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Character Build: The Selenu Vampire

Tags: #Character Build Elementalist  #Character Build Enchanter  #Character Build Vampire  #Race:Dunmer  #Rank:Recognized  #Albino Skyrim Build  #Extended Slow Time  #Shield Mage 
  • Member
    November 18, 2014

    Thanks Henson!

  • Member
    November 18, 2014
    Albino, you have made another awesome build, and inspired me to do a build based on Lamae's bloodlime
  • Member
    November 18, 2014

    Thanks Chris! Hopefully yours will turn out well. :)

  • November 18, 2014
    Great minds think alike :)
  • Member
    November 19, 2014
    Wow..I don't know what to say.. Great job with this build as always, Albino. I like your shieldmage approach to this bloodline. I was actually right in the middle of playtesting this. A little gem yet to be seen... But anyway, great job and an easy +1!
  • Member
    November 19, 2014

    Thanks!

  • Member
    November 19, 2014
    I haven't played a vampire in a while, but the way I recall it, stage 4 vampires have -100% fire resistance and +100% frost resistance. You've calculated the overall resistances with only 50%. What am I missing?
  • Member
    November 19, 2014

    Turns out we're both missing something. 

    According to UESP, in the vanilla game, stage four vampires have 100% fire resistance and frost weakness, but with Dawnguard installed, it becomes 50% instead. Time to go fix that.

  • Member
    November 19, 2014
    Hmm... I was half expecting you to focus on the magic aspects of combat with this build. In a shield mage build I had experimented with (but not published) there are so many combo's that can be pulled off. But first, let's talk about gear. Stage 4 vampirism reduces magicka regen by about 100% and reduces magicka to a significant amount in the day, so you can't really daywalk even with the regen perks. Enter ring of erudite to solve this, with insane magicka regen and +100 magicka Which brings us to the next portion on on resistance... As a stage 4 vamp, you'd probably face a -100% resist to fire (-50 with Dawnguard i think). So your enchants technically needs to max around fire And shock resist enchants with stage 4 providing 100% against frost. For combo's there's so mu h more than tanking: Sheild bash + poison rune Fire rune + Quick reflexes + flame cloak + fireball spell - this is to capitalize on the afterburn effects of the 3 spells. Above are some of examples I experimented with. You can even add poisons to the mix to make targets weaker to elemental attacks. But yeah, good shield mage I have seen in a while. +1 from me
  • Member
    November 19, 2014

    Yeah, the Selenu has some pretty terrible magicka regeneration in the daytime; I used the Staff of Magnus to help out with that. I would've gone with the Ring of the Erudite but I was already using that for a self-enchanted ring.

    Yeah, I fixed the part about resistances in the vanilla game. Dawguard does change the fire/frost weakness/resistance values to 50% though.

    I generally tend not to mess around too much with special moves because I usually find them to be fairly tacked on, but I might try experimenting some more with them later.

    Glad you still liked it though.