I've finally decided to make one more character that I can just do whatever with on Skryim, so I picked your basic sword-shield light armored warrior. My question is, when I have 100 in One-Handed, Light Armor, Enchanting, Smithing, and Block, will block even be useful at all? This is on Master difficulty btw. I'm not asking about getting maxed or anything, but when I am maxed, will I find block to be completely useless?

Cause if so, I need to pick a different character build. When it comes to that, I don't know what to do. I enjoy melee, dislike sneak/range, and have done too many mages to do another. So suggestions anybody?

Block is still a form a control. It's useful for that. As far as strict defense numbers with all of the other stuff you train in, no it's not that useful.

A form of control? What do you mean?

And does anyone know of a youtube vid where someone is using a maxed sword-shield character on master? Using enchanting and smithing of course.

Crowd control.. umm.. I don't know, it's RPG lingo. Just anything that controls the pace of fights. Stuns, slows, paralyze, etc.. With Block, the control element is mostly staggers and knockbacks.

He probably means that if you can regenerate stamina at a decent rate, you can continuously stagger just about anything with power bash to keep them from attacking.

edit: a little late

Ah okay, that's what I thought you were referring to.

Imo, yes. I have a predominately archer/one handed assassin, but when it came down to filling in those last 5 perk slots, I went with block. It's hilarious shield charging through groups of enemies and sending them flying everywhere, especially off a wall or bridge and killing them with gravitational impact.

I have a One Handed / Shield Block / Light Armor Character without Enchanting or Smithing on Master. For me shield blocking and bashing is essential to survive, without it I'm pretty much fu%&%$. But with it, it's a lot of fun. still not too easy because you have to watch your Position and Stamina and fights against multiple strong enemies are very tactical

Right, I know that it's valuable without crafting, but with crafting I'm not sure if I should keep this build or change to something else. If I were to change I'm not sure what I'd change to.

You don't need to actually max it. View this thread.

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1342463-complete-character-design-freedom-damage-resist-caps-and-ridiculous-damage-thread-10

I've read it. I swear, the next person who links me there...

Anyway, with 100 Block you have access to Shield Charge, and I generally max every skill out that I use for a specific build. Enchanting, Smithing, Light Armor, Block, One-Handed would be my current build if I maxed.

You'll be fine. The game blows once all of that will be maxed. The important thing is the journey. Heh. Since you have light armor, block is even more welcomed.

Block seems to be more useful early on than late game. Later on in game, there is no need to blcok really. Although if you've invested perks in to it, you might have some fun with shield bash and so on.

Well, in this case, the journey is simply a means to an end because I want to have a final maxed out build that I'll use to wander/quest/achievement hunt. In that case, I suppose I'll start another build up. Thinking Two-Handed build cause I've never done that and gotten far, but not sure. :\