About to begin a playthrough as a stealthy dagger-only Orc assassin who uses destruction as a last resort if he gets made out. What about you?
>>727768151Hand to hand focused agent of dibella with succubus powers.
Berserker Rage doesn't affect spells, but it does affect ranged damage and stacks with stealth crits, OP. You know what you have to do.
I'm gonna spend 20 hours grinding and exploiting the game to max out my character and never touch the game again until next winter
>>727769823what's the point in grinding when your enemies level with you?
>>727769927get a mod that removes level scaling, it makes the game actually bearable
Anyone have that image of all the different races and classes and whatever where you roll to see what combo you get?
>>727769927So you can kill every enemy in a single stealth archery critical.
>>727769610>if you play as thamlor, you're probably gay.
>>727770158You can already do that from the very start of the game though
>>727770060It's right here anon.>>727769610
>>727770226Not on Legendary. You need to resto loop, then you need to spam iron daggers, then you need to buy training for archery, sneak and light armor.
>>727768151A nord bard with speech, illusion, and alchemy
>>727770601I meant breton bard. Better starting stats.
>>727770527You can use conjuration to skip the enchantment step.
>>727768379what's the go to for fucking mods nowadays? is sexlab outdated and is it osex whatever now?
>>727770527or just... use mods to rebalance this shit you know
>>727771613Sexlab is still the best option.
>>727770527Play on Master difficultyLegendary was added post launch for turbo autists
>>727771671Mods to rebalance it? What, like the mod that makes it so you can headshot and insta-kill enemies, no investment required?
Stealth archer is a fun gamestyle and nobody will convince me otherwise. Skyrim is like the only game that actually makes the fantasy of sneaking around and oneshotting common bandits with a bow feel good. The laying low and moving slowly, the sound, the arrow trajectory, the camera following the arrow during flight, the impact, the enemy ragdolling like crazy after they're hit, it's all perfect. Sure, it's unbalanced as fuck and the enemies are downright retarded but who cares.I love you stealth archer builds.
Ive started this play through several times but always lose sight of the character’s motivations. I use alternate start and beyond Skyrim bruma to start in cyrodil before sneaking into Skyrim. Character is a breton, son of the Hawksmire guy from that spinoff game who gets killed 10 or so years before Skyrim during the siege of Wayrest.Since then the character had a similar start as Severian in Book of the New son. He was the youngest sibling, so his mother sent him away to be a funeral assistant for priests of arkay in evermore. There he met a nice nord girl but he family moved away to Skyrim.Eventually he commited some blasphemy and was sent away to squire with a knight travelling through hammerfell. Along the way he saw how the redguards deal with undead and developed a fear of poison. From his time tending to dead bodies, he knows a bit about alchemy and carries a silver dagger to collect ingredients.Eventually he ditched the knight and has been a wandering conman/mystic since then. Not super gifted in magic but uses the perk vancian magic, knows steadfast ward, candlelight, and basic healing. Does some small quests in bruma before a Dunmer gang catches up to him and presses him to smuggle something into Skyrim.Gets stranded on the mountain on the way down to Falkreath before being taken in and taught archery by the milf at her shack.Either in helghen or Falkreath he finds out that a nord girl he used to know from high rock is dead. He gobbles up all the skooma he smuggled, then starts helping out the priest of arkay to feel good about himself again. While doing so he finds an old blades sword, finds out about the priest’s past life as a thankless, and finds the girl he knew alive, having joined up with a group of mages. The way is blocked with a rune so he returns to bruma to learn more about magic.The synod doesn’t help much, but after being a guinea pig for the college of whispers he learns a nice spell - ghostwalk, and eventually a rune spell.
>>727772165Stealth archery feels good in Skyrim because, in comparison, everything else feels so utterly terrible.
>>727772165based fun haver
>>727772165This. Recent RPG tend to destroy stealth options because it's too OP or whatever. Fuck off let us have fun. Who cares if something is OP in a single player game.
>>727772165All playstyles are fun, stealth is the most comfortable, lowest stress playstyle. Sneak around, take your time aiming shots, boom it's done. No quick thinking or reflexes required.It's quite relaxing. Boomer coded.
Daggers and sword and board are the only two playstyles left for me that I haven't beaten the game with
>>727772203>The Slav Epicbased
>>727772770>all playstyles are funMagic doesn't scale. At all. So you are forced to resto loop in order to deal damage.
>>727774342Bro your mods?
>>727774436You might as well open console and type TGM if you're using mods that make the game easier.
>>727768151I'm gonna go play a good game instead.
>>727774504No?Mods that fix it and make magic fun to use exist but you chose to ignore them.That's just autism.
Legendary difficulty, survival mode, magic only build. I am allowed to resto loop to craft moderately powerful potions of fortify destruction to get around magic damage not scaling. I am not allowed to wear physical armor, any armor must come from shield spells. I am not allowed to use physical weapons, all damage must come from spells or summons.
>>727774342Low IQ and skill issue. And you have potions of destruction.
>>727768151I'm going to play underrail and just pick whatever I like to without pre planning to see how far it will take me.
>>727771613sexlab plus which supports most sexlab mods so you no longer have to deal with the fucking animation loader
>>727772639I can’t think of a single RPG where stealth ISN’T overpowered. Stealth will always be overpowered because it’s overpowered in real life too. and getting a free crit that deals insane damage for a sneak attack is aways going to outpace an unga-bunga warrior build in terms of damage.
>>727775375Stealth was utter fucking dogshit in Daggerfall and Morrowind, infact I think Morrowind was bugged in a way that made sneak skill worse the higher its level was.
>>727775248>sexlab pluscompatibility nightmare and I see its users in almost every mod help section complaining about bugs or begging for compatibility fixes
If you haven't graduated from stealth archer to completely naked 2h sword chad with no other skills by now you never will.
>>727768151lose the destruction magic
>>727775494>every mod help section complaining about bugs or begging for compatibility fixesAnd mod users are fucking idiots that can't even use a delta patcher. I wouldn't be surprised if 99% of what they are crying about has nothing to do with sexlab, sexlab plus, or the mod itself.
>>727775375Fallout 1 and 2, arcanum, vtmb, kotor2.Stealth grants you safety but there are fights you can skip that can't be stealthed through and that's where your realiance on being unseen works against you.
>>727775375Stealth is dogshit in all obsidian gamesTo the point I even wonder why they put it in the game
>>727775692>Fallout 1 and 2Combining it with a long range weapon allows you to slowly chip away at enemies from a safe position.>KOTOR 2You can use stealth to run away and hide from enemies and bosses, apply a dozen buffs, then sneak up behind them to get a guaranteed first strike on them for massive damage. Plus, you get a sneak critical bonus on top of that.
>>727775803>Stealth is dogshit in all obsidian gamesStealth can be near broken in FNV even after you consider how easy FNV is.
>>727775585>walk near an enemy while your health is at 75%>enemy insta-kills you in a cinematic decapitation cutscene
>>727775803It’s great in New Vegas because it was great in Fallout 3 and those two games have near identical gameplay and systems.
>>727775692Games like Kotor actively punish stealth by not giving you any XP for skipping fights too.
>>727775938So? Nowhere near tes5 levels of overpowered
>>727768151cannibal breton vampire spellsword
>>727775690Unless a mod author specifically mentions compatibility it's a crapshoot every time.And a lot don't because it's a sidestep project and not a total replacement of SL.
>>727768151Male human spellsword ranger JOAT same as every other playthrough
>>727776098You can still stealth kill enemies. I beat KOTOR 2 with a stealth build Exile, and you just have to make a build that relies on getting a the first strike.
>>727770527I will never understand the autists who feel compelled to play Skyrim on Legendary. It's just a lazy damage and health multiplier, it doesn't add any new depth or strategy to the game and Skyrim is shallow slop to begin with. You're not hardcore, lil bro.
>>727772165I keep my damage low so i can see the part where they got mad while searching me like retarded apes.
>>727768151>a stealthy dagger-only Orc assassin who uses destruction as a last resortYou'll be playing the exact same fucking character who does the exact same fucking shit as all your other characters because Skyrim isn't a role playing game no matter how much you people pretend it is.
>>727770527>Not on LegendaryI never play stealth archer, but I always play legendary and I'm calling bullshit.>You need to resto loopKill yourself faggot. I always play legit and the vanilla crafting caps and leveling speed is fine. You're playing the most braindead noob-friendly playstyle and STILL using exploits? Fucking faggots like you are so embarassingly common, "durr you fuckin NEED exploits on muh legendary!", like no you don't faggot, try not leveling like a retard.>then you need to spam iron daggerswhy are you recommending a shitty way to level smithing that hasn't been relevant since the first few months the game came out? Iron daggers aren't even the best iron thing to make for leveling. >then you need to buy training for archery, sneak and light armor.Why the fuck would you buy training for sneak and archery, especially on legendary? Training should be used for things that take a long time to level, or something you want maxed out ASAP that doesn't level stupidly quickly (like sneak and archery). Also why the fuck would you buy sneak training when you are already using exploits? Just use calm + sneak punch attacks on a mudcrab and you will be sneak 100 two seconds later.>>727776810>I will never understand the autists who feel compelled to play Skyrim on Legendary.Because people who aren't shitters die of boredom if the enemies chance of killing you is fucking zero>It's just a lazy damage and health multiplier, it doesn't add any new depth or strategy to the game and Skyrim is shallow slop to begin with. The added depth and strategy is that your early game build and choices matter until the late game, and if you build your character like a retard you will end up crying about the numbers being too high -- you know, faggots like you who expose themselves as being too stupid to wrap their heads around the incredibly basic RPG elements of Skyrim, and so instead you come here and ironically cry that it's the games fault.
>>727779794>>727776810Ran out of characters>You're not hardcore, lil broDo you cope with everything you're bad at like this? I bet you do. You're right that it isn't hardcore though, in fact it's easy as shit compared to actual challenging games, but clearly it's HARDCORE for you, "lil" fag.>>727774342I have played pure mage on legendary and alchemy is more than enough to do legendary viable destruction damage. Alchemy also takes two seconds to max out, and makes you rich in the process, so idk why you would use exploits as a mage of all things when you can basically skip into the late game as a mage via the gold and insanely fast leveling (except for destruction, which gets a huge xp penalty on legendary/master)
>>727779794>retard you will end up crying about the numbers being too high -- you know, faggots like you who expose themselves as being too stupid to wrap their heads around the incredibly basic RPG elements of Skyrim, and so instead you come here and ironically cry that it's the games fault.Righteous and based. I hate these dumbasses who are too stupid to play Skyrim, but cry about dumbing down. Seems more like it wasn't dumbed down enough for some of these posters.
>>727779794>your early game build and choices matter until the late game, and if you build your character like a retard you will end up crying about the numbers being too highLol, lmao. If you want a game that requires that of you then you shouldn't be playing Skyrim. There are games that were actually designed to be strategic and difficult RPGs and you should be playing those games instead. But no, you're playing mass-marketed slop and you're frankensteining some sort of lazy illusion of difficulty into it. Literal subhuman behavior.>>727780658Sorry I play actually difficult games, RPGs or otherwise. Meanwhilr you're playing Skyrim. Enough said.
>>727781834>dumbasses who are too stupid to play Skyrim, but cry about dumbing down.You have zero self-awareness it's crazy. Dunning-Kruger effect at its finest.
>>727768151>this immediately makes the game betterI wish skyrim did this in the vanilla version
>>727768151sounds like a typical jew or mudslime
>>727769927you know you can grind levels better than enemies right? a level 20+ built right can devastate a 25+ draugr deathlord
>>727770158the most boring play style
>>727768151Inyourface armored archer that's also an orc for free daiky damage bonus
>>727768151Skyrim never clicked for me.I love Morrowind, thought Daggerfall was pretty alright and could at least kinda get into Oblivion by playing a dumb redguard pirate and just goofing around, but even though I think that Skyrim has great presentation I just can't get into it.
>>727783945Good for you anon! I like skyrim though.
>>727782532There are mods for that luckily.
i dont know why everyone loves stealth builds so much. its fucking boring
>>727785047I'd never done rangeless stealth before, this should be fun.
>>727785047I like taking out a few foes from stealth and then going loud
>>727774342>Magic doesn't scaleNothing survives a dual casted chain lightning
>>727785047Stealth archery lets you avoid pool noodling bullet sponges to death.
>>727768151>when unc replays his 2010 uncslop for the 409th time and makes a blogpost about it
>>727785163Stealth daggerer is the better and more fun build
>>727785338The problem with destruction magic is it is completely unviable on the harder difficulties without going out your way to break the game, you can yolo your way through with melee/archer builds to a certain extent but early game magicka management options are so few you are completely railroaded in how you play.
Threadly reminder:The only skills that matter are enchanting and smithing. Congrats, you can now play any class you want on a whim.
>>727786708Skill issue. Use summons or crowd control
>>727768151About to have sex with my wife in Skyrim
>>727775375Fallout 4 melee power armor would like a word.
>thinly veiled marie
>>727787158Based. Pinch her buttcheeks for me.
>>727786926Alchemy mogs both
>>727787158Everybody does
>>727786708> Making destruction potions is breaking the game.If you think that is breaking the game wait until you get a load of Morrowind. You can create an Int potion so strong your XBox will become sentient.
After Claude beats Pokémon, can we get him started on Skyrim?
>Arcane University professor who was working in the field in northeastern Cyrodiil when he received word that he was falsely accused of having stolen an Elder Scroll, fled to Skyrim with a band of Stormcloak raiders through a smuggling passage for safety and also to find the mage responsible, before being apprehended at Darkwater Crossing by Imperial forces>Primarily uses one-handed swords, alteration, and Illusion, and in general tries to avoid combat with aforementioned as well as Speech
