Skyrim Build: Thief

Thief

Intro -
The Thief is a master of stealth with loyalty to no one beyond his brothers and sisters in the Riften Thieves Guild. Walking in the shadows he swipes coin from anyone careless enough to leave it tied to their belt and makes off into the night before they realise. Utilising his skills with lockpicks, stealth, alchemy and sometimes magic this silent figure makes his riches without drawing blood. 

Race Selection -
Khajiit - This is what I personally went for, lore wise it fits and starting skills are good. Plus seeing in the dark is handy if you run a lighting mod that makes dark actually... well, dark.
Argonian - Again it works well lore wise, the starting skills are good and water breathing could add a new aspect to stealth
Wood Elf - Stealth and archery good early game stats.
Dark Elf - Alright, but not a personal choice
Other Races - Not ideal but nothing stopping them being a Thief!

Armour/Weapon Selection - 
Weapon - One handed sword - Nightingale Blade, Ebony Sword for looks. 
Off-hand - Dagger - Ebony/Daedric. Illusion spells - Calm, Fury, Fear
Armour - Light Armour - Thieves Guild, Nightingale, Guild Master.
PC ONLY -
Weapon - Fist Weapon provided by Perkus Maximus mod, Sword damage scale, called Katana.
Off-hand - Knuckles/Claw fist weapons added by Perkus Maximus. Same spells as previous.
Armour - Same as previous.

Standing Stone - 
Thief stone for 20% boost to thief stat exp gain, Lover Stone for 15% boost to all, Shadow Stone for invisibility daily power.

Skills/Perk Selection - 
Sneak - Stealth (5/5), Muffled Movement, Light Foot, Silent Roll, Silence
Pickpocket - Light Fingers (1/5), Night Thief, Extra Pockets, Cut Purse, Key Master, Misdirection, Perfect Touch, Poisoned
Speech - Haggling (1/5), Allure, Bribery, Persuasion, Merchant, Investor, Fence, Master Trader
Alchemy - Alchemist (5/5), Physician, Poisoner, Concentrated Poison, Green Thumb
Enchanting - Enchanter (5/5), Insightful Enchanter, Corpus Enchanter, Extra Effect
Illusion - Novice Illusion, Apprentice Illusion, Adept Illusion
Light Armour - Agile Defender (1/5), Custom Fit, Unhindered, Matching Set, Wind Walker, Deft Movement
One Handed - Armsman (1/5), Fighting Stance, Bladesman, Dual Flurry, Dual Savagery
Archery - Overdraw (1/5), Eagle Eye, Steady Hand (1/2)

As you can see this is a lot of perks on a lot of skills, it will in fact take you to level 59. Now I will say here that archery, illusion, enchanting and alchemy are all optional and down to personal preference, but I found my one handed and light armour alone wasn't keeping me alive when things went wrong. Which they will, often when your sneak is low. If like me you use the Perkus Maximus mod or a similar overhaul, these skills still apply, under their new names, and similar perks can be found.
Lockpicking is left out because it's a waste of perk points.

Quest Lines
Alduin/Main Story - Optional, however I advise on ignoring Whiterun early on and not letting the dragons spawn as your combat is weak till later.
Civil War - Optional.
Dark Brotherhood - Possible. For me no, but a Thief may get bored of just stealing.
Thieves Guild - Yes, in fact, this should be your first quest line, oddly enough.
Mages College - Maybe. Illusion could lead you there.
Bard's College - Maybe.
Companions - Personal Preference
Dawnguard - Yes, can join either side. 
Dragonborn - Why not?
Thane Quests - Title is useful for getting out of bounties.
Side Quests - Yes, for money.
Daedric Artifacts - Yes, thieves like trophies.

I found this build fun, but hard to play early on due to putting perks into sneak, pickpocketing and  Speech, thus leaving me with very little damage or survivability. It is fun and rewarding and a true way to play the Thieves Guild quest line, in my opinion, the best quest line. However it doesn't quite lend itself to other quest lines so well, be warned.

~Rusty

Skyrim Builds - More coming

I've been getting back into Skyrim in a big way and remember thoroughly enjoying writing up my build ideas. I am going to do more and have some that I'm working on but I've noticed some of my previous builds have had a lot of views! Over a thousand on the Death Knight! 

So please, if you have a build idea you want to see come to life, whether it be just a name, a backstory or some skills you want to see used together, please comment on this blog with them and I will do my best to get them done!

Upcoming builds -

Paladin - Revised
Thief
Night Blade
Elemental Hunter
Shaman
Priest
Pacifist

Thanks! 

~Rusty

Besiege - First Impressions

So I picked up Besiege on Steam for a fiver the other day and now I want to talk a little bit about it...

Besiege is a vehicle construction type game, similar to Kerbal Space Program except that instead of rockets and planes you build medieval war machines. It's in early access right now, and as such only a small portion of the game is available to play, but it's very, very fun, and here I shall explain why.

My first impression was made, as always, at the main menu, being the first thing I saw. It's smooth, stylish, simplistic and easy to use. You have the earth in the centre with islands making up the level groups, the moon off to the top left which in itself seems to be another level group and then a small cube to the top right which is the sandbox. 

I got stuck into the levels straight away and I have to say the user interface is one of the best I've seen in years! It's simple, clear, easy to navigate and easy to use. The tutorials are simple but don't leave anything out and from their on it's up to you and your imagination.

The levels themselves are fun, you could build a machine to take them all on or build a new machine for each level as I did. Currently only one level group is available but I've had tons of fun with it, without spoiling what it includes I will say that the difficulty increase is well balanced and fun, you'll learn as you go.

The Sandbox too is very fun, not huge but with lots of different 'stress-tests' as I've taken to calling them for your machine. I noticed also that they claim the Sandbox is not complete. I'd say it's more than adequate so the idea of getting more is exciting.

Beyond this there's not an awful lot to say, the construction is clever, not too many pieces but enough that you really can do whatever you want. It's simple, fun and as challenging as you want it to be. I can't wait to see future updates and take on more challenges!

~Rusty. 

So I'm back! (hopefully)

Yo!

I'm back! I think.

So I kinda forgot about this blog after a while. I've had a whole ton of stuff happen in life over the last year and ended up not having the time to really game or blog a whole lot until now.

I'm back to being unemployed as my work was only temporary, standard warehouse work, meaning I have time to start this once again.

I've been working on a few different things. Got back into Skyrim recently, been playing on PC with lots of immersion mods and a perk overhaul. Stopped playing Warcraft, which I'll get into in a second. And lastly spent some time in Arizona with a special someone.

So I'm going to start posting on here again. I may also include the tattoo blog I used to run rather than start up and try to manage two blogs.


Warcraft - 

So yeah, Warlords of Draenor launched and not long after I stopped playing. Not because it's bad, in fact I love the expansion, but I'm finding myself less interest in the day to day grind of WoW. I got a few classes to lvl 100, enjoyed the new race models, enjoyed the new dungeons, although I did find some of them became less fun and more frustrating after a little while. I did try and get into raiding but seems no one is taking on people that don't have prior raiding experience right now so that fell flat, and ended up back in PvP. That started to get boring too after some time however. So yeah, not really playing it any more.


Skyrim -

Skyrim has made a comeback for me recently. I'm hoping to post some more class builds on here, been messing around with some things.

Reviews - 

When I get a job and can afford to buy new games I will try to get back to some reviews too!

That's really it for now.

~Rusty.