Specialize in many skills?

[Boddis]

Hello everybody. Here is my question:


Is it a good idea to increase evenly your skills, as well as your attributes (Health, Magicka, and Stamina)?. Or does that cause you to have an average level at everthing and being to weak for the enemies?

I’m choosing perks in more than 4 skills, is that a good idea?


Sorry for possible english mistakes, I’m not totally fluent.

Thanks in advance!

[kane]

Four is not that bad i would pick two main ones with two secondary ones. Has for H.M.S it depends on you're character lets say a heavy armour warrior Health and stamina but stop Stamina when you feel comfortable for me its around 200-220 but that's me then just buff health or you could put a few points into Magicka for healing.

[Lightning]

Each stamina level up also gives 5 weight carry as well so that's pretty useful, so maybe around 250-300 would be a good spot to stop that there, and if you like spells i would probably go 300 health atleast and rest magicka till 500 and then back to health maybe

For some reason I think expert+ is pretty hard on Vanilla mode even with good gear and such you barely do any sneak damage sometimes, and they spot you a whole lot easier as well I invested into conjuration & bow mostly

[Perplex]

After level 30 or so it does not matter, enemies stop scaling around 36 or so except for special monsters like dragons, they go to level 80 or something like that.

Some skills dont need more than 2-5 perks and some dont need any.

[SpeedFreak1972]

In general it all depends on your play style (light/heavy armor, mage, 2 handed, one handed with shield, archer, thief, etc) In general as said before choose 2 main perk trees and a couple of secondary ones, most useful minor skill trees in any case are alchemy, enchanting and smithing.

[greg.brown.yeah]

Specialization is generally good for the reason you say, but 4 skills is not the limit. Have a somewhat specialized playstyle and put the perks and attribute increases where you feel like they'll help most at that time. Don't use both 1H and 2H, don't use heavy armor and light armor, don't try to use every combat style, focus perks in just one of the crafting skills in the early game, and you should be fine. I tend to focus on smithing first, as I want 60 smithing to be able to improve my enchanted items before I start enchanting my gear, and I want to gather a lot of soul gems before I grind enchanting, etc.

My current build (level 25, still pretty early game) is very specialized. Basically all the perks in 1H, heavy armor, block, and smithing, with a few in restoration, and all of the attributes in health and stamina. I could diversify a bit more (e.g., leveling and investing in conjuration and magicka) which might help. But if I diversified too much my character would start to suffer.

[NimrodX]

In order to help answer these kinds of questions, I wrote up this

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1868336179

At first you need to focus more. Later you can level everything up to 100, but that will still not give you all perks. So even then you still have some focus, you're just able to do everything just not at a "professional" level.

[Boddis]

Thank you all for the explanation. That was very helpful.

[alexander_dougherty]

I personally look at the trees, and decide what I want out of them, no point putting a load of perks in there if you aren't going to use them.

Which means I usually max out smithing, and get the dual enchanting perk, and the unbreakable perk in lockpicking (which also means I have an easier time on all but the hardest ones, since those are perks required on the way). I usually also have the weightless perk on whatever armour I'm getting.

But I never bother with the alchemy perks, or the pickpocketing, or the other schools of magic (because I never play as a mage, I don't enjoy it)...

[Incunabulum]

Focus in a few skills to start with. You can branch out later.

Keep in mind that several skills are redundant. All the weapons skills and Destruction magic are basically the same thing - kill stuff - so you really should just pick one to start with.

[alexander_dougherty]

Originally posted by Incunabulum:

Focus in a few skills to start with. You can branch out later.

Keep in mind that several skills are redundant. All the weapons skills and Destruction magic are basically the same thing - kill stuff - so you really should just pick one to start with.

Two if you are doing weapons, one/two-handed plus archery....

[Lightning]

I went with Breton mage/marksman build mostly lol

[Boddis]

Originally posted by Incunabulum:

Focus in a few skills to start with. You can branch out later.

Should I also do this for the attributes (Health, Magicka, Stamina), focusing on one and then branch out?
And until what level should I do that?

[NimrodX]

You don't need all attributes equally. It depends on whether you are trying to focus on magic or melee combat. If trying to focus on melee then I'd still suggest taking only health for the first 10 levels then maybe spend 1/3 or 1/4 on stamina. I think mages need 50/50 health and magica at least at first, but they don't need stamina because they're not power attacking.

[Perplex]

Originally posted by Boris:

Originally posted by Incunabulum:

Focus in a few skills to start with. You can branch out later.

Should I also do this for the attributes (Health, Magicka, Stamina), focusing on one and then branch out?
And until what level should I do that?

Focus on one untill atleast level 20. If you are a mage char you dont really need stamina early on, if you are a warrior char you dont need magica, ever.

[Boddis]

I see. Thanks for the help!