I made a huge mistake. / Build suggestions?

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Ralzar
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My weiredst experiences have been that I pacified a bunch of enemies in a dungeon. THen when I leave the dungeon, they all follow me in a clump of enemies that starts fighting between themselves. I had a ghost in flying around the sunlight with 5 humanoids running under it and shooting at it with bows.
And once they get transported with me, they forget the pacification, so I had to fight the survivors.

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Ralzar wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2019 10:23 am My weiredst experiences have been that I pacified a bunch of enemies in a dungeon. THen when I leave the dungeon, they all follow me in a clump of enemies that starts fighting between themselves. I had a ghost in flying around the sunlight with 5 humanoids running under it and shooting at it with bows.
And once they get transported with me, they forget the pacification, so I had to fight the survivors.
Another mistake I made... I thought poison was considered magic... thus spells and took spell absorbsion instead of immunity. Just gave my character a massive weakness with both desease and poison. xD Well, character is awesome otherwise so I guess I'll just get a couple restoration spell and learn to live with it. Firgured since I always open fights with magic, absorbsion would be great. (IMO, better for a magic heavy character.)

What do you think? Should I patch this issue or am I right to think I can probably work around it?

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That's one of the changes patched out: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Tes2Mod:Dagger ... to_Magicka

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Nah, the character looks fine. Allthough it looks like you just tried to game the system ;)

I'd advice you to make an RP build instead. THe game is a complete cakewalk with a min/maxed character.

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Ralzar wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2019 2:46 pm Nah, the character looks fine. Allthough it looks like you just tried to game the system ;)

I'd advice you to make an RP build instead. THe game is a complete cakewalk with a min/maxed character.
I have no idea how to build a good spellsword without cheesing it a bit. Thing is... to be able to work my thing I wanted spell absorbsion and 3x magery... Perhaps I could still cut it with lower magery but if I dont have enough magicka capacity it wont work.... And if I didn't cheese it a bit.. I would be leveling so slowly it would take forever.

Do you have an example of a decent spellsword that wouldnt cheese it too much? Online sources are kind of sparse.

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I made a spellsword build for my permadeath series: https://youtu.be/9Jpu2ngd8nc?t=3007

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Ralzar wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2019 2:46 pm Nah, the character looks fine. Allthough it looks like you just tried to game the system ;)

I'd advice you to make an RP build instead. THe game is a complete cakewalk with a min/maxed character.
Given that I basicly gave myself a massive vulnerability to poison and disease... And that absorbsion actually needs some planning. (Not even mentioning that if I am attacked by multiple magic users... it might not even manage to absorb all...) I don't think it is as broken... Now if I had taken magic IMMUNITY that would be a whole other story. I fucked up trying to cheese it and I basicly end up with a build that can die from a single poison attack... The base idea was to try and emulate a spellsword with the athronach sign in morrowind... I feel I went pretty close. I originally wanted to add the stunted magicka but since you basicly get no potions early on it would just piss me off more than necessary.

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Ended up creating a thief / somewhat assassin-ish.

Race: Khajiit

Primary: Short Blade, Lockpicking, Sneak

Major: Backstabbing, Critical Strike, Illusion

Minor: Streetwise, Mercantile, Mysticism, Running, Climbing, Archery

Stats: STR 62, INT 75, WIL 40, AGI 75, END 54, PER 42, SPD 60, LUC 40

Advantages: Expertise in Short Blade, Increased Magery 2X, Adrenaline Rush, Regenerate Health in Darkness

Disadvantages: Forbidden Weapons: Long Blade, Blunt and Axe, Forbidden Material: Orchish, Forbidden Armor Type: Plate, Darkness Powered Magery: Lowered Ability in Daylight, Critical Weakness to Diseases.

Note: So yeah, I've kept magic schools to a minimum. Illusion to help early on with bad sneak and later on with difficult enemies. And mysticism because Recall rules. Made my character a "Night Cat-Man". Should help out with dungeon and reduce considerably the resting time I need thus exposing myself to less encounter where I get jumped. Adrenaline Rush because yeah... better chance to land a killing hit before he does is always something when you don't rely on pure damage. No idea how this is going to turn out so... Yeah... What do you think?

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That looks like a pretty cool, viable build :)

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Ralzar wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2019 9:45 pm That looks like a pretty cool, viable build :)
Well... ends up boring... When I made this build I expect different tier of leather (Studded, boiled..... etc) and chain armor (Perhaps Mithril chain armor or elven chain armor.....) to exist... But no... appearantly I just gated myself from 80% of the armor types and I am stuck with the second worse one....

I mean... makes kind of sense that a thief would be using a less cumbersome armor from a roleplay perspective... (Good luck being stealthy in full plate.) but it kind of strip me from a nice feeling of progression. :(

Perhaps something modders could consider expanding....

Also cannot find a temple of arkay so far wich is my pick of diety... I'd love to find one so I can start working on my access to potions... Otherwise... without restoration magic to back myself off... im kind of boned if I get poisoned. I somehow feel this game is heavily stacked against anything but a character with restoration magic.

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