This is my first build, and I am terrible at formatting things. That should be very apparent. This is uninspired garbage.
I'm also bad at introductions, so anyway, I present to you my first actual build.
Skyrim Build: The Last Dragonborn (The trailer character.)
Backstory: Anything you want, there really isn’t any backstory that’s canon.
Race: Nord. Use preset 1, and move the ‘hair color’ slider over to the right 3 ticks.
Attributes: 1/1/1 (M/H/S)
Standing Stone: The Lord; extra defense and magic resistance.
Equipment - Armor
Headwear: Iron Helmet - Enchant with Fortify Archery.
Body Armor: Studded Armor - Enchant with Fortify Health.
Hands: Iron Gauntlets - Enchant with Fortify One-Handed.
Feet: Iron Boots - Enchant with Fortify Stamina.
Shield: Banded Iron Shield - Enchant with Fortify Magic Resistance or Fortify Block. Either one will work.
Ring: The Ring of the Beast. 100 points of extra health and 20 points of extra unarmed damage.
Neckwear: Amulet of Talos. What else could it be? It’s the Amulet of Talos.
Equipment - Weapons (Don’t enchant any of these; They’re never seem to be enchanted in the trailers.)
Main Weapon: Steel Sword
Secondary Weapon: Steel Dagger
Ranged Weapon: Long Bow / Hunting Bow
Major Skills
One-Handed - Your main source of damage. You could go sword-and-board, or use dual-wielding using your Steel Dagger in your left hand.
Archery - Your only ranged option. The only arrow to use is Iron Arrows, the most basic ones. With good overall bow damage, the damage from arrows really shouldn’t matter. At least, that’s my logic.
Smithing - The best way to get good defense. Also used to make your weapons stronger. As simple as that.
Heavy Armor - Most of your armor is heavy anyway, just get the 5th Rank of the Juggernaut perk for double defense. (except for your chestpiece.)
Minor Skills
Restoration - Your only source of healing. I replaced Alchemy with this because I don’t like managing how many potions I have and stuff like that. It gets annoying.
Enchanting - Used to buff your stats and skills. Pretty self-explanatory.
Block - I only put it in the ‘Minor Skills’ section because I rarely use it, but it’s an amazing skill overall, and is very important to the playstyle.
Light Armor - Don’t perk this, it doesn’t really matter with the Heavy Armor skill. It’s only here because I wanted to mention it somewhere.
Level 60 Perk Spread
Shouts
Really, all of them, but my choices are;
Unrelenting Force
Whirlwind Sprint
Fire Breath
Frost Breath
Ice Form
Marked for Death
Elemental Fury
Soul Tear
Dragon Aspect
Bend Will
etc.
Quests
Main Questline - This should be obvious, kill Alduin, yadda-yadda-yadda.
Dawnguard, Vampire Side - If you remember promotional images and trailers for Dawnguard, our hero, The Dovahkiin, becomes a vampire. I am unsure as to why, but probably for marketing purposes.
(Gotta get that green stuff.)
Dragonborn - “And so the First Dragonborn meets the Last Dragonborn at the summit of Apocrypha.” This is just a cool questline. Miraak is annoying though, stealing your dragon souls at random times.
The Dark Brotherhood - We already saw that Dovahkiin has a dark side according to Dawnguard, so… yeah. It’s also my favorite questline in the game, I’ve played it all the way through more than 5 times.
The College of Winterhold - I just think it would make sense, you already use Restoration anyway. That’s about it. Also getting all the Dragon Priest masks.
The Companions - Do this before Dawnguard. That’s all I have to say.
The Thieves Guild - Now it’s every major guild. If you need to make bank and the Dark Brotherhood isn’t your style, just try stealing everything.
The Civil War, Stormcloak Side - You are a true Nord of Skyrim. Need I say more?
Any ‘Hero’ Style Quest - I’m not gonna list any, because I’m lazy, but these are “important”.
Any Radiant Quests - The ones like fighting the Old Orc and others like that. The ones with characters on the side of the road asking to do something. The ones you only get one chance to do and then never again. Even if you reload a save, the person will just be gone. I really don’t understand any of these at all.
The Daedric Quests - Focus on the ones you can choose to do something good with, then do the ones you get “dragged into”.
Pieces of the Past, don’t kill Silus;
The Break of Dawn, for Dawnbreaker;
The Cursed Tribe, for Volendrung;
A Night to Remember, you know exactly why;
The Black Star, choose Azura’s Star;
A Daedra’s Best Friend, return the axe;
Discerning the Transmundane, main questline;
Ill Met by Moonlight, don’t kill Sinding;
The House of Horrors, insult Molag Bal at every chance and toss the mace later:
The Taste of Death, after getting the ring, kill all the cannibals;
The Only Cure, best shield in the game;
The Mind of Madness, THE WABBAJACK;
Waking Nightmare, let Erandur destroy the Skull of Corruption;
The Whispering Door, after entering the room, read the book and heed it’s warning, leaving the blade forever;
Follower
Use Lydia. Improve a set of Steel Armor for her to wear and give her an improved Steel Sword. Don’t allow her to wear or use anything else. Maybe some staves.
Conclusion
That was my first build, and it was surprisingly decent, I think. There's a neat character, a lot of stuff to do, and you have a reason to do the opposite of what you usually do during the Daedric Quests. It seems good for a long playthrough if you just want to play the game for a while. I don't think I've seen this character done like this. It usually involves mods or something, but I think if you want to make the literal poster-boy for the game, then make him in the way the game intended. No mods. (Not that I'm bashing mods, I love them, but I play on Xbox 360, so... yeah.) The end.
This is my first build, and I am terrible at formatting things. That should be very apparent. This is uninspired garbage.
I'm also bad at introductions, so anyway, I present to you my first actual build.
Skyrim Build: The Last Dragonborn (The trailer character.)
Backstory: Anything you want, there really isn’t any backstory that’s canon.
Race: Nord. Use preset 1, and move the ‘hair color’ slider over to the right 3 ticks.
Attributes: 1/1/1 (M/H/S)
Standing Stone: The Lord; extra defense and magic resistance.
Equipment - Armor
Headwear: Iron Helmet - Enchant with Fortify Archery.
Body Armor: Studded Armor - Enchant with Fortify Health.
Hands: Iron Gauntlets - Enchant with Fortify One-Handed.
Feet: Iron Boots - Enchant with Fortify Stamina.
Shield: Banded Iron Shield - Enchant with Fortify Magic Resistance or Fortify Block. Either one will work.
Ring: The Ring of the Beast. 100 points of extra health and 20 points of extra unarmed damage.
Neckwear: Amulet of Talos. What else could it be? It’s the Amulet of Talos.
Equipment - Weapons (Don’t enchant any of these; They’re never seem to be enchanted in the trailers.)
Main Weapon: Steel Sword
Secondary Weapon: Steel Dagger
Ranged Weapon: Long Bow / Hunting Bow
Major Skills
One-Handed - Your main source of damage. You could go sword-and-board, or use dual-wielding using your Steel Dagger in your left hand.
Archery - Your only ranged option. The only arrow to use is Iron Arrows, the most basic ones. With good overall bow damage, the damage from arrows really shouldn’t matter. At least, that’s my logic.
Smithing - The best way to get good defense. Also used to make your weapons stronger. As simple as that.
Heavy Armor - Most of your armor is heavy anyway, just get the 5th Rank of the Juggernaut perk for double defense. (except for your chestpiece.)
Minor Skills
Restoration - Your only source of healing. I replaced Alchemy with this because I don’t like managing how many potions I have and stuff like that. It gets annoying.
Enchanting - Used to buff your stats and skills. Pretty self-explanatory.
Block - I only put it in the ‘Minor Skills’ section because I rarely use it, but it’s an amazing skill overall, and is very important to the playstyle.
Light Armor - Don’t perk this, it doesn’t really matter with the Heavy Armor skill. It’s only here because I wanted to mention it somewhere.
Level 60 Perk Spread
Shouts
Really, all of them, but my choices are;
Unrelenting Force
Whirlwind Sprint
Fire Breath
Frost Breath
Ice Form
Marked for Death
Elemental Fury
Soul Tear
Dragon Aspect
Bend Will
etc.
Quests
Main Questline - This should be obvious, kill Alduin, yadda-yadda-yadda.
Dawnguard, Vampire Side - If you remember promotional images and trailers for Dawnguard, our hero, The Dovahkiin, becomes a vampire. I am unsure as to why, but probably for marketing purposes.
(Gotta get that green stuff.)
Dragonborn - “And so the First Dragonborn meets the Last Dragonborn at the summit of Apocrypha.” This is just a cool questline. Miraak is annoying though, stealing your dragon souls at random times.
The Dark Brotherhood - We already saw that Dovahkiin has a dark side according to Dawnguard, so… yeah. It’s also my favorite questline in the game, I’ve played it all the way through more than 5 times.
The College of Winterhold - I just think it would make sense, you already use Restoration anyway. That’s about it. Also getting all the Dragon Priest masks.
The Companions - Do this before Dawnguard. That’s all I have to say.
The Thieves Guild - Now it’s every major guild. If you need to make bank and the Dark Brotherhood isn’t your style, just try stealing everything.
The Civil War, Stormcloak Side - You are a true Nord of Skyrim. Need I say more?
Any ‘Hero’ Style Quest - I’m not gonna list any, because I’m lazy, but these are “important”.
Any Radiant Quests - The ones like fighting the Old Orc and others like that. The ones with characters on the side of the road asking to do something. The ones you only get one chance to do and then never again. Even if you reload a save, the person will just be gone. I really don’t understand any of these at all.
The Daedric Quests - Focus on the ones you can choose to do something good with, then do the ones you get “dragged into”.
Pieces of the Past, don’t kill Silus;
The Break of Dawn, for Dawnbreaker;
The Cursed Tribe, for Volendrung;
A Night to Remember, you know exactly why;
The Black Star, choose Azura’s Star;
A Daedra’s Best Friend, return the axe;
Discerning the Transmundane, main questline;
Ill Met by Moonlight, don’t kill Sinding;
The House of Horrors, insult Molag Bal at every chance and toss the mace later:
The Taste of Death, after getting the ring, kill all the cannibals;
The Only Cure, best shield in the game;
The Mind of Madness, THE WABBAJACK;
Waking Nightmare, let Erandur destroy the Skull of Corruption;
The Whispering Door, after entering the room, read the book and heed it’s warning, leaving the blade forever;
Follower
Use Lydia. Improve a set of Steel Armor for her to wear and give her an improved Steel Sword. Don’t allow her to wear or use anything else. Maybe some staves.
Conclusion
That was my first build, and it was surprisingly decent, I think. There's a neat character, a lot of stuff to do, and you have a reason to do the opposite of what you usually do during the Daedric Quests. It seems good for a long playthrough if you just want to play the game for a while. I don't think I've seen this character done like this. It usually involves mods or something, but I think if you want to make the literal poster-boy for the game, then make him in the way the game intended. No mods. (Not that I'm bashing mods, I love them, but I play on Xbox 360, so... yeah.) The end.
