SuperDuperMutant said:
Hey all. Trying to get into Skyrim and want a good build to start off with. Can somebody name drop some really popular high quality builds & character builders?
Hey! First welcome and glad to see you posting. I was a former host of this section along with Vargr White-tree for the better part of a year and I have seen some top builds come my way. This is part one, because I'll have to head to work soon.
Play anything by the Lorc of Flowers and you will not be disappointed. I think he's not mentioned as a builder nearly enough and he has produced some of the best stuff on the vault. Go have a look and you'll love them all, but I'll highlight a few here. He's known for creating some quirky characters and sometimes his builds force you to think about mechanics in a different way (read that they are not over-powered, but end up being powerful).
Liturgy of Affliction - A collaboration with Teineeva that takes the lore book Liturgy of Affliction and makes it a build. Yes, these guys take books and make them builds.
The Greenskin - One of the best follower-based builds I've ever read, inspired by his observations of the dynamics between thieves and warriors in other games like Baldur's gate and D&D. Take an Orc thief and then slap him with Erik the Slayer for some fun.
The Goldpact Knight - If you don't want to be Dragonborn, just play this build. Another favorite of mine.
A lot of his builds have a flesh-out quality to them, a great combination of gameplay and roleplay, and it is very understandible that many of them end up becoming characters in his fanfiction. Other builds to check out by him are his Bleak Walker, The Fist of the Thalmor, Warlock of Orsinium and his Oblivion builds.
Another wonderful builder is Shinjin and you'll see when you look at his work interesting characters that make you want to play through their stories. I think that is the issue a lot with restarteritis. In my eyes, gameplay only takes you so far, especially when you have played through quests multiple times. You say you are trying to get "into Skyrim" which means something in it is making you hesistate.
Jo'Ji and the Rogue - Some of our best builds in my time as host have come from Contests and Events. This was our last contest winner, a clever build that uses console commands and fun roleplay to recreate the Dagi, a race of Khajiit.
Lonely Heart (of Darkness) - A brawling Altmer who is looking for love? What is great about this build is its atypical use of a race. And it's a punching build that isn't a Khajiit. Much smiles.
Side note - check out Golden Fool's The Last Executioner for more Atypical Altmer action.
Back to Shin, he has way more builds, I linked you to his page so you can check his stuff out. In fact, if you look at a person's page, you'll see a category called "Shared Content". Many of our builders put their builds there.
Okay, I got another contest build for you. If you want to play slimy and evil. Literally, you will be slimy and evil cause you'll be a sload, look no further than your own host's epic build, Vargr White-Tree's The Graveworm. The exotic race contest was one of the strongest source for quality builds and Vargr's take on the sload one of th hightlghts.
We'll touch more on Vargr's builds in Part II of this post. Yes, there will be a part two. You asked, and Imma gonna answer and when I'm done, you'll have a deep understanding of who's building and what they're building at Tamriel Vault. You'll understand the quality here and why I'm so proud of it.
The Long-Chapper. :D
[blockquote][b][url=/profile/Chucky]SuperDuperMutant[/url] said:[/b]
Hey all. Trying to get into Skyrim and want a good build to start off with. Can somebody name drop some really popular high quality builds & character builders?
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Hey! First welcome and glad to see you posting. I was a former host of this section along with Vargr White-tree for the better part of a year and I have seen some top builds come my way. This is part one, because I'll have to head to work soon.
Play anything by the Lorc of Flowers and you will not be disappointed. I think he's not mentioned as a builder nearly enough and he has produced some of the best stuff on the vault. Go have a look and you'll love them all, but I'll highlight a few here. He's known for creating some quirky characters and sometimes his builds force you to think about mechanics in a different way (read that they are not over-powered, but end up being powerful).
Liturgy of Affliction - A collaboration with Teineeva that takes the lore book Liturgy of Affliction and makes it a build. Yes, these guys take books and make them builds.
The Greenskin - One of the best follower-based builds I've ever read, inspired by his observations of the dynamics between thieves and warriors in other games like Baldur's gate and D&D. Take an Orc thief and then slap him with Erik the Slayer for some fun.
The Goldpact Knight - If you don't want to be Dragonborn, just play this build. Another favorite of mine.
A lot of his builds have a flesh-out quality to them, a great combination of gameplay and roleplay, and it is very understandible that many of them end up becoming characters in his fanfiction. Other builds to check out by him are his Bleak Walker, The Fist of the Thalmor, Warlock of Orsinium and his Oblivion builds.
Another wonderful builder is Shinjin and you'll see when you look at his work interesting characters that make you want to play through their stories. I think that is the issue a lot with restarteritis. In my eyes, gameplay only takes you so far, especially when you have played through quests multiple times. You say you are trying to get "into Skyrim" which means something in it is making you hesistate.
Jo'Ji and the Rogue - Some of our best builds in my time as host have come from Contests and Events. This was our last contest winner, a clever build that uses console commands and fun roleplay to recreate the Dagi, a race of Khajiit.
Lonely Heart (of Darkness) - A brawling Altmer who is looking for love? What is great about this build is its atypical use of a race. And it's a punching build that isn't a Khajiit. Much smiles.
Side note - check out Golden Fool's The Last Executioner for more Atypical Altmer action.
Back to Shin, he has way more builds, I linked you to his page so you can check his stuff out. In fact, if you look at a person's page, you'll see a category called "Shared Content". Many of our builders put their builds there.
Okay, I got another contest build for you. If you want to play slimy and evil. Literally, you will be slimy and evil cause you'll be a sload, look no further than your own host's epic build, Vargr White-Tree's The Graveworm. The exotic race contest was one of the strongest source for quality builds and Vargr's take on the sload one of th hightlghts.
We'll touch more on Vargr's builds in Part II of this post. Yes, there will be a part two. You asked, and Imma gonna answer and when I'm done, you'll have a deep understanding of who's building and what they're building at Tamriel Vault. You'll understand the quality here and why I'm so proud of it.
The Long-Chapper. :D
