Raltar wrote:
Slythe wrote:
A sidenote, the game clearly favors melee characters over both sneaky types and spell-casters. I like playing an archer/thief/slight mage type (a ranger!), although I don't use any melee weapons or a shield, so I tend to get my *** kicked if I let a tougher mob get too close.
I never had a problem as a 100% archer with sneak. I pretty much 1 shot everything towards the end from stealth. On my second game, I was playing a melee two hander type character and I would get rocked fairly regularly where my archer just yawned his way through the game. Then again, I might just suck at Elder Scrolls melee.
I kicked the game up to the highest difficulty level, and at level 52 with all archery perks, +168% bow damage from armor enchantments, maxed smithing and a glass bow fully honed, (It shows a base damage of 368 I believe) It takes me 2 sneak attacks to kill a Druagr Deathlord. I think I managed to take on 6 at once (while they were chain shouting at me--that was the most annoying thing) while on my way to engage Alduin.
I think I can push my bow damage up to 400-500, (need one more alchemy perk before I try) by maxing my Fortify Enchantment potions, enchanting a new set of Alchemy gear, then repeating the process-- then building a set of smithing gear.
The process is mostly tedious because of a lack of places to put things. (I like Honeyside as a house, but lack of storage there sucks. In fact, all of the houses suffer from a severe lack of storage. I liked the mansion in Solitude but it was too far from shops. I liked Breezehome but no enchanter meant it got quickly retired. The house in Markath was too far away from most shops as well (though had the most storage so far)
I'm bugged so I can't do the Winterhome house quest (can't solve the murder because murder never comes)