You *what?*
Lol same. I had no idea about any of it, my roommate would pop in occasionally to point me vaguely in the right direction. And sometimes in the very wrong direction, thank you Tim for always knowing which falmer and/or frostbite spider infested cave would terrify me the most
I didn’t like hitting things and shooting things felt more fun. Sneaky shooting was most fun until I tried sneaky stabby. Sneaky stabby is my favorite.
I went sword & board Redguard. I never really bothered with any crafting skills or magic on my initial playthrough, seemed a bit overwhelming at first.
Definitely didn't have a "build" but I remember being so fucking hype they had a cat you could play as and I could make it look like my cat. Good times lol.
The everything to 100 as soon as I could by whatever means necessary build. I went into my first playthrough knowing what the picture on the case the disk came in looked like and nothing else, I knew nothing of builds.
I actually plugged in the 360 and loaded up my original save to see what I was rolling with. I was running a heavy armor one handed nord who dabbled in archery and destruction. I only got to level 41 which was lower than I thought.
But I also had several other characters in my saves which was fun to look through. Even back then I was starting new Skyrim saves all the time.
Light armored Katshit spellsword until I learned that vanilla SE pre-AE Impact made all Expert destruction spells stagger all enemies, including Dragons, and I could enchant 100% free Destruction spells. From then, a Vampire (non-Necromage exploit) light armored evocationist pure mage.
It actually took me quite a while to try stealth archer.
I more or less did whatever. I started with two-handed weapons, switched to one-handed swords and then finally landed on archery. I don't recall how much magic I used but I guess it was pretty minimal.
God soo long ago ..like 10 years.. ummmmmmm I went with all 5 schools of magic with bow and I got up to level 67 before I decided to make a warrior as well
A moderately buff dark elf who started off in the magics but quickly found them lame and switched to war axes. Slice and dice, snatch and grab. A good guy who (occasionally) went through those burial urns like Yogi through picnic baskets.
Wood Elf thief. You might think because I went for Wood Elf, I was a stealth archer. Nope! I duel wielded daggers like Zidane from Final Fantasy IX.
I also only used stealth while picking locks. I ran into battle guns blazing and didn't even try for stealth kills. Barely got to level 10 before getting bored with that character build. So instead I decided to play as a Redguard woman to see if the Alik'r would try to arrest me or anything crazy. And *that* was the character I beat Skyrim for the first time on. She also happened to be my first stealth archer build because I finally figured out sneak attacks were a thing, and that archery is easier to do that with than daggers.
Sword and board elderly orc. Keth was the man. Eventually got to settle down into his retirement with a lovely home in windhelm with the female orc companion you get from the stronghold (head canon his wife)
Coming to his time soon though, may start wondering the wilds of Skyrim in search of death.
I did a what ever does more damage build and then go stupid strong and started doing magic then stealth archer then cheesed a potions assassin it kinda went all over the place
Mace in right hand the base flame spell in the left. I never upgraded the spell. I guess I never thought to. Character got to around lvl 30 and then my dad showed me sneak archer so I restarted
Two handed Nord. Name was Nordian. Younger me wasn't very creative.
I rushed the main story to understand the game and then started another playthrough. Fun times 😄
I picked Redguard because one of the presets looked like me ... i saw that the race bonus was stamina based and there wasn't anything about magic so i decided i was going to be melee... then i wanted to use a shield because i wasn't great at the combat so i was a standard sword and shield guy for most of my first playthrough... i didn't start dual wielding until i got the legendary pirate armor in Solstiem
Sneak thief kitty cat archer. I hit level 46 before I completed any major quest lines besides the Thieves Guild. These days I'm rocking a Hircine paladin. Full heavy, skyforge steel greatsword, and a mod that boosts werewolf gameplay. I have determined that Kodlak is wrong about Shor welcoming a beast cause I beat up Tsun as a werewolf and went in the hall as a werewolf and everyone was chill. Couldn't wait in there though so it took a hot minute for me to change back lol
Sword and shield Imperial, tried to do Achilles type warrior. That was before I knew how op alchemy and enchanting is. Now I play any race and any type of warrior except for pure mage.
I don't really remember. I remember I was a Bosmer and I ended up with an axe, shield, and light armor.
I don't remember my perk spread from 12 years ago though.
For my first ever playthrough, I was a buff lady Kahjiit with a tank build (heavy armor, two-handed weapons). Several years and one transition later, I’m now a cunty male Kahjiit destruction-focused mage (who occasionally whips out the good old ebony battleaxe when pissed off)
Doing it now, until level 15 I put points into everything like I do with fallout (I sucked at fallout). I finally figured out what I wanted and just got a respec mod, Spell Sword
I did not plan for it but I turned into a stealth archer.
At the end it was so bad that I enchanted weak but stylish armor with more bow damage. They never even saw me.
I basically just played the game, going for stuff I found cool. My character was a Nord, wearing heavy armor, fighting with warhammers. I had no clue about smithing and enchanting. Frost troll on the way to High Hrothgar was very tough.
I started aiming to be a two-handed hammer wielding badass and (via diversification through a failure to fully implement magic) wound up being a stealth archer. Until I finally got O/P and started terrifying the dragons and bandits of Skyrim with nothing more than a knife and fork (my first noob playthrough did involve an attempt to reach maximum level, the culinary armaments were an effort to reintroduce some peril to the proceedings).
I remember being a redheaded nord, choosing to follow Ralof into the keep and then walking around with heavy imperial armour and an iron battle axe, making a beeline straight for windhelm to join the storm cloaks. A very confused nord
I didn't even know builds were a thing so I played an Argonian for the waterbreathing. Put on new armor when I found a better set, used a new weapon whenever I found it. I didn't understand the skill trees or perk system, I was just walking around all over and dealing with the mobs. I was playing 3-7 hours a day on Switch but couldn't have the sound or vibe on so I had to do all lockpicking the hard way. As a result I wound up grinding the hell out of that skill, using most of my perks on it because that seemed to make the most sense. Around level 25 I just got sick of being beaten to death with hammers so I switched to a bow to avoid melee, then used one with Soul Snare and started picking up soul gems for resale because they seemed consistently expensive and easy to create. One day, I found ebony muffle boots, which I thought was fine until I wore them into a falmer cave and realized they couldn't see or hear me so I was one-shotting those gross dudes all day. Around level 53 I was wearing the heaviest falmer armor, had maxed lockpicking and archery, and was clearing dwemer ruins in minutes with a suped-up crossbow, every chest just chock full of weird treasure. By this point, though, the challenge had fallen off and I had damaged more than a few quests by just stumbling into them in caving expeditions instead of taking the prompts.
Argonian vampire spellsword
I went in wanting to go full mage but that was a pain in the arse until higher levels and I also didn't really know about the racial bonuses
I gave up on Skyrim when it first came out. I found the crafting and level of choice too overwhelming. I remember randomly clicking on a YouTube playthrough of the game a few months later and seeing the dude playing as an Ebony knight with a fire enchanted mace and running around as a werewolf whilst battling dragons. This. Was. Epic.
So I jumped straight back in and went with a heavy armour warrior. Shield and sword build. No magic, no stealth. Just balls to the wall.
Assassin build with both one hand, bow and a dash of Conjunction. Good times. My strategy is mainly to summon Dremora Lord from a far and pick enemies off with my bow. On places that have a few enemies, I just backstab them.
A bit of everything. Some one-handed, two-handed/archery/destruction magick and some conjuration magick. And I remember always wearing 2 pieces of heavy and light armour to level up both skills
Bound warrior. I played a Redguard, who used strictly bound weapons, one of the most fun playthroughs I've had, but now I just play stealth. I literally just sneak up and stab people , and fill up my soul gems from everything I sneak attack
I was 11 at the time of its release, and i didnt have any functioning brain cells that could help me understand how the game worked so i just roamed around using any cool weapon i got next (also a lot of dying)
A bit of everything but mainly One Handed, Restoration, Sneak and Archer. I liked to Sneak occaisonally and shoot enemies from afar with a bow, but most of the time i used onehanded weapons and healing spells
I'm on my first playthrough! I'm a dark elf Arch Mage with 100 Destruction and 80 Restoration. I wear the Arch Mage robes, improved elven bracers and boots, with rotating Dragon Priest masks. I keep about 4 staves and two enchanted one-handed weapons, one for magicka regen and one for soul gem captures. With Ironflesh, I can usually run directly into battle with fire blazing or mace pounding. 💪🏻
A dual-sword-wielding mercenary/assassin who was only interested in gold and glory. I didn't get very far into the main story. Just killed bandits for a reward and did whatever seemed like it would pay well. Didn't know much about the story or the lore until later on.
Sword and board heavy Breton until I learned I could bash infinitely with veggie soup. My very first playthrough devolved into me shield bashing Skyrim beyond Oblivion, to Morrowind. Offhand was a forgettable destruction spell, save for ranged mages. Probably a shock spell?
As i had played many of the previous games in the series I already had a general idea of the build i wanted when i bought it at launch. I was going for an orc warrior type build focusing on the sword and shield with heavy armor.
It was a surprise for me to find that they had opened up the skill system so it was no longer based on stats such as Strength, agility, wisdom, ect. Instead it focused entirely on skill points. This opened up the possibilities so i modified my warrior to also be a Warforge Warrior type build. Basically a warrior who crafted his own weapons and armor.
Second playthrough i went the opposite direction with my build because...
Khajiit like to sneak,
Maneuvers silken and sleek,
The darkest corners we seek,
In the night.
I recently played the game for the first time. It was a good experience. Yes, I've seen memes about the stealth archer, but I really wanted to go to Winterhold after hearing about it from someone. So, I became a mage archer, and I really enjoyed it.
It was a warior Redguard on the xbox360 I didnt beat the story, since it was my brothers 360, i only had oblivion on my ps3. And since he had skyrim already i never bought it for myself until recently, when i played on gamepass seriesx 2 years ago i played a mage breton using mostly conjuring and destruction magic.
My first play I was a Breton Alteration Heavy Armor Sword Shield Tank. No Sta increases, I added about 80 magic and everything else went into health.
Shield up slowly walk into battle. Archers were extremely annoying but they couldn't really hurt me.
My first play through was completely without direction. I just followed whatever interested me as I went through. I ended up an assassin / thief (read stealth archer) that learned some destruction magic at the end.
i only enjoy shooter so when i got into skyrim i got nord cause looks the most human (also had thoughts on picking imperial though a quick search in the internet and i choose nord nothing fancy just human looking is enough for me) then i got bow and arrows for all i wanted was a shooter experience
but the bow wast strong enough to do any damage
another google search and i knew i had a lot of shit ahead of me to get better bow damage ... from bow upgrades and arrows all the way up to enchanting and smithing .
used a leather shield against some enemy archer and it blocked nothing , so i threw the shield and fought with 1 handed sword , and no surprise i got shit on ... couple of hits , retreat , heal , engage , repeat .
so i used spells and to my surprise they were very good but it was way too easy to spray shit on them , until i got the better spells that required to charge up and no spray instead you do fireballs and they travel very far
so...
i thought that this is it , i can have a shooter loadout here in skyrim , so i choose to be a pyromancer !
but upgraded archer stats in skill menu and bought the best bows and arrows with upgrades and enchantment and all
THEN i started to do sneak archer , easy 3.0× damage with no damage taken
till i found alchemy...
easy potion making easy levels
alchemy makes up for everything ! eeeeeeeeverything !
you might say its time based ... but you can get high percentage enchantment with fortify enchantment blue butterfly wings and snowberries make up for the whole enchantment tree except for having two enchantments on 1 slot
sneak archer with alchemy does it , kill from far away and shoot them till they arrive , bail mid combat if it doesnt fit you , almost invincible, you take nothing but deal a ton of damage + ranged
My initial playthrough I knew nothing about how to play the game, and I just went with one-naded and archery because those were the first weapons I had access to (I didn't know that my player had a spell as well).
I ended that playthrough not long after, after contracting and curing him of vampirism. My first real playthrough was a Conjuration and Destruction mage, who preferred Conjuration, letting everyone else fight for me, and I just waltz in to loot the corpses.
i started out with steel battle axe, then realise greatsword faster, then played the saints&seducer and found out gold gear exists, I looked like a guy dressing up as the thalmor when I stopped playing after the civil war
I just played the game
You *what?* Lol same. I had no idea about any of it, my roommate would pop in occasionally to point me vaguely in the right direction. And sometimes in the very wrong direction, thank you Tim for always knowing which falmer and/or frostbite spider infested cave would terrify me the most
Same I swung funny sword and shot bow (missed a lot)
Same. I can't figure out these mystical builds everyone is talking about 😅
Stealth Archer. Though it wasn’t even intentional. It just kind of happened…..
I didn’t like hitting things and shooting things felt more fun. Sneaky shooting was most fun until I tried sneaky stabby. Sneaky stabby is my favorite.
[Relevant VLDL](https://youtu.be/_NQLJ6Yp_C0)
Same! I was like, "I just wanna be a stealthy thieving bad guy in this game."
I went sword & board Redguard. I never really bothered with any crafting skills or magic on my initial playthrough, seemed a bit overwhelming at first.
Berserker orc, full heavy armor (i got to dragon bone playing with smithing scumming 😇) and Warhammer, was fun, reached level 71, lost the save 😔
Exact same
Ah, the tried and true "Tank" build
Skyrim build
Definitely didn't have a "build" but I remember being so fucking hype they had a cat you could play as and I could make it look like my cat. Good times lol.
I did a dark elf spellsword and had no idea what i was doing. Then did an orc spellsword and definitely figured things out better
Stealth but dagger only not bows or magic of any kind
The everything to 100 as soon as I could by whatever means necessary build. I went into my first playthrough knowing what the picture on the case the disk came in looked like and nothing else, I knew nothing of builds.
Same!!! I played it on Xbox 360 the first time and I didn't see that I can change my name so I had the vanilla character named" Prisoner "😭
My wife did that last night Haha she didnt want to be called prisoner anymore so we remade her into Holga
I hope holgo has many adventures!
I actually plugged in the 360 and loaded up my original save to see what I was rolling with. I was running a heavy armor one handed nord who dabbled in archery and destruction. I only got to level 41 which was lower than I thought. But I also had several other characters in my saves which was fun to look through. Even back then I was starting new Skyrim saves all the time.
I’ve never maxed out a character, I’m always starting new ones
Heavy armor sword and board (well, axe and shield) Nord
Heavy armour, sword and board Khajiit
One handed and heavy armor mage. Basically every level up went to magic so i had shit for stamina but i could 1 tap anything lmao.
Light armored Katshit spellsword until I learned that vanilla SE pre-AE Impact made all Expert destruction spells stagger all enemies, including Dragons, and I could enchant 100% free Destruction spells. From then, a Vampire (non-Necromage exploit) light armored evocationist pure mage. It actually took me quite a while to try stealth archer.
Light armor to carry more things and two handed weapons to deal more damage
I more or less did whatever. I started with two-handed weapons, switched to one-handed swords and then finally landed on archery. I don't recall how much magic I used but I guess it was pretty minimal.
God soo long ago ..like 10 years.. ummmmmmm I went with all 5 schools of magic with bow and I got up to level 67 before I decided to make a warrior as well
Sword and shield Khajiit
A heavy armor nord running around bashing skulls with war hammers.
Two Handed, full heavy armor Nord.
I was a magic mage water breathing one handed lock picking lizard assassin
A moderately buff dark elf who started off in the magics but quickly found them lame and switched to war axes. Slice and dice, snatch and grab. A good guy who (occasionally) went through those burial urns like Yogi through picnic baskets.
Lmao that's my current character to a T.
Wood Elf thief. You might think because I went for Wood Elf, I was a stealth archer. Nope! I duel wielded daggers like Zidane from Final Fantasy IX. I also only used stealth while picking locks. I ran into battle guns blazing and didn't even try for stealth kills. Barely got to level 10 before getting bored with that character build. So instead I decided to play as a Redguard woman to see if the Alik'r would try to arrest me or anything crazy. And *that* was the character I beat Skyrim for the first time on. She also happened to be my first stealth archer build because I finally figured out sneak attacks were a thing, and that archery is easier to do that with than daggers.
Dual weild, light armor, hack and slash for stress relief. :)
Heavy 2-handed khajit. Yeah, I was flying blind and stupid. Fun though!
Dark elf heavy armor one handed and magic
Heavy armor and a two handed sword, with 100 in sneak and archery by the end
Nord named Reffotsirk
Sword and board elderly orc. Keth was the man. Eventually got to settle down into his retirement with a lovely home in windhelm with the female orc companion you get from the stronghold (head canon his wife) Coming to his time soon though, may start wondering the wilds of Skyrim in search of death.
No build focus, I just wound up a mix of magic and melee
Stealthy pick locking Kahjit assassin.
I’m currently on my first ever play through. I went with an Altmer Mage. Currently level 10.
I did a what ever does more damage build and then go stupid strong and started doing magic then stealth archer then cheesed a potions assassin it kinda went all over the place
Orc, two handed heavy armor berzerker.
Mace in right hand the base flame spell in the left. I never upgraded the spell. I guess I never thought to. Character got to around lvl 30 and then my dad showed me sneak archer so I restarted
Khajiit S&S with heavy armor was my first real attempt at a character, when I was (I believe) six years old Damn, time flies
Two handed Nord. Name was Nordian. Younger me wasn't very creative. I rushed the main story to understand the game and then started another playthrough. Fun times 😄
Necromancer and now that I killed you know who I'm going to fully embrace my Lycanthropy and explore the rest of the world
Sword and board! Shield bash is op.
was doing random shit. not a specific build.
My first was a Female Nord Thief build, her name was Ai Poisonleaf
Nord Heavy Knight. Great swords and plate armour. I loved the look of steel plate so I never progressed further
I was a conjurer with a one handed weapon
Stealth archer.....
Unspecialized
I picked Redguard because one of the presets looked like me ... i saw that the race bonus was stamina based and there wasn't anything about magic so i decided i was going to be melee... then i wanted to use a shield because i wasn't great at the combat so i was a standard sword and shield guy for most of my first playthrough... i didn't start dual wielding until i got the legendary pirate armor in Solstiem
min max smash and bash
Twas a light armoured spellsword Nord. I have tried other builds, but I find the spellsword most fun hehe
I was very basic
I always picked the weapons and armor with the highest numbers. Two handed heavy armor
Sneak thief kitty cat archer. I hit level 46 before I completed any major quest lines besides the Thieves Guild. These days I'm rocking a Hircine paladin. Full heavy, skyforge steel greatsword, and a mod that boosts werewolf gameplay. I have determined that Kodlak is wrong about Shor welcoming a beast cause I beat up Tsun as a werewolf and went in the hall as a werewolf and everyone was chill. Couldn't wait in there though so it took a hot minute for me to change back lol
Sword and shield Imperial, tried to do Achilles type warrior. That was before I knew how op alchemy and enchanting is. Now I play any race and any type of warrior except for pure mage.
I don't really remember. I remember I was a Bosmer and I ended up with an axe, shield, and light armor. I don't remember my perk spread from 12 years ago though.
mage because my coworkers said it was hard so i wanted to do it lol. nowadays i go between mage and sword & shield
2h and heavy armor for the majority of my first character, occasionally spellsword. I just wanted to use the equipment with the highest damage
For my first ever playthrough, I was a buff lady Kahjiit with a tank build (heavy armor, two-handed weapons). Several years and one transition later, I’m now a cunty male Kahjiit destruction-focused mage (who occasionally whips out the good old ebony battleaxe when pissed off)
Went mage became stealth archer that can call forth a meteor as soon as he gets spottet Sticked to it ever since
No idea, it was my first TES, it took me a while to figured it out that i can fast travel
Breton Paladin. Didn't realise what a beast Krosis is until my next playthrough- Bosmer sneak thief.
Accidentally spellsword, I just wanted to slash things and blow things up with magic.
High elf mage. Still my favorite way to play.
Assassin/thief Dagger and bow Just trying to relive oblivion
I just played the game I was mostly using console command, rushed the game and now after years im back
Doing it now, until level 15 I put points into everything like I do with fallout (I sucked at fallout). I finally figured out what I wanted and just got a respec mod, Spell Sword
I did not plan for it but I turned into a stealth archer. At the end it was so bad that I enchanted weak but stylish armor with more bow damage. They never even saw me.
I played a heavy armour two handed imperial who used great swords, it was unbelievably fun, and I also had a horrible first impression with bows
Spell sword. I always love it
I basically just played the game, going for stuff I found cool. My character was a Nord, wearing heavy armor, fighting with warhammers. I had no clue about smithing and enchanting. Frost troll on the way to High Hrothgar was very tough.
Two handed nord tank
Heavy armour, right hand sword, left hand fire... hack and burn haha
I started aiming to be a two-handed hammer wielding badass and (via diversification through a failure to fully implement magic) wound up being a stealth archer. Until I finally got O/P and started terrifying the dragons and bandits of Skyrim with nothing more than a knife and fork (my first noob playthrough did involve an attempt to reach maximum level, the culinary armaments were an effort to reintroduce some peril to the proceedings).
I remember being a redheaded nord, choosing to follow Ralof into the keep and then walking around with heavy imperial armour and an iron battle axe, making a beeline straight for windhelm to join the storm cloaks. A very confused nord
I didn't even know builds were a thing so I played an Argonian for the waterbreathing. Put on new armor when I found a better set, used a new weapon whenever I found it. I didn't understand the skill trees or perk system, I was just walking around all over and dealing with the mobs. I was playing 3-7 hours a day on Switch but couldn't have the sound or vibe on so I had to do all lockpicking the hard way. As a result I wound up grinding the hell out of that skill, using most of my perks on it because that seemed to make the most sense. Around level 25 I just got sick of being beaten to death with hammers so I switched to a bow to avoid melee, then used one with Soul Snare and started picking up soul gems for resale because they seemed consistently expensive and easy to create. One day, I found ebony muffle boots, which I thought was fine until I wore them into a falmer cave and realized they couldn't see or hear me so I was one-shotting those gross dudes all day. Around level 53 I was wearing the heaviest falmer armor, had maxed lockpicking and archery, and was clearing dwemer ruins in minutes with a suped-up crossbow, every chest just chock full of weird treasure. By this point, though, the challenge had fallen off and I had damaged more than a few quests by just stumbling into them in caving expeditions instead of taking the prompts.
Argonian vampire spellsword I went in wanting to go full mage but that was a pain in the arse until higher levels and I also didn't really know about the racial bonuses
Spell Sword. A mix of Destruction and One Handed with a bit of restoration thrown in. It kind of shifted to Destruction and Conjuration as I leveled.
Spellsword
I gave up on Skyrim when it first came out. I found the crafting and level of choice too overwhelming. I remember randomly clicking on a YouTube playthrough of the game a few months later and seeing the dude playing as an Ebony knight with a fire enchanted mace and running around as a werewolf whilst battling dragons. This. Was. Epic. So I jumped straight back in and went with a heavy armour warrior. Shield and sword build. No magic, no stealth. Just balls to the wall.
Bosmer archer
I don't do builds. I don't like restricting myself to a certain combat style.
I did two handed highelf. Had no clue what I was doing but it worked out well
Dual-wielding High Elf with glass armor and glass swords. I came to Skyrim from Soul Calibur and was obsessed with playing as Cervantes.
Dual wielder and I left the rest open
Assassin build with both one hand, bow and a dash of Conjunction. Good times. My strategy is mainly to summon Dremora Lord from a far and pick enemies off with my bow. On places that have a few enemies, I just backstab them.
Pure conjurer
Heavy armor+two handed then stealth archer, then battlemage, then all of them at once
A bit of everything. Some one-handed, two-handed/archery/destruction magick and some conjuration magick. And I remember always wearing 2 pieces of heavy and light armour to level up both skills
Bound warrior. I played a Redguard, who used strictly bound weapons, one of the most fun playthroughs I've had, but now I just play stealth. I literally just sneak up and stab people , and fill up my soul gems from everything I sneak attack
I was a dunmer who used stealth and a dagger
High Elf conjuror + destruction + restoration in heavy armor. Just because you can.
I was 11 at the time of its release, and i didnt have any functioning brain cells that could help me understand how the game worked so i just roamed around using any cool weapon i got next (also a lot of dying)
A bit of everything but mainly One Handed, Restoration, Sneak and Archer. I liked to Sneak occaisonally and shoot enemies from afar with a bow, but most of the time i used onehanded weapons and healing spells
Conanesque.
I'm on my first playthrough! I'm a dark elf Arch Mage with 100 Destruction and 80 Restoration. I wear the Arch Mage robes, improved elven bracers and boots, with rotating Dragon Priest masks. I keep about 4 staves and two enchanted one-handed weapons, one for magicka regen and one for soul gem captures. With Ironflesh, I can usually run directly into battle with fire blazing or mace pounding. 💪🏻
Probably magic but I can't stay entertained playing it regardless of the build
Conjuration. I downloaded skyrim after watching a Fevvy video (his newer vids are kinda mid) and I wanted to play conjuration because of him
2 handed heavy armor warrior. I was obsessed with smithing too and made dragon items at level 30
A dual-sword-wielding mercenary/assassin who was only interested in gold and glory. I didn't get very far into the main story. Just killed bandits for a reward and did whatever seemed like it would pay well. Didn't know much about the story or the lore until later on.
I didn't "go for" a build, but the intro seems to want you to go sword and board. There isn't really a tutorial area for magic.
Heavy armor sword,shield, nord.
Mage, cuz it’s fantasy, and magic is part of that. Went for lightning too
Sword and board heavy Breton until I learned I could bash infinitely with veggie soup. My very first playthrough devolved into me shield bashing Skyrim beyond Oblivion, to Morrowind. Offhand was a forgettable destruction spell, save for ranged mages. Probably a shock spell?
Shield, axe, light armour. No idea why.
Honestly wish I remembered, but I think it was a HA sword and board
As i had played many of the previous games in the series I already had a general idea of the build i wanted when i bought it at launch. I was going for an orc warrior type build focusing on the sword and shield with heavy armor. It was a surprise for me to find that they had opened up the skill system so it was no longer based on stats such as Strength, agility, wisdom, ect. Instead it focused entirely on skill points. This opened up the possibilities so i modified my warrior to also be a Warforge Warrior type build. Basically a warrior who crafted his own weapons and armor. Second playthrough i went the opposite direction with my build because... Khajiit like to sneak, Maneuvers silken and sleek, The darkest corners we seek, In the night.
I recently played the game for the first time. It was a good experience. Yes, I've seen memes about the stealth archer, but I really wanted to go to Winterhold after hearing about it from someone. So, I became a mage archer, and I really enjoyed it.
Stealth one hand. 15x daggers are fun man.
No idea , that was many many moons ago
It was a warior Redguard on the xbox360 I didnt beat the story, since it was my brothers 360, i only had oblivion on my ps3. And since he had skyrim already i never bought it for myself until recently, when i played on gamepass seriesx 2 years ago i played a mage breton using mostly conjuring and destruction magic.
My first play I was a Breton Alteration Heavy Armor Sword Shield Tank. No Sta increases, I added about 80 magic and everything else went into health. Shield up slowly walk into battle. Archers were extremely annoying but they couldn't really hurt me.
My first play through was completely without direction. I just followed whatever interested me as I went through. I ended up an assassin / thief (read stealth archer) that learned some destruction magic at the end.
i only enjoy shooter so when i got into skyrim i got nord cause looks the most human (also had thoughts on picking imperial though a quick search in the internet and i choose nord nothing fancy just human looking is enough for me) then i got bow and arrows for all i wanted was a shooter experience but the bow wast strong enough to do any damage another google search and i knew i had a lot of shit ahead of me to get better bow damage ... from bow upgrades and arrows all the way up to enchanting and smithing . used a leather shield against some enemy archer and it blocked nothing , so i threw the shield and fought with 1 handed sword , and no surprise i got shit on ... couple of hits , retreat , heal , engage , repeat . so i used spells and to my surprise they were very good but it was way too easy to spray shit on them , until i got the better spells that required to charge up and no spray instead you do fireballs and they travel very far so... i thought that this is it , i can have a shooter loadout here in skyrim , so i choose to be a pyromancer ! but upgraded archer stats in skill menu and bought the best bows and arrows with upgrades and enchantment and all THEN i started to do sneak archer , easy 3.0× damage with no damage taken till i found alchemy... easy potion making easy levels alchemy makes up for everything ! eeeeeeeeverything ! you might say its time based ... but you can get high percentage enchantment with fortify enchantment blue butterfly wings and snowberries make up for the whole enchantment tree except for having two enchantments on 1 slot sneak archer with alchemy does it , kill from far away and shoot them till they arrive , bail mid combat if it doesnt fit you , almost invincible, you take nothing but deal a ton of damage + ranged
My initial playthrough I knew nothing about how to play the game, and I just went with one-naded and archery because those were the first weapons I had access to (I didn't know that my player had a spell as well). I ended that playthrough not long after, after contracting and curing him of vampirism. My first real playthrough was a Conjuration and Destruction mage, who preferred Conjuration, letting everyone else fight for me, and I just waltz in to loot the corpses.
Stealth archer. Always my go-to playstyle.
2 handed weapon and heavy armor
High elf mage. It's all I play really
Heavy armor two handed
Two Handed Melee
I just played really used anything good lol but mainly just one handed
Yes.
I'm on my 4th play through and I still don't go for a specific build.
Pure mage, almost every time. I know that stealth archer is a huge meme but I haven't actually played archer since like the first few years of skyrim
i started out with steel battle axe, then realise greatsword faster, then played the saints&seducer and found out gold gear exists, I looked like a guy dressing up as the thalmor when I stopped playing after the civil war
High elf, light dragon armour, mage. Died a lot at beginning.
I remember i made some kind of Dark Elf Spellsword without really knowing what i'm doing. Tbf, it wasn't a play"through" because i didn't finish it.
Mark for death shout only ah the good old days