This is a great video. I love how instead of just boringly grinding your smithing and enchanting to 100 to make the game easy , but you actually teach some proper interesting techniques about the game that I’ve never seen before. Great video
I have never seen anyone fight in skyrim like this before. You manage to make default, vanilla skyrim combat look fun and dynamic which is crazy. Awesome stuff my man, can't wait to see what you put out next. (PS though from a brief look at your channel it seems you don't like mods [or at the very least don't use them], I still think it would be awesome to see how your playstyle changes with a few of the more common combat mods).
Thanks man, appreciate it. I still think vanilla has a fair bit of content and it's also the most accessible version for a wide audience. I'm definitely open to mods when the well dries up though.
Who would've thought in researching doing a run like this myself I'd find such a stellar and criminally underrated RUclipsr. Going through your other stuff now and I look forward to future uploads
this is exactly how i played in 2011 no crafting not even perks cause I believed that it was just like oblivion and morrowind ..... great video men originality as always
@@snookiewozo Cheels man, check out the updated version, that one’s more polished and you can use the new tips in Oldrim as well if you don’t have the AE
Another little strat is to use the bloodskal blade whilst using become ethereal, the beam attack doesn’t pull you out of the shout as long as the physical sword doesn’t hit anything, it’s OP 😎
Doing 30 point of risk-free damage per power attack is alright, but I wouldn't exactly call it OP. Would probably be enough on lower difficulties though.
This makes me wanna do my conjuration build again, it was so much fun, every damage i did had to be done through one way or another with conjuration. I could punch in the beginning and i must say, the beginning was near impossible, but once you got a few spells, a flame atronach, bound sword, it became a whole lot easier. No enchanting, no smithing, no alchemy, everything i obtained in the game was useful one way or another. Still managed to get 80% physical damage reduction and 85% magic resistance.
Based video. Playing as non crafting warrior will make you appreciate many more mechanics in this game, like the silver damage bonus from the vid for example or stuff like dodging. It also makes it so a player uses more of the tools avilable to him hunting for special items and buying consumables, making combat more tactical... And for me it changed my mind about combat magic - destro spells are not weak, its just that smithing is OP
Awe man, great vid but i wish you used the ebony blade, it being an unupgradeable 2H sword, it never gets any love. Would have fit very nicely in the no crafting playthrough, along with the powerful and infinite enchantment and fast swingspeed
i just discovered that u dong need to buy the coral claw for yngol barrow (iirc) in my playthrough i forgot to buy the claw but when i got to a part in the dungeon the claw was on a pedestal of sorts.
I can attest to this as well. A few days ago the Companions made me go to Yngol Barrow for a radiant quest and the Coral Claw was just chilling there. Very convenient.
It's 2022 and here I am starting a new game on Skyrim, u inspired me. The way u play is fucking awesome and very skilled! Gonna favorite ur dodge video and will be practicing a lot. I'm planning on play through all content skyrim have to offer but I'm afraid I won't be able to beat vampires and mages LOL. It's a good idea to stay on a low lvl to keep the enemies on low too? I hate when they became too much sponge... what lvl u would suggest?
Cheers mate. You want to hit the power spikes (destruction 50 for an AE mage, 75 for vanilla, block 30 and 4-5 ranks of the basic +20% damage perk for warriors, dual-wielders get a huge boost at level 70 with dual savagery) In vanilla, you'd probably also want to level alteration for the magic resistance/absorption, but AE added the ring of the warlock, which is more than good enough and makes alteration more or less redundant. After that, there's really no point in leveling any further as you won't be dealing more damage and the enemies will become more tanky as you said.
"This fight is so annoying, just skip it with cheats/exploits" "this enemy is super spongy, just avoid it completely" Have you considered... not playing Legendary mode?
Hey, did you try the 100 block perk Shield Charge with 2 handed? I heard it works if you run at enemy and click block when near him instead of pressing it. But I don't have an opportunity to test it. If that works consistently, it may be fun, despite not working as probably intended.
Do you know, I tried to use archery with the last perk in sneak to sit down just before shooting and make every arrow critical, but it didn’t work for some reason? Still not sure how this cheesy sneak invisibility perk works. I just hate that all my builds end up conjurers) Also tried ebony blade build but the damage seemed too low when facing stronger enemies.
I'm not familiar with the cheese you mentioned. I never played a stealth build so I can't help you there. I don't like the ebony blade because it encourages a trading playstyle which I tend to avoid. In theory, it should have pretty good DPS in the context of a no-crafting build once powered up. Under normal circumstances, it just gets blown out of the water by anything that's smithable.
Is Wuurdrad weaker than the weapons mentioned? Also how did you fill soulgems for the weapons? Man, I also want to try the necromage trick, but kinda afraid that might be a bug
Wuuthrad deals more damage, but the difference isn’t huge and I think the companions questline is kind of boring so I didn’t bother. You could of course go for it, there’s nothing stopping you. I filled the soul gems with the battleaxe of fiery souls, you can find it in ironbind barrow on the throne in the boss room. Necromage would be alright, but nothing spectacular in this case. You would get immunity to magic, 30 extra seconds of berserk rage, a bit more damage from your ironhand gauntlets and better elemental fury/slow time. I opted not to go for it since it’s an exploit and that was part of the gimmick but again, nothing’s stopping you.
@@stanislavp1739 They are faster than you while you're backpedalling. You should turn around and sprint away to create some distance. The AI is kind of wonky at this point, sometimes they'll lag behind thus creating enough distance, sometimes they'll be on your heels no matter what. The most consistent way is to use the terrain to your advantage and jump over obstacles they have to go around.
I don't like the style of gameplay it promotes (standing in front of your enemy and pressing left-click) and I don't think you even hit level 20 with this build to unlock it in the first place.
You mean not getting it? I don't like it cause it promotes a trading-paint kind of playstyle. Also I don't even remember if you get to a high enough level to unlock the quest.
@@poormansproductions2402 Hey man, what do you mean by "trading-paint"? I'm not used to this vocabulary. Nice vid btw, enjoyable gameplay, editin, and music!
Bro acting like skyrim has sekiro style combat Skyrims combat is just trading hits for what feels eternity its not deep. People had to mod combat to fix the most generic outdated unbalanced combat
Indeed, but that's not the point of this build. You'd also be banking on every attack being a stagger or you're dead cause you don't have the hp/armor to trade.
@@danilsereda7332 I don’t know how many power attacks you can squeeze in during the openings, I’m thinking two tops, which would of course still be an improvement. Try it out if you want, I steered clear cause veggie soup is pretty common knowledge and is arguably both crafting and OP.
I’m not sure what you mean. You want to fight Stormcloaks in Helgen because they’re the ones with two-handed weapons or you’d be stuck with one-handers until you leave. As for the armor, it barely makes a difference until you hit about 300 armor rating.
It's not necessarily about making the game harder, this is Skyrim after all, it's more about discouraging the classic "trading paint" gameplay and coming up with something new. I'm using the hotkey trick to try and add more depth to the combat system. Without it, power attacks are next to useless when you're fighting multiple enemies because they immobilize you for so long, turning you into a sitting duck for the enemies to dunk on. Removing the power attack would make the already paltry combat even less interesting. You can only punish enemies that overextend with a single left-click that has no chance to stagger and you can't counter blocking enemies at all. Can it be considered an exploit? I guess so, but at that point I don't really care because I would find the combat too boring and I wouldn't be playing the game.
This is pure strategy! Skyrim and Oblivion has the stupidest most boring difficulties in any game - 6x damage recieved -6x damage dealt...idiotic. Vanilla Skyrim is something i consider guilty pleasure i love the esthetic and ambience and am ready to endure gandian exercise in patience aka "combat/mechanics" for the sake of it...
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The gods gave you two hands, and you use them both for your weapon. I can respect that
This is a great video. I love how instead of just boringly grinding your smithing and enchanting to 100 to make the game easy , but you actually teach some proper interesting techniques about the game that I’ve never seen before. Great video
That's the idea. Glad you liked it.
I have never seen anyone fight in skyrim like this before. You manage to make default, vanilla skyrim combat look fun and dynamic which is crazy. Awesome stuff my man, can't wait to see what you put out next. (PS though from a brief look at your channel it seems you don't like mods [or at the very least don't use them], I still think it would be awesome to see how your playstyle changes with a few of the more common combat mods).
Thanks man, appreciate it. I still think vanilla has a fair bit of content and it's also the most accessible version for a wide audience. I'm definitely open to mods when the well dries up though.
Who would've thought in researching doing a run like this myself I'd find such a stellar and criminally underrated RUclipsr. Going through your other stuff now and I look forward to future uploads
this is exactly how i played in 2011 no crafting not even perks cause I believed that it was just like oblivion and morrowind ..... great video men originality as always
No school like the old school.
One of the most impressive Skyrim videos I've seen. And I've seen a lot.
@@snookiewozo Cheels man, check out the updated version, that one’s more polished and you can use the new tips in Oldrim as well if you don’t have the AE
Great intro! Good editing is what really sets apart the best creators from the rest.
aaaand subscribed. This is some high quality work for a video.
Cheers, m8.
Another little strat is to use the bloodskal blade whilst using become ethereal, the beam attack doesn’t pull you out of the shout as long as the physical sword doesn’t hit anything, it’s OP 😎
Doing 30 point of risk-free damage per power attack is alright, but I wouldn't exactly call it OP. Would probably be enough on lower difficulties though.
This makes me wanna do my conjuration build again, it was so much fun, every damage i did had to be done through one way or another with conjuration. I could punch in the beginning and i must say, the beginning was near impossible, but once you got a few spells, a flame atronach, bound sword, it became a whole lot easier. No enchanting, no smithing, no alchemy, everything i obtained in the game was useful one way or another. Still managed to get 80% physical damage reduction and 85% magic resistance.
Great build and skillful playing, haven't seen anyone playing melee so well in Skyrim
Autistic determination is paying dividends.
Playing without crafting is way more fun and challenging. Who wants to grind smithing or enchanting after 11 years, seriously
Pretty much.
Lots of useful tips here. Good vid
Appreciate it.
Just the thing I need to spice up my play.
Based video. Playing as non crafting warrior will make you appreciate many more mechanics in this game, like the silver damage bonus from the vid for example or stuff like dodging.
It also makes it so a player uses more of the tools avilable to him hunting for special items and buying consumables, making combat more tactical... And for me it changed my mind about combat magic - destro spells are not weak, its just that smithing is OP
We’ve known crafting is OP since 2011, might as well try something different.
My mans got some Skyrim knowledge!!!!
Awe man, great vid but i wish you used the ebony blade, it being an unupgradeable 2H sword, it never gets any love. Would have fit very nicely in the no crafting playthrough, along with the powerful and infinite enchantment and fast swingspeed
Dude, this was awesome.
Cheers, m8.
this is my current build thanks for the idea
you can go to winter hold and follow the beach and kill horkers... it levels two handed super fast
Glad to be of service.
Sure, you can whack anything you want, the target doesn't change your xp gain.
If I wasn't already subbed, I'd sub again for this video!
most def gon be using this build. loved the vid btw i love the tech you used rather that insanely op crafting nd sht like that lol enjoyed frfr
Thanks. Crafting has been done to death so this is an attempt to try something different.
This video was amazing great job.
Cheels, m8.
Exactly why i turned off death cam when doing dual wield medium armor on legendary. A fucking skewer cammed me from 20 miles away
Skeevers shouldn't be able to cam you in vanilla if I remember correctly. Might be a mod thing.
that golden axe intro
i just discovered that u dong need to buy the coral claw for yngol barrow (iirc)
in my playthrough i forgot to buy the claw but when i got to a part in the dungeon the claw was on a pedestal of sorts.
Learn something new every day.
I can attest to this as well. A few days ago the Companions made me go to Yngol Barrow for a radiant quest and the Coral Claw was just chilling there. Very convenient.
Ok new sub hehe great video dude nice editing i realy love that detail ❤
Cheers!
Great video, I enjoyed this one! You dont play females? Lovers insight and agent of Dibella are pretty good buffs, considering most enemies are male.
It's objectively the better way to go if you're into minmaxing, though I don't think it ever makes enough of a difference so I tend to ignore it.
Didn’t know having a long shaft could give you this much of an advantage
Haven’t you seen any of those documentaries that feature particularly long shafts and sincere reactions to them?
@@poormansproductions2402 I watch them before bed for 4 or 5 minutes 🥵
Elemental fury is great.
Have you noticed that you move faster in 1st person vs 3rd? Also that backing up diagonally is faster than backing up straight?
Nice Commodore Music 😄
If Skyrim had PvP you'd be no. 1
Making a video about combat archer please!
Two handed legendary is just suffering
It's 2022 and here I am starting a new game on Skyrim, u inspired me. The way u play is fucking awesome and very skilled! Gonna favorite ur dodge video and will be practicing a lot. I'm planning on play through all content skyrim have to offer but I'm afraid I won't be able to beat vampires and mages LOL.
It's a good idea to stay on a low lvl to keep the enemies on low too? I hate when they became too much sponge... what lvl u would suggest?
Cheers mate. You want to hit the power spikes (destruction 50 for an AE mage, 75 for vanilla, block 30 and 4-5 ranks of the basic +20% damage perk for warriors, dual-wielders get a huge boost at level 70 with dual savagery)
In vanilla, you'd probably also want to level alteration for the magic resistance/absorption, but AE added the ring of the warlock, which is more than good enough and makes alteration more or less redundant.
After that, there's really no point in leveling any further as you won't be dealing more damage and the enemies will become more tanky as you said.
oh good I was about to say any two-handed build that doesn't use the bloodskal blade is missing out on ranged attacks
"This fight is so annoying, just skip it with cheats/exploits"
"this enemy is super spongy, just avoid it completely"
Have you considered... not playing Legendary mode?
Yes, that's pretty much the video. Legendary's there for the clickbait.
Hey, did you try the 100 block perk Shield Charge with 2 handed? I heard it works if you run at enemy and click block when near him instead of pressing it. But I don't have an opportunity to test it. If that works consistently, it may be fun, despite not working as probably intended.
It does indeed work and ragdoll pretty much everything. I don't use it because getting to 100 block is a pain.
Just one question; where's the crack den!
Redwater den, about halfway between Riften and Ivarstead.
Do you know, I tried to use archery with the last perk in sneak to sit down just before shooting and make every arrow critical, but it didn’t work for some reason? Still not sure how this cheesy sneak invisibility perk works. I just hate that all my builds end up conjurers)
Also tried ebony blade build but the damage seemed too low when facing stronger enemies.
I'm not familiar with the cheese you mentioned. I never played a stealth build so I can't help you there. I don't like the ebony blade because it encourages a trading playstyle which I tend to avoid. In theory, it should have pretty good DPS in the context of a no-crafting build once powered up. Under normal circumstances, it just gets blown out of the water by anything that's smithable.
right know this build will beast cc add gaunlet and helmet that have magic resist
Unfortunately, I think the marked for death nerf trumps all of the buffs if you want to kill the ebony warrior. If not, then it’s a straight upgrade.
@@poormansproductions2402 fus ro dah him from the cliff and hit him before he get up. but i think you already know that.
Is Wuurdrad weaker than the weapons mentioned? Also how did you fill soulgems for the weapons?
Man, I also want to try the necromage trick, but kinda afraid that might be a bug
Wuuthrad deals more damage, but the difference isn’t huge and I think the companions questline is kind of boring so I didn’t bother. You could of course go for it, there’s nothing stopping you. I filled the soul gems with the battleaxe of fiery souls, you can find it in ironbind barrow on the throne in the boss room. Necromage would be alright, but nothing spectacular in this case. You would get immunity to magic, 30 extra seconds of berserk rage, a bit more damage from your ironhand gauntlets and better elemental fury/slow time. I opted not to go for it since it’s an exploit and that was part of the gimmick but again, nothing’s stopping you.
@@poormansproductions2402 Started the build. Man, it feels like some one-handers are running at me as fast as I'm going back and I don't wear armor.
@@stanislavp1739 They are faster than you while you're backpedalling. You should turn around and sprint away to create some distance. The AI is kind of wonky at this point, sometimes they'll lag behind thus creating enough distance, sometimes they'll be on your heels no matter what. The most consistent way is to use the terrain to your advantage and jump over obstacles they have to go around.
This makes me feel like some poor sod for using one handed shield almost all the time
unequipping ur weapon mid animation is kinda cheesy
this build is spectakuler, why not using ebony blade?
I don't like the style of gameplay it promotes (standing in front of your enemy and pressing left-click) and I don't think you even hit level 20 with this build to unlock it in the first place.
@@poormansproductions2402 oh oke, thanks for explaining bro :D
This is legendary difficult ?
Im new on skyrim and playing legendary difficult and its like pain.
But video is great
Yes, legendary is an acquired taste without crafting. AE adds some stuff that helps, this video only covers Oldrim items.
Yes, legendary is an acquired taste without crafting. AE adds some stuff that helps, this video only covers Oldrim items.
What's with the ebony blade?
You mean not getting it? I don't like it cause it promotes a trading-paint kind of playstyle. Also I don't even remember if you get to a high enough level to unlock the quest.
@@poormansproductions2402 Hey man, what do you mean by "trading-paint"? I'm not used to this vocabulary. Nice vid btw, enjoyable gameplay, editin, and music!
@@gaelracine5057 Basically the most boring way to fight-standing next to the enemy and clicking until one of you drops.
@@poormansproductions2402 Oh ok, thank you for your answer!
Bro acting like skyrim has sekiro style combat Skyrims combat is just trading hits for what feels eternity its not deep. People had to mod combat to fix the most generic outdated unbalanced combat
Did the armor you picked from Atar come from any mod?
It’s just the nordic carved armor added by Dragonborn. He’s decked out with decent armor and if you’re a high enough level he can wear it apparently.
bro the game will be easier with vegetable soup :D
Indeed, but that's not the point of this build. You'd also be banking on every attack being a stagger or you're dead cause you don't have the hp/armor to trade.
@@poormansproductions2402 well, your assembly is made so that the enemies do not hit you and this is a strong blow to the survival of the character
@@danilsereda7332 I don’t know how many power attacks you can squeeze in during the openings, I’m thinking two tops, which would of course still be an improvement. Try it out if you want, I steered clear cause veggie soup is pretty common knowledge and is arguably both crafting and OP.
You can get two-handed weapons, heavy armor and lot of money if you go with Ralof instead of Hadvar...
I’m not sure what you mean. You want to fight Stormcloaks in Helgen because they’re the ones with two-handed weapons or you’d be stuck with one-handers until you leave. As for the armor, it barely makes a difference until you hit about 300 armor rating.
lol if your not using crafting to make the game harder then why would you use the unequipping hot key trick ? com on now sonny ! also it looks silly.
It's not necessarily about making the game harder, this is Skyrim after all, it's more about discouraging the classic "trading paint" gameplay and coming up with something new. I'm using the hotkey trick to try and add more depth to the combat system. Without it, power attacks are next to useless when you're fighting multiple enemies because they immobilize you for so long, turning you into a sitting duck for the enemies to dunk on. Removing the power attack would make the already paltry combat even less interesting. You can only punish enemies that overextend with a single left-click that has no chance to stagger and you can't counter blocking enemies at all. Can it be considered an exploit? I guess so, but at that point I don't really care because I would find the combat too boring and I wouldn't be playing the game.
Shaft? BLM music? Insta dislike
finally some stuff thats archieved by playing the game and not just grind (SeCrEt ChEsT iN DaWnStaahh, ReStoh Luup)
This is pure strategy! Skyrim and Oblivion has the stupidest most boring difficulties in any game - 6x damage recieved -6x damage dealt...idiotic. Vanilla Skyrim is something i consider guilty pleasure i love the esthetic and ambience and am ready to endure gandian exercise in patience aka "combat/mechanics" for the sake of it...
The combat definitely leaves a lot to be desired though I will say, quick reflexes make things much more enjoyable.