WTF are you talking about?

I've got a Khajiit that dual weilds daggers or swords, is stealthy and can backstab, specializes in Restoration and Destruction, and is capable of wearing any armor in the game...or none. She also pretty good at lockpicking, persuasion, and hand to hand combat.

What class am I?

Resetting skills AND perks can already be done by pressing the "New" button at the main menu. Allowing you to do it on an existing character is pointless.

Resetting and redistributing perks is a destructive exploit waiting to happen. Even if you only allow it once, players will still use it to bulk up their smithing and enchanting, give their Legendary Dragon armor and Daedric weapons massive double enchantments, and then hit the reset button and put all those perks into their armor and weapons skills.

And then they come to the boards complaining the game is now too easy and boring. Even more so than before.

I hope you catch my drift.

Thank you. Way handier than IGN's!

Someone explained it best for me. You cannot distribute skill points into a perk unless you level it in the first place. I cannot pour all my skill points from one perk to another without having to use the said perk repeatedly to be able to use the points. Having this option at a low level would be pointless as someone pointed out. It's far easy leveling up at those levels compared to mid 30s & above.

I don't see how this can be an exploit as mentioned in other posts. Unless I was able to take my 100 skill in sneak and put that 100 into something else I do not see the problem. All these people suggesting to start over must not have a life. no offense. I cannot see people WANTING to start over to go through countless quests & leveling up again just to put skill points into a different perk.

I have over 200+ hours on my one and only character at this point. I've made some unwise choices on perks, but I don't think there should be any resets. That's part of learning and character building. Most people wanting them sound like they're only ever going to play with one character and then what? As for "New" sure that's one option and for the person who said they didn't like that because of trying to remember all the settings in the character creation menu; well the solution is easy "Save your original game at start."

We've only had the game for a month now. The way I see it, most of the bug fixes are going to result in bad saves anyway resulting in backtracking to a place before the fix or if its too far back in the game I'm going to have to restart anyway. So rather than complain about it I've decided to explore all I can now and see if my character is developing the way I want. When I restart I'll fine tune it then. I intend to be playing Skyrim for a long time so there's no hurry. Oh except for I want the Creation Kit yesterday

No perks are useless.

Cheers

200k would be perfect. 5k would be way too easy.

same here. Levelling up has become such a torrid decision my wife wonders why the hell it takes me so long to hit one button. As she calls it. She has no idea of how complex hitting that so called button is and the consequences of making the wrong choice.

Indeed. I've made 5 of the same character due to not liking one extremely minor thing. And the 5th remake was remade 4 times to get the looks just right

If someone were to implement this as a fix/mod, the obvious fix for the crafting exploits is to just make it so crafted or enhanced items that were made possible by certain perks, would always require those perks be present. Drop the perk, the weapon stops being usable.

That said, I think its fine as it is. Even if you decide to re-roll, its not as if you're forced to repeat everything you've done before. The beauty of a non-linear game is you can (for the most part) ignore the content you've already done and focus on the content you haven't.

Did not read any of this post just because you slapped ***Read***** on it. This isn't craigslist.

Not at all, to be perfectly honest.



Starting a new game is NOT the same as reassigning perks. Not by a long shot.

As for working within the game. Let's start by the magic of it all. The fact that our "perks" are essentially the activation of a star. A star being a hole in the fabric and the light shining through is pure magic. A constellation being a grouping of these holes whose shining magic sums up and governs the strength of the skill associated with it.

I won't say anything regarding time travel as not to spoil it for anyone.


It's simple. You find a cave entrance. This ultimately takes you into a ruin that has all sorts of mobs (spider, undead, skeevers, etc.) and various traps. It also has some puzzles to overcome. By the end of it all you come to a big open room. In the center is a pedestal with a book on it. The room has a dome ceiling to it and etched into the stone going around in a circle are the constellations. Where the perks (stars) are, within the constellation, are glowing gems. The floor of the room is all water but very shallow. Flat calm and reflects the lights shining above.

The book you read and it allows you to basically rebuild your perks one time and one time only. Once done, you are simply left with the book which would have a unique cover and would describe the constellations, what they are, how they work, how they came to be, etc... Making a good book for those who like to collect them for their home shelves.

It would be awesome! Or change what your character looks like with a potion. Or a six change potion.

While I think choices such as which perk to take should matter and shouldn't be reset, I do feel that with some of the bugs and vague or even non existent perk summaries, there are good reasons to have such a feature. Wrong choices can be made when you didnt even mean to take them. For instance, I had a build that RPed around the Ebony Blade. Its Two Handed, so I started taking Two Handed perks. Then it was discovered that its bugged and is considered a one hander in the game. Things like this can cause much confusion and irritation.

Have a quest where you have to beat a Giant Camp...with your bare fists and no armor.

So, because a few people can abuse the two most aberrant skills in the game, everyone has to suffer with stupid choices like two-handed warriors being able to dual-cast destruction spells, Lightly-armored skirmishers having Heavy Armor perks due to thinking the armor type was once viable for their playstyle (Or vice versa), a thief learns Lockpicking is completely [censored], and could use more perks in Pickpocket... and numerous other common mistakes that unfairly gimp character development?

Furthermore, only the "Double-effect" perk actually does anything that abusing Alchemy and Enchanting can't already do even without perks. The smithing perks really just aid in acquiring items - a goal equally achievable by just looting. Any item can be upgraded to stupidly Legendary quality with a strong enough Blacksmithing potion, which can be brewed by using a strong enough Fortify Alchemy enchantment, which can be imbued by drinking a strong enough Fortify Enchanting potion, which can be brewed with the help of a strong enough Fortify Alchemy enchantment, back and forth ad infinitum.

Also... the ability to re-choose a perk should be "simple" to access, but complete perk-reset should be impossible or pointless.

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1078

just use this mod if you play on the pc
problem solved

always nice to switch skills around and try magic or pure 2hander etc etc

That hurts my feelings so much. In all honesty, I could care less. This post was meaningless, but I guess we'll have people like you posting on a topic knowing they won't have any input towards the topic at hand.

Anywho, even if this wasn't implemented it won't stop me from playing the game. I still think it should be considered in some sort of fashion. It doesn't harm anyone & as others have mentioned they have a choice whether to do it or not. I've read some pretty interesting ways to implement it too. Hopefully they take a look and read some of these ideas.

then by that logic every quest you/'ve ever done would never have been completed.............so essentially your just starting a new game anyways. <_<

as for respecs.........no way. they are a stupid idea and most people in here including me got greedy and got the wrong perks and did a redo later on. my first character i got lockpicking perks because i assumed that it was like fallout and that you coudlnt pick locks unless you were skilled enough alas that was not so. people just need to live with their choices.

Quoted for truth.

Though to be fair, I'm not against options. If you REALLY need this, that's what mods are for. And if you bought it for a console, well...better luck next ES!

True but It is a single player game so it's not going to effect anybody else's game if we would do that. But I understand what you mean. It's like I'm on xbox and even if they put the console commands out for the Xbox I wouldn't get it because I don't like to cheat.

Real life's too short to have to put up with bad choices made in escapist fantasy.

You can already travel back in time on consoles. You can travel all the way back to Helgan.. You can even make your character a different race.

Actually, in Skyrim, it's not even as hard as changing the flow of time: All you "really" need to do is change which stars guide you - Which is why I think a once-a-level Standing Stone ability to reset a perk point would be great, being balanced in terms of both gameplay AND from an in-story standpoint: The standing stones have a connection to the heavens. Through attunement with a special stone, you can adjust how the heavens guide your path as Dragonborn.

"Save early. Save often."

And don't be afraid to lose a week's worth of gameplay because you messed up a skill or two.