Hi everyone. Recently, I've been reading fan-fic journals such as the amazing works done by Subrosa and Acadian. It's inspired me to create a new character to roleplay since my dead-is-dead Nightblade was killed by a Vampire last night, that I shall watch over and journey with, all the while writing a his or her journal.

Of course, this character will be extensively roleplayed, and as such needs to be in interesting concept.

My attempt at a Healer didn't go so well, as she kept getting owned whenever she left towns. I gave her 5 goes as dead-is-dead and none worked. I'd love to play her, it's just I struggle a lot. If anyone has any hints on a way of getting round these problems, I'd gladly give them many, many cookies

Or, failing that. Suggestions for interesting lawful good or chaotic good characters would be majorly appreciated.

Well, having a good character who has a dark side to them could provide an unique experience.
But for ideas of a Character, I am unable to help there.

I see your point, and that thought had crossed my mind. It's just that most of the characters I play tend to lean towards evil, so I'd like to roleplay a good character as a change.
Thanks for the suggestion though

A good character with a dark side is pretty fun to play. Fighters Guild by day, Dark Brotherhood by night haha. Thats usually how I play but I do the same character every time.

First off, let me say I am honored by the tip of the hat to my writing.

If the problem with the healer is just that she is getting her clock cleaned by bad guys, how about investing in summoning? Most enemies always ignore you and go after your summons. Once you get your conjuration skill up, you can really start whipping up some powerful critters too. Let your minions keep them busy, and clean up with touch drain health or absorb health spells.

Or another option is the illusion route: invisibility spells to hide, command to make bad guys work for you, and paralyze.

If it is just the forest animals giving you a problem, try http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=33463. That is assuming you are playing on a PC. It makes you the same faction as the regular animals of the forest, so they do not attack you. It also adds an extra +20 magicka.

Also if you are on PC, you might try a companion mod to add a good solid brick to defend your healer. I did that once with a skeleton and it was tons of fun. A good background for the companion is that your healer may have saved them from death with her magic. Perhaps they were infected with poryhpic homophobia and she cured s/he before s/he could become a vampire?

You can get some forest animals help with a healer from an OOO quest, but its ridiculously long and very difficult haha but worth it in the end.

Like my friend, SubRosa, I thank you for the kind words. :wub: I also endorse her recommendations.

Perhaps you could expand your healer to be a 'no direct damage' character. A restoration/illusion/conjuration speciallist.

Illusion mind control spells while you go invisible is a very effective way of whittling a crowd down to one wounded survivor. A summoned creature while you disappear is a great way to take down that last survivor. As a healer, I would make one exception to the no direct damage rule: Embrace absorb health. It is, after all from the school of restoration and can be very helpful if cornered or when fighting underwater. To survive with this package of tactics is extremely viable.

As far as the RP background for such a character, there are loads of possibilities. I don't worry about optimizing stuff. Heck, I think charcters are a lot more fun when they have plenty of gimps to work against. For the above character I would take a Nord atronach. I would start her background as a shamen under training with her clan in Skyrim. For whatever reason, she leaves or is forced to leave, but finds herself in Cyrodiil. Naturally for such a character to flourish, she would probably consider the guild of mages, but I would leave that up to the ice vixen herself. I would play up the Skyrim/Nord stuff. In fact, if you wanted to expand her capabilties, I would consider allowing her to develop the weapons of her land - ice. Frost spells and a pet atronach named snowflake. Woohoo!

I have a ronin. The actual class name is The Honorable Ronin.

He uses a blade, no shield and a bow. He is lawful good. He has gained access to the Arcane University, but that is all he will progress there. He is a part of no other faction save the Knights of the White Stallion. Born under the Atronach. He is only allowed to use Mysticism and Restoration. He can use scrolls from other schools of magic, but no spells. He is into ancient history, and prefers to take many field trips.

I see you already got some advice, but I'll add my $0.02 since i stuggled with a healer character too.

Some things to think about:

• absorb health spell
  
• calm spell
  
• fear spell (I found this actually works better than calm because the mob runs away from you and takes longer to find you again, and if you're lucky, won't find you again)
  
• maximize your speed and don't be afraid to run away!
  
• stay near bodies of water and swim away, using breathe-water or walk-on-water if necessary; this is even more effective than running away because some mobs don't swim or only swim very slowly
  
• invisibility spell (if it fits your character)
  
• maximize your alchemy, make useful potions, and use them
  
• use as many enchanted items as you can manage to boost your stats/skills/survivability
  
• consider keeping a follower to help deal with nuissance mobs
  
• make use of aylied wells and wayside shrines (or whatever they're called)
  
• stay close to an imperial patrolman when you travel
  
• turn undead spell
  
• avoid dungeons and oblivion planes (except when absolutely necessary)

Hope this helps, and be safe out there!

Thank you to everyone for the advice. I'm giving my Healer another go using the tips you guys have given me.

Acadian, I like your idea of a Nord, I just can't make a decent looking Nord >.< i'll take a stab at it, but if it doesn't work it's likely she'll be a Breton.

It'll still be similar to your suggestion about a shaman, but it needs more pondering if I'm to play as a Breton.

I think it would be great to try the same thing with a Breton. Because of their magic resistance, I would take the mage birthsign (not atronach). The other couple changes I would make is have her hail from a Breton village (or coven) in High Rock and unlike the ice vixen from Skyrim, I would not let her use any elemental destruction spells, except maybe for lighting torches or cooking, Lol. Good luck! :foodndrink:

A Breton shaman? I believe the term is Witchmen of the Western Reach! From http://www.imperial-library.info/content/pocket-guide-empire-first-edition-high-rock


Sounds like a great place for a shaman to hail from. If you like, I can email you a mod I created that allows you to summon animals like wolves, lions, bears, etc... It is only half-finished, which is why I never posted it. But all the summonses work. It works great for the shaman/witch type of character.

addendum:

and, by the way, i had a hard timing keeping calm and fear spells optimized for my current level, so I found I had to go back to the spell altar every few levels and redo these spells to make sure they worked on the higher level mobs.

Good luck with your healer . . . and if it doesn't work out, don't be afraid to roleplay her getting angry, losing her faith, and finally going over to the "dark side" and slaughtering everything she sees in a sacreligious fit of rage. :flame:

Subrosa, sadly I'm on xbox. No mods for me until I save enough money for a desktop. Also thanks for the info on The Western Reach. I'm curious as to what deities th tribes would worship.
See, i've never played a religious character and want to give it a go. I'm guessing they probably wouldn't pray to the Nine?

The basics are falling into place. I wuv you guys!

You should try worshiping Tomato! That's the way to go dude!

Well, there's always the Daedric Lords... Perhaps Hircine would fit?

If you want to be silly, however, there's always http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Ius#Ius...

If I was playing a Nordic shamen healer, her clan in Skyrim would worship Kyne.
If I was playing a Breton shamen healer, her tribe in High Rock would worship Mara.

Here is a helpful link to probe around in: http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Gods
As you will see, you have loads of options when it comes to religion.

Given what the Imp Library says about the Western Reach, it looks like a complete free-for-all of gods. So I think anything could work. In addition to Acadian's excellent ideas above, I can add Azura. As goddess of dawn and dusk, she is a deity who holds sway over moments of transition. When the the world hangs between one state and another. This is something central to the use of magic, for all magicians and holy people walk between worlds. With one foot in the physical world, and one in the spirit world, they step back and forth between them with ease. Azura then, is a goddess of magicians, initiations, and all people going through times of transition in their life.

Or, follow the footsteps of my own Teresa, and become a worshiper of Mother Nature herself, a.k.a. the Earthbones.

I also have to thank you guys for the ideas.
I am pondering what type of magic will be dangerous and wild, something that corrupts the mind? Being able to call nature to strike down your enemies? Perhaps a extremely destructive nuke spell?
So many ideas! If you are going to be a shaman the boots of the crusader will be helpful since we both lack PCs lol.
Most of my characters worship earthbones since we read that part in Subrosas journal. Earthbones is a great shaman worship!

as a healer, i'd need to have at least one strong battle character be with me all the times. u cannot handle O without resorting to combat or staying invisible forever.

very few quests have something to do with finding a cure or healing.... means u will feel tempted to abandon this class concept, coz oblivion is basically a game where u need to survive confrontations.

i dont know how u would get a companion, i know u can 'make' one using the construction set, in which case i'd recommend u a good fighter approach.

as for rp'ing a a helaer, i'd have the following skills: Restor, Mystic, Illus, Speech, Mercant, Alter, Alchemy
Magic oriented, choosing Willpower and PErsonality attributes.
Rave any (....) though i'd be more inclined to take Breton or Wood / High elf.

If you become a daedra worshipper you could summon daedra/dremora to help out in combat. Restricting yourself to atronachs is another option. Frostspire dlc would be great for a shaman.

Companions are available in vanilla. KOTN provides these, of course, as do some other quest lines. You could pick up the Jemane Bros - they're better fighters than they give themselves credit for.

Mara

I have not, and may never start my ice vixen Nordic shamen who worships Kyne. If I did however, I'm sure she would learn how to call forth an ice golem. Of course, the ice golem would look suspiciously like a frost atronach, but I like the idea, for some characters who may embrace one of more of the elements to consisider fire golems, ice golems and, gee - what would storm atronachs be? Earth golems because of the swriling rocks or perhaps air or lightning golems?

Anyway, just a concept. I usually try to optimize what the vanilla game can do before turning to mods. Summoning an ancestral guardian spirit instead of a ghost/wraith etc.

Thats not necessarily true, you'd just need to keep Destruction, the default Flare spell should be able to kill most enemies quickly enough up until level 5, as long as you level well (not power levelling), you can be a very powerful player, without ever resorting to weapons, or detracting from your roleplaying very much (only using Destruction when absolutely necessary). Because, whether its via spells, enchantments or alchemy, Magic is the source of power in the game.

Words cannot express how brilliant you guys have been. Thank you to everyone who posted in this thread.

My character is taking shape, I've decided on her religion, and will begin playing her either tonight or tomorrow, depending on how much time I get.
I won't post much about her as I plan to keep a journal for her which will be posted on the forums, and well, it wouldn't do to spoil the surprise

oh - i guess i should have explained better: i agree, pure magic can own the game by itself.

i meant that, based on what a healer is (as per the skills i listed) the character would need someone to dish it out...

BUT then again I forgot something i've told in some other posts, about exactly the powerful restoration school, meaning transfer / absorb spells. these, by themselves, can help u detonate foes, if u know how to make spells efficiently.

anyway, i personally would use a healer to heal, casting defensive spells or curing etc... thus feeling the need for some sort of tank.