I just stumbled upon Helgen again, it's now inhabited by bandits. Glad it didn't stay empty forever like Kvatch did.

I had the narrowest escape yesterday. Got a bounty hunt to off a dragon, managed to kill it and then immediately start getting wailed on by a mammoth. Killed me a couple of times until I escaped up a hill by the skin of my teeth after sprinting. It came back again after I went back down and looted the dragon. Managed to make it to a witches cottage where after offing the witch and looting her place I finally got away.

Seriously loving the game, so much space to explore and adventure and I never really feel hemmed in by the quests.

Stumbled into a trap where a guy down on his luck tricked me into walking into an ambush set by his bandit buddies. I had the ability to take the six or so of them, but thought that I would transform and go at them for effect. How I love being a big, furry wrecking ball. I'm sure that I'll get the option to cure my lycanthropy eventually, but I don't know if I want to do that. Being a werewolf, unlike being a vampire, doesn't require constant management; more like an 'overdrive' mode that I can turn on in a pinch. Handy stuff.

What have you assassin/Thief characters found to be your one perk perk tree? I'm putting all my focus into the sneak tree right now... but i'm half wondering if I shouldn't have gone archery first to maxmimize damage faster...

I'd say go partially into both at the same time. I found the 25% slowdown in time perk on the archery tree to be quite helpful, but the 15X multiplier to sneak damage is great too.

well I'm putting points into archery and one hand when I can but I'm keeping sneak built up as far as my level will allow.. honestly after you get to about level 6 you have enough perks in sneak already that you can do alot of damage with the bow or daggers as long as your unseen. Now that I've joined teh dark brotherhood I'm pretty much finding my groove.

That said the large boss type fights are much harder then they were when I was a mage.... as a mage you just point and click and the dragon dies before it can touch me. Now his breath is actually a major concern and getting caught without a follower is a serious pain.

Dragons are a real dnager, definitely. That's why Í'll always avoid a fight if possible, unless there's something like a fort nearby to use as cover. If a dragon catches me in the open, I just leg it... really need to get enchanting up and get some elemental protection.

But yeah, I focused on stealth, light armor, one-handed and archery at first. Didn't bother with 'steady hands' for the bow and only went to lvl 2 or 3 on the base perk for stealth (general bonus).

Imho stealth in combat is all about hitting as hard as possible on the first hit. Focus on sneak attacks, alchemy helps by making strong poisons. Sneak attack from my dagger kills pretty much anything in 1 hit, save for Centurions and probably dragons.


I've been branching off though; 2 perks in destruction to cast those runes, few perks in base enchanting, stuff like that. And perked up to glass smithing. All gear improved to legendary now, I feel so fancy. :D

They went way over the top with the sneaking, think I got 3 perks in the base
sneaking atm and I swear I could set up a drumset three feet away from someone
and he'd never notice. In broad daylight. :doh:

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Depends on the enemy. Just got spotted remarkably easily by some spellcaster, with nearly 100 in Sneak and 3 or 4 in the base perk.

If I see or hear a dragon I go running for it! But I'm crazy.

Same here. Truthfully, dragons aren't all that tough. Giants, however. Let's just say that I steer clear.

I took most my sneak tree, all except the last 2. The armor one, damage mods, and the running sneak move. I took the combat roll just for cool looking kills.:D

The biggie is the damage mods. It makes this path so worth it. Though I would throw a few points into the first archery perk, just to ramp damage and keep your bow and ammo as updated as you can afford.

Sneak is king in this game.

Edit: On a somewhat unrelated subject, equipment that adds stats in skills count as level requirements for perks. Keep that in mind, and keep all those nifty rings you find.

This.

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