Skyrim: Warrior, Thief, or Mage?

[Osama Bin Lovin']

Hello Skyrim community. Recently, I have been playing skyrim and I dont know what playstyle is the most fun to play. I have played the game through before as an assassin type character, got to level 20 with a battlemage and didnt find it being my type, and tried playing a barbarian type character and that just didnt work out too well. Now im stuck on trying to find an awesome character build that takes some skill to play. What are your guys' playstyles and what do you find most fun?


Thanks.

[Nekomancer]

mage tends to be the funnest in my opinion. the only problem is that its power is underplayed in skyrim so youre spells wont be very strong against super leveled enemys but is a very fun support charachter to play as if you just like casting summons, illusions and healing spells while youre ally's pretty much beat up your enemys and do the heavy lifting.

[Sunsetter]

For me, all 3 at once. That way I can switch between the 3 styles and make to combat fun for a lot longer.

[Matthew]

Spamming mage spells with low cost through enchanting is fun. Works just fine on adept/expert... just about everything will die before it even reaches you.

[No_Ocean]

More warrior/mage up close. Fast heal on the left hand, sword on the right, and archery when enemies are at a distance.

[Zahaze]

If you have skyrim legendary edition I would go mage (in the beginning). This is because you need the magicka to level up destruction, conjuration, illusion, alteration and restoration (Restoration mostly, which is pretty essential for all the classes). Having a big mana pools allows you to master all the these skill trees!

This is just my opinion but I find lots of mana is essential, if you start out as a warrior or assassin it will be difficult to level the mage skill tree because you basically have no mana.
But if you start out as a mage you can "step by step" change your character into whatever you want, this is because you have all these powerful spells that will aid you on you journey to another class

:D

[Nekomancer]

引用自 LIKE A SOMEBODY：

If you have skyrim legendary edition I would go mage (in the beginning). This is because you need the magicka to level up destruction, conjuration, illusion, alteration and restoration (Restoration mostly, which is pretty essential for all the classes). Having a big mana pools allows you to master all the these skill trees!

This is just my opinion but I find lots of mana is essential, if you start out as a warrior or assassin it will be difficult to level the mage skill tree because you basically have no mana.
But if you start out as a mage you can "step by step" change your character into whatever you want, this is because you have all these powerful spells that will aid you on you journey to another class

:D

i would have to agree with like. the mage can generally branch out to be everything after an extensive amount of gameplay and leveling. mages make preety decent asasins. illusion can make your enemys fight and kill each other as well as hide yourself and allow you to cast your spells silently. no more agro when you cast magic. alchemy can make you pretty overpowered with poisions, enchanting can make you unstopable in the elemental dammage sector. mage/assasin combinations tend to be the most lethal in terms of raw power.

[Zahaze]

引用自 FishStickitties：

Thanks guys i just got pumped up for assassin. :D ill also try the thing you suggested Like A Somebody.

Do it! Hahaha personally I think assassin is the most fun class! But after a while you'll get tired of those "one-shot-on-kill" arrows and stabs. :D

But as I wrote, Make a mage combined with all the other classes. all classes combined (Mage/warrior/assassin) is the way to go to get ÜberStronk!

[Osama Bin Lovin']

Ok so... since i have dawnguard, what would be the best faction to join: Vampire or Vampire Hunter? And, what guild(s) should i join?

[Zahaze]

I went for vampire hunters. Being in the vampire faction forces you to be a vampire.
Personally I found more downsides of being a bampire than being normal/werewolf. (Being normal gives effect "Well Rested" after sleeping which give like 20% learning speed/ exp. Werewolf gives disease immunity= AWESOME!)

I don't remember the vampire downsidees but I think it was that you couldnt regenerate stamina, magicka or healh in the sun when you haven't sucked blood :S

But I say: look what benefits each faction gives. then choose :)

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Vampirism

Yeah also It's curable! which means that you could finish dawnguard then cure yourself!
But the only way to do this is becoming a werewolf, which also is curable...

[ChefD]

every time i roll a new character i try to branch out...but usually resort to panther like bow attacks then finish with dual wield. although ive found a tried and true sword-shield character to be rewarding but only a bit further down the one-handed and block perk trees.

@ Like a somebody
dude you cure vampirism with the morthal mage.

[Skyrimnut]

I have played as all three archtypes and I consider all three fun for different reasons. While, I agree, you can play all three in one build and my first play-through had a bit of every skill, I like splitting them up now.

The warrior is fun because it's up close and personal. There's something very appealing about running up to a fort occupied by rival soldiers or bandits and hacking your way through the group. And when you have Savage Strike, heads will roll. The only hassle are dragons that don't land, but if you are slightly compentent with a bow, you can annoy one enough for it to land. I try not to sneak with a warrior. Another branch of the warrior class is the non stealth archer. These are fun too, challenging, especially with the slower reload time of the Dawnguard crossbow, but when it's done well, it's very cool to run around slaying vamps that way. Especially when you're a werewolf. I was a vamp only once to get the achievement, but never did it again. I have a funny thing where I dislike diseases with the exception of Lycanthropy. I also dislike Falmer.

I agree, my assassins and stealth-based characters were the MOST powerful characters I played and that's why I stopped playing them. They are fun for a while, especially when I was first playing, but I've been in a phase lately where I didn't want to one-shot everything, so I've stopped sneaking around. The 15x sneak damage with a melee weapon is too much, IMO and the 3x bow damage is almost as bad, especially when you've invested in archery. It is no fun walking around in dragonscale armor when no one can see how bada** you look and being powerful like that can make final boss fights a let down. lol, that was my first build, a bosmer archer. I snuck my way around Skyrim and didn't even join the Thieves guild or the Dark Brotherhood. lol, an archer with 100 sneak and archery, waste of skills. It was my first PC game ever and I was very scared, so I snuck around and didn't want to be seen. I got much better with my sneakers when I did my Dunmer thief/assassin.

Mages are interesting and I'm currently in a mage phase, but not a sneaky mage. No armor is tricky at first, especially on the higher difficulties, but get a good follower and learn how to summon, and nobody really touches you. Pick a Breton and you can be practically immune to magic with a few well-chosen perks and an quest. I used to invest heavily in destruction, but now I typically invest in conjuration, alteration, and restoration. IMO, the key to a successful mage isn't mana, but mana regen. Of course, you need a base amount of mana to cast spells, but if you can enchant items to recover it quickly, then you are doing very well.

But, most of all, have fun. It's your game. You are not playing the wrong way, no matter what style you choose to play in. It's all about enjoying yourself. Play the game, do what comes naturally to you. For me personally, I tired very quickly of power-leveling and becoming a one-shot god. Now, I download mods that prevent me from power-leveling, so I can get right to playing. Other people like power-leveling and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that play style either.

Sorry for the length. :)

[Gropax]

i usually do an Arcane Archer Assassin

Race: Breton

Perks:80 working on old level 81.5 max

Archery: 8
Overdraw: 5
Critical Shot 3

Conjuration: 5
Novice Conjuration
Apprentice Conjuration
Adept Conjuration
Mystic Binding
Soul Stealer

Illusion: 4
Novice Illusion
Animage
Kindred Mage
Quiet Casting

1 Handed Weapons: 14
Armsman: 5
Bladesman: 3
Dual Flurry: 2
Fighting Stance
Dual Savagery
Savage Strike
Critical Strike

Sneak: 13
Stealth: 5
Backstab
Deadly Aim
Assassin's Blade
Muffled Movement
Light Foot
Silent Roll
Silence
Shadow Warrior

Alchemy: 8
Alchemist: 5
Physician
Poisoner
Concentrated Poison

Light Armor: 8
Agile Defender: 5
Custom Fit
Matching Set
Defy Movement

this is so far at 60 points i usually the leave the last 20 for lockpick and restoration depending on how much i need in each

with this setup you wear light armor and carry no weapons using poisons and bound bow swords and daggers to kill stuff with also using bound weapons makes master level alot harder because you can't use smithing to make them into god weapons.

[[VN] Michael Doan]

that guy above pretty much said everything I want to tell you, but here are some more ..... useful tips, all the warrior and thief style, you should always level up smith skill no matter how irrititate it is, it's the back and bone of your survival in higher difficulties:

1. warrior style: in the beggining you should get a companion ASAP on master + difficulties, almost anything mobs level up with you will one hit you no matter how high your armor rating is, abuse the use of smithing and iron dagger every time you hit a large city, if you got dragonborn DLC, your werewolf transforment will be one of the most powerful weapon in the game against anything smaller than a giant, forget about two-weapons-style, you'll get killed so fast that you don't know what's going on, well if you're playing on adept or lower difficulties, it becomes the very good build, your choice, and don't bother with those perks that improve specific weapons like sword, axe, mace, it's a waste of perks, well if you want to kill troll fast, then axe perk can be useful, but fire enchantment can also do the same thing and a lot more powerful

2. Thief style: on legendary, you can't even one hit critical a citizen in whiterun even with *15 times damage perks without smithing your dagger, now use it along with a particular faction glove, you can double the damage of your sneak attack, imagin, 30 times damage and you're good to go. and it get real boring in the end, so I changed into dual wield thief and illusion-thief for a little more favor to the game

3. Mage style: well what can I say, it's the safest way to play if you get your shining hands on a summon frost atronachs (spelling ???) and recruit a companion AND a zombie superman, believe me, you won't lose those healing potions you stack up in your inventory, well the downside is that you'll get killed real quick in some particular main quest if you don't invest in something more ..... sneak like. and wait, in my opinions the + mana regen is NOT the most important buff for mage, to me, it's a - % mana used in spells, combine with mana regen and boom, that's the most important, imagine the carnage when you don't have to lose mana to conjure a fireball to throw at those petty bandits

And to me, it's not the combat style that thrills me the most, it's the world, the book, the feeling, the lore that you really can interact with anything in the game that intrigued me. and put on some mods, and you'll want to walk your way across skyrim for sightseeing purpose instead of fast travelling

[Nekomancer]

引用自 FishStickitties：

Ok so... since i have dawnguard, what would be the best faction to join: Vampire or Vampire Hunter? And, what guild(s) should i join?

here is the pic of my charachter that joined the vampires when i had dawnguard. this too forever to make him look decently attractive. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=155477735
i would do the vamp questline because you got alot more powers and magical artifacts fighting for them.

[Gropax]

and remember this number 667 thats how much armor rating you need to hit the Maximum of 80% damage reduction anything over 667 is a waste with smithing enchanting and alchemy even leather can hit the max.