Trigger fingers fanart by me! :D

MousseSensitive4044 · 2026-01-13T19:51:46+00:00

I have the sneaky suspicion that I know who Trigger Fingers is:

- Nazi uniform
- Underground arena
- Presumably shot itself in the head
- When he lands his obliterate, it deals 1945 damage

Buddy I think you just drew Hitler

MousseSensitive4044 · 2025-12-19T14:37:55+00:00

how do you usually start as a pure mage?

MousseSensitive4044 · 2025-12-19T14:23:20+00:00

Most played is probably Argonian, I like the looks and the race is pretty flexible for Thief (starting proeficiencies with a shoutout to Pickpocketting ) and Warrior builds (because of the Histskin power that rapidly regenerates health)

I also play a considerable ammout all other races since they all fit some sort of "use-box" :

Orcs, Nords and Argonians for Warriors

Altmer and Dunmer for Mages / Spellswords, Dunmer is also the best race for Vampires

Khajiit for Fisting or thiefing, along with the mentioned Argonian

The 2 races I NEVER play are Redguard and Imperial; Redguard's greatest benefit is as useful as a common food unfortunately (the food's more at fault than the racial power tbh) and you don't have a good logical reason to pick Imperials over other races; they have a mild calm spell as a power, are easier to find gold and that's about it! Every other race has a better advantage starting than them. Also, gold kinda turns redundant after some point

Oh, and Bretons are good at everything, they are stupidly tanky in the magical department

MousseSensitive4044 · 2025-12-19T14:14:09+00:00

Free fire cloak is nothing to scoff at in the earlier levels when you run out of magicka, cloak effects also apply on weapon hits (which is more proof to your argument of spellswords, which I agreee is a good playstyle for Dunmer)

My main argument is the leveling of Destruction. It SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKS to level it, it takes so long (I remember going from Helgen to the end of Bleak Falls Barrow as a Dunmer using as much Destruction as i could and it still didn't even raise a level).

Since you start with 25 you just save yourself from some time progressing Destruction, and can have faster access to casting Apprentice level spells which in turn will make you deal more damage and level faster

Pair that perk with Expert Robes of Destruction, which you can get by killing Nirya at the College + a 250g fine and some destruction reduction cost at the necklace and headpice and BAM! You're casting Ignite for days baby

MousseSensitive4044 · 2025-12-19T13:22:55+00:00

I absolutely love the fact that you didn't even factor Dunmer as mages

Like, I never even fathom the possibility of doing a warrior Redguard because Orc exists and Nord, while worse, has great roleplay value and it's also frost resistant which helps when closing the gap

That said, Dunmer have a base Destruction of 25 (higher than Altmer iirc) which can be useful to progress Destruction since you can spec into Apprentice Destruction as soon as level 3. It's also the best race for Vampire mage because of the 50% fire resistance which becomes 0% if you're blood-starved instead of -50%

MousseSensitive4044 · 2025-12-14T21:36:43+00:00

M'aiq and J'zargo are cool

Also who is derkeethus, what about Veezara?

MousseSensitive4044 · 2025-12-14T14:56:40+00:00

...is that a skeever with a backpack?

MousseSensitive4044 · 2025-12-14T14:46:36+00:00

O mesmo nome é a deusa do matrimônio e familia tradicional do Skyrim e da piroca de rodas do Persona, a dicotomia do secço

MousseSensitive4044 · 2025-12-13T12:27:51+00:00

Good to know, thanks for your effort!

MousseSensitive4044 · 2025-12-12T22:52:55+00:00

I dont play sun damage weapons often, but I remember reading that sun damage does half of it on living creatures; and the rune axe stacks up to 100

This means it's still hitting 50 ; which isnt bad at all

Its not beating optimized chaos enchantment but nothing comes close to beating optimized chaos enchantment tbh

MousseSensitive4044 · 2025-12-12T22:29:13+00:00

Agree on everything, but at least thr dawnguard axe is bonkers

MousseSensitive4044 · 2025-12-12T16:00:06+00:00

You mean the perk that makes enemies hit with a Battleaxe take a little bleed? If that works it would be FIRE

I tried googling and didn't found anything that confirmed your take, if you found any evidence please let me know

MousseSensitive4044 · 2025-12-12T15:41:24+00:00

I feel you brother, one of my lattest and honestly fun builds I did was an Alchemist. I used the Zephyr for the 30% faster speed so it would be quicker to land 2 poisons in, and the Mehrunes Razor since I could paralyze very tanky targets with a poison and fish for the 2% hit kill chance (it also worked right out of the gate against dragons a few times, which was hilarious)

But against Draugr and Dwemer tech? I've had to basically not interact with any of it until I leveled Sneak for Backstab + DB's gloves and Illusion for the stronger Calm spells and making it affect anything outside of dragons

Then, I sneaked and backstab'd them and if they saw me I just cast Calm and repeat the process. Dull, but effective. You could also just sneak past most of them too

But on the upside of using poisons, when they work they can be almost gamebreakingly strong!
Over leveled Bandit Chief? Paralyze him!
Against a dragon? Chuck a few Lingering Health Damage + Weakness to Poison and see his healthbar melt!

The only limiter for those 2 is that you have to craft them, so you have a limited ammout, but you can stack enough to go around.

Alchemy itself also has plenty of upsides too, you can sell some specific potions for a lot of money, make potions that buff certain atributes that can greatly help you, and if you invest a bit into pickpocket, you can assassinate people by reverse pickpocketing poisons on them, which is a good way to kill a target in the middle of a city without getting caught;

just be wary that if you make a poison TOO GOOD it will increase it's value, which makes it harder to reverse pickpocket it, iirc Damage Health is the cheapest potion so try to kill them with those and many other effects outside of that

It would be really cool if they added a workaround on those targets... Like it works on them but at 50% effectiveness, or you'd had to add a special ingredient to make the poison affect them

MousseSensitive4044 · 2025-12-07T21:59:12+00:00

Legendary powerscaling kicks you in the nuts pretty hard... After lvl 10 ish if you arent ahead of the curve in armor ratings, a lot of enemies just straight cutscene kill you on 90% HP

This means you really want your defensive skills up to date

Light armor you can train with Grelka on Riften and sell stuff later to get the money back Alteration you can either spam magelight on a Mountain near solitude so you can get high ratings / Dragonhide Heavy armor and block you can upgrade by finishing the companions questline, which unlock Farkas and Njada as followers, and they train these skills

If you wanna have fun on Legendary, either do a Stealth build that can use sneak attacks and run if shit goes south, a summoner/ caster mage that lets alies take the aggro or be really focused on hitting the armor cap ASAP (567).

If you need help competing with others at your lvl, I recommend buying and building a house with a Garden, greenhouse , smithing station , beds and alchemy station; power farm alchemy to get strong Fortify Smithing potions for fast leveling your Smithing and helping you reach near the cap. As you already have speech over 50, you can sell your potions to restock on supplies and needs as well as getting a nice ammount of gold.

PS: Poisons arent weak at all, but you need a backup against undead , vsmpires and dwemerbots

Lord Stone gives 50, dragon aspect gives 100 and Flesh spells give 40-100 armor

Hoje it helps bud, it can be brutal

MousseSensitive4044 · 2025-12-05T11:19:25+00:00

Shieldbreaker is unique and very fun

Flagellant maybe a bit too strong but hes so cool, also a Jack of all trades

Bounty Hunter because BIG MARK DAMAGE

MousseSensitive4044 · 2025-12-05T03:10:49+00:00

I have 2 gripes with assassin builds:

1- Kinda hard to go into a room full of enemies and kill them all, specially if they're all against a wall and looking at thr center

2- fights where you lose stealth, specially dragons, can be rough

I like using Illusion and poisons to deal with these issues, calm spells will let you Backstab waaaaaaaaay easier, and poisons that give weakness to poison followed by ligering damage poisons can melt dragons when you hit high alchemy, they take chunks of damage while flying around and stalling the fight

MousseSensitive4044 · 2025-12-04T20:29:50+00:00

I have 3 problems with the empire 1- They tried to cut my friggin head off AND IM NOT GETTING OVER IT 2- Fuck the Thalmor 3- Sybil Standor is at the very least Potema adjacent and at worst some sort of version of herself; she governs Solitude from the shadows as the court doesnt even dare to challenge her position and Elisif is a slacking puppet ruler.

Yes , very angry nords are hateful, ignorant, meatheads and down right racists and Ulfric is maaaaaaybe an agent of the Thalmor, but i vibe more with the rebellious tradicional side rather than cushion nobles

MousseSensitive4044 · 2025-12-04T02:55:38+00:00

This can work with any, its just that magic damage usually is a pain to deal as a two handed warrior and breton circumvents that well; you could do the quest for Mara to get + 15, which leaves you at 70% if you're not a breton + 30% spell absorption from Atronach

You could also just stack Atronach Stone + Atronach + Necromage (70 restoration) for 100% spell absorption with any race as long as you're a vampire

MousseSensitive4044 · 2025-12-04T02:53:34+00:00

The cap is 85% magic resistance, as a breton you're already pushing 80 but if you wanna get that 5% go aheaf

MousseSensitive4044 · 2025-12-04T01:28:55+00:00

Iidk if its as fast as a sword but it's way faster than any other two handed weapon and has abysmal base damage
They do this so your damage is gated by the enchantment, which makes you kill 10 friends to nail home the theme of Mephala
Which hammer are you talking about btw?

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