In your opinion

[ivxx]

I personally think the most overpowered skill is of course Restoration. It's simple really

all games whether console or mmog are usually all about HP i.e. health points

a Master in Restoration is the fastrack to tgm

yay or nay

whats YOUR prefered skill and why

[Povuholo]

Restoration doesn't really advance very fast IMO.

 

I think Alchemy is overpowered. If you buy all the ingredients at a tavern/alchemy store and create potions with them you can get rich very easily, and the skill advances pretty fast too. If you have Alchemy as one of your major skills and you use it often it's probably the first skill that reaches 100.

[DeusXMachina]

Sneak in combination with marksman is absolutely overpowered. It's possible to clear the Amazon caves of OOO with lvl 5 without having to use a single potion.

[ivxx]

Sneak in combination with marksman is absolutely overpowered. It's possible to clear the Amazon caves of OOO with lvl 5 without having to use a single potion.

 

Thats true, but after you get around lvl 30 , what can you kill with a sneak attack that you dont also need to poison to kill ?

[elpiggo]

Conjuration combined with Illusion. If you summon something then do invisibility or chameleon. The NPC will ignore the fact that they are being chopped to pieces by a skeleton, and try to find you instead.

[zucchini1822]

I would also vote for illusion. Almost any enemy can be defeated with a paralyze 1-2 sec spell followed with on-the-ground beatings, healings, and retreats. I'm not saying I think paralyze is cheap, but there are several enemies in the game (i.e. boss-type enemies) that really should be immune to paralysis and are not. It definitely gives mage-class characters an edge over fighters, which may be good if the mages are simply wearing enchanted robes, but it shouldn't be a fix-all end-all effect, like it turns out to be sometimes. At least the Gatekeeper is immune.

[Rhydderch Hael]

Sneak in combination with marksman is absolutely overpowered. It's possible to clear the Amazon caves of OOO with lvl 5 without having to use a single potion.

 

Thats true, but after you get around lvl 30 , what can you kill with a sneak attack that you dont also need to poison to kill ?

Most anything, really. High Marksman + good Sneak tactics = multiple sneak attacks. Hit the sucker far enough out, with the proper angles, and the target will be peppered with shots while having absolutely no idea where they're coming from.

 

I've downed plenty of foes with 'dry' shots at those character levels and under those circumstances. You need some skill with landing a shot from long range, though.

 

In fact, the perks of higher Marksmanship tend to get in the way: knocking down or paralyzing a target from that far out tends to upset my aim as the target drops to the ground.

 

And don't have anyone say that multiple sneak attacks is just an exploit of bad AI, or that it isn't anything close to realism. There have been times where my character has come under archer attack with no clue of where the shooter happened to be. By the time I zero in on the attacker, I've been shot at a few more times. If this were a multiplayer game, you would be in a far worse way if another player engaged you from the ranges I'm talking about.

[OBorg]

Sneak in combination with marksman is absolutely overpowered. It's possible to clear the Amazon caves of OOO with lvl 5 without having to use a single potion.

 

Thats true, but after you get around lvl 30 , what can you kill with a sneak attack that you dont also need to poison to kill ?

Most anything, really. High Marksman + good Sneak tactics = multiple sneak attacks. Hit the sucker far enough out, with the proper angles, and the target will be peppered with shots while having absolutely no idea where they're coming from.

 

I've downed plenty of foes with 'dry' shots at those character levels and under those circumstances. You need some skill with landing a shot from long range, though.

 

In fact, the perks of higher Marksmanship tend to get in the way: knocking down or paralyzing a target from that far out tends to upset my aim as the target drops to the ground.

 

Agreed. Thanks to the 'zoom' function you get a mid level marksman, I've pulled off some extreme range shots. Couple that with sneak attack 6x, a daedric bow and a high level enchantment, there's not a lot you can't drop.

 

It is cool to run halfway across the map from your firing position and find you've just put a glass arrow through the eyeball of your target :ph34r:

[Ginji]

It is cool to run halfway across the map from your firing position and find you've just put a glass arrow through the eyeball of your target :ph34r:

My arrows nearly always hit them in either the chin or (and this should not kill) their ankles/wrists/feet

 

Acrobatics is a bit overpowered, it balanced for those who only jump when it is needed, so if you jump everywhere it'l hit 100 in no time.

[poda05]

I once had a character that was one of those "sneaky marksmen." He also had several chameleon things on... He rocked... the only difficult part was when everyone and their brother got deadric armor...

 

Now i have a character that sneaks with his little mehrune's razor (its pretty much the best thing i can get right now cause this guy is only lvl 16)... When I had the marksman the game wasnt as fun... I did feel overpowering of all those other guys... Now, i feel less overpowering... I also think it's more fun...

 

I agree- marksman with sneak is kinda overpowering