Skyrim Character Builds

[Father 'Suke]

Alright, to those who play skyrim, and those who don't, there is a thing known as character builds. Each build accents and makes the player who they are in a much better scenario with the different skills applicable to them. Now, with each build there are races that go with the build better than the others or you just like them better for their perks, looks, etc. There are also two subclasses being "werewolf" divulged from Lyconthropy and "vampire" divulged from Sanguinare Vampiris. Now, I'd just like to hear what you all consider your favorite builds, if it has a name give it, if it doesn't name it yourself. If you want you can even supply reasons as to why those are your favorite choices and such. The different skills also fall into different areas of expertise which are as follows:

• Smithing
  
• Heavy Armor
  
• Block
  
• Two-Handed
  
• One-Handed
  
• Archery
  

The Path of Shadow

• Light Armor
  
• Sneak
  
• Lockpicking
  
• Pickpocket
  
• Speech
  
• Alchemy
  

The Path of Sorcery

• Illusion
  
• Conjuration
  
• Destruction
  
• Restoration
  
• Alteration
  
• Enchanting
  

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Mine is as follows:

• The Necrosword
  
• Race: Wood-Elf
  
• Sub-race: Vampire
  
• Gender: Female
  
• Statistic Focus: Magicka 60%, Health 10%, Stamina 30%
  
• Primary Skills: Archery, Conjuration
  
• Secondary Skills: Sneak, Alchemy
  
• Stone Ability: Lover Stone
  
• Essential Perks: Eagle Eye, Twin Souls, Shadow Warrior, Green Thumb
  
• Weapons: Bound Weapons, Spells
  
• Armor: Light Armor, Mage Robes
  
• Follower: Aela the Huntress
  
• Reasoning: Now the reasoning for the following is mostly out of personal preference. I prefer the wood elves because it gives a +10 bonus to archery right off the bat. Not just that but disease and poison resistance comes in handy in dungeons as well as command animal. The archery and conjuration duo is rarely played well due to having to swap back and forth to summon forth something. However, left hand bow and right hand storm archon comes in handy as you can summon one up while then creating your bound weapon right off the bat. Makes for dangerous combinations as the storm essentially drains magicka and health when hit, add to a volley of arrows and you have a dangerous necromancer. When it comes to being hit multiple times, the sneak perk "shadow warrior" gives you some time before the enemies realize you just crouched and they start hammering you again. Plenty time to poison your weapons with that new concoction you made earlier. The follower can be anyone but I prefer the archer goddess Aela the Huntress as she is one of the companions she makes reliable aid. Even close range as a werewolf she is surprisingly good backup. Add to your vampire abilities, dangerous combo indeed.
  

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So let me ask, what's yours?
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[Tipu no Zakuji]

• The Illusionist
  
• Race: Dunmeri/Altmeri
  
• Sub-race: Vampire (Optional)
  
• Gender: Any
  
• Statistic Focus: Magicka 80%, Health 10%, Stamina 10%
  
• Primary Skills: Sneak, Illusion
  
• Secondary Skills: One-Handed, Alteration
  
• Stone Ability: Apprentice Stone
  
• Essential Perks: Quiet Casting, Master of the Mind, Rage, Master Illusion
  
• Weapons: One-Handed Weapon
  
• Armor: Light Armor, Mage Robes
  
• Follower: None
  
• Reasoning: The Illusionist is based off a build that really came into being by pure accident in a playthrough. It centers around the illusion spells that buff sneak, such as Muffle and Invisibility, as the build isn't directly built for combat. The illusionist is not a combat build and shouldn't plan on staying for a fight in which he is outnumbered. He uses the rage and fear spells to reduce the battles to mere one on one duels. The early Illusionist will have to get his hands dirty and might begin with Heavy Armor to help him with early confrontations. The adept illusionist will find that he can clear entire dungeons without being noticed: he can clear a room by forcing his enemies to fight themselves with a rage curse and then quietly finish off whoever is still living. If he is forced into situations that might not suit him, he might calm his opponent or terrorize him to temporarily incapacitate him. He will drain his chakra stores quickly and will require regeneration items to back him up. The Master Illusionist might even find himself passing through crowds of enemies unnoticed, using Illusion spells to buff his sneaking. He is able to quickly incapacitate any enemy with his masterful display of assassination that makes him a great candidate for the Dark Brotherhood.

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[Shiiro]

The Delegator
Race: Breton
Sub-race: None
Gender: Any
Statistic Focus: Magicka 100&
Primary Skills: Illusion, Conjuration
Secondary Skills: Alteration, eating while everyone kills each other around you
Stone Ability: Apprentice Stone
Essential Perks: Twin Souls, Master of the Mind, Rage, Master Illusion
Weapons: Fists
Armor: Fine Clothes
Follower: None
Reasoning:
The delegator is a boss,and does nothing on his own shy of humiliatingly beating down defenseless opponents. Walk into a room, cast a rage spell, throw a summon or two into the mix, and sip some tea. Health? Stamina? If you need those you aren't delegating properly.Once you learn paralysis from the Alteration tree, cast it on any single opponents you can find that are vulnerable to it, and beat the everloving crap out of them, with your fists. They get up before you beat them to death? Show them their powerlessness and paralyze them again. Repeat until dead or you get bored and sic your bodyguard dremora on them.

[Nameless]

The Merchant Queen

• Race: Khajiit
  
• Sub-race: Werewolf
  
• Gender: Female
  
• Statistics Focus: Stamina 60%, Health 40%
  
• Primary Skills: Heavy Armor, Speech
  
• Secondary Skills: Block, Smithing
  
• Stone Ability: Lady Stone
  
• Essential Perks: Fists of Steel, Deadly Bash, Master Trader, Daedric Smithing
  
• Weapons: Spellbreaker
  
• Armor: Daedric Armor (full set)
  
• Follower: Serana
  
• Reasoning: I wanted to make a fun merchant character who wasn't completely useless in battle. Khajiit have a natural bonus to unarmed, and that combined with the Fists of Steel perk and Fortify Unarmed enchantments on gloves and ring actually yield a formidable damage output without the need for weapons. In addition to the skill trees above she would also eventually max out Alchemy, Enchanting, Lockpicking, Stealth, and Pickpocket for maximum crafting and looting abilities. She would usually run without any weapons equipped because it's the only way to get kill cut scenes with Unarmed, but she has Spellbreaker in reserve because it's a: the best shield in the game hands down and b: having all the shield perks allows you to deal massive damage to enemies (I've one-shotted base Dragons) in addition to granting the ability to disarm and knock them over. Serana is the choice of follower due to the fact that she's both unkillable and her Magicka abilities can clear out rooms of high leveled foes without you even having to land a single blow. She's also one of the few followers with a decent Sneak skill level. Werewolf is mostly for fun (it's a cat that turns into a dog, and that's hilarious) and it fits the unarmed theme of the character. Gender is female because Allure perk in the Speech tree gives you better prices with the opposite sex and most of the vendors in Skyrim are male. Basically the goals are to loot anything that can be used for crafting, craft all the things, and travel vendor to vendor buying whatever materials they have and selling all of your crafted items/potions to them. Rinse. Repeat.

Also, there isn't much more satisfying than punching Alduin to death.