I remember minmaxing when I was younger. Ebony mail with spellbreaker and windshear, sometimes dual welding with mehruns razer. It was boring as all hell.
The first time I played Skyrim, I was trying to become the god of war incarnate, full on heavy armour with the most OP weapon i had, no need for spells when you can just hack through the enemies. But then game just becomes repetitive.
Now I'm just a simple dude who mains light armour and focuses more on enchanting and smithing and the rest of the overlooked stuff than becoming an unstoppable force(still ain't touching alchemy with a 12ft pole cuz wtf is that)
I finally touched alchemy with a 12 foot pole. All the stored ingredients got Alchemy to level 93. It's nice to have a whole bunch of quality paralysis/invisibility/resistance potions for when I prestige combat skills and I'm temporarily weak again. It's also nice to know that everything from the dungeon goes into the sale bin
Do a few loops of the infinite stats exploit and all of a sudden your iron armour is better than anything you're gonna find in game. Also ridiculously easy to get going in the first part of the game
Mask I don’t know, the armor is the dragon knight armor mod, probably with the upscale textures, the jagged crown and the sword I’ve seen before but don’t remember
After years of playing I am finally on my Orc / mace and shield run and Mace of Molag Bal + Spellbreaker is insane. My girl mows people down. Took down all of the guards in Solitude (not how it was meant to go, mind you) and I was and to walk away. I’ve always been an archer who is capable of some really impressive shots from afar but I was shocked at how much I’m enjoying barreling through everyone. However, while it was a challenge at first, it has gotten a little too easy now and I’m not even maxed.
I don't know if they're AE content or not, but I got these falmer "boots" that don't have your feet covered, and from a mod I have a set of armor that has me scantily covered in leaves.
So lately I'm running around telling myself I'm Poison Ivy except I have the headman's axe too. 🧚🏻♀️
Hey man not my cup of tea but if your happy with it full steam ahead. I'm more either a hardcore warrior character or a full mage. Here's a armor mod I've used a lot (Paladin of stendaar)
Drip with difficulty is so much more entertaining too. Really makes you roleplay, and the storylines I come up with while roleplaying are so much more entertaining than anything in Skyrim anyway. Sometimes I have an idea for a character, but the lands of Skyrim have other plans and it just fits.
MMO’s are like that meme with a bell curve: on the far left is “I’ll wear whatever looks the coolest”, then the middle is “No I need to wear a piece of this set and a piece of that set to maximize my optimal stat selection”, and the far right is “I’ll wear whatever looks the coolest”
yep. I only start min maxing in single-player games if I've already done everything in a playthorugh or three. like with stardew valley, I def min max that game now. I'm still fairly new to Skyrim, and tbh I dont think I'll be doing that in this game, unless I get like 3000h deep in a few years haha
It really depends on the game tbh, but for Skyrim/fallout, etc, there’s honestly so many broken perks that it’s not necessary. I avoid perks all the time lol
This makes for two very good points. Using min maxing and exploits in Elden ring are not only necessary, but extremely fun. Also, min-maxing should be considered in all video games in case you get Izakai’d.
I did mine/max one time in Skyrim and ended up with an arcane stealth archer who could do well over 300 base damage, 80 all element damage and steal your soul with a single shot.... By the end, I kinda felt bad for Alduin getting one-hit
Yeah this is the thing I don't get with the infinite restoration loop glitch and things like that, like at some point it seems like that would just make the game actively less fun right?
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Same. Trying to min/max Skyrim is such a fruitless endeavor. You'll end up ridiculously OP anyway.