I tried doing this build once before, but got bogged down -- mostly because (like I tend to do in my various Skyrim playthroughs) I tried to do too much. As a result, my Bound Sword damage just never really attained the levels it really should have, and I got frustrated with it as a result.
So, a couple of queries (or series of queries, rather):
1) Taking everything into account, just how much is Fortify One-Handed improved in this build, before the Crystal of Focusing is taken into account? I'm assuming the Fortify One-Handed percentages are just added together, but I'm not entirely certain. And does the Crystal of Focusing add to the rest of the Fortify One-Handed enchantments, or multiply the armor enchantments by whatever percentage?
2) Alchemy and Enchanting: how exactly did you improve them in the early game, aside from disenchanting magic items and brewing potions? I ask because trying to do it via training can prove to be expensive, especially once you do the Expert-level trainers and hit 51 (I admit, I tend to be more... sneaky in how I train up, which is to say I train, then steal back the gold from the merchant, bolstering Pickpocket as well as that skill -- I also confess, in experimenting with this build the first time around, that's a large part of what got me into trouble, because I was trying to improve all of that, and found myself scaling farther and farther behind in the process; this time, I want to stick more to the RP aspects).
Oh, and I thought about Grelad the Kind -- the first RP note comes immediately to mind. So, view it in another light: Aventus Aretino thinks you're Dark Brotherhood, and you aren't... but his words and sincerity spur you to investigate Honorhall Orphanage. Certainly, killing Grelad at that point seems in keeping with the tenets, if only because Grelad is, in a very real sense, taking advantage of the helpless children and intent on making them suffer. I could see eradicating her being a necessary action at that point.
I tried doing this build once before, but got bogged down -- mostly because (like I tend to do in my various Skyrim playthroughs) I tried to do too much. As a result, my Bound Sword damage just never really attained the levels it really should have, and I got frustrated with it as a result.
So, a couple of queries (or series of queries, rather):
1) Taking everything into account, just how much is Fortify One-Handed improved in this build, before the Crystal of Focusing is taken into account? I'm assuming the Fortify One-Handed percentages are just added together, but I'm not entirely certain. And does the Crystal of Focusing add to the rest of the Fortify One-Handed enchantments, or multiply the armor enchantments by whatever percentage?
2) Alchemy and Enchanting: how exactly did you improve them in the early game, aside from disenchanting magic items and brewing potions? I ask because trying to do it via training can prove to be expensive, especially once you do the Expert-level trainers and hit 51 (I admit, I tend to be more... sneaky in how I train up, which is to say I train, then steal back the gold from the merchant, bolstering Pickpocket as well as that skill -- I also confess, in experimenting with this build the first time around, that's a large part of what got me into trouble, because I was trying to improve all of that, and found myself scaling farther and farther behind in the process; this time, I want to stick more to the RP aspects).
Oh, and I thought about Grelad the Kind -- the first RP note comes immediately to mind. So, view it in another light: Aventus Aretino thinks you're Dark Brotherhood, and you aren't... but his words and sincerity spur you to investigate Honorhall Orphanage. Certainly, killing Grelad at that point seems in keeping with the tenets, if only because Grelad is, in a very real sense, taking advantage of the helpless children and intent on making them suffer. I could see eradicating her being a necessary action at that point.
