Skyrim Character Building » Discussions


Character Build: Drainblood Archmage

Tags: #Dunmer  #dragonborn  #Character Build Warrior  #Character Build Elementalist  #Character Build Battlemage  #Rank:Recognized  #Pyromancer  #2H  #Archmage  #Combos  #Synergy  #Telvanni.. 
  • Member
    April 18, 2013

    Here are the members links for those I mentioned, the ones I mentioned are best at the things I listed, and TZ is well known for his build vids, and covers Build Showcase videos on a regular basis.

    TZ

    Twisted

    Vazgen

    RuneRed (Site Host)

    Shuuiketsu Nero

  • Member
    April 18, 2013
    I have to agree with Ben here, Psi. You've got the format down but I haven't seen a concept that is unique AND interesting. Utilizing skills that nobody else has doesn't make it unique. It's a difficult thing to do but you have to take the criticism in stride. Just keep at it.
  • April 18, 2013

    I'm sorry, but if you don't mean different skillsets, equipment, and strategy, I'm not sure what you mean by "Unique."

  • Member
    April 18, 2013
    You could probably compare builds on this site that use the same skill set but use them in completely different ways. Finding unique ways to use the same 18 skills is the next big challenge for our blog.
  • Member
    April 18, 2013

    The presentation must be neat & organize, that is one thing that encourage us to read your build. Still, the main question is... "Is your character fun to be play?"

    How many hours did you used to play this character of yours? A good character is a character that are fun to be play for countless of hours. 

    But by reading those comment at the last 8 pages including yours, your character seems to lack of that sort of appeal. That would certainly not going to encourage me to like this build of yours, let alone playing a new character based on it.

  • April 18, 2013
  • Member
    April 18, 2013
    Do your thing, man. You'll find your niche.
  • Member
    April 18, 2013

    Fine... obviously you are just another arrogant maniac that could't accept someone else question. 

    Sad that I had waste couple of minutes reading this thread and trying to help the author, only to find out the author have an ego bigger than the great wall of china.

    Hopefully Ben C would just swing his mighty axe to this pages asap. Is not worth to keep it when the author itself are too self-centered to read, understand and explain it to the others.

  • April 18, 2013
    @DrSeptimus
    There is no need for you to call him an arrogant maniac and too self-centered. What are you going to accomplish with that?
  • April 18, 2013

    I'll go over what I can find at a quick glance.

    Your skill selection is lacking. You mention light armor for wind walker but I don't know if you have deft movement or matching set, in fact you don't mention light armor at all in your skill selection.

    You mention 100 stamina is optimal and I disagree. Stamina regeneration is based on two things; 1) maximum stamina and 2) stamina regeneration effects. Stamina will recover at a pace of 5% out of combat and 1.75% in combat, this means that a gauge with 1 million stamina will recover as fast as a gauge with 100 stamina.
    Now I did some calculations based on leather armor and the drainblood battleaxe. With 100 stamina you'll be able to do little more than a 1 second sprint (well more, probably around 6 or 7 - the end result will be the same, and more than that you won't be able to bash), great critical charge and then do a single bash before you run out. Hardly seems optimal for a build that tells me I won't run out of stamina.
    I'll run a scenario. I see a group of bandits, and I prepare with all the spells. Then I dual cast ice storm into the group. I sprint in, great critical charge on the Bandit Chief with that nasty two-hander. Next to him is a bandit marauder also wielding a two-hander, I have to bash him before he takes at least half my health - this is master and I have a ton of magicka and ~400 AR all in all. Now there's a bandit chief ready, he's unstaggered and pissed and all the other bandits are either attacking me or my followers. I don't have a lot of room here. I get killcammed because I ran out of stamina.
    I realise that I can easily dodge non-killcams, but you mention bash as a particular strategy. It's not a viable strategy to bash up close with 100 stamina, especially not after sprinting and power attacking.
    Bash is also static - armor weight or weapon weight doesn't change this.

    You mention that bashing is for up close, and blocking adds an extra layer of defense along with ebonyflesh. Then you go on to mention that because of your stamina efficiency you can continue to do this long enough that if they survive I can start dealing damage. I don't follow, am I to stand still and dodge and tank them while my measly flame cloak deals all the damage?

    What is the point of slowing the enemies with ice storm when I'm going to be in melee range? Slow doesn't affect attack speed.

    Now you mention you only took magicka when you needed it. How much magicka do you need exactly? To cast ebonyflesh, dual cast flame cloak and summon a dremora lord takes up some magicka, and I imagine you'd need to quite heavily invest in it.

    Then there's bleed and afterburn damage (from fire enchanted weaponry) which is largely ineffective, especially considering your enchantment (scorching is only 15 points of fire damage) and your axe of choice. 15 points on an enchanted sword will only deal an additional 1 point of damage. That's 0.5 on master. As for bleed damage, the drainblood axe is an ancient nord battleaxe, which does not have any corresponding bleed damage associated with it. At best it's linked with steel because of the smithing perks, and this would give you 1 damage per second over 6 seconds with all 3 perks. 3 damage on master.

    What do you use summoner for? You take it, but I don't actually see you mention using it for anything. And how powerful are atronachs on master without the relevant perks?

    Your entire combat section can be found in your synergy section, it's redundant. Take care to clean up your build before you post it.

    Which shouts do you use? You vaguely mention using Dragonrend, but beyond that there's nothing.

    I've evaluated most of what you've presented here. I may have missed a few things, but I do believe that if you can counter what I've presented here then you will be able to clean up your build and in turn make it better.