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Character Build: The Arcane Thief

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  • Member
    April 2, 2015

    The Arcane Thief

    This is my first ever build so please go ahead and give me feedback on how i can make this build and my futre build's better, by the way if you see any spelling errors then i'm realy sorry i'm not from England nore from America.

    Back Story - The Thief was a child in Cyrradel with a great tendancy of getting into great trubble but one day he came back home and sore the whole house in great damage and the whole family killed he charged out of his home shouting for help a group of guards came into the home and searched the place from the basement all the way up to the 3rd floor and unfortunatly found no sight of any life, so The Thief got sent to the nearest orphanage up to the age of 20 then he got sent out into the lads of tamriel to start a personal life he was tring to find some quik coin to not sleep in inns any more so ofcourse he started thief ing, he was'nt the best at what he was doing so he got cought a lot wich means he got sent to jail most of the time but once he herd 2 other prisoners talking about a very expensive Statue of Mara in Skyrim and he thought he would try he's luck there but when he got to the bourder he was cought by the inpirial's with a group of stormcloaks. 

    If you have the Alternate start mod then pick the option of "i want to escape this cell" (or something along these lines)  you where in the cell in the first place becouse the heist for the statue of mara did'nt work out.

    OK so onto the build,

    Race: Impirial - becouse of the bonus you get of finding more gold your a thief you like shiny gold coins and for the rasial ability of Voice of the Emporer with calms enamies when cought during your crimes. and the stat distribution 1/1/1 untill you hit 250 magic then 1/2

     Skills:

    Your Primary skills will be Sneak, Alchemy, illusion  -  sneak is a obvious one, Alchemy is for fortify potions and for various poisons, and illusion is for mostly invisability and calm and maybe frenzy if you wish to use that

    Your Secondary skills will be Pickpocket, Lockpick, Speach, One-handed  -  Pickpocket is to get the valiable items out of your enamies pockets remember Thieves don't kill you not from the BrotherHood anyway killing is bad for buisness, Lockpick i didn't personaly put anyperks into this becouse it's the worst skill tree in the game in my opinion but you might think something diffrnet, One-handed i only maxed out my arms man perk 5/5 just becouse it never hurts having more damage ONLY KILL IF YOU HAVE TO. 

    and the perk spread - These Are the Perks

    The Gear:

    i used the Thieves guild master anor but you can use the normal Thieves Guild armor, Linweys armor or the blackguard armor but you need dragonbord for that wich i dont, you can also use the nightangale armor but i thought that not thief look alike.

    But if you have the Blackjack mod then you can use that too to knok out your enamies and move on but then you dont raely need the magic to the build but the alchemy.

    and have a lokk out for these around the city homes :D

    Quest Lines

    You could do the Darkbrotherhood quest line like me just becouse but if you dont feel like a thief should kill then dont i did do the collage of winterhold quests too and obviosly the Thieves gild but i didnt get involved with a lot of other ones i did become a warewolf and i got the ring of hercine but tht's for a quik escape.

    Play Style:

    So you encounter a enamy still he's valiable's useing your pickpocket skills and move on maybe if you think it's too dangerous then pop a pyralasis poison in he's/her's pocket and then move on or create a distraction with a frenzy potion or spell but if you get detected then kill him/her but if there is too much enamies then use your calm spells and then take them out one by one but i just calmed them run away a little and frenzy one off them to create a distraction and get the hell out safe and sound.

    Thanks for reading my first ever build on the Skyrim blog and if you decide to try this build out then i hope you realy injoy your time .

  • Member
    April 2, 2015
    So, Miti, where are you from anyone, and also, it's actually a pretty solid effort for a first build, especially for a non Native English speaker
  • Member
    April 2, 2015

    i'm from Poland and thanks

  • Member
    April 2, 2015

    Hey Miti!

    You have a good start for a first character build here. That said there are some nitpicks. The most urgent matters you need to attend to is removing your own like and adding a perkspread. You can use this site and save then add the link to the discussion. Unless you do this, I'll have to feature your build and delete it in 24 hours from now.

    Other than this, while I don't mind it, there already is a character build called The Thief on the blog. Some people might be put off that you picked the same name. I guess English is not your first language so I'm just going to advise you to ask someone next time to proof read your build before posting it.

    In short, just remove your like, add a link with the perkspread and maybe change the name of the build. Good luck!

  • Member
    April 2, 2015

    I changed the name, removes the like and i have made a perk show as you said

  • Member
    April 2, 2015

    Good build, and I would say stuff about the spelling but since I saw you're from Poland I'll give it a break.

  • April 2, 2015

    Few spelling errors but I understand that English is not your "native Tongue" other than that, nice build, you have my kudos

  • Member
    April 3, 2015

    Hey this is actually really good +1 from me, I loved the fact that you implemented those thieves guild signs! And don't worry about the English, English isn't my native tongue either but well done!! Btw I think at the start of your build you missspelled 'Imperial' it looks like you wrote impirial instead :D  

  • Member
    April 3, 2015
    So you're not from England yet you live in England?
  • Member
    April 3, 2015

    Exchange student?