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WIP Build: The Reaver

Tags: #Vampire  #Blood Magick  #Bloodskal Blade  #Dragon Age  #Reaver 
  • Member
    May 31, 2018
    I remember the days of auto play music....
  • Member
    May 31, 2018

    From a simple glance at it, you really need to change the name to something much shorter and definitive... How about The Blightworm?

  • May 31, 2018

    Hi, I love all the red bloodiness and you seem well on your way to having a nice build. Reminds me of my Darloc Brae build. I am a fan of the Bloodskal blade, so you got my attention. I'm with Noodles, the title needs to be not necessarily shorter, but more catchy. I know hard to find that perfect title. I think keeping Reaver is important because you are basing your build on a Reaver class from Dragon Age. I'd also consider adjusting your tags a little. They should be formatted. Character Build Two-handed, Character Build Vampire, Character Build Shouts, or whatever you ultimately decide. We have a list of gameplay tags in the CB section. You can also definitely add other tags too, like the one for Dragon Age will get you right up on the searches because people play that. I'd also do a "Mod" tag and stuff like that.

    Okay, now to wear my playing hat. What mods are you playing with to counter the ones you have listed? Or another question is what difficulty are you playing at to counter the mods you're playing with? Because, I know these mods, a lot of cool passive buffs and neat new tricks, which if they're not balanced with mods that increase enemy AI or overall difficulty are going to make the build not balanced from a gameplay perspective, you dig me? And I like mods, but it's always a trick with them. Having that balance where you serve you build well, use the mod to tell the story, yet feel not totally miserable playing the game or vis versa, one-shotting everything. I don't quite remember if Sacrosant debuffs you pretty bad if you are starved. I think it is reverse from Vanilla vampirism, yes, where you are more powerful the more you feed? How you play doesn't matter, you can make all dragons bob the builder for all I care, but other people do play builds and balanced gameplay is really good to think about. Also, you have to think your character, she's 4000, so she may well be extremely powerful. 

    If you have any questions, we're here in the Workshop to help out. 

    @ Chris - I think you can still do this here. 

  • Member
    May 31, 2018

    @Noodles - Yea I feel ya noodles, names are tricky things. Not sure I like blightworm, though it does have that DA vibe (Blight), but if it's on a elder scrolls build it makes me think of necromancy and Manimarco (not sure if thats how you spell his name), simply because of the worm part.

    What if I just went with The Reaver (I was damn sure there was a build on here at some point that used that name, but I can't find it), or The Vampiric Reaver or The Dragon Reaver? I'm with Lissette don't want to really drop reaver out of the title, because that is what the buld is.

    @ Lissette - Yea I've been trying to find a cool way to use the Blood Skal blade and I think this is it :). Tags, I usually worry about those once it's fininshed and gets put into Character Building. So probably have something like "Character Build: Vampire" etc 

    Yea theres definantly a few other mods I intend to adding to the list. You are quite right using mods can be a bit of a balance. To buff the difficulty I use Smilodon/Wildcat and Mortal enemies, and Rebalanced Encounter Zones (Which essentialy means at level one your just as likely to run into a dragur as you are a dragur death lord), for difficulty I played on adept from level 1 - 25, Expert from 25 - 40, and Master from 40 - 50 (still on the play through atm currently level 43 planning having the build done by 50). So with these mods yea your still pack a punch but everyone else does as well, so you gota rely on those health draining abilities a lot more than youd think, while at the same time keeping your health low enough to get a descent damage bonus.

    @Tysoyaha - Like I said to Deebs, builds still in it's infancy at the moment so anything could happen still. But as for the story I geuss it's a matter of perspective, it clocks in at just over 900 words, which to me is pretty short. The Shadow of dawns condensed version was nearly 2000, and the Stormrider was about 1300. I did cut bits out of this to make shorter than was originally intended which I think would of made it around 1700 words if I had gone with it. I do like the idea of posting another story in the story corner (I really do like writing), but i'm happy with the length as it is for now. There's still shit ton of mechanics etc that i'm gonna need to get in there, and those earlier discussions we had really helped to highlight that :), So the build end up being a little long, but I can't see it being that much longer than the other ones I've done since it's got the shortest story.

  • May 31, 2018

    Furrion 17 said:

    @Tysoyaha - Like I said to Deebs, builds still in it's infancy at the moment so anything could happen still. But as for the story I geuss it's a matter of perspective, it clocks in at just over 900 words, which to me is pretty short. The Shadow of dawns condensed version was nearly 2000, and the Stormrider was about 1300. I did cut bits out of this to make shorter than was originally intended which I think would of made it around 1700 words if I had gone with it. I do like the idea of posting another story in the story corner (I really do like writing), but i'm happy with the length as it is for now.

    Yea man, you gotta do what you think makes it the best build it can be. If that means showcasing your writing, then that's your style. I'm just saying that if you do decide that you want to make it a more concise read but don't want to lose your hard work, then the other groups are always looking for content, and it'll set you up with some nice cross promotion. Lol.

     

    There's still shit ton of mechanics etc that i'm gonna need to get in there, and those earlier discussions we had really helped to highlight that :), So the build end up being a little long, but I can't see it being that much longer than the other ones I've done since it's got the shortest story.

    Oh good, I'm glad that helped! You have some really fascinating mechanics going on in this build and I'm always down to trade some advice for an advanced screening of such awesomeness, so don't hesitate to PM me in the future!

  • Member
    August 2, 2018

    Have decided to change this ones name to simply "The Reaver". I searched around for a descent while because I was certain another build was on the sight that used name at some point but I came up empty. I think it was one of Curse Never Dying's builds or Raidriar's builds. Was a few years back now so I geuss it's just been taken down or those guys have moved on from the site. If that is the case since the name is seemingly unused now (atleast from my searching), is it ok for me to use it on this one?

  • Member
    August 3, 2018

    Phew just finished this one. It still has some spelling and gramatical errors to iron out, but other than it is about as good as done. If anyone would like to have a read over it and let me know thier thoughts it'd be appreciated. I'm gonna keep it in the workshop until I've got all the fine details polished on it. But if there are any glaring mistakes or bad typos please let me know :)

  • Member
    August 3, 2018
    I'm not sure why I didn't leave a comment on this weeks ago. Apologies for that, I know I meant to. So I've landed myself in a position now in which if I say too much I'll end up with nothing to say when you do post the final build or end up repeating myself :D It all looks good to me, can't believe this isn't posted yet!
  • Member
    August 3, 2018

    Thanks mate I think I'll have it pposted tonight. Just working out the spelling and grammar mistakes. I had meant to have the build done back at the begining of July but got busy, so this unfortnuately had to take a back seat to life lol. But hey super glad that it's going to be done and dusted in few more hours :D