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Character Build: The Morag Tong

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  • Member
    January 23, 2013

    As a follow-up, did you use any high-sneak followers with this build, or go it alone? I'm sorry for all the questions about this build as well as your other ones

  • January 23, 2013

    It's an option I guess, you would lose a little armor rating but get the benefit of double backstabs from the gloves. Muffle enchant is only 50% from the shrouded armor as oppose to the 100% guaranteed by the muffle spell so you wouldn't be wrapped in a cloak of silence...

    I don't think you need the increased damage from smithing better items, most enemies can be dropped quickly from dagger sneak attacks.

    When you 'destroy the dark brotherhood' you can pick up 'the blade of woe' from astrids corpse, that dagger has the highest base damage in the game, it ties with dragonbone but uses the steel smithing perk which is already taken in my build, grinding your way upto ebony or daedric would definitely be a waste when you could potentially pick up that dagger at low levels...

  • January 23, 2013

    I don't recall using any followers with this character, they tend to ruin the element of surprise when your using assassins...

  • Member
    January 23, 2013

    I'm using Lydia from Whiterun almost from the beginning. She wears heavy armor and ruins the element of surprise, but a lot of times I am far enough that I can poke in some arrows before the enemy draws in, at which point I let her tank it out for me. 

    Other times I just dash in with her, or I may just tell her to wait when I'm in sensitive areas.

  • Member
    January 23, 2013

    Yeah, I usually fish for this enchant at level 11 on most of my characters.  Thats the best time to do it I read.  Steel Boots of Muffle!  (disenchant)

  • Member
    January 24, 2013

    Do you have any particular 10 NPCs you usually target for the 10 kills for the Ebony Blade?

  • Member
    January 26, 2013

    Would it be possible to use Nightingale because the enchantments are great for a morag tong/nightblade. Plus it looks cool! You did not add a stat spread though. Why put blades sword as your weapon when you pick assassins blade, I don't get it. Those seem to be the only flaws. Also its possible to get expert illusion by level 6 by repeatedly casting muffle.  

  • Member
    January 26, 2013

    One last question: I don't have any of the DLC, so could Dwarven Smithing simply be dropped for something else? I wasn't sure if there was more reason for you to take it other than access to Dwarven crossbows.

  • January 26, 2013
    Yeah, do what you want with it then
  • January 26, 2013

    Dwarven smithing is still very useful for increasing your overall smithing skill, you need a smithing level of 60 to improve Linwe's set (or DB or thieves). That's alot of grinding if you just work with steel alone...

    It's your choice, you either grind at steel smithing/gold rings, or you 'waste' a perk to speed things up. A 'cleared' dwarven ruin usually yields about 15 - 20 smithing levels once you make a bunch of dwarven bows...