Skyrim Anniversary Edition: How to Make a Legendary Two-Handed Tank! 

oh yeah I am all for immersive roleplaying 😂

Somebody swinging around a war hammer did not come to talk 😂😂

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I did always wonder what that chest was. The first few times I went to embershard mine I couldn't open it 😅

Thank you for this

Thanks for sharing that tip 😁👍🏻

thank you yes someone else had pointed this out as well 😁. I'm just about to upload my latest video I gave you and the other commentor a shout out for the helpful 👍 think its about 23.40

I need to try this out I recently acquired that staff on another save

@@mike-thegamingdad Getting the staff is annoying - best done between level 5 and 10 and using a seriously pimped "Undying Ghost". Cast him and hang back - when the carnage is over, collect the staff. It's so much fun in regions or dungeons where you have ledges and heights to knock the bad guys down.

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Yeah sorry I'd not come back to you on the other video since the weekend, I ended up quite sick Sunday and Monday so didn't get any gaming done, I had hoped to get this video up early this week so I could start your crafting suit one, but because of the illness I only got this completed Thursday morning 🤣. I am going to start your video tonight though! Is there anything you want me to do or avoid doing? E.g. the quicker ways of getting smithing to 100 is to use the duplication glitch to duplicate gold or dwarven ingots, do you want me to avoid all glitches?

@@mike-thegamingdad Hi man. I hope you're doing better now. Since everyone uses glitches I hope you will not. I have a few tips for you from my own testing: 1. Wear the Bloodborn Helmet and then select your Alchemy gear. Make sure that you last select your head gear so that only then the Bloodborn Helmet will be de selected. 2. As you've already guessed, Haunted Spirits killed by followers or dismissed followers when the spirit is Illusion agro'd do not at +10 to all skills for 1 minute.

@@Leto85 okay no problem glitchless it will be 😄 Thanks for the tips! Yeah thats what I thought about the haunted spirits spell

@@mike-thegamingdad But what if you agro your follower first? As in with a Frenzy spell or reverse pickpocket potion of Frenzy? That's something you might want to implement.

@@mike-thegamingdad I mean Frenzy your follower after you've dismissed them. That way they become temporarily enemies to whoever they see, including your summoned Haunted Spirit.

Thank you very much glad it was useful! Nice yeah waterbreathing does add a lot of value 😁

I really don't understand the water breathing choice. I sort of played blind and noticed that my poison mag regen is higher and paralysis potion worth like twice that much. Makes waterbreathing look cheap and tedious by comparison.

Haha this build sounds good fun! That's a bit like me I started over 10 years ago, it was PS3 at first, then PS4, now onto PC. Still playing and going strong 😂. Glad you enjoyed the build and hope you have fun with it!

@@mike-thegamingdad yeah I bought Skyrim pre-order and got it on 11/11/11 and for the next few months I ate, drank and lived Skyrim! At the time I had a overnight job as a caregiver for a handicapped family friend who needed a person at night in case he needed to go to the bathroom or whatever! So I was able to take my Xbox with me to "work" and play until 2 or 3 in the morning and go to bed for a few hours to wake up and get John up at 8am and turn his care over to the daytime people who fed and showered him! Then I would go home and play all day! WOW thinking back on it I played A LOT (from November 2011 to February 2012 my friend and I calculated that I had spent upwards of 65% of each day playing Skyrim) So with all that game play time I had one of each of the races (I am a bit OCD when it comes to that) of Skyrim (already told you about my orc tank) My two favorite characters (the first two I started) were my high elf wizard and my bosomer wood elf thief/assassin! This was all base game pre legendary dlc for most of the play but did get the legendary upgrade when it was released! It's been so long since I have played them I can't remember their names! Anyway the high elf was level 66 and 100 alchemy, enchanting and smithing without your specific ways to do it! She was the head of the Mages College and owned every single house in the base game and the three new ones in the legendary upgrade, had done the 24 gem hat quest and at the last time I played her (2015 when I lost my overnight job and didn't have time to play) she had more gold than I knew what to do with! My other the wood elf he was a master archer, lockpicking sneak thief/assassin! Head of both thieves guild and nightengales(LOL edit.... It's been so long that I had forgotten that the Nightingales was the end of the thieves guide quest line) So I meant the Dark Brotherhood! Both of them were also the Dragonborn and had completed that quest line! Then life and job got in the way of Skyrim and other games (Fallout and the like on pc)! It wasn't until covid19 lock down that I bought Skyrim for pc but I absolutely hated the keyboard commands to play so I only played 5 minutes and gave up until about a week ago and I finally got a Xbox controller for my pc and redownloaded Skyrim of STEAM! Of course I am starting over again from the beginning because all my other play time is on the Xbox! Anyway if you want to hear about my other race builds (what my 54yo brain can remember) just ask and I will glad try to remember them! I will leave off with my argonian Walks-in-Woods who never used fast travel (this was before survival mode) and walked everywhere!

@@mike-thegamingdad haha I was just thinking about my high elf wizard (I didn't know the save, attack and reload thing) and she still had tons of gold but she also had barrels and Barrels of potions in her various house but ESP the 1st Whiterun house! If I had know about reload thing she would have been even richer... LOL 😂🤣😂🤣

@@louisbrewer1260 those all sound like excellent builds and well thought through! The work/playtime balance with that job also sounded fun too 🤣. I can't remember that much about my first play through other than I was an Argonian! I remember trying to level too many skills at once though and the difficulty got way hard as the game surpassed me 😂

glad you enjoyed! If giving legendary a go with this build is the path you want to go down then I definitely recommend fortify health and firtify two handed as part of the madness armour enchantments on whichever pieces it can go on. I mentioned it on the video but didn't show any armour enchantments but those two will be the ones that'll help the most with those difficult enemies 😁

Nice good to know 👍🏻😁

Thank you! 😁

But that's basically cheating. I mean I don't really care what you do in your single player game, but why waste your time "leveling" sneak to 100 by repeatedly smashing some NPC? Why don't you just use console command and give yourself 100 sneak? It's going to be more efficient really if you are going to cheat level it anyway using game "hidden mechanics".

@@lilitch123 Probably to keep achievements on. Could also be seen as if he was training with a follower.

Thank you very much, I appreciate it 😁. I must admit of all the build videos I've done, this is up there with the ones I've most enjoyed

Nice yeah is that the one that has really high fire resistance? Think it might be 100%. I stumbled onto that once by accident, think it was part of Bones For A Crow but I hadn't done the quest at that point

ya you dont need the quest to find the armor, triggers off a journal he has when you loot everything and read it when you do 100% fire resist/50 hp/40 carryweight/30% 2 hnd@@mike-thegamingdad

Yes you only have to use one of the new ingredients with an older one for the same effect. Example a gold kanet and either a blisterwort, glowing mushroom, sabrecat tooth, or spriggan sap for a crazy fortify smithing potion. Hope that help answer your question. :)

@@SuperMario-bn6ok It did. Thank you. I got the feeling these enchanting ingredients are one of the rarest from the Rare Curious collection. I only found three and as I play glitch less unless I found a bug I refuse to clone items.

@@Leto85 You are welcome. I play glitchless as well. Very enjoyable game without in my opinion.

@@SuperMario-bn6ok thank you for answering this, I feel silly for not even testing this I had just assuming using two ingredients gave the potion in its maxed form! Thats a great tip for the future!

@@mike-thegamingdad No problem at all sir. I'm glad to have helped out in a small way :) Keep making your great videos! 👍

Yeah I've heard that too, using the Madresi hidden chest trick though I think its quicker to speed sell as you can hit 100 fairly quickly and keep taking all your stuff back, selling 1 by 1 would take longer in total with 400 potions to sell at a time 🤣. Yeah I'd forgotten to show the first standing stone change I wasn't recording when I did that doh!, I mentioned it though I think it was around 7:10. Thanks yeah those are good tips for haggling (Zenithar etc), I tend to bypass them when speed levelling as selling all the potions to a merchant once speech is at 100 with all perks will yield well over 100k gold, so boosting this seems a bit pointless as no one ever needs that much gold anyway, but for normal playthroughs definitely, those are good tips, thanks for sharing 😁👍

@@mike-thegamingdad 7:10 oh, sorry, I overlooked it. As for bartering gear, it's not about money, it's about better prices and so faster leveling. With just the Zenithar blessing, his amulet (both can be found not far from Riften) and thief hood you'll have +30% bonus to prices, meaning you need to sell ~30% less items money-worth.

@@vasilyd8578 ah yes of course! Excellent 😄

@@mike-thegamingdad But using this chest is basically cheating. Why not just change your speech level by using console commands. It's way faster, as you are cheating anyway. Is using glitches records in people brains somehow differently then simple cheating?

Tiny has been quite popular I think seen a few people commenting that they've used it 😅

@@mike-thegamingdadyeh it’s a good name, also during this play through i try not to mess anything up so i don’t sue skill point so every 5 ish levels unles they are crucial down the line can you say what to spend them on?

@amiz1372 if you click onto the video description it shows which perks I've selected in which tree 😁. I'd say the important ones at first are the ones you need to level to get the gear made, so enchanting, alchemy, smithing. You dont want to leave yourself short there as the gear then won't be as good.

Yeah I remember it 😁

Thank you for responding, most people, especially when they have a high following, don’t even bother to. Let alone, even read the comments. Cheers man. Thanks again

@kboutdoors4599 no problem at all! I try to respond to most comments if I'm honest, if I see them that is 😁.

Oh I'm not sure, I don't think I've ever done that one. Bethesda's track record of fixing bugs is lax so I'd hazard a guess at no, however USSEP most likely would patch it so if you have that I'd probably deactivate it, at least while you want to use the bug

That is good 😁

Nice sounds like a great build. Yeah the AE additions kind of made the game very easy. They are great to play with I'm not knocking them, but the battle of champions sets are like end game armor sets and them being available from day 1 is crazy 🤣. I think the storm bear set has the highest armor rating in the game due to its enchantments. If can up your damage from your weapons then yeah go to legendary difficulty, otherwise every enemy will be a meat shield. The difficulty in Skyrim is quite a crude system. Each level simply increases your rate if damage taken whilst reducing what you give out. So on normal the ratio is 1:1. On easy it's like 0.5x taken 2x given out. But on legendary you take 3x as much and give out 0.25x. So unless your weapons do good damage you'll be stabbing draugr and bandits for hours

You can speed up the process once alchemy is maxed, by periodically making a batch of potions, selling them, and then buying training from Vilkas in the Companions. I think it's vilkas, maybe it's farkas, one of them trains heavy armor and the other two handed. Each time you level up you can buy 5 levels of training, which makes it quicker. But yeah if you don't do the ralof method you'll need to level it organically as after that point I think all followers become hostile if you attack them more than once or twice.

Oh far too long 🤣. I started 10 years ago on the PS3, never completed it on that as I encountered a major glitch which ruined my 300 hour save, then moved to the Special Edition on the PS4 in 2016. Managed 100% completion on that, a ridiculous amount of hours went into that one. Then I had a break for a few years, then when I decided I wanted to give content creation a go I download Anniversary Edition for PC July of this year 🤣. How about yourself?

@@mike-thegamingdad ooof, I felt second-hand pain reading about that glitched 300 hour save. I only started playing about a week ago, already have 50 hours LOL. videos like these are super helpful to learn more about the game. it's a lot of fun :)

@@dead_protagonist Ah thats amazing, I'd love to be in your position again and live it all for the first time 😁 probably my favourite game of all time! Patiently waiting for Bethesda to release Elder Scrolls 6 🤣

Oh yeah you can do it with loads of things. I've used it to duplicate the rare curios ingredients that the Khaajit caravans sell as they can be a pain in the *** to get.

It could be the base damage of the weapon you are seeing online, whereas actual damage will be higher than this due to a number of factors: The level of the skill in your skill tree (ranges from 15 to 100) - the higher the level the more damage Do you have any perk points in the skill tree, the base of each weapon type always has 5 spaces. Each one raises damage by 20% Have you used smithing to improve the weapon at all. Every weapons starts off just saying the weapon name. But then these can be improved to say I think its 'fine', 'superior', 'exquisite', 'flawless', 'epic' and 'legendary'. Obviously the better the weapon gets the more damage it does.

@@mike-thegamingdad i have increased my two handed weapons whenever I level up. I didn’t know that would show what the damage would be in the weapon. I have no enchantments. I never ever play games but this one seemed cool and now I really enjoy it. Just don’t know a lot about smithing and enchantments and that kinda stuff. I just get a weapon and fight lol. Thanks for the answer! I appreciate it

@Dakota Knowles no problem at all. I'm glad you are enjoying it. There's so much going on in it, so it does take a while to learn all the mechanics and stuff. It's probably my favourite game of all tim, though. I'm still playing it 11 years late, so you've picked a good one 🤣

@@mike-thegamingdad do you have any recommendations for a good two handed weapon? Something that isn’t extremely hard to get? Or any recommendations at all? Two handed one handed bows armor any advice at all. Thanks!!

@Dakota Knowles do you have the anniversary edition of the game? If so there's a lot of new weapons and armor in that version and some of it is very easy to get. I've actually done a video on all the new armor sets if you are interested. One of the strongest yet easiest sets to get is the civil warm champion armor, and you can pick either the imperial version or the stormcloak version. As for two handed weapons. There is one called Volundrung that is very good. You get it after completing the quest A Cursed Tribe. This link shows you how to start and complete the quest en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:The_Cursed_Tribe For bows, I really like the bow Zephyr, as it fires 30% faster than a normal bow. Here is an article on the bow and where to get it elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Zephyr For one handed weapons I recommend this one. The quest doesn't start until you randomly find Meridias beacon inside a chest after your character is level 12 or higher. After doing the quest you get the sword elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/The_Break_of_Dawn

Haha yeah I do enjoy that added bonus 😂. It's good around towns as well so guards don't get pissy with you or ask you to stop shouting 🤣

The base armor rating before any enchantments is affected by your overall level in Heavy armor, plus the perks. Is your level 100? It was a while back I made this but I think mine was. I also had the perks which improve the base level like Juggernaut 5/5

Yes I have level 100 heavy armor and 5/5 Juggernaut, hasn’t changed much or anything for that matter as far as I can tell, do other heavy armor perks matter to change the armor rating?

@stayed5276 matching set and well fitted do yeah but I thought the additional bonus for them is applied once they are equipped, not on the base level of the item unequipped. I could be wrong though.

@@mike-thegamingdad Yeah I have every single perk into heavy armor, probably not the best decision but nonetheless I have same base armor. Everything that I have seen says that matching set and well fitted are very much external, and have no effect on armor crafted. I'm stuck, I suppose it could be a glitch?

@stayed5276 hmm okay, the only other thing I think it could be is the Ebony smithing perk. Do you have that? I think that will effect it as well The number is just a formula based on a few factors, something like: Item Armor rating = (base armor rating + the item quality) × (1 + 0.4 × skill level/100) ] × (1 + well fitted) × (1 + matching set) × (1 + juggernaut) It should be black and white, but armor rating always seems to be hard to match up 😂 maybe it is a glitch I don't know. It doesn't matter too much though because the game has an armor cap of 567 without a shield anyway so pushing it to 1/2k is just flexing 🤣

Don't think USSEP changes the difficulty no, at the beginning of this though the difficulty would have been adept. Its only once the build is finished I flip the difficulty to legendary.

Haha thanks for that!

You can also just use wait exploit and move your mouse insantly on left while holding the slider and 24hr will past in like 5 seconds.

Haha yeah the game armor cap is something like 667, anything above that doesn't reduce damage any more I don't think, but it was fun to push it high. Most damage will barely touch you at this point, unless it comes from something like a legendary dragon, they can still hurt 😅

Yeah I remember Tiny Tank, don't think I ever had it but I played a demo version of it (when demo games were a thing). I was born in '89 so I grew up playing the SNES, then PS1, then PS2 etc. I recently bought Doom and Doom 2 on steam as they were only like 3.99. I remember playing them loads back in the 90s. Proper nostalgia hit

😂 yep agreed

Wish you can yeet him out of Whiterun's walls

You start at level 1 with 0 perk points, so by level 5 you have 4 to use

oh yeah 100% orcs would be great, especially with the beserk ability

nope

One of my favorite saves this and one I play regularly, usually this, Bruce or the assassin. Although lately I've been using the new paladin a lot as I like the new initiates armor from the Echoes of the Vale creation