Easy enough..lol. When I first found this site I had been playing Skyrim for years on my own...but with little direction other than my own creative desires. I was just piecing together characters as I thought they might work with little thought to synergy and what would actually work together having really read nothing about building and how things combined to pop in a build.
Then I wanted to see what else was out there and started hunting for "best builds" and found The Vault. Naturally I dove into the Hall of Fame first assuming those were great builds and hopefully not popularity contest winners as sometimes happens in life. The first builds I saw were Mason's. I must have read every build he had up and then from some comments in his builds that led me to Ponty and from there I was hooked. I've likely read hundreds of builds on the site, just reading them in my free time for the enjoyment of seeing someone's creation.
In playing, once I decided to take that leap it was Mason's builds I went back to. I tried all his Sentinel builds but never progressed very far as they didn't capture me. Awesome builds...but not for me as a player. Then I found The Seraphim. That is the first build I played all the way through (once I figured how to get around the patch fix for UCC) besides one of my own. And I followed that up with what I think might be the best build I've seen, The Sorcerer. Then I moved on to Ponty, basically following my reading path...and wanted to delve into the vampire world for the first time. I enjoyed his Nightguard build for a while.
There were several others that I've played but many more others that influenced me as I began to try my hand as a builder. Mason, of course, with some stuff from his Sorcerer build, heavily influenced a couple of my early builds. Zach and his build The Obliterator taught me about advanced unarmed combat that I used in another build. Lee Fiskilis and Relycs for some of their blogs regarding shouts and thralls came in very handy in other builds that I did. And lastly Curse. I hadn't read his thief build RMW, but was pointed to that in the Workshop for another build I was working on. It was suggested that reading that build may influence that particular build and boy did it. It opened up a whole new roleplay section in that build which really beefed it up to me (and the Workshop gang). And when I started posting builds, I went right back to where I started. Mason's builds were the ones I took a template from and used as my guide to format my own builds.
Easy enough..lol. When I first found this site I had been playing Skyrim for years on my own...but with little direction other than my own creative desires. I was just piecing together characters as I thought they might work with little thought to synergy and what would actually work together having really read nothing about building and how things combined to pop in a build.
Then I wanted to see what else was out there and started hunting for "best builds" and found The Vault. Naturally I dove into the Hall of Fame first assuming those were great builds and hopefully not popularity contest winners as sometimes happens in life. The first builds I saw were Mason's. I must have read every build he had up and then from some comments in his builds that led me to Ponty and from there I was hooked. I've likely read hundreds of builds on the site, just reading them in my free time for the enjoyment of seeing someone's creation.
In playing, once I decided to take that leap it was Mason's builds I went back to. I tried all his Sentinel builds but never progressed very far as they didn't capture me. Awesome builds...but not for me as a player. Then I found The Seraphim. That is the first build I played all the way through (once I figured how to get around the patch fix for UCC) besides one of my own. And I followed that up with what I think might be the best build I've seen, The Sorcerer. Then I moved on to Ponty, basically following my reading path...and wanted to delve into the vampire world for the first time. I enjoyed his Nightguard build for a while.
There were several others that I've played but many more others that influenced me as I began to try my hand as a builder. Mason, of course, with some stuff from his Sorcerer build, heavily influenced a couple of my early builds. Zach and his build The Obliterator taught me about advanced unarmed combat that I used in another build. Lee Fiskilis and Relycs for some of their blogs regarding shouts and thralls came in very handy in other builds that I did. And lastly Curse. I hadn't read his thief build RMW, but was pointed to that in the Workshop for another build I was working on. It was suggested that reading that build may influence that particular build and boy did it. It opened up a whole new roleplay section in that build which really beefed it up to me (and the Workshop gang). And when I started posting builds, I went right back to where I started. Mason's builds were the ones I took a template from and used as my guide to format my own builds.
