Pick 7 skills which you want for your character.

Although we won't be able to choose major skills ingame anymore, but i will choose the ones i want anyways.

Hand to hand is out and you forgot alchemy.

Picking only 7 is hard because I try to do a balanced character. I think Speechcraft is going to be more important in Skyrim so I'm choosing that for this poll. I do use a sword but I'd like to try Marksman this time. We'll see if I can defend myself or not with it. If not, it could two-handed blade. I like Light Armor too.

Conjuration
Sneak
Alteration
Destruction
Restoration
Speechcraft
Marksman

:tes:

In previous games I used mainly minor skills to avoid levelling too much. Now as all skills are mayor I doubt I will use seven skills. I think I'll stick with stealth, light armor, one handed, block, marksman and maybe restoration.

Unless leveling is really an advantage of course. But the idea of all my enemies getting stronger while I raise a skill that didn't make me more effective displease me.

Destruction, illusion, smithing, one-handed, sneak, lockpicking and marksman.

My character will be basically the same. A swordman, with good Sneak skills, good Light Armor skill and enough experience to use Destruction spells efficiently. If Acrobatics, Athletics and Hand-to-Hand ( even if I almost never put it as the 7th Major in Oblivion ) weren't out, I would have said "swordman-brawler-thing with epic parkour-ninja skills" instead of just swordman.

I'll play a warrior who spams paralyze on all his ennemies, like in Oblivion :biggrin:

Heavy armor
One handed
Block
Illusion
Restoration
Smithing
Enchanting

Conjuration
Restoration
Smithing
One-Handed
Block
Heavy Armour
Lockpicking

I would need more info on the skills but right now my focused skill list would be.

One Handed/Two Handed, I'm still undecided
Restoration
Light Armor
Possibly Destruction
Possibly Marksman if it's easier to use then Oblivion.
Possibly Sneak

My first character is mostly a heavy warrior, but a bit of a thief as well:

One-handed
Destruction
Block

Heavy Armor
Smithing

Mercantile
Lockpicking or Sneak

I'll be playing a Battlemage:

One-Handed
Heavy Armor
Destruction
Conjuration
Alteration
Illusion
Restoration

Destruction, destruction, destruction, destruction, destruction, destruction, and restoration (to heal up for more destruction).

Not really. I'm waiting on an actual definitive skill list from BGS.

Enchanting
Smithing
One-Handed
Light Armor
Destruction
Conjuration
Marksman

I want to play a smith and spell ill create badass equipment then enchant it with badass spells
im also lookin forward to the fire spell as a flamethrower double wield then summoning a xivilai (hopefully)

Hello! I'm new to these forums! I've played Morrowind and Oblivion quite a bit, and I'm eager to play Skyrim, too!

I still don't know what skills I'll get...

We won't choose major or minor skills anymore, as the class system is gone. But I'll pick the 7 skills that I probably will focus the most on.

It is not yet known if Light Armor and Speechcraft will be skills in Skyrim, but if there are one "Armor" skill and one combined Speechcraft+Mercantile skill, I will focus on Light Armor perks and persuasion perks, and a bit on merchant perks. (Assuming these kind of perks exist in the game, of course.)

Sneak
One-Handed (focus on daggers, perhaps I will use an axe briefly just for the setting's sake)
Achery
Illusion (camouflaging spells, detect life?)
Light Armor
Speechcraft
Destruction (only because of channeled shock spells! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpAcanUJX7s&feature=related)


Now that you say it, he did! I will probably focus on Achemy as well, depending on how effective and fun it is to specialize in. Todd said it would be different than the last time, with more "ranger collecting herbs"-stuff (Aragorn in LotR?) since it's moved from Magic to Stealth. And that sounds promising.

there are no major minor skills in Skyrim, you can pick whatever the hell you want now :shrug:

The skill of Save/Load.

Is dual wielding weapons considered two handed?

I replaced hand-to-hand with alchemy btw.

Well I have four character types in mind, so, most skills will probably be used, but my first character will be Sibyl, my v?lva (shamaness).

Her forte will be alchemy, supported by various magic skills, such as, restoration, enchanting and destruction.

My goal is to make a shamaness type survivor.

I am also rather curious about possible necromancy connections. In some cultures, shaman types, or witch doctors dealt with the dead to process both body and spirit.

At this time, and very much subject to change, I am considering inclusion of marksman, as I really want to try out the new archery system, as well as sneak, and one-handed. Conjuration is also under serious consideration. So, still branstorming...If choosing only seven, as follows, in no particular order:

1. Alchemy
2, Restoration (If alchemy support is strong, I may replace restoration with conjuration)
3. Destruction
4. Enchantment
5. Marksman
6. Sneak
7. One-handed (melee at some point will probably be unavoidable)

Thanks OP, now my other characters must be evaluated, lol.

basicly I picked all as I always get everything up and I like it that way

I have been thinking to roll some bard/scout kind of character. Something that is self-sufficient in the harsh conditions of Skyrim.

So I am most likely going to roll a character specialized in...

1. One-handed
2. Block
3. Light Armor
4. Mercantile
5. Alchemy
6. Enchanting
7. (Speechcraft)/Smithing (depends whether speechcraft has any use in this game unlike it's predecessor but I might use it anyway for RP purposes)

-Emp-

Alchemy
Alteration
Conjuration
Destruction
Enchanting
Mercantile
Restoration

I only chose 6 skills:

1 handed/2 Handed
Block
Heavy Armor
Smithing
Restoration
Enchanting

Perks will mostly fall into Restoration, Block, 1 Handed (Or 2 Handed, haven't decided), and Enchanting.


This will be what I consider a Paladin build. A melee hardened warrior with healing magic and mystical weapons