Skyrim - Your typical playstyle

[RJ 17]

Pick Dark Elf.

Become a vampire asap...though I was severely disappointed that the nerfed the vampire's vision ability to just being night vision...night vision + detect life in Oblivion was what made me fall in love with being a vampire.

Sneak through dungeons slitting every throat I come across. Should I get detected, it's time to turn on the Destruction magic and go wild.

Oh, and all my characters are complete cleptomaniacs...refusing to leave a house or dungeon unless EVERY container has been peeked into for valuables. :3

 

[solemnwar]

In the latter three elder scrolls games (III-V, have not played the first two and probably never will) my canon character is an archer bosmer sneaky thief type. Named Asuran. I say they're all related and incredibly unoriginal.

I try to make each of my characters different, but in all cases I join all the guilds just because completion. Must get ALL the shinies!

All except one character will join the imperials, too. I empathise (sort of) with the Stormcloaks, their way of life IS getting a little fucked over, but they're going about it IN ALL THE WRONG WAY. AAAAAGH. *flip table*

There needs to be a "fuck you all Imma be king now" option 8c

 

[undeadexistentialist]

I usually go with stealth on my first playthrough, then mix it up after that. Quirks include regardless of my style when fighting with melee weapons I always use swords or daggers (not axes, maces, hammers etc) and I basically always go for one-handed weapons too

 

[Fijiman]

I play as a Nord that sneaks around in dungeons wearing heavy armor and primarily uses a bow and one-handed weapons and is somewhat adept at spell casting. I've also pretty much decided to say fuck it to the main story lines in preference to exploring everything else. To put it simply, I just do whatever the fuck I want when I want to. I've never thought to try and play a certain character type because that would take some of the fun out of it for me.

 

[jackinmydaniels]

I prefer to play a mix, both melee and magic work for me and keep me from having to rely too heavily on one or the other, so if my mana runs out I can just hit shit with a stick, or if my stamina runs out I can light shit on fire.

I also prefer to play Argonians, just because they are a little different from your typical elves or generic dude 478.

 

[Thoughtful_Salt]

I specialized in destruction and restoration magic, one-handed weapons, sneak and bows, light armor, with a lot of points invested into enchanting. This playstyle allowed me to enjoy the dark brotherhood campaign while still allowing me to brute force my way through a lot of dungeons if I chose to. Of course, this playstyle utterly broke the game around level 45 but whatever, I'm dragonborn, FEAR ME!

 

[PhunkyPhazon]

I like going rogue, focusing on (two) one handed weapons and bows. I'll use a shield when the going gets tough, though. I don't really like using magic, tempting as the restoration spell is.

 

[Waaghpowa]

Smash it with something big and heavy.

 

[Roroshi14]

I have three builds,

One: High Elf grandmage, Maxed out Destruction, conj, and resto. Plus full enchant and high alchemy, no one can beat my kamehame-lighting bolt plus i can summon two perminent spirits, fire princess and mr storm.

Two: A two handed light armor dual ax wielding imperial fighter, she is fun to just run into a group of enemies and beat the sh*t outa people.

Three: Orc heavy armor Broad Ax beserker. I love to use a war hammer also and blast banits across the room, or turning skeletons into dust.

 

[The_Lost_King]

I use daggers and bows while I travel and normal missions, but if I'm fighting a blood dragon or a troll, etc. I'll switch to the classic sword and shield. I chose Stormcloaks because they seemed less stuck-up. I wear a full set of glass armor and I'm a Wood Elf, I believe. One special thing though, is that I take one little trophy from every big story event and place it on the shelf or a table on my house. I live in Riften with my wife who never shuts up about how I got the golden claw back for her. I believe I've used her as target practice 20 times. I carry as many health potions that exist.

I shout alot too.

Storm cloaks seem less stuck up? Have you even been in Windhelm? I just don't understand...

OT: I like sneaking, a lot. I love the Dark Brotherhood. They go hand in hand so well. Except for my demon hunter that uses sneaking and bows(crossbows when they lower the dlc to $15 or I suck it up and buy it). I have yet to make a sneaky Mage. I will get on that after I find out what mods are messing with my game.

 

[DirgeNovak]

My primary character (Marayn Zallit, level 38 Dunmer) is generally a war axe/shield wielder, but is fairly good at destruction and restoration spells, so I often switch the shield for spells. I also use a bow while sneaking through dungeons, because melee sneaking sucks ass.

One of my favorite tactics for tough bosses or numerous enemies is to stagger them with Chain Lightning (which is fucking awesome anyway you use it), and then either swing at them a couple times with the axe while they're confused or run away using Fast Healing. I really only use potions when I'm seconds away from dying and have no time to stagger or Fus Ro Dah the enemies far away enough to heal using spells.

I keep my weapons enchanted with Azura's Black Star and the Soul Trap ebony sword I made (and called the Soul Reaver for shits and giggles). I also use the Soul Reaver and Black Star to keep the souls of unique NPC's I kill and enchant jewelry with them, which I then name after them. Lydia improves my health regeneration, Camilla Valerius increases my stamina, Grelod the Kind's soul is in an ugly shirt I dumped in a river, I made a helmet out of Frost's hide and the soul of the Forsworn girl who murdered him, etc.

 

[Tactical Pause]

All the mods...

All The Mods!

ALL.
THE.
MODS.

(all of them)

 

[bat32391]

Well I play as an Altmer who blasts shit with firballs at long distance than carve up anything that gets too close with my sword and if shit hits the fan I turn invisible and run the hell away.

 

[direkiller]

hand to hand, Khajiit
because I felt like being diffident

 

[SciMal]

Yup.

Looked at the magic system, decided it wasn't for me, and went human two-handed fighter. After you get smithing and enchanting high enough, the combat just turns into beating the ever-living shit out of everything that gets in your way while they potshot your mountain of health. It was fun to play a walking holocaust with a hammer, since I usually play more tactical PCs.

Went with the Imperials after reading some of the books.

 

[Gitty101]

Bows and sneak. That's the only way I ever play a TES game.

 

[Fenra]

I play so many characters simultaniously its hard to pin down a "typical playstyle" but I guess its more a "typical approach to building a character" which for me comes from taking a character, taking an archetype and giving it a twist.

For example the one I've been playing the last few days, an argonian in light armor, favoring stealth, lockpicking, pick pocketing, speechcraft (although this is a ***** to get going with an argonian), bows and daggers, he is your typical thief build, but the twist on it being that if he is caught during his sneaky antics he summons demons to draw attention and pulls out 2 swords to join in the fray... it has... varied success (drink all the health potions!) but I find it interesting to play

Although I do have a generic character, whom I call my "stress relief" character. A Nord in heavy armor using 2 handed weapons, the most basic warrior/barbarian as they come, just heads around with no real goal except making it to the next bunch of bandits to carve apart... as I said, stress relief

Oh and I did make a Khajiit who was the complete anti-adventuror, was actualy interesting to play, after the initial stage of making it to whiterun, first place I found with a horse and carriage to take you to the major cities which let her traverse the world easier without risking bandits/wild creatures as much, she put on some common clothes she had found, no weapons or magic and went around the world, running from combat and doing all the honest work she could find, hunting game, cooking, picking herbs to sell to the market stalls or craft into potions to sell again, farming ore and working the blacksmith to sell the items on, visiting the farms to help with harvesting thier crops and so on so forth. She was playing out the "reject destiny, I just want to live a normal life" fantasy, never got past level 1 but still the richest of my characters and was surprising fun to play

 

[octafish]

I only picked up the game a month ago. I've played as an Argonian first time through in every Elder Scrolls game, yes all the way back to Arena. I usually play a jack of all trades master of none. So lockpick, one handed, stealth, destruction, restoration and light armour with as much alchemy, smithing and enchanting as I can bother to grind. My Argonian isn't going to get involved in the civil war.

Future builds will be more specialised, assassin, mage and tank. I'm trying not to do every side quest so there will some replay value. I can't belive how much more engaging Skyrim is over Morrowind (tiny) and Oblivion (dull).

 

[skywolfblue]

I love the versatility of Battlemage. Magic it (left hand) till it comes into melee range, then stab it (right hand).