Hey, Ive been looking at the forums a while and noticed most of you are playing archery/sneak/dual wielding thieves/assassins. Why is that? Doesnt it get boring being able to one hit most if not all foes?
I myself play a heavy armor wearing orc that wields a skullcrushing warhammer. I find it fun being able to charge head on into fights and not rely on stealth and big crits or whatever..Idk just a thought.

You mean you prefer a different playstyle than other people? Oh my god.

O'm doing a heavy armour wearing Nord with sword and shield. Big bushy beard and a particular liking to some good mead. I also really enjoy disregarding stealth/magic an bum rushing everything, even giants and mammoths.

I play an archery/sneak/SINGLE wielding thief/assassin, simply because its what I always do on my first playthrough on TES. Wanna roll on a nord 2-hander warrior thou.

I'm also a warrior based character. A Nord wielding an axe and a shield with my pro dragon heavy armour! (took me quite some time and money to get smithing 100!) Once you get used to using a shield it's sooo ownage against enemies that get close to you (like dragons, giants and mammoths for example). Just shield bash them right when they're about to attack (or when they do a magic spell) and then hit them a few times with you weapon and repeat . Easy to take out dragons/giants without even taking damage.

I play a light armored axe wielding mage whose highest skills are enchanting and smithing (Arcane Blacksmith in other words).
Thief/Assassin will be a 2nd playthrough as this character ain't joining TG and DB due to RP reasons (he ain't stealthy for starters... tough he is training for Boethiah's quest)

I'm doing an archery/sneak paladin. I rely heavily on restoration and one-handed for melee, and sneak archery for distance. I love it.

Funny, Im playing an angry, giant-axe wielding juggernaut who wouldn't recognize subtlety if it slapped him in the face (though, admittedly, that wouldn't be very subtle of subtlety).

I sneak in everything: TES, Fallout, CoD, Halo, Farcry. yeah I like sneaking.

I'm playing a Khajiit everything. If she fancies using any particular weapon, or spell, at any given moment, she will. The only constant is heavy armor.

I'm playing a battleaxe wielding warrior nord on expert and he can one shot weaker mobs as well. He's a bloody animal actually!

I got 3 characters going my favorite yes is the sneaky assassin type but I actualy enjoy it not for the one shotting (not that you can some of the more heavily armored opponents) but for the fun of pickpocketing, running amuck stealing everything, and finally alchemy and stealth are so fun when you kill someone by putting poison in their pocket XD

But yah also play pure Bretonian Mage necro conjuration with destruction and restoration, and Argonian Fighter heavy armor 2 handed swords and smithing with enchanting.

Edit: oh and trying to think of a paladin/mage fighter concept, either a weapon and shield concept where I swap out one hand to cast or just spell and shield altogether, probably heavy armor.

the problem is the perks system limited the variety of characters you can make.

It's a single player game. Who cares?

Omg, you be a troll? Wowsa

This forum loves Assassins and Argonians. I thought that was obvious by now.

I myself went with a traditional battlefield raised Nord sword and board using his shouts to augment his fighting potential, and intend to follow up with a pure Wizard before I even think of stealth.

I'm an argonian pure mage. I do use bound weapons on occasion though. I'm mixing it up with a variety of methods... destruction, alteration, restoration, conjuration, illusion. I do a different combo for almost every encounter, keeps it very fresh.

Does a shield really help a lot? Ive found some pretty nice ones but since shields didn't really help me in morrowind or oblivion I figured they wouldnt make a difference in skyrim. Im currently lvl 16 with 3 perks in smithing and 13 perks left. Figured id play around with the other skills to see what I like. Trying to stick to a heavily armored orc berserker or something of that sort.

Im playing a male breton spellsword. I use alot of destruction, alteration, light armor and one hand combat and then use restoration to heal myself

I'm a heavy armoured dual wielding Orc. I think its cool to see so many thieves and assassins.

Yes they do become boring. You basically 1 hit KO everyone and once you have your sneak up high enough you can pretty much sneak directly infront of someone and they don't see you.

I had a character with the same skills as you but as soon as I saw the Dark Brotherhood armor I promptly deleted him and created my orc berserker.

I started off planning to be an assassin. But now I'm practically just a hunter, I'm more interested in running fast to keep up with my pray as animals run even if you sneak. Wearing forsword head dress, gauntlets and boots with the fur armour that's topless. Wood elf, quite muscley. Tends to be light armour - dual wields daggers or swords for melee, no mind for defence because as a hunter his focus is offense. There's more to every character than their combat approach. As a hunter he uses hunter skills to fight his enemies.

When he went on the dragonborn quests though he has become more of a warrior, his sword weilding has become one of his primary fighting styles. Two swords, a falmer sword and a forsword sword, both enchanted with frost damage. It adds up to like 50 points of damage when I get a two weapon strike. He now wears elven armour, a dwarven helm ([censored] awesome helm!) and his forsword gauntlets and boots still.

Shields are bloody brilliant. Someone casting a channeling stream of mystical energies? Shield bash. Dragon shouting a stream of pain? Block with a shield with the Elemental Reduciton perk. Dragon lands and wants to shout at you? Smack him in the chops. That Chief gonna cleave you in two with his two hander? Bash.

Shield Bash is literally the answer for everything.

You're playing a two-handed weapon fighter and you're talking about one hitting people getting boring?

You must only be like level 2.

I one hit things (including the weakest dragons) with my dual-wield guy, and I am not even level 20.