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Hello all!

I'm playing a thief/assassin again.

I need some input, I'm spreading my points more widely this time, so enchanting and alchemy are big parts. I'm looking for a decent poison addon as I want that to be part of my playstyle as well.

Anyway, what magic is best as I'm only going to use one hand, not dual wield. Still annoyed they have not fixed the bug with 2 daggers of the same name but both upgraded favorited causing issues when switching.

I'm thinking alteration for invisibility... But it's kind of hard to level up... So any suggestions would be good.

Also, any clues on the best armor? I sneak, use bow most of the time, but like to use dagger when I can as it adds more sport to the game.

Plus, the DB armor looks awful. Spandex outfit.

Also, I don't know why, but I'm killing FAST but I'm taking a tonne of damage, so squishy. Mage like squishy! Any ideas on how to combat this?

Any other tips for a thief/assassin would be grateful!
 
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agnes said:
Hello all!

I'm playing a thief/assassin again.

I need some input, I'm spreading my points more widely this time, so enchanting and alchemy are big parts. I'm looking for a decent poison addon as I want that to be part of my playstyle as well.

Anyway, what magic is best as I'm only going to use one hand, not dual wield. Still annoyed they have not fixed the bug with 2 daggers of the same name but both upgraded favorited causing issues when switching.

I'm thinking alteration for invisibility... But it's kind of hard to level up... So any suggestions would be good.

Also, any clues on the best armor? I sneak, use bow most of the time, but like to use dagger when I can as it adds more sport to the game.

Plus, the DB armor looks awful. Spandex outfit.

Any other tips for a thief/assassin would be grateful!
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The theifs guild/dark brotherhood light armor would be best I think... Echantment might be a good one to learn and blacksmith to make your own armor to your style.

Easy way for blacksmithing would be to create daggers or something, slow but effiecent.
 
I'm making about 50 daggers every few levels as I'm mining, buying ores and what have you.

I'm only level 10 but have a glass bow and a glass dagger. Wearing the full spandex DB armor outfit.

Also, I'm walking everywhere I go, very rarely using fast travel. Which means I'm finding tonnes of leather. And makes the game so much more interesting!
 
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I nearly always play as a sneaky rogue based character so here is my advice.

Get this mod for DB armour: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/9752//? It is assassins creed inspired and there are several colour variations, it is also very well made.

Best rogue armour is the Nightingale Armour, however it is one of the very few levelled sets in the game so either get one of the many mods which allow you to level it as you go or don't get it till level 20 AT LEAST, its best form is lv34. It looks a bit rough without mods but there are LOADS which make it look far better.

Don't bother with poisons to be honest, they are either crap or broken.

For magic as a rogue character you want Alteration and a bit of Illusion.

Illusion gives you Fury and Calm which are very helpful. Alteration gives you Muffle, Detect Life/Dead and the +Armour spells.

Illusion is a bitch to level, however just use it regularly and you will get it up, I wouldn't bother with Invisibility as it costs a tonne of Magicka, doesn't last very long and over all is kinda silly. Leveling Alteration is much easier, use Muffle and Detect regularly and your best armour spells every time you get into combat.

Regardless of armour spells you are going to be squishy as a rogue, that is just the way it is.

qotsa said:
Is the DLC worth getting?
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I would say so yes, Dragonborn especially is very enjoyable.
 
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Dude, thank you!!! That armor looks awesome. I got the nightingale armor on an old character. Will do it after the DB and mage guild quest line I think. Need to actually finish the main story this time!

I have a mod that keeps spells on all the time, unless magicka is drained... Can't remember the name of it. It's slowly increasing my alteration.

Again, thanks :)
 
Halfway through what I plan to be my last ever playthrough of this game. If I don't say that to myself, I'll never play any of the new games coming out and just keep going back to the start every time I encounter a game breaking crash. I must have at least 3 Assassin's Creeds to do, Bioshock, Crysis 3, 2 need for speeds, and Resident Evil Revelations and a some DLC off Sleeping Dogs.

Not had many bugs this time around, and the ones I have encountered I've managed to get round by console commands, which touch wood, haven't caused any long term save problems yet.
 
Wow Karstaag is tough, managed to escape, will have to go back later. Had a look on the UESP and he is level 90, I am only 35 :).

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I've just started again as a 2H/Heavy class.

It's tough! Previous were a Mage (only lvl ~35) and a Bow/Dagger Assassin (60) which were quite easy as you could kite most dangers.

With melee, things become more tricky! Level 20 and I've died far more times than I'd like to admit :D This time around I'm making full use of the Trainers (5 times per level) to get some annoying skills levelled like Alchemy and Speech.

And this is the first time I've levelled BS since they patched the "craft eventy-thousand daggers" approach, so things take a little longer.
 
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I've just started again as a 2H/Heavy class.

It's tough! Previous were a Mage (only lvl ~35) and a Bow/Dagger Assassin (60) which were quite easy as you could kite most dangers.

With melee, things become more tricky! Level 20 and I've died far more times than I'd like to admit :D This time around I'm making full use of the Trainers (5 times per level) to get some annoying skills levelled like Alchemy and Speech.

And this is the first time I've levelled BS since they patched the "craft eventy-thousand daggers" approach, so things take a little longer.
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This might be your problem :). Now you are levelling up faster with training so enemies are tougher, but your combat skills are lower.
 
just installed this again. Never tryed it with mods before so thought i would give it a whirl... installed the high res texture pack any other advice on what graphics mods i should get to make this look even better?
 
I just got my first skill up to 100. Not that I was trying for it it just happened... and in Enchanting too. If you'd told me at the start that that would be the thing I got the highest skill in I'd have said "no way". Also never dreamed I'd be an almost pure archer by now. Never saw that one coming either. My house at Lakeview manor just got attacked by bandits, I have a stash of black soul gems waiting to be filled. Bring it on, boys.

Managed to get smithing to 94 so far not by spamming daggers, but surprisingly just by making huge amounts of leather armour from re-using fur and other armour that I'd "acquired" but also as I have one of those smelting mods that lets you melt down all the metal junk in the game not just dwemer but old pots and pans, tankards and the like that there seems to be mountains of but no use for whatsover. Well, I put them to good use for sure.

Also something I'd not expecting to like so much, adopting kids. Its a lot of fun. Which kind of offsets what a disappointment marriage ingame is. Its a dull and curiously loveless affair.

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With melee, things become more tricky! Level 20 and I've died far more times than I'd like to admit :D
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Heh, I found combat frustrating too. Until I sorted archery out, then it become something I could deal with comfortably. I probably should have started out as an Orc or somesuch, I don't think khaajits are cut out to be melee combat warriors.

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This might be your problem :). Now you are levelling up faster with training so enemies are tougher, but your combat skills are lower.
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Thats true too, and the only trainers I employed were archery because I switched to it from regular combat and restarting the game from scratch really wasn't an option, and pickpocketing because its a handy skill to have sometimes and going about it the "proper" way is far too tedious.
 
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Skyrim Help

Bought the game on release and played it for months. Then other games came out and I stopped playing. Went back to it tonight and picked up some loot and now I'm over encumbered. I've checked my Controls and can't find the key to drop an item. Google did not help.

How do I drop items ?
 
Convenient Horses is a great mod; the horse call feature is pretty cool. I hate the horse combat though, it's really difficult to use especially as an archer.

Do many people both with mounted combat?
 
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