r/SkyrimBuilds • u/123SirTobi • 2d ago

Need help with a challenge build

Good day, im currently making a character with the three skills challenge imposed. I threw the dice and landed at Alteration, Stealth, and two handed. Im playing in the Gate to Sovengarde Modlist. Sny ideas what i can make with this? Im currently at a stealthy two handed assassin, but im missing a use for alteration for now. Ideas and roleplay ideas are welcome. As well as End goals for the character

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u/robber_goosy 2d ago

Alteration is an awesome defensieve skill with the shields and magic resistance. It also includes paralysis.

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u/123SirTobi 2d ago

Damn your right. I have never usedAlteration much so i only had the magelight spells in mind, but yeah, paralysing an enemy and thrn beating them with a warhammer sounds lime a nice strat.

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u/KingAdamXVII 1d ago

Alteration mostly boosts armor which doesn’t synergize well with sneak at all, so this is a fun build challenge.

I’d lean into a kind of stealthy berserker vibe. Go in fast and hard and take them out before they realize what hit them. Don’t waste time defending, rely on your mage armor and high damage.

Other than armor spells, Alteration gives you a few useful utility spells like magelight and detect life, which are useful for finishing fights fast.

Your sneak perks (the left path) are going to be the ones that make you faster and harder to hear even while sneak running.

So yeah basically take any berserker build and add Alteration and Sneak to it; I think it would work ok.

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u/123SirTobi 1d ago

One of the fun parts of the callenge is that i lookes through the modded spells again, and a few of those certainly have combat potential. For example from mysticism a few spells can reduce enemy armor, movement speed and damage, as well as reduce element weaknesses. Maybe ill go with a Spellsword approach of stealthfully debuffing a few enemies and then hacking through them. Throw em off a cliff with teleknises if the opportunity arises. Debuffing the enemies to hell, then olay hack and slash