Im going to keep this short. I like the idea of perks, and they are nice and all, but because you cannot reassign them in any way, it promotes people to save them for later in the game, when they are meant to be used as you level up. It makes things rather difficult, and less fun because you want to use them and enjoy them. A lot of people are like me and want to have the perfect build for their character, and if you misplace a few points it can really ruin the whole thing (hence waiting to spend).

Is there really no way to reassign the points??

If there was, you'd be able to switch them at will, so you could be OSSUM at everything, which would defeat the point.

Well you can't reassign them once used (atleast not for consoles). But if you want to make a "perfect" character.
You should plan it on what skills you will mainly use on that character and put the Perk Points in those.

I'm glad there's no option to reassign points. That would completely destroy what is already a very lacking character development system.

And it's not like they don't give you enough perk points...

The only reason to save a perk is if you level up a few skill points below a perk you want to take. So you can save that perk, level your skill, and then put the perk where you want.

Other than that, because of the perk tree layout, there's no reason at all to save your perks.

If you play on PC you can use a console command otherwise there's no way.

I agree. I used mine kinda widespread at first. Luckily I read a review that said to concentrate on the type of character you want. So I focused after that. There should be a way to fix that situation because I think you really won't know it until you are 30 levels in.

First I am of the belief that there is no "perfect" build.

Now, even if you were to reallocate perk points, you would first have to raise a skill to the appropriate level to be able to spend the point. Now, what you are suggesting is that you level all your skills to 100 and then choose how to spend your points. So even if there was a way to reallocate the points, you would have to level a set of skills, use the perks in those skills, then reset the perks and start leveling an entirely different set of skills, thus making you incredibly under powered. Your enemies would be at your level but you would be using skills that were at base level. So, why would you wanna do that? So you can get all your skills to 100? You can do that as is.

Im not saying you should be able to reassign them at will. Maybe if there was a quest to do it once, or if it were really expensive to do so.

I am on PC anyone know what the console commands are?

@above, im not sure I follow. I just want a few points out of one handed weapons to put into illusion. I use both, but as it is im going to short myself and not be able to get all the perks in the illusion tree that i'd like.

It's about choices, either you can save at each lvl up and try perks out and change by reloading, or you can accept your goofups and try not to make them in your next run. Seriously though, reassigning perks sounds like easy mode to me.

If you could do it once, everyone would level alchemy, enchantment and smithing to 100, craft their god-level equipment and then re-perk to something else.

I haven't really felt the need to save points (in 53 levels, I think I've delayed using one point, just long enough to get another skill point or two when I was close to a perk I wanted). But, then, I'm not trying to build a "perfect" build.


I'd think that anyone pursuing an ideal build would plan out their picks ahead of time - I know I did alot of planning on paper when I was doing "controlled leveling" on my Oblivion characters. And I know from other forums that in many other games people using planning tools to figure out their "build" before they even make their characters. (Especially in games that really require maximized abilities.)

Hmm guess so.
http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Console_Perk_Codes_%28Skyrim%29#Warnings

EDIT: Alright cool looks like you're one of the few people here who can use google to find the answers.

/sigh... the requests of the new age gamer... they don't make em like they used to...

What happened to the days where games were actually hard? What are these times where a gamer dares request resetting of perks? Isn't infinite respawning enough? Isnt auto regen enough?(DAMN i hate autoregen...) Isn't having dots on a compass to tell you exactly where enemies are enough? Isn't having a quest marker to tell you where you need to go next enough? I dont even LIKE console commands on my skyrim PC... and consolers are crying to have it automatically put in their game... I hate knowing i basically have a game genie built into my game that i can use whenever i see fit... I don't use it, but then I have the discipline of Bruce Lee, now I imagine how it would be for people with less discipline >.<

Man, it would really just KILL the game if they had some sort of perk resetting thing of some sort. Alas, time flows like a river, and I guess I need to accept the new age gaming ideas, no matter how much it betrays our original gaming ideals. I won't deny the idea, but i just wont use it XD

/endrant, /endwhine... whatever this seems like (my apologies)... i guess its just the weather ;;