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Character Build: The Aether Engineer - Dragonborn Edition

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  • Ulysses
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    March 2, 2013

    One of the special moves: Place a Fire Rune on the ground then pull the enemy with your ranged weapon and hit them exactly with your ranged weapon as they hit the Fire Rune...


    Is this one of the things 'going on'?

    I love role-play, don't get me wrong, I just think there should be a balance in a build. Good skills, good role-play, good presentation. 

  • Zach
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    March 2, 2013

    Which it has all of. 

    Notice that is says "special moves or tactics". Correct me if I am wrong TZ, but hitting at the same time is to stack and continue burn damage. 

  • Ulysses
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    March 2, 2013

    Requirements: Fire Rune, Ranged Weapon(Bow or Crossbow).

    It doesn't mention anything about stack or continuous burn damage. It's a tactic sure, not a good one though, placing a rune and using a long ranged weapon is just common sense. Placing the rune, sure is fine. If you feel like switching back and forth. It's just nothing to worth defending. 

  • Zach
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    March 2, 2013

    He talks about it in his video. 

  • Jake
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    March 2, 2013

    Oh my goodness, this is exactly what i've been looking for! Your builds have really been interesting so far, I'm hoping to try this one out right now. +1!

  • Mason
     
    March 2, 2013

    I believe one of the original points of the build was to condense fire and melee damage together, taking advantage of the "Targets on fire take extra damage" line that is inherant with all fire based spells.

    It's a very badly worded line on Bethesdas part because enemies do not take any extra damage from melee attacks while on fire. This was recently tested in detail by Nik Poulson (after this build was made though).

  • Josh Marken
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    March 2, 2013

    Re-liked because, lets face it, this build is superb 

    My only critique, as small as it is, is maybe make some, not all of the pictures a tad smaller

  • Zach
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    March 2, 2013

    Also sorry for continuing (and thus spamming it) the flame war here TZ!

  • TZ
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    March 2, 2013

    @ Ulysses, Mason answered what went on at the time of this build.

    Also I picked Stalhrim because of the looks fitting the role-play, it's a blueish crystal like armor, I don't quite get the "over-used" armor angle argument, this build starts off using leather armor which would be one of the most under-used.

    There sadly aren't enough armor sets in this game to be unique and simply not choosing "the best" armor just to be different doesn't mean it would be any better by doing so. 

    There will be on this site tonnes of overlap on builds that all use the exact same armor, why? Because Bethesda has only made a finite amount of sets. We could all start downloading add-ons for more and more armor sets sure, but not everyone is into doing that and quite a few people like the vanilla game free of any un-official addons.

    @Mason, thanks for saving me the time and effort lol.

    @Zach, Your absolutely correct, it says moves or tactics and no worries about the spam.

    Healthy discussion and debate is always welcome on my build pages, they help to better the quality of this site.

  • TZ
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    March 2, 2013

    Thanks mate. 


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