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Character Build: Mephala's Vessel

Tags: #Character Build Juggernaut  #Character Build Imperial  #Race: Dunmer  #SE Rank: Novice 
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    December 20, 2017
    Ok thanks yeah I guess I kinda have rushed into doing the builds ASAP but dont’t get me wrong I have playtested each one for months and have rarely died. Thank you for your view mega Dragonborn
  • December 20, 2017

    What DB said, mate. Take a step back, deep breath and think it through. It´s not about pushing out as many builds as possible, but making that one build count. Slow down. Play around with the site´s editor, get the hang of it and fiddle around with the presentation. Look at this, this and this for example. Look at the styles and presentation and give some thought to your own presentation. Don´t rush to more builds when what you have behind still requires some work.

    Just been playing around with your presentation for five minutes this is what I got. Isn´t that a little bit more eye friendly?

     

    Mephala’s Vessel

     

     

    Backstory

    The night was dark and damp sweating Imperial patrols circled the Imperial City. Mephala’s Vessel was among them, he wore the standard Imperial armour and a dark cloak for warmth. He had a thin greatsword strapped to his back under all the bags and flasks. They were nearing a black cave where a small voice reached his ears, “Come… Come,” the voice said in a barely audible whisper the others in his unit mustn’t’ve noticed. He walked over to the cave pretending to be searching it but in reality listening for the ever beckoning voice.

    He walked deeper and deeper into the cave until the narrow walls opened into a vast Chamber with a shrine in the centre. A small note on the shrine said to Mephala the lady of whispers. “Ahh my child, kneel before your prince,” the voice said. Suddenly a black tendril struck him between the shoulder blades his mouth opened as to scream but only a pale smoke emitted from it. His eyes now full of deceit Mephala had taken him over.

    Drawing his greatsword he charged out of the cave and slaughtered his patrol unit, leaving every last one dead. He walked North for several hours before stumbling on the border being carted off to Helgen, at that moment his eyes returned to normal and Mephala fled from his memory along with all memory of her presence but not the memories of the slaughter, those remained…

     

    Race & Statistics

    Race: As stated before Mephala’s Chosen is an Imperial.

    Stat Spread: 0 Magicka, 2 Health, 1 Stamina

    Standing Stone: Use the Warrior stone early on then switch to the Atronach

    Shouts and Powers: Dragonrend, Fire Breath, Ice Form, Become Ethereal (Ohh Crap button), Vampire Lord Form

     

    Skills and Perks

    Two Handed: If enemies get close you have to now how to defend yourself.

    Perks: Barbarian 5/5, Champion’s Stance, Devastating Blow the main weakness of this character are mages and hordes so devastating blow is a great way to make sure no enemies are resurrected and you are swarmed, Sweep this perk is probably the best for this build in the tree as I will explain later in the gameplay, Great Critical Charge this is a Great way to engage the enemy, Warmaster, Deep Wounds 3/3

    Heavy Armour: Eventually get all perks but this isn't a major priority.

     

    Equipment

    Weapons: Ebony Blade but until then the Longhammer which has the highest DPS for a two handed weapon.

    Armour: Blades Armour (No helmet) is the ideal end game as it looks aesthetically pleasing but until you get it just the best heavy armour you find.

     

    Gameplay

    Smaller Enemies: To start the battle charge in with a sprinting power attack hopefully killing one or at least staggering them. Once in the midst of battle don’t use too many power attacks as you will have a higher DPS without them as the greatsword is the fastest class of two handed weapon and the Ebony Blade absorbs 10-30 points of health with every attack ever through shields and armour so if you have the Ebony Blade’s enchantment at full you will be doing an insane amount of damage.

    Large enemies: Large damaging enemies are easy to kill with this build if you have the right strategy. Use dragonrend against dragons and bring them to the ground. When they are about to attack just bash them while in block then come out of block and attack them, do this repeatedly and their health will whittle down to nothing.

    Swarmed: If you're swarmed and taking lots of damage back up against a wall and do a sideways power attack, this in combination with the sweep perk will absorb thirty points of helth from everyone you hit, if you hit four people you will absorb 120 health points also damaging each of them thirty + points of damage each.

     

    Special Moves

    Unhittable: Sword Bash, Become Ethereal

    Flaming Blade: Fire Breath, Ebony Blade

    Ice Lord: Ice Form, Vampire Lord Form

     

    Roleplaying

    When you receive the Ebony Blade Mephala once again inserts her soul into yours and takes control of your mortal body. Your main aim is to keep skyrim in turmoil and discover plots and blackmail. Do any quest that leaves someone broke, dead or deceived.

     

    Factions

    Dark Brotherhood: Mephala thinks its another way to ruin people’s lives and keep Skyrim in turmoil

    Dawnguard DLC: On this one side with the Volkihar vampires as defeating Harkon you can keep the bloodshed and turmoil in Skyrim going.

    Main Story: The thought of gaining a foothold in Skyrim is irresistible for Mephala, she gains power and authority and the highest honour in history.

    Dragonborn DLC: For the same reasons, defeating Miraak although tempting to let him rule Solstheim would not be good for Mephala’s plans.

     

  • December 20, 2017
    So, looking at your other works, they feel rushed. Even if you were preparing them for months. This is mostly a thing about formatting, really. And remember to always proofread your stuff. Cuz there are some errors and frequent misspellings.
  • December 20, 2017

    Cannon said: Well, then that's either super impressive or they are very unpolished.

    Chris said: Deebs and Lis have done two such builds

    Hi Cannon, yes, Deebs and I are working on a series of builds that only perk one skill. Called the Pure Build Series. So far, we've done Alchemy, Heavy Armor, and most recently I collabed with the Lorc of Flowers on Illusion. 

    You can check them out here. They are fun little builds that really make me think about the application of mechanics. I love challenges in building.

    Pure Build Series

    Back to Mephala's Vessel, hello Zalyius. Figured I should take a break from Urag and poke my head in here. Welcome to Character Building where about a thousand ideas are going through your brain at once. :D I literally have dozens in my brain at any given time. I am notorious for having a ton of ideas and notorious for abusing the workshop. Makes total sense that I am host there now, along with Duvain. That being said, I can serve as the advocate for the whole "slow and steady wins the race" approach to Character Building. I highly recommend the Workshop as a first stop for building. You can receive feedback, shoot out ideas, or just update your progress. I also use it to work out the kinks in formatting.  I use the workshop and enjoy that people can see the madness that is my building process at work. It almost sucks when we have to delete the threads afterwards. 

    The build of mine that the Lorc of Flowers linked to, the Outsider, was in the workshop for over a year. It went through several visual overhauls and playtests, intense planning for cohesion of imagery and story-telling. The reception that build received when it finally came out of the Workshop was mind-blowing. It's not about the likes, though I won't lie, those are great, but the comments. Knowing that people appreciated it and were happy to see Henantier's story finally posted made me feel good. 

    Did you see the little tweaks the Lorc made? Those are some good starts. A lot can be said for just simple things like that. And proof-reading. The writing for a build doesn't have to be Shakespeare, but it needs to be clean and relatively devoid of typos. This can be solved by workshopping builds. There you have many pairs of eyes that can perhaps catch the errors you miss. 

  • December 20, 2017
    Common agreement seems to be that you're rushing it, charging at it too much, Zalyius. And I've seen you talking with MegaDB about making next one. Maybe you should consider polishing what you already have posted.