I'm going to go ahead and say, Assassin is the superior playstyle. I use two daggers (One of which has a small chance to instantly kill I have one shot a Dragon) And I do 30x Sneak Crit Damage. On top of that I use the shout Elemental Fury and it makes one of my daggers attack super fast. (I have come to a conclusion it does not work on enchanted items or at-least not rank 2.) I have 100 sneak and 80 1 hand so I do massive damage and kill everything with one sneak attack and I am so hidden I accidentally walk by enemies without noticing. Pretty sure that's better than a Warrior .

Yes I agree. It's easy mode and takes no skill.

Just kidding.

Thank you for your constructive comment.

Whats your level? I cant do this yet

yeah, assassin gameplay is pretty crazy

at first i used a bow to do most of my damage until i got the 15x dagger damage perk in the sneak tree. Really fun going around and taking out an entire fort full of bandits with just your dagger.

i have a question for you though OP, and any others who may know the answer, is there a difference in dual wielding daggers using this playstyle? I feel that the 2nd dagger is quite useless as i almost always kill anything in one shot with the first dagger.

anyways, i'm level 30 and finally got sneak up to 100 and my archery up to 79, one handed is only at 40 i think...

Also, another question, for this type of playstyle, is it even worth it to invest into the one hand tree? seems to me that it benefits maces/swords/and axes

I've exclusively invested in archery and sneak only, i have 3 extra perks sitting around waiting for my archery stuff

Oh, another question, what are you investing in? Magicka, Health, or Stamina. From level 1 to level 30, i've pumped every still level into Health, and i don't have any problems. Daggers don't take any stamina per swing, as i have noticed. and the only skill that takes stamina is the archery zoom, but that's kind of icing on the cake... not really necessary, in my opinion.

p.s. after archery and sneak, what perk tree should this playstyle benefit the most from, i was thinking alchemy. Still unsure. I figure in any viable playstyle you need a way to regenerate health *to stay alive* and if you're not going into restoration, alchemy is kind of the only other tree to provide healing (in my opinion)

The nice thing about SkyRim (Oblivion) is that you don't have to choose a pure class, like Warrior or Mage. While sneaking all over and backstabbing every enemy is effective it isn't a very deep strategy. I might die a lot but I have fun trying different things. In Oblivion I had a Theif/Archer/Alchemist. I could sneak attack with poison from a distance and even the largest targets were dead before they could reach me. Its too easy, though.

I have a my one handed skill almost fully upgraded, i use a Battle axe.

together with my fully upgraded block skill, and my almost fully upgraded armor skill. Loads of stamina, im pretty much a Tank!!

Good luck dodging my disarm bash, and the following highpower swing with my Battleaxe with 50% decapitation chance.. i think i will 1 hit your Assassin.

max level sneak is silly since you can walk in front of enemies and they won't notice. I think they should change that imo because it breaks immersion and the 'intensity' of sneaking in the first place. There's no risk

But the thing is, you couldn't hit my assassin. I would be sneaking and out of no where you would just see your character getting his throat slit.

Yeah, i find it kind of easy in the game so far...

I've been playing on Master difficulty since the beginning and besides the fact that some monsters still one shot me, taking them out, while in what seems like indefinite sneak mode, with a bow and some distance is pretty easy.

If i was an NPC you would be right.. but im not..lol



Now that i think of, wouldn't it be cool to have a MP DLC in the futhure were you can fight eachother characters? In some kind of arena

The heck are you trying to communicate by saying "SkyRim (Oblivion" ? :s cryptic and random

I dual wield daggers because the one hand tree is well worth it. I have the perk "Armsman" Maxed (5/5) "One-Handed weapons do twice as much damage" Then I have "Dual Flurry" Maxed (2/2) "Dual wielding attacks are 35% faster." (For those situations when I have a stupid companion with me that decides to attack stuff then it messes me up completely and I cant sneak well.) I also have "Dual Savagery" "Dual wielding power attacks do 50% bonus damage." That answers question 1 and 2.

Now for The magicka health or stamina at first I went stamina, But a bit later (Got it to 180) I noticed it was pointless really. So I've been going health with a few points in magicka to just make sure when needed I can use heal.

I put a few points in in restoration (only 2) to get "Novice Restoration" "Cast Novice level Restoration spells for half magicka." and "Restoration Dual Casting" Dual casting a restoration spell overcharges the effects into an even more powerful version." To keep myself fully healed at all times.

Did I miss anything? I don't think so lol.

no it's not
he just means skyrim/oblivion
as in both games share this characteristic
just weirdly worded that's all

In oblivion, playing as a dagger wielding assassin in Oblivion was nearly impossible. In Skyrim, at least it's possible! I have fun times assassinating enemies, but when I get seen I must hide again. That is what I'd change. It's way too easy to hide after being seen.

You're welcome. Select the text of my post to see the sense in which it was intended. Not sure what other type of response to the OP was really expected.

Spoiler tags?

My bad didn't notice that would really be a spoiler since I say no way of obtaining it or what not. Fixed.

Hmm, yes, that might be a isssue.. Guess i need to shout for my dragon companion then.. lol

keep quoting the spoiler, guys

Guess we'll never know unless they do release an arena of some sort. ;P lol (Not likely i'd say.)

Here is a major spoiler on how Sins are OP. Not about the story or anything but a combo of skills you can create that will pretty much ownz anything.

Can you sneak up on people and actually do a "Finishing move" straight away? Aka a one hit kill.

After a few level's and itens, if you get on someone's back it's pretty much a OHK - even on bosses.