The level 34 skill is alchemy

If the last two skills are Security and Mercantile I will be disappointed. The most boring and redundant ones in the game in my opinion.

The removal of Marksman from the stealth skills made sense, but at this rate the stealth skills will feel severly lackluster.

Light armor is one of them, I have my doubts on the next being lockpicking, seems like something to be merged into sneak.

are you positive... how you know for sure

and we forgot about Sneak that could easily be a skill or it could tie into security

I would REALLY like to see a mixed Acrobatics, Athletics and Climbing skill. I can make up dozens of cool perks for these skills right on the spot.

And it is kind of likely that lockpicking will be merged into one of the other skills. Can't think of a single perk that could work for Security.

EDIT: NVM

I put the video into the highest quality (not a huge difference), paused at the right time, fullscreen, screenshot, open picture, zoom in, clear enough it says alchemy; albeit pixelated as hell.

Could you get any more passive than armor skills, though?

Strange so many overlooked Light Armor. It's already among the 16 confirmed ones.
I think they should merge Mercantile with Speechcraft and Security with Sneak. Everything else would just bloat the skill list, and they emphasized quite strongly that they want to remove redundant things. I'd just hate to see alternative gameplay styles like hand to hand be removed, and skills that no sane person has ever picked (I'm looking at you Mercantile) left untouched.

Its almost certain now the stealth skills are light armor security sneak mercantile speechcraft alchemy



When pointed at the mage sign .. destruction skill we see all the magic LIKE skills including alchemy..

When pointed to the warrior sign you see all the combat skills AND light armor.

When pointed at sneak most likely you see archery to alchemy.

Also wareriors primary skill is 2 handed weapons and beside it on each side 1 handed weapons and block... 3 primary warrior skills.

The 3 main mage skiolls are destruction restoration and conjuration..


Now id expect the main stealth skill is sneak and to either side.. security and mercantile.. because looting and selling loot .... makes sense combined with sneak to be 3 main stealth skills.

They have already pointed out that probably mercantile and speech will be merged.

Security definitely.

Maybe some sort of evasion/agility like skill?

You don't, and that's why light armor is already on the list of confirmed skills. How about reading it next time before jumping in to tell us how it's obviously light armor?

One of the two remaining unconfirmed skills has to be lockpicking, and that leaves one unknown. No idea what it could be, but the 'stealth' skill list, once again, is looking extreamly lacklustre :sadvaultboy: Still can't believe that they did not merge the armor skills...

The security stuff could just be perks under the sneak skill.

Hopefully every person on every planet. Why would archery ever be a stealth skill?

Todd confirmed a marksman skill in a gameinformer podcast a while back.

EDIT: Oh, nevermind. I misread the post.

I would think there would be a skill tree for perks with dual wielding weapons. I mean how else would they add a blocking perk by crossing your two weapons with both the left trigger and the right trigger. ( ps not confirmed, but would be kewl)

I would have to say:
-Security (locksmithing)
-Agility(speed, acrobatics)

Light Armor in stealth? That is just stupid, assuming they use the same system as they did in Oblivion where you have to get hit to level up armor.

As a stealth character, I don't expect to get hit much.

My bet is that the remaining two skills are Security and Mercantile. The reasoning is pretty straightforward.

There are 18 skills in Skyrim. There were 21 skills in Oblivion. We already know the the following Oblivion skills will not reappear in Skyrim: Acrobatics, Athletics, and Hand-to-Hand. (Mysticism has been replaced with Enchanting, and there are some other more "cosmetic" changes, like relabelling Marksman with "Archery". But these changes do not affect the amount of skills). 21 - 3 = 18. So we've got a list of 18 skills.

Now, if Mercantile is merged into Speechcraft, or if Security is merged into Sneak, then that gives us 17 or 16 skills, depending if only one or both of those mergers occur.

But what are the other skills that are added to those 17 or 16 skills to take the number back up to 18? Here are two possibilities: (i) it's a skill that has appeared in previous games; (ii) it's an entirely new skill.

(i) Let's go through the candidates.
Backstabbing: this is now covered by Sneak.
Climbing: if I recall correctly, it's been confirmed that there's no climbing.
Critical Strike: now a perk in the weapons skills.
Dodging/Unarmoured: maybe, now that Acrobatics is out, there's a skill to govern dodging moves in combat.
Etiquette: governed by Speechcraft.
Medical: resting always fully restores health; other stuff is dealt with by Restoration, Alchemy, altars.
Pickpocket: governed by Sneak.
Stealth: governed by Sneak.
Streetwise: governed by Speechcraft.
(None of the language skills are plausible, I think).

Dodging/Unarmoured is the only plausible candidate, it seems to me.

(ii) I haven't seen any suggestions for new skills which sounded plausible. Probably the best I've seen has been a Dual-Wielding skill; but that's a Combat skill. And we've already got all 6 of those. What we need are Thief skills, if Mercantile is merged with Speechcraft, or if Security is merged with Sneak.



No such thing has been pointed out. This is speculation. It has been speculated that Mercantile and Speechcraft will be merged ever since Daggerfall -> Morrowind.

Security should go in with SNEAK.

Medium and Light Armor

Yep.

- Padded light armor boots may end up reducing the sound of your footsteps more than if you wore socks or were barefoot.

- Light armor could come colored to camouflage you.

- When the fecal matters hit the fans and your cover is blown you′re going to want some sort of protection, not too heavy since that would have just made sneaking harder in the first place and not just cloth since an angry house-owner running at you with a knife is likely to tear through that.

- Light armor gloves help keep the poison off your fingers when you slip it into the targets medicine.

And probably a lot more reasons if you just get creative.



Perhaps in Skyrim they will let you increase your light armor a bit too if you sneak successfully.

I'm hoping for a skill something like, "Physicality" or something. Something that can cover unarmored, athletics, acrobatics, and hand-to-hand. And security.

I see what you are talking about, I just cant make out what it says.

nvm, I svck at math.