So first I'd like to say that this has been one of my most enjoyable playthroughs in a long while! I'm not done with the build yet though, only about level 31. I have made....a few changes.....First of all, I decided against Vampirism, because, to be honest, I'm tired of being a vampire. For the first 25 levels or so I used the Atronach for basically magic resistance, but once I got the summons I switched to the Lord stone, for more survivability (which I need, a lot). I've been playing at lower difficulties at the beginning, because I'm not that good and don't like to die too much lol. So since I skipped Vampirism (yes, I know that's a main point of the build) it was a little rough at the beginning, without the stealth and weapon swing speed boost. However, I found that 3 words of Elemental Fury was fine with 1 perk in Dual Flurry for most of my playthrough. I also put a few extra perks in Magic Resistance in the Alteration tree, along with 2 of the Mage Armor perks so far (again, for more survivability).
This build has been a lot more open-combat oriented, mainly because I've been putting perks into magic skills instead of Sneak, so I could get and be able to cast the more magicka-costly spells. Once I get Shadow Warrior though, I'll turn up the difficulty. I just got Vampire's Bane also, which should be interesting to try on some undead. The Phantom Charge special move is amazing, its awesome how fast you move. I'm pretty sure its much faster than a Werewolf sprinting, and I highly recommend that anybody who hasn't tried it to do so now! I imagine it would be even more amazing with Necromage-enhanced swing speed.
Funny story (for everybody except me), I was fighting the skeletons outside of Castle Volkihar and was easily getting one-shotted by everything there. After about a half-hour of trying every strategy I could think of, I was about to ragequit after dying when I got extremely close to finally beating those bastards when I decided to check the difficulty. Usually I remember (or will notice) when I turn the difficulty up, but I had completely forgotten this time. I looked, and it was on Legendary. I never play on Legendary. I turned it down, sat quietly for a minute, and then walked over and turned off my Xbox. And now I'm here. However, I did realize how useful some of the special abilities can be on high difficulties, especially Ashen Tomb.
Overall, I just wanted to say that this is an enormously fun build and thank you for making it! :D
So first I'd like to say that this has been one of my most enjoyable playthroughs in a long while! I'm not done with the build yet though, only about level 31. I have made....a few changes.....First of all, I decided against Vampirism, because, to be honest, I'm tired of being a vampire. For the first 25 levels or so I used the Atronach for basically magic resistance, but once I got the summons I switched to the Lord stone, for more survivability (which I need, a lot). I've been playing at lower difficulties at the beginning, because I'm not that good and don't like to die too much lol. So since I skipped Vampirism (yes, I know that's a main point of the build) it was a little rough at the beginning, without the stealth and weapon swing speed boost. However, I found that 3 words of Elemental Fury was fine with 1 perk in Dual Flurry for most of my playthrough. I also put a few extra perks in Magic Resistance in the Alteration tree, along with 2 of the Mage Armor perks so far (again, for more survivability).
This build has been a lot more open-combat oriented, mainly because I've been putting perks into magic skills instead of Sneak, so I could get and be able to cast the more magicka-costly spells. Once I get Shadow Warrior though, I'll turn up the difficulty. I just got Vampire's Bane also, which should be interesting to try on some undead. The Phantom Charge special move is amazing, its awesome how fast you move. I'm pretty sure its much faster than a Werewolf sprinting, and I highly recommend that anybody who hasn't tried it to do so now! I imagine it would be even more amazing with Necromage-enhanced swing speed.
Funny story (for everybody except me), I was fighting the skeletons outside of Castle Volkihar and was easily getting one-shotted by everything there. After about a half-hour of trying every strategy I could think of, I was about to ragequit after dying when I got extremely close to finally beating those bastards when I decided to check the difficulty. Usually I remember (or will notice) when I turn the difficulty up, but I had completely forgotten this time. I looked, and it was on Legendary. I never play on Legendary. I turned it down, sat quietly for a minute, and then walked over and turned off my Xbox. And now I'm here. However, I did realize how useful some of the special abilities can be on high difficulties, especially Ashen Tomb.
Overall, I just wanted to say that this is an enormously fun build and thank you for making it! :D