Any interesting builds?

[Banafrit™]

Hi! Thief player here, love playing the archetype and its subsequent sub-archetypes. Played them a ton on 360, Xbox One, and now PC. Wanted to plan my next playthrough when I'm done getting my mod list sorted out, and was wondering if there's any interesting ones you guys could pitch.

I'm open to all playstyles. Just want something to keep me occupied!

[Martial Autist]

Why not go with the polar opposite? Battlemage! :)

Personally I run mine with one-handed (mace for armor piercing), heavy armor, conjuration, restoration, and alteration. Illusion and destruction are optional. It's always a lot of fun. I tend to build mine along the following lines.

Favoured race; high elf.

Favoured summons in order of progression; flame atronach (apprentice) > frost atronach (adept) > storm atronach and/or dremora lord (expert, before acquiring the following) > conjure wrathman (expert), conjure skeleton warlock (expert), conjure ayleid lich (expert), and conjure bone colossus (master).

Favoured shouts; become ethereal (become intangible for a limited amount of time), slow time (slow down your surroundings), and dragon aspect (buff armor/melee damage/shouts).

Favoured powers; highborn (increased magicka regen for 1m), mora's boon (fully restores health/magicka/stamina), secret of arcana (no magicka cost for 30s), and secret servant (summon a mule NPC to carry your things or retrieve them from him, can be summoned in prison).

Favoured standing stone; the lord stone (armor and magic resistance bonus).

Favoured enchants; fortify magicka or preferably dark moon, fortify magicka regen, fortify one-handed dmg, fortify restoration, empower necromancy, and fire resist if vampire.

Also, as battlemages we don't often sneak because we're usually built like a bunch of brick ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, and our massive balls drag along the floor behind us. But most importantly we can't assert our dominance if the enemy doesn't know we're there. If we do want to avoid combat we simply use our illusion magic to turn our enemies into vegetables. x'D

[worm_master]

I iz Battlemage, i roam da field, with spell an dagger, if i don't wanna stab em, i conjure the un-dead, an sit back, or blast em wid a major dose of fire.

I slither, sneak, stab an poison my way cross the land, on the front line or form afar, I IZ BATTLEMAGE!!!!

[Emerance]

barbarian: Light armor, two-handed or dual wield, alchemy, and .... ? That is kinda it honestly. I tend to not sneak or use a bow and just play my positioning / sprint to get in close.

[worm_master]

If u like knockdown, drag out fights. where the enemy can blindside u.

Sneaking, lets u slit 4 NPC's throats, with out being detected.

[Valden21]

I once did a playthrough I called "The Pragmatic Paladin". Essentially, the three main differences were the use of light armor, more use of magic (primarily Destruction and Restoration), and a slightly-altered style of combat. Instead of the classic, "HAVE AT THEE!" style of paladin combat, I used stealth archery to take down the first three enemies I saw. When they intentionally and eventually saw me, only then it was "HAVE AT THEE!" time. Essentially, I was a paladin who saw no shame in fighting dirty.

[Synopse]

The stabbing knife. Use the maxium damage bonus for steath damage by using daggers for sneak attack. A classic and it turns Skyrim into a stealth game.

[Apheirox]

Spellsword. It was a class in EOS: Oblivion. Look it up, it´s great!

[D-Lusional]

All builds eventually lead to the stealth archer.

[Nutamago]

for unique raw power, play battlemage with bound two handed only. it's costly but so freaky awesome.

[worm_master]

Origineel geplaatst door Nutamago:

for unique raw power, play battlemage with bound two handed only. it's costly but so freaky awesome. :zaglol:

Send us a vid, of u rocking ya build, i'll do the same, let the forum decide

[PatchAdams]

Try illusion/sneak hybrid. Spells like Muffle, Calm, and Invisibility can greatly help your thieving ways!

Combat style is up to you but the build has synergy with dual wield as well as bow, or even destruction magic, thanks to Quiet Casting.

[Martial Autist]

Origineel geplaatst door worm_master:

Origineel geplaatst door Nutamago:

for unique raw power, play battlemage with bound two handed only. it's costly but so freaky awesome. :zaglol:

Send us a vid, of u rocking ya build, i'll do the same, let the forum decide

That sounds like a fun idea. I think I'll join in. ^^

What difficulty and level range do you guys want to do? I've got two battle mages; one high level (201) and one mid level (60) ready to go.

The latter is still a work in progress though, he only just entered master difficulty and I still need to finish leveling him. Thinking of stopping at 81 so he's not too OP. Kind of broke the other one. Stonks went too high lol.

[worm_master]

Not bothered :-) it's jus a little demo, which ever 1 u think demonstrates ya build the best, but since i'm on legendary, an ya on master, I'll drop to master, how-ever standard gear an such only, please, lol not every 1 has the MODS u have or buys CC

[Nutamago]

Origineel geplaatst door worm_master:

Origineel geplaatst door Nutamago:

for unique raw power, play battlemage with bound two handed only. it's costly but so freaky awesome.

Send us a vid, of u rocking ya build, i'll do the same, let the forum decide

I'm just laying out ideas. you two go on about it.
My character is doing his best but still enduring scrub mode on legendary dif lmao.
Haven't tried heavy armor tho, i'mma test if it can endure gangbangin xD

[Martial Autist]

Origineel geplaatst door worm_master:

Not bothered :-) it's jus a little demo, which ever 1 u think demonstrates ya build the best, but since i'm on legendary, an ya on master, I'll drop to master, how-ever standard gear an such only, please, lol not every 1 has the MODS u have or buys CC

I can use the high level and put him on legendary. No worries. Also, the only mod I have is standard AE. So at most a new enchant or two, and a few summons. But I can leave the bone colossus, ayleid lich, and +1 undead summon limit if necessary. And I'm using indoril armor for the drip as well. ;)