One hit kill sneak attacks in the early game possible?

[Taberone]

Is it possible to one hit kill when sneak attacking in the early game? I'm kinda unused to sneak attacks not doing a massive amount of damage like in Fallout(Sneak attack criticals in Fallout usually instakill.).

How would I one hit kill while sneak attacking then? Any easy-ish ways to train weapon skills?

[Delta 1038]

Sneaking can potentially be one of the most powerful is not gamebreaking skills in Skyrim. One perk allows you to do fifteen times the damage of daggers which might net you a backstab killcam.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Sneak#Skill_Perks

Early game wise unless you have a melee weapon and you're very careful, sneak is more for hiding and giving you the first bow shot.

[❛❛Vénttea❜❜]

There are a few ways, get an overpower weapon early game and that or...mod your sneak dmg.
Then again you can do both.

[Dexter]

Originally posted by Taberone:

Any easy-ish ways to train weapon skills?

Do you mean skill up your weapons?

I use the Sophia mod and I found that she can help you skillup your weapons easily. She is found at the stables near Whiterun.

All you have to do is attack her over and over again to skillup while she is laying down in the stables, before she joins you. She won't die. You can easily get your combat skills to 35-40+ depending on how long you can do it before getting bored. I used to do One handed and Archery that way to start out with a good boost to those skills.

Make sure you get the Warrior Stone and sleep at the Whiterun Inn for the sleeping bonus before you start to increase your exp rate.

You can easily get your character to level 5+ pretty quickly. I have gotten my character to level 10 before using that technique.

Join the Dark Brotherhood for the Shrouded Boots and sneak around with them to get your sneak skill up.

[Mr. Shaggnificent]

On average NPCs(not bosses), I get throat slits early on pretty regularly. Even if I brick it, there is usually enough time to stab them to death before they turn all the way around. Even with untempered iron daggers.

[Edit]: By 'early' I mean sneak skill at or around 10-15.

[Squid]

You won't be able to one-hit-kill with sneak attacks until later in the game. If you want to focus on stealth and sneaking, the bow is your friend. Use it first. Later, with the right skills, you'll be able to kill up-close with daggers.

If you don't like the way the stealth skills work, there are a couple of mods that might be up your alley. I'm assuming these two are incompatible, so I think you'd have to pick just one, though I might be wrong:

Stealth Tools: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/19447/?

Stealth Skills Rebalanced: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/28418/?

Also, if you're not using Duel: Combat Realism or anything else that changes the way NPCs react to stealth attacks, you really need this mod:

Stealth Character Immersion Fix: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/8222/?

Otherwise you end up with this happening:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHbF9ynGZV0

[Bomb Bloke]

Early on, it's indeed possible... so long as your target is weak enough.

Without mods, sneak attacking the greybeards over and over is probably the fastest way to raise the skill. Those guys can take a beating, and tend to be happy to sit with their backs to you while they take it. Use the weakest weapon you've got.

Be wary, though - take it too high and you'll find that you've levelled up, everything else has levelled up too (due to the silly level scaling "feature"), and all you've got to match their all-round improved stats is a nifty damage bonus to your first strike.

[The Shadow of Death]

Sneak is way OP in the game, really. Either with Daggers or Bows you can do way too much damage before long.

It's definitely possible to one-shot weaklings with sneak attacks. Mind, your best bet is to find a low level townsperson when they're sleeping (to decrease the chance they notice you). That, or if they're walking around with no-one else nearby. If they stop long enough for you to attack them you might do enough damage fast enough to get away with it.

BTW: Stay out of sight for 15 or so seconds after you kill someone. Sometimes if you kill someone, even with even if you remain hidden after doing the deed, people will get hostile if you poke your head up too soon.

[76561198164064547]

Set the difficulty to Novice and you one-hit-kill most small-time enemies easily. Bandits, Basic Falmer, Deer etc.

[Otávio]

Just consider sneak your primary skill, try to get the fifteen times damage perk as soon as possible, once you got that, spend some perks in the one-handed tree to improve the damage even more. I've managed to do that before level 10, just trying to clear some dungeons the stealthiest way possible, you will need a little patience though, is really hard to sneak up on people when you sneak level is about 20, consider wearing clothes instead of armor. When sneaking, try not to use bows, killing with daggers/swords give way more xp.

PS: Also use the thief stone to help level up your sneak skill faster.