My thoughts exactly, I can't stand alteration and I REALLY wanted to have a character use the nightingale armor so it made perfect sense. I also wanted to primarily fight with melee weapons/bows so I used Illusion to supplement those instead of destruction magic.
Oh and since my character relies primarily on conjuring for her weapons and is dressed in black it only made sense to pick up my loyal stead Arvak.
A few other notes on my build as I've been playing through it further. I got arcane blacksmithing so I could improve my armor but I didn't want to have to smith/enchant anything beyond that outside of to make some easy coin. I also have a special set of Dawnguard armor and dual war-axes especially for killings vamps. Having a back up weapon or two for when you're out of magic is always a good idea when using bound weapons.
My thoughts exactly, I can't stand alteration and I REALLY wanted to have a character use the nightingale armor so it made perfect sense. I also wanted to primarily fight with melee weapons/bows so I used Illusion to supplement those instead of destruction magic.
Oh and since my character relies primarily on conjuring for her weapons and is dressed in black it only made sense to pick up my loyal stead Arvak.
A few other notes on my build as I've been playing through it further. I got arcane blacksmithing so I could improve my armor but I didn't want to have to smith/enchant anything beyond that outside of to make some easy coin. I also have a special set of Dawnguard armor and dual war-axes especially for killings vamps. Having a back up weapon or two for when you're out of magic is always a good idea when using bound weapons.