Oh lord is this long, my apologies.
So I did have a look at this a while back. I think I can count on my hand the number of times I've played a vampire, so sorry about that, not a huge fan of vampire playthroughs. I've also played builds with advanced atronach but no longer do so. So what can I say about this build?
- One of the most immersion breaking things can be grinding a crafting skill. I highly recommend that for enchanting, save and fill as many soul gems as you can during the Dark Brotherhood. Then hitting up Halted Steam Camp for transmutate. Swing through every major iron silver and gold mine. Once you have everything turned to gold, make them into rings. Travel to Solstheim to train with Neloth after completing the DB questline. The payoff for killing the emperor plus being able to sell the rings to Neloth after enchanting them keeps you going. Make sure to only enchant enough rings at one time to increase your over all level, then train again.
I think the above clinched it, and I'm sorry to say that. I just don't see a vampire, let alone an Altmer one going through all of that from a roleplaying standpoint. It's a roleplaying issue. And it's not the transmuting, that part's fine or the enchanting either, though an Altmer visiting a Telvanni wizard is odd to me, but it's the actual physical mining. That's the stuff Altmer typically get goblins to do. Do follower's mine? If they did, that may be an option, have your follower do it. But, unfortunately from what I researched briefly on the subject, the indication is that they do not. They may have mining animations, but not actually obtain ore. Maybe instead buy the ore? I know it's silly, but I'm a roleplayer, so little things like that irk me sometimes.
The perkspread is a teeny bit hard to read and not inline with the color scheme of the rest of the presentation. I don't personally mind perking 8 skills if it gets you where you need to be from a gameplay perspective.
An idea on equipment. Why not wear Vokun? Gives boosts to Illusion, Conjuration, and Alteration? You could then opt for a dropped Vampire armor or the Vampire lord armor. That only leaves the gauntlets, but I don't see the point of a double enchantment. Go get a dremora butler or a follower and that problem is solved, leaving you to only enchant the gauntlets with fortify one-handed, or pick a nice dropped fortify one-handed. Or... You are mixing cloth and armor anyway, so you are not benefited by using the mage-armor perks in alteration, so why not head over to the atronach forge and make yourself some daedric gauntlets of wielding? Then you can nix Enchanting all together cause you then only need alchemy for the Atronach stone. They usually yield peerless or extreme in quality. You are already going there to make your dremora minions.
That being said, it's unfair for me not to like this build, because you did put a great deal of thought behind it and it's well-presented. A +1 from me then, and forgive my criticism. I saw you post in the Bloodworks thread and really enjoyed your last build, so I thought I offer my two cents.
Oh lord is this long, my apologies.
So I did have a look at this a while back. I think I can count on my hand the number of times I've played a vampire, so sorry about that, not a huge fan of vampire playthroughs. I've also played builds with advanced atronach but no longer do so. So what can I say about this build?
- One of the most immersion breaking things can be grinding a crafting skill. I highly recommend that for enchanting, save and fill as many soul gems as you can during the Dark Brotherhood. Then hitting up Halted Steam Camp for transmutate. Swing through every major iron silver and gold mine. Once you have everything turned to gold, make them into rings. Travel to Solstheim to train with Neloth after completing the DB questline. The payoff for killing the emperor plus being able to sell the rings to Neloth after enchanting them keeps you going. Make sure to only enchant enough rings at one time to increase your over all level, then train again.
I think the above clinched it, and I'm sorry to say that. I just don't see a vampire, let alone an Altmer one going through all of that from a roleplaying standpoint. It's a roleplaying issue. And it's not the transmuting, that part's fine or the enchanting either, though an Altmer visiting a Telvanni wizard is odd to me, but it's the actual physical mining. That's the stuff Altmer typically get goblins to do. Do follower's mine? If they did, that may be an option, have your follower do it. But, unfortunately from what I researched briefly on the subject, the indication is that they do not. They may have mining animations, but not actually obtain ore. Maybe instead buy the ore? I know it's silly, but I'm a roleplayer, so little things like that irk me sometimes.
The perkspread is a teeny bit hard to read and not inline with the color scheme of the rest of the presentation. I don't personally mind perking 8 skills if it gets you where you need to be from a gameplay perspective.
An idea on equipment. Why not wear Vokun? Gives boosts to Illusion, Conjuration, and Alteration? You could then opt for a dropped Vampire armor or the Vampire lord armor. That only leaves the gauntlets, but I don't see the point of a double enchantment. Go get a dremora butler or a follower and that problem is solved, leaving you to only enchant the gauntlets with fortify one-handed, or pick a nice dropped fortify one-handed. Or... You are mixing cloth and armor anyway, so you are not benefited by using the mage-armor perks in alteration, so why not head over to the atronach forge and make yourself some daedric gauntlets of wielding? Then you can nix Enchanting all together cause you then only need alchemy for the Atronach stone. They usually yield peerless or extreme in quality. You are already going there to make your dremora minions.
That being said, it's unfair for me not to like this build, because you did put a great deal of thought behind it and it's well-presented. A +1 from me then, and forgive my criticism. I saw you post in the Bloodworks thread and really enjoyed your last build, so I thought I offer my two cents.
