Schaleh
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changes i've made to this build since publishing the following video(s):
1. got the dremora butler, and he's carrying my auriel's bow(instead of dragonbone bow) and dragonbone dagger
2. using the slow time shout (it and the butler have their own keybinding)
3. using mehrunes' razor instead of dragonbone dagger (to nerf myself a bit)
4. using bound bow instead of auriel's bow (to nerf myself a bit, + infinite ammo/semi-1 handed)
5. re-worked my skill distribution (click/drag <-L/R-> to scroll the perks at this link): skyrimcalculator /build/401895/best-level-100/perks
6. switched to elven armor set instead of glass set (elven is lightest in the game, but probably doesn't matter)
7. i no longer have 100% illusion reduction (now it's 96% from helm + chest)
8. my chest now has "99% magicka regen", which helps tremendously when in sunlight
Bear in mind, everything below this line was published/typed several days prior to this top part
Also, that destruction enchant version I mention isn't fun. ... don't play that version; it's old.
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You have the best of everything-
the best race (cat race)
the best skill choices (sneaky dagger/archer)
the best gear (80% sneak/ 80% archery)
the highest legit sneak possible (vampirism bonus, seeker of shadows, max gear bonus, 5/5 sneak perks)
the best magics with no spell cost (spam invisible like crazy, spam double pacify, spam heals)
the best weapon enchantment (fear, which makes it even easier to land repeated sneak attacks)
the backup option of switching the illusion version out for the destruction version, for theorycrafting
You avoid the worst of everything-
the worst skills (conjuration, shield, 2 handed)
all of the stuff you do directly develops the relationship b/w your character and the monsters/npcs,
so no confrontational battles; you pick a fight with monster and it will politely walk away;
and even if you do get aggro from that monster's friends, you have at least 3 options. you can face tank aggro them with a heal spell in one hand and dagger in the other. you can become undetected simply by ducking and rolling a short distance away, or simply use the invis spell and shorten that escape distance. you can mass pacify spam them and then completely ignore them. or you could simply smack em one time each with the dagger, and switch to the bow and snipe them safely while croutching undetected. you could even switch to the bow immediately and just start machine gunning them away in terror as you become undetected from the sheer hysterical genocide.
This build simply takes the game, solves it, and then leaves you with the single question: how was I not already using this build?
To be fair, there's a slightly different version of the build that uses destruction cost reduction instead of illusion cost reduction.
It's less double pacify spammy and doesn't have that lovely fear on hit, but it kinda makes up for it with the extra damage you get from chaos enchantments. I'd only recommend taking it if you feel that 0 cost double pacify spam is just too overpowered for your tastes. Keep in mind though: if you really wanted to be overpowered, you could just as easily use the bow for everything. Also, if you use your invisible and sneak rolling preemptively enough, it could arguably be just as overpowered.
Even a shield could be considered overpowered, since all you do with it is disable the enemy. Well, virtually every skill tree has some kind of a checkmate that can lock out the enemy. This just takes the versions of it that are the most fun, the most useful, and the least sloppy-looking.
:BONUS VIDEO:
1. got the dremora butler, and he's carrying my auriel's bow(instead of dragonbone bow) and dragonbone dagger
2. using the slow time shout (it and the butler have their own keybinding)
3. using mehrunes' razor instead of dragonbone dagger (to nerf myself a bit)
4. using bound bow instead of auriel's bow (to nerf myself a bit, + infinite ammo/semi-1 handed)
5. re-worked my skill distribution (click/drag <-L/R-> to scroll the perks at this link): skyrimcalculator /build/401895/best-level-100/perks
6. switched to elven armor set instead of glass set (elven is lightest in the game, but probably doesn't matter)
7. i no longer have 100% illusion reduction (now it's 96% from helm + chest)
8. my chest now has "99% magicka regen", which helps tremendously when in sunlight
Bear in mind, everything below this line was published/typed several days prior to this top part
Also, that destruction enchant version I mention isn't fun. ... don't play that version; it's old.
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You have the best of everything-
the best race (cat race)
the best skill choices (sneaky dagger/archer)
the best gear (80% sneak/ 80% archery)
the highest legit sneak possible (vampirism bonus, seeker of shadows, max gear bonus, 5/5 sneak perks)
the best magics with no spell cost (spam invisible like crazy, spam double pacify, spam heals)
the best weapon enchantment (fear, which makes it even easier to land repeated sneak attacks)
the backup option of switching the illusion version out for the destruction version, for theorycrafting
You avoid the worst of everything-
the worst skills (conjuration, shield, 2 handed)
all of the stuff you do directly develops the relationship b/w your character and the monsters/npcs,
so no confrontational battles; you pick a fight with monster and it will politely walk away;
and even if you do get aggro from that monster's friends, you have at least 3 options. you can face tank aggro them with a heal spell in one hand and dagger in the other. you can become undetected simply by ducking and rolling a short distance away, or simply use the invis spell and shorten that escape distance. you can mass pacify spam them and then completely ignore them. or you could simply smack em one time each with the dagger, and switch to the bow and snipe them safely while croutching undetected. you could even switch to the bow immediately and just start machine gunning them away in terror as you become undetected from the sheer hysterical genocide.
This build simply takes the game, solves it, and then leaves you with the single question: how was I not already using this build?
To be fair, there's a slightly different version of the build that uses destruction cost reduction instead of illusion cost reduction.
It's less double pacify spammy and doesn't have that lovely fear on hit, but it kinda makes up for it with the extra damage you get from chaos enchantments. I'd only recommend taking it if you feel that 0 cost double pacify spam is just too overpowered for your tastes. Keep in mind though: if you really wanted to be overpowered, you could just as easily use the bow for everything. Also, if you use your invisible and sneak rolling preemptively enough, it could arguably be just as overpowered.
Even a shield could be considered overpowered, since all you do with it is disable the enemy. Well, virtually every skill tree has some kind of a checkmate that can lock out the enemy. This just takes the versions of it that are the most fun, the most useful, and the least sloppy-looking.
:BONUS VIDEO:
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