While I LOVE my Warrior, I was thinking of creating an Assasin character. I know that there really is no absurdly wrong way to approach this game, but when playing as an assasin, I'm not sure how dragon slaying fits into the skill set of this type of character, unless they use magic or archery to complement their preferred one hand dagger usage.

How has your experience been as an Assassin?

I would say many people think of archery as being a prime assassin skill, though there is at least one character in-game who disagrees. Without ranged damage of any kind, dragons present a serious problem, especially if you are not focussed on defense. This will test your dedication to RP.

Dagger becomes extremely powerful, with those sneak attacks. Some gloves increase it to 30x damage.
With this sort of power, if you can sneak up to the dragon...it's not much of a problem any more. However, up until this point, it's good to have a backup skill. I suggest illusion or conjuration, since archery can be used by itself to such great effect that you don't even need daggers, eventually. Or you could just use archery, your call

Haven't seen any dragons outside of tutorial. He'll be fine without archery.

Bow & Dagger. Assassin is a master killer who do not hesitate to use any means necessary to kill his mark. KILL or be killed, all is fair in love and war.

If you play on anything short of Master, there is absolutely no reason to use daggers, aside from roleplaying. A sneakt archer can kill 5x as many ppl before they are found out, 10x as easy and from a long distance, and ows will 1-shot most enemies anyway, often without even needing the 3x sneak modifier... Melee weapons are only useful for straight combat, and saggers svck hard at that, so get dual swords (which soon enough will be obsolete due to your bow anyway)

Don't use magic... magic is useless for an assasin, it's way too flashy and way too weak to be of any use. The only thing you could realistically use is Illusion, but even that will be obsolete once your sneak and archery skills are high enough...

Awesome info! Thanks everyone!

Take my advice, if you are going for an Assassin you should still consider joining the Thieves guild, it has a lot of good armor and weapons that are useful for an assassin character.

Yeah I'm with the rest of these people. I made a character who's an Assassin type and it's ridiculous, maxed out sneak means I'm never noticed unless I want to be, and I could one hit most enemies BEFORE I got the 30x sneak attack gloves (and no you don't HAVE to join the Dark Brotherhood to get them, there's an alternate storyline of sorts to the Dark Brotherhood where you can get them).

EDIT: You don't have to join the Dark Brotherhood but I DO highly suggest joining the Thieves Guild. They aren't really bad people (heck you're an assassin, do you even CARE?) and you get easily the best light armor from them.

Thanks again for the helpful tips everyone. As an assassin, there really is not a need to follow the main quest line or obtain shouts. This seems like another game in and of itself.

I had a similar conundrum with my thief/assassin guy. He really couldn't care less about dragons attacking and certainly wasn't about to join the stormcloaks or the imperials. I had to decide that I wouldn't miss all the shouts and dragon loot I was going to miss. Eventually I decided that fus ro dah was too much fun to pass up, but that I would stop MQ there. Justify it from an RP perspective by saying my guy would at least be curious about his newfound power, but would eventually tire of running errands for old farts on a hill. Going fwd from there, if I see a dragon, maybe I take it down with archery, but then again maybe I just hide in the shadows and loot the corpses it leaves. Ah, the beauty of RPing a free-spirit killer! haha

One side note/suggestion: turn off the thief stone once sneak gets in the 40-50 range. You spend so much time skulking around campsites and ruins that sneak seems to level up much too quickly compared to your other skills.

Sorry, but I have to ask, why did you buy the game then - if you're going to disregard some of the most important parts.

Just going around killing NPCS?


Also, light armor, enchanting - but not power leveled - eventually your enchants will be better than the ones from the Thief's Guild. Sneaking is a MUST.

your avatar is perfect for giving that speech and that speech reveals the true nature of assassins expertly

as an argonian assassin i would attest to using the elements to your advantage, take to the water when you're caught, ride the currents of a waterfall when you need to escape, scale a mountain when you need to avoid someone, and always do your work by the light of the moon

join the DB to get the gloves, boots, and hood
gloves- double backstab damage
hood- extra damage with bows
boots- muffles footsteps

then use the thieves guild body armor.

Picking up alchemy will let you kill dragons even. Daggers aren't much, but when you start whipping 50 or more poison damage a shot onto them they add up quick,

OP, just so you know, you can take your existing warrior and be an assassin.

Just join the Dark Brotherhood and start doing what assassins do: killing for money.

You do not need any particular "class" build to be an assassin.

I loved playing as warrior too, in the beginning. Now I created an assassin and it's even more exciting! There's more strategy to it than just bashing someone in the face.

As for dragons, currently I haven't even touched the main quest yet (head straight to Riften after getting some supplies from Riverwood -- currently level 18). But when I would have to face dragons, it'd probably be mostly bows and arrows with enchantments and some use of poison (focusing on alchemy to brew strong poisons is also profitable). If you use magic and you're playing a pure assassin, your magic wouldn't be enough to kill the dragon fast enough, unless you wanna go hybrid.

Basically, this class takes a little time and patience to progress because in the beginning, you can be quite weak. But later it gets much easier with high sneak skills.

Ignore the daggers(as someone stated only use for RP'n), and spells for an assassin. I would deffently go bow, and duel swords for melee. I say swords because they are faster, then axes, and maces. I would do some alchemy training too, for those invisibility potions.