I'm going with magic. Every single one of my characters in oblivion and morrowind have had at least 1 magic skill, most of them had five or six though. To me, it's just more fun to use magic than the other two, i still love certain stealth and combat skills though (mainly light armor,blade,and sneak).

Magic is the best, its great for stealth characters and warriors aswell .

lol ,agreed.

So far its just me against 4 mages. Where did all the Assassins and Rangers go?

and the fighters...

There were aspects of each that I liked, and most of my characters used two of the three extensively: Combat Archer, Enchanter/Diplomat, Hunter, Prophet of Doom, Mage/Thief, etc.

Since Marksman was a Stealth skill, it made the combat archer a multi-class character. My Diplomat never cast a spell with his own magica, but enchanted everything that wasn't nailed down. The Hunter was again involved in both stealth and combat. The Prophet was a spell-caster with high Speechcraft skills, and the sneaking self-centered Telvanni wanna-be was into getting what he wanted by any means possible (mainly theft and magic), but could wield a dagger with ruthless efficiency if necessary.

A "one trick pony" character is a vestige of D&D "adventure party" gaming, where you had to have at least 3 characters to make a viable party, since 1 or 2 couldn't do everything, by design. That doesn't work very well in a single-player game. Granted, I'm not fond of "jack of all trades and master of all", but some skill crossover is a necessity, and I love that the game allows it (although perhaps a little too easily).

Gosh, I don't know why, but I have never been a mage. Maybe it's just not my taste. I'm an Assassin with my Dark elf and a Warrior with my Orc. I'm a Ranger with my Imperial, so I focus on both combat and stealth. Tell me, am I missing out?

As for a thief; everybody is a thief. Admit it; you all are.

Yes, you are indeed missing out. You should try playing as a mage soon,... as in right now. Why are you still reading this!?! Turn on your xbox360/pc/ps3 and plas as a mage already!!! :stare:

Combat is my favorite.

And Magic is for wusses

:thumbsdown:

wow either you dont know what your saying or your just trying too make an empty point

Combat, spiced with stealth and restoration.

Why? Because I'm the unstoppable tank no one sees.

Stealth is my favorite, combat least favorite. I always loved sneaking around. =D

My favorite is stealth chiefly because there is always variety on how one can play. Also, my base character has always been a dunmer/breton magethief. Magic isn't my most favored simply because it serves to augment most tasks that can just as easilly be done in a more mundane (but less convenient) manner. For those things that fall short, however, (levitation, teleportation, carrying many things) magic is my go to guy. Combat is my least favorite simply because it hasnt' been done properly in the ways I want my character to fight (Hand-to-hand, staffs, katanas, and escrimas haven't even been added yet), and thus cannot fully roleplay in something that I understand and can do better than my character can in-game, in real life.

I hate stealth,The hunter usually becomes the hunted.
Combine that with the fact that I scare easily.

I prefer the simple brutality of combat, mixed with the diplomatic aspects of stealth. I like collecting stuff, you see. Magic, eh, I just buy a few trinkets to solve my woes.

That's the Khornanite way of thinking! :chaos:

Magic, Combat.

I almost always plays as a Mage like character, and if I dont I play as a Stealthy one.

i realy love the stealth because that i love killing peoples and having so much fun with assasination. Magick is just not my thing i just dont realy like it. not that it is a bad thing but i just havent got the meaning of it. i see the good thing about spellcasting. but with sneak and stealth you can get up straight behind an enemy and nearly breath him in his/her neck. i like the adrenalin rush that it gives you:P

Time to break the 11-11-11 tie! Stealth is my favorite, by far. There's just so many alternative solutions to the various encounters in the game if you're an expert in stealth. I never found straight combat specialization very fun, and my classes are almost always hybrids. If I do a warrior character, they're going to be skilled in at least one school of magic.

stealth is the best imo :ninja: it allows a diffrent aproch to every thing and it can get u out of a jam wihtout a massacer ^_^ . combat is my least favorite it is very boring :snoring:

My statistitics in my version:

Stealth: 53 Percent Ass Kicking

Mage: 47 Percent Ass Kicking

Combat: -100 Percent Ass Kicking

This speaks for itself

Magic is my favourite with combat being my least simply because you do more things in magic than in combat, i mean seriously who uses light and heavy armor at the same time, or blunt and blade at the same time. I use something from each magic school even if its one from each i still use each skill.

Stealth with a smidgen of magic for stuff like life detect and invisibility. But other than that I see magic as pretty much useless besides alchemy, so I went agaisnt magic in the later.

Magic its so much fun to just walk up to someone and use my "Touch of Death" which is Drain Health 100 pts on touch. (only works at lower levels) and just watching them just fall to the floor. I dont really have a least fav but the one I use least would be Stealth.
EDIT: Well Stealth if they fix it in TES V so it would consists of better sneaking, stealth kills, and a arrow to the head actually killing someone instead of a dude walking around with a billion arrows in his body but yea if they make it more...whats the word.. umm like cooler like if they added more to it and it wasnt so basic like more than crouch and stab (or shoot) I want like if your using like a dagger, slitting peoples throats and such. I guess then it would be my fav.