All the recent talks about TES games made want to play some. I already had Skyrim installed with mods waiting for me to jump in. I want to try to not be OCD mechanical and just enjoy it (and maybe finally play through the main quest for once).
My problem is that I hate the lack of major/minor skills. Making your own class in older games made it easier for me to stick to certain skills and not wander off too much. In Skyrim, I'm lost. In the span of one hour, I went from stealthy archer, to mage to sword&board fighter in light armor on the same character.
So I got some questions:
- how hard is it to fight a dragon with sword&board/two-hander at low level if I follow the main quest early?
- how important are smiting/enchanting/alchemy if you don't want to be destroyed by monsters? (from previous experience Skyrim have quite a few HP sponge enemies, I remember getting two-shot by a bounty boss in a cave system that my thief could only take 1/3 of the HP with dual dagger (best type for my level) power sneak attack at x6 damage after my thief one-shot all the other enemies in the cave)
- how evil is the level scaling past level 25 (never went higher than that)
On the good side, my character already did some small jobs like selling firewood, potatoes, cabbages and punching a guy in the face for harassing a widow.
My problem is that I hate the lack of major/minor skills. Making your own class in older games made it easier for me to stick to certain skills and not wander off too much. In Skyrim, I'm lost. In the span of one hour, I went from stealthy archer, to mage to sword&board fighter in light armor on the same character.
So I got some questions:
- how hard is it to fight a dragon with sword&board/two-hander at low level if I follow the main quest early?
- how important are smiting/enchanting/alchemy if you don't want to be destroyed by monsters? (from previous experience Skyrim have quite a few HP sponge enemies, I remember getting two-shot by a bounty boss in a cave system that my thief could only take 1/3 of the HP with dual dagger (best type for my level) power sneak attack at x6 damage after my thief one-shot all the other enemies in the cave)
- how evil is the level scaling past level 25 (never went higher than that)
On the good side, my character already did some small jobs like selling firewood, potatoes, cabbages and punching a guy in the face for harassing a widow.
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