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Character Build: The Shadowmancer

Tags: #Character Build Necromancer  #Character Build Nightblade  #Character Build Assassin  #Rank:Legendary 
  • June 20, 2012

    Will be posting up a build somewhat like this but different enough to be its own

  • June 20, 2012
    Will keep an eye out for it! At this point, I don't even think it's be possible to post a wholly unique build. They're all going to share some traits with some other builds; IMO it's about conveying how the playstyle and purpose of your build stands out from the crowd.

    Hopefully Dawnguard will open up plenty more options for us all.
  • Member
    June 25, 2012

    I'm very late, but i came to the blog looking for a nightblade build, and I found what I wanted. , thanks a lot man :)

  • June 25, 2012

    Cool I like nightingales, I liked that you didn't take gear-making perks, it makes shrouded equip and nightingale's along with mehrune's items good to be used.

    Is that pic from limbonic art's album?

  • June 25, 2012
    Thanks! And lol couldn't tell ya. Just did a google image search for "Nightblade" and stumbled upon that pic one way or another.
  • Member
    June 27, 2012

    I remember running a build similar to this one quite a while back. Necromancy works very well with the assassin skill-set.but I added in some illusion and archery into mine instead of alteration. Very fun build to play.

  • Member
    June 27, 2012

    Very neat build I wish silent casting wasnt in the illusion tree it would be perfect for thid build

  • August 7, 2012

    I think that's the Spectre( Dc character).

  • August 8, 2012
    Aw my first build! Nostalgia lol. Anyway, thank you for the praise. And you know what? You'd definitely think Silent Casting would make a world of difference for any magic-using Assassin build, but it honestly wouldn't bring anything at all to the table for this guy. Your zombies are going to be lumbering around making noise anyway. I could have conveyed it better with the build, and may still update this build accordingly one of these days, but the real tactic is to assassinate as many enemies as you can and/or want to, and then go balls go the wall with the Necromancy. Sometimes I'd just take one or two targets out real quick and use them to start a chain reaction (have them kill a couple more then raise those to kill yet more and so on), but sometimes I'd actually take out an entire bandit camp except the chief or whatever with assassinations, and then use the Ritual Stone to turn his whole entire posse against him at once lol. Either way I never really missed Silent Casting, because enemies were either dead before I cast or about to have to deal with what I cast anyway.
  • Member
    August 8, 2012

    This one's pretty cool. I actually didn't think about something like this before... :D