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Character Build: The Ice Princess

Tags: #Character Build Archer  #Character Build Sorcerer  #Character Build Alchemist  #Race:Imperial  #Rank:Recognized  #Dragonborn1721 
  • Member
    May 19, 2016

    yay! out of the bloodworks with you!!!

  • May 19, 2016

    Welp, that's one way to get steel plate early on.

  • May 19, 2016

    I usually just let Salma (Her name is Salma, stupid E) die, it's a lot easier and it doesn't make me feel quite as guilty. You might miss out on the Helmet, but honestly I've never really been a fan of it. 

  • May 19, 2016

    Awesome 

    Thanks to everyone so far for their likes and comments 

  • Member
    May 19, 2016

    i consoled the helmet because i am a cheater and wanted it because i love it. but, just re got forestall, so maybe ill wear a hood instead. who knows. authored, i usually kill her, but i let her get killed. i have no conscience in skyrim.

  • Member
    May 19, 2016

    yup 

  • Member
    May 20, 2016

    i had to take a break to play far harbor. I was going crazy \. will get back to her once i COOL of a bit.

  • May 22, 2016

    There's some great stuff in here.  But IMO it's not sold quite as well as it might be...

    My first niggle with this build is the name. It doesn't quite fit the roleplay somehow - perhaps because I'm literal minded and think of nobles when I think 'Princess', and the character doesn't seem to be a literal princess. More of an avenging hero. Maybe it should be called the White Avenger or something?

    Also - the first image - it's of a swordswoman, which this isn't. If you'd posted the nice screenshot of her shooting a bow at the top it would be more representative of the build. Or the picture of the mage you have at the bottom that's very nice.

    Last comment - you say this is an RP build but honestly there's some really solid mechanical stuff in here for anyone interested in using frost. I'd not though of such a synergy with archery and it looks fun, but all that goodness is 'below the fold', it's not the first thing people see when they look at the build. Perhaps I'm being a noob, but I didn't know about the slow time/stability synergy. Nor that duel casting increases the range of frost cloak. If I were you, rather than just say at the top it's an RP build, I'd mention it's about combining archery and frost magic, and that will immediately attract archery fans who are looking for something new.

  • May 24, 2016

    Sorry Plunders, I wasn't really on the site that much yesterday, but I'll get back to you now.

    Yeah, the name is really my bad. I meant to portray that she was a noble, that's why she was attacked at the start but I couldn't think of a good way to say that through the character that didn't make it sound really weird. I'll see what I can do about fixing up the wording in the Backstory. 

    True, I used it more to represent that heavy armour and ice that's present but that is a good point. 

    Ah this is the big point, and the only one I'd really disagree with. I don't think it's anything that new with Archery, I don't remember exactly what builds used it, but Frost and Archery isn't something all that new, people have definitely combined the slow nature of Frost with pinpoint Archery, so to me it wasn't that big a part of the build. I took it to a high level, along with other Frost Effects and Powers. Because of that, I decided to go down the route of RP, and everything can be linked back to that RP. The desire for power, which results in overpowered attacks comes from the backstory, and the RP added there, the skills are oriented around that Roleplaying that comes with the build.

    To me the Roleplaying is much more prominent in the build, and is the binding agent that makes it a build. Yes it has some pretty cool elements with Frost Cloak (and my favorite is the 'Forest of Runes'), Slow Time and Archery it isn't meant to be the focal point of the build. You can still see these elements as you've shown, but if the Roleplay was pitched as the secondary part of the build, it'd be looked at very differently.

    I have to thank you for the longer comment Plunders, I always enjoy getting some feedback, and it was really helpful in changing a few things about the build. Don't hesitate to leave more whenever you want, especially if you disagree with me disagreeing with you 

  • May 24, 2016

    I'll take your point about the mechanics - you've been around here a lot longer than me so things that are new and shiny for me have probably been seen by everyone a few times. :)