Skyrim Class Choice

[bpatters69]

Hello All,

I just got the game and I am going to play it tonight and over the long weekend... yahoo! I have done some reading on the various classes and there is the standard Warrior, Mage and Thief classes. For those who have been playing for a while, which class did you like best and why? I usually go with a Mage but I have also played Warrior. I had both classes in WoW when I played it and I liked Mage better. Thx

 

[Mem]

I went mage which in Skyrim becomes overpowered later in the game,so much so you have to bump difficulty level up,however saying that I still enjoyed playing mage .

Btw going 100 in Blacksmithing and Enchanting is awesome for making your own gear and you end up crafting better gear then you can find.

 

[thejunglegod]

I played a mage too. However, you dont get to perform finishing moves like melee characters. Something like a beheading or a cool stomach stab. If you do go mage, i'd recommend going for the Conjuration tree. Cos you get a lot of gameplay options that way rather than just kiting with fireball/frostbolt/arcane bolt.

I'm still to play a melee character. :O
Its hard to find time once you start working.

 

[frozentundra123456]

Hello All,

I just got the game and I am going to play it tonight and over the long weekend... yahoo! I have done some reading on the various classes and there is the standard Warrior, Mage and Thief classes. For those who have been playing for a while, which class did you like best and why? I usually go with a Mage but I have also played Warrior. I had both classes in WoW when I played it and I liked Mage better. Thx

I played through as basically warrior and liked that class. I may not be doing it right, but I find mage harder to play, at least in the early game. Yes, you can deal a lot of damage, but you have very low health and armor, so can die easily. I also think the controls for casting are cumbersome, especially for equipping spells and switching from one to another. You have to keep straight which spell is main hand, off hand, or if you want to cast the same spell with both hands for more effect. Even worse, the spell you equip to you main(right) hand is cast with the left mouse button. Kind of makes sense in that the left mouse is your main hand, but took a lot of getting used to for me. And to switch, you have to basically pause the game, or use a hot key to switch and then cast with the mouse. It would be a lot nicer if you could just assign spells to a hotkey and cast just by hitting that key.

One of the great things about skyrim, though, is that you dont really have to limit yourself to one class. On the first playthrough, I used two handed weapons, light armor, stealth, and archery. Made a really great combination. You can use a lot more of the upgraded weapons and armor than when playing as a mage. And you can still cast spells, especially healing, although of course you will run out of manna easily because you put your points into other attributes.

 

[frozentundra123456]

I played a mage too. However, you dont get to perform finishing moves like melee characters. Something like a beheading or a cool stomach stab. If you do go mage, i'd recommend going for the Conjuration tree. Cos you get a lot of gameplay options that way rather than just kiting with fireball/frostbolt/arcane bolt.

I'm still to play a melee character. :O
Its hard to find time once you start working.

Well, you do get kind of a finishing move, in that you get the camera zeroing in and tracking you spell going to the target and knocking the crap out of it, but agreed, the finishing moves are much more spectacular for melee deaths.

 

[terry107]

I played a thief/assassin character (bow and arrow, sneak, dagger) and had a blast with it. I usually had Lydia with me to be a meat shield while I picked off enemies from a distance. The good thing about Skyrim is that you're not locked into the warrior/mage/thief archetypes and can play however you want. Want to be a warrior with magic. You can do it. Want to be a mage who can also wield two-hand weapons? You can do that as well.

There is a ton of information in the Skyrim sticky at the top of the page.

 

[Mem]

I played a mage too. However, you dont get to perform finishing moves like melee characters. Something like a beheading or a cool stomach stab. If you do go mage, i'd recommend going for the Conjuration tree. Cos you get a lot of gameplay options that way rather than just kiting with fireball/frostbolt/arcane bolt.

I'm still to play a melee character. :O
Its hard to find time once you start working.

Depends on how you play,I actually played as battlemage welding mace etc ...some of the finishing moves were very cool,end of the day its how you play your mage/character.

I had destruction,illusion,conjuration ,BS,enchanting ,lockpicking and a few more maxed out.

Conjuration maxed out is way overpowered,2 Dremora Lords can clear out most things leaving you to make a cuppa lol...

 

[zijin_cheng]

I chose a rather strange route that most people don't go.

Mage/archer, which don't complement each other at all. stealth sniping with the bow and then when discovered mage like a boss. trying to invest in conjuration to get a summon bow so I don't have to worry about arrows.

Level 30 and I feel quite powrful, can stealth 1 shot most ordinary bandits and bandit leaders in 3

 

[shortylickens]

Mage is a lot easier in Skyrim cuz of the simple spell selection and also the ability to map left and right mouse buttons.

 

[digiram]

I only want to play through the game and all that it has to offer once, so my guy is mixture of a bunch of things. I'm like a conjuraiton warrior. I love summoning the Atronoches. I was rolling two handed a lot, but I really like dual weilding now. I wanted the best eqiupment that I could build, so getting smithing and enchanting up to 100 was pretty important on my list of things to do as well. Best way to cheese at enchanting and smithing is forge a ton of iron daggers, and enchant them with whatever you can using your cheapest soul gems.

 

[tedrodai]

I haven't looked into Skyrim yet, but are you limited in the number of skills you can increase?

 

[MiataNC]

I haven't looked into Skyrim yet, but are you limited in the number of skills you can increase?

You can increase all skills to max, but you only get a limited number of "perk" points (1 at each level-up) to boost/enhance each skill. For instance you can level Illusion up to 100, but you won't get reduced the magika cost or increase the level effectiveness of Illusion spells unless you perk the Illusion tree.

As far as what class to play...

Just play and let your own style develop. Invest in perks in the skill trees you use most and enjoy the journey. There is no right way to play.

 

[shortylickens]

Also, you dont NEED to max out magicka for a mage. With the cost reduction perks and abilities to put on equipment, you can easily get by on 100 MP. I had a fighter with -100% to Restoration simply cuz of helmet, ring, and amulet. Never had to worry about healing even if the enemy drained my magicka.

 

[digitaldurandal]

My advice would be..

Don't go archer plus stealth unless you enjoy breaking game mechanics. You snipe people in the face and even if they do not die they'll stand there waiting for you to finish them. There are some mods for the PC that increase the AI a little, but the affect is marginal.

Whatever you decide to go - keep in mind that the difficulty is based on bloat, which means that no matter what you level up the enemies increase their combat skills. So if you try to make a jack of all trades you end up facing enemies that have maxed out combat way before you are ready for it. It is my only complaint about their games.

 

[marlinman]

My gal is a level 42 mage who's gonna have to start diversifying soon if she wants to get to level 80 (or whatever max level is). I'm playing on master difficulty and have yet to die too, so pure mages ain't that hard to play if you take digitaldurandal's comment to heart. I took a very deliberate approach to the skills I used, initially only increasing alteration, conjuration, restoration, lockpick, and speech. Once I maxed the first 2 and got restoration past 80, I started using destruction and enchanting. There's a few alchemy increases in there somewhere too. I'm amazed I've attained L42 by only using this small set of skills (barring a few random skill book increases). Now I have destruction and enchanting in the 80s, and IIRC can use 'muffle' and a macro to max illusion quick smart. That will exhaust my possibilities as a mage. What next for my character? Armor and a weapon, I guess!

 

[SMOGZINN]

No matter what 'class' you play you will be severely OP by the time you are 40th level.
I play a alteration-heavy spell-sword. Paralyze+Mace. level 45. I kill most things in a single hit, anything that is not dead after one hit gets paralyzed and finished off. Even ancient dragons take no more then 3-4 hits to kill. I'm not even using a way overpowered enchanted equipment, just my Molag Bal mace and the archmages robes, along with some somewhat enchanted equipment.

 

[DigDog]

Skyrim is rubbish as anything other than a demo engine.

 

[Skott]

My two fav classes is the assassin/thief and paladin. The nice thing about Skyrim is that you can be any kind of class that you can think up. You can also change the difficulty on the fly too if you need to. If something is too easy up the difficulty. If something is just too hard to kill lower the difficulty. You can pretty much tailor the game any way you want.

 

[rchiu]

There isn't really a "class", you can pick and choose any skill you want to level in.

Assuming you want to focus in mage related skills, like destruction, restoration...etc... one advise, get your enchanting skill up and get fortify destruction/or whatever mage skill you want to use.

If not, you will run out of magika quickly and mage with no magika = dead mage.

Personally, I love my conjuration mage with bound bow, get sneak and archery. great for early game until I get my other mage skill up and enchanting up to cast most powerful spells.

 

[Pr0d1gy]

The most important thing is to get alchemy, blacksmithing, and enchanting as high as possible because they all feed off each other and help you make amazing gear. Other than that it is just all up to you. I have a mage that wears no armor. I have a shadow archer that snipes people dead, quickly. I also have a couple of warriors, but you honestly will always be part warrior so it's a matter of do you want to go stealth of magic as your other tree.