. It's rewarding and in depth, though. High elves are the best for this. Dark elves are good for sneaky types with magic thrown in, especially destruction. Bretons are good for adaptability, and Redguard can make for surprisingly good battlemages, as they come with buffs for one handed/sheild, and destruction.
Hope it helps!
EDIT: By the way, if you're planning on getting dawnguard, find somewhere out of towns to sleep, don't enter towns at night unless you have to. Vampires get in towns at night. You can kill them, but only if you're there. I've had vamps come in on the other side of whiterun from me and kill belethor. Usually, you can save people with a bit of savegame time travel, but it's best not to take the risk of losing valuable merchants and NPCs.
One of my favourite things to do in a second run-through of an RPG is to base my character on someone from a TV show or movie or book or whatever. It's always fun thinking 'what would X do in this situation' as oppossed to what I'd do myself.
It can get pretty interesting. Especially if it's a character who you don't like for certain reasons.
EDIT:
Alternativly, follow these instructions:
and be a fucking unarmed viking badass.
It may not work if you don't have a viking accent to begin with.
It can get pretty interesting. Especially if it's a character who you don't like for certain reasons.
EDIT:
Alternativly, follow these instructions:
and be a fucking unarmed viking badass.
It may not work if you don't have a viking accent to begin with.
Insane orc prisoner escapee, steal everyhting that's not nailed down and only use a shank, sneaky would be cool. I tired that for a while but kinda killed lots of people for looking at me wrong and then wasn't really welcome back in any of the towns and I refuse to go back to prison!