Playing a bad bastard-anything goes vampire lord thief/assasin.
He's a nord, and obviously a vampire lord who uses, on right hand, dagger or sword, left hand, conjuration magic. With the frost resistance bonus of nords + frost resistance from vampires, you can laugh from frost spells and frost attacks from dragons.
His main Offensive skills are:
- 1 handed: for dagger and sword damage. I only invest on the first perk.
- Conjuration magic: To call my atronach and dremora buddies to fight alongside me when sneaking fails. I feel lika a mafia boss. I go in the summon branch, and the magic cost branch. I ignore the middle branches of the conjuration tree.
Primary skills:
- Enchanting: Being a vampire, one must think how to lower that weakness to fire, enchanting will do the job.
- Sneak: as a thief/assasin, this is a must. I only get to assasin blade and muffled movement. The other perks are too OP for my taste.
- PickPocket: Being a thief without pickpocket just feels wrong. In this I don't go for the full tree either. just get the poison and extra pockets perk and you're good to go.
- Light Armor: Because we don't have shields, it's good to invest on this, but I don't go the full tree, only up to perk that give you a bonus for an specific set of armor.
Secondary skills:
- Smithing: I level it up to 60 so I can get the improve enchanted armors perk. After that, If I can get the perk points, I'll try to get to daedra smithing just to get that cool daedra swords and daggers.
I'm considering to level up restauration after I'm set with the others (at 50s I'll be set with all my selected skills) to get the necromage perk, but as far I played as a vampire just fine without it.