Evil Necromancer Advice

Post » Wed Mar 26, 2014 7:11 pm

For some reason I am extremely overwhelmed about this character. She is already level 9 and i have no idea what playstyle she is going to be. I want her to be an evil necromancer/mage kinda thing. Queen of the vampires. How am I supposed to do this? What spells? I already tryed just reanimate. Not good because there are hardly ever any dead bodies around in the beginning of fights. The obvious schools would be Illusion and Conjuration, but what spells? How would I use these spells in combat? Can anyone help?

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luis ortiz
 
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Post » Thu Mar 27, 2014 12:06 am

Hevnoraak is your guy on this one. But the definition of a Necromancer is someone who raises the dead, or communicates with them. It's a shame that you can't summon Skeletons or Zombies like on Oblivion, as Atronach's really don't fit the theme.
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Post » Wed Mar 26, 2014 12:27 pm

Aethrtial crown for that queen look.

Ritual stone for your massive undead army.

That is a shallow example of how I made the queen of the undead. I would put more but I'm running on 2 hours of sleep and I can bear-ly make out words lol.

Have you checked the skyrim blog? They've got tons of build ideas and such on there.

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Post » Wed Mar 26, 2014 7:59 pm

Exactly what I was thinking. There should be summon zombie spells

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Amy Siebenhaar
 
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Post » Wed Mar 26, 2014 10:26 pm

If you're on pc, there are definitely mods that let you summon e.g. a skeleton archer/warrior.
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Sarah Edmunds
 
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Post » Wed Mar 26, 2014 3:23 pm

You can bring your own zombie, with the dead thrall spell. Though that's master level, and a pain in the [censored] to acquire.

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Dan Endacott
 
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Post » Wed Mar 26, 2014 6:20 pm

Let summon hevnoraak here

This is the guy who swarm Windhelm with army of Falmer and Solitude with army of Draugr.

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Terry
 
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Post » Wed Mar 26, 2014 8:57 pm

It's rather unfortunate that you can't actually be anything more than an undead-raising necromancer, rather than a necromancer who specializes in manipulating the connection between life, death and the dead.

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Post » Wed Mar 26, 2014 2:36 pm

*summoned*

Grrrrr... What is it now mortals?! Who Dare- Oh...

Another novitiate of the Dark Arts whom seeks wisdom from an accomplished Lich of yore? Blessed be my child, I call you brother/sister.

First things first, I[and anyone else with advice] need to know what platform you are on. If you are on PC, then oh boy, I can hook you up with unlimited potential. For now, I'll just assume you are on console.

As other's have already suggested, the Aetherial crown + Ritual stone is one of the best and most effective combos you can utilize for a genuine necromancer play-style in vanilla Skyrim. Basically, you are going to want to use the in-game necromancers as a starting point. Keep an eye out for dead bodies to resurrect. Work on getting the Dead Thrall spell as soon as possible to have permanent resurrect NPCs.[humans, elves, and beastfolk only] For summoning, get to the Soul Cairn in the Dawnguard questline ASAP. You can find three undead summons there.[Boneman, Mistman, and Wrathman]

Also, as a Vampire, you can utilize the fortify resto loop exploit to brew godly fortify conjuration potions. Drink one in conjunction with the Vampire's unique stage 4[highest level] reanimation power to permanently resurrect a Draugr Deathlord. This ONLY works with the Vampire reanimation once-a-day power. A normal Dread zombie spell will not work[the Draugr will disintegrate upon changing locations and cells.] OR, if you are lucky enough to acquire a Dread Zombie staff, you can pull this off[reanimation staffs can reanimate corpses numerous times, they NEVER disintegrate.] I presume you could also craft a Dread Zombie staff with Dragonborn DLC, but I'm not 100% certain.

You could also play a hybrid Dark Artist. I usually don't discriminate, and freely summon daedra and resurrect undead depending on the situation. Being on PC, I usually have a reanimated Draugr boss following me, and then summon an Atronach or Dremora if needed.

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