Aetherial Crown or Staff?

[Kurious]

First time player question: would u more experienced players suggest the Aetherial Crown for it's long term gain OR Aetherial Staff for its immediate summon ability? I'm playing single player mode.

[SpeedFreak1972]

I personally would take the crown ... also there isn't MP in this game unless mods

[kaiyl_kariashi]

I always go crown if I'm gonna actually use it.

There's better summons than the staff has, and crown allows for a lot of stuff you can't do any other way without it. (hell putting the Ritual Stone effect on the crown basically lets you create an undead army at will, and even lets you get stuff you normally can't reanimate).

[th]

Basically Crown is an almost forced choice.

[Rez Elwin]

Crown is always the better choice. You can always just get the sphere companion which doesn't have a time limit.
The staff can also misfire and summon a dead sphere or spider.
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Steadfast_Dwarven_Sphere

[Kurious]

I suspected Crown would ultimately be wiser. Really appreciate the helpful input. Thank you all !!!

[alexander_dougherty]

The staff and shield are almost afterthoughts, it's obvious the Devs thought everyone would use the Crown....
Otherwise the Shield and Staff would have better powers.

[mikaeliby]

The shield IS good, but the crown is great! Having an extra standing stone power at hand, indefinately, is really fun.

[Junipercat]

Цитата допису Kurious:

I'm playing single player mode.

Well of course. Skyrim is a Single-Player game. It was not built with any kind of multiplayer.

[Perplex]

Shield. I always take the shield. But then i again it is only for display reasons.

[SpeedFreak1972]

Yea I mostly display them also ... however with LOTD you can make copies so I have all 3 on display. That said only the crown has the magical properties the other ones are just for show.

[Kurious]

Besides having 2 standing stones at once what else is the crown useful for? "Speed" mentioned above u can somehow add something called a "ritual stone" to it...? Also when using the crown the 2 standing stones only apply while wearing it. So I switch it out in battle for a battle skills crown + when making purchases for 20% price boost with a wooden mask (Volk something). Is that how others use it too or do others wear it all the time?

[kaiyl_kariashi]

Цитата допису Kurious:

Besides having 2 standing stones at once what else is the crown useful for? "Speed" mentioned above u can somehow add something called a "ritual stone" to it...? Also when using the crown the 2 standing stones only apply while wearing it. So I switch it out in battle for a battle skills crown + when making purchases for 20% price boost with a wooden mask (Volk something). Is that how others use it too or do others wear it all the time?

Any standing stone effect that grants a Greater Power (like the Ritual Stone's Mass Reanimate Dead), can be effectively used infinitely by simply taking the crown off and putting it back on, which refreshes it's daily usage.

Passive stone effects are also alright if you've got some idea in mind for how to use it, but if you don't have a clear plan for it, then finding a useful standing stone power is also a solid option.

The Ritual Stone is a pretty solid option as it's fairly unique, since it reanimates like Dead Thrall (but only for about 3 minutes at a time, though doesn't destroy the bodies like most forms of reanimation, so you can simply reanimate them again), has a massive innate level limit (75 as opposed to Dead Thrall's 50, which can be further increased by necromancy limit buffs), and has a maximum unit limit of 100 summons (though actually get (or wanting) that many is complete overkill, but does give you plenty of options, as opposed to the 1-2 (3 with paid dlc) summons/minions you can normally have.

the Ritual Stone and Serpent stones have the most useful activated abilities. The Shadow Stone is just invisibility.

The Steed Stone removes the weight of equipped armor and gives a huge boost to carry weight. Which is a decently solid passive stone to use, especially if you aren't investing heavily into Heavy Armor perks but still want to use it.

Atronach is situational, but combined with other stuff can make you nigh or even completely immune to magic. And having it on the Circlet allows you to remove for it for the handful of times having high/total magic absorption could cause problems.


It's possible to achieve the armor cap without a helmet (especially for heavy armors), so unless you just want the armor perk benefit that requires wearing all 4 pieces as the same armor type, there's no actual reason to have any other helmet beyond aesthetics (honestly most armor is purely aesthetics at the end of the day).

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I hardly ever min-max gear and instead just use whatever I feel is the most useful for my current goals. The Circlet is the most flexible reward, so if i can my mind later, I can easily just get a different power than the one I'm currently using, where as if you get the Shield or Staff you're basically stuck with it. (the Shield also has a unique effect but it's a bit more awkward to use compared to the circlet).

[steventirey]

Цитата допису Junipercat:

Цитата допису Kurious:

I'm playing single player mode.

Well of course. Skyrim is a Single-Player game. It was not built with any kind of multiplayer.

And yet, it has multiplayer of a sort through the Skyrim Together mod.

[SpeedFreak1972]

Yes it has, but A it's a mod and B it have to go through several loopholes to get it working due to the fact the game was never intended for MP

[StDrake]

shield can be dumped into Myrwatch for display. For some reason the creator of that place decided shield is the best option to make a special display for