DO NOT pick these perks in Skyrim

Some Skyrim perks are simply not worth it for your build. All the perks involving critical hit damage work off of base damage which is very low compared to the damage you get from your weapons in the end game via enchanting, smithing and skill level increases. Don't get these perks, except the sprinting power attack one if you just enjoy it!

[@Purriah]

This is wild. I didn’t even realize Skyrim was a game, I thought it was the engine to run all of my s*x mods

[@freakishlist]

you're not kidding, are you?

[@punani_slayer4209]

😂😂

[@bettaboi]

Bruh Same 🤝

[@skulldar]

​@@freakishlist definitely not kidding

[@molybdaen11]

It's not?

[@Magnus3144]

My favorite perk is the one where crouching makes the opponent immediately forget where you are

[@rabbit0664]

Same. I've shot someone, crouched, and watched as they walked right past me.

[@unajugadamas5826]

☠️ cuando otro enemigo te ve,ya no funciona más a menos que estés atrás de un muro o lejos

[@natesoto1362]

Shadow Warrior

[@simgarfu]

1 shot crit kill Duck 1 shot Duck You’d think it’d get boring after a while…it doesn’t

[@IwonyoulostLOL]

It also forces them to stop combat and search for an opponent

[@PrinsaVossum]

*laughs in Ordinator*

[@Vodosvinka42]

Ordinator is ass.

[@SsjRedneck]

I prefer vokrii but ordinator is also goated

[@madisonsosa21]

I usually use the SPERG one. How good is Ordianator?

[@PrinsaVossum]

@@madisonsosa21 I like it. It allows for more varied playstyles. For example, there's a few perks that make playing as a spellsword better.

[@Kraigen44]

​@Madi Wilson I'm currently using it to play as a bard and buff my companions. And if you use the become a bard mod you can earn gold and stays in the inns which is handy if you play survival.

[@BrodyMKramer]

If you’re gonna tell me 12 years later that out of my 30+ different runs in Skyrim that critical damage is useless then I just don’t know what to do with my life anymore

[@Haru-spicy]

sneak attack criticals are different. your stealth archer is still OP as hell, not to worry

[@drahunter213]

Right? I still don’t get why it’s bad…does it do nothing? Or does it zero your crit and then add the new perk in? Which makes weapons weaker? Lol no idea

[@davidkamps9879]

⁠@@drahunter213 Crit is useless because it amplifies your base damage by a percentage rather than your scaled damage. It only adds a minuscule amount of damage to weapons that have been enhanced via enchantments or smithing. If you have infinite skill points it’s not a bad investment, 15 damage is what it is, but otherwise you’re better off getting anything else.

[@iami3rian394]

Should have paid more attention when I pointed it out twelve years ago.

[@iami3rian394]

​​@@drahunter213a explained... That 125 damage daedric axe with a base damage of 25 will crit for (+12 (its actually 13, skyrim always rounds up, but I didn't specifically SAY that to fudgemuppet, so they couldbt steal that too).... .... would crit for 137(actually 8). Thats not gonna cut a single extra hit off of just about anything.

[@geoffknox597]

A sprinting power attack is way faster than a walking power attack so it's totally worth it regardless of damage output.

[@horvathbenedek3596]

Plus you can chain it at minimal stamina cost; and it also stun locks. I remember wiping out an entire fortress of necromancers without getting hit even once, and sprinting from one guy to another, spamming sprinting power attacks and stunlocking them.

[@SoggyCoffeeAddict]

I remember maxing out that skill tree for war hammers, and then I accidentally stumbled apoun merunes razor. Then thought "well what the fuck did I just do all that for??? I can just have the chance to instakill everything 😔" then sold my Warhammer for a razor 😂

[@kogu9676]

​@@horvathbenedek3596 yeah was about to say you can just go to town on enemies like you picked up the hammer in smash bros

[@chiseledline4759]

Use the sprinting power attack as an infinite run around towns. Just dual wield daggers and go ham

[@jsfiii1212]

While over-encumbered, you can force sprinting with Whirlwind Sprint and then chain sprinting power attacks to travel faster. Add vegetable soup and you can travel very far while carrying a heavy load.

[@thegreatlordcthulhu9852]

I just get all perks, because that's what the Dragonborn does

[@stephenende]

Amen brother

[@crow_of_judgment]

My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined

[@mjag2834]

Scotomancy and Noctomancy Skill Tree anyone?!

[@franciszekjezierski5316]

my dmg*

[@panic7061]

you mean to tell me that I've been getting tricked for over ten years 💀

[@TryHard-tr8mn]

Pain. Agony even.

[@JoseHernandez-pd5qw]

My brother in Talos, I feel you.

[@dillongage]

To be fair, the sprint attack is much faster, almost always stuns, takes very little stamina, and allows you to move faster when overencumbered. If you're trying to maximize damage per hit, then sure it's not worth it. But unlike the regular crit perks, the sprint attack is something you have to actively choose to use. Overall, the sprint attack gives you multiple advantages that are still worth it, and when you want higher damage, just dont use the sprint attack. The regular critical chance skills DEFINETLY aren't worth it though at high levels though. It's a noticeable drop in damage when it crits. I'm surprised you never noticed tbh.

[@LetsRUMBLEAQ3D]

​@@dillongagethank goodness for being able to Legendary a tree, when the points feel irrelevant anymore due to your level, you can just "prestige" it

[@Bathtubcrocodile]

​@@dillongage Yeah a 2h successfull crit run attack on a bandit chief is part of the battle already won. If stunned then you do a standing power. That will put you half way to victory. It's great because the enemy will always be to slow to react.

[@FudgeMuppet]

Sprinting power attacks feel pretty cool though ;) So enjoy this new Skyrim Build: kzbin.info/www/bejne/roTGi4qPpLuVatk

[@blankfile3514]

Thx for telling me today after I just did this yesterday 🙃

[@himenaaa3565]

Sprinting while guard using block perks lv 100 making everyone got ragdolled and when they get up they get another stun by powerbash whahahaaha

[@adamallen7070]

You can SPRINT ATTACK!!!!???? IVE BEEN PLAYING FOR YEAAAAAARS

[@robmiller6249]

when's the next playthrough

[@FrankCosbyNo-Relation]

@@adamallen7070 So in all these years of playing skyrim, you never considered reading the damn skill perks?

[@Ragna_rage]

Extra damage is extra damage no matter how small

[@Bruva_Ayamhyt]

But worth a perk point? 🤔

[@evancrow2191]

In the orginal release no. But now that you can re choose perk points and infinitely level. Why not. And at least this is a positive perk unlike some others "Purify perk in alchemy tree"

[@cobaltlance18]

​@@evancrow2191 oi dont knock Purity. The most annoying shit is accidently making a restore magicka potion that will sap all your magicka because it ends up with damage magicka on it too. When you do a lot of potions and poisons you are inevitably going to get a handful of mixs that are combos of shit you dont want combined.

[@evancrow2191]

@@cobaltlance18 then know what to mix and not mix. The are potions/poisons that have good and positive effect at the same time that are worth a pretty penny. I know Gold isn't necessarily hard to get in late game but early game. Potions for every Vendor!!!!

[@kingsly2275]

@@evancrow2191 but purify makes it so you can milk the positive effects out of your objectively bad positive potion ingredients

[@WorldEaterZero]

Running one hand slash into kill cam was pretty cool tbh and I do run broken enchanment equipment whenever I wanna feel like murder machine lol

[@FrankCosbyNo-Relation]

Or you can just set it to easy difficulty...

[@WorldEaterZero]

@@FrankCosbyNo-Relation now where the fun in that? If I can't get one shotted myself to death in a memey glass cannon style duel what's the point

[@FrankCosbyNo-Relation]

@@WorldEaterZero ok then play on adept 😐

[@truegreen7595]

@@FrankCosbyNo-Relationnice self-burn there

[@TaikaJamppa]

@@FrankCosbyNo-Relation I haven’t played on anything but Legendary since 2013… 😂 And I admit, I am dying a lot and often, whenever I play, unless I stay silent and just sneak…

[@AndresD.deLeon]

Ah, it uses Gen 1 Pokémon calculations for crit damage. Truly a revolutionary algorithm

[@Cryoispainful]

Bethesda seems to have a thing for additive damage calculation because it’s in so many of their other games too 😅

[@KaoruMzk]

My thoughts exactly 😂

[@revanamell1791]

Difficulty: Novice. There. Now I can just play how I want to.

[@m.m9769]

Modding is a wonderfull thing

[@Tom-su4tc]

Agreed, ordinator pretty much overhauled the perks and allowed for more diverse builds, making the game much more replayable and creative

[@EvanP58]

@@Tom-su4tc I’m on a two handed build using Ordinator and some of those perks are very cool. The speech tree adding bonuses to shouts is another great addition.

[@jeremyhoffman9262]

Yeah, really missed an oppurtunty to provide his audience with actual helpful information. Unnoficial patch solves these, and their are much larger mods that also solve this by changing perks.

[@shadowslayer2929]

one day I'll own a PC I hope I hate playing on consoles 😒

[@JumalaPlays]

​@@shadowslayer2929 skyrim has mods on consoles, but i quess you want a certain mod only on pc?

[@TheLinksOfficial]

you worry about stuff like this less when you're level 250

[@Muckito]

And then you play the game without any powerleveling and realize that even getting to level 100 takes quite a lot of time when you just play the game as it's supposed to be.

[@mjollnir9075]

Agreed. By the time I am worrying about Daedric gear, I am ALREADY head of the Mage college, the Thieves Guild, the Companions, the Assassins Guild, and a Thane of all the cities. I also deliberately acquire ALL of the Daedric artifacts, so, I prolly sort of 'CLANK' as I run around. Just for sh!ts and giggles, I will save the game then go in and kill EVERYONE in town. Then reload the game to replace the needed NPCs.

[@missa2855]

Running power attack can make you the flash tho. Wear enough talos amulets to have no shout cool down Elemental fury! Spam running power attacks! If you did that on the old 360 version you would move faster than the terrain could load! (equip 5 by transforming to a werewolf, talk to your companion just before turning and then hand him all 5 amulets and then click the equip on yourself button, it will equipt all 5 the effect stacks, you now have unlimited shouting.)

[@Matakshaman]

You don't want them for the damage, you want them for the additional effects

[@chickenshua100]

CHIM

[@Lastofthefreenames]

The additional effect is the damage though.

[@clothar23]

​@@LastofthefreenamesNot true . We also have increased stun. Not to mention a speed increase to help close the distance. As sprinting power attacks increase a character's speed for the duration of the animation. Do you even Skyrim mate ?

[@redandblue1013]

It’s not entirely useless. Critical hits ignore armour, and it IS still extra damage Better yet, get ordinator or something, which handles crits better

[@novaglacial9779]

I think the sprint power attack is worth for the mobility

[@Rykaas]

Sprint power attacks are a must have against wizards, especially the powerful ones

[@LibraritheWizardOfficial]

Especially the frost mages

[@zach11241]

That extra five damage as a sneak archer is insanely good! As an example, I shot an Elder Dragon last night for 1,104,100 damage instead of 1,104,095!

[@poknberry5795]

But the sprinting power attack is good for staggering enemies and you can keep using it after you run out of stamina, so its just generally a good way to be hyper aggressive and kill a single enemy as fast as possible. The critical damage boost is honestly besides the point

[@zacharywoods331]

The thing about critical damage though is it causes your attack to ignore all of your opponents defence

[@justj5526]

I mean, decapitating an enemy looks way cooler than not doing it so...

[@itachiuchiha-ex2lg]

Here’s an idea: level smithing and upgrade your weapons to legendary. 🤷‍♂️

[@RebelGiga]

The crit perks are bugged too I think, the 1st level of the crit perks only give you a chance to crit but never any extra damage to it so you deal 0 crit damage with a 15% crit chance, only AFTER the 2nd&3rd level it'll give you extra damage...

[@imaginarycorgi7312]

Basically: Smithing and Enchantment. First Enchant an armor set while max Enchantment and while under the effects of an Enchantment potion that boosts your skill 25-30%. The armor’s enchantment needs to increase your smithing skill. Now when you are READY get the best armor and your best weapon ready to be upgraded. Drink a smithing potion that does a 25-30% boost and wear the smithing armor. Boom you can make a wooden sword do 110 damage.

[@nellitheretrogamer8666]

I also made an armor set that enhances alchemy. Then made Fortify Enchantment potions while wearing that. Then enchanted a new set of Alchemy armor using these new potions. I needed to repeat it a couple of times, but now I have an Alchemy set that makes Fortify Enchantment potions with 32% boost. I haven't been able to get it higher than that. But doing this sort of things when Alchemy, Smithing & Enchantment are all at 100 with all necessary perks results in ridiculously powerful stuff, and it is a lot of fun!

[@imaginarycorgi7312]

@@nellitheretrogamer8666 You’re darn right!

[@sl9wdive]

Sprint power attack is good to closing down mage enemies

[@Bathtubcrocodile]

Yeah or any enemy that does high damage. You get a free punch in the face and start with advantage with stamina left to go.

[@thezambambo2184]

Imagine relying on random crits in any game, this post was made strength build gang

[@Geta92]

The sprinting power attack also has another big downside for dual wielding characters. You cannot combo with it, it locks you into this slow long animation you cannot get out of if you miss. The regular forward power attack can be combo'd into a dual attack or dual power attack on hit. Yes Skyrim has melee combos and plenty of them are super useful on harder difficulties.

[@Aereto]

Especially with an enchantment with 1 sec paralysis and as much charge as the weapon carries for a very good chance of interrupting an enemy with multi-hit attacks.

[@Mr.Foxhat]

I'd say the lockpicking perks are pretty useless. It is literally a matter of skill as a player.

[@DefinitelyFroggyDioBrando]

And by the time you get to say lockpick 100 you'll probably already have like a hundred of em

[@Mr.Foxhat]

@@DefinitelyFroggyDioBrando Don't even get me started on the Skeleton Key.

[@CaueJulio]

​@@Mr.Foxhat only if you don't want to finish the questline

[@thezambambo2184]

"PLEASE DRAGONBORN, SUCK UP TO OUR DAEDRA SUGAR MOMMA TO FIX OUR LUCK" "If you need luck that bad, I think you need to find a different career, my guys"

[@Flesh_Wizard]

​@@DefinitelyFroggyDioBrando rookie numbers

[@ED-yy4te]

if you have both the sprinting and rolling sneak perk, hold attack while rolling and you will do a sprinting sneak attack with both damage bonuses

[@paulmcpheeters]

Shield sprint is by far the one-handed warrior’s best friend “You’ve committed crimes against Skyrim and her… *KLOMMMPPPLLDDDLLDDMMPGGGGRRRR*”

[@izakireemsi2783]

Fr Shield Sprint is the best. I just love watching enemies knocks flying

[@samdupre1731]

If your battle axe only does 176 damage you should invest in smithing.

[@SelphieTheNutter]

And Enchanting And Alchemy as well.

[@izakireemsi2783]

​@@SelphieTheNutter Fortify 1/2 Handed must be taken accounts when enchanting armor for further damage

[@qazior]

@@izakireemsi2783 I chuckled for reading "fortify half-handed"

[@LibraritheWizardOfficial]

Or try this novel and crazy idea: don't grind crafting skills and enjoy just doing the fun part of the game (killing Thalmor) on reasonable difficulties 😮

[@gitpicker9933]

Or resto loop

[@alfieingrouille1528]

too bad I will make some builds utilizing these perks just to spite this short😤

[@6Tainted1370]

Good man, ignore these stupid shorts.

[@T3nMiDGET5711]

I’m gonna be real, I just want to a cool animation to play when I kill someone in Skyrim. That’s it, and if I’m lucky their head will fall off.

[@bigstevedzn2353]

Best believe when I killed an executioner I only used the headsmans axe for the rest of my play through.

[@T3nMiDGET5711]

@@bigstevedzn2353 Fr, going from a prisoner on the chopping block to killing an executioner and wielding the axe is so cool.

[@SniperSpartanPro]

Welp, this was a waste of time. Look, crit damage is crit damage. More damage = more damage.

[@user-bb3mb1wk9n]

Yea and Archery crit is actually insane, almost 1 shot anything with the right build.

[@Cryoispainful]

Worse yet I can think of a few perks that cause game breaking issues and people should ACTUALLY avoid 😂

[@lalli8152]

Yeah, but still your skill points are better spent on something else obviously it doesnt matter if you just have skill points to be used on these, but the video was just to inform it only adds extra percentage to the weapons base damage thats fairly low

[@brytheguy4515]

Also, without the unofficial patch a lot of the crit perks are straight up broken. Main reason being your crit damage bonus is 0% unless increases by perks. So when you get the 10% crit chance perk, congratulations! You now have a 10% chance to deal 0% bonus damage!

[@Jade420_]

Chooses to pick every perk in game😂

[@byronsmothers8064]

Maybe that 1/5 chance of 15 more damage on by crossbow doesn't sound like much, but something so satisfying when it procs on a sneak attack

[@ShortStoryLuke]

You know what's worse though? Anything from the lock picking skill tree. Seriously, you might as well be wiping your ass with skill points.

[@davidlewis1418]

I took it because I don't like lockpicking. It's not an engaging mini game imo and an entire tree to make it consume less time? Worth. The extra loot in some chests is alright too.

[@LibraritheWizardOfficial]

Ah, a Senile Scribbles enjoyer

[@Solyssey]

Wow didnt realize crit damage only scaled with the bare bottom base damage, thats genuinely awful. Cant believe it wasnt fixed from all these new editions they pump out

[@Cryoispainful]

What issues HAVE they even fixed over the past 12 years. Theres a glitched perk with block that can slow time down permanently that has been ignored since the beginning of time and makes me wonder if this game was even tested

[@shaynehughes6645]

Deadass wrong. You can stagger every enemy in the game that isn't a dragon with these perks.

[@morganmiller3508]

Windshear staggers everything including dragons lolz

[@Mustang_Click]

Have honestly started playing with Vokrii more than Ordinator, just find it fits the bulk of playthroughs better and my builds can be finalised without having to spent as many perks - Ordinator just gets too overcomplicated sometimes

[@cbthomas909]

If you're going for a stealth build, one of the worst perks of all time is the atronach perks because it consumes your capstone perk (shadow warrior).

[@Lux_the_Lost]

Not to mention absolutely crapping all over absolutely ANY Conjuration, which I love to have.

[@hadriusreznor3247]

Absorbing 30% of magic damage is bad? How so?

[@cbthomas909]

@@hadriusreznor3247 because it absorbs both good spells and bad spells alike. Shadow Warrior, the sneak capstone talent, is considered a spell. So atronach will absorb it, and you won't be able to drop detection in combat like it was meant to do.

[@Lux_the_Lost]

@@hadriusreznor3247 Because of how the Shadow Warrior perk and literally ALL Conjuration work, the game interprets those as magical effects targeting you and causes you to absorb their effects and magicka cost. It's also not a flat absorbing 30% of the effects - in reality, it's a 30% chance to absorb ALL of the effects. Which renders Shadow Warrior and a pretty good number of spells completely unusable for you.

[@hadriusreznor3247]

Never would have guessed it. I always went non magical skills but in legendary mode on survival it’s unbearable and I was about to choose that perk!!

[@olivertm1460]

*Fires arrow at bandit* "Critical strike" Bandit: "is someone there?"

[@jay_deadeye4274]

That is why I use the critical mastery mod, this mod changes the way crits work so that any damage done to a target is increased by a multiplier, it makes critical hits MUCH more noticeable, and actually worth the perk points.

[@seanthedilophosaurus3252]

Me with a lightsaber mod: **signature look of superiority**

[@serencefrostbite3362]

Are you gonna go after the younglings? 😂

[@seanthedilophosaurus3252]

@@serencefrostbite3362 they were the first to go

[@mylesharrison2080]

Can't believe they didn't mention wax key

[@pal1d1nl1ght]

Thematically it's very cool. Gameplay wise its stupid as shit.

[@phantom0-9]

What does that perk do again? (I forgot)

[@pal1d1nl1ght]

@@phantom0-9 when you pick a lock, you get the key for it. If one exists.

[@phantom0-9]

@@pal1d1nl1ght That’s completely useless! What’s the point in getting a key for a lock you’ve already unlocked?

[@pal1d1nl1ght]

@@phantom0-9 sometimes a key is used for multiple locks. I'd much rather pick them all for the xp

[@tommyp9730]

Sure mods spice up the game and add hours of new content, but I have always just loved the vanilla game.

[@thedepression950]

Who runs towards enemies anyways. I am a walking magical tank. They Come to me to get killed.

[@Confused_Master]

Small damage boosts like that add up, because a 20 base x3 is still +40 damage. which in some cases can make or break a encounter in a pinch.

[@quatreraberbawinner2628]

I kinda wish they'd give Skyrim the remake treatment, its been over 10 years, maybe fix the game

[@rainfyre2694]

Heh

[@CaueJulio]

Oh boy, i sure wish there was a skyrim remake. A special edition, even.

[@PyrusFlameborn]

​@@CaueJulio that would be legendary!

[@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger]

I know it's a joke but this still irritates me on a deep personal level.

[@greenlava]

​@@PyrusFlameborn that would be some anniversary treatment right there

[@jamiethompson3752]

All I heard was 12 more damage😂

[@parkerb.7994]

Dang, they really completely forgot to fix anything for crits for nearly 12 years.

[@lorenzocassaro3054]

They completely forgot to fix ANYTHING for nearly 12 years. That's Bugthesda for you

[@freekill1018]

Damage is damage!!! More is more!!!!😂

[@Colecruzin]

Not worth a whole ass perk much less three tho

[@Colecruzin]

Way better off just learning a little enchanting it’s gonna make your weapon do way more damage than wasting perks on critical damage perks

[@Colecruzin]

@Synful Soles yeah but your wayyyyyy better off putting those perks into enchanting because that is going to boost the damage way more trust me and if you put perks into the destruction tree that makes the diffrent types do more damage it also makes your enchantments stronger too so if you max out enchanting it’s going to do like 130 damage per hit just fire (assuming that’s the enchantment you put on it ) not to mention you can put a second enchantment to do another 130 per hit if enchantment is 100 or you can do the alchemy exploit with only a alchemy skill of 50 but tbh one hitting everything is pretty boring

[@DefinitelyFroggyDioBrando]

I play with a few mods, mostly visual, and sadly the unofficial patch does not fix this

[@mysteriousclem1980]

Tbf it's not really a bug, just a poor game design decision. That makes it more in the realm of perk overhaul mods

[@RebelGiga]

Yeah the unofficial patch mostly fixes typos, names, gameplay glitches such as some weapons not being able to be upgraded, and npc scripting.

[@jumboMIDGET]

Don't forget the entire lockpicking tree.

[@jamescooke2328]

Alright, but consider that the critical hit notification makes the brain chemicals go WOOOOSH

[@martijn769]

I forgot the name but don't take the final perk for fire dmg in the destruction skill tree. It causes low health enemies to "flee in terror." Unless you want to play a game of tag, don't pick it please.

[@virdamofromko-metru1161]

That's why you shouldn't play on legendary difficulty. It forces you to use crafting, making it ardous to build any character unless you use glitches or mods and makes some builds (like mage) much worse. Reject flex. Embrace adept.

[@FoulTarnished47]

I have never agreed more with a comment. I play basically every game on the highest difficulty, but with Bethesda games (which I love), there's virtually no way to overcome the higher difficulties unless you're totally cheesing the game or using mods.

[@konradpotgieter7866]

Doing a legendary survival mode playthrough as we speak. No mods. No exploits. Pure roleplay. Its honestly fine, you just have to be smart. At level 50 it actually becomes too easy

[@virdamofromko-metru1161]

@@konradpotgieter7866 that's assuming I'll reach level 15 without creating a new character

[@konradpotgieter7866]

@@virdamofromko-metru1161 nah man early game is the fun part where there is actually challenge.

[@ethandonnelly1973]

​@@konradpotgieter7866 I generally just don't bother to make a powerful build, I'm currently playing CP2077 with a hack and slash (Geddit, cuz hackin? :) ) Build where I'm more or less gonna ignore most of the damage hacks and instead focus on debilitating utility hacks.....and flashbangs. Lots and lots of flashbangs. Am I gonna struggle the whole way through? God's no, But that kinda stops being a factor when you get used to RPG games anyway, it has to throw some serious bullshit at you to be a challenge once you understand how those games work

[@tipodeincognito5660]

Enchanted ebony and masks for a mage is my favourite set in all of skyrim, they suit the other well in lore, game and aesthetics.

[@NamelessKing1597]

That's true in every game. I'll take more base damage over more crit every day, even though higher crit is arguably more realistic because weapons IRL are always capable of the same ammount of base damage and variation depends on where and how directly they hit. the difference between a seasoned warrior and a novice is in knowing the weaknesses of you and your opponent's defenses, compensating for yours and exploiting theirs, not how hard you hit.

[@---TylerDurden---]

Actually if you combine the critical power attack perk for one handed weapons with the respite perk in the healing tree you pretty much get unlimited crits. Early game, it's a very powerful combo.

[@levig8261]

Bad advice

[@YourLocalWitchDJ]

My personal favorite perk combo is: •Orc Blood Perk •Stealth tree, dagger sneak attack damage •Conjuration tree, bound weapons do more damage •Illusion tree, silent casting If you put on dark brotherhood gloves, cast bound dagger, activate orc frenzy, then sneak attack, that's a whopping 60x sneak damage. Sneak archer who?

[@EricBurns1]

Laughs in sneaking with dagger perk and dark brotherhood gloves

[@TheZeroNeonix]

So if I understand this correctly, critical damage in vanilla Skyrim is so negligible that it's not worth spending the skill points to get?

[@chadharger9323]

Exactly. Also the chance to crit percentage isn't that great. The percentage number shown in game is not the actual number programmed. Most of the time you do get a crit the target only has a couple of HP left making it a real waste of perk points.

[@theweedphilosopher]

Lol the crit damage obv should be higher it’s an error

[@theangledsaxon6765]

It’s not even that it’s just a negligible damage difference, it’s that it straight up does less damage than a normal attack based on the way it’s calculated

[@JonnyRelax]

Dont give advice again 🔥🔥🔥

[@hakanbrakankrakan]

bro onto nothing 🔥🔥🔥

[@th0rn3]

i’d really appreciate a list of the mods in these shorts, as the animation and ui mods look incredible

[@gigachad2437]

DO NOT get the wax key option for lockpicking. It completely defeats the purpose of the tree

[@Vonstrangl]

+12 damage is actually pretty good

[@nebelrebel1557]

Genuinely, indubitably, unequivocally fuckin wrong

[@TheNotoriousCheeto]

The perk I never use is Intense Flame in the Destruction skill tree. It makes your enemy run away after their health drops too low. But then they just heal and come back; you can't clear an area until they are dead. So, really, all it means is having to chase them to finish them off.

[@40088922]

my solution to never waste a perk point on a bad perk: max all the stats and then Legendary one repeatedly until you unlock all perks

[@marth8000]

Skyrim has critical hits?? aaaah that's why i never noticed... GOTY ladies and gentlemen.

[@alexandercardenas5623]

Let's be for real skyrim is a sex game

[@raspiankiado]

Lol

[@blakebadgley2441]

I knew that but I thought that the critical hit damage increase with your level your perks and what not ty for tip super helpful

[@frogtank4407]

also, armor penetration skills. next to no enemies in skyrim have any armor value.

[@Bearded_Dragon95]

Oh no! My spells won't crit?!?! 😏

[@Lord_necromancer]

The sprinting power attack perk for one-handed is excellent for stealth characters. It's not about the critical hit damage, you can do the stealth roll and then power attack and your character will automatically stealth roll again before doing a heavy attack, allowing you to basically invisibly cover twice as much ground before hitting someone with a sneak attack. It's basically blitz from fallout 4.

[@boldbearings]

Ohhhh you're using the giant character type. 😂 I was staring at that axe, at how small it was compared to your character.

[@bombermang4523]

I Grab those perks not for the damage, but because their cool and I want to rush my enemy and still attack.

[@mewion6774]

To note, a similar issue occurs in the original pokemon red blue green and yellow

[@nobodyspecial115]

Focus energy just didn't work at all, the reason behind that was because how broken the games crit calculations was. It was bugged an used speed to calculate crits instead of the number it was supposed to use

[@OmnipotentSpud]

Exactly. So, for example, on the 1 handed tree, I just grab power attack based perks up to savage strike. With veggie soup, i can basically spam standing shield bash and standing power attack until the cows come home. Legendary dragons basically don't stand a chance.

[@justinethomas8814]

Wow picture quality is awesome! ❤

[@TheVacationist]

The sword-type and ranged critical hit perks use base damage, true enough (which can be useful in a non-smithing run), but the sprinting power attack genuinely doubles damage. Using sprinting well, rolling) power attack from sneak with a dagger and shrouded gloves can deliver a 120x damage attack.

[@Galahime]

I like the dash attack on 2 handed weps bc you can button spam it while its in the animation to spam it for really good burst dmg.

[@kingwashington4044]

Wow I did not know that. Thank you for showing this.

[@fiercespiritwolf1293]

Now I don't feel so bad for neglecting the crit boost in my skill trees for any of my builds

[@Steele47]

Have you stun locked a dragon? In legendary? The best thing about the running attack is to stagger the enemy and if it's big enough (dragon, giant, mammoth, chaurus, dwarven giant, etc.) or against a wall you can use the power charge multiple times, and keep the enemy replaying the staggered animation each hit. This makes so you can deplete most of their hp in a safe manner, and when reaching the last

[@jamestaylor3805]

The math you just shared adding 12 damage to a 170 damage ax is still well over a 5% increase in damage... and every point matters when battling things with high armor/damage reduction. Dropping an enemy even slightly faster prevents wasting attacks on that crouching bandit or chasing that fleeing furry, it also means turning your attention to other enemies that much faster. It also means fewer enemy attacks coming in over the course of larger fights. For the dual dagger wielding types, it appears that crit success applies to poisons too... with all of that attack speed and crit rate daggers are fucking scary before adding poisons.

[@xattrickmazeo5782]

I love the alteration perk that makes my conjurations fail sometimes :)

[@Bob-Bob1]

This video needs to go viral so they make an update fixing all of this.

[@kadefrost218]

Most op perk is impact. I remember making overpowered armour that allowed me to infinitely cast destruction spells, and I would just spam duel wielded fire balls and freeze enemy's, there's literally nothing they can do, they're just stuck there taking damage, they can't move they can't do shit. I love it

[@cringemeat9430]

Just grind out smithing to 100 and use smith boosting potions and armor when you sharpen it. It turns that base from 25 to 65 if you do it right. It’s still not a ton but it’ll help alot

[@GarManarnar]

I thought you were for-sure going to mention Bullseye in Archery. It says it has a chance to paralyze the target, but doesn't tell you that the paralysis happens when you release the arrow (not on contact). I got sick of taking distance shots, watching my arrow fly all cinematic to the target, and then missing because my target was already paralyzed and fell over.

[@horvathbenedek3596]

LMAO that's a thing? This is f_cking hilarious. Just bethesda things, making you miss with a shot that was supposed to land, and paralyze the target... WTF

[@thedestroyerofworlds8685]

Me who used like 3 different mods that gives more skill points: duly noted and ignored

[@justindekoning9988]

I remember when I thought necromage was a pretty useless perk. It still can be if you dont use any spells. But if your're a vampire you get flagged as undead. Healing spells, armor spells, any enchanted item and even certain perks like wind Walter form light armor all get a 50% effectivement increase

[@brandenhylton8272]

Nah. That critical sound that happens when you hit them with the sprint attack, that sound alone does 50 damage and +100 to my morale.