Skyrim Anniversary Edition: How to Make an Illusion Assassin! 

Thanks for sharing your play styles! Yeah I agree on alchemy, I decided against using alchemy here, as I felt like I use alchemy so often in builds, whether it be as a stepping stone to levelling other skills like enchanting, or for use itself, that I wanted to try something a little different. I'll have to check out chokeberry and scatheclaw though, they are two ingredients I can't say I've used a whole lot before 😁 Haha yeah she is obviously depicted as an attractive woman (for a video game character of course 😂) and she obviously had a lot of suitors, but yeah, giving away 500 gold for basically having a conversation with someone, when she is selling leeks and potatoes. Something isn't adding up 😅🤣

Yeah sneak is crazy once it hits 100. Crouching in front of someone and still being invisible 😂

Yeah 100% glad to hear you enjoying playing that way 😁🙌🏼

Yeah that's a great option as well 😁👍🏻

No problem at all 😁👍🏻

Yeah I sometimes do the intros like that on my build guides. I think maybe half of them I've done it on, it depends if I can come up with an interesting back story or not 😁

@@mike-thegamingdad fudgemuppet has a great guide on how to come up with strong characters for roleplaying ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FycmEWxxLlk.html&feature=share9

Okay no worries noted for future stuff 😁👍🏻

Thanks for the kind words I appreciate it 😁. Yeah I try and show every little detail if I can. I've learnt in the short time I've been doing this, don't assume anything. I skipped over details in some of my earlier videos, thinking well people will know where X is, or how to do X. And I'd get a lot of comments saying I don't know how to find that, where is that, what's this etc. So I try to make my stuff as easy to follow as possible

@@mike-thegamingdad Your efforts are appreciated. Started playing another round of Skyrim with this build after watching this and loving it so far.

@geoffersonairplane9338 nice thats awesome 🙌🏼😁

@@mike-thegamingdad Just passing a tip back Mike. The Gray Cowl of Nocturnal would really complement your build well as an alternative to the Aetherial Crown. 👍

@geoffersonairplane9338 thank you 😁 yeah I did consider the grey cowl. It was in my initial notes but what put me off it was that guards turn hostile towards you if they see you, so it becomes a do you don't you scenario of taking it off in settlements. I guess that could have been part of the build forcing you to always be sneaky, but I found it to be quite restrictive if all you want to do is go and sell some stuff to a blacksmith 🤣. It's an interesting item though, I like the detect Life feature it has with the different colours 😁

Trying to think if the quest for the ring was the only thing in this build that was one of the new anniversary editions. It might be worth clicking onto Creation club on the main start menu and seeing what it says on there as that is where the AE content is listed. If it says "purchase" or "buy" then your version of Skyrim will be Special Edition or earlier, which will explain why you couldn't find the quest. It may also say "download all". That means you have Anniversary Edition but it's not installed, in which case you can download it and restart and you can get that quest now 👍🏻😁. Glad you are enjoying the build though 🙌🏼!

@@mike-thegamingdad i appreciate you taking the time out of your day to explain that to me. that means more than you know. i’ve got the Anniversary Edition, so i’ll definitely look into trying to install everything. thanks again man, take care.

@minutees no problem at all hope you manage to get it sorted 😁👍🏻

@@mike-thegamingdad What would be an alternative for the ring? I can't get the ring (don't have AE).

@@lekamrkela6937 thats a shame, the ring is quite unique as it provides a few different benefits that aren't usually found together Fortify Illusion 30% Fortify Stamina 20 points Fortify Sneak 20% I'm not aware of anything as good as it that the player doesn't create themselves. You could try stores like radient raiment in Solitude, and see if you can pick up a ring of peerless illusion, but thats just the illusion benefit of 25% and nothing else additional. To get close to the ring of masser I;d suggest investing in enchanting (ideally to 100), and then making your own ring using two enchantments, that way you could create something similar (I'd probably go for illusion and sneak out of these three)

Yeah its not for everyone, thankfully this build type can be done without it, your illusion just won't be as powerful. But it's sufficient in the majority of scenarios. If you did want to avoid vampirism, then I'd probably also pick another race. Dark elves make for good vampires due to their natural resistance to fire, which negates the vampires weakness. I'd probably pick a high elf if I was doing this minus vampirism. That way I'd have an extra 50 magicka, could put less points into magicka and therefore more into health. And then I could probably have a different amulet than the one I picked here 👍🏻 Yeah I'm looking forward to Starfield coming out, should be done with the last of us by then so that will be my other game I play alongside Skyrim 😁

bound sword to get soul gems and max out smithing and enchanting

@@maunaowakea777 nice sounds like a good build! There's a few different ways to do it for sure 😁👍🏻

Thanks glad you enjoyed! Good luck with the build 😁🙌🏼

Now as to how you become truly elite you level enchanting to 100 get werewolve so u have that beast form I have reason behind this get the enchantment where you can put Two enchantments on an item next man just go buy enchantments the ones you really want is illusion fortify it to where you have 0 cost you put it on your rings and necklaces get smithing buy every piece of clothes from the chick In solitude buy and get the max level fortify enchantment potions trick to doing this or to getting the stuff you want is simple you buy save then smack the seller hit load and whala fresh inventory, get every ring every necklace or craft them it don't matter, this is why you want werewolf beast form go to your house in whiteout say hey Lydia follow do not leave your house stay inside. Save it try and time beast form and talk to her feature at the same time it works I promise when it does wait for your charecter to fully transform into werewolf go down to your Inventory put it all on you even the fortified smithing clothes my daggers are base damage of 747 a piece I have all 4 sneak gloves on I do 179+k on any assassination I promise you this all works watch the werewolf stacking glitch on youtube. Reason why you don't use vampire is due to the bs weaknesses during the day 🙄 werewolf has just 2 small weaknesses the rested bonus and lmao silver weakness you have to literally run to the stupid silver hand camps to get hurt by it also werewolf is immune to paralyze o and to the overweight thing go get the steed stone thank me for just breaking this game for u all.

Definitely?

Oh really? That should always be there, this was filmed without any mods attached, I've even switched USSEP off 😅

@@mike-thegamingdad O! Than I remembered that completely wrong.

Leto you trippin'! That camp has always been there on the road between Helgen and Pinewatch. It's where the massive number of bees (and bear traps) are!

​@@LibraritheWizardOfficialI don't remember having posted this, but I do remember that camp being there, and exactly his to get there. My previous comment surprises me. 😂

@kevlyon yeah i had a look, only done 3 in the last year, and the last one was 3 months ago. Interest in those seems to be dwindling sadly. I noticed the last couple I did really struggled to get going, maybe they were too niche I dunno. I don't feel like I've retired from them though, I just wait till the right idea. I appreciate the comment though thank you 😁

Yeah dragonskin is a great ability 👍🏻😁

Yeah sure I can look into that, assuming you mean no weapons as such, so effectively unarmed? That would work when in vampire Lord mode (volkahkr vampire), trying to think of the drawbacks when in humanoid form. I guess you could focus on some mage skills like destruction or conjuration.

Have you made a vampire lord build setup. I would think a spell blade in dragon light armor using Harkon's sword would be a good setup to create a daylight vampire.

Thanks for the tip 😁

Good to know 😁

@@mike-thegamingdad just going by classes from TES Arena to Oblivion. Started in Arena as a hybrid class. You had the three major classes, Warrior, Thief, and Mage, then a few variations, like Sorcerer, or Barbarian, then there would be hybrid classes. From memory I can think of Nightblade for mage/thief, Spellsword for mage/warrior, Rogue warrior/thief, then there was Bard that was like a warrior/mage/thief.

Pfs it’s called an illusion vampiric assassin dude 😂

All you use out of illusion is quiet casting and invisibility and you still crouch using it you fortify your invisibility to no cost and there you go infinite assassination and it isn't a hybrid thing it actually comes from age of Conan and world of war craft sins go invisible and stay invisible to sneak attack.

It comes from age of Conan and world of War craft in war craft it is known as subterfuge. The only spell needed In illusion is invisibility with quiet casting its simple max out sneak get everything in it. Fortify illusion to where it's 0 cost you literally will assassinate the entire game it is known as rogue a subterfuge rogue now you have been corrected. Invisibility works in crouch you stand you will be spotted but in crouch its 100 percent 0 detection by visual seekers that even goes for dragons.

Thank you! Yeah it's not for everyone, to be honest if I'm just playing Skyrim for enjoyment/on my main playthroughs, I don't speed level either. It's great if you want to play a certain character or role-playing but it's just as fun to level naturally 😁 Yeah the lucky dagger would be good definitely, it's better than plain steel and good early on with the enchantment, it just loses value overtime as the critical hit damage doesn't increase

Nice one, thanks mate :) Agreed, looks an easy one to grab so probably worth getting. Having a lot of fun with this build! Thanks again!@@mike-thegamingdad

Hey I'd check you have the anniversary edition and not an earlier version of Skyrim as that quest is one of the new additions that was added in 2021. An easy way to check is to click onto Creation Club on the start menu. If it says "installed" next to everything on there, you have it and the quest will appear. it's just a random chance. If it says "download" you have it, it just needs installing. Do this and restart the game and the quest, plus all the other new stuff will be included. If it says "purchase " or "buy" then your Skyrim version is probably the Special Edition which predates November 2021. You can upgrade it but the upgrade isn't free I think I paid about £15 for it last year.

You could go a lot further to be honest as well, smithing perks to make your armor stronger, more perks in 1H, level up enchanting and alchemy to make strong poisons and better gear. Although I wanted it to be different from a few other builds so I decided to leave some skill trees out for once. Yeah I find her irritating as well, plus she tries to double cross you anyway even if you do the DB questline 😫

@Jay-zn8rg I can't remember what it was on this, however normally my builds always start on adept in the building section, then when they are ready the difficulty can be cranked up. For warriors it's usually legendary and mage types I play on master. But this one you could probably play on legendary. It's normally offensive mages that I drop own down because you're far more susceptible to one shot kills 😅

Haha 😅 was up late last night trying to finish this, they take a long time to pull together these build guides

At the start of the video? I think that was a generic wind clip from the software I use to edit (Wondershare Filmora) 😁. They have quite a few good sound clips to use

I did thank you, great little ring that! I've only ever swapped it before for the armor but I agree it fits this build type perfectly 😁

So everyone should have got 4 things for free to celebrate Skyrim being 10 years old. They were: Survival Mode, Saints v Seducers, Fishing and Rare Curious Ingredients. Usually its on the start menu at the top right corners as a prompt to download them I think. Those 4 are also included in AE, but you get s ton of other stuff as well like all the new homes, armor sets, weapons and quests

@@mike-thegamingdad Thanks for the fast reply..getting ready to download now. You gained a sub Sir.

@JohnTenbeers ah excellent I hope you enjoy it 👍🏻😁 and thanks for the sub I appreciate it! 🙌🏼

Thats a first 😂

Hey no keep it maxed as otherwise it drops to level 15 again. You can level it up again and you'll get more perks in the long run but Sneak takes longer to level outside of Helgen I've found

You can yeau but you'll need a different ring, as the ring of masser quest is a new addition

No the innkeepers will give a random quest from a selection, so you may get it 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc. I've ended up with about 6-7 one time before it finally came up. You don't need to do the other ones, just keep trying. It's an anniversary edition quest though so make sure you have that version/and the content is downloaded from Creation Club/Creations otherwise it won't pop up

Hey trying to find an answer to this but had no luck so far, its something I've not come across before. Do you have any mods installed, such as USSEP (Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch)? Wondering if that makes her 'un-pacifiable'

@@mike-thegamingdadall good, just had to upgrade my skill tree

Not during the build stage it wasn't no, probably adept I think. But once set up, it can be played on legendary yes. With this one, it just becomes more critical not being hit. On legendary most blows would likely be one shot kills as the armor rating of builds like this are low