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Post » Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:41 pm

I have not explored all the racial traits but early on with my mage the highborn ability was very useful, great for dragon battles and such.With my stealth archer i chose a khajiit, i have to say i have only used night eye once to see what it was like it is pretty pointless.Would it not make more sense to have this ability last all night rather than 60 seconds hell hes a cat.Which is the best racial ability for a warrior to have
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Shelby McDonald
 
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Post » Tue Jun 05, 2012 6:02 pm

For warriors, I've found that either Bretons or Orcs are the best racial-wise. The Bretons' passive magic resistance is extremely useful, but the Orcs' extremely-powerful active racial can help a lot on bosses you'd might not be able to kill otherwise.

WIth that said, your grammar is a bit appalling. You likely don't care, but still...
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Post » Wed Jun 06, 2012 3:47 am

I agree, the khajiits' racial traits seem weaker than other races'. They also have the claws ability making them inflict more damage with unarmed attacks. That ability is IMO only useful in a few situations, such as in fist fights.
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Post » Tue Jun 05, 2012 3:39 pm

And I take it the bosmer trait is very useful? :) Give me 300 seconds or something, so that the effect can actually be used by the time I get back there, lol. It's not a big deal though.
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Post » Tue Jun 05, 2012 2:15 pm

I agree, the khajiits' racial traits seem weaker than other races'. They also have the claws ability making them inflict more damage with unarmed attacks. That ability is IMO only useful in a few situations, such as in fist fights.
Night eye is only useless because the nights are so bright.

With a realistic lighting mod installed (PC only ;p), nights and caves are potentially pitch black in the darkest recesses and using a torch or magelight isn't a luxury but a nessecity. In those situations being a khajiit is amazingly useful since you have full clarity of vision without drawing attention to yourself.
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Post » Tue Jun 05, 2012 12:50 pm

Good racials - good all game and genuinely useful
Breton
Orc

Average racials - only good at the start or meh bonuses
Argonian
Altmer
Dunmer
Nord

Bad racials
Bosmer
Khajiit

Crap tier racials - Might aswel not have any racials at all
Redguard
Imperial
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Post » Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:45 pm

Adrenaline Rush is really nice, albeit only for warriors. I'd at least move it out of the crap tier.

Voice of the Emperor isn't terrible wither. I'd say Khajiit is the worst of them.
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Post » Wed Jun 06, 2012 4:32 am

Adrenaline Rush is really nice, albeit only for warriors. I'd at least move it out of the crap tier.

Voice of the Emperor isn't terrible wither. I'd say Khajiit is the worst of them.
Indeed. How can 60 seconds of night vision be better than 10x faster stamina regeneration for 60 secs? (Unless, perhaps, you have a realistic lighting mod such as Ryuujn?)
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Post » Tue Jun 05, 2012 6:15 pm

Good racials - good all game and genuinely useful
Breton
Orc

Average racials - only good at the start or meh bonuses
Argonian
Altmer
Dunmer
Nord

Bad racials
Bosmer
Khajiit

Crap tier racials - Might aswel not have any racials at all
Redguard
Imperial

I dunno. I agree with Breton and Orc racials usually being the best.

Histskin is an oddball, Argonians are really built for thief builds, but Histskin isn't really a life-saver unless you have a lot of HP behind it to pump -- a la tanky warrior builds.

Altmer racials can wildly differ in usefulness -- if you're not going to be using a lot of cost-reduc gear, it could help, however; if you do use a lot, it can wind-up being literally worthless.

Dunmer racials kinda svck, actually. I mean, the passive fire resistance is nice, I guess, but that power suffers the same issues destruction spells do: no scaling.

The sheer amount of frost damage in the game makes Nords nice. Plus that battleshout is great for reprieves or getting away.

Bosmer... I've not tooled around with 'em much. I'll refrain from really commenting outside of that, again, disease immunity is pretty easy to obtain.

Khajiit racials are, basically, useless. Night-eye is very meh, and extra unarmed damage is overkill when brawls are extremely easy to win anyways. Obvious race of choice for monk characters, though.

Redguard's power can actually be extremely useful. Mayhap not so much for warriors that abuse the "drain 1 stam" mechanic, but still.

Imperial's Voice of the Emperor is awesome, from what I've seen. Now, if it suffers scaling issues like a true illusion spell, then, I could see where one could say it's useless. I've only gotten an imperial up to level 20ish or so, but from what I saw, again, Voice of the Emperor is pure awesomeness.
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Post » Tue Jun 05, 2012 2:19 pm

I have not explored all the racial traits but early on with my mage the highborn ability was very useful, great for dragon battles and such.With my stealth archer i chose a khajiit, i have to say i have only used night eye once to see what it was like it is pretty pointless.Would it not make more sense to have this ability last all night rather than 60 seconds hell hes a cat.Which is the best racial ability for a warrior to have

I'm a khajit in my stealth playthrough, and i actually find NE very good, since it can be recast indefinitely, and makes enemies really easy to spot. On the other hand, a perked heavy armor user could use the H2H as a very good weapon, if he's not into smithing. That could counter some disarm shouts.
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Post » Wed Jun 06, 2012 4:55 am

I'm playing a bosmer ATM.

Completely Absolutly useless. Pointless to the nth degree.
I also found the Dunmer one pointless. Never used it.

When I first picked up morrowind I didn't really understand anything, chose a Breton (as I'm British, stupid reason I know). The magic resistance turned out to be awesome. Boots of blinding speed? Pah!!! More like the shades of cool runnings (stolen quote. Can't remember who).
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Post » Tue Jun 05, 2012 5:42 pm

For warriors, I've found that either Bretons or Orcs are the best racial-wise. The Bretons' passive magic resistance is extremely useful, but the Orcs' extremely-powerful active racial can help a lot on bosses you'd might not be able to kill otherwise.

WIth that said, your grammar is a bit appalling. You likely don't care, but still...
Using correct grammar is not a strong point i didn't like the whole learning stuff at school thing.
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Post » Wed Jun 06, 2012 12:02 am

I do agree that Night Eye should be a switch on/off thing and not time based.
It's the only spell I truly miss. :sadvaultboy:
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Post » Wed Jun 06, 2012 1:35 am

Agree with the bosmer one being awful, especially as two shouts do very similar things. As for disease resistance you can just buy a potion of cure disease or worse comes to worst visit one of the many shrines.
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