If you’re stuck with vanilla you’ll need to go the heavy armor route: “Steel Smithing”, “Dwarven Smithing”, “Orcish Smithing”, “Ebony Smithing” and finally “Daedric Smithing”… more for the more potent weapons than for the armor. The last of the crafting skills, your investment will change dramatically depending on your leveling goals and what version of the game you have. After this point, nothing really matters too much, but you should have enough Stamina to carry quite a bit, sprint great distances and get through most any battle, so invest in Health exclusively. Further gains should see both invested in equally (600/400 at Level 81) until you hit 700/500 at Level 101. For the Level 61 build a 500/300 split works fine. The attribute spread for this build should be fairly obvious you don’t need Magicka, so it won’t be touched, Health will be given priority, but it’s worth raising Stamina a bit, at least at first. For better or worse, though, power gains are greatly diminished after this point. Hate picking locks? Throw some perks into Lockpicking to waste less of your time. Going over Level 100 will give you more perks and attributes to play with More carry weight? Always nice to have. Level 81 used to be the level cap in vanilla, and as such even if you don’t have the Legendary Edition, Special Edition or the internet (how are you reading this, by the way?) and are playing an unpatched version of the guide, this build works for you. Still, it’s more than capable of taking on Master difficulty, and won’t require too much extra effort (beyond what levels you’ll naturally get leveling up your crafting skills and doing the quests advocated in the “How to Build a Phenom” section of the guide) on your part.įor those that are willing to do a bit more work, the Level 81+ build has fewer compromises, better defense, and a few convenience perks. This build includes just the basics, and leaves a few nice things on the table, as necessity demands. Other races will have to sacrifice some offense to get their Magic Resistance up to snuff. The two stack, giving a Breton a 50% chance to negate hostile magic outright, and a 70% resistance to anything that gets past that.

If you simply invest one item to add to this, they’ve got more than they could ever need.Īlternatively they can invest perks in Alteration tree to get +30% Magic Resistance from the aptly-named “Magic Resistance” perk, which will allow them to drop The Lord Stone and still enjoy 70% Magic Resistance and pick up The Atronach Stone for a flat 50% Magic Absorption. With the Agent of Mara and the Lord Stone, they effectively have 65% Magic Resistance with no gear whatsoever. Bretons, with their base 25% Magic Resistance, are worthy of special note for how they can function build-wise.

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