I didn't particularly care for them in previous games, but they're now becoming my favourite race of all.

I don't hate any race, you racist pigs.

You could, I mean this game isn't an MMO. If it were through, I'd be wearing a lot of pointy ears on my armour that used to belong to streaky elves named Steelforged, that I'll promise you lol

They're really easy to hate due to the history of the "Great War" and their attitudes towards the Empire. Kill. Them. With. Fire. :flamethrower:

Altmer are traditionally the best race in almost all TES games and Skyrim is no exception. The 50 Magicka bonus is like having five free levels.

No matter how good your character is and how many enchantments you stack, an Altmer could always outperform you because of this simple bonus.

Well there's somthing you don't see every day. A Dagger-eared, Magicka addled, streaky Mer with a sense of humor.

Here's somthing I see every day, a dagger-eared, magicka addled, streaky mer with my Nord hero sword stuck up his [censored] after he's just tried to kill me with his weak destruction magic against my magic resistant armour.

You Elves may have powerful magic, but we Nords know how to counter-act it. And remember what Ysgramor did to you? We'll do the same again...

As a whole, I think they are endearingly annoying with all of their bias and arrogance, except for the Thalmor, they're my new favorite prey.

Berserker Rage.

50% resistance to a third of the games magic damage.

Unlimited sprint and power attacks for a minute.

Command Animal.

200% health regeneration.

50% resistance to ALL magic in the game.

50 magicka may be nice, but it isn't the best racial. Being able to go insane and take twice as much damage, while dealing out twice as much damage, is definitely the greatest thing a warrior has ever seen.

HATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATE Dirty elves.

Not to mention that someone did a test on the fourms awhile back on the Skyrim Mechanics and the Altmer could run faster and jump higher then any race...damn they rule.

I love them because I hate them.

We shall see--lemme get him some decent armor for a screenie and you'll see how BIG and bad he is--you got me wishing this was a MMO..... :laugh:

Most of the Empire's culture, lore, science and religion are based off Altmer Culture.... so yeah they just provided the bedrock of modern human culture and civilization in Tamriel, no sir-ee nothing special at all :banghead:

I like the Altmer, sure they can be snobs and a touch arrogant but they also have class and sophistication. Then again I just chalk up most of the hate to the sort of people that show up to a restaurant with a dress code in jeans and a t-shirt then get snippy because the hostess turned them away, or teenagers who haven't gotten over their 'only burly space marines or awesome monsters are cool' fetish.

I like Altmers, just not the arrogant ones.

Hmmm... Good point... NOT!!!

Battleshout... Sends everyone running in fear, weather they wield magic or not

50 percent resistance to Frost, thats a third of your destructive range rendered usless right there, fire damages health over time (health potions), shock damages magicka (means nothing to a true Nord) and frost (pah) damages stamina (usless, as we can resist enough of iit to render it obsolete)

Do Altmer have a 50 percent resistance to decapitation? No? Altmer's need help lifting melee weapons let alone using them. Before you've whittled our health down, we will have closed the gap, and buried our steel into your hearts.

Your statments only bolsters what every non-Altmer on here has been saying, arrogance, you Altmer stink of it.

Altmer run faster, jump higher and hit harder than any other player race thanks to Skyrim's scaling mechanics. So not only is your burly Nord at a magical disadvantage but also a physical one :celebration:

Once per day? For 60 seconds? Take your Altmer to Companions, do few quests. Here's your Berserk.

Frost res? Can be gained from items, magic res is better anyway.

Endurance buff in no way makes your stamina unlimited. Get some Vegetable Soup, gain similiar ability for 12x longer.

Command animal is a joke and an illusion spell.

1000% health regen? Waste of Restoration XP. Just sprint away and heal yourself.

25% magic res? Passive bonuses from Lord, Magic Resitance perk and Mara's Blessing will get you up to 70% and magic res maxes out at 80%.

Oh?

I missed the part where that suddenly let you dodge an orc in daedric armor sprinting at you with a battle-axe.

Or the part where arrows no longer travel in your general direction, due to distorted gravity.

How will you snap my altmer spine when you are on the ground paralyzed while my Dremora Lords hack at your flesh with their greatswords?

I like the altmer, dont particularly care for the thalmore, but just because you are a high elf doesnt mean you are automatically part of the thalmore or are stuck up, rude, etc.

They are probably the most hated due to the Thalmor and Aldmeri Dominion.

That said I do not mind the race itself.

I like the race but I hate the Thalmor.

It's called sprinting away faster, then laughing at him when his once a day 60 second buff wears off.



Yes, because 1, and only 1, specific race is capable of using bows.

I got a crush on her:

http://images.uesp.net/9/99/SR-npc-Niranye.jpg

One of my characters is an Anti-Thalmor Altmer Warrior.

What say you in your defense, haters?

I do not deny in any way that you can jump higher, or run faster (and they ALL run away). However, because you all yearn for more Magicka, you pump all of your levelling points into magicka and necglect your stam and HP, so you can sprint fast for all of three seconds, while you're panting for breath, we Nords, who pump everything into stam and HP (or so we should) would have caught up and cleaved you in half.

And since when were Altmer able to hit harder than Nords? Not in the TES games I've played. I've faced stronger Mudcrabs than I have Altmer.