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Character Build: The Nightingale Swordsman

Tags: #Character Build Warrior  #Character Build Illusionist  #Character Build Assassin  #Rank:Legendary  #Hall of Fame Build 
  • Member
    May 21, 2013
    Great build. This is right up my street, as I love assassins, but hate how squishy they are, and love illusion, but find it OP if you take adept and expert, so just taking apprentice is a good way to limit yourself. I like that you didn't take archery, which can become massively powerful on an assassin.
  • May 24, 2013

    reminded me of the nightingale in the battle for markarth by Machinma. really like this build +1 from me

  • May 24, 2013

    Blink is also an ability in StarCraft 2 by the Protoss Stalker

  • Member
    May 27, 2013

    This build is amazing! For me this is the best of both worlds because I despise pure sneak characters, they are way too OP but by adding in the whole part of still being strong even when not sneaking is great. Nice build Ponty.

  • Member
    May 27, 2013

    This was lots of fun though discovered to my chagrin that if you get the Nightingale blade at  level 46+ you can't temper it

    No real problem, with One handed perks and a eminent one-handed piece of jewelry it was still a very formidable weapon and no problems. Increases the difficulty a bit, but that makes it more fun.

    As for dragon fighting, what I did was travel outside with Mjoll. (I would leave her to wait outside of any dungeon crawls) Outside for dragon fighting I would give her a staff of Ice lance and fireball to duel wield. I love watching her looking like a mobile ant-aircraft battery while I hit it with the occasional Marked for Death shout.

    If it's two dragons or an ancient, I also even the odds with the Durnehviir shout. Then it become a seriously awesome and chaotic mess of dragons and pyrotechnics in the sky that I can just sit and watch till something finally lands in sword range.

    +1 on the build, by the way. Great time and wish I found it a long time ago.

  • Member
    May 29, 2013

    Hehe I love the reference to Dishonored... Good move name. Creative. 

  • Hud
    Member
    June 1, 2013

    Kudos Ponty, this may be my favorite build of yours so far.  I don't usually play sneaky type characters but was getting a bit bored with my usual set-ups.  I've been reading your builds for a while and settled on this one since it seemed farthest removed from my norm.  

  • Member
    June 1, 2013

    Good to hear. I kinda designed this guy as a stealth character for people that don't like like stealth characters (myself included).

  • Member
    June 2, 2013

    I've just recently joined this blog and I gotta say Im very excited for all the creative stuff on this website, unfortunately I just recently became involved with TES and have only played skyrim, these games can only be played if you truly are interested with every single object in the province and wanna have an immersive experience, I first played a simple warrior class with big swords and heavy armor, just recently hit level 46 and crafted daedric armor, however i really cant find anything else to do when it comes to quests, Ive done almost all of them (excluding the dark brotherhood, thieves guild, and college of winterhold because they arent appropriate for warrior lore), so I came on here and was very excited to see all these different builds, gonna make a sneaky powerful female character and this seems like a good first try, wish me luck, you have earned my +1 :D

  • Member
    June 2, 2013

    Playing this build at the moment, it's a lot of fun!!