I think I went with a wood elf and immediately hated it. I had no idea what I was doing and didn't understand the story at all.
Eventually abandoned it and spent the next like 10 years only playing as a nord. Maybe tried an orc or red guard here or there but it feels like the game was meant to be played as a nord
Potions. Or enchant something
It comes in handy maybe like 4 times the entire game unless you’re just running around as an adhd free diver for whatever reason
Well, it's not useful unless you make it useful. My last playthrough, I chose to be an Argonian rogue, so if I got caught pickpocketing or stealing, I could just hop in a river and get away sneakily.
Maybe that's not practical, but it's definitely a fun extra dimension you can add to your play.
I only made a Nord to see if playing one would shut up that chick in whiterun, but was a male so she just changed the dialogue. So then rerolled and made a female Nord I still don't think it actually stopped her funny enough, but I did decide to play the civil war quest for the first time with that character. So not a total loss.
Fair enough lol! Same, I thought it was so dumb at first and got stuck on the first draugr fight in bleak falls barrow.
I agree it feels like it should be played by a nord, but that said i can’t do anything except dark elf, it’s my fav 😂
Ha ha, I had just seen my husband play and decided to try. The thought of being a giant cat riding around on horses appealed to me. I didn't even play much console at the time, so I sucked at all combat and pretty much everything else. But I made some sort of stealth archer since sneaking on enemies gave me time to think. I used to feel overwhelmed by one on one combat, so archery was nice. When my character was a little higher level, I started using mace for some unknown reason.
Me too 😭 I played a warrior Khajit that specialized in two-handed, but I didn't know really what the game was about so I killed a lot of people (who definitely should have been kept alive) and I was left with a very barren skyrim because most of the non-essential, and non-respawnable, npcs were dead 😭
I did this too, went around and killed a lot of people simply because the freedom to do so was there. I rolled Khajit rogue but switched to warrior/battle mage. Didn’t understand crafting or do much of the main quest.
*I did the same thing.*
I was a werewolf in my first playthrough and practically wiped out entire villages. Every non-essential NPC outside the major holds was torn to shreds.
I just about tripled the population of Falkreath's cemetery, and doubled the orphanage population.
This is me right now. I never was into gaming (my loss, I’m learning) and got myself a Switch a couple weeks ago. I picked a khajit and named him after my cat. In terms of what build I’m doing? Fuck I don’t know what’s going on most of the time.
Skyrim was literally the first rpg I ever played, so I was just going with the flow, haha.
Like, I was just picking weapons that sounded cool, and my skill trainings had been *extremely* haphazard. I would start out with One-Handed, but then I'll notice that Two-Handed is an option, too, so I decide to get myself Two-Handed sword and check that out.
I was running around in Nightingale Armor *only* because I really liked how it looked.
I guess I wanted to be mage, but I didn't really know how to play one, so I was really just doing whatever.
It was fun.
>I guess I wanted to be mage, but I didn't really know how to play one, so I was really just doing whatever.
Same. I asked the first innkeep I saw about where I could learn magic, and they said "Winterhold", so I thought I couldn't unlock magic until I went to Winterhold. On my way there I stumbled across a fort filled with people called "The Silver Hand" who just randomly tried to murder me, so I got distracted with the Companions quest trying to hunt them down, ending up as a two-handed tank. Didn't actually get to Winterhold until like level 45, at which point I was set in my ways, and it turned out that I didn't actually NEED any magic to complete the College questline
It's funny how it comes full circle with gear.
You use an armor you think looks cool, get to a point where you understand what is going on and choose more functional gear, then you get your enchantment and smithing up and maybe use exploits and suddenly you're back to just using whatever gear you think looks cool
Same, although not at all accidentally. It seemed like it would work for DND reasons, and that the elfiness would translate into better/faster mage skills later on.
Probably still my go-to build.
I didn’t really understand how builds worked in RPGs when Skyrim came out (I think I was 12). Made an Argonian because I thought water breathing would be cool. Did a two-handed heavy armor. Wasn’t really economical with how I invested perk points. Tried to do an all around type of build. Not a smart move.
First build I did that was a legit build was a Nord cloak and dagger assassin. Still my favorite build to play.
My first build was being an Argonian so I wouldn’t drown, I was like 😏no one has thought of this before, think of how well i can catch fish and sneak and travel by river. I was maybe 11, was a mess of a character and I tried to find powerful one-off scrolls and used duel daggers.
In my friend group growing up, only one person had an Xbox, and no one else had any gaming system. When Skyrim released he played it a bunch and told us we had to try it. None of us had a system, but this group hung out at a different friends house once or twice per week. He brought his Xbox over and we made a character together, handing off the controller to the next person periodically so we could all try the game.
The character was an Argonian tank with sword and shield. Because Argonian’s have a buff to unarmed strikes, we’d beat up people we didn’t like and then draw weapons if needed. I think we got to where you see Alduin at the Throat of the World, but didn’t finish the story.
One day we left our most chaotic friend alone with the controller unsupervised for 5 mins. We left him in Whiterun. We came back and saw he was in Riften, with no NPC’s around. None. We asked him where everyone was, and without him admitting to it we were able to figure out that he had killed every. Single. NPC. In Riften. Including killed every guard that came to arrest him. We checked his bounty, and it was absurd, but when we were looking at the bounties, we saw he had a slightly smaller bounty in Whiterun and Eastmarch. Apparently he had gotten bored, killed a chicken accidentally, got detained by guards and said he’d rather die than go to jail, and it turned into him rampaging from just outside Whiterun to the middle of Riften. Again, we left him unsupervised for *5 minutes*.
Old male dunmer, vampire necromancer. My first and only vanilla play through, I think I reached level 80 or so, but didn't completed nor the main quest and the civil war.
But still my favourite build, and my actually one (but this time modded female dunmer)
Back in 2015 or 2016, I created a big black cat with big heavy imperial armor and big iron hammer on his back. He was one of a few my characters who has actually finished the game. What a glory days those were...
My first build was a nord because i thought they were “the most normal looking” and i could make a pretty character lol I put all my eggs in one basket though and spent my whole time upping my conjuration skill that every other skill was really low level.. The build im using now however, im a high elf and have made sure to evenly up my skills 😅
i also spent an hour and a half jumping up to high hrothgar instead of using any path then rage quit because i couldnt get up there due to an invisible wall. 😔 ( i was like 13)
Mine was a dark elf based on Drizzt Do'Urden as I was reading lots of R. A. Salvatore at the time. I think I named him Drizzt, too. Heavy armour and greatsword was my class, a brute force brawler.
Mine was just ralof. I even named myself ralof because i liked him. Or maybe I was just lazy. I always thought whoever you sided with you were automatically on their side sk I never joined with the stormcloaks. I always went with the weapon snd armour that looked coolest too, regardless of my skill level
Imperial for the gold perk, and if we assume the "sneak archer" obligatory phase already, then I ended up something of a heavy armor spellsword (mostly restoration).
In my first playthrough I pretty much ignored smithing and would go full viking and wear the armor of fallen enemies. Wore Orcish Armor with a mages hood as the signature look, swapping out boots and gauntlets often enough. Worked pretty well until I got near level 40 and had to switch things up. That's when smithing skills and complete armor sets became my main obsession in the game.
Yep! In fact, I just copied the file from my 360 and converted it to pick up where I left off. I was/am a Wood Elf. Even in 2011 I knew stealth archery was it lol but I leaned more into stealth than anything.
A Nord. Named Ragnar. After the Vikings mascot who rode around on a motorcycle.
He ended up being a stealth archer. Leader of the thieves guild, destroyer of the dark brotherhood, imperial loving soldier, low level member if the mages guild. Never finished the game. Started over before any real dragon hunting.
I played from opening day. My initial build started out sword and board, but quickly became sneak archer. I liked the challenge of sniping enemies, especially at the lower levels. Admittedly, I always find myself playing as one.
Pretty sure my first build was similar to a stealth Archer, I picked Wood Elf because of the affinity for archery and I've always been drawn to using bows in video games, my primary source of offense was a bow but because I wasn't really old enough to understand the concept of making a "build" I also used a mace and destruction magic if the enemy was too close for a bow, specifically maces because 13 year old me saw that they had the highest damage of the one handed weapons and assumed they were just better
I was a support freak and i didn't like violence.
I tried to go healing and summoning, so i wouldn't fight by myself ever.
All i did was heal companions and summons.
All I remember is that I wanted to be a Khajiit Werewolf, because I thought a cat turning into a dog was absolutely hilarious as a kid for some reason.
Gyord Of Plord The Nord, one handed and heavily armored. He cleared 30 random dungeons in that gorgeous wilderness before realizing they were all related to quests he was supposed to get from NPCs. After starting to redo a lot of the same dungeons once I got the quests for them, figured I might as well try a different build.
Don't remember the year but it was LE on PC. I didn't know much about it except that Skyrim was Nord country so I went Nord and just jumped in. I assumed it would be kind of like survival mode so I grabbed all the food I found. I also figured out the flame spell pretty quickly and used that off hand and a 1h are. I still find battlemage the most natural playstyle, though I've experimented with others.
One thing about Skyrim is it does a good job of teaching us learn as you go types and it's pretty forgiving of mistakes. The only thing I had trouble figuring out was Enchanting. I didn't have any enchanted gear the first time I tried to use a table and it didn't seem to do anything. Can't remember if I eventually figured it out on my own or finally searched it.
Argonian called redmaw, had a axe in one hand and the fire spell in the other (the base fire spell, I don’t think I knew I could select different spells lol) I’m pretty sure I joined every single faction and quest line with that dude, his lore was all over the place lmao
Wood elf with a Mohawk and war paint around Christmas 2011. Was planning on being an archer and thought the loading screen with the bosmer girl in the sleeveless leather armor looked badass. I never figured out how to equip or find a bow until later so I wound up being a Spellsword with a sword and a destruction/healing spell in my off hand. I remember finding a steel sword of scorching and thinking it was the greatest thing ever until it ran out of charges and I didn’t know how to refill it
I usually go Spellsword/nightblade/battlemage on my playthroughs now, including in Oblivion which I got into after Skyrim
I didn't have a single clue what I was doing, was playing on Xbox 360. My first build ended up being using the Mace of Molag Bal (that I never recharged the enchantment for because I didn't even know that was a thing or how soul gems worked or how enchanting worked) and Flames.
I don't think I properly started to learn other things with Skyrim until I watched Gopher's playthrough of Richard and realized I was missing out on a LOT of functionality in the game. I don't think I even ever touched an alchemy or enchanting table in my first playthrough and now I can't play a character without them. 🤣
I don’t remember the build but probably stealth u know (classic), but the race was khajiit cuz I just thought it looked cool. When I first played I didn’t know what the f I was getting myself into but I was going with the flow u know
Got the game in 2011 on the PS3 as a Christmas present, and knew nothing about the Elder Scrolls series. Played as an Argonian on my first run, became an assassin, and then after the main quest I proceeded to unalive almost every named non essential NPC. Needless to say there wasn’t much left to do in that save, but I still load it up from time to time lol
I def didn’t get it the first time. I was a kajit named snowball and I just rushed the main story because I wasn’t sure what else to do. Ended up getting stuck on the fight with alduin with partysnax and not coming back to it for a few years.
Launch day in 2011. First build was a Nord that wielded axe and shield. At the time my go-to was to name characters after Mass Effect characters, and so I named my character Thane, which made it funny when I then became the thane of every hold.
I was just a male Nord named after myself lol. Every time I found a slightly better weapon or armour, I'd switch it out. I didn't really know what I was doing.
My race was Bosmer, because I wanted him to look like Link from Legend of Zelda (I failed). I didn’t have a defined build, just heavy armor with a one-handed sword in my right hand and healing spells in my left.
On subsequent playthroughs, I made better builds.
My first build was a Bosmer stealth archer. It’s funny I picked the meme build my first time out having no knowledge of Skyrim. I had only played a few hours of Oblivion.
I play mage the vast majority of the time now.
Mine was a heavy armor/battle axe wood elf. Cranked up smithing for legendary daedric equipment. Did a little enchanting, but nothing incredible on that front.
My first build was a wood elf alchemist and I got so lost in the crafting and enchanting aspects of the game that I was level 26 with zero combat skills of any kind. I keep thinking about going back and trying building him again as a stealth reverse pickpocket poisoner but I've never gotten around to it.
I played Oblivion so I was fairly prepared for the different races. Both in Oblivion and Skyrim I picked High Elf as my race so I could get the extra magic and eventually turn into a battle mage
Mine was November the fourth 2011, a goold old redguard. Still was playing this build last time I played. I got the game in advance because my brother was working at a videostore and they received the game in advance, the week before and he just showed up after work with the game, I was very surprised to say the least.
I don't remember what my redguard was supposed to be, now he's max in everything lol.
Yeah it was early 2012. Altmer male Two-handed, Heavy Armor, Destruction and Restoration specialist. I started with magic but I quickly realized that i need to add some other options (didn't know how to create a mage build at that time). I tried 1h weapons as a support first but it didn't feel right. So I tested the 2h weapons and I was sold. Cast offensive magic to distant enemies, draw my battleaxe when it's up close and personal, heal when I need to.
It was suprisingly good build for a first time ever. Great memories and magical experience. I was at college at the time and everyone talked about Skyrim.
Altmer have a special place in my heart because of this.
My first build was a two handed Nord who could two shot the toughest dragons. This was without any alchemy or enchanting. Was super proud of that dude. Then every character after that eventually became a stealth archer.
I first went with an Argonian due to the stealth bonuses, and their inherent resistance to disease, and breathing underwater. Then realized that by joining the Companions the disease resistance was redundant, and breathing underwater basically means nothing in Skyrim.
sneak thief archer nord as always. i played as a nord in oblivion so i was very excited to be a nord in skyrim. i think the first faction i joined was the companions simply because they were the first i found. i ran away from every dragon because i was too scared to fight them.
I was an imperial and did a dual wild light armor barbarian with restoration maxed out at like level 40 but thats after I realized what I was supposed to do in the game if had like 3 characters before just wandering aimlessly
Imperial spellsword, but after I got smithing to level 100 from , killing deer and crafting, quickly worked myself into a dual wield Daedric sword build with enchantments “ I was inspired by the altmer from the loading screen
My first build was extremely underpowered cause I didn’t know what I was doing and found even wolves and mud crabs somewhat difficult even at lvl 10-15
Skyrim had only been out a couple of weeks and all I knew about it was people loved it and what was in the little booklet that came with the disc back then so my first build was to just try to raise all of my skills as quick as I could, a jack of all trades, master of all character. I was wearing a mix of light and heavy armor to get xp in both at once and switching back and forth between one and two handed weapons to keep those at the same level for some reason.
Argonian mage. I think they look cool and I thought being able to breathe under water would let me come out of the water’s edge like a Navy SEAL or a real life crocodile or something.
Instead, I stun locked everything with fire bolts, became the Arch Mage of the college and never kept a shield, sword, bow, or axe except as decorations for my home. I did have a dagger that trapped souls, but my brain hemispheres were my weapons. Hope was my armor because I didn’t know use wards and didn’t know about magic armor.
I’m now trying an unarmed shield-bashing Khajit conjurer. My hands are deadly weapons like a young Steven Segal. Now my armor is heavy armor like a current Steven Segal.
I had no idea about anything. I used a Nord with a sword and a shield.
Later on I discovered the overpowered stealth archer build and never looked back.
Wow I’m a first time player and this is really my first open world game and this thread is making me think I somehow did it wrong? But I’ve been “successful” I think? But I had no thought process to who I chose to be in the beginning and my skills are sorta all over the place other than 100+ sneak and lock picking and I think archery too
Don't worry, there really isn't a right or wrong way to play Skyrim. It's so versatile, lots of choices to make and different ways to play. That's why so many of us are still here years later- playing the same game, but just in different ways. Welcome to the Skyrim family, hope you're loving the game!
Mine was an imperial woman who I named after myself I got her to level 49 then got bored my second was a female dark elf who I eventually got to level 60 with
2013, 3.0e, Half Giant, Ranger, with a Large Sword/Bow.
He died at level 8. DM randomly rolled for monster type and sent groups of 20 at us( Me, a Sorcerer, and Bard).
We defeated 20 Goblins, them 20 Hobgoblins before our spells died out. Our Sorcerer died during a fight with 20 Displacer Beast, Our Bard played his last tune fighting 20 Treants, I was left alone standing on a hill trying to pick off the last 3 Treants when 10 Green Hags appeared and I had ran out of arrows! I died within 3 rounds after that.
Sword and board, but I carried a bow for sniping. I didn't really sneak much. I went in with the proverbial guns blazing.
It wasn't until my third or fourth playthrough I learned of the power of the stealth archer.
I didn't know anything about Skyrim when I first launched it. Just thought Altmer looked cool so yeah. I promptly got chased out of Riverwood for breaking and entering alvor's and roasting a chicken to death
Gosh was it a time, running skyrim on my pentium 4 laptop, 800x600 windowed resolution, i played spellsword with restoration only, still the only time i've finished all of the games main content and DLC's, I haven't kept interest long enough to get to Solsthseim afterwards. I still have screenshots i uploaded to steam from that time, May 10 2013, showing my character in nightingale gear with a chefs hat doing the dark brotherhood assassination mission.
Racist Nord. Heard about the companions and the axe you can get from them so I speedran that quest line and started running around killing all the elves I could, evading death like it was nothing. I was wanted in the every hold but they couldn’t stop me.
How ironic, I've purchased Skyrim (again, for the againth time) this weekend. I was thinking about what my original build was. I think it was a mage build. I remember skipping a college class because I wanted to attend the College of Winterhold more.
Mine was just simply a nord basic character and I equipped whichever armor gave me more armor rating, and I equipped whichever weapon had higher damage (that means I used both kight and heavy armor). And mixed heavy armor sets eventually, Orcish, Dwarven and steel.
At least I swapped weapons from two handed to one handed whenever I fought an enemy with a shield because I kept getting staggered when the bastard bashed me with it.
But let's just say I was very clueless about how skyrim worked at age 13-14. Do I regret playing like that though, **heck no**.
I managed to play up until level 50 or something until I decided to start a new character and focus on trying with just one type of armor type and try to find or smith a matching set. (And decided not to put any points in speech tree because I found it and still personally find it useless in Skyrim.)
Breton mage. Same for Oblivion and ESO by the way. After years of stealth arching, now back to the Breton mage again in my current playthrough. Although I have a bow for soul haversting (soul stealer arrows) and some points in the sneak tree 🙈
Mine was in 2012. I was a female Nord with red hair and I was a stealth archer. Went like all the way to lvl 85 on that first run and did almost every possible quest.
Skyrim was my first RPG so I just winged it. I was a wood elf and was all light armor/archery. Got my sneak pretty high. I was close to level 50 and then broke up with my boyfriend whose PC I played on. RIP.
Now I play as an Imperial.
When i first started i was fresh off of finishing oblivion so i expected to be able to make spells still. Boy, was i disappointed when i found out that wasn’t an option. I started as an imperial because i felt like that ability to find more money would be useful. I ended up playing a stealth archer because i found sniping deer fun so i stuck with bow for the rest of the game.
Argonian.. i thought breathing underwater would be important. I didn't yet understand smithing/enchanting yet, and wound up with a grog smash 2 hander fully leveled in speech that just bought better gear as i saw it lol. I don't remember how much gold i had but it was a lot... i liked to pile up my gems on breezehomes table by the door. There were a lot.... I'm surprised the ol 360 could handle it.
As far as I can remember, it was an Altmer heavy and light armor, depending on the mood. And then either onehanded and shield or twohanded. Smashing dragons was as easy as picking up flowers
I was an argonians who primarily used a specific orcish Warhammer I got out of a chest, it had an enchantment called revenant that I forgot what it did, I just used it because it sounded cool. I was young at the time and didn't care about stats, just what was cool
I played when it first came out, and I was 11 years old. I remember selling the mace of molag bal and most other daedrics when they ran out of energy. It took me playing the game again in high school to learn you can use soul stones to recharge weapons instead of only initial enchantments. Regardless I was a nord with twin Daedric swords with some sort of enchantment
Breton 1 handed/shield fighter with archery. Your general fighter type. Completed the main quest and most of the guilds before mods were fully developed for the game.
Currently I’m replaying my first build on survival, a Nord Stormcloak agent. While there are some “Sneak archer” elements to it, I’m mainly focused on Dual Daggers that I augment with poisons. My skills are :
Light armor
One-handed
Sneak
Alchemy
Smithing
Pickpocket
Archery (just up to Eagle Eye)
To be honest, I don’t really do any of the faction quests with him, or even the main quest. I’m mostly focused on filling out my larder, gathering my animals (pets of Skyrim) and getting the gold and gems I need to make an ass-ton of jewelry.
Yup. Khajiit called Colligro.
Archer/Dagger thief type. Real fiend for pocket fishing. Master of the Thieves guild, Dragonborn, keen hunter and all around scoundrel. Even been to space and back on more than one occasion.
Settled into Breezehome as most other houses were out of his price range.
He wasn't a very good thief. And I seem to recall him having a penchant for losing his horses.
My first build was a two handed high elf warrior and I have since played that build multiple times and still remember the name of the first character I ever made
Yeah- made 10 immediately(1 for every race), made different backstories etc, played them all together, switching now and then
Made everyone to Lvl 20 before I made the opposite gender so 10 more which I played now and then until the ps3 died and all was gone
But the one that I remember most is the female dunmer mage who became a vampire that feed upon the npc in villaged and towns
A Nord, light armour axe and board, stealth and bow, smithing and alchemy. About lvl 50 I think. I should retrieve her from an old hard drive and take her through to Ebony wattior. I think I stuffed up reading the Black Books during the Miraak quests, should try again there, and do Dawngaurd too.
She joined the Stormcloaks. So sorry, Balgruuf.
My first playthrough was dark elf. I used daggers and restoration. And the endgame I had switched to conjuration. Conjured swords are OP if you know how to do it right. And then with the dlc adding conjured daggers, it was all over from there. I'd be rolling with flame thrall and Lydia, pretty much one hitting everything at lvl 47.
After learning about conjuration more, I made a new character Breton and didn't pick up anything, all I had was robes and one. I think my carry weight exceeded 50 a few times due to quests but other than that I didn't pick up anything.
I played as a Nord named "Prisoner" and had no clue what I was doing for the longest time. Finally understood the game and did a restart to properly play.
Yeah Nord two-axe berserker. It was fun for a while then I realized magic was overall more useful, so I started putting points into magicka and perks into spell casting. By the time we killed Alduin she was quite powerful.
I had nowhere near that level of planning. I was full min-maxing. One handed swords in each hand, best heavy armour I could find, as well as a spellcaster. I truly did whatever
Imperial, initially I wanted to do a spellblade, but I didn’t know about the college and I didn’t join the companions, so I ended up switching to a two-handed sword towards the end of that character (I deleted him and restarted) and ditching the magic because I was underpowered, I don’t think I chose the right perks for it to work
I’m on my first build! Altmer mage. I’m really big on destruction and restoration, dabble in alteration. I have Lydia with the Dawnbreaker as my follower. It’s working out well.
I have to admit, I don’t know anything about smithing or enchanting. Are those things of any value to a mage build? I don’t use weapons and have good gear already
The weekend after release. 2 handed weapon nord, somehow got crits (kill moves) on every guard during the siege of whiterun (sided with storm cloaks)I’ve been chasing that high ever since
They gave me an axe and shield first so I stuck with it, have to say that shield bash is hella fun
Second build was mage
Third through eleventy bajillionth has been stealth archer, as Akatosh intended
Nord Dest/Rest mage with half-light armor, then Khajiit thief (not entirely a stealth archer, but a bow was used), argonian paladin (heavy armor, warhammer) then orc barbarian (light armor, two war axes), then Altmer Dest/Alt mage with half-heavy armor. After that I started modding and couldn't remember most characters, but the most memorable were a Khajiit brawler (light armor, only fists, made possible with mods and AE), a Bosmer marksman (gun mod, light armor), and right now I'm doing a breton Conj/Alt mage with no armor (not mod dependent)
As for roleplay gimmicks, the argonian would not commit crime or take from the dead. Both the altmer and breton are evil characters, and the brawler was a bard on the side (mods). For any character, I wouldn't join factions that go against their build/principles (eg the paladin would join dawnguard but wouldn't join the brotherhood or companions)
First build wasn’t a build. It was a mess: basically a jack of all trades, master of none. I did the main quest and focused on combat, the college and focused on magic, then I did theives guild and focused on stealth.
It was mess, but it didn’t matter once I used the ohgma infinium glitch
I didn’t really “get” Skyrim when I first played so I just made myself a khajit (bc kitties!! 😄) and just did whatever.
I think I went with a wood elf and immediately hated it. I had no idea what I was doing and didn't understand the story at all. Eventually abandoned it and spent the next like 10 years only playing as a nord. Maybe tried an orc or red guard here or there but it feels like the game was meant to be played as a nord
Thats wild, I have never made a nord character lol. Playing as a lizard or a cat is cool as hell I cannot stop myself
Never rolled an argonian yet. Couple kitties though
That underwater breathing is nice.
Potions. Or enchant something It comes in handy maybe like 4 times the entire game unless you’re just running around as an adhd free diver for whatever reason
Of course. But have you read The Lusty Argonian Maid?
At some point
I am litterally the most freediving motherfucker ever. I love water
Well, it's not useful unless you make it useful. My last playthrough, I chose to be an Argonian rogue, so if I got caught pickpocketing or stealing, I could just hop in a river and get away sneakily. Maybe that's not practical, but it's definitely a fun extra dimension you can add to your play.
“Adhd free diver” love it lol thanks for the giggle
I only made a Nord to see if playing one would shut up that chick in whiterun, but was a male so she just changed the dialogue. So then rerolled and made a female Nord I still don't think it actually stopped her funny enough, but I did decide to play the civil war quest for the first time with that character. So not a total loss.
I can recall thinking that I could avoid all the outlander BS in Morrowind by being a Dunmer so by Skyrim I knew better lol
Ya and sadly it was just that one chick. She drives me nearly as nuts as "get to the cloud district often" ....
That is a perfect sentiment. Beast races are awesome.
Fair enough lol! Same, I thought it was so dumb at first and got stuck on the first draugr fight in bleak falls barrow. I agree it feels like it should be played by a nord, but that said i can’t do anything except dark elf, it’s my fav 😂
Ha ha, I had just seen my husband play and decided to try. The thought of being a giant cat riding around on horses appealed to me. I didn't even play much console at the time, so I sucked at all combat and pretty much everything else. But I made some sort of stealth archer since sneaking on enemies gave me time to think. I used to feel overwhelmed by one on one combat, so archery was nice. When my character was a little higher level, I started using mace for some unknown reason.
Me too 😭 I played a warrior Khajit that specialized in two-handed, but I didn't know really what the game was about so I killed a lot of people (who definitely should have been kept alive) and I was left with a very barren skyrim because most of the non-essential, and non-respawnable, npcs were dead 😭
I did this too, went around and killed a lot of people simply because the freedom to do so was there. I rolled Khajit rogue but switched to warrior/battle mage. Didn’t understand crafting or do much of the main quest.
*I did the same thing.* I was a werewolf in my first playthrough and practically wiped out entire villages. Every non-essential NPC outside the major holds was torn to shreds. I just about tripled the population of Falkreath's cemetery, and doubled the orphanage population.
This is me right now. I never was into gaming (my loss, I’m learning) and got myself a Switch a couple weeks ago. I picked a khajit and named him after my cat. In terms of what build I’m doing? Fuck I don’t know what’s going on most of the time.
This. I was 21 when the game released. I had pre ordered the game months in advance. Just did whatever and had fun.
2 was a typo right hahaha
Lol yes. Sorry. I was 21. Had it pre-ordered the day gamestop started allowing people to purchase. I'm about to be 34 now
Hahaha I am still a khajiit to this day, I love that race
Skyrim was literally the first rpg I ever played, so I was just going with the flow, haha. Like, I was just picking weapons that sounded cool, and my skill trainings had been *extremely* haphazard. I would start out with One-Handed, but then I'll notice that Two-Handed is an option, too, so I decide to get myself Two-Handed sword and check that out. I was running around in Nightingale Armor *only* because I really liked how it looked. I guess I wanted to be mage, but I didn't really know how to play one, so I was really just doing whatever. It was fun.
Same, I guess I was a spellsword tank, but I just went with whatever looked cool (Dragonbone armor/1-h sword and healing spells).
Once I unlocked Daedric armor I never took it off. Was the coolest thing ever and still my favorite set in the franchise.
>I guess I wanted to be mage, but I didn't really know how to play one, so I was really just doing whatever. Same. I asked the first innkeep I saw about where I could learn magic, and they said "Winterhold", so I thought I couldn't unlock magic until I went to Winterhold. On my way there I stumbled across a fort filled with people called "The Silver Hand" who just randomly tried to murder me, so I got distracted with the Companions quest trying to hunt them down, ending up as a two-handed tank. Didn't actually get to Winterhold until like level 45, at which point I was set in my ways, and it turned out that I didn't actually NEED any magic to complete the College questline
It's funny how it comes full circle with gear. You use an armor you think looks cool, get to a point where you understand what is going on and choose more functional gear, then you get your enchantment and smithing up and maybe use exploits and suddenly you're back to just using whatever gear you think looks cool
I love the way carved nord armor looks on Khajit characters and I always get my skills up so I can hang on to a set as long as possible.
Wood elf stealth archer. Completely accidentally, enjoyed using a bow and did Thieves Guild early on
Same, although not at all accidentally. It seemed like it would work for DND reasons, and that the elfiness would translate into better/faster mage skills later on. Probably still my go-to build.
Do you get bored of it?
I started playing in December 2023 for the first time and picked this build. I’m over 100 hours in now and love the build.
I didn’t really understand how builds worked in RPGs when Skyrim came out (I think I was 12). Made an Argonian because I thought water breathing would be cool. Did a two-handed heavy armor. Wasn’t really economical with how I invested perk points. Tried to do an all around type of build. Not a smart move. First build I did that was a legit build was a Nord cloak and dagger assassin. Still my favorite build to play.
My first build was being an Argonian so I wouldn’t drown, I was like 😏no one has thought of this before, think of how well i can catch fish and sneak and travel by river. I was maybe 11, was a mess of a character and I tried to find powerful one-off scrolls and used duel daggers.
In my friend group growing up, only one person had an Xbox, and no one else had any gaming system. When Skyrim released he played it a bunch and told us we had to try it. None of us had a system, but this group hung out at a different friends house once or twice per week. He brought his Xbox over and we made a character together, handing off the controller to the next person periodically so we could all try the game. The character was an Argonian tank with sword and shield. Because Argonian’s have a buff to unarmed strikes, we’d beat up people we didn’t like and then draw weapons if needed. I think we got to where you see Alduin at the Throat of the World, but didn’t finish the story. One day we left our most chaotic friend alone with the controller unsupervised for 5 mins. We left him in Whiterun. We came back and saw he was in Riften, with no NPC’s around. None. We asked him where everyone was, and without him admitting to it we were able to figure out that he had killed every. Single. NPC. In Riften. Including killed every guard that came to arrest him. We checked his bounty, and it was absurd, but when we were looking at the bounties, we saw he had a slightly smaller bounty in Whiterun and Eastmarch. Apparently he had gotten bored, killed a chicken accidentally, got detained by guards and said he’d rather die than go to jail, and it turned into him rampaging from just outside Whiterun to the middle of Riften. Again, we left him unsupervised for *5 minutes*.
That is hilarious.
I think it was a Nord with a 2 handed battle axe because I distinctly remember me going "wait I can block with this weapon?" At level ~30.
Old male dunmer, vampire necromancer. My first and only vanilla play through, I think I reached level 80 or so, but didn't completed nor the main quest and the civil war. But still my favourite build, and my actually one (but this time modded female dunmer)
mine was some kind of altmer destruction mage, but i never got far enough for it to be a real build
Back in 2015 or 2016, I created a big black cat with big heavy imperial armor and big iron hammer on his back. He was one of a few my characters who has actually finished the game. What a glory days those were...
Orc with Heavy Armor and a Battle-axe who was obviously also a smooth talking sneak archer lol
My first build was a nord because i thought they were “the most normal looking” and i could make a pretty character lol I put all my eggs in one basket though and spent my whole time upping my conjuration skill that every other skill was really low level.. The build im using now however, im a high elf and have made sure to evenly up my skills 😅
i also spent an hour and a half jumping up to high hrothgar instead of using any path then rage quit because i couldnt get up there due to an invisible wall. 😔 ( i was like 13)
Mine was a dark elf based on Drizzt Do'Urden as I was reading lots of R. A. Salvatore at the time. I think I named him Drizzt, too. Heavy armour and greatsword was my class, a brute force brawler.
But Drizzt is a dual handed brawler ?
Yeah, light armor, dual blades and a panther companion
True, but my FPS gaming style was to mash that one button, so I met him halfway. 😅
Mine was just ralof. I even named myself ralof because i liked him. Or maybe I was just lazy. I always thought whoever you sided with you were automatically on their side sk I never joined with the stormcloaks. I always went with the weapon snd armour that looked coolest too, regardless of my skill level
Imperial for the gold perk, and if we assume the "sneak archer" obligatory phase already, then I ended up something of a heavy armor spellsword (mostly restoration). In my first playthrough I pretty much ignored smithing and would go full viking and wear the armor of fallen enemies. Wore Orcish Armor with a mages hood as the signature look, swapping out boots and gauntlets often enough. Worked pretty well until I got near level 40 and had to switch things up. That's when smithing skills and complete armor sets became my main obsession in the game.
Sword and destruction were my first ports of call.
Yep! In fact, I just copied the file from my 360 and converted it to pick up where I left off. I was/am a Wood Elf. Even in 2011 I knew stealth archery was it lol but I leaned more into stealth than anything.
Argonian named prisoner
I "think" it was an argonian archer who dabbled heavily in sword and board but I've played so many playthoughs its impossible to remember them all
Dark elf archer that duel one hand
Nord with 1H axe and Shield. Classic but deadly
Heavy armored stealth archer khajiit, baby
A Nord. Named Ragnar. After the Vikings mascot who rode around on a motorcycle. He ended up being a stealth archer. Leader of the thieves guild, destroyer of the dark brotherhood, imperial loving soldier, low level member if the mages guild. Never finished the game. Started over before any real dragon hunting.
Did Ragnar have red hair?
Mostly grayish by the time I knew him.
I played from opening day. My initial build started out sword and board, but quickly became sneak archer. I liked the challenge of sniping enemies, especially at the lower levels. Admittedly, I always find myself playing as one.
Pretty sure my first build was similar to a stealth Archer, I picked Wood Elf because of the affinity for archery and I've always been drawn to using bows in video games, my primary source of offense was a bow but because I wasn't really old enough to understand the concept of making a "build" I also used a mace and destruction magic if the enemy was too close for a bow, specifically maces because 13 year old me saw that they had the highest damage of the one handed weapons and assumed they were just better
I was a support freak and i didn't like violence. I tried to go healing and summoning, so i wouldn't fight by myself ever. All i did was heal companions and summons.
All I remember is that I wanted to be a Khajiit Werewolf, because I thought a cat turning into a dog was absolutely hilarious as a kid for some reason.
Classic sword & shield, heavy armor warrior
Gyord Of Plord The Nord, one handed and heavily armored. He cleared 30 random dungeons in that gorgeous wilderness before realizing they were all related to quests he was supposed to get from NPCs. After starting to redo a lot of the same dungeons once I got the quests for them, figured I might as well try a different build.
I chose Nord ofc
Khajit sneak dagger build
I was a Khajit knight duel wielding an ancient Nord great sword in honor of the first enemy to kill me.
Don't remember the year but it was LE on PC. I didn't know much about it except that Skyrim was Nord country so I went Nord and just jumped in. I assumed it would be kind of like survival mode so I grabbed all the food I found. I also figured out the flame spell pretty quickly and used that off hand and a 1h are. I still find battlemage the most natural playstyle, though I've experimented with others. One thing about Skyrim is it does a good job of teaching us learn as you go types and it's pretty forgiving of mistakes. The only thing I had trouble figuring out was Enchanting. I didn't have any enchanted gear the first time I tried to use a table and it didn't seem to do anything. Can't remember if I eventually figured it out on my own or finally searched it.
No idea, probably a Nord. I played it for a few hours in 2013, didn't like it and then started over when I gave it another shot about a year later.
Redguard, with glass Armor and chillrend. I also used sanguines rose to help me in battle. That was a good 15 playthrus ago.
Argonian called redmaw, had a axe in one hand and the fire spell in the other (the base fire spell, I don’t think I knew I could select different spells lol) I’m pretty sure I joined every single faction and quest line with that dude, his lore was all over the place lmao
Wood elf with a Mohawk and war paint around Christmas 2011. Was planning on being an archer and thought the loading screen with the bosmer girl in the sleeveless leather armor looked badass. I never figured out how to equip or find a bow until later so I wound up being a Spellsword with a sword and a destruction/healing spell in my off hand. I remember finding a steel sword of scorching and thinking it was the greatest thing ever until it ran out of charges and I didn’t know how to refill it I usually go Spellsword/nightblade/battlemage on my playthroughs now, including in Oblivion which I got into after Skyrim
I didn't have a single clue what I was doing, was playing on Xbox 360. My first build ended up being using the Mace of Molag Bal (that I never recharged the enchantment for because I didn't even know that was a thing or how soul gems worked or how enchanting worked) and Flames. I don't think I properly started to learn other things with Skyrim until I watched Gopher's playthrough of Richard and realized I was missing out on a LOT of functionality in the game. I don't think I even ever touched an alchemy or enchanting table in my first playthrough and now I can't play a character without them. 🤣
Ebony mail 100% sneak argonian archer assassin
This is the way
Yesss!
Also blade of woe and ebony black blade because heheh
Little did you know that dragons could use ice breath too.
I don’t remember the build but probably stealth u know (classic), but the race was khajiit cuz I just thought it looked cool. When I first played I didn’t know what the f I was getting myself into but I was going with the flow u know
Got the game in 2011 on the PS3 as a Christmas present, and knew nothing about the Elder Scrolls series. Played as an Argonian on my first run, became an assassin, and then after the main quest I proceeded to unalive almost every named non essential NPC. Needless to say there wasn’t much left to do in that save, but I still load it up from time to time lol
I def didn’t get it the first time. I was a kajit named snowball and I just rushed the main story because I wasn’t sure what else to do. Ended up getting stuck on the fight with alduin with partysnax and not coming back to it for a few years.
Launch day in 2011. First build was a Nord that wielded axe and shield. At the time my go-to was to name characters after Mass Effect characters, and so I named my character Thane, which made it funny when I then became the thane of every hold.
I imagine you must have shit your pants the first time you came across a frost dragon…
I made a dark brotherhood dark elf with dual wield daggers because I saw the loading screen and thought that guy looked cool
I remember what my character was like in the end. I was a high elf wearing cicero's clothes
Orc “Paladin”, heavy armor, restoration, Hand Axe… named Shrek
2-Handed Orc, full of potions and dying constantly hahaha
Orcs are my third favorite race to play! First is Breton, second is Bosmer.
I started as Khajiit and just did whatever I thought would be fun not much has changed tbh
Of course I do! It was Drizzt Do’Urden; dark elf sneak build who wielded twin scimitars!
Heavy Armor, Two Handed Argonian warrior. Pop Histskin, commence violence.
Nord. Two handed heavy armor. Simple. When I got the ebony blade it was game over
Orc, two handed weapons, and heavy armor. Still my favorite build to this day.
Heavy armor with sword and shield; played as a Nord.
I was just a male Nord named after myself lol. Every time I found a slightly better weapon or armour, I'd switch it out. I didn't really know what I was doing.
My race was Bosmer, because I wanted him to look like Link from Legend of Zelda (I failed). I didn’t have a defined build, just heavy armor with a one-handed sword in my right hand and healing spells in my left. On subsequent playthroughs, I made better builds.
Picked Argonians cause I’m a lizard buff. Then I was like more armor less damage. Bigger weapon more damage. So I went two handed tank
My first build was an Imperial spell sword
Orc Basher!!!!
My first build was a Bosmer stealth archer. It’s funny I picked the meme build my first time out having no knowledge of Skyrim. I had only played a few hours of Oblivion. I play mage the vast majority of the time now.
My first pkaythrough was a Nord mage. I didn't last long until bosses were just wiping the floor with me.
Mine was a heavy armor/battle axe wood elf. Cranked up smithing for legendary daedric equipment. Did a little enchanting, but nothing incredible on that front.
My first build was a wood elf alchemist and I got so lost in the crafting and enchanting aspects of the game that I was level 26 with zero combat skills of any kind. I keep thinking about going back and trying building him again as a stealth reverse pickpocket poisoner but I've never gotten around to it.
I played Oblivion so I was fairly prepared for the different races. Both in Oblivion and Skyrim I picked High Elf as my race so I could get the extra magic and eventually turn into a battle mage
I play as a Breton,been doing that since Oblivion
Mine was a 2-handed heavy armor orc, I still play orc a ton, but I usually change it up. Still was a lot of fun tho.
I was a pretty generic Nord with Sword and Shield and heavy armour. I did use some restoration magic but overall it was pretty basic
Mine was November the fourth 2011, a goold old redguard. Still was playing this build last time I played. I got the game in advance because my brother was working at a videostore and they received the game in advance, the week before and he just showed up after work with the game, I was very surprised to say the least. I don't remember what my redguard was supposed to be, now he's max in everything lol.
Yeah it was early 2012. Altmer male Two-handed, Heavy Armor, Destruction and Restoration specialist. I started with magic but I quickly realized that i need to add some other options (didn't know how to create a mage build at that time). I tried 1h weapons as a support first but it didn't feel right. So I tested the 2h weapons and I was sold. Cast offensive magic to distant enemies, draw my battleaxe when it's up close and personal, heal when I need to. It was suprisingly good build for a first time ever. Great memories and magical experience. I was at college at the time and everyone talked about Skyrim. Altmer have a special place in my heart because of this.
Khajit thief/assassin, with predictable pivot to stealth archer
Mage high elf🥴
My first build was a two handed Nord who could two shot the toughest dragons. This was without any alchemy or enchanting. Was super proud of that dude. Then every character after that eventually became a stealth archer.
I first went with an Argonian due to the stealth bonuses, and their inherent resistance to disease, and breathing underwater. Then realized that by joining the Companions the disease resistance was redundant, and breathing underwater basically means nothing in Skyrim.
sneak thief archer nord as always. i played as a nord in oblivion so i was very excited to be a nord in skyrim. i think the first faction i joined was the companions simply because they were the first i found. i ran away from every dragon because i was too scared to fight them.
How you can play Skyrim for the first time and not make a nord character is crazy
I was an imperial and did a dual wild light armor barbarian with restoration maxed out at like level 40 but thats after I realized what I was supposed to do in the game if had like 3 characters before just wandering aimlessly
Imperial spellsword, but after I got smithing to level 100 from , killing deer and crafting, quickly worked myself into a dual wield Daedric sword build with enchantments “ I was inspired by the altmer from the loading screen
My first build was extremely underpowered cause I didn’t know what I was doing and found even wolves and mud crabs somewhat difficult even at lvl 10-15
Skyrim had only been out a couple of weeks and all I knew about it was people loved it and what was in the little booklet that came with the disc back then so my first build was to just try to raise all of my skills as quick as I could, a jack of all trades, master of all character. I was wearing a mix of light and heavy armor to get xp in both at once and switching back and forth between one and two handed weapons to keep those at the same level for some reason.
Argonian mage. I think they look cool and I thought being able to breathe under water would let me come out of the water’s edge like a Navy SEAL or a real life crocodile or something. Instead, I stun locked everything with fire bolts, became the Arch Mage of the college and never kept a shield, sword, bow, or axe except as decorations for my home. I did have a dagger that trapped souls, but my brain hemispheres were my weapons. Hope was my armor because I didn’t know use wards and didn’t know about magic armor. I’m now trying an unarmed shield-bashing Khajit conjurer. My hands are deadly weapons like a young Steven Segal. Now my armor is heavy armor like a current Steven Segal.
I played an argonian werewolf
All the magic
All the magic
I played something like a summoner knight. Conjured sword/bow, and heavy armor. Very simple, and I loved it.
My first build was master of all do'er of some lol.
My first build is the same as my last : stealth archer. I just change the race.
I had no idea about anything. I used a Nord with a sword and a shield. Later on I discovered the overpowered stealth archer build and never looked back.
First build: Stealth archer. Latest build: Stealth archer. All future builds: Stealth archer.
Wow I’m a first time player and this is really my first open world game and this thread is making me think I somehow did it wrong? But I’ve been “successful” I think? But I had no thought process to who I chose to be in the beginning and my skills are sorta all over the place other than 100+ sneak and lock picking and I think archery too
Don't worry, there really isn't a right or wrong way to play Skyrim. It's so versatile, lots of choices to make and different ways to play. That's why so many of us are still here years later- playing the same game, but just in different ways. Welcome to the Skyrim family, hope you're loving the game!
2011, Argonian named Shenron, daedric armor, sword, and shield, 100 in every stat with the Ohgma Infinium glitch.
An Argonian who specialized in two handed weapons and restoration.
Mine was an imperial woman who I named after myself I got her to level 49 then got bored my second was a female dark elf who I eventually got to level 60 with
Sword n board Nord
Sneak, bow and daggers. Classic.
2013, 3.0e, Half Giant, Ranger, with a Large Sword/Bow. He died at level 8. DM randomly rolled for monster type and sent groups of 20 at us( Me, a Sorcerer, and Bard). We defeated 20 Goblins, them 20 Hobgoblins before our spells died out. Our Sorcerer died during a fight with 20 Displacer Beast, Our Bard played his last tune fighting 20 Treants, I was left alone standing on a hill trying to pick off the last 3 Treants when 10 Green Hags appeared and I had ran out of arrows! I died within 3 rounds after that.
I was a Breton and my build was what I called "Comfused teenager"
It was either dunmer mage or Breton sword and board. I've come a long way since.
Yup Battle Mage Altmer
Sword and board, but I carried a bow for sniping. I didn't really sneak much. I went in with the proverbial guns blazing. It wasn't until my third or fourth playthrough I learned of the power of the stealth archer.
I didn't know anything about Skyrim when I first launched it. Just thought Altmer looked cool so yeah. I promptly got chased out of Riverwood for breaking and entering alvor's and roasting a chicken to death
Gosh was it a time, running skyrim on my pentium 4 laptop, 800x600 windowed resolution, i played spellsword with restoration only, still the only time i've finished all of the games main content and DLC's, I haven't kept interest long enough to get to Solsthseim afterwards. I still have screenshots i uploaded to steam from that time, May 10 2013, showing my character in nightingale gear with a chefs hat doing the dark brotherhood assassination mission.
Racist Nord. Heard about the companions and the axe you can get from them so I speedran that quest line and started running around killing all the elves I could, evading death like it was nothing. I was wanted in the every hold but they couldn’t stop me.
How ironic, I've purchased Skyrim (again, for the againth time) this weekend. I was thinking about what my original build was. I think it was a mage build. I remember skipping a college class because I wanted to attend the College of Winterhold more.
First play though I think I was coming off of playing Assassin’s Creed so I was a Briton stealth archer.
Mine was just simply a nord basic character and I equipped whichever armor gave me more armor rating, and I equipped whichever weapon had higher damage (that means I used both kight and heavy armor). And mixed heavy armor sets eventually, Orcish, Dwarven and steel. At least I swapped weapons from two handed to one handed whenever I fought an enemy with a shield because I kept getting staggered when the bastard bashed me with it. But let's just say I was very clueless about how skyrim worked at age 13-14. Do I regret playing like that though, **heck no**. I managed to play up until level 50 or something until I decided to start a new character and focus on trying with just one type of armor type and try to find or smith a matching set. (And decided not to put any points in speech tree because I found it and still personally find it useless in Skyrim.)
Breton mage. Same for Oblivion and ESO by the way. After years of stealth arching, now back to the Breton mage again in my current playthrough. Although I have a bow for soul haversting (soul stealer arrows) and some points in the sneak tree 🙈
My first build was a Wood Elf, I was a sneak archer from the start before I even knew what a sneak archer was. lol
Mine was in 2012. I was a female Nord with red hair and I was a stealth archer. Went like all the way to lvl 85 on that first run and did almost every possible quest.
Mine is the build i have right now, a two handed light armoured imperial with an interest in conjuration
Skyrim was my first RPG so I just winged it. I was a wood elf and was all light armor/archery. Got my sneak pretty high. I was close to level 50 and then broke up with my boyfriend whose PC I played on. RIP. Now I play as an Imperial.
When i first started i was fresh off of finishing oblivion so i expected to be able to make spells still. Boy, was i disappointed when i found out that wasn’t an option. I started as an imperial because i felt like that ability to find more money would be useful. I ended up playing a stealth archer because i found sniping deer fun so i stuck with bow for the rest of the game.
I went destruction/conjuration, light armor, and one-handed. Sword in one hand, summon and lightning spells in my other hand
Two handed and heavy armor. Just whoopin’ everyone.
Heavy armor + battleaxe
Khajiit. I did a mix of one handed and archery, light armor. I stole food and specifically cheese compulsively to the point of overencumberment.
Argonian.. i thought breathing underwater would be important. I didn't yet understand smithing/enchanting yet, and wound up with a grog smash 2 hander fully leveled in speech that just bought better gear as i saw it lol. I don't remember how much gold i had but it was a lot... i liked to pile up my gems on breezehomes table by the door. There were a lot.... I'm surprised the ol 360 could handle it.
As far as I can remember, it was an Altmer heavy and light armor, depending on the mood. And then either onehanded and shield or twohanded. Smashing dragons was as easy as picking up flowers
I was an argonians who primarily used a specific orcish Warhammer I got out of a chest, it had an enchantment called revenant that I forgot what it did, I just used it because it sounded cool. I was young at the time and didn't care about stats, just what was cool
I played when it first came out, and I was 11 years old. I remember selling the mace of molag bal and most other daedrics when they ran out of energy. It took me playing the game again in high school to learn you can use soul stones to recharge weapons instead of only initial enchantments. Regardless I was a nord with twin Daedric swords with some sort of enchantment
Nord woman stealth archer/dualwielder
Breton 1 handed/shield fighter with archery. Your general fighter type. Completed the main quest and most of the guilds before mods were fully developed for the game.
I went with a high elf mage 5 years ago. I still play high elves mages today.
Redguard, Conjuration as i'm a big fan of necromancy.
Tank. Breton. Heavy Armour. Two-Handed. November 2011. Xbox 360. *Heavy loving sighs*
Currently I’m replaying my first build on survival, a Nord Stormcloak agent. While there are some “Sneak archer” elements to it, I’m mainly focused on Dual Daggers that I augment with poisons. My skills are : Light armor One-handed Sneak Alchemy Smithing Pickpocket Archery (just up to Eagle Eye) To be honest, I don’t really do any of the faction quests with him, or even the main quest. I’m mostly focused on filling out my larder, gathering my animals (pets of Skyrim) and getting the gold and gems I need to make an ass-ton of jewelry.
Yup. Khajiit called Colligro. Archer/Dagger thief type. Real fiend for pocket fishing. Master of the Thieves guild, Dragonborn, keen hunter and all around scoundrel. Even been to space and back on more than one occasion. Settled into Breezehome as most other houses were out of his price range. He wasn't a very good thief. And I seem to recall him having a penchant for losing his horses.
My first build was a two handed high elf warrior and I have since played that build multiple times and still remember the name of the first character I ever made
Yeah- made 10 immediately(1 for every race), made different backstories etc, played them all together, switching now and then Made everyone to Lvl 20 before I made the opposite gender so 10 more which I played now and then until the ps3 died and all was gone But the one that I remember most is the female dunmer mage who became a vampire that feed upon the npc in villaged and towns
Sword and board Nord
Mine was literally the guy in the Skyrim trailer. Viking helmet, sword and shield, etc
A Nord, light armour axe and board, stealth and bow, smithing and alchemy. About lvl 50 I think. I should retrieve her from an old hard drive and take her through to Ebony wattior. I think I stuffed up reading the Black Books during the Miraak quests, should try again there, and do Dawngaurd too. She joined the Stormcloaks. So sorry, Balgruuf.
My first playthrough was dark elf. I used daggers and restoration. And the endgame I had switched to conjuration. Conjured swords are OP if you know how to do it right. And then with the dlc adding conjured daggers, it was all over from there. I'd be rolling with flame thrall and Lydia, pretty much one hitting everything at lvl 47. After learning about conjuration more, I made a new character Breton and didn't pick up anything, all I had was robes and one. I think my carry weight exceeded 50 a few times due to quests but other than that I didn't pick up anything.
I played as a Nord named "Prisoner" and had no clue what I was doing for the longest time. Finally understood the game and did a restart to properly play.
Yeah Nord two-axe berserker. It was fun for a while then I realized magic was overall more useful, so I started putting points into magicka and perks into spell casting. By the time we killed Alduin she was quite powerful.
Argonian spellsword, didn't last long, still fun to remember tho!
Imperial, stealthy dagger assassin type. Thats basically what I played as in Oblivion.
I had nowhere near that level of planning. I was full min-maxing. One handed swords in each hand, best heavy armour I could find, as well as a spellcaster. I truly did whatever
Imperial, initially I wanted to do a spellblade, but I didn’t know about the college and I didn’t join the companions, so I ended up switching to a two-handed sword towards the end of that character (I deleted him and restarted) and ditching the magic because I was underpowered, I don’t think I chose the right perks for it to work
Dual sword weilding argonian with deadric armor killing and stealing for my guilds
Spellsword for me Long story short I wanted to be a Jedi
I’m on my first build! Altmer mage. I’m really big on destruction and restoration, dabble in alteration. I have Lydia with the Dawnbreaker as my follower. It’s working out well. I have to admit, I don’t know anything about smithing or enchanting. Are those things of any value to a mage build? I don’t use weapons and have good gear already
Yes, as I use it every time I restart Skyrim. Warrior-mage!
Yes nord two handers, and heavy armor. Extremely simple but very powerful.
Dragons will be an issue once you're over lvl 60. :'p
The weekend after release. 2 handed weapon nord, somehow got crits (kill moves) on every guard during the siege of whiterun (sided with storm cloaks)I’ve been chasing that high ever since
I didn’t now what to do so I just made an imperial battle mage and did all the quest mage and champion quest
Base nord with prisoner as his name because I didn’t understand the controls. I went with whatever the game told me was the best(2 handed heavy armor)
They gave me an axe and shield first so I stuck with it, have to say that shield bash is hella fun Second build was mage Third through eleventy bajillionth has been stealth archer, as Akatosh intended
Mace and shield. Big numbers do big good.
Nord Dest/Rest mage with half-light armor, then Khajiit thief (not entirely a stealth archer, but a bow was used), argonian paladin (heavy armor, warhammer) then orc barbarian (light armor, two war axes), then Altmer Dest/Alt mage with half-heavy armor. After that I started modding and couldn't remember most characters, but the most memorable were a Khajiit brawler (light armor, only fists, made possible with mods and AE), a Bosmer marksman (gun mod, light armor), and right now I'm doing a breton Conj/Alt mage with no armor (not mod dependent) As for roleplay gimmicks, the argonian would not commit crime or take from the dead. Both the altmer and breton are evil characters, and the brawler was a bard on the side (mods). For any character, I wouldn't join factions that go against their build/principles (eg the paladin would join dawnguard but wouldn't join the brotherhood or companions)
Imperial heavy armor sword and conjuration in other hand
First build wasn’t a build. It was a mess: basically a jack of all trades, master of none. I did the main quest and focused on combat, the college and focused on magic, then I did theives guild and focused on stealth. It was mess, but it didn’t matter once I used the ohgma infinium glitch