How do I go about combining mage and assassin?

[TobyTravis]

Any builds or advice to help me make a fun combination of these two archetypes?

[Matth85]

Go into illusion for invisiblity and ways to control your enemies.

Then simly sneak around, turnig enemies against each other and kicking ass. If they spot you, you use invisiblity and hide around a pillar or something.

[Iv000]

Done that!

Destruction is my main skill, one handed doesn't get a lot of attention though, but I have a dagger hotkeyed. I'm also good at restoration, the fast healing spell saved me a bunch of times. I mostly focus on increasing my magicka, my health is only on 200 (I'm level 32).

With the Dark Brotherhood shoes that muffle your movement, a few perks in sneak to enhance your stealth attack multiplier and the gloves that double your stealth attack, I am quite powerful.

 

I invade stealthily, and if something goes wrong I use my destruction spells (Expert spells mostly) to solve that.

It's quite fun to play that way, the best way to success is to use all the power you have. If you play stealthily, then do no risk detection and kill only when you must or when it's safe. When you are in combat, only use destruction, and use it a lot. (Impact perk is a must have)

[Fatalmasterpiece]

I have never been able to actually find the invisibility spell for purchase or in book form. Seems that everything in this game is leveled and you are not supposed to have it until higher level or something urrgg.

[Dambuster]

Illusion is highly useful for a sneak character. Not only muffle and invisibility but also Fury and the like. For instance

during the dark brotherhood quest where you are required to kill a bride at her wedding I simply cast fury on her husband from a safe distance and watched as he slaughtered his new wife. Really I thought I deserved some extra bonuses for this.

[spets21]

I have an assassin battle mage build for you if you like:

 

 

for RPG purpose of being an assassin battle mage in skyrim this is how i build my toon i mainly focus on maxing first my 1)Sneak - most importantly you need to get assassins blade this should be your first priority so level your sneak perks with illusion just hang around a rock or something and always hide if detected cast calm and run away rinse and repeat early on or you can train on a khajit caravan forgot npc's name if you have plenty of gold to spare."get all the perks in this tree" except for stealth i only get this at level 1 early on and i just enchant with sneaking on my armor if you plan to abuse crafting

 

2)Illusion - use calm/fear/frenzy if detected or failed backstab attempt this tree can save your life plus its funny watching two enemies go at it you can eat popcorn while they slug at each other

 

3)Conjuration - bound weapons includes 1H swords/bows ect... again i use this tree for RPG purpose i dont use any other weapon acquired or crafted except for early in game just until i purchased the spell from a mage npc and in tight spots i use fire/frost atonachs spells when ganked or need a distraction to flee

 

4)Restoration - Fast Healing and respite is a must , i also spend perks for recovery/avoid/regeneration

 

5)Light Armor - i get all perks in this tree 50% stamina regen is really good

 

Optional perks Enchnting/Smithing depends if you wanna abuse this perk it makes it easy tho

 

I use Light Dragonscale armor except for gloves i use DB gloves for x2 crit i also have different sets of armors from 1H enchants/sneak/resistance enchants,skill cost reduction/mana regen and barter and accessory lol yeah you need them if you play master difficulty

 

here are the total number of perks ive spent for a certain tree Sneak = 9 didnt max my stealth and yes i abuse crafting :D ,Illusion = 8 perks just middle and right perk i didnt get double casting , conjuration = 8 left and mid perk didnt have twin souls yet but i plan to get that as well.

resoration = 6 and light = 10 ,havent tried to use poison tho

 

i also have 2 destruction perks at my disposal just incase a see a flying lizard i can hurl fireball/firebolt currently level 56 with