A lot of youtubers that make skyrim builds add backstories, while they can be interesting I way prefer your attitude towards showing off what the build can do and informative suggestions and guidelines to recreating your hard work. I just want to say thanks for the awesome videos. Keep doing what you're doing!
I tend to do everything legitimately as well with every new build and playthrough except for getting a ton of coins early in the game by exploiting quicksaves + pickpocket everyone in whiterun Unfortunately that would level up skill trees needed for this build so can't do it this time 😔🤣
OMG - I'm going to have to rethink my plan to follow this walkthrough. This is one of the most awesome builds I've ever seen you create! You are without question the best strategic player in the biz. I originally planned to use my destruction mage (based on your Lux Iron-Breast build) and just level up sneak & illusion to your levels. However, after watching you put this build through it's paces, I see the advantage of building specific skills, perks, armor & tools to compete the picture. There's more than enough info here in this episode for an experienced player to rebuild and follow more closely - just because this looks like so much fun! Keep on keepin' on, sir!!!
can't wait to do this, i just found my love of illusion spells. really will have some fun with sneaking about and changing the rules of battle with the spells.
15:07 I buy the muffle spell as soon as I find it, then just spam cast in whenever I'm running around a city which usually maxes out illusion pretty fast on its own.
Osareafallire, Yours is good advice. I've invested quite a bit in Illusion, and I'm very keen to get it to where this video shows its power. I had a question about the right side of illusion perks. I've not put anything toward the animal and kindred mage points, preferring instead to go up the middle for the fury and rage and to the left for adept, master, etc. At present, I'm still getting my ass kicked and quickly have to pull out my prized bow or Fire Breath them when they're charging. Do you think I've made an error and should get the animal and kindred mage perks on my way up the illusion tree?
@@BlackbirdWrites The right side is absolutely essential, simply for silent casting, which affects ALL schools of magic, and the benefits of kindred and animage stack which means eventually pacify/harmony work on Draugr Lords and mammoths. Once you're at that level... most things are almost easy but somehow still entertaining.
@@osareafallire I will definitely take your advice. It is intriguing to imagine getting to that level to have a choice in combat style. I added an increased population mod yesterday, and now I've got a dragon jumping me from the sky, cultists shooting fireballs at me, and then out of the Blue Mountain flower patch comes this vicious Ebony Warrior. He's got a Bounty on my ass! Tries to hack me to pieces. That battle would have been much less stressful with this Illusion build! Thankfully, I had given Lydia a Staff of Fireballs, otherwise, I would not have made it! Thank you for your advice and help. Blackbird
just got his ebook and read it last night absolute gold very well done and a lot of amazing tips in it highly recommend even if you never make the builds the section on power potions and explaining the glass cannon approach is well worth it
Thanks, Slack. I'm glad to see that you've recovered from your unscheduled walkthrough of Cracked Tusk Keep. Always be sure that your dentist has the well rested bonus before doing a root canal. Seriously, I hope that you are well and are recovering nicely from your recent health issues.
Wow that's surprisingly satisfying to watch enemies slash each other! Great job Major! About this "no sight no sound" detection you mention - I prefer to think they just see footsteps on the snow or the grass and leaves under your feet. Or maybe its just their 6-th sense. Anyway, as we can see in the game, characters being invisible can still be seen when they are close enough, so detecting you when silent and invisible is still possible.
"Bears are really hard to sneak around." Which is ironic seeing how a bear is what you have to sneak around during the tutorial at the beginning of the game.
@MajorSlackAttack First of all, a long-time viewer, first-time commenter. Love your content, keep up the good work on REAL walkthroughs. Secondly, I didn't notice it when the video was uploaded but at around 17:18 when you are explaining the shrouded gloves you got something wrong. They only provide the x2 damage to daggers, not all one handed weapons. SPOILERS WARNING! The ancient shrouded gloves that you have access to later in the questline do x2 damage across all one handed weapons. This is a common misinterpretation of the description on the gloves. Just thought I'd be a hardcore slacker and clarify. Keep up the good work, you are one of my favorite TH-camrs.
I think this is my all time favourite character build vid. Thanks so much, I’m running a Breton archer Mage at present and will use these tips immediately!
I started playing Skyrim for the first time this past month and i went for a Thief & Magic build primarily illusion and some conjuration. This video was basically why i wanted dem illusion skills!~ xD
I love this build and wish there was a walkthrough. However, I've been making a variation of this while watching this video many times. I think, so far, I'm doing a well enough job. Thanks Major Slack!
@@royalfilho1871 poisons. The damage dealing ones suck mostly, but you can use paralysis or frenzy poisons, pickpocket to put it on people. You can cause quite a the diversion with them, it's just a funnier way than sneak and snipe with a bow lol
Please do a walkthrough of this build. I would love to see how you built her from level 1-41. If you got her to the point of going up against Ebony Warrior could she take him on with no problems?
Illusion is great to pair with necromancy. With multiple enemies, Frenzy to weaken then all, raise the loser and make them fight again and slaughter the winner.
using marked for death on dragon from a lair has a weird effect. Since every time it respawns it will respawn with the same ID which means the armor reduction from marked for death is permament. After a few respawns and shouts you will always kill them in one shot with everything since their armor will be wayyyyy negative
I love all the work you put in your videos, the knowledge, the time and the effort it takes but the more and more i see you play on legendary the less it seems to be a challenge for you ahah. Although u start a real freaking challenge with the no-caption something that makes money in skyrim- run. I would really enjoy and look foward for a : Mighty Skyrim Requiem no Crack and Jack but only Slack run ! I understand how much it would confuse you if you never tried it but i think it might but the next challenging gameplay you could go through! Even though i never saw you use 1 mod who knows one day in my notification box i will see "MajorSlackAttack uploaded a video : Mighty Skyrim Requiem no Crack and Jack but only Slack run(intro)" Always with love Jim
My favourite build! Just sit back and watch the show. Kill enemies without doing a thing throw in conjuration to spice things up! If you want to get involved sneak invisible cut the enemies throat. So dark and fun my favourite by far!
William Newland Same. It’s also super fun for NPC shenanigans. Whenever ya need some extra gold and don’t have a high enough pickpocket level to take that valuable golden necklace off of a non-essential NPC, just hit em up with frenzy, have the guards kill them, and loot the body. Enemy fort too populated to sneak past? Just hit ‘em up with Hysteria or Mayhem and casually stroll through the chaos, treating their most closely guarded secrets like a menu at a restaurant. The average warrior role play wants to go around killing stuff while an illusionist simply leans back in his chair and says: “Why kill them when I can just snap my fingers and have their closest friends do it for me?” This is the true power fantasy right here.
Why get muffled movement when you have the muffle spell? Because the effects stack. Both reduce sound by 50%, with both it reduces sound by roughly 75% imxp.. It can make a huge difference against those 'mysteriously detecting' enemies...
This. The only way to get 100% muffle in the game is to find a pair of boots of muffle from a vendor or in loot and disenchant them and enchant your own boots. Then, with those boots and invisibility you can sneak up on bears.
One-hand fortify doesn't work because of a glitch. Fortify archery potion works on dagger damage but fortify archery enchant doesn't. So for people that don't have any mod that fixes bugs, they can still use fortify archery potion to improve damage.
Awesome video MajorSlackAttack!!!! liked! One thing though, I saw somewhere that the unofficial patch fixed the fortify one-handed enchant to work for daggers now. I could have misunderstood what I read, so if so I apologize in advance! Keep up the good work!
@@jeannathomas1556 it's found in random loot when your character is level 23+ and you can purchase it from Drevis or Sybille from level 40+. Also, yay fellow lady gamer!
As far as Dark Brotherhood armor goes, I prefer the Ancient Shrouded Armor. Though it takes some strategery to get it without doing the quest line at all (uesp describes how to do it using ritual stone), the base stats are better than the standard DB armor. I wonder how incorporating it’s acquisition into your builds would change things. 🤔
Hello, stranger! This was new and refreshing enough to even wake me from my slumber :D Could this be the new Slack go-to build?! Either way, it sure looks like it would be mine, I love mind-control stuff in games where it doesn't take too much maintenance, just pop it and watch the fireworks. I dropped out of the picture sometime around December when IRL stuff and things happened, but here's hoping I can rekindle my Slack routine again
with this build i like to be a dark elf vampire. dark elf has pretty nice illusion and sneak base stats, and it also has the fire resistance which counters the fire weakness from vampire, and you also get better illusion and sneak as vampire.
Do this build but make it with a dark elf and become a vampire lord. Dark elves are naturally resistant to fire so no fire vulnerability and vampire lord makes your illusion spells stronger, and to be even more op you could get the necromage perk from restoration and it'll make your spells EVEN stronger, totally broken.
@@djredangel thats fair i get the whole thing about not needing that extra resistance but i prefer it because once you get enchanting high enough, and reduce the casting cost of your main spells that extra 50 magicka won't make a huge difference
If you decide to go the route of double enchant perk at 100 enchanting, you don't need anything into illusion or magika (except for novice illusion). you can double enchant gear to get over 100% reduced illusion cost, without sacrificing anything else. You can also use this perk to double up on SNEAK and illusion spell reduction cost.
I'm in the process of starting pretty much the same build at the moment, except I'm bringing in conjuration as well......Total glass cannon but should be fun when completed.
i am going to do a skyrim run where my character will be a hybrid of this and stealth archer (the tricky part is how to spread my points, i would not go to much in illusion but high in sneak, archery,one hand and other thief skills)
Stevonnie Jenkins you will eventually need to invest almost completely in the Illusion tree once you get to the higher levels. Don’t waste your perk points on master illusion or mastery spells because they aren’t very good.
Hey, if you are still interested, I can share my build of the nightblade. skyrimcalculator.com/496975 Keep in mind this is a barebone build aimed at around Lv 30~ish.
2 years late but im just playing skyrim for the first time i originally planned to be a stealth archer but became a dagger assasin halfway thru cause this was way more fun lol
My illusion assassin is a bit different. More akin to a mage cosplaying a rogue relying on alteration for the armour spells and enough conjuration for mystic binding perk because bound weapons are the coolest looking.
By end game, I just use the invisibility spell combined with the sneak skill that lets you sneak at full speed to run past all enemies to the objective. I also usually user furry on assassination missions to make the target get themselves killed. And with Smithing and Enchanting at 100, you can one hit some dragons on legendary. The alchemy exploit is lame though. Crossbow sneak attacks are usually a one hit kill as well.
Just potion loop a ring of alchemy.make an extremely op potion of enchanting and fortify boots with sneak.you will never be detected again.and sneak won't break with potion loop.i know alot of things can and will,but sneak,health and Stam Regen, fortify magica and magica Regen,pick pocket and lock picking and alchemy and smithing are all safe to potion loop.and to be honest that's really all you need lol.this will also help power level quickly as you can reset alchmy,and make it lv 100 again with a single potion.not to mention any potion you make like this can be used without fear of breaking the game and you can get as much gold as you can stand selling em.works well with any build and can get your build to full potential quickly.and also bear in mind the vampire Lord boosts sneak by 25 percent.and even more if you make sure that necromage is the first perk you select of any skill.after necromage is active,anything that you get afterwards that affects you is boosted an additional 20 percent.i generally get vamp Lord at level one,and before I level at all I get restoration to 70.its a pain but worth it in the end.also staying level one makes getting the mountain flowers in ancestors Glade easier.and these are needed for potion loop.if done right you can be in god mode by level 30.
The alchemy exploit you call lame don't have to be used to boost play either.i have just used it simply to power level.its useful to have in your bag of tricks no mater how you choose to use it.
It's subjectively an exploit, as Slack uses detect life in the middle of Riften to level up Alteration in his Pure Mage build. He argues that he is using it correctly because detect life also is meant to detect friendlies, but at that point there are hairs being split.
Love the Beavis reference Slack! I'm sure you know, but the Muffle spell is 50% less noise, combine that with Muffled Movement perk for another 50% less noise. However if you can get a pair of Muffle enchanted boots early on (before level 10) disenchant them and enchant your own with a petty soul gem, you get 100% Muffle. Also the Muffled movement perk combined with the Shrouded Boots or Shoes is 100% too.
When using Elven armor, the Muffle spell is *100%* less noise. Did you not see the test I ran at 29:00? Custom Muffle enchanted boots are convenient but like I said in the video, you lose the XP from not casting the Muffle spell.
This will be the last time I post when I'm having a no sleep for two days manic episode. All I managed to accomplish was to irritate Slack and post incorrect info. My apologies for being an idiot.
Best spell to get Illusion skill up is Muffle. Basically, you can cast it over and over again, and will gain 100 in Illusion in about 30 minutes. Probably more like an hour if you don't have any enchantments to lower casting cost of your illusion spells.
GUYS MAJOR TIP IF YOU ARE GOING TO FOLLOW THIS BUILD FOLLOW IT IN VIDEO ORDER I did smithing first and I had to wait for Embershard mine to reset which takes a while so some advice for people who are making it now
Hey Slack, just wanted to let you know you don't actually need the muffle spell if you already got muffled movement. The muffle mechanic in Skyrim is glitched, supposedly you would need muffled shoes and muffled movement to imitate the muffle spell, since both give 50% muffle according to their description. But this has not only been officially confirmed bugged, but also my own experience has shown this to be true, if you have the perk AND are invisible you can walk around invisible without ever getting detected. The third "detection mechanic" in Skyrim beyond sound and sight only comes to play if you somehow make your presence known. Sadly this can happen through various means, the most annoying one is simply having a follower with you, don't get me wrong I hate followers, but for some quests they are essential. Btw. the best dagger you can get very early in Skyrim is fom completing the Dark brotherhood questline, which is only inferior to Dragonbone and the quest is completeable with a low level character if you have invisibility. Also another useful thing to note is the ability to remain invisible while performing an action that would render you visible. Simply hold the right mouse button (while invis is equipped on your left hand) and release it right after you either open a door, left click for attacking an enemy or pick a lock etc etc etc. This is a guarnteed action if you don't use it for attacking but non combat actions, if you attack a critical hit will mess this up because it triggers an animation. But this is still very useful sometimes you can clear a whole room without ever getting detected.
The Muffled Movement perk glitch doesn't automatically give you 100% noise reduction. Certain conditions must apply. _Muffled Movement provides full movement noise reduction instead of 50% if, at the moment you take the perk, _*_you have Kindred Mage and are not a vampire._* en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Sneak Also, the Muffled Movement perk is a rather expensive convenience. Why waste a perk point just to reduce your ability to earn XP in combat by not casting the Muffle spell? I would suggest that only after getting Illusion up to 100. Until then, use the Muffle/Invisibility spell combo to rapidly level up Illusion. Re: The Blade of Woe (best base damage dagger from completing DB questline)... Not much use if you can't improve it until you get the Arcane Smithing perk. Especially if you're intent on getting it early in the game. You can craft, improve and enchant way better daggers before the time it takes to run through the entire DB quest line. Re: Remaining invisible exploit.... Not my thing. I'm willing to play by the rules. But hey... Different strokes! :) ...
Hey Slack, thx for the answer. :) That Wiki post is definitely wrong, I have never ever gotten Kindred Mage (as far as I can see you have it tho) and I am 100% silent with Muffled movement. Illusion levels super fast and on my current run I had 95 Illusion by level 19, only thing I did was go to Winterhold early (below level 10, maybe even 5) get Muffle and just keep casting it while ran around and minded my business (mostly looting and doing alchemy vendor quests) till I was 75 and got Invis, when I got Invis I never cast muffle again and only invised when actually needed and still got to 95 at level 19 ( my Sneak was below 40 by then and nothing detected me unless I or a companion amde my presence somehow known). On a past run a few years ago I even reset Illusion to get more levels, since it levels so fast and you can easily reduce the cost by 100%. It never took me long to get the Blade of Woe and getting Arcane Blacksmith is not that hard either, through your recent videos I even rued the comparatively slow methods I personally used to level smithing, with your methods I would have gotten it much faster. Why do you consider remaining invisible an exploit? all you do is recast invisibility right after you do something. :) Anyway, thx for all the great guides, I never meant to criticize and only wanted to share my personal experience. :)
_the ability to remain invisible while performing an action that would render you visible_ In my books, that's an exploit, plain and simple. The rules are the action is supposed to render you visible. Trying to circumvent that is an exploit. But if you're comfortable with it, all the power to ya. Repeatedly casting Muffle when you're not in combat to level Illusion is not really my style. I consider that an exploit as well. _It never took me long to get the Blade of Woe_ lol... I've actually done a walkthrough of the DB quest line. Been there, done that. It's not something you rip off in under an hour. When you say it never took me long, I notice you didn't get specific. I know how long it takes. Just saying... ;) Also, you can't enchant the Blade of Woe and quite frankly, it has an enchantment that is of little use to an Illusion Assassin since they rarely take damage in combat. But whatever... We have different play styles. Different strokes, dude. :)
_That Wiki post is definitely wrong_ Nope. It's correct. Just tested it on a level 1 character. Try it yourself if you're on the PC version. With no other perks, open the console and type in: player.addperk 00058213 This will add the Muffled Movement perk. Then open the console and type in: player.getav movementnoisemult This will tell you what your movement noise reduction is. You'll see the value is 0.5. :)
Amazing video. Quick question, on PC, how are you quick casting/quick changing your spells? I'm on my first EVER run through Skyrim doing a dual dagger build until I get spells in which case i'll be doing the illusion assassin build. Are you using keyboard/mouse and have them bound to quick cast/quick change? Any information is greatly appreciated!!
I'm using the Favorites system. When you go into your inventory and hover over any item or spell, you'll see a button to press to make it a favorite. Then back in the game, there's another key you can press to bring up the favorites menu (you'll have to look that up in your Options, mine are custom configured). When you bring up the in-game favorites menu, hover over any item in that menu and press any number on your keyboard from 0-9. Then close the favorites menu and henceforth whatever number you set for any particular favorited item, will automatically load that item.
Valdr's lucky dagger could be a nice addition to this build Slack. The crit that it does stacks with the x30 bonus, also causes stagger alot of the time. It benefits from the steel smithing perk so is pretty easy to beef up to legendary.
Actually, it wouldn't because the way the game applies that crit chance is off the base damage of the dagger. Not the improved damage but the base number before perks are applied. Which is why crit in skyrim sucks.
While yes it does not stack with the upgraded damage. The extra 2.5 base crit damage does stack with the x30 sneak attack damage that you see in this video, so thats a 25% chance to do an extra 75 damage. It doesnt need soul gem recharge, and it only requires the steel smithing perk to upgrade so good for low level assassins. Also anyone looking to do the quest to get the dagger on legendary difficulty, offer to clear Moss Mother Cavern by yourself while he stays outside. This will make only low level spriggans spawn inside, whereas with him you can get some high level ones.
hey slack love the video as always my man and love your builds as always but i was wondering is it possible to make 2 dragons fight each other if you use the furry spell and then go invisible?
Are you finding that 300 magicka is good? Or will you need a bit more as you level? I ask because I’ve never played a magicka user before and have never put any points into it, so I’m truly ignorant here. 😎
Why would any sneaker character *NOT* pick up silent casting, dagger perks in sneak tree and backstab gloves? Particularly if you're a vampire since you don't need the ancient dark brotherhood chest piece to be immune to poison (vamps are immune to poison and disease), and with a nice caster clothie chest piece you easily offset even the daylight magicka regen debuff, along with making invisibility cost less to cast. So with dark brotherhood boots and hands and a clothie illusion chest piece you have, effectively, unlimited use of invisibility, cannot be heard even while running past falmer, cannot be detected by the best dragons and have x30 damage with daggers on your sneak attacks. Legendary difficulty very easily becomes easy mode for a sneaking vampire with illusion magic. I would, however, pick up a better dagger than the dwarven one you're using. However, yeah: anything you can attack from the ground can get one shotted easily using this build and you can even sneak through and with caution and good observation of the area, you can even one shot everything without taking a hit.
@@burningpegasus759 In most RPG games, "casters", meaning mage archetype magic users, wear very little armor or wear light armor with very little armor value. As a result they're often called "clothies" or "caster clothies." As compared to heavy armored fighters who are designed to be defensive and have a lot of HP, who are referred to as "tanks". In the statement above I was referring to the cloth chest pieces which offer magicka regen and reduce the cost of certain spell schools - specifically using one for illusion so that invisibility costs less magicka to cast and what magicka is used is regenerated quickly.
Instructions unclear. Made another sneaky archer.
Skills & Perks - 12:43
Armor & Weapons - 24:00
Spells & Shouts - 28:00
Thanks for watching!
seems like you put the wrong link to the double power attack video in the description
Thanks for pointing that out. It's fixed now. :)
MajorSlackAttack oh man, I can't enough of these vids, keep up the good work!
hey should go vampire for stronger spells and enchantments. in the restoration tree.
I still can't find the walk through for this build Slack. Where is it please!
A lot of youtubers that make skyrim builds add backstories, while they can be interesting I way prefer your attitude towards showing off what the build can do and informative suggestions and guidelines to recreating your hard work. I just want to say thanks for the awesome videos. Keep doing what you're doing!
I have such respect for you because you do everything legitimately.
I tend to do everything legitimately as well with every new build and playthrough except for getting a ton of coins early in the game by exploiting quicksaves + pickpocket everyone in whiterun
Unfortunately that would level up skill trees needed for this build so can't do it this time 😔🤣
Shouting silently... think about it... just think... about it....
JustCallMeHomie can't... tried but it instantly gave my brain the stupid.
JustCallMeHomie it more just getting magic out the mouth
Um what
Isn't that just what the Greybeards do when they talk🤔
yawning
An illusions build actually worth a damn that I'll be putting into practice ASAP. Thank you for the hard work and such an insightful build Slack.
OMG - I'm going to have to rethink my plan to follow this walkthrough. This is one of the most awesome builds I've ever seen you create! You are without question the best strategic player in the biz.
I originally planned to use my destruction mage (based on your Lux Iron-Breast build) and just level up sneak & illusion to your levels. However, after watching you put this build through it's paces, I see the advantage of building specific skills, perks, armor & tools to compete the picture. There's more than enough info here in this episode for an experienced player to rebuild and follow more closely - just because this looks like so much fun!
Keep on keepin' on, sir!!!
Not gonna lie, it took a bit before I noticed the character crouched in the grass
The best guide to illusion. Really got me into Skyrim with this fantastic guide to this build. I share this video all the time!
It’s not actually.
can't wait to do this, i just found my love of illusion spells. really will have some fun with sneaking about and changing the rules of battle with the spells.
yeah its so fun to watch bandit friends all murdering each other :))
15:07 I buy the muffle spell as soon as I find it, then just spam cast in whenever I'm running around a city which usually maxes out illusion pretty fast on its own.
Osareafallire, Yours is good advice. I've invested quite a bit in Illusion, and I'm very keen to get it to where this video shows its power. I had a question about the right side of illusion perks. I've not put anything toward the animal and kindred mage points, preferring instead to go up the middle for the fury and rage and to the left for adept, master, etc. At present, I'm still getting my ass kicked and quickly have to pull out my prized bow or Fire Breath them when they're charging. Do you think I've made an error and should get the animal and kindred mage perks on my way up the illusion tree?
@@BlackbirdWrites The right side is absolutely essential, simply for silent casting, which affects ALL schools of magic, and the benefits of kindred and animage stack which means eventually pacify/harmony work on Draugr Lords and mammoths. Once you're at that level... most things are almost easy but somehow still entertaining.
@@osareafallire
I will definitely take your advice. It is intriguing to imagine getting to that level to have a choice in combat style. I added an increased population mod yesterday, and now I've got a dragon jumping me from the sky, cultists shooting fireballs at me, and then out of the Blue Mountain flower patch comes this vicious Ebony Warrior. He's got a Bounty on my ass! Tries to hack me to pieces.
That battle would have been much less stressful with this Illusion build! Thankfully, I had given Lydia a Staff of Fireballs, otherwise, I would not have made it!
Thank you for your advice and help.
Blackbird
just got his ebook and read it last night absolute gold very well done and a lot of amazing tips in it highly recommend even if you never make the builds the section on power potions and explaining the glass cannon approach is well worth it
Thanks, Slack. I'm glad to see that you've recovered from your unscheduled walkthrough of Cracked Tusk Keep. Always be sure that your dentist has the well rested bonus before doing a root canal. Seriously, I hope that you are well and are recovering nicely from your recent health issues.
LOL! Thanks! :D
Wow that's surprisingly satisfying to watch enemies slash each other! Great job Major!
About this "no sight no sound" detection you mention - I prefer to think they just see footsteps on the snow or the grass and leaves under your feet. Or maybe its just their 6-th sense. Anyway, as we can see in the game, characters being invisible can still be seen when they are close enough, so detecting you when silent and invisible is still possible.
"Bears are really hard to sneak around."
Which is ironic seeing how a bear is what you have to sneak around during the tutorial at the beginning of the game.
That’s a special bear that is nerfed for the tutorial.
@@Mitch_NZ True...but still funny as hell.
@MajorSlackAttack First of all, a long-time viewer, first-time commenter. Love your content, keep up the good work on REAL walkthroughs. Secondly, I didn't notice it when the video was uploaded but at around 17:18 when you are explaining the shrouded gloves you got something wrong. They only provide the x2 damage to daggers, not all one handed weapons. SPOILERS WARNING! The ancient shrouded gloves that you have access to later in the questline do x2 damage across all one handed weapons. This is a common misinterpretation of the description on the gloves. Just thought I'd be a hardcore slacker and clarify. Keep up the good work, you are one of my favorite TH-camrs.
I think this is my all time favourite character build vid. Thanks so much, I’m running a Breton archer Mage at present and will use these tips immediately!
Ring of Masser and Gray Cowl from SAE make this even better. I didn`t even invested into Illusion cost reduction perks
if you wear a falmer helmet you can also wear a circlet with it underneath for extra modifying/enchanting. which i'm sure you probably already know
damn near perfect.
your analytical skills are top-notch
The reason bears can detect you is that you haven’t taken a shower in over 2000 hours of Skyrim gameplay ! 🤣😁🤪
Unless , you count swimming in river , lakes , waterfalls and ect.... as bathing in Skyrim. 😂
I started playing Skyrim for the first time this past month and i went for a Thief & Magic build primarily illusion and some conjuration. This video was basically why i wanted dem illusion skills!~ xD
please do a walkthrough of this. I'm sure many of us would love to watch it.
omg I was not planning on joining the dark brotherhood, but now I have to make an assassin build. This build looks like tons of fun.
i love the idea of the bandits getting killed one by one from something none of them see, very cool!
Another smokin' character build. She truly is "silent but deadly"!
Very nice build, Sir. Playing Illusion fighter is a lot of fun. And playing a sneaky Illusion assassin? That had to be a realy riot.
"This build is a total riot" - said while using frenzy. Love it
I love this build and wish there was a walkthrough. However, I've been making a variation of this while watching this video many times. I think, so far, I'm doing a well enough job. Thanks Major Slack!
Same lol
Really useful guide, just starting a Illision Assassin. I'll need to work out the best perk progression order but awesome stuff :)
I think the best assassin build is Illusion, Alchemy, Sneak, One Handed,
Why alchemy?
@@royalfilho1871 poisons. The damage dealing ones suck mostly, but you can use paralysis or frenzy poisons, pickpocket to put it on people. You can cause quite a the diversion with them, it's just a funnier way than sneak and snipe with a bow lol
Archery for fking dragons works too
mine is, sneak, one handed, archery, illusion.
Please do a walkthrough of this build. I would love to see how you built her from level 1-41. If you got her to the point of going up against Ebony Warrior could she take him on with no problems?
I have been waiting the whole weekend for this! Damn. I'm really hooked on your Skyrim vids. Thanks for another fix, Slack! o7
you da man Slack, love the content you upload.
Made this build yesterday and I love it. Have watched all your videos.
Illusion is great to pair with necromancy. With multiple enemies, Frenzy to weaken then all, raise the loser and make them fight again and slaughter the winner.
Illusion assassin 2020! My character is named Shadow and I'm loving this playstyle!
Wow, I admit that I haven’t used Illusion very much! I think that may change!!!! 😊👌🏻👍
using marked for death on dragon from a lair has a weird effect. Since every time it respawns it will respawn with the same ID which means the armor reduction from marked for death is permament. After a few respawns and shouts you will always kill them in one shot with everything since their armor will be wayyyyy negative
Glooze damn
The Marked for Death shout can also permanently ruin your followers. It's buggy as hell.
I love all the work you put in your videos, the knowledge, the time and the effort it takes but the more and more i see you play on legendary the less it seems to be a challenge for you ahah. Although u start a real freaking challenge with the no-caption something that makes money in skyrim- run. I would really enjoy and look foward for a : Mighty Skyrim Requiem no Crack and Jack but only Slack run ! I understand how much it would confuse you if you never tried it but i think it might but the next challenging gameplay you could go through! Even though i never saw you use 1 mod who knows one day in my notification box i will see "MajorSlackAttack uploaded a video : Mighty Skyrim Requiem no Crack and Jack but only Slack run(intro)"
Always with love Jim
My favourite build! Just sit back and watch the show. Kill enemies without doing a thing throw in conjuration to spice things up! If you want to get involved sneak invisible cut the enemies throat. So dark and fun my favourite by far!
William Newland
Same. It’s also super fun for NPC shenanigans. Whenever ya need some extra gold and don’t have a high enough pickpocket level to take that valuable golden necklace off of a non-essential NPC, just hit em up with frenzy, have the guards kill them, and loot the body. Enemy fort too populated to sneak past? Just hit ‘em up with Hysteria or Mayhem and casually stroll through the chaos, treating their most closely guarded secrets like a menu at a restaurant.
The average warrior role play wants to go around killing stuff while an illusionist simply leans back in his chair and says:
“Why kill them when I can just snap my fingers and have their closest friends do it for me?” This is the true power fantasy right here.
julian12465 thays badass
@@Sakaki98 Yours is an excellent definition of this play style. I applaud your point, "This is the true power fantasy right here."
You know what's the good thing about an Illusion Mage? Cast Calm on everyone and no one will give a shit if you're a Stage 4 Vampire...
Alduin World Eater, no one will give a shit if you're a stage 4 vampire if you have Dawnguard installed, my dude
i remember when there wasn't dawnguard dlc and being a stage 4 vampire was fucking annoying.
Just going back through and watching you vids man! This build is awesome!
Oh actually! What's your upload schedule for the survival two handed series? I keep checking hoping to see another one! Haha
I have a hunch that Slack enjoys Skyrim
Why get muffled movement when you have the muffle spell? Because the effects stack. Both reduce sound by 50%, with both it reduces sound by roughly 75% imxp.. It can make a huge difference against those 'mysteriously detecting' enemies...
This.
The only way to get 100% muffle in the game is to find a pair of boots of muffle from a vendor or in loot and disenchant them and enchant your own boots. Then, with those boots and invisibility you can sneak up on bears.
Yes you finally made a build that's my play style!! Thank you Major Slack.
One-hand fortify doesn't work because of a glitch. Fortify archery potion works on dagger damage but fortify archery enchant doesn't.
So for people that don't have any mod that fixes bugs, they can still use fortify archery potion to improve damage.
Awesome video MajorSlackAttack!!!! liked! One thing though, I saw somewhere that the unofficial patch fixed the fortify one-handed enchant to work for daggers now. I could have misunderstood what I read, so if so I apologize in advance! Keep up the good work!
bears can smell you 6:45 lol
Love to see a sneak orc unarmed build where you sneak up on people orc rage then body slam them atomic drop etc
I love frenzy. BTW I trained my illusion by using rally on groups of people.
And you won't get a bounty for using rally either, so it makes it easy.
How do you get rally
@@jeannathomas1556 it's found in random loot when your character is level 23+ and you can purchase it from Drevis or Sybille from level 40+. Also, yay fellow lady gamer!
Skyrim's Giants can't catch a break with you around, can they, Slack? :P
I called this, my demon build because you maximize your damage while convincing your enemies you don’t exist.
even better than your sneak archer build, and so much more versatile in so many situations!!! very enlightning. 😎
As far as Dark Brotherhood armor goes, I prefer the Ancient Shrouded Armor. Though it takes some strategery to get it without doing the quest line at all (uesp describes how to do it using ritual stone), the base stats are better than the standard DB armor. I wonder how incorporating it’s acquisition into your builds would change things. 🤔
Hello, stranger! This was new and refreshing enough to even wake me from my slumber :D Could this be the new Slack go-to build?! Either way, it sure looks like it would be mine, I love mind-control stuff in games where it doesn't take too much maintenance, just pop it and watch the fireworks.
I dropped out of the picture sometime around December when IRL stuff and things happened, but here's hoping I can rekindle my Slack routine again
Once, i killed a dragon with a knife. One attack.
Most Epic Build i ever made (With Ordinator perk mod) thanks!
Slicing the air above the enemies head so hard, they die to the decompression
ikr
hey slack. thanks for all the great content you do. 🤗👍
with this build i like to be a dark elf vampire. dark elf has pretty nice illusion and sneak base stats, and it also has the fire resistance which counters the fire weakness from vampire, and you also get better illusion and sneak as vampire.
i tend to always lvl pickpocket to 50 for 100 extra carry weight also depending on your luck you can get a whole lot of enchanted rings/ necklaces
Still i can't decide which race should I play :((
@@DamianB82 They only matter alot early on. Any race can min/max anything. In the end you should just have fun and choose whatever you want.
Do this build but make it with a dark elf and become a vampire lord. Dark elves are naturally resistant to fire so no fire vulnerability and vampire lord makes your illusion spells stronger, and to be even more op you could get the necromage perk from restoration and it'll make your spells EVEN stronger, totally broken.
@@djredangel thats fair i get the whole thing about not needing that extra resistance but i prefer it because once you get enchanting high enough, and reduce the casting cost of your main spells that extra 50 magicka won't make a huge difference
@@djredangel but highborn definitely beats Ancestors wrath
Ah I see, a man of culture
If you decide to go the route of double enchant perk at 100 enchanting, you don't need anything into illusion or magika (except for novice illusion). you can double enchant gear to get over 100% reduced illusion cost, without sacrificing anything else. You can also use this perk to double up on SNEAK and illusion spell reduction cost.
Mr Enlichten explain how!!
2 enchants per item, Ollie
I'm in the process of starting pretty much the same build at the moment, except I'm bringing in conjuration as well......Total glass cannon but should be fun when completed.
I noticed the muffle spell itself can be cast near enemies without detection before you get the silent casting perk
i am going to do a skyrim run where my character will be a hybrid of this and stealth archer (the tricky part is how to spread my points, i would not go to much in illusion but high in sneak, archery,one hand and other thief skills)
Stevonnie Jenkins you will eventually need to invest almost completely in the Illusion tree once you get to the higher levels. Don’t waste your perk points on master illusion or mastery spells because they aren’t very good.
Hey, if you are still interested, I can share my build of the nightblade.
skyrimcalculator.com/496975
Keep in mind this is a barebone build aimed at around Lv 30~ish.
2 years late but im just playing skyrim for the first time i originally planned to be a stealth archer but became a dagger assasin halfway thru cause this was way more fun lol
Please do a walkthrough of this build.
My illusion assassin is a bit different.
More akin to a mage cosplaying a rogue relying on alteration for the armour spells and enough conjuration for mystic binding perk because bound weapons are the coolest looking.
that is totally a nightblade by morrowind classes.
I wanna use a khajit for this but a damn milk drinker can't be dragonborn!!
haha !!
By end game, I just use the invisibility spell combined with the sneak skill that lets you sneak at full speed to run past all enemies to the objective. I also usually user furry on assassination missions to make the target get themselves killed. And with Smithing and Enchanting at 100, you can one hit some dragons on legendary. The alchemy exploit is lame though. Crossbow sneak attacks are usually a one hit kill as well.
Just potion loop a ring of alchemy.make an extremely op potion of enchanting and fortify boots with sneak.you will never be detected again.and sneak won't break with potion loop.i know alot of things can and will,but sneak,health and Stam Regen, fortify magica and magica Regen,pick pocket and lock picking and alchemy and smithing are all safe to potion loop.and to be honest that's really all you need lol.this will also help power level quickly as you can reset alchmy,and make it lv 100 again with a single potion.not to mention any potion you make like this can be used without fear of breaking the game and you can get as much gold as you can stand selling em.works well with any build and can get your build to full potential quickly.and also bear in mind the vampire Lord boosts sneak by 25 percent.and even more if you make sure that necromage is the first perk you select of any skill.after necromage is active,anything that you get afterwards that affects you is boosted an additional 20 percent.i generally get vamp Lord at level one,and before I level at all I get restoration to 70.its a pain but worth it in the end.also staying level one makes getting the mountain flowers in ancestors Glade easier.and these are needed for potion loop.if done right you can be in god mode by level 30.
The alchemy exploit you call lame don't have to be used to boost play either.i have just used it simply to power level.its useful to have in your bag of tricks no mater how you choose to use it.
You can level up Illusion rapidly by casting the spell ''Muffle'' repeatedly.
Papaben That, good Sir, is an exploit. Slack doesn't use exploits.
It's subjectively an exploit, as Slack uses detect life in the middle of Riften to level up Alteration in his Pure Mage build. He argues that he is using it correctly because detect life also is meant to detect friendlies, but at that point there are hairs being split.
Love the Beavis reference Slack! I'm sure you know, but the Muffle spell is 50% less noise, combine that with Muffled Movement perk for another 50% less noise. However if you can get a pair of Muffle enchanted boots early on (before level 10) disenchant them and enchant your own with a petty soul gem, you get 100% Muffle. Also the Muffled movement perk combined with the Shrouded Boots or Shoes is 100% too.
When using Elven armor, the Muffle spell is *100%* less noise. Did you not see the test I ran at 29:00? Custom Muffle enchanted boots are convenient but like I said in the video, you lose the XP from not casting the Muffle spell.
I was probably typing at 29:00 Slack, my bad.
You are correct sir, another mistake on my part.
This will be the last time I post when I'm having a no sleep for two days manic episode. All I managed to accomplish was to irritate Slack and post incorrect info. My apologies for being an idiot.
Cool video and really useful but the only problem I have is that you jump around to much when going over skills and perks.
Nice Beavis and Butthead at the intro
Best spell to get Illusion skill up is Muffle. Basically, you can cast it over and over again, and will gain 100 in Illusion in about 30 minutes. Probably more like an hour if you don't have any enchantments to lower casting cost of your illusion spells.
GUYS MAJOR TIP IF YOU ARE GOING TO FOLLOW THIS BUILD FOLLOW IT IN VIDEO ORDER
I did smithing first and I had to wait for Embershard mine to reset which takes a while so some advice for people who are making it now
My favorite build by far, so much fun
Same, it is a very fun build and also one of the most overpowered IF you know how to play it.
you can just walk through a bandit camp and kill everyone without them noticing
nightblade
You're really making use of your multiple personality disorder
The Zer0 Build
Still waiting for a gunzerker build
Hey Slack, just wanted to let you know you don't actually need the muffle spell if you already got muffled movement.
The muffle mechanic in Skyrim is glitched, supposedly you would need muffled shoes and muffled movement to imitate the muffle spell, since both give 50% muffle according to their description.
But this has not only been officially confirmed bugged, but also my own experience has shown this to be true, if you have the perk AND are invisible you can walk around invisible without ever getting detected.
The third "detection mechanic" in Skyrim beyond sound and sight only comes to play if you somehow make your presence known. Sadly this can happen through various means, the most annoying one is simply having a follower with you, don't get me wrong I hate followers, but for some quests they are essential.
Btw. the best dagger you can get very early in Skyrim is fom completing the Dark brotherhood questline, which is only inferior to Dragonbone and the quest is completeable with a low level character if you have invisibility.
Also another useful thing to note is the ability to remain invisible while performing an action that would render you visible.
Simply hold the right mouse button (while invis is equipped on your left hand) and release it right after you either open a door, left click for attacking an enemy or pick a lock etc etc etc.
This is a guarnteed action if you don't use it for attacking but non combat actions, if you attack a critical hit will mess this up because it triggers an animation. But this is still very useful sometimes you can clear a whole room without ever getting detected.
The Muffled Movement perk glitch doesn't automatically give you 100% noise reduction. Certain conditions must apply.
_Muffled Movement provides full movement noise reduction instead of 50% if, at the moment you take the perk, _*_you have Kindred Mage and are not a vampire._*
en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Sneak
Also, the Muffled Movement perk is a rather expensive convenience. Why waste a perk point just to reduce your ability to earn XP in combat by not casting the Muffle spell? I would suggest that only after getting Illusion up to 100. Until then, use the Muffle/Invisibility spell combo to rapidly level up Illusion.
Re: The Blade of Woe (best base damage dagger from completing DB questline)... Not much use if you can't improve it until you get the Arcane Smithing perk. Especially if you're intent on getting it early in the game. You can craft, improve and enchant way better daggers before the time it takes to run through the entire DB quest line.
Re: Remaining invisible exploit.... Not my thing. I'm willing to play by the rules.
But hey... Different strokes! :)
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Hey Slack, thx for the answer. :)
That Wiki post is definitely wrong, I have never ever gotten Kindred Mage (as far as I can see you have it tho) and I am 100% silent with Muffled movement.
Illusion levels super fast and on my current run I had 95 Illusion by level 19, only thing I did was go to Winterhold early (below level 10, maybe even 5) get Muffle and just keep casting it while ran around and minded my business (mostly looting and doing alchemy vendor quests) till I was 75 and got Invis, when I got Invis I never cast muffle again and only invised when actually needed and still got to 95 at level 19 ( my Sneak was below 40 by then and nothing detected me unless I or a companion amde my presence somehow known).
On a past run a few years ago I even reset Illusion to get more levels, since it levels so fast and you can easily reduce the cost by 100%.
It never took me long to get the Blade of Woe and getting Arcane Blacksmith is not that hard either, through your recent videos I even rued the comparatively slow methods I personally used to level smithing, with your methods I would have gotten it much faster.
Why do you consider remaining invisible an exploit? all you do is recast invisibility right after you do something. :)
Anyway, thx for all the great guides, I never meant to criticize and only wanted to share my personal experience. :)
_the ability to remain invisible while performing an action that would render you visible_
In my books, that's an exploit, plain and simple. The rules are the action is supposed to render you visible. Trying to circumvent that is an exploit. But if you're comfortable with it, all the power to ya.
Repeatedly casting Muffle when you're not in combat to level Illusion is not really my style. I consider that an exploit as well.
_It never took me long to get the Blade of Woe_
lol... I've actually done a walkthrough of the DB quest line. Been there, done that. It's not something you rip off in under an hour. When you say it never took me long, I notice you didn't get specific. I know how long it takes. Just saying... ;) Also, you can't enchant the Blade of Woe and quite frankly, it has an enchantment that is of little use to an Illusion Assassin since they rarely take damage in combat.
But whatever... We have different play styles. Different strokes, dude. :)
_That Wiki post is definitely wrong_
Nope. It's correct. Just tested it on a level 1 character. Try it yourself if you're on the PC version.
With no other perks, open the console and type in:
player.addperk 00058213
This will add the Muffled Movement perk.
Then open the console and type in:
player.getav movementnoisemult
This will tell you what your movement noise reduction is. You'll see the value is 0.5.
:)
When you get the Kindred Mage perk and do the same console test, the movementnoisemult value is -9.5 (below zero thus rendering 100% noise reduction).
this is such a cool build, never thought of it, i'll defo start a new build!
very nice build I tried it last night it was a lot of fun and different. I used it on a level 74 briton
Ohhh my god :D Awesome! :D Hope this one gets a Pure Walkthrough Challenge Run :D Btw. Does the orc passive boosts the dagger dmg? O.O
Yes.
No
The only things that are not affected by Berserker Rage in terms of dealing damage are poisons and Destruction spells.
Amazing video. Quick question, on PC, how are you quick casting/quick changing your spells? I'm on my first EVER run through Skyrim doing a dual dagger build until I get spells in which case i'll be doing the illusion assassin build. Are you using keyboard/mouse and have them bound to quick cast/quick change? Any information is greatly appreciated!!
I'm using the Favorites system. When you go into your inventory and hover over any item or spell, you'll see a button to press to make it a favorite. Then back in the game, there's another key you can press to bring up the favorites menu (you'll have to look that up in your Options, mine are custom configured). When you bring up the in-game favorites menu, hover over any item in that menu and press any number on your keyboard from 0-9. Then close the favorites menu and henceforth whatever number you set for any particular favorited item, will automatically load that item.
The default is Q
i'm from the future and if slacks redo this build he could do much better.
Lol. I'm here with you.
for bears it could be smell to detect you even if your invisible
Ilusion is an amazing school
You make them fight and you womt do nothing
Mixed with conjuration you can justiça grab a bottle and sit and watch
the hidden detection element is smell. They can smell you coming. PU
You get a like.
have you thought of revamping this build with ordinator?
Valdr's lucky dagger could be a nice addition to this build Slack. The crit that it does stacks with the x30 bonus, also causes stagger alot of the time. It benefits from the steel smithing perk so is pretty easy to beef up to legendary.
Actually, it wouldn't because the way the game applies that crit chance is off the base damage of the dagger. Not the improved damage but the base number before perks are applied. Which is why crit in skyrim sucks.
TheReez95 I wish it was off the upgraded damage. Same with unarmed damage off gauntlets
While yes it does not stack with the upgraded damage. The extra 2.5 base crit damage does stack with the x30 sneak attack damage that you see in this video, so thats a 25% chance to do an extra 75 damage. It doesnt need soul gem recharge, and it only requires the steel smithing perk to upgrade so good for low level assassins.
Also anyone looking to do the quest to get the dagger on legendary difficulty, offer to clear Moss Mother Cavern by yourself while he stays outside. This will make only low level spriggans spawn inside, whereas with him you can get some high level ones.
Love your videos! Question. Still working my way through the dark elf build. Which house would you recommend?
Can bears smell in this that's the only way they'll be able to detect you
Maybe the hidden detector factor is smell...
hey slack love the video as always my man and love your builds as always but i was wondering is it possible to make 2 dragons fight each other if you use the furry spell and then go invisible?
Slack please do a walkthrough of this build.
looks fun! have to try this for sure
Are you finding that 300 magicka is good? Or will you need a bit more as you level? I ask because I’ve never played a magicka user before and have never put any points into it, so I’m truly ignorant here. 😎
Well usually people are lowering the spells' cost not magicka
Thanks for the great video.
Is there a step by step walkthrough for this? Thanks
Seems like there is no help or advice just dumb laughing and killing stuff.
@@kardainzr161 You definitely didn't watch the whole video if you missed all the information.
Why would any sneaker character *NOT* pick up silent casting, dagger perks in sneak tree and backstab gloves? Particularly if you're a vampire since you don't need the ancient dark brotherhood chest piece to be immune to poison (vamps are immune to poison and disease), and with a nice caster clothie chest piece you easily offset even the daylight magicka regen debuff, along with making invisibility cost less to cast.
So with dark brotherhood boots and hands and a clothie illusion chest piece you have, effectively, unlimited use of invisibility, cannot be heard even while running past falmer, cannot be detected by the best dragons and have x30 damage with daggers on your sneak attacks. Legendary difficulty very easily becomes easy mode for a sneaking vampire with illusion magic. I would, however, pick up a better dagger than the dwarven one you're using.
However, yeah: anything you can attack from the ground can get one shotted easily using this build and you can even sneak through and with caution and good observation of the area, you can even one shot everything without taking a hit.
Observing Libertarian what’s caster clothie
@@burningpegasus759 In most RPG games, "casters", meaning mage archetype magic users, wear very little armor or wear light armor with very little armor value. As a result they're often called "clothies" or "caster clothies." As compared to heavy armored fighters who are designed to be defensive and have a lot of HP, who are referred to as "tanks". In the statement above I was referring to the cloth chest pieces which offer magicka regen and reduce the cost of certain spell schools - specifically using one for illusion so that invisibility costs less magicka to cast and what magicka is used is regenerated quickly.