Hope you enjoyed this mammoth of a ranking Wizards! 🧙♂️ Which will you be choosing as your next abode? 🏡 Let me know! And for sneak peeks and 24hrs early access to all my vids 🤫 consider becoming a Patreon: www.patreon.com/theWelshWizard/membership *FAQs* 👇 Q: The sound effect at 27:35 is extremely loud, why? 🧙♂: My apologies! I must have forgotten to add a hyphon before the decibel, hence it's louder than full volume 😅make sure to decrease your volume at around 27:30 before it kicks in! Q: Can’t coffins be crafted for the Hearthfire Homesteads too? 🧙♂️: Indeed they can be, I didn’t realise! “Coffins are a craftable piece of furniture for a mansion. They are automatically placed in the cellar. For the option to build a coffin, one needs to be a vampire.” Q: Can’t 3 spouses from the Dragonborn DLC occupy Severin Manor with you? 🧙♂️: Indeed they can, my apologies. They are Morwen, Hilund and Halbarn Iron-Fur.
You forgot to mention that if you're a vampire in the player built homes you can craft a coffin that hides in a wall room, because they reworked everything to accommodate fish tanks they reworked where the coffin sits. I like the concept of a hidden coffin
@@theWelshWizard What about the Head Wizard quarters in the college of Winterhold? Wouldnt you be in charge of the entire castle? It’s kind of like having your own Hogwarts.
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Three elfs in flimsy armor vs a daderic clad, destruction enchanted, who's mastered the ultimate power of the storm in a thin hallway... I like my odds.
One of the reasons I love the Lakeview Manor so much is because you build it yourself. So the design is entirely your choice and it feels like you actually deserve to live there as you made it from scratch. (Despite the building costs)
That is one of the reasons I dislike it. I hate the hassle of having to build it myself. The amount of hassle, nonsense and resource-gathering required just to get a liveable home makes them hugely impractical. Also any mods that change it generally require it be build a certain way first, and if you've built it any other way then it ruins the mod... so they're not only a pain to build in vanilla, but a huge pain to mod as well. Not only that but Lakeview Manor also sits far too close to a necromancer and a pack of wolves... and while the location is prettier than the other two Hearthfire homes, the constant enemies outside are just extra nuisances.
@@SotiCotowow. Guess you don't like crafting elements. That's fair enough but the wolves and necromancer are not really a problem. Neither are the bandits, giants or dragons. I like the fact they're bringing loot direct to my door.
Best part about haljarchen hall is, unlike most of the other heartfell houses its not isolated, theres a farm within walking distance and whiterun is not far off, not to mention guards actually patrol this area making it feel far more integrated into a hold then just a cabin in the woods
Its central location tends to be why it is the only Hearthfire home I've ever bothered with. I still tend to hate the Hearthfire homes, but at least Heljarchen is in the least inconvenient position from a logistical standpoint. Lakeview is technically prettier... but Lakeview also has horrible enemy spawns and is way out of the way.
I also love that it requires a Daedric Quest (Vaermina) that can be completed by screwing over the Prince (by destroying the staff) if you're anti-Daedra.
A little tip for Goldenhills: Fill up one of the fields with Blisterwort. It's the best crop for profit, the other field and planters can be whatever you want! I usually have (Creepvine,Mora Tapinela, Scaly Pholiota) in one, and Steel-Blue Entoloma in the other. Then in the second field, I have a mix of Health and Magicka restoring ingredients. That way I have crops to generate gold, quickly level my Alchemy, and restore my 2 most used stats (I love being a Mage). Goldenhills is easily my second favorite Playerhome in AE. Edit: An alternate set of Crops for Goldenhills is 16 Mora Tapinella, 12 Canis Root, and 12 Imp Stool (Harvesting gives you 48 of each), and the last 4 plots are your choice (I usually go with either Blisterwort+Wheat for healing, or Steel Blue Entoloma+Nightshade for UNLIMITED POWAH!). The 3 Main Crops will give a decently pricey poison of Paralysis and Lingering Damage Health. And unless your enemy is immune to poison, hitting them with this will cause them to fall over for X seconds (highest I've gotten with my skills is 24 seconds!) Myrwatch is the best playerhome, fight me. All you need is a fire spell to open the door, and if you are someone who adamantly despises learning and using spells, there are 2 scrolls of Fireball in Bleakfalls Barrow!
I think Nightshade gets you more gold though. The crops sell for full price and Nightshade is 8 gold. I have nothing but Nightshade and I get like 1200 gold every in-game day.
Only thing I don't like is that you need to sacrifice your alchemy lab if you want to adopt children :/ Otherwise it is an iconic building, with the nice added bonus that 2 merchants live literally next door.
I agree with the sentiment! I disagree with the words in the second sentence, but only because of the double negative. Remove one of the negatives and I'll agree with that as well.
I know you didn’t talk about the quests for a lot of these homes, but the Bloodchill Manor quest is very cool. It’s short and simple, but it has a lot of personality in its simplicity
I use Proudspire Manor as my family home because it’s the safest and most luxurious for my argonian spouse and children. It’s so cute to see Sofie and Blaise playing with the other children in the neighbourhood. Plus I always go Imperial side so that’s a bonus. Then I use Tundra Homestead as my base of operations because it has everything I need and it’s in a central location. It’s good to separate work from personal life :)
I typically use the dwemer conversion because I prefer the styling, and the quest to obtain it, but yeah it's great to RP that magic is useful for something other than combat
I will say something note about Heljarchen hall, if you go to the area behind the house and up the mountain a bit it’s actually really close to one of the unmarked entrances straight into black reach
When they're used together, Honeyside and Shadowfoot Sanctum are really great homes for just about any build. With Honeyside, you have a home that your wife and children can live & grow up in... but with Shadowfoot Sanctum, you basically have yourself a bachelor's pad that's entirely yours to decorate with all of your trophies. It's for those exact reasons why I will almost always use those two homes specifically; that said, almost every home has a use for me in some way, WW. Take the homes you can build with Hearthfire, right? Instead of building them up into huge mansions that hardly anybody will live in, I like to build the small homes and assign certain followers as stewards for those homes... but instead of being stewards, I pretend that I gifted those homes to those followers for their actions in aiding me in my adventures. In a way, this satisfies two things for me - a home that I won't live in will be used and it feels in-character when I roleplay, if the latter makes sense to you. The same logic somewhat applies with the stewards in the non-Hearthfire homes too. I won't live in them any time soon, so I like to think that my character(s) gifts them to the stewards, either out of good will or for their actions. *Edit:* When you brought up Goldenhills Plantation, I just wanted to say that I too really like the home as well... however, I don't like it because of the fact that I can live there, but because I can use it as a business venture! Much like how I assign followers to the Hearthfire homes and turn them into pretend homeowners, I plan to assign a follower to the plantation and have them be in charge of the plantation's daily operations, making money that'll go back into my pockets and into their pockets as payment for their hard work. The only reason I don't want to live there is the same reason why I don't want to live in most of the other homes on this list - location. If Goldenhills in particular were closer to Rorikstead, then maybe I'd consider actually living there. The same thing applies to some of the other homes, like Dead Man's Dread. If Bethesda had a little hindsight, they would've allowed the player to get the ship out of that cave and at least allow them to dock it in Solitude.
That’s a good point about Honeyside and Shadowfoot Sanctum! Keep the family out of the stinky sewers and give them a nice cabin with a porch, and then Shadowfoot can be your own little den - I like it! 👌 Imagine it was the other way around, I don’t think they’d be too happy 💩 That’s also a neat idea, awarding stewards with their own homes, I never thought to do that 🤔 might actually be a good thing not building great big homesteads too, as you’ll save a lot of gold and potentially some livestock 👀 Yeah, Dead Man’s Dread had great promise and I was hoping the ship would receive an uplift following its quest, making more use out of those crew bedrooms.. but nah 😕 and like you said, the fact you can’t ride it also kinda sucks.
Sadly the only homes that Bethesda had anything to do with are the ones that are in the cities themselves and the Hearthfire ones. All of the others are Player Made homes. So complain to the people that made them not Bethesda.
I set up Erik the Slayer in Heljarchen Hall. He lives there with the female Bard. I like to pretend they are a married couple and stay friends and keep regular contact with my family.
Yeah, I'm inclined to agree with this. I'm doing a Survival playthrough RPing a hunter, and I made the mistake of picking Goldenhills as my main house. It has been a massive, massive pain just going there to offload stuff since I have no fast travel. They really could have stood to move it a little closer to Whiterun or to Markarth.
This is my first introduction to your channel. Please know your dedication to voiceover, script, recording, and editing-- it doesn't go unnoticed. This is a 5 star masterpiece, it feels like a reality TV show for Skyrim-- a decade old game that we all cherish and love, but for the fact that there is so much dedication to something that could gave easily just been a lengthy one-time, playthrough recording of each house, it's put together like a Christmas gift. Beautifully done, I hope others join in and subscribe just as quick as I did.
@theWelshWizard Absolutely, been going through a lot of your videos while doing chores. I recently got back into Skyrim as I never touched on the Creation Club content, so lots of information I never knew!
One of the few saving graces of Dead Man's Dread is that the fast travel function of the map, is very useful if you are playing survival mode and join the Volkihar faction
@@theWelshWizardI got it and I’m pretty sure that a little after you clear it out you’ll get a letter confirming it’s your and it becomes refurbish and it’ll look a lot better
the main reason I always go with Lakeview is two reasons. First, it's the only hearthfire house that's not in the middle of a winter hellscape. 2nd, the library shelves can be activated to display all of my books. Breezehome can't do that. The extra monsters aren't a problem anyway. Not when your husband is an aprentice wizard. Not some pack mule. He'll keep the home safe while I'm away.
Oh, the monsters around Lakeview Manor aren't dangerous. BUT they have a tendency to get lost in the woods nearby or spawn INSIDE the building... so while they're not an actual threat, they can prevent waiting or fast-travel and lock the combat music on while you're trying to figure out where the hell they are (or just use Detect Life or Aura Whisper if you're smart). I had to fireball the side of the house repeatedly once to kill a bear that spawned inside the walls.
@@SotiCotoIs it really that bad? I’ve only ever gotten two bandits and a giant, and they were light work, and their corpses despawned rather quickly too.
After watching the entire video just now, I need an overview of all the player homes in Oblivion. Just knowing that the Wizard's Tower/Frostcrag Spire will be your number one as it also allows you to teleport to any of the Mages Guild halls in every city.
The fishery of Heljarchen Hall is amazing in combination with the Fishery expansion as almost all the new fish can be stored in the fishery and multiply. Combine that with the garden and garden room expansion and you'll be sitting on an alchemy goldmine riveling Goldenhills Plantation due to its variety in easy access to fish.
If Goldenhills just had some of those amenities like the dragon priest mask rack and stuff like Tundra it would be awesome. The gold generation from it alone still makes it an S tier for me though.
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On my first playthrough of the 10th anniversary edition, I always used Bloodchill Manor. I like having all my armor sets displayed. There are so many mannequins and weapon racks there. All your dragon masks, polygons, dragon claws, etc. They all have a display. I love that.
Man I thought this video was structured the same way it was in the past and I was waiting the entirety of Hjerm to hear the Wizards reasoning for putting it in last place. EDIT: Ok I've watched the video and I have a couple thoughts. FIrst, I would love to hear what your spouse and kids have to say about these creation club homes as I've never used them. If Aela the HUNTRESS is complaining about wolves and bears and spiders, I cannot imagine her opinion of living in shadowfoot sanctum. "How do I like living here? Are you serious? We live in a sewer. I don't know why I ever married you." Second, it's interesting that your occupation as a wizard influences your decisions, because my typical occupation is far more dishonest, and I would put Honeyside in S tier. It is only 3000 septims more than Breezehome, making it very affordable, has a door leading to two different loadzones, and being located in Riften(IMO the best hub for a specific playstyle in the game), there isn't a whole lot not to love about it if you aren't a thief. Great video, Welsh. May I call you Welsh? Screw it I already did. Keep making great content!
Haha my bad. In hindsight, maybe I should’ve clarified a bit more at the start of the vid how I was going to rank it, instead of just saying “In no particular order…”. With regards to the spouses feelings towards the Creation Club homes, I’m not sure if they have any specific dialogue about them, but that most certainly would be an accurate response about Shadowfoot Sanctum 🤢😅 And tbh, there are so many great homes to rank and for the sake of not overfilling the S tier, I thought I’d introduce a tad more bias 🧙♂️ nevertheless, I hope I could give all the homes the attention they deserve, regardless of their position. Wizard or Welsh is fine 🧙♂️ thanks for the feedback 👍
My favourite is Tundra Homestead, but the modded version which makes it an amazing home with everything you could possibly need, alongside a mod that adds a whole section to whiterun behind jorvaskar including merchants so you end up having a blacksmith a house down - amazing for feeling like you're in whiterun without the loading screens and the vibes of Lakeview manor
@@theWelshWizard one's called 'Tundra Homestead (CrystalTower15'S Edition)' and just search Whiterun Expansion for the other - few different versions but all do the same sort of thing. (Additionally I use some mods I'll recommend here but they aren't home related like 'Whiterun City Full Of Life' (both the interior and exterior ones), and Ancient Land which really add to the general environment of Whiterun and the whole of Skyrim -makes it feel lived in)
I’m not even that far in yet but my personal rating for Lakeview Manor is S Tier! This is for both nostalgia and practical reasons. Practical being the many wings and custom looks you can have for it, plus it can be designed no matter your life or playstyle in the game. As for nostalgia, it was actually the home I built for my first ever family (that being my orcish husband Ghorbash, and our daughters Sofie and Lucia). It took a LONG time to build it, but it was amazing to move in after we’d been living in Breezehome for the longest time. Plus orcish spouses don’t complain about the location, instead loving it. And I once came home to hear my daughters teasing my husband about being a poor fisherman after he took them down to the nearby lake. Yeah, I’m a little biased because of all that, but what can I say? The moment I saw Ghorbash and my girls getting along, I married him, he became a second father to them, and I worked with him (and Lydia) to build the home to be a scenic family home that still let me organize and store my treasures.
Yeah, the customisation that those Hearthfire Homesteads have is awesome and will suit anyone. The locations of them all are also fantastic! And it sounds like I’ve got it tough in comparison with Aela 🙄😂
Truthfully speaking With this level of editing and uniqueness, if you ever decided to do other fantasy game guides, or other games in general, you would easily pass a million subs
I appreciate that but I actually gave Hogwarts Legacy a short go, but those vids didn't do too well sadly. Perhaps I created vids on the wrong topics, but I think that once RUclips identifies your audience and what they like, it becomes quite difficult to post vids that do well than aren't tailored for them.. if that makes sense 🤔 Nevertheless, maybe it was a blessing in disguise and the Divines are giving me a sign to double down on Skyrim :)
@@theWelshWizardI saw a comment saying maybe cover the homes in Oblivion? Your presentation of these was super fun and even cozy. Covering homes in other games could be fun. Or even rating Guild Halls?
i agree with the majority of this list i think my favorite, most used, home is Windstad Manor, because out of the 3 Hearthfire home unique features, i think the fish hatchery is the most useful (compared to an aviary and a windmill) my 2nd favorite is probably just Breezehome just because it's so centrally located which is especially handy when playing in survival mode
@@theWelshWizard Another example of contradicting characters. Why is Erik (the Slayer) a follower that can become a steward? His whole schtick was that he wanted to go adventuring and do something exciting instead of farming in Rorikstead, and yet you can hire him to follow you for 500g, literally walk over the hill to Goldenhills and hire him as a steward, supervising your plantation, and paying you the profits.
Best thing to do with Lakeview is to let the Giant reside there once it spawns in. It's only hostile if you go near it and while it is there all other specific homestead attacks cannot happen and it will turn on anything such as Dragons so can be used as an extra guard of sorts. If your housecarl, follower or spouse should aggro it you can quickly calm it with Ash Shell spell ( from Solstheim ) as this spell resets aggro on hit and will paralyze the Giant to boot. You may need to let it thaw though before leaving which is the only downside as this spell very rarely can make enemies invincible if you leave the cell they are in while they are still encased. You can also just save and then leave if waiting is too long in case the very rare glitch does occur but the last thing you want is for the Giant to become invincible lol. You can also heal the Giant if it has suffered damage and then Ash Shell it to stop the complaining if you like. You can use this method for the other two homesteads also. I once had a Bandit Chief follow my character into the inner cell of the homestead after spawning out of view, rush over and pick up an enchanted Daedric Greatsword which I had stored there and proceed to murder my spouse in a flash and hence the Giant strategy was devised to avoid this happening again. I used/viewed most of these houses and only a few are not considered worth it in my opinion. The dwemer one is too large and too far out. The boat one is just too much work to get to every time as kind of pointed out in this video. I also not fond of Hjerim because it locked behind the Civil War and the Civil War can break many missions in Solitude/Windhelm and Whiterun if done before them. It a risky house to acquire early basically if you want the full thing anyway. The other one is Goldenhills Plantation. Great for making money, terrible for living in. The kids may decide to not turn up and wander off somewhere as was the case when I tried to use it. Lucia seems to hang outside of the place even if you not adopted her which is odd and maybe why I had the problem when I did adopt her as she just bugged out. I managed to fix it by marrying and sending the spouse to another home but any attempts to send them and the kids back to the farm results in them all going missing and never showing up. Also it appears to be the buggiest house CC as the quest never even triggered on other characters after killing the ghost. You can still plant stuff mind. Also if you can marry the steward of Goldenhills you can just move them and collect the money from wherever you are living so no need to even go to the farm unless you want the ingredients. They must be made steward first before the ceremony of course.
There is just something about the plantation after youve got it full running with your family then all the possible pets living there. You can move in all the cc club pets. just tell them this is your new home where you want them. then tell Meeko and Vengeance to guard the farm.
I've typically been using Hendraheim since getting the Anniversary Edition upgrade, but I'll probably mix it up and move into Shadowfoot Sanctum. Easily one of the best parts of the majority of the CC homes is that they include specific trophy displays in their armories for Dragon Priest masks, dragon claws, and specific weapons, items and whatnot from the base game and DLC. But the Sanctum will be the residence of my all-rounder, but mainly stealth, character. The vampire home will be for my eventual vampire character once I've figured out a proper build for them.
Yeah, I like it when there’s dedicated displays for specific items too! It’s nice to show off all you uniques in one place and shows you what you have left to collect. All great homes there, but I was really blown away by Bloodchill Manor - certainly a fantastic vampire crib!
2:28 Here's a story for yall : I was watching this video while being at Goldenhills Plantation, preparing my enchantment skills to make powerful weaponry and armors. There is a slight problem, and by "slight", I meant "Elder dragon" scale problem. I was level 37, but in Legendary difficulty, and most of the experience I gained with that character came from leveling smithing, while making it legendary as well. Needless to say, I was in a bad spot. Or at least, would have it been, if not for Teldryn Sero and having reviewed my Conjuration, enchanting and Restoration schools. Assessing my options, I chose to enchant my legendary Stalhrim sword with Chaos damage as a last-ditch effort. Afterwards, I resorted to using a Flame Atronach as both a tank and artillery support. With Teldryn's and Lydia's support, we managed (after a lot of quicksaves and quickloads) to force the elder dragon to the ground. Meanwhile, an imperial escort was passing by and targeted the dragon. With even more cannon fodder to throw at the dragon, I landed the final blow and emerged victorious. Now that's a story to tell, if I needed to have one.
All that editing is so amazing and entertaining! All your videos deserve more views!❤ My wizard hat off to you good sir, for another awesome video! 🎩🧙♂️ Love from Norway 🇳🇴
Greatly enjoyed it, thanks! As a matter of course, I usually end up buying all the vanilla houses as I go thru the quests as they are easy in and outs from the various locations and let me sleep. As you go higher in level, I find the Hearthfire homes to be the best because of the display aspects, as well as the fast travel to and from. The Tundra Homestead usually ends up being my home due to its proximity to the Honningbrew Meadery, and the fact that there is a radiant generation point just up the road towards the guard tower that gives you something to meet occasionally coming and going. I wish the smithing station was indoors (perhaps a secondary basement room) as opposed to being outside, but other than that I usually end up there. Well done! ☺
I'm happy this one finally got released! I was excited for it and you definitely delivered. I really like the editing and the humour mixed in with the house reviews!
Funny thing, I've had the mannequins in Honey Side act like npc's a few times. Maybe not walking, but always staring at you and changing stances every so often. Kinda creepy
Considering how much I watch Skyrim content I’m surprised I never found you sooner! Either way the production quality is brilliant and you’ve got a new subscriber
one thing about lakeview manor is that there is a bunch of copys of this book called the cabin in the woods inside. its a short story about a soldier who retires to a cabin in the woods and gets chased by a psych ghost woman with an axe. kind of freaked me out at 3 am.
Wow...an hour long video!? No wonder it took you so long to get it done. But it was worth the wait. Excellent video as always. I would dare say the quality gets better each new video posted! Keep up the great work Master Wizard!
So many great homes to settle in. However, I love living in the cities. It’s great having the local markets, inns and locals to talk to. Solitude and Markarth stand out to me.
I always enjoy concept of building your own home in hearthfire. Heljarchen hall would be me top pick from the three. Even if the snowy climate is not my first choice, it makes up for it with its location. The nearby farm and the Whiterun visible in the distance make that we don't feel secluded. Honeyside is the only townhouse with have direct exit to outside the cite. Perfect for all the "shady" characters who want to come and go without attracting attention.
Oh, and if you want a better Pirate Ship themed home than Dead Man's Dread... I personally used The Scarlett for a while. A very nice one that. Not only is it far better arranged, but you can sail it to various different locations about Skyrim. I don't really care for Hearthfire-style home-decorating. but it has that too. Apparently there are even better ones now though.
You missed three of the most important points about Goldenhills - (1) As you go downstairs if you open the cabinet on the right you can grab all the farming that your farmhands have done in your absence. Lots of crops, milk and food based on what you planted. (2) it has a churn hidden away in the kitchen where you can make as much butter as you have milk, and you get alot of milk from Goldenhills. Only way I have found to get in bulk and garlic bread at wt = 0.1 allows you to care around tons of cure disease at super low weight. (3) you can collect significant money from your house steward.
Such an amazing video! So well made! I'm glad to see your take on all these wonderful homes! My personal favorite has to be Shadowfoot Sanctum purely because I am playing a stealth assassin.(Also your thumbnails are so cool and whoever made them is very talented ❤
Oh man, I love this. Your narration and story style is hilarious, you're the first person in a while who's managed to get me to sit in one place for an hour straight watching a comparison video
Funny enough, I usually find myself setting up in the Archmage's Quarters in the College. It has plenty of storage, and with mods like Immersive College of Winterhold, it's a wizard's dream home
I got upset with calcelmo, stole every item in it and wait for the sweet day he realizes that the museum he has been preparing for its grande opening is actually empty.
Location is so important when it comes to deciding where I plant my proverbial roots. Especially in survival. I usually invest in one of the three big cities like Solitude Whiterun, or Windhelm depending on what my character's stance on the civil war will be.
If your going to grab anything from CC, you might as well just go for the anniversary edition and get it all. 20$ for everything fs 4-5$ for one home is very sad. That said all of the homes are decoratively amazing... if a little lacking in non sack storage at times *cough* warrior hall *cough*.
The Grand Bathhouse is an awesome home mod. Comes with a full bathtub area where female followers to strip down to their undies. Also a Staff enchanter, alchemy, enchanting stations and it's own Sky Forge. Also kitchen, Crafting area, Imbuing Chamber, Dragon Soul Converter, Optional Dwarven Guards and Bathroom area upgrade available. Comes with 4 children's beds, 2 master double beds and 2 follower beds. Also has an upstairs fight arena cage area. If you use AFT to recruit lots of female followers, this is the home for you to set up your "Harem" of concubines.
2 more things about Breezehome: 1 Enchanting table in Dragonreach, with a wizard to sell you soul gems Whiterun is in the middle of Skyrim, so you can travel in any direction you need, without it taking forever to get anywhere
Which homes would you (both the wizard and fellow commenters) recommend for survival mode? Since fast travel is disabled and you can freeze to death, I think proximity to a major city (and major city carriage driver) would be very important
@@BigHatLoganGamingI only do that after I've completed the game. Then I work towards God mode (lvl 252) all perks in all trees ( except for a few that are just broken IMO). But my methods are a bit different because I can't fast travel.
I like most Creation Club ones. ...Never been at dwarf one. Bloodchill is one of the favorites, especially for my Assassin. With Dawnstar not too far off. Only downside is if you use magic that throws everything around... It's pain to clean. Aside Creation Club and crafted houses, I do like Solstheim one most. Crafted ones, especially Winstad are nice. Though with it you have quite dangerous neighbor. Vokun.
Bloodchill Cavern is excellent, superbly designed imo 👌 but yeah, you do have to be careful when aiming the occasional fireball 🔥 And that’s true! Just don’t tell the kids about Vokun 👀
Quick note about Shadowfoot Sanctum: it DOES have an armory with a full enchanting, alchemy, and display setup. It's hidden inside the wardrobe closest to the entrance, on the left side going in. It has a false back. Edit: Nevermind, legend tricked me.
Dear WelshWizard you are the best, you helped me beat Skyrim and the DLC's. You're guides are the best, and I wanted you to know that. I'm a assassin in Skyrim, and I'm suprised that a Wizard could help me be the greatest assassin, you helped me find Umbra and Umbra was easy. I never knew a nord could help a khajiit, now as a khajiit I can sucessfully assassinate people with your help, I've spent hours into Skyrim and you helped out A LOT! again I'm glad a Wizard could help me (a khajiit) Also if you're still reading your next video should be "Hardest quests in Skyrim"
Man my oldest vanilla Skyrim playthrough I built Lakeview and god stepping into that house the first time after finishing the full thing and furnishing it was such a great moment.
Vlindrel Hall will always be my favorite house because of it’s large library and the high up view. Windstad Manor, Myrwatch, and Goldenhills are my other favorites. Fantastic video! Quickly becoming one of my absolute favorite Skyrim RUclipsrs. S Tier quality
I usually only two that I'm guaranteed to use. The one in Whiterun, simply because it's the earliest and cheapest one to get and all kinds of merchents and crafting places are nearby The one in Falkreath, because that feels like a real home with all the bells and whistles.
I could watch this video forever. It's so nice to listen to a wise wizard travel around Skyrim like a realtor trying to close a deal on one of many shabby houses of varying habitability. I'm not even planning on playing Skyrim anytime soon, I'M NOT IN THE MARKET! But man... does Bloodchill Cavern look nice...
Whoever designed Myrwatch is an absolute genius. No matter what build I do I always have Myrwatch as my main home, or at least as my main base. It's the most wizardly atmospheric home with the perfect amount of storage and everything is perfectly condensed without feeling claustrophobic. It's the absolute best home
Interesting to see how each rank these houses differently. Personally I'd put Lakeview Manor on first for its location and more adaptations for children, and Goldenhills second for its amazing garden and money making ability, but its small farm.
I remember the first time I felt disappointment in Skyrim was buying the manor in the capital and realizing it was completely useless despite the cost. I saved up for it, thinking it must be a good home for end game, and finding myself utterly baffled at the lack of amenities. I spent a fortune furnishing it only to find that nothing of actual value was added. Those damn nobles scammed me!
I feel like each home is more dependant on the build of your character. If your character wants to use bows as a primary weapon, then Lakeview near Falkrealth is ideal. If you wanna be a thief, Shadowfoot Sanctum from the Anniversary Upgrade or Honeyside make a good home cause they're both very close to the Thieves Guild in Riften. Myrwatch is very ideal for any sort of Mage build, while Windstad near Mortal could be a good home for people who like using the Alchemy skill line.
Helijarchen hall my beloved. The view and vibe is just too perfect. Even the creation club armories arent enough to replace it for me. Its my skyrim home, every playthrough.
Lakeview Manor near Falkreath is my personal favorite, it just has such beautiful surroundings and its hard to beat a house you can literally design yourself.
Hope you enjoyed this mammoth of a ranking Wizards! 🧙♂️ Which will you be choosing as your next abode? 🏡 Let me know!
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*FAQs* 👇
Q: The sound effect at 27:35 is extremely loud, why?
🧙♂: My apologies! I must have forgotten to add a hyphon before the decibel, hence it's louder than full volume 😅make sure to decrease your volume at around 27:30 before it kicks in!
Q: Can’t coffins be crafted for the Hearthfire Homesteads too?
🧙♂️: Indeed they can be, I didn’t realise! “Coffins are a craftable piece of furniture for a mansion. They are automatically placed in the cellar. For the option to build a coffin, one needs to be a vampire.”
Q: Can’t 3 spouses from the Dragonborn DLC occupy Severin Manor with you?
🧙♂️: Indeed they can, my apologies. They are Morwen, Hilund and Halbarn Iron-Fur.
You forgot to mention that if you're a vampire in the player built homes you can craft a coffin that hides in a wall room, because they reworked everything to accommodate fish tanks they reworked where the coffin sits. I like the concept of a hidden coffin
@@justsomekid188 yeah, I just found that out! I’ll add that to my pinned comment shortly 👍
@@theWelshWizard What about the Head Wizard quarters in the college of Winterhold? Wouldnt you be in charge of the entire castle? It’s kind of like having your own Hogwarts.
@@theWelshWizard Hello WelshWizard. I want to thank you. You have helped me in skyrim, I'm very happy you helped me beat the games with your tips and tricks. I'm happy a Welsh Wizard helped me. Have a good day.
@@themesozoicworld6586 yeah I like the Arch-Mage’s Quarters, but that space is also featured in Myrwatch and is 10x times better! 🧙♂️
"May Talos guide you."
Thalmor: *Angrily knocking at door.*
Haha I should’ve added that 😂👀
'BANGBANGBAG', *JUSTICIARS, OPEN UP!* bangs the door down before you could answer
@@james739123 I was thinking *Door blows up from Fireball from annoyed Dragonborn Mage*
Three elfs in flimsy armor vs a daderic clad, destruction enchanted, who's mastered the ultimate power of the storm in a thin hallway... I like my odds.
@@jh9794 "Thalmor at ar-" *gets punted into oblivion by a master level shock spell*
One of the reasons I love the Lakeview Manor so much is because you build it yourself. So the design is entirely your choice and it feels like you actually deserve to live there as you made it from scratch. (Despite the building costs)
Yeah, those homesteads are on another level just purely on the customisation! But they’re all in great spots too! 👌
It’s also in the best location in my opinion. Falkreath is absolutely gorgeous.
All of the three houses you build are gorgeous and a pain in the ass to build
That is one of the reasons I dislike it. I hate the hassle of having to build it myself. The amount of hassle, nonsense and resource-gathering required just to get a liveable home makes them hugely impractical. Also any mods that change it generally require it be build a certain way first, and if you've built it any other way then it ruins the mod... so they're not only a pain to build in vanilla, but a huge pain to mod as well.
Not only that but Lakeview Manor also sits far too close to a necromancer and a pack of wolves... and while the location is prettier than the other two Hearthfire homes, the constant enemies outside are just extra nuisances.
@@SotiCotowow. Guess you don't like crafting elements. That's fair enough but the wolves and necromancer are not really a problem. Neither are the bandits, giants or dragons. I like the fact they're bringing loot direct to my door.
Best part about haljarchen hall is, unlike most of the other heartfell houses its not isolated, theres a farm within walking distance and whiterun is not far off, not to mention guards actually patrol this area making it feel far more integrated into a hold then just a cabin in the woods
Its central location tends to be why it is the only Hearthfire home I've ever bothered with. I still tend to hate the Hearthfire homes, but at least Heljarchen is in the least inconvenient position from a logistical standpoint. Lakeview is technically prettier... but Lakeview also has horrible enemy spawns and is way out of the way.
I also love that it requires a Daedric Quest (Vaermina) that can be completed by screwing over the Prince (by destroying the staff) if you're anti-Daedra.
I think Heljarchen Hall is the #1 Hearthfire home for sure
I am glad for mods Oakwood and Winstad add towns to the other 2
I really wish it was a bit more south so it could’ve been in Whiterun’s golden fields
A little tip for Goldenhills: Fill up one of the fields with Blisterwort. It's the best crop for profit, the other field and planters can be whatever you want! I usually have (Creepvine,Mora Tapinela, Scaly Pholiota) in one, and Steel-Blue Entoloma in the other. Then in the second field, I have a mix of Health and Magicka restoring ingredients. That way I have crops to generate gold, quickly level my Alchemy, and restore my 2 most used stats (I love being a Mage). Goldenhills is easily my second favorite Playerhome in AE.
Edit: An alternate set of Crops for Goldenhills is 16 Mora Tapinella, 12 Canis Root, and 12 Imp Stool (Harvesting gives you 48 of each), and the last 4 plots are your choice (I usually go with either Blisterwort+Wheat for healing, or Steel Blue Entoloma+Nightshade for UNLIMITED POWAH!). The 3 Main Crops will give a decently pricey poison of Paralysis and Lingering Damage Health. And unless your enemy is immune to poison, hitting them with this will cause them to fall over for X seconds (highest I've gotten with my skills is 24 seconds!)
Myrwatch is the best playerhome, fight me. All you need is a fire spell to open the door, and if you are someone who adamantly despises learning and using spells, there are 2 scrolls of Fireball in Bleakfalls Barrow!
2 great homes and Goldenhills Plantation sure is a gold mine with the right crops! These tips will be helpful, thanks for sharing 👍
Im not against glitches so I just use the right click glitch for money but I put in blisterwort and wheat for health potions
I think Nightshade gets you more gold though. The crops sell for full price and Nightshade is 8 gold. I have nothing but Nightshade and I get like 1200 gold every in-game day.
@@blackwingred3473 blisterwort is 32
I planted all the fields with mora tapinela scaly pholiota and creep clusters for potions that give you 1k per potion
Breezehome is the OG Goat. I really like Honeyside also.
Yes, I also like the home in Windhelm which that you can unlock by solving (I think) a murder.
Its the first one shown if I’m not mistaken
A lot of love of Breezehome, a great starter home and Honeyside has a very nice porch 👌
Wish I didn’t need mods to get your snazzy outfit
Only thing I don't like is that you need to sacrifice your alchemy lab if you want to adopt children :/
Otherwise it is an iconic building, with the nice added bonus that 2 merchants live literally next door.
No wonder this video took so long, such high quality!
I wouldn't expect no less from a Master Wizard!
Thanks man! Gonna be getting them out quicker going forward though, stay tuned! 🧙♂️
I agree with the sentiment! I disagree with the words in the second sentence, but only because of the double negative. Remove one of the negatives and I'll agree with that as well.
I know you didn’t talk about the quests for a lot of these homes, but the Bloodchill Manor quest is very cool. It’s short and simple, but it has a lot of personality in its simplicity
Yeah that was a pretty fun quest to watch unfold and what an amazing abode! Goldenhills Plantation also has a decent quest, but also quite sad 😢
@@theWelshWizard Oh yeah that one, had me going in circles as everything was revealed lol
it's nice that it has two versions depending on if you are a vampire or not.
Bloodchill Manor is so cool but its location is so bad. It's so far from everything
And bugged to hell in all my games! Makes it unobtainable.
I use Proudspire Manor as my family home because it’s the safest and most luxurious for my argonian spouse and children. It’s so cute to see Sofie and Blaise playing with the other children in the neighbourhood. Plus I always go Imperial side so that’s a bonus.
Then I use Tundra Homestead as my base of operations because it has everything I need and it’s in a central location. It’s good to separate work from personal life :)
Aah, a fellow argonian spouse enjoyer
You like to save Sophie and Blaise as well?
You marry your farmtools? Thats just wrong.
@@definition.of.insanity i was almost like "whoa this dudes actually being racist" then i realized what we're talking about
My favorite house is Breezehome but my favorite modded "House" is the Haven Bag.
A portable house inside a Magic Bag, always on you and always there.
That sounds interesting, will have to check it out 👍
Pocket dimension homes are super handy, yeah. And Breezehome is right tidy with the Functional Homes mod.
Globe house is also a good portable house mod that I would highly recommend
I typically use the dwemer conversion because I prefer the styling, and the quest to obtain it, but yeah it's great to RP that magic is useful for something other than combat
I will say something note about Heljarchen hall, if you go to the area behind the house and up the mountain a bit it’s actually really close to one of the unmarked entrances straight into black reach
But you can't use the elevator to go down until you have come up from Blackreach.
“The Scones of Barenziah”
Good one!
The Guardian Scones
When they're used together, Honeyside and Shadowfoot Sanctum are really great homes for just about any build. With Honeyside, you have a home that your wife and children can live & grow up in... but with Shadowfoot Sanctum, you basically have yourself a bachelor's pad that's entirely yours to decorate with all of your trophies.
It's for those exact reasons why I will almost always use those two homes specifically; that said, almost every home has a use for me in some way, WW.
Take the homes you can build with Hearthfire, right? Instead of building them up into huge mansions that hardly anybody will live in, I like to build the small homes and assign certain followers as stewards for those homes... but instead of being stewards, I pretend that I gifted those homes to those followers for their actions in aiding me in my adventures. In a way, this satisfies two things for me - a home that I won't live in will be used and it feels in-character when I roleplay, if the latter makes sense to you.
The same logic somewhat applies with the stewards in the non-Hearthfire homes too. I won't live in them any time soon, so I like to think that my character(s) gifts them to the stewards, either out of good will or for their actions.
*Edit:* When you brought up Goldenhills Plantation, I just wanted to say that I too really like the home as well... however, I don't like it because of the fact that I can live there, but because I can use it as a business venture!
Much like how I assign followers to the Hearthfire homes and turn them into pretend homeowners, I plan to assign a follower to the plantation and have them be in charge of the plantation's daily operations, making money that'll go back into my pockets and into their pockets as payment for their hard work.
The only reason I don't want to live there is the same reason why I don't want to live in most of the other homes on this list - location. If Goldenhills in particular were closer to Rorikstead, then maybe I'd consider actually living there. The same thing applies to some of the other homes, like Dead Man's Dread. If Bethesda had a little hindsight, they would've allowed the player to get the ship out of that cave and at least allow them to dock it in Solitude.
That’s a good point about Honeyside and Shadowfoot Sanctum! Keep the family out of the stinky sewers and give them a nice cabin with a porch, and then Shadowfoot can be your own little den - I like it! 👌 Imagine it was the other way around, I don’t think they’d be too happy 💩
That’s also a neat idea, awarding stewards with their own homes, I never thought to do that 🤔 might actually be a good thing not building great big homesteads too, as you’ll save a lot of gold and potentially some livestock 👀
Yeah, Dead Man’s Dread had great promise and I was hoping the ship would receive an uplift following its quest, making more use out of those crew bedrooms.. but nah 😕 and like you said, the fact you can’t ride it also kinda sucks.
Sadly the only homes that Bethesda had anything to do with are the ones that are in the cities themselves and the Hearthfire ones. All of the others are Player Made homes. So complain to the people that made them not Bethesda.
I set up Erik the Slayer in Heljarchen Hall. He lives there with the female Bard. I like to pretend they are a married couple and stay friends and keep regular contact with my family.
Yeah, I'm inclined to agree with this.
I'm doing a Survival playthrough RPing a hunter, and I made the mistake of picking Goldenhills as my main house. It has been a massive, massive pain just going there to offload stuff since I have no fast travel.
They really could have stood to move it a little closer to Whiterun or to Markarth.
There's a cool mod that add a trap door in honeyside that leads to shadowfoot sanctum
I'm only 30 seconds in but I have to say that the quality and consistency of this channel is incredible and appreciated.
Thank you! The frequency of uploads will also be increasing soon - stay tuned! 🧙♂️
This is my first introduction to your channel. Please know your dedication to voiceover, script, recording, and editing-- it doesn't go unnoticed. This is a 5 star masterpiece, it feels like a reality TV show for Skyrim-- a decade old game that we all cherish and love, but for the fact that there is so much dedication to something that could gave easily just been a lengthy one-time, playthrough recording of each house, it's put together like a Christmas gift. Beautifully done, I hope others join in and subscribe just as quick as I did.
Really appreciate the kind words, thank you! 🧙♂️
@theWelshWizard Absolutely, been going through a lot of your videos while doing chores. I recently got back into Skyrim as I never touched on the Creation Club content, so lots of information I never knew!
This just in, the jarl is happy to tell you about the newest bakery, *Doughvakin’s* Delights
That’s a good one! 😂
Isn't that right next to the inn where they sell Dagoth Urgers, and on the other side the place with Azura's cinnamon stars?
One of the few saving graces of Dead Man's Dread is that the fast travel function of the map, is very useful if you are playing survival mode and join the Volkihar faction
That’s true, and if you find the lack of fast travelling a pain, you could always temporarily disable survival mode - if you don’t mind cheating
Meh, I prefer to get Dead Man's Dread, if only for the free sword and books, there is a free copy of Spirit of the Daedra in the captain's room
@@7deEspadasIs that book needed for a quest or something?
@@yourfriendlyneighbourhoodl6206ні, просто він дуже фанатично відноситься до гри)
@@theWelshWizardI got it and I’m pretty sure that a little after you clear it out you’ll get a letter confirming it’s your and it becomes refurbish and it’ll look a lot better
the main reason I always go with Lakeview is two reasons. First, it's the only hearthfire house that's not in the middle of a winter hellscape. 2nd, the library shelves can be activated to display all of my books. Breezehome can't do that. The extra monsters aren't a problem anyway. Not when your husband is an aprentice wizard. Not some pack mule. He'll keep the home safe while I'm away.
"Thank-you my love, look at all the test subjects!"
"They just come here?... Even better!"
Oh, the monsters around Lakeview Manor aren't dangerous. BUT they have a tendency to get lost in the woods nearby or spawn INSIDE the building... so while they're not an actual threat, they can prevent waiting or fast-travel and lock the combat music on while you're trying to figure out where the hell they are (or just use Detect Life or Aura Whisper if you're smart). I had to fireball the side of the house repeatedly once to kill a bear that spawned inside the walls.
@@SotiCotoIs it really that bad? I’ve only ever gotten two bandits and a giant, and they were light work, and their corpses despawned rather quickly too.
After watching the entire video just now, I need an overview of all the player homes in Oblivion. Just knowing that the Wizard's Tower/Frostcrag Spire will be your number one as it also allows you to teleport to any of the Mages Guild halls in every city.
The fishery of Heljarchen Hall is amazing in combination with the Fishery expansion as almost all the new fish can be stored in the fishery and multiply. Combine that with the garden and garden room expansion and you'll be sitting on an alchemy goldmine riveling Goldenhills Plantation due to its variety in easy access to fish.
I always find it funny that Aela of all people complains about living near dangerous animals and bandits. Like, babygirl, I did this for *you.*
She's a Mama Bear. She's cares about the safety of her babies
If Goldenhills just had some of those amenities like the dragon priest mask rack and stuff like Tundra it would be awesome. The gold generation from it alone still makes it an S tier for me though.
GoldenHills ftw... tho if it had the fast travel carts then it would be beyond S tier specially in Survival runs
@@BurningLance2hello i am doing survival playthrough and wondering if there are any houses with carriage fast travel?
@@Pepper462You can have a cart at Winstead Manor, Heirichen (sp?) Hall, and Lakeview also I believe... not sure about others
@@jkp1219 ty so helpfull with no fast travel 🫡
An hour!!! A full hour!!! Thank you so so so much! Listening to your videos really helps me get trough my depression, it calms my mind down and allows me to let go!!
So thank you so much for your videos! They are more important to some people than you might think!
So glad you enjoy my vids man and there’ll be plenty more coming soon! Thanks for watching and for the kind words, take care 👍
On my first playthrough of the 10th anniversary edition, I always used Bloodchill Manor. I like having all my armor sets displayed. There are so many mannequins and weapon racks there. All your dragon masks, polygons, dragon claws, etc. They all have a display. I love that.
It really is an incredible abode and took me by surprise!
Man I thought this video was structured the same way it was in the past and I was waiting the entirety of Hjerm to hear the Wizards reasoning for putting it in last place.
EDIT: Ok I've watched the video and I have a couple thoughts.
FIrst, I would love to hear what your spouse and kids have to say about these creation club homes as I've never used them. If Aela the HUNTRESS is complaining about wolves and bears and spiders, I cannot imagine her opinion of living in shadowfoot sanctum. "How do I like living here? Are you serious? We live in a sewer. I don't know why I ever married you."
Second, it's interesting that your occupation as a wizard influences your decisions, because my typical occupation is far more dishonest, and I would put Honeyside in S tier. It is only 3000 septims more than Breezehome, making it very affordable, has a door leading to two different loadzones, and being located in Riften(IMO the best hub for a specific playstyle in the game), there isn't a whole lot not to love about it if you aren't a thief.
Great video, Welsh. May I call you Welsh? Screw it I already did. Keep making great content!
Haha my bad. In hindsight, maybe I should’ve clarified a bit more at the start of the vid how I was going to rank it, instead of just saying “In no particular order…”.
With regards to the spouses feelings towards the Creation Club homes, I’m not sure if they have any specific dialogue about them, but that most certainly would be an accurate response about Shadowfoot Sanctum 🤢😅
And tbh, there are so many great homes to rank and for the sake of not overfilling the S tier, I thought I’d introduce a tad more bias 🧙♂️ nevertheless, I hope I could give all the homes the attention they deserve, regardless of their position.
Wizard or Welsh is fine 🧙♂️ thanks for the feedback 👍
My favourite is Tundra Homestead, but the modded version which makes it an amazing home with everything you could possibly need, alongside a mod that adds a whole section to whiterun behind jorvaskar including merchants so you end up having a blacksmith a house down - amazing for feeling like you're in whiterun without the loading screens and the vibes of Lakeview manor
That sounds cool! Will have to look up those mods 👍
@@theWelshWizard one's called 'Tundra Homestead (CrystalTower15'S Edition)' and just search Whiterun Expansion for the other - few different versions but all do the same sort of thing.
(Additionally I use some mods I'll recommend here but they aren't home related like 'Whiterun City Full Of Life' (both the interior and exterior ones), and Ancient Land which really add to the general environment of Whiterun and the whole of Skyrim -makes it feel lived in)
I also reall like tundra homstead but a thin that sucks about it is that you cant get yours family there
I’m not even that far in yet but my personal rating for Lakeview Manor is S Tier! This is for both nostalgia and practical reasons. Practical being the many wings and custom looks you can have for it, plus it can be designed no matter your life or playstyle in the game. As for nostalgia, it was actually the home I built for my first ever family (that being my orcish husband Ghorbash, and our daughters Sofie and Lucia). It took a LONG time to build it, but it was amazing to move in after we’d been living in Breezehome for the longest time. Plus orcish spouses don’t complain about the location, instead loving it. And I once came home to hear my daughters teasing my husband about being a poor fisherman after he took them down to the nearby lake.
Yeah, I’m a little biased because of all that, but what can I say? The moment I saw Ghorbash and my girls getting along, I married him, he became a second father to them, and I worked with him (and Lydia) to build the home to be a scenic family home that still let me organize and store my treasures.
Yeah, the customisation that those Hearthfire Homesteads have is awesome and will suit anyone. The locations of them all are also fantastic! And it sounds like I’ve got it tough in comparison with Aela 🙄😂
Lakeview Manor is basically Skyrim’s south side of Chicago
You’ve outdone yourself this time Mr Wizard, your narration and editing are excellent as always and I enjoy the longer videos 😀
Awesome, thanks for watching! I appreciate the kind words :) more vids coming soon, stay tuned! 🧙♂️
Another scroll of pure wisdom from the wizard himself!. Great video as always man!
Thanks man! 😊
Obviously the pun for the seafood is “Fish Roe Da”.
Take Me Home, Skyrim Roads ..!
Wow! Thanks man, much appreciated 😇
An hour of nonstop information. The dedication is insane👍
Appreciate it!
Truthfully speaking
With this level of editing and uniqueness, if you ever decided to do other fantasy game guides, or other games in general, you would easily pass a million subs
I appreciate that but I actually gave Hogwarts Legacy a short go, but those vids didn't do too well sadly. Perhaps I created vids on the wrong topics, but I think that once RUclips identifies your audience and what they like, it becomes quite difficult to post vids that do well than aren't tailored for them.. if that makes sense 🤔 Nevertheless, maybe it was a blessing in disguise and the Divines are giving me a sign to double down on Skyrim :)
@@theWelshWizard I understand that! Though we'd hate to see ya burn out on JUST doing Skyrim, ya know?
@@theWelshWizardI saw a comment saying maybe cover the homes in Oblivion? Your presentation of these was super fun and even cozy. Covering homes in other games could be fun. Or even rating Guild Halls?
i agree with the majority of this list
i think my favorite, most used, home is Windstad Manor, because out of the 3 Hearthfire home unique features, i think the fish hatchery is the most useful (compared to an aviary and a windmill)
my 2nd favorite is probably just Breezehome just because it's so centrally located which is especially handy when playing in survival mode
I find it ridiculous that Aela the Huntress is so against Lakeview Manor. She's a hunter! She's a werewolf! What's there to worry about?
Ikr! Completely contradicts her character 🤔
@@theWelshWizard Another example of contradicting characters. Why is Erik (the Slayer) a follower that can become a steward? His whole schtick was that he wanted to go adventuring and do something exciting instead of farming in Rorikstead, and yet you can hire him to follow you for 500g, literally walk over the hill to Goldenhills and hire him as a steward, supervising your plantation, and paying you the profits.
Best thing to do with Lakeview is to let the Giant reside there once it spawns in. It's only hostile if you go near it and while it is there all other specific homestead attacks cannot happen and it will turn on anything such as Dragons so can be used as an extra guard of sorts. If your housecarl, follower or spouse should aggro it you can quickly calm it with Ash Shell spell ( from Solstheim ) as this spell resets aggro on hit and will paralyze the Giant to boot.
You may need to let it thaw though before leaving which is the only downside as this spell very rarely can make enemies invincible if you leave the cell they are in while they are still encased. You can also just save and then leave if waiting is too long in case the very rare glitch does occur but the last thing you want is for the Giant to become invincible lol. You can also heal the Giant if it has suffered damage and then Ash Shell it to stop the complaining if you like.
You can use this method for the other two homesteads also. I once had a Bandit Chief follow my character into the inner cell of the homestead after spawning out of view, rush over and pick up an enchanted Daedric Greatsword which I had stored there and proceed to murder my spouse in a flash and hence the Giant strategy was devised to avoid this happening again.
I used/viewed most of these houses and only a few are not considered worth it in my opinion. The dwemer one is too large and too far out. The boat one is just too much work to get to every time as kind of pointed out in this video. I also not fond of Hjerim because it locked behind the Civil War and the Civil War can break many missions in Solitude/Windhelm and Whiterun if done before them. It a risky house to acquire early basically if you want the full thing anyway.
The other one is Goldenhills Plantation. Great for making money, terrible for living in. The kids may decide to not turn up and wander off somewhere as was the case when I tried to use it. Lucia seems to hang outside of the place even if you not adopted her which is odd and maybe why I had the problem when I did adopt her as she just bugged out. I managed to fix it by marrying and sending the spouse to another home but any attempts to send them and the kids back to the farm results in them all going missing and never showing up.
Also it appears to be the buggiest house CC as the quest never even triggered on other characters after killing the ghost. You can still plant stuff mind. Also if you can marry the steward of Goldenhills you can just move them and collect the money from wherever you are living so no need to even go to the farm unless you want the ingredients. They must be made steward first before the ceremony of course.
Proudspire is my personal favourite. It’s best for a family.
Spacious, other children in the area, little crime, developed, etc.
There is just something about the plantation after youve got it full running with your family then all the possible pets living there. You can move in all the cc club pets. just tell them this is your new home where you want them. then tell Meeko and Vengeance to guard the farm.
I've typically been using Hendraheim since getting the Anniversary Edition upgrade, but I'll probably mix it up and move into Shadowfoot Sanctum. Easily one of the best parts of the majority of the CC homes is that they include specific trophy displays in their armories for Dragon Priest masks, dragon claws, and specific weapons, items and whatnot from the base game and DLC. But the Sanctum will be the residence of my all-rounder, but mainly stealth, character. The vampire home will be for my eventual vampire character once I've figured out a proper build for them.
Yeah, I like it when there’s dedicated displays for specific items too! It’s nice to show off all you uniques in one place and shows you what you have left to collect. All great homes there, but I was really blown away by Bloodchill Manor - certainly a fantastic vampire crib!
2:28 Here's a story for yall : I was watching this video while being at Goldenhills Plantation, preparing my enchantment skills to make powerful weaponry and armors. There is a slight problem, and by "slight", I meant "Elder dragon" scale problem. I was level 37, but in Legendary difficulty, and most of the experience I gained with that character came from leveling smithing, while making it legendary as well. Needless to say, I was in a bad spot. Or at least, would have it been, if not for Teldryn Sero and having reviewed my Conjuration, enchanting and Restoration schools. Assessing my options, I chose to enchant my legendary Stalhrim sword with Chaos damage as a last-ditch effort. Afterwards, I resorted to using a Flame Atronach as both a tank and artillery support. With Teldryn's and Lydia's support, we managed (after a lot of quicksaves and quickloads) to force the elder dragon to the ground. Meanwhile, an imperial escort was passing by and targeted the dragon. With even more cannon fodder to throw at the dragon, I landed the final blow and emerged victorious. Now that's a story to tell, if I needed to have one.
All that editing is so amazing and entertaining! All your videos deserve more views!❤
My wizard hat off to you good sir, for another awesome video! 🎩🧙♂️
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Thank you! 😊 I really appreciate that and glad you enjoyed! 🧙♂️
Greatly enjoyed it, thanks! As a matter of course, I usually end up buying all the vanilla houses as I go thru the quests as they are easy in and outs from the various locations and let me sleep. As you go higher in level, I find the Hearthfire homes to be the best because of the display aspects, as well as the fast travel to and from. The Tundra Homestead usually ends up being my home due to its proximity to the Honningbrew Meadery, and the fact that there is a radiant generation point just up the road towards the guard tower that gives you something to meet occasionally coming and going. I wish the smithing station was indoors (perhaps a secondary basement room) as opposed to being outside, but other than that I usually end up there. Well done! ☺
1:05 as yes, a secret chamber filled with magical and alchemical items with its entrance in the kids bedroom, very intelligent.
I'm happy this one finally got released! I was excited for it and you definitely delivered. I really like the editing and the humour mixed in with the house reviews!
It took me a while, but it’s here! Thanks for the kind words and I’m glad you enjoyed :) More rankings coming soon, stay tuned! 🧙♂️
Funny thing, I've had the mannequins in Honey Side act like npc's a few times. Maybe not walking, but always staring at you and changing stances every so often. Kinda creepy
Oh I had them walking it freaked me out the first time, I got scared and left the house lol
Considering how much I watch Skyrim content I’m surprised I never found you sooner!
Either way the production quality is brilliant and you’ve got a new subscriber
Wow, thanks! Welcome aboard 🧙♂️
one thing about lakeview manor is that there is a bunch of copys of this book called the cabin in the woods inside. its a short story about a soldier who retires to a cabin in the woods and gets chased by a psych ghost woman with an axe. kind of freaked me out at 3 am.
Haha that sounds freaky!
Too bad there’s no psycho ghost woman around
17:27 I love the reference that you made here. Very fitting given how all divine shrines can be built.
Wow...an hour long video!?
No wonder it took you so long to get it done. But it was worth the wait. Excellent video as always. I would dare say the quality gets better each new video posted! Keep up the great work Master Wizard!
Thanks you, much appreciated! More rankings coming soon, stay tuned! 🧙♂️
So many great homes to settle in. However, I love living in the cities. It’s great having the local markets, inns and locals to talk to. Solitude and Markarth stand out to me.
A full hour of the wizard, we are not worthy! Your voice works well for long form videos, enjoyed this!
Thanks man! More vids coming soon, stay tuned! 🧙♂️
I always enjoy concept of building your own home in hearthfire. Heljarchen hall would be me top pick from the three. Even if the snowy climate is not my first choice, it makes up for it with its location. The nearby farm and the Whiterun visible in the distance make that we don't feel secluded.
Honeyside is the only townhouse with have direct exit to outside the cite. Perfect for all the "shady" characters who want to come and go without attracting attention.
Oh, and if you want a better Pirate Ship themed home than Dead Man's Dread... I personally used The Scarlett for a while. A very nice one that. Not only is it far better arranged, but you can sail it to various different locations about Skyrim. I don't really care for Hearthfire-style home-decorating. but it has that too. Apparently there are even better ones now though.
You could just set up house in the winterhold college. It literally has everything you'd ever need!
I didn't even know about how many homes there are in Skyrim, thanks for the tier list!
No problem!
You missed three of the most important points about Goldenhills -
(1) As you go downstairs if you open the cabinet on the right you can grab all the farming that your farmhands have done in your absence. Lots of crops, milk and food based on what you planted.
(2) it has a churn hidden away in the kitchen where you can make as much butter as you have milk, and you get alot of milk from Goldenhills. Only way I have found to get in bulk and garlic bread at wt = 0.1 allows you to care around tons of cure disease at super low weight.
(3) you can collect significant money from your house steward.
Such an amazing video! So well made! I'm glad to see your take on all these wonderful homes! My personal favorite has to be Shadowfoot Sanctum purely because I am playing a stealth assassin.(Also your thumbnails are so cool and whoever made them is very talented ❤
Thank you, that's much appreciated :) and that's a top pick for a thief/assassin right there 👌
Getting back into Skyrim again and this gave me some new roleplay ideas. It’s still one of my favourite videos to relax with.
And another Welsh Wizard video makes my day. Nicely done yet again, mate!!
Thanks mate!
Oh man, I love this. Your narration and story style is hilarious, you're the first person in a while who's managed to get me to sit in one place for an hour straight watching a comparison video
That’s very kind of you man and great to hear you enjoyed! Thanks for watching 🧙♂️
Dude your editing is so good, sometimes absolutely hilarious. A well earned sub.
Much appreciated! Welcome aboard 🧙♂️
Funny enough, I usually find myself setting up in the Archmage's Quarters in the College. It has plenty of storage, and with mods like Immersive College of Winterhold, it's a wizard's dream home
I’m a simple man… I live in the Dragonborn Museum
A man of culture
I got upset with calcelmo, stole every item in it and wait for the sweet day he realizes that the museum he has been preparing for its grande opening is actually empty.
there is also a secret room if you are a vampire in the homesteads (or at least lakeview idk about the others)
Oh wow, that’s neat! Didn’t even notice that 😌
Heljarchen hall is my go to home every time
Also as a warrior I say wizards can be alright sometimes
I just wish there was a path up to Hendraheim. It's such a pain to get to.
Location is so important when it comes to deciding where I plant my proverbial roots. Especially in survival. I usually invest in one of the three big cities like Solitude Whiterun, or Windhelm depending on what my character's stance on the civil war will be.
every video the welsh wizard teaches me more and more about the creation club and everytime he tempts me more with it
The Creation Club sure has some great content!
If your going to grab anything from CC, you might as well just go for the anniversary edition and get it all. 20$ for everything fs 4-5$ for one home is very sad.
That said all of the homes are decoratively amazing... if a little lacking in non sack storage at times *cough* warrior hall *cough*.
This houses are mod?
your voice is so soothing i had to rewatch parts of this several times cause i would zone out to the delightful tones
The Grand Bathhouse is an awesome home mod. Comes with a full bathtub area where female followers to strip down to their undies. Also a Staff enchanter, alchemy, enchanting stations and it's own Sky Forge. Also kitchen, Crafting area, Imbuing Chamber, Dragon Soul Converter, Optional Dwarven Guards and Bathroom area upgrade available. Comes with 4 children's beds, 2 master double beds and 2 follower beds. Also has an upstairs fight arena cage area. If you use AFT to recruit lots of female followers, this is the home for you to set up your "Harem" of concubines.
The Bakery Names cracked me up!! Keep up the amazing work!
Large amounts of professional editing, must've taken a long time to create. An entertaining watch, keep it up!
Very long, too long lol - and I appreciate that, thanks! Gonna get these out quicker going forward, stay tuned! 🧙♂️
2 more things about Breezehome:
1 Enchanting table in Dragonreach, with a wizard to sell you soul gems
Whiterun is in the middle of Skyrim, so you can travel in any direction you need, without it taking forever to get anywhere
Which homes would you (both the wizard and fellow commenters) recommend for survival mode? Since fast travel is disabled and you can freeze to death, I think proximity to a major city (and major city carriage driver) would be very important
In that case, Breezhome is your best choice. At least in the early game. Or set a camp near stables if you can't afford a house for now.
Long term I use the house in Solitude, simply because it's safer for the family. It also works well for my method of power leveling.
@@groundhog7063 i might be the only skyrim player who isn't interested in grinding away levels until I can destroy everything in my path.
@@BigHatLoganGamingI only do that after I've completed the game. Then I work towards God mode (lvl 252) all perks in all trees ( except for a few that are just broken IMO). But my methods are a bit different because I can't fast travel.
@@groundhog7063 I honestly never cared for it, I work out the six magic schools, one handed, archery (bound weapons), and alchemy.
Hendraheim always has a dragon re-spawn for me. Myrwatch has a re-spawning dragon for me. If you stay away for a few days the Chaurus re-spawns too.
I like most Creation Club ones. ...Never been at dwarf one. Bloodchill is one of the favorites, especially for my Assassin. With Dawnstar not too far off. Only downside is if you use magic that throws everything around... It's pain to clean.
Aside Creation Club and crafted houses, I do like Solstheim one most.
Crafted ones, especially Winstad are nice. Though with it you have quite dangerous neighbor. Vokun.
Bloodchill Cavern is excellent, superbly designed imo 👌 but yeah, you do have to be careful when aiming the occasional fireball 🔥
And that’s true! Just don’t tell the kids about Vokun 👀
@@theWelshWizard "So... Just don't go near that crypt there. Really cranky lich lives there."
Quick note about Shadowfoot Sanctum: it DOES have an armory with a full enchanting, alchemy, and display setup. It's hidden inside the wardrobe closest to the entrance, on the left side going in. It has a false back.
Edit: Nevermind, legend tricked me.
I actually love the drawn thumbnails. They look so cool. Do you draw them by yourself?
Thanks! No, I hire an artist :)
Haha, him drinking the lake wine got a good chuckle out of me
Dear WelshWizard you are the best, you helped me beat Skyrim and the DLC's. You're guides are the best, and I wanted you to know that. I'm a assassin in Skyrim, and I'm suprised that a Wizard could help me be the greatest assassin, you helped me find Umbra and Umbra was easy. I never knew a nord could help a khajiit, now as a khajiit I can sucessfully assassinate people with your help, I've spent hours into Skyrim and you helped out A LOT! again I'm glad a Wizard could help me (a khajiit) Also if you're still reading your next video should be "Hardest quests in Skyrim"
Thank you and for the suggestion, and I’m glad I could help a Khajiit!
My first thought was Fish Ro Dah, for the seafood stand.
Rate every companion.
On the list! 👍
@@theWelshWizard Probably will take a looong time, but i appreciate you at least thinking about it.
one thing golden hills plantation there is a butter churn in the kitchen uses a jug of milk to make butter ,worked better than the hearth fire one
Fish Roe Dah
Ahh I see what you did there! 😆
Man my oldest vanilla Skyrim playthrough I built Lakeview and god stepping into that house the first time after finishing the full thing and furnishing it was such a great moment.
The editing and production of this video is crazy underrated
Dude your humor is spot on. I’ve quietly chuckled so many times through this and I’m only in Markarth.
Vlindrel Hall will always be my favorite house because of it’s large library and the high up view. Windstad Manor, Myrwatch, and Goldenhills are my other favorites.
Fantastic video! Quickly becoming one of my absolute favorite Skyrim RUclipsrs. S Tier quality
I usually only two that I'm guaranteed to use.
The one in Whiterun, simply because it's the earliest and cheapest one to get and all kinds of merchents and crafting places are nearby
The one in Falkreath, because that feels like a real home with all the bells and whistles.
I could watch this video forever. It's so nice to listen to a wise wizard travel around Skyrim like a realtor trying to close a deal on one of many shabby houses of varying habitability. I'm not even planning on playing Skyrim anytime soon, I'M NOT IN THE MARKET! But man... does Bloodchill Cavern look nice...
Hendraheim and Breezehome always will be my favorite. The display of Hendra and the convenience of breeze will slap forever
27:37 -the sound scared me to death as I was wearing earphones
Whoever designed Myrwatch is an absolute genius. No matter what build I do I always have Myrwatch as my main home, or at least as my main base. It's the most wizardly atmospheric home with the perfect amount of storage and everything is perfectly condensed without feeling claustrophobic. It's the absolute best home
It is fantastic Wizard's home and if you haven't already, you should check out my ranking on all the abodes: ruclips.net/video/LWfvNyrBVyY/видео.html
Interesting to see how each rank these houses differently.
Personally I'd put Lakeview Manor on first for its location and more adaptations for children, and Goldenhills second for its amazing garden and money making ability, but its small farm.
I remember the first time I felt disappointment in Skyrim was buying the manor in the capital and realizing it was completely useless despite the cost. I saved up for it, thinking it must be a good home for end game, and finding myself utterly baffled at the lack of amenities. I spent a fortune furnishing it only to find that nothing of actual value was added. Those damn nobles scammed me!
What did you expect from this manor?
I feel like each home is more dependant on the build of your character. If your character wants to use bows as a primary weapon, then Lakeview near Falkrealth is ideal. If you wanna be a thief, Shadowfoot Sanctum from the Anniversary Upgrade or Honeyside make a good home cause they're both very close to the Thieves Guild in Riften. Myrwatch is very ideal for any sort of Mage build, while Windstad near Mortal could be a good home for people who like using the Alchemy skill line.
My favorite is Vlindrel Hall because it's fits the Skyrim Nord theme, and it's pretty big house
Helijarchen hall my beloved. The view and vibe is just too perfect. Even the creation club armories arent enough to replace it for me. Its my skyrim home, every playthrough.
Lakeview Manor near Falkreath is my personal favorite, it just has such beautiful surroundings and its hard to beat a house you can literally design yourself.