interesting builds

Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:20 am

What style do you play? and why?

I play a 1h battlemage and an assassin! Not exciting i know but share your idea :)

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Petr Jordy Zugar
 
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 3:46 am

Well I roleplay all of my characters so am going somewhat slow, but the one I most enjoy is my stealth archer-summoner. It is very fun to sneak around slowly, surveying the situation, then sniping with a bow and summoning minions if things get too dicey. She is a breton (for the inborn resists) but a loyalist fighting to preserve and strengthen the empire. Though she has no anomosity towards Nords, as a rule she assassinates any Stormcloak she finds in the wilderness. The combination of stealth, archery and conjuration is pretty powerful and fun allowing for alot of creativity.
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Pumpkin
 
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 5:14 pm

I kind of model mine after a Red Mage from Final Fantasy, if any one is familiar. A jack of all trades, master of none (though, I will eventually become master of a few hehe.) Lots of magic, which accounts for about 60-70% of my damage. 1h and shield, with light armor.
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Isaiah Burdeau
 
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 3:42 pm

I have a hybrid class that uses Destruction Magic, Archery, Stealth. The main focus are these perks, but I have some points in Lockpicking, Stealth, Alchemy and Enchanting for added support. Don't worry about my perk choices though; being on a PC I can easily switch the perks trough console commands once I get tired of them, need new ones or simply want a different play-style :)
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Haley Cooper
 
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:21 am

I'm almost the same as you everquester

Arcane archer.

Archery Sneak Conjuration Restoration Alteration Illusion

Mage robes, bow, mage armour, I conjure my dude to tank, illusion for quiet casting for when I sneak about. Thinking of trying frost runes as traps!! Daggers for up close.

Really enjoying this build at the mo.
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Joey Bel
 
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:42 pm

I'm currently doing a Dark Elf stealth mage. He focusses on Illusion, Sneak and Conjuration; basically he uses Fury to make enemies kill one another, then calms them if they spot him. He then uses a bound bow for long range sneak kills, and if things go wrong he summons a Frost Atronach or sends in a reanimated bear to cover him while he makes a run for it.

He's great fun, especially since I play him like an evil troll. You know how there's usually about 8 people out in front of Markarth's city gate? Yeah, they all killed one another. Oops.
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Sophie Payne
 
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:42 pm

I play an Archer Healer and One handed. It's pretty efficient :)
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Robert Bindley
 
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 11:51 pm

I have 3 characters;

1 wood elf thief/assassin with archery, stealh, 1h, light armor and alchemy for poisons only. just lvl 8, so not that far on him. But the idea is no magic, just archery, poisons, stealth and daggers.
2 breton pure mage. also low in the lvls, but I have a plan for him. gonna go deep in the illusion tree, for a Mesmer-mindtricking-type (if you have played Guild Wars, you know what I mean) with frost-spells in the destruction tree, and maybe a little conjuration (2x frost attronarchs = win?)
3 orc Death Knight. heavy armor, 2h, conjuration for raising zombies, and destruction frost magic, as the earth shiver cold while I move. Pretty cool, and fun character! Lvl 11.
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Lalla Vu
 
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 12:13 am

I started with the idea of using Archery and Alchemy primarily, with magic as a secondary, but got fed up with it pretty quickly. I haven't used anything other than magic (apart from the occasional sneak dagger attack for a bit of fun) for a very long time now. At level 43 I've put all but 8 levelling points into Magika. Wearing Mage robes plus Morokei and a few bits of enchanted stuff to improve magika and magika regen, I have basically no protection and the kinds of enemies I run into these days can kill me with a single hit, which can be irritating at times but adds a bit of edge to the game.

I've been getting into Conjuration lately and it's great fun; I just wish I could find some conjuration spells, I'm getting a bit tired of that same old fire atronach.
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Laura
 
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 12:02 am

I have begun a fake knight/coward

He uses One handed weapons, and light armor, sneak, speech, illusion. Any dragons he see's, he immediately runs away. When the Jarl asked me to kill a dragon, I left town and did not go back. I avoid all fights, always use the cart to travel. Of course I complete missions but the coward aspects of it have made it very fun and challenging.
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Everardo Montano
 
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:22 pm

Currently roleplaying my favorite build from Oblivion, a Wood Elf who specializes in Archery, Alchemy, Illusion, Sneak and Light Armor. I have two daggers in case things get a bit hairy but that doesn't happen all that often so I haven't invested much perks in One-handed. Also I use Pickpocket and Lockpick quite often but they don't require any perks to be used. I'm starting to get a bit bored so I might start checking out some mods and re-roll a mage or warrior.
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Danielle Brown
 
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 11:36 pm

Light armor shield warrior, shield on the left, conjuration spell on the right.

Very interesting build as my summoned minions are practically my atacks, frost atronach being my 2h sword (they do good stagger), and the flame atronach being my bow.

All the while I focus on defense (focus mainly on block/light armor) so when they get past my minions they still have a shell to break before I summon another one. Ofcourse, I also use summoned 1h weapons. I like it very much so far.
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quinnnn
 
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:20 pm

My Khajiit is pretty interesting, for me at least, he's sort of a mace weilding undead slaying healer. Focused in Light Armour/One Handed/Restoration/Alchemy and then Smithing up to Glass Armour and Enchanting for Restoration/Alchemy/One Handed buffs.
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Naughty not Nice
 
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:32 pm

Healer/alchemist. Most perks in restoration, only non poison alchemy perks, speechcraft (persuasion and allure, definitely not intimidate), Altmer so fancy sword moves and criticals but no extra damage perks above the first essential one; you gotta have a weapon and know how to use it to survive, doesn't mean a High Elf can be strong as a Nord.
All equipment Elven and smithing perks only for Elven and arcane. Only faction joined is the College of Winterhold. Robes of restoration an absolute must.
I find the alchemy and healing spells mean the ability to survive against most things, but for some reason bandit chiefs with weapon perks can mean I die in two hits, that's the price for taking loads of magicka over health though. Only other perks are a few in destruction and enchanting.
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Johnny
 
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:04 pm

My current character is a Breton with bardish abilities specializing in Conjuration, Illusion, Archery, One-handed, Alchemy and Sneak.
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