Hope you enjoyed the video guys! If you did, a like is always appreciated 👍 🧙♂️ Question of the video: What would you like me to rank next? 👇 FAQs 👇 Q: The in-game description of The Atronach Stone is actually incorrect, what it really does is give you a 50% chance to completely absorb all incoming damage from spells (incoming spell attacks, scrolls, weapon enchantments, dragons' breath, shouts, diseases, venomous attacks and poisons). Furthermore, with The Atronach stone, 100% spell absorption can be achieved when it is combined (as shown here): elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Spell_Absorption_(Skyrim) 🧙♂ I have never been more wrong about this stone! 😱 Thank you for bringing this to my attention and forgive me for this inaccuracy. Knowing what I know now... I would rank The Atronach Stone either #1 or #2, and certainly not #12! 😅 Q: That lockpick sound is actually a thing? 🧙♂ Well... this is what the Wiki has to say: "Beyond the very visible shaking effect when you strain the lockpick, users report audible cues when slowly sliding the lockpick across its range. Irregularities in the grating sound or distinct clicks may give away the correct position." I have heard these irregularities myself (could be a coincidence) but they're not always present and its definitely best to wear headphones to increase your chances of hearing it.
Yep, took me a while to find out too! It’s usually very faint and best heard with headphones… not always 100% accurate though and best to save first if low on lock picks 👍
Get the Aetherium Crown from the "Lost to the Ages" quest from Dawnguard. Put the Lover's Stone power onto it, and have one of the Guardian Stones on yourself. Take off the Crown and go to sleep, to get the bonus there. Then put the Crown back on (thus stacking the Lover's Stone and sleep bonuses to XP gain) and start mastering EVERYTHING at high speed.
I'm of the opinion that the Atronach stone is one of the most OP standing stones. That 50% reduction to to regen os easily offset. Magic absorption on the other hand is fantastic.
Fun fact! The Aetherial Crown grants you the ability to have two standing stones active. I always use it with the Apprentice Stone and the Atronach Stone. The benefits complement each other and the cons cancel each other out. (100% magika regen. negates -50% magika regen., spell absorption negates 100% magika vulnerability) The Crown also has an exploit where you can take it on and off again to do once-per-day abilities infinitely, as taking it off recharges the ability.
I actually finish the Aetherial Crown quest first thing in a playthrough. I then align myself with the Lover's Stone and one of the three starting stones to level my character up faster.
@@theWelshWizard this may have been brought to your attention before, but the atronach stone tampers with your abbility to conjure creatures, it's great if you are a spellsword or even a non magic user for the magic damage reduction alone, alot of things in skyrim are considered spells/ dragon breath, attacks that prock a ailment, peryite puke, it's the best defencive standing stone in my book.
Personally the Atronach Stone is my favourite when paired with necro mage and max alteration your invincible against magic although you won't be able to summon anything you'll just absorb it into your magicka bar. Edit: Hi everyone thank you for all your suggestions and future suggestions, I am a Veteran Skyrim Adventurer as are most of us as Skyrim is a Old game I have tried all suggestions again to be sure none work this is a Bethesda game somethings just work and others..don't, personally I think it adds a nice touch to my character like he is forbidden from summoning the creatures of Oblivion if I really want to fix this I'll install the USSEP that fixes it
atronach actually synergises really well with non-magic characters, especially tanks. you still have a 50% chance to negate an enemy attack, and the downsides are redundant
@superluminous7227 there's an armor cap tho. And that cap is easily attained anyway. Plus the absorption is worst more than the lord in terms of magic damage it takes.
It also synergizes with Breton’s Dragonskin, especially when you’re fighting a dragon. For a minute you’re immune to magic, including dragon shouts! Only downside is it breaks summoning…
@@superluminous7227 Lord stone only gives you 25% MR as compared to the Atronachs 50%. The extra armor may be alright early but all heavy armor can easily reach armor cap anyway.
The drawback for the lord stone is that it counts as armor for the mage armor perk. Meaning you dont get the improved magic armor along with he extra defense the lord stone offers. Which sucks if your going for a mage build, however it's good for any other playstyle though.
you have some good points on the Atronach stone, it's a double edged sword for pure mages sure, but for a warrior or even a spellblade this is easily top 3 at least. you can easily enchant a piece of armor or a ring with +50% magic regeneration if you know what you're doing.
theres a bit of a misconception about how spell absorption works in skyrim, it doesnt take half the damage and magicka from one spell, it has a 50% chance to take ALL of the damage and return ALL of the magicka. meaning you can still get bursted in one attack, really cool effect tho i like using it
I’m assuming it’s one of those situations where the devs described it in a basically flat out incorrect manner in game. It’s insane that the game even released with these incorrectly described mechanics but incomprehensible they’re still wrong a decade later. I’m pretty sure there’s something that has magic resistance and the game describes it as 50% but it’s actually 25%. Or there’s that one restoration perk that says it cures 50% more but healing spells don’t cure anything as far as I know, it should say HEAL 50% more saying cure is very confusing
For a the best chance of not getting flame grilled by the closest pyromancer you pretty much want absorbtion + elemental resistance + general magic resistance. The resistance effects are capped at 85%, but you can run resist fire/frost/shock basically behind resist magic. The first layer reduces the damage by 85%, and the next layer reduces the remaining damage by 85%, giving you a 97.75% damage reduction from magic. And that reduction happens after absorption has a try at completely negating it. So with the atronarch stone and a full resistance set, half the time you take 2.25% of whatever is thrown at you, and the other half you take no damage and refil your magicka.
12: Atronach should at least be top 3. Magicka regen only happens when not casting, and is slow AF anyways. That 50 magicka and percent absorb is great. BTW, it absorbs poisons and spider poison........ My top three 1: Atronach (spam them spells, drink a potion too. Also the 50 percent slower speed hard countered by mage robes...) 2: Ritual 3: Lord
Personally, I rather just use wards to block spell damage then completely lose the ability to use summon daedra or raise dead. Plus, I hate how Spell Absorbtion can occasionally break quests such as Brelyna's Practice or Experimental Subject. The magicka regeneration penalty is just a minor nuisance compared to the other issues but I rather not have it since it is rather annoying having to wait even longer for magicka to regenerate. I personally think the stone is overrated
@@davidevans7477 Nah. Conjuration doesn't work at all if you have 100% Spell Absorbtion (and I don't why you would bother having any if you don't go for 100% protection, since it's otherwise RNG based); plus, I don't want to cast a Master Conjuration spell 5 times in a row just to summon a single Atronach, especially mid battle. Not to mention, in the Special Edition of the game, players will recieve the Saints & Seducers creation for free, which adds two new effects into the game which can be obtained from the Elytra Nymph pet followers and these provide some very nice bonuses for 5 minutes, which include fortifying your combat skills and fortiying your health and stamina. You don't even need to have the pet followers actively following you too... you can just teleport it to you and ask for help in battle and it will give you the effect but if you have spell absorbtion, you won't recieve the effect as it will be blocked. Oh... and it can absorb the shadow warrior perk too, so it's literally bad for all play styles now lmfao Like, if you want projection from spells... just use a ward... if you don't want to reduce the cost of using wards, you can obtain Spellbreaker, Staff of Hasedoki or Shield of Crusader which can create wards without consuming any magicka and of cause, you do have the option of just increasing your resistance to Frost, Fire, Shock, Poison and Magic which can be increased using potions, enchantments or even special perks (some of which, like the Agent of Mara, don't even require perk investment and just require a quest to be completed) and don't come at the cost of breaking quests or redending some effects useless. Needless to say, there are other options to protect from spells that don't any nearly as many drawbacks.
@@lalatoya_ Why RNG of 50 percent absorb... One, in skyrim im basically the emissary of RNGesus. Two, I don't use conjuration, I think it is useless compared to anything else. Even just poisons. Maybe for roleplay.
*Honestly, it's how he dumped on the Atronach Stone for me* Literally was just basking in some dragon fire when he gave this glorious stone such a horrible rating, blasphemous
@@arthurschamne9804 He didn't. The Atronach stone has a 50% chance to absorb spells, not a 50% damage reduction. Combine it with the Atronach perk in the Alteration tree and you get 80% absorption.
@@musicguy7943 "The Atronach Stone fortifies magicka by 50 points and grants 50% spell absorption. However, it also causes magicka regeneration to decrease by 50%." This is the exact description, which is exactly what he said.
Atronach isnt just useful against magic enemies, its also good for magic traps and any damage thats not physical. Besides if you arent using a trap to regen your magic super fast, youre using it wrong
Back in the day, I used to revive almost every enemy I killed with the ritual stone. I basically had my own personal army and would get attached to my soldiers, especially when they would perform well in battle.
Become a master in conjuration magic, and add your two permanent atronarchs to that. If you bring a follower and give them Sanguine's Rose, they can also summon another friend.
With atronach stone, I always just use it when I have a build that completely ignores spells, ironically enough. Mainly because it effectively nullifies most enemy magic. Or at least, I think it does. Then again, maybe it's like the lock picking mechanics and I've fundamentally misunderstood how it works.
Steed Stone also has a hidden extra perk: whatever armor set you have equipped has no carry weight, and that counts for duplicate sets. As an example, if you are wearing iron armor, you can carry infinite sets of the same armor as they will also weigh nothing. This is super handy early game if you struggle to earn coin or manage inventory. Great for challenge runs, too! I believe it still works in Anniversary edition.
6:10 if you have the anniversary edition you can simply just get the assassins bow which lets you draw arrows 20 percent faster and gives a 30-second invisibility effect as soon as you bring the bow out which is repeatable and yes I have abused that feature a frick ton (just ask whiteruns steward if he needs any help and youll get the quest)
I personally love the Lord Stone the most since once your done leveling skills it's a massive boost to your defense. However I use the Mage Stone the most since I use almost every type of spell in combat and put of combat.
The Ritual stone is my favorite, There are some creatures that you can’t reanimate by normal means, And this power circumvents that entirely. (When combined with the Aethereum circlet, it can be abused) However according to the law my birth sign would be the shadow (1st day of the Second Seed)
If you teleport after using the ritual stone to reanimate corpses all the corpses will go with you. If you don’t go to far, or wait, you can have your own army of the dead :D
@@YoKhai1221 You can stack five amulet of Talos with totem of the brotherhood and the ring of hircine to have an army of spectral werewolf that never dies out.
@@shadowstrider5033 the amulet of Talos is just plain broken. Durnivehier (the soul cairn dragon) is considered a summon by the game, so once you have his shout, twin souls, and a glitched cooldown, you can get a small army of high level critters to remove anything in your way.
Something that's worth mentioning is if you have the Aetherial crown and put a standing stone power on it with a once per day restriction, you can literally just get back use of it by un-equipping and then re-equipping the crown. This can make stones like The Ritual and The Serpent completely broken.
9:30 Steed Stone: This is my go to standing stone. That or Lady's Stone. ... I am not a fan of the slight boosts to skill learning. I've found that I don't really need them. To each, their own.
It can stack. You just have to put the Lover Stone's power on the Aetherium Crown, take the crown off before you sleep, then put it back on when you wake up. Combine it with one of the Guardian Stones for even faster levelling.
I feel like the drawbacks of some of the stones make them just unnecessarily bad. Like, the base 3 skill stones and lover's stone are just so good that it feels like I'm always comparing any other stone against them, and atronach/apprentice might still come up not as good as mage even WITHOUT the drawbacks. It would be nice if you could get one of the four skill stones AND one of the non-skill stones, just to see them get any use at all.
a problem i havw with the atronach stone is that sometimes, using conjuration spells it will just...cancel my spell, and not summon anything. Bwcause it absorbed it for some reason. this is bad, specially if im in a mainly conjuration build because atronachs are my only defense, and if i have to try and cast them several times because the attonach stone keeps reabsorbing the spell...im dead
The magic absorption in this game also applies to dragon breath and some enemy shouts as well as poisons and diseases which count as magical, so it's way more useful than you give it credit for. With Necromage and Atronach perk you can 100% absorb all incoming effects the code labels as magic
I watched the list and was saddened to see atrinoch so lol. But then I read the pinned message. Atrinoch is my go to standing stone. It's easy accessibility early game and it can nullify most damage in the game (shouts, poisons and magic). It's viable for tanky builds and mages alike. Especially with strong restoration.
Unlike the normal resurrection spells, mobs affected by the ritual stone don't turn to ash when the effect ends. So you could theoretically amass a small army after going through several bandit camps!
I love combining the apprentince and atromach stones with the aetherium crown. They cancel out eachothers downsides, even more so if you play a Breton and invest in magicka resistance and absorption whenever you can
To subvert the Atronach Stone's downside: a) get the Aetherium crown and link the Stone to it (allowing you to only have it active when needed, also allows combo with Apprentice Stone) or b) cast Guardian Circle (the Stone constantly feeds on this spell as if it was an Enemy Fireball).
I like to think the apprentice's stone works on the logic of a young mage being better a regenerating due their youth but more vulnerable because of their inexperience and lack of attunement, even if the latter part kind of contradicts the "youth" advantage.
I love your voice in this one, a nice role-playing with comfortable voice that is nice to listen to, also nice edits with voices and images. 10/10 will watch again in the future
If you aren't accumulating way more lockpicks than you need in short order, you're doing something wrong. Lockpicking is one perk tree I spend NO points in. =^[.]^=
I would rank Atronach stone a bit higher. You can overcome the slow magic regeneration by fortifying destruction (or any magic school) using enchanting. I believe you can reach 100% fortification on two magic skills. You'll need 100 enchanting, which you can easily achieve by enchanting banish on iron daggers.
Magic absorb counts to so many things in this game, so getting 100% absorb is completely OP, but do keep in mind you’ll absorb your own spells, for certain casts
The Atronach stone is extremely powerful. You shouldn't use it with a mage but on a warrior, especialy with the atronach alteration perk, it's great. You absorb 80 percent of destruction magic, enchantments, shouts, poison, disease, pretty much everything that isn't pure physical damage. Also, magic absorb is a percent chance to negate all damage and add the magicka cost to your pool, so it's all or nothing. You either absorb it or you don't and if you don't, you still have magic or elemental resistances to reduce the damage on the off chance you get hit.
It can be good for mages too. Just enchant your gear however you need. In practice I usually didn’t find magicka regen to be that necessary on my full mage builds. If you start as high elf you already have plus 50 magicka, you get the atronach and you have 200, without even investing any points. The main magicka drainer for me was always using wards or being attacked with shock spells, so the stone negates that by a lot. And if you’re good at enchanting you can reduce the spell cost of destruction to basically nothing, making regen unnecessary. :)
What I like to do for mages is be a vampire and cast guardian circle. The spell will try to affect you, as you're undead, and The magic absorption will continuously absorb the base cost (not modified by skill or perks) of the guardian circle spell, effectively giving you infinite magic for the duration.
Hey man, fantastic video! Personally I'm a lover stone guy myself. My current build is a one handed shield heavy armor warrior with a high enchantment skill. Though I've also almost maxed stealth and archery despite being a heavy armor build lmao. I would love to see a lore video on the standing stones, I think that that would be pretty neat. Once again great video! It's very polished 10/10 :D
Thanks David, always providing great feedback! :) it’s so easy to pick up a bow and start heading down the stealth route, I think we all do it lol 🥷 may well do a lore vid on the stones in future - thanks again for the support, much appreciated! 😇
It’s great because my fighting style is to just run towards the enemy and hack at it with my lightning fast daggers. I barely ever use healing potions anymore
NO, the 50% isnt as bad as 50 percent! in the antronach stone its additive! just getting the 2 magicka regen perks removes its debuff! and the 50 extra magicka actually helps magicka regeneration speed with better equipment!! So instead of getting the antronach perk and going up the whole alteration tree you instead invest 2 in restoration tree and "instead" get 50 magicka and 50 absorpsion
Some really good mods for the stones. I use the Guardian stone that covers skills I will only use occasionally (ex mage because I always use summons with any build, so few activations per figt).
How in the world does someone put 2500+ hours in skyrim and never know about the click in lockpicking?? Wow thanks. If skyrim had 10 million players, I'd bet 3 knew this and all thought it was common knowledge..
The Atronach Stone also gives you a 50 percent chance to not get a disease from wild creatures when they're supposed to, making it very useful on survival mode. (You will learn through third person as sometimes you get the spell absorption effect when a wild creature successfully hits you.)
I like having the Atronach Stone as a mean of being a magika battery. And if I'm correct, it also works with the dragon breaths. Of course, I like to summon a Daedra Lord when I need assistance. But I learn more to working on my armor, my weapons, and their enhancements so I don't always have to rely on summoning one every time I face a Draugr Deathlord. In fact, on my Dunmer character, I have a full Daedric armor set, Daedric War Axes with health/stamina absorbing enhancements, many of the Heavy armor/One-Handed boosting skills maxed, and several 43% One-Handed damage increase enchantment on my armor and jewelry. There's almost nothing that can hurt me, and with the Atronach Stone and Atronach perk, magic damage is just as ineffective as physical damage. Just my two cents (or a whole dollar) on why I would rank the Atronach Stone higher. Edit: Wow just listened to the Lord Stone section. Guess I'll have to find that.
I played so much Skyrim and I never knew about stuff like the Steed Stone, somehow. Also, I'd like to see Standing Stone lore. I want to know if everyone is born with those abilities or just certain people. Can you imagine the implications for 1/13th of all people being able to turn invisible?
Atronoch stone is best in the game without a doubt. Is required for 100% spell absorbtion which is absolutely game breaking. The magic Regen thing is easily counteracted by any enchanted mage gear, and when combined with some alteration perks can give you an infinite mana pool when up against mages and total magic nullification.
If someone wants to try a no-death legendary Run With a Warrior Lord Stone is the best and a weapon which absorbes stamina and the best shouts for survival.
Well there is one thing that makes the "Used once a day" stones that buffs them, The Aetherial Crown. If those stones are assigned to it and you unequip, re-equip it, you can use the power again
I like the steed stone myself, but here’s an additional benefit that he didn’t mentioned. It not only takes away the weight of the apparel you are wearing, but every identical apparel. For example if you have a full set of forsworn armor, you can loot every forsworn of their armor at no cost to your weight. It’s also very handy with crafting.
Sorry but putting atronach 2nd from last is a horrible take. Preventing 50% of every magic attack is huge if you're not a mage and if you are a mage you can still use potions when you're not fighting other mages.
I always use the apprentice stone in Skyrim. I love the trade off of 100% weakness for 100% regen especially since I always role-play unorthodox magic users in ES games
30% Absorb for the perk. 50% from the Standing Stone. 15% wearing Mirrak’s Robes. 5% for either Mirrak’s boots or gloves. Never fear Magic again. And also never summon anything again cause without the unofficial patch you will absorb all of your own Conjuration attempts.
Let it be known that the atronach stone is actually best suited on a non caster character, as it effectively gives you 50% magic resist for free and pairs extremely well with any tanky character that just runs at people.
I love me some lover's stone. It is my first soiree upon reaching the stables at Whiterun regardless of playstyle. You get better at everything faster? Epic!
3:07 I can see why that one is so low, I mean it is essentially just a ward spell with the addition of slight magicka fortification, but I'm sure it has some uses...just someone let me know when they've come up with those uses because... right now I'm struggling
Watch FudgeMuppet's videos with some magic built character. They LOVE the Atronach stone and use it almost all the time. They consider it the very best.
@@dasik84 k I may just do that, I usually steer clear of their character builds as I'm not a big rp guy when it comes to rpgs (I know kinda counter to the point of rpgs right) I generally just use whatever I feel is the best to use at any given moment, I love their lore videos, but I generally weigh the value of different abilities on their overall usefulness rather than their usefulness to any one specific play style
@@russianbigbird4161 I'm the same. I'm mostly Breton destruction/summoning mage, but I use swords too. And when I go to kill bandits in a cave, I like to use stealth and bow... So basically everything. The only things I don't use are shields and two handed swords, I consider them a waste of hands. But if you don't wanna lose time with the builds videos, the Atronach simply gives you 50% protection against any spell. So if you're not a mage, it's HUGE advantage without any bad effect for you. Combined with being a Breton, you become immune to magic. Then, if you're a mage, you can enchant your armor and use the perks to make your main spells basically zero-magicka-costing and you're a king.
If you get the athernium crown, if I spelled it right you can have an extra stone ability. I put them lover stone on the necklace and then do the guardian stone of choice as my active. This negates the problem with lovers rest.
So if you use both the apprentice stone and atronach stone with the aetherium crown you basically get free magica absorption. Lovers stone+ one of the 3 guardian stones can be combo'd for rapid xp gain.
Another drawback of the Atronach Standing Stone (and high spell absorb in general) is if you cast a summoning spell too close to your character's body the spell is absorbed, you get the magicka you spent back, and nothing gets summoned. You lose nothing but a bit of time and is very annoying when casting the master level permanent summons like Flame Thrall since it's so hard to actually aim it. That little bit of lost time is crucial when in an "oh shit!" moment especially if you depend on the summon tanking for you.
I have been using only the ritual stone. All the other stones can be made obsolete except the ritual stone. Because thes ritual stone breaks the conjure cap of 2. Steed stone isn't an issue. Whirlwind sprint your way out of a cave, then when outside, summon the horse that you get along the dawnguard quest for serana. Quick travel and bam, you're good. The snake stone, just get a bunch of paralysis potions and use a bow. Make them strong. Stat boost stones, just use enchantments. Shadow stone, magic or potions. The ritual stone is literally the only stone that can't be compensated fir or beat wirh magic or enchantments.
Atronach stone is honestly the best one in the game. Just take it as a non-spellcaster. The downside won't matter, but the spell absorption means you take 50% less damage from all spells. That's a massive benefit. It's even better if you play as a character who just has to cast one spell at the beginning of each fight that you wouldn't have enough magicka to cast without it, like a conjuration or mage armor spell.
This list is kind of false because depending on what difficulty you play , its different. Like the lord stone , if you are playing in legendary difficulty, its easily the best until lvl 60~~ which is long.
I believe the 85% magic resistance ceiling applies regardless of any attempted exploits. Personally, a primary aim of mine is to reach that 85%. Makes fighting a number of otherwise difficult opponents easy. That's why I prefer the Lord's Stone.
Early game I use the guardian stones depending on what skill I'm trying to increase, Alchemy, Smithing , or Enchanting. At mid game it's usually the Lord Stone. I don't bother with any stones that let you use an ability only once per day.
I’ve played Skyrim for 10 years and never knew you can hear the lock clicking and don’t just have to guess for the starting position, my jaw is still on the floor in disbelief. By the Nine!
Hope you enjoyed the video guys! If you did, a like is always appreciated 👍
🧙♂️ Question of the video:
What would you like me to rank next? 👇
FAQs 👇
Q: The in-game description of The Atronach Stone is actually incorrect, what it really does is give you a 50% chance to completely absorb all incoming damage from spells (incoming spell attacks, scrolls, weapon enchantments, dragons' breath, shouts, diseases, venomous attacks and poisons). Furthermore, with The Atronach stone, 100% spell absorption can be achieved when it is combined (as shown here): elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Spell_Absorption_(Skyrim)
🧙♂ I have never been more wrong about this stone! 😱 Thank you for bringing this to my attention and forgive me for this inaccuracy. Knowing what I know now... I would rank The Atronach Stone either #1 or #2, and certainly not #12! 😅
Q: That lockpick sound is actually a thing?
🧙♂ Well... this is what the Wiki has to say: "Beyond the very visible shaking effect when you strain the lockpick, users report audible cues when slowly sliding the lockpick across its range. Irregularities in the grating sound or distinct clicks may give away the correct position." I have heard these irregularities myself (could be a coincidence) but they're not always present and its definitely best to wear headphones to increase your chances of hearing it.
Spells!
Conjunction summons
Dragon Priests' masks, including the final one, or Daedric artifacts.
Did you do enchantments yet?
@@animatedseries4474 I second this. I hope you can eventually make a video of both.
Omg after years of playing skyrim and possibly hundreds of picked locks i never knew about a klicking noise while moving the lockpick around 🤔
Yep, took me a while to find out too! It’s usually very faint and best heard with headphones… not always 100% accurate though and best to save first if low on lock picks 👍
Same
i was doing it unconsciously 🤔.
It never works for me tbh.
does it work on pc? i've known of it years ago but never heard the click when lockpicking in pc
Get the Aetherium Crown from the "Lost to the Ages" quest from Dawnguard. Put the Lover's Stone power onto it, and have one of the Guardian Stones on yourself. Take off the Crown and go to sleep, to get the bonus there. Then put the Crown back on (thus stacking the Lover's Stone and sleep bonuses to XP gain) and start mastering EVERYTHING at high speed.
'Less you're a werewolf.
you can also use the crown with the ritual stone. just have a never ending undead army following you
Good shit! 👍
@@avzed1789 yeah I found out after trying to use transmute to power level smithing, that your beast blood keeps you from having a restful sleep
Or you can exploit restoration loop to instantly level to 100 in certain skills xD
For me, it’s the Steed Stone. I can rock a set of impenetrable heavy armor and run like it weighs nothing. The carry weight is nice, too.
Yes, exactly!
Except you can just get a perk that negates any movement and weight penalties when wearing the armor
@@knoven- Doesn't help other heavy items
@@RosheenQuynh Fair point
Didnt the stone also help for making no sound while sneaking?
"But what if you're not facing an enemy spellcaster? Then you're screwed"
Is this some kind of purist build joke that I'm too versatile to understand?
Yup~
Specially when your wizard can literally punch low lvl bandits to death
I'm of the opinion that the Atronach stone is one of the most OP standing stones. That 50% reduction to to regen os easily offset. Magic absorption on the other hand is fantastic.
plus, you can use the guardian circle exploit to have super fast magic regeneration
I wish it were a joke! 😅 An update can be found under FAQs in my pinned comment :)
@@theWelshWizard your comment isnt pinned!! I'd like to be informed before i dogpile lol
Fun fact! The Aetherial Crown grants you the ability to have two standing stones active. I always use it with the Apprentice Stone and the Atronach Stone. The benefits complement each other and the cons cancel each other out. (100% magika regen. negates -50% magika regen., spell absorption negates 100% magika vulnerability)
The Crown also has an exploit where you can take it on and off again to do once-per-day abilities infinitely, as taking it off recharges the ability.
Good tips! 👍
@@theWelshWizard No problem. I always like to share tips. Just makes the game more fun
I actually finish the Aetherial Crown quest first thing in a playthrough. I then align myself with the Lover's Stone and one of the three starting stones to level my character up faster.
@@CainSuzuko yea and get married for a 50% xp boost
@@theWelshWizard this may have been brought to your attention before, but the atronach stone tampers with your abbility to conjure creatures, it's great if you are a spellsword or even a non magic user for the magic damage reduction alone, alot of things in skyrim are considered spells/ dragon breath, attacks that prock a ailment, peryite puke, it's the best defencive standing stone in my book.
Personally the Atronach Stone is my favourite when paired with necro mage and max alteration your invincible against magic although you won't be able to summon anything you'll just absorb it into your magicka bar.
Edit: Hi everyone thank you for all your suggestions and future suggestions, I am a Veteran Skyrim Adventurer as are most of us as Skyrim is a Old game I have tried all suggestions again to be sure none work this is a Bethesda game somethings just work and others..don't, personally I think it adds a nice touch to my character like he is forbidden from summoning the creatures of Oblivion if I really want to fix this I'll install the USSEP that fixes it
Just use 3rd person and you can conjure fine.
@@robotbanana4261 did not work thanks though
Feyy has confirmed
Same here, pair the Atronach stone with Dragonskin from Breton racial power works wonderfully when you goes toe to toe against a Dragonpriest
U gotta be a vampire with atranoch perk from the alt skill tree before you get necromage!
atronach actually synergises really well with non-magic characters, especially tanks. you still have a 50% chance to negate an enemy attack, and the downsides are redundant
As a certified face tank build lover, this is fantastic news.
Lord stone is a bit better for this because it gives magic resistance and extra armour too.
@superluminous7227 there's an armor cap tho. And that cap is easily attained anyway. Plus the absorption is worst more than the lord in terms of magic damage it takes.
It also synergizes with Breton’s Dragonskin, especially when you’re fighting a dragon. For a minute you’re immune to magic, including dragon shouts!
Only downside is it breaks summoning…
@@superluminous7227 Lord stone only gives you 25% MR as compared to the Atronachs 50%. The extra armor may be alright early but all heavy armor can easily reach armor cap anyway.
The drawback for the lord stone is that it counts as armor for the mage armor perk. Meaning you dont get the improved magic armor along with he extra defense the lord stone offers. Which sucks if your going for a mage build, however it's good for any other playstyle though.
Good point 👍
you have some good points on the Atronach stone, it's a double edged sword for pure mages sure, but for a warrior or even a spellblade this is easily top 3 at least. you can easily enchant a piece of armor or a ring with +50% magic regeneration if you know what you're doing.
@@Ed_man_talking9 2/2 Recovery Perk in Restoration frees up an enchanting slot
It does? Ive never had it work like that
@@GigaflareInNeutral wait they fixed it, back in 2012, I think, I'm going off an old forum here, I'll have to try in game later to see it its true.
every new playthrough I try to visit the steed stone as quickly as possible that one is just the best. .
Yeah, I mainly use that stone when I play a warrior build character.
Agree. I prefer loot. Even if am a mage
Steed stone should have made the carrying capacity infinite.
PS, inventory micromanagement is my #1 reason to quit a game, including Skyrim.
I create tons of carry weight potions until I can enchante a carry weight
theres a bit of a misconception about how spell absorption works in skyrim, it doesnt take half the damage and magicka from one spell, it has a 50% chance to take ALL of the damage and return ALL of the magicka. meaning you can still get bursted in one attack, really cool effect tho i like using it
I’m assuming it’s one of those situations where the devs described it in a basically flat out incorrect manner in game. It’s insane that the game even released with these incorrectly described mechanics but incomprehensible they’re still wrong a decade later. I’m pretty sure there’s something that has magic resistance and the game describes it as 50% but it’s actually 25%. Or there’s that one restoration perk that says it cures 50% more but healing spells don’t cure anything as far as I know, it should say HEAL 50% more saying cure is very confusing
For a the best chance of not getting flame grilled by the closest pyromancer you pretty much want absorbtion + elemental resistance + general magic resistance.
The resistance effects are capped at 85%, but you can run resist fire/frost/shock basically behind resist magic. The first layer reduces the damage by 85%, and the next layer reduces the remaining damage by 85%, giving you a 97.75% damage reduction from magic.
And that reduction happens after absorption has a try at completely negating it.
So with the atronarch stone and a full resistance set, half the time you take 2.25% of whatever is thrown at you, and the other half you take no damage and refil your magicka.
12: Atronach should at least be top 3.
Magicka regen only happens when not casting, and is slow AF anyways.
That 50 magicka and percent absorb is great.
BTW, it absorbs poisons and spider poison........
My top three
1: Atronach (spam them spells, drink a potion too. Also the 50 percent slower speed hard countered by mage robes...)
2: Ritual
3: Lord
Personally, I rather just use wards to block spell damage then completely lose the ability to use summon daedra or raise dead. Plus, I hate how Spell Absorbtion can occasionally break quests such as Brelyna's Practice or Experimental Subject. The magicka regeneration penalty is just a minor nuisance compared to the other issues but I rather not have it since it is rather annoying having to wait even longer for magicka to regenerate. I personally think the stone is overrated
@@lalatoya_ I get the negative querks. Though just try 3 times and it'll summon.
Usually it great of a restoration warrior. Like a paladin build
@@davidevans7477 Nah. Conjuration doesn't work at all if you have 100% Spell Absorbtion (and I don't why you would bother having any if you don't go for 100% protection, since it's otherwise RNG based); plus, I don't want to cast a Master Conjuration spell 5 times in a row just to summon a single Atronach, especially mid battle.
Not to mention, in the Special Edition of the game, players will recieve the Saints & Seducers creation for free, which adds two new effects into the game which can be obtained from the Elytra Nymph pet followers and these provide some very nice bonuses for 5 minutes, which include fortifying your combat skills and fortiying your health and stamina. You don't even need to have the pet followers actively following you too... you can just teleport it to you and ask for help in battle and it will give you the effect but if you have spell absorbtion, you won't recieve the effect as it will be blocked.
Oh... and it can absorb the shadow warrior perk too, so it's literally bad for all play styles now lmfao
Like, if you want projection from spells... just use a ward... if you don't want to reduce the cost of using wards, you can obtain Spellbreaker, Staff of Hasedoki or Shield of Crusader which can create wards without consuming any magicka and of cause, you do have the option of just increasing your resistance to Frost, Fire, Shock, Poison and Magic which can be increased using potions, enchantments or even special perks (some of which, like the Agent of Mara, don't even require perk investment and just require a quest to be completed) and don't come at the cost of breaking quests or redending some effects useless. Needless to say, there are other options to protect from spells that don't any nearly as many drawbacks.
Atronach is my main magic resist resource
@@lalatoya_ Why RNG of 50 percent absorb...
One, in skyrim im basically the emissary of RNGesus.
Two, I don't use conjuration, I think it is useless compared to anything else. Even just poisons.
Maybe for roleplay.
*Honestly, it's how he dumped on the Atronach Stone for me*
Literally was just basking in some dragon fire when he gave this glorious stone such a horrible rating, blasphemous
and he didn't even get the effect correct
@@JondarKorric He did get it right.
@@arthurschamne9804 He didn't. The Atronach stone has a 50% chance to absorb spells, not a 50% damage reduction. Combine it with the Atronach perk in the Alteration tree and you get 80% absorption.
@@arthurschamne9804 It's a 50% chance to nullify 100% of the damage from a spell, not nullifying 50% of the damage
@@musicguy7943 "The Atronach Stone fortifies magicka by 50 points and grants 50% spell absorption. However, it also causes magicka regeneration to decrease by 50%." This is the exact description, which is exactly what he said.
Steed stone best stone, you now have the power to press the take all button on every inventory
Atronach isnt just useful against magic enemies, its also good for magic traps and any damage thats not physical. Besides if you arent using a trap to regen your magic super fast, youre using it wrong
Flame rune FTW!
Atronach can also be used with the undead circle spell for quick magical recovery.
@@sebastianpijov8708 I never thought of that one.
BTW, it works with summoning staves. It absorbs the summon.
Dragon shouts as well
Mage stone is best stone. ONLY WIZARDS AND MOSTLY LIZARDS BUT MOST OF ALL BLIZZARDS!
Your character is epic! I'd love to watch a video from you about the lore. Loving your style & subscribed. Till next time, master wizard.
Back in the day, I used to revive almost every enemy I killed with the ritual stone. I basically had my own personal army and would get attached to my soldiers, especially when they would perform well in battle.
Become a master in conjuration magic, and add your two permanent atronarchs to that. If you bring a follower and give them Sanguine's Rose, they can also summon another friend.
With atronach stone, I always just use it when I have a build that completely ignores spells, ironically enough. Mainly because it effectively nullifies most enemy magic. Or at least, I think it does. Then again, maybe it's like the lock picking mechanics and I've fundamentally misunderstood how it works.
Steed Stone also has a hidden extra perk: whatever armor set you have equipped has no carry weight, and that counts for duplicate sets. As an example, if you are wearing iron armor, you can carry infinite sets of the same armor as they will also weigh nothing. This is super handy early game if you struggle to earn coin or manage inventory. Great for challenge runs, too! I believe it still works in Anniversary edition.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention this!
6:10 if you have the anniversary edition you can simply just get the assassins bow which lets you draw arrows 20 percent faster and gives a 30-second invisibility effect as soon as you bring the bow out which is repeatable and yes I have abused that feature a frick ton (just ask whiteruns steward if he needs any help and youll get the quest)
fam this dude's videos are so much more well made than most skyrim content and he doesnt even have 100k subs 😔
He just gained one
He has a nice voice.
in my 500 hours of skyrim i never knew that the lockpicking mechanic has a click to indicate where the sweet spot was
Would love a standing stone lore video, great work as always!
Thanks! Will bear that in mind 👍
well they're based off star signs in other games that are assigned by the month someone was born in similar to star signs in our world
I personally love the Lord Stone the most since once your done leveling skills it's a massive boost to your defense. However I use the Mage Stone the most since I use almost every type of spell in combat and put of combat.
The Ritual stone is my favorite, There are some creatures that you can’t reanimate by normal means, And this power circumvents that entirely. (When combined with the Aethereum circlet, it can be abused)
However according to the law my birth sign would be the shadow (1st day of the Second Seed)
Pair the aethereum circlet with ahzidals ring of necrancy to create an army of walking frost runes.
If you teleport after using the ritual stone to reanimate corpses all the corpses will go with you. If you don’t go to far, or wait, you can have your own army of the dead :D
@@adamlambboy8332 I used to use the strategy to collect werewolves, For my werewolf army.
@@YoKhai1221
You can stack five amulet of Talos with totem of the brotherhood and the ring of hircine to have an army of spectral werewolf that never dies out.
@@shadowstrider5033 the amulet of Talos is just plain broken. Durnivehier (the soul cairn dragon) is considered a summon by the game, so once you have his shout, twin souls, and a glitched cooldown, you can get a small army of high level critters to remove anything in your way.
Feel very seen here as a common Lover Stone user
Something that's worth mentioning is if you have the Aetherial crown and put a standing stone power on it with a once per day restriction, you can literally just get back use of it by un-equipping and then re-equipping the crown. This can make stones like The Ritual and The Serpent completely broken.
9:30 Steed Stone: This is my go to standing stone. That or Lady's Stone.
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I am not a fan of the slight boosts to skill learning. I've found that I don't really need them. To each, their own.
You're telling me, the LOVER stone, doesn't pair with LOVER'S comfort?
It can stack. You just have to put the Lover Stone's power on the Aetherium Crown, take the crown off before you sleep, then put it back on when you wake up. Combine it with one of the Guardian Stones for even faster levelling.
More like the Virgin Stone
I feel like the drawbacks of some of the stones make them just unnecessarily bad. Like, the base 3 skill stones and lover's stone are just so good that it feels like I'm always comparing any other stone against them, and atronach/apprentice might still come up not as good as mage even WITHOUT the drawbacks.
It would be nice if you could get one of the four skill stones AND one of the non-skill stones, just to see them get any use at all.
Wait there is a click Sound while lockpicking? During 2500 hrs of playing I didnt notice
a problem i havw with the atronach stone is that sometimes, using conjuration spells it will just...cancel my spell, and not summon anything. Bwcause it absorbed it for some reason.
this is bad, specially if im in a mainly conjuration build because atronachs are my only defense, and if i have to try and cast them several times because the attonach stone keeps reabsorbing the spell...im dead
im not gonna lie i did not know about the click on the lockpicking mini game 0-0
Reading the comments....Atronach Stone can suck deck
Overrated stone
The magic absorption in this game also applies to dragon breath and some enemy shouts as well as poisons and diseases which count as magical, so it's way more useful than you give it credit for. With Necromage and Atronach perk you can 100% absorb all incoming effects the code labels as magic
I've changed my stance on the Atronach Stone - check out my pinned comment for more info! :)
it also eats mage armor and conjured weapons, too though.
I watched the list and was saddened to see atrinoch so lol. But then I read the pinned message.
Atrinoch is my go to standing stone. It's easy accessibility early game and it can nullify most damage in the game (shouts, poisons and magic).
It's viable for tanky builds and mages alike. Especially with strong restoration.
Unlike the normal resurrection spells, mobs affected by the ritual stone don't turn to ash when the effect ends. So you could theoretically amass a small army after going through several bandit camps!
Spiff's video on it is hillarious.
Im shocked about the lockpick klik sound holy moly bruhhhh , awesome video thanks !
I love combining the apprentince and atromach stones with the aetherium crown. They cancel out eachothers downsides, even more so if you play a Breton and invest in magicka resistance and absorption whenever you can
Aetherium Crown allows the 1/day Stones to be reused multiple times a day.
Instant sub, voice over is perfect and the animations are well done, also the ittybities are funny 🤣
Haha glad you enjoyed! Thank you and welcome aboard wizard 🧙♂️
To subvert the Atronach Stone's downside: a) get the Aetherium crown and link the Stone to it (allowing you to only have it active when needed, also allows combo with Apprentice Stone) or b) cast Guardian Circle (the Stone constantly feeds on this spell as if it was an Enemy Fireball).
I like to think the apprentice's stone works on the logic of a young mage being better a regenerating due their youth but more vulnerable because of their inexperience and lack of attunement, even if the latter part kind of contradicts the "youth" advantage.
The only thing that makes your opinion biased is: you're a Shordamned WIZARD!
I love your voice in this one, a nice role-playing with comfortable voice that is nice to listen to, also nice edits with voices and images. 10/10 will watch again in the future
Thanks man! I tinkered around with the effects for my voice in this one, so great to hear that :)
If you aren't accumulating way more lockpicks than you need in short order, you're doing something wrong. Lockpicking is one perk tree I spend NO points in. =^[.]^=
I would rank Atronach stone a bit higher. You can overcome the slow magic regeneration by fortifying destruction (or any magic school) using enchanting. I believe you can reach 100% fortification on two magic skills. You'll need 100 enchanting, which you can easily achieve by enchanting banish on iron daggers.
Lord Stone once you've maxed literally everything out. Dear god, I actually have all the perks now.
The ritual stone + Aether Crown did serve me once for a very fun dungeon crawl.
Standing stone lore. yes!
Magic absorb counts to so many things in this game, so getting 100% absorb is completely OP, but do keep in mind you’ll absorb your own spells, for certain casts
I would use the steed stone to carry dragon bones and dragon scales because those seem to weigh me down the most
The Atronach stone is extremely powerful. You shouldn't use it with a mage but on a warrior, especialy with the atronach alteration perk, it's great. You absorb 80 percent of destruction magic, enchantments, shouts, poison, disease, pretty much everything that isn't pure physical damage.
Also, magic absorb is a percent chance to negate all damage and add the magicka cost to your pool, so it's all or nothing. You either absorb it or you don't and if you don't, you still have magic or elemental resistances to reduce the damage on the off chance you get hit.
It can be good for mages too. Just enchant your gear however you need. In practice I usually didn’t find magicka regen to be that necessary on my full mage builds. If you start as high elf you already have plus 50 magicka, you get the atronach and you have 200, without even investing any points. The main magicka drainer for me was always using wards or being attacked with shock spells, so the stone negates that by a lot. And if you’re good at enchanting you can reduce the spell cost of destruction to basically nothing, making regen unnecessary. :)
I've changed my stance on the Atronach Stone - check out my pinned comment for more info! :)
What I like to do for mages is be a vampire and cast guardian circle. The spell will try to affect you, as you're undead, and The magic absorption will continuously absorb the base cost (not modified by skill or perks) of the guardian circle spell, effectively giving you infinite magic for the duration.
@@Lord_necromancer That sounds busted. I didn't know you could do that.
A wise man always starts with the lover stone ....just don't try to hump it
Hey man, fantastic video! Personally I'm a lover stone guy myself. My current build is a one handed shield heavy armor warrior with a high enchantment skill. Though I've also almost maxed stealth and archery despite being a heavy armor build lmao. I would love to see a lore video on the standing stones, I think that that would be pretty neat. Once again great video! It's very polished 10/10 :D
Thanks David, always providing great feedback! :) it’s so easy to pick up a bow and start heading down the stealth route, I think we all do it lol 🥷 may well do a lore vid on the stones in future - thanks again for the support, much appreciated! 😇
All roads lead to stealth Archer
Same here! I’m a battlemage with high thief skills.
It’s great because my fighting style is to just run towards the enemy and hack at it with my lightning fast daggers. I barely ever use healing potions anymore
NO, the 50% isnt as bad as 50 percent! in the antronach stone
its additive! just getting the 2 magicka regen perks removes its debuff! and the 50 extra magicka actually helps magicka regeneration speed with better equipment!!
So instead of getting the antronach perk and going up the whole alteration tree you instead invest 2 in restoration tree and "instead" get 50 magicka and 50 absorpsion
so sorry
i read your pinned comment
I've been waiting a long time for this, or maybe just any video of yours really. Best wishes!
Some really good mods for the stones. I use the Guardian stone that covers skills I will only use occasionally (ex mage because I always use summons with any build, so few activations per figt).
How in the world does someone put 2500+ hours in skyrim and never know about the click in lockpicking?? Wow thanks. If skyrim had 10 million players, I'd bet 3 knew this and all thought it was common knowledge..
The Atronach Stone also gives you a 50 percent chance to not get a disease from wild creatures when they're supposed to, making it very useful on survival mode. (You will learn through third person as sometimes you get the spell absorption effect when a wild creature successfully hits you.)
I like having the Atronach Stone as a mean of being a magika battery. And if I'm correct, it also works with the dragon breaths. Of course, I like to summon a Daedra Lord when I need assistance. But I learn more to working on my armor, my weapons, and their enhancements so I don't always have to rely on summoning one every time I face a Draugr Deathlord. In fact, on my Dunmer character, I have a full Daedric armor set, Daedric War Axes with health/stamina absorbing enhancements, many of the Heavy armor/One-Handed boosting skills maxed, and several 43% One-Handed damage increase enchantment on my armor and jewelry. There's almost nothing that can hurt me, and with the Atronach Stone and Atronach perk, magic damage is just as ineffective as physical damage.
Just my two cents (or a whole dollar) on why I would rank the Atronach Stone higher.
Edit: Wow just listened to the Lord Stone section. Guess I'll have to find that.
I played so much Skyrim and I never knew about stuff like the Steed Stone, somehow.
Also, I'd like to see Standing Stone lore. I want to know if everyone is born with those abilities or just certain people.
Can you imagine the implications for 1/13th of all people being able to turn invisible?
In older games you could pick your birthsign it effected your skills. Stones are "new" to Skyrim.
this video is so well made
YESS! I WANT STANDING STONES LORE! GOD TIER
Lol at all the cheese wheels @11:32. Steed is my preferred stone.
Atronoch stone is best in the game without a doubt. Is required for 100% spell absorbtion which is absolutely game breaking. The magic Regen thing is easily counteracted by any enchanted mage gear, and when combined with some alteration perks can give you an infinite mana pool when up against mages and total magic nullification.
If someone wants to try a no-death legendary Run With a Warrior Lord Stone is the best and a weapon which absorbes stamina and the best shouts for survival.
Well there is one thing that makes the "Used once a day" stones that buffs them, The Aetherial Crown. If those stones are assigned to it and you unequip, re-equip it, you can use the power again
I like the steed stone myself, but here’s an additional benefit that he didn’t mentioned. It not only takes away the weight of the apparel you are wearing, but every identical apparel.
For example if you have a full set of forsworn armor, you can loot every forsworn of their armor at no cost to your weight. It’s also very handy with crafting.
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Sorry but putting atronach 2nd from last is a horrible take. Preventing 50% of every magic attack is huge if you're not a mage and if you are a mage you can still use potions when you're not fighting other mages.
I always use the apprentice stone in Skyrim. I love the trade off of 100% weakness for 100% regen especially since I always role-play unorthodox magic users in ES games
I HAD NO IDEA THAT THE CLICK MENT SOMETHING!!!
Does having both the atronach and. The apprentice stone active make u broken ?
30% Absorb for the perk. 50% from the Standing Stone. 15% wearing Mirrak’s Robes. 5% for either Mirrak’s boots or gloves. Never fear Magic again.
And also never summon anything again cause without the unofficial patch you will absorb all of your own Conjuration attempts.
Where did you get that backpack shown during the Steed Stone?
The autronach stones -50% can just be neglected with Enchanting
Let it be known that the atronach stone is actually best suited on a non caster character, as it effectively gives you 50% magic resist for free and pairs extremely well with any tanky character that just runs at people.
the atronach stone gives you free mana if you are a conjurer
I love me some lover's stone. It is my first soiree upon reaching the stables at Whiterun regardless of playstyle. You get better at everything faster? Epic!
Plus with lock picking I’ve noticed certain markings around the lock are typical markers
Lord is practically #1 on max difficulty
3:07 I can see why that one is so low, I mean it is essentially just a ward spell with the addition of slight magicka fortification, but I'm sure it has some uses...just someone let me know when they've come up with those uses because... right now I'm struggling
Watch FudgeMuppet's videos with some magic built character. They LOVE the Atronach stone and use it almost all the time. They consider it the very best.
@@dasik84 k I may just do that, I usually steer clear of their character builds as I'm not a big rp guy when it comes to rpgs (I know kinda counter to the point of rpgs right) I generally just use whatever I feel is the best to use at any given moment, I love their lore videos, but I generally weigh the value of different abilities on their overall usefulness rather than their usefulness to any one specific play style
@@russianbigbird4161 I'm the same. I'm mostly Breton destruction/summoning mage, but I use swords too. And when I go to kill bandits in a cave, I like to use stealth and bow... So basically everything. The only things I don't use are shields and two handed swords, I consider them a waste of hands.
But if you don't wanna lose time with the builds videos, the Atronach simply gives you 50% protection against any spell. So if you're not a mage, it's HUGE advantage without any bad effect for you. Combined with being a Breton, you become immune to magic.
Then, if you're a mage, you can enchant your armor and use the perks to make your main spells basically zero-magicka-costing and you're a king.
To be honest all the standing stones are useful in some way
If you get the athernium crown, if I spelled it right you can have an extra stone ability. I put them lover stone on the necklace and then do the guardian stone of choice as my active. This negates the problem with lovers rest.
So if you use both the apprentice stone and atronach stone with the aetherium crown you basically get free magica absorption.
Lovers stone+ one of the 3 guardian stones can be combo'd for rapid xp gain.
Another drawback of the Atronach Standing Stone (and high spell absorb in general) is if you cast a summoning spell too close to your character's body the spell is absorbed, you get the magicka you spent back, and nothing gets summoned. You lose nothing but a bit of time and is very annoying when casting the master level permanent summons like Flame Thrall since it's so hard to actually aim it. That little bit of lost time is crucial when in an "oh shit!" moment especially if you depend on the summon tanking for you.
Just now finding out about the click
Damn this guy sounds like Gurpage productions doing Dumbledore
I have been using only the ritual stone. All the other stones can be made obsolete except the ritual stone. Because thes ritual stone breaks the conjure cap of 2. Steed stone isn't an issue. Whirlwind sprint your way out of a cave, then when outside, summon the horse that you get along the dawnguard quest for serana. Quick travel and bam, you're good. The snake stone, just get a bunch of paralysis potions and use a bow. Make them strong. Stat boost stones, just use enchantments. Shadow stone, magic or potions. The ritual stone is literally the only stone that can't be compensated fir or beat wirh magic or enchantments.
I dont hear a click when i lockpick what do you mean ?
Ngl I used the steed stone in almost all of my playthroughs, cause I'm the type of player to carry 5 sets of armor just for the giggles.
Atronach stone is honestly the best one in the game. Just take it as a non-spellcaster. The downside won't matter, but the spell absorption means you take 50% less damage from all spells. That's a massive benefit. It's even better if you play as a character who just has to cast one spell at the beginning of each fight that you wouldn't have enough magicka to cast without it, like a conjuration or mage armor spell.
Dude I can never find the Serpent stone.
This list is kind of false because depending on what difficulty you play , its different. Like the lord stone , if you are playing in legendary difficulty, its easily the best until lvl 60~~ which is long.
With the lord stone and level 100 enchanting, is it possible to have 100% magic resistance?
I believe the 85% magic resistance ceiling applies regardless of any attempted exploits. Personally, a primary aim of mine is to reach that 85%. Makes fighting a number of otherwise difficult opponents easy. That's why I prefer the Lord's Stone.
Early game I use the guardian stones depending on what skill I'm trying to increase, Alchemy, Smithing , or Enchanting. At mid game it's usually the Lord Stone. I don't bother with any stones that let you use an ability only once per day.
OMG the friggin Wilhelm scream. This channel is so funny lol. Your voice is also ridiculously relaxing, you should read stories here on RUclips :P
Thank you, glad you enjoyed :) There's certainly more store telling content to come, stay tuned! 🧙♂️
I’ve played Skyrim for 10 years and never knew you can hear the lock clicking and don’t just have to guess for the starting position, my jaw is still on the floor in disbelief. By the Nine!