i'm not a "troll" i'm just saying my opinion lol.
sorry 4 being a [censored].

i assume people play that way because it's COOL
i made one and it's AWESOME! the melee combat is kinda eh, but my main guy kinda turned into a rogue. 2h warrior / sneaky archer it's pretty epic.

I'm playing Khajiit brawler smith who wears heavy armor and has a taste for necromancy. Can't get any more badass than that.

Dude. Stop.

Just because someone disagrees with you doesn't mean they are trolling.

The fact that he calls anyone who disagrees with him a troll also makes me chuckle

I'm heavy armor Imperial, running in with my sword+shield, slashin' and bashin'.... Shield Bash has to be one of the most useful abilities in any TES game... It's basically saying "No, you aren't allowed to do that" to anything lol

I'm about to roll an archer that DOESEN"T USE SNEAK...(or any thieving skills besides lock-picking) how cool/unique is that?!

hey what skill r u thinkng of leveling up since ur doin the same build as me ima prob do everything in heavy armor, 2 handed weps and only go up teh right side of smithing till i get te dragon armor

I like the sneaking, pick pocketing, archery, and murder.

But it's getting tiresome. Sneaking everywhere eats a ton of time, and
it doesn't net me the battle rush I crave.

Battle axe wielding orc with dreadlocks incoming.

I stated off with a dual-wielding archer thief to be different since I usually play these games as pure mages. Hasn't gotten boring, since I can do pretty good if I get the drop on the enemies, but if anything doesn't go according to plan it gets pretty chaotic.

"You're a sneaky looking sort."

EDIT: OMG, Nakanja, your avatar... It's PONY BORN! XD

I'm usually an archer but for this game im a light infantry style character light armor shield sword with a bow for first hits and a smith

Never understand the fascination of people worrying about how other people play a purely single player game.

I was thinking Heavy armor, Two Handed, Smithing [heavy only], Enchanting for extra armor/weapon buffs, Alchemy to make my own potions and maybe lockpicking, Thats all i can think of for now, if i have perks left over i might get some blocking and one handed for different gear

Hmmm I dunno I find direct melee to be insane in this game playing a dual wielding assassin or a mage seems like more of a challenge then a shield + sword + smithing + enchanting living God XD Of course there is a lot of in between, battle mages, nightblades... I guess people love stereotypes they see in books and movies? ^^

I role an assassin based character. I simply do it because that's what I was in Oblivion, and that's what I love. Still not bored of that play style. Most people get a rush just running in, free balling it and whooping some ass. I get a rush from sneaking up on my opponent and taking him out before he can even blink. I'm all for the 1 shot kills. When, and ONLY when the shot is taken from the shadows and hidden. If I'm killing someone in 1 shot and not hidden, then I wouldn't be having any fun. Still haven't used a single enchanted weapon. I'll probably end up using one eventually.

doing arcane warrior type.

Light Armors (elvan is bad ass armor btw)
Destruction/restoration magics
One handed and blocking

Battlemage Khajiit here! (Funny how that works. You'd think a Khajiit would do something stealthy before going warrior OR mage.)

I usually go with destruction magic/Mace (or whatever my best 1-h is.) Planning on getting some kind of good freezing damage worked into that so I can stun from afar and then go in for heavy damage. Occasionally switch out for healing, and for questing I love the Clairvoyance spell under illusion (keeps me focused on the task at hand, I get distracted easily.) Might toy around with other classes, but probably not with perks. I do a little stealth to give me an edge on combat, but have no problem tanking it out when I'm caught. The combination gives me a nice advantage over enemy resistances I think.

Had heavy armor at beginning of game (but no perks in that,) switching to light as soon as I find some good light armor. I just hope that it has satisfactory defense. I'm really on the fence about this one.

It might not be the most ideal build, but it's fun for me.

It's a also change for me. My RPG characters are usually berserker-style pure melee, 2-H and optimized for speed. I need some kind of defense, as I just don't like playing glass cannons -- a flaw mages generally fall victim to in RPGs. But Skyrim is one of the very few games I've played that won't punish me for using magic while wearing armor (and good for them, I never understood this handicap!) I think that's beyond awesome.

No hate on the stealthy, roguish players, though. I was considering this for one of my next builds. A lot of people just like this style of character, I think because warriors and mages are both very "classic" and stealth-mode gaming is a little newer to the scene. It's even some what of a fad. It happens to work very well in Skyrim. Not to mention, it's better to use a stealthy character to sneak into a house for a quest than to slay half of the city guard with your warrior tank.

Not 100% sure yet how I'll do my perks. Smithing stuff for sure. a lot of 1H perks, probably some armor perks when I figure out which I'll be using. Restoration, probably destruction. A few sneaking ones might help for those shady quests. Very tough choices to be made. I wish I had more points!

well i was wondering if enchanting was really worth it and all i mean you have to constantly buy soul gems and u can only enchant if u dis-enchant a weapon but ima prob have some leftover points so i might put it to that thanks for sharing

Well if Azuras Star works the same way it did in oblivion, then you wont need any other soul gems. I think you can buy enchanting scrolls/tomes from the college of winterhold, not sure though.

1.) No, but a lot of people are playing similar builds, and the reason for that is as I stated.
2.) That's hilarious. I'm glad to see you have a sense of humor at least.
3.) Dark Brotherhood was popular long before Oblivion... wtf?
4.) I work 14 hours a day and am far too exhausted to think about what SR might mean. I'm bad at acronyms, so I'm not entirely sure what you're talking about.