Skyrim with ONLY Conjuration...

[@insertclevernamehere1186]

Fyi the court mages don't tend to sell expert and master level spells. To get Conjure Dremora Lord, you'd need to talk to the Conjuration Teacher in the Mage College.

[@ZekeWaters_]

@@insertclevernamehere1186 I didn’t include it in the footage, but I did go to Phinis to check if he had it :)

[@insertclevernamehere1186]

@@ZekeWaters_ Were you at level 65 Conjuration or higher? He won't stock Expert spells until you are.

[@Frozen_Hope]

He stocks expert at 65, and master at 90 right?

[@insertclevernamehere1186]

@@Frozen_Hope well, you have to do the Master Spell quest to unlock the master spells, but yes.

[@Frozen_Hope]

@@insertclevernamehere1186 True, I was convinced for a long time they unlocked at level 100, but learning it was 90 really opened some possibilities

[@ItsCrisso]

There's a Bound Bow book you can grab in Fort Amol. Super good early grab

[@Choccymilkshakeenjoyer]

And a great start to your. (Stealth archer) conjuration build.

[@sordschie3944]

Very good to know!

[@bronysaiyan5236]

Without the unofficial patch that was the only way to get it too lol. Went hundreds of hours on ps3 not knowing a bound bow ever existed

[@Meeeemawwww]

That wolf on legendary survival is so clutch. Breton is clutch with the magical resistance to boot

[@0saker]

for the college of winterhold induction, you can actually kill one of the people in the room to skip the ward tutorial

[@nathanlamberth7631]

I guess you don’t have to go to school if you have OSS

[@Bessie_Binkmen123]

Yeah but the summons probably wouldn't touch it until you injured them could be done if you used beast or vampire lord tho

[@monsterberger7728]

Ah yes, I too kill my fellow classmates to skip my class

[@obi-wankenobi9871]

So it's the college of america then.

[@chalkeater1427]

This is actually how I passed Econ-205.

[@Waluigi_Time778]

Nobody tell him that he could have grinded soul trap on a horse he owned

[@ZekeWaters_]

Oh... My... Fucking... God

[@obliviousthunder]

soul trapping thed horse wouldnt have worked, he said he is using the unofficial patch. it fixes most exploits... if not all of them

[@Waluigi_Time778]

​@@obliviousthunder Horse spell grinding is one of the few things that does work after installing unofficial patch

[@cabbeille]

@@obliviousthunderskill issue, they merely changed how to do it; the underlying issues were never properly fixed

[@grantkelly2751]

Shhhhhh

[@Aaylias]

Love how the trap that made your life so much easier in this run was the very same thing that killed Faendal like 5 times in the next

[@ZekeWaters_]

Literally 😭

[@sadeedkhan4867]

This video was crazy entertaining and made me want to play Skyrim again for the first time in 8 years. You earned yourself a new subscriber

[@Operator588]

that river being missing is definitly a water mod problem

[@Carlwiththehair]

The best soul trap body is literally in Whiterun btw. If you look under the bridge that leads to Dragonsreach, in the water is a skeleton. Drag him to the stairs and you have a soul trap body immediately after you've bought the spell!

[@aurorafury2458]

You can use Spellbreaker's ward to complete the first lesson mission without using a spell ward

[@DerrylHopkins]

Bro blamed Bethesda for his inability to patch water seam issues

[@JanoschNr1]

The greybeards: We never result to voilence for we are to powerfull and would end up killing them. Also the greybears when someone comes uninvited to their tea-party:

[@lucaslagiewka1503]

Conjuration and Illusion are actually the best schools of magic for legendary difficulty because the damage of NPCs and summons are not scaled down in that mode.

[@Shishomuru]

Funny thing about Legendary Conjuration only is that it's actually the easiest way to play Legendary as summons aka NPC's don't adhere to the games balance modifiers so they always take and deal 1x damage regardless of game difficulty. Game difficulty modifiers in Skyrim only apply to the player.

[@bacd-nn2lg]

The hardest skill to level up in skyrim is restoration, but once you gte necromage perk you are on the path to godhood as a vampire. The only challenge that couldn't complete to finish up in Skyrim was to use only reverse pickpocketing to finish up your enemies.

[@lefront4674]

restoration ispretty easy in my opinion

[@mapolinski]

Turn Undead FTW

[@TheLeafcuter]

reverse-pickpocketing to kill is pretty fun if you get into the dark brotherhood. Babette sells chokeberries often, which combined with an apple in a cooking pot makes for a lingering poison that deals 4 damage per second and lasts for a whole minute

[@phatwhack]

This was a great video, thoroughly entertaining the whole way through and made me want to start a new play through. Side note: your game looks incredible. Puts my mod order to shame lol

[@thedukeofcats6616]

Corpses always resist soul trap but you still get xp

[@OrinOfAtlantis]

I'm currently playing a conjuration build. I did the soul trap hack and got 2 OP Atronachs at the same time! but how I do it is I summon my atronachs then I switch my spells to bound sword and a destruction spell that's associated with whatever atronach I have summoned at that time. It's been a pain in the ass but it's been fun so far. I have been ACTIVELY avoiding the bound bow because I JUST got done with a stealth archer and don't wanna get dragged down again lol

[@USS_Liberty_never_forget]

I really enjoy the Skyrim videos. Thanks

[@shotty.]

ah yes, my favorite of all the sneak/archer alternatives. Every single run of my after a certain point became a high level conjuration battle mage lol, so much fun to be had with bound weapons

[@coledavidson5630]

Conjuration is my favorite spell tree. So good for combat and just generally fun. Atronachs and bound weapons are great

[@danielr.golightly38]

So if you grab one of the brooms in the Keep when you start the game, then grab a orichalcum ore or ingot , some void salts, and a grand soul gem, you can use the Atronach forge and make yourself a Summon Lightning Atronach Staff at level one. There is a orichalcum ingot in the Forge room, there are void salts in the Whiterun alchemists shop, or you can make some with a amethyst gem + salt pile + a small soul gem in the Forge as well. As for the Grand Soul Gem, the Necromancer Home in Anniversary Esituon has a few, or you can steal some from the Kahjit Caravans.

[@ashglaze7267]

Unlimited summons is a must in all my op vampire lord playgrounds

[@Earthenfist]

So here's something fun- there's a 'hidden' Novice (well, 'special' difficulty) Conjuration spell in the game. It's in the game files, but there aren't any spellbooks for it, so you can never learn it- it's called Spectral Arrow. Lets you just shoot off a conjured projectile that staggers the target, and it's AWESOME. Was apparently meant to be a quest reward, then got replaced.

[@HerbieKrabs]

Im just happy you showed the multiple deaths, so many others will die like 100 times and be like "i did this with 0 deaths"😂

[@iAmDefCon]

just saw this video just wana say great content man keep up the great work!

[@aserqun]

good to see ur growth zeke good to see skyrim too

[@velligis]

When you get to the two at the bottom of Alftand, you can let Umana and Sulla duke it out. Then you only have to fight one of them and they're mostly dead.

[@NobodyDungeons]

I have revenge of the enemies installed and a bunch of other difficulty mods so the Sarthal boss is an absolute beast.

[@valoriiz]

hail summoner, conjure me up a warm bed, would you?

[@SomeRandomVergilFanboy]

(insert Gortwogg joke that a total of 4 people will understand here)

[@blackwingred3473]

In regards to the dragon in Blackreach, if you shouted and it hit that lantern in the center, it summons him.

[@WillT-e9z]

You could have gone to Whiterun, taken the carriage to Markarth, stolen the greater soul gem from the back right room in Nepo's house, gone to the College, grabbed the Void Salts from the Hall of Attainment, entered the Midden, dropped down and killed the Draugr, grabbed the broom and Orichalcum Ingot, then put the Void Salts, Broom, Greater Soul Gem, and Orichalcum Ingot into the Atronach Forge and gotten a (somewhat) free Staff of Conjure Storm Atronach... then used it to defeat the Frost Worm on the way out.

[@ungabunga8546]

super underrated channel

[@Guywhohasntslept]

Im on my first run of skyrim ever, im basically doing this. Tons of fun, always loved using summoning in games (terraria for example) and always forget that shouts exist

[@vassoand1167]

Im glad that people still playing skyrim

[@blackwingred3473]

Fun fact about the two guys in the Ratway: If your speech skill is high enough, you can persuade or intimidate them to let you pass, avoiding the fight all together.

[@deathmound5098]

I know it would go against your conjunction only challenge, but how I found the fastest way to level up my conjunction since the patch was to learn the calm spell. Find lone enemy (I used a mud crab), use soul trap, then calm, wait 1 hour, repeat.

[@ezerinotfig6206]

You can use soul trap on your horse (1000 gold), get 100 in 18-20 mins, somehow find 2000 gold buy lord dremora spell and 2 of them will beat the game easily. Or you can pick hight elf(much better for this run couse have +50 mana for free, tallest and fastest race in the game, has great talent, you can use this talent to lvl up conjuration, in combat take sword spell, cast it, press r, cast again, it will lvl up skill like soul trap but you don't need to buy horse and you have talent for mana)

[@nickbirzo136]

Will only use shouts to progress through the story.... Sends a goat to space with a shout

[@ZekeWaters_]

@@nickbirzo136 It did progress the story. It was the goats canon event

[@ElAssoWipo]

6:13 MnehMehMnehnehMehMneh xD

[@PineappleZach666]

Just so you konw the spell spell ward isn't the only way to progress the college quest. You can go and grab the shield spellbreaker and that works as well.

[@buhddahpuh]

Nice concise enjoyable video. subbed!

[@RXTRUX1]

Actually played this way, so fun if you have magic mods so there's way more variety.

[@unavailable1092]

Talk to the Cat folks. Outside of skyrim. With special edition of skyrim. The saints and seducers side quest. Finish is and you have 4 verry powful people you can summon

[@RealBradMiller]

Cat Folks? Khajiit does not take kindly to such words, yes? 'Cat Folk' is no term for the respectful, no. Khajiit have honor, pride, and stories woven in moonsugar and starlight. To use such a name as a slur shows only ignorance, yes? Better to speak with kindness, or Khajiit might forget their gentle nature.

[@RealBradMiller]

I'm kidding, of course, that is an excellent idea!! One of the first I go for! 🫂🥂

[@unavailable1092]

@RealBradMiller forget how to spell Khajiit. I'm dumb orc. Make strong ugly wepon is all I know.

[@nischalthapa2460]

You can get the Summon Dremora spell after reaching lvl 90 on conjuring and talking to the conjuration teacher in winterhold about the next level to conjuration

[@balhazmi89]

Playing Skyrim together now with conjuration spells it's fun.

[@needparalegal]

Conjuration is the easiest way to play the game. You can just keep summoning Storm Atronachs till everyone is dead. I would start with a high elf, not a Breton you can just run all the way to Whiterun and buy a flame atronach spell from Farengar.

[@Cammino3]

You can actually implode the Saarthal tunnel wall with any projectile spell: including Soul Trap

[@Alizudo]

Or a staff, scroll, or shout.

[@ZekeWaters_]

I didn’t even realise, I thought because it was orange you would need a fire spell just like in Labyrinthian

[@j.c.rapper2466]

You have a great day too sir! Thanks for the entertaining video

[@pietervanommen7955]

Honestly my first build I beated the game with. My cousin told my to rest and keep using soultrap on dead stuff. Maxed conjuration and used 2 dremoras to tank for me while I used shouts.

[@benwil6048]

Should give this a try with something like ordinator if you want to see what conjuration should have been like, if you can also get undeath on backdated skyrim you're set

[@ZekeWaters_]

I've been thinking of including Ordinator in a run, but for the most part I want the game to be vanilla gameplay wise so everyone can replicate what I'm doing. I'll definitely include it if I want to do a specialised build that's underdeveloped in the vanilla game though :)

[@johanmichaeldelavega4028]

I know you can use your own horse to grind the soul trap but I didn't knew that so instead I went to a far away farm where there are no guards which is "barley dark farm" and just spam soul trap on the chickens there until I've reached 100 on conjuration.

[@proximityclockworkx1572]

Using a ward spell is not the only way to progress. Same can be achieved with the Spellbreaker shield

[@tastefulmemer4082]

For the winter hold lesson of using a ward if you just kill someone during the lesson then wait 24 hours you can actually skip the lesson entirely and the quest progresses Instead of you using flames you can have a follower do it when you make them attack you and it will progress that as well. Technically you could have done all of that without using anything but conjugation. I know why you didn’t because it absolutely sucks and takes forever but if you did know you could skip those doing that then I would have been elated. You can also use a specific sword to advance stuff in the quests to advance it without using magic but it would defeat the purpose since you use a sword to advance it I respect it fully. Just woulda been awesome for you to mention the way to do it without “cheating” in reality it is just you did it at your own discretion without wasting hours of your life

[@ZekeWaters_]

Yeah and, tbh, I didn't even know of those ways to skip it haha. I appreciate the advice and feedback! On a side note, I did try to skip the flames part by summoning a fire atronach at the door (i hoped the aoe fire damage would do something... it didn't)

[@Roguchii]

KZbin algorithm thinks I wanna watch a bunch of elder scrolls content.theyre right.nice video!

[@RealPlasmat]

Was the original joke "splash splash I was summoning trash?" That was the only thing I could think of that would fit and rhyme.

[@ZekeWaters_]

@@RealPlasmat Something like that, my brain has too much ADHD running rampant through it to know what the hell I was thinking haha

[@boon23]

Hey there, Zeke, I am boon23 and just another fellow Skyrim content creator on youtube. What a nice video you have made there. Great challenge, good audio and image quality and really well edited. You know what you are doing. Your video has heavily inspired me to try this challenge for myself, but with different rules: I want to try to play it "conjuration only" meaning I want to play the game and only level up in conjuration and nothing else on legendary survival difficulty playing a Breton just like you did. Thank you so much for the great video and the inspiration. Of course I subscribed to your channel and of course your video will be mentioned with the according link. Keep up the great work that you do. 🤩

[@ZekeWaters_]

I'm glad I inspired you!! Go for it, that challenge sounds like a lot of fun. Thank you for the kind words :)

[@boon23]

​@@ZekeWaters_ thank you, especially for not deleting my comment. You're a good sport. So many youtubers feel threatened by others, see only competition, but truth be told, together we make the world a richer place.

[@jackiespaceman]

My current character is a conjuration main, on lower difficulties it’s super fun

[@berrypuuro]

Love to see some Rocky representation on this channel!

[@Alizudo]

[6:47] Actually, the ward created by blocking with the Spellbreaker shield will successfully continue the quest. [7:05] Firing with a staff or shouting at the wall will also break it

[@RuinCODM]

You could've used the Spellbreaker shield to cast a ward during the lesson at the College of WInterhold

[@brandonlacy5918]

Idk if many know this but I usually kill a rabbit and just spam soul trap on its corpse and that helps lvl up conjuration skills pretty quick

[@Ghost-cu3ge]

Hail and well met. Just to let you know, if you cast a Conjuration spell near (in safe spot) an enemy it will increase.

[@Bessie_Binkmen123]

You can also get bound bow at fort amol and get a bound dadric bow early in and make a spectral stealth archer

[@ronnierayburn998]

You should try this with the Necromantic Grimoire creation (included in the Anniversary Special Edition). Conjuration will suddenly become a viable playstyle. Also... Dunno if you picked the Ritual Stone. It can save the day if you have a bunch of dead bodies around you. It can also be abused with the Aetherium Crown, to give you infinite uses, instead of one per day.

[@Thomas-rz5nt]

POV me on legendary difficulty playthrough (I always use summons so I don’t get 1 tapped)

[@Ducky735]

the 2nd way to power level conjuration is to use summon flame atronach and beat it to death with a bound weapon. dunno how viable that is on legendary but now you know... even though it's too late :)

[@leviathan1082]

7:07 you don't need to use flames on the wall, a shout or any spell that does contact should work

[@dartimes6048]

*cough* Soul Trap

[@soren-the-author]

YOU could of joined the volkihar vampires, even with the patch you can use the thralls in the dungeon to power level conjuration with soul trap

[@ZekeWaters_]

Aw gosh there's always something I don't consider haha

[@Alizudo]

*could've

[@iloresora2847]

well you can use Soul Trap on your own Summoned Minions and Companions for leveling up

[@ThatOneNiceGuy9001]

12:03 Gonna be on the lookout for art of that atronach holding onto a dragon in flight beating the shit out of it until it drops out of the sky. It was a good video so it's inevitable to happen at some point.

[@DanzoLovesEyes]

The soul trap glitch wasn't patched, i used it to level my conjuration a week ago IIRC I used it on a dead dragur in the midden

[@Alizudo]

It *_was_* patched - when you use the Unofficial Patch mod - so I don't know how it possibly worked for you.

[@DanzoLovesEyes]

@Alizudo It was? Then idk what happened in my game then, it worked fine for me.

[@phyllisquiroz7915]

You can use soul trap on a dead mammoth to level it up all the way to 100, I don't know what the cave is called, but the one that will you get the transmute spell, hasn't already dead mammoth in it so...

[@Eiszahn]

I didnt actually know that you can get the bound bow in Winterhold 💀 Every time i did a "conjuration only" playthrough i had to kill the ash elemental for it which is a pain on Legendary.

[@joshuagraham1800]

"Skyrim, but my big brother plays for me"

[@ZekeWaters_]

Would help if I had a big brother lol

[@Java42069]

could have made destruction potions on your novice spells run would have helped a ton

[@YungMeech313]

One never "gets finished" with Skyrim 👨🏾‍💻

[@corbenbecker2034]

You can use a reanimate spell to break through the wall in saarthal

[@danielwesley5051]

Alternate title: Skyrim but you’re a stand user.

[@AndrewJohnson-oy8oj]

Conjugation is the easiest way to defeat Skyrim. I just go into a dungeon, drop a summon into a room from outside to trigger the enemies, then keep resummoning them until the enemies are dead. Normally I just walk through dungeons casually collecting treasure as the summons do the work, but if I get bored I summon two swords and take out the enemies from behind as they fight my summon. I never even use shouts.

[@flameianwarlord2480]

Can you do a skyrim playthrough called "Beating skyrim as the shield hero" you basically can only beat skyrim by blocking/bashing and only your followers can fight for you

[@allyforhire262]

Loved the video! Youre hilarious. What is your modpack?

[@ZekeWaters_]

@@allyforhire262 I’ve got a video on it :)

[@oulakantola]

11:56 woah hijack from the ground

[@Shad0w5carab]

Dope video but please consider changing your lighting mods, it’s very hard to see anything for large chunks of the video.

[@SauceyWench]

In all my years of playing this game basically since it came out I’ve never known or tried even to use clear skies on alduins meteor shower and the first time I went up against him I died so many times it’s hard but you can just dodge them and I some how beat him

[@nischalthapa2460]

One of my favriote things to do when fighting annoying mages with frost abilities is either run to them with a steadfast ward and daedric sword, or more on topic, spawn 2 saint archers from a avery safe distance and see as they slowly kill the mage one arrow at a time. oh wait did they kill one of you? no worries here is another one go on keep fighting

[@MacronLacrom]

11:58 unscripted pure mechanics with no cutscenes....

[@cabbeille]

unofficial patch makes soul trap a target spell and doesn’t work on corpses

[@altzgamer0547]

Idk, conjuration is like a cheat already for me. Weapons, spells, summonings. What else to wish? It's a great utility

[@justanotheremptychannel2472]

"only conjuration" puts perks in one-hamded

[@MRawesom100]

it's for the bound sword

[@justanotheremptychannel2472]

@@MRawesom100 its a battle skill-tree not from conjunction

[@mateus4287]

bro i need your mod list, looks incredible

[@ZekeWaters_]

@@mateus4287 You should check out my last video :)

[@Tallerixoo]

Rocky Balboulder.

[@joeywillams3081]

Nobody tell him he could have gone to jail and grinded soul trap on thd corps in his cell

[@jackofblades6736]

Conjugation is the easiest class by far.

[@HaasteGaming]

@ZekePlays Can you show us your modlist? Sorry if ya did already! Great vid

[@ZekeWaters_]

Check out my video before this one :)

[@Awesomewithaz]

14:33 This level up my skills a lot, especially my archery. *misses 3 shots in a row as he says this* Did it?

[@KairuFreestar91]

stealth archer comes for everyone.....fucking facts man.....

[@ObservingLibertarian]

14:24 If stealth was an option the entire time - why hadn't you just been using that? Even if the enemy will be alerted by you summoning an attronach: they'll be busy fighting that rather than looking for you. I used this tactic a lot while I was doing a ridiculous "level all skills to 100 while lvl 1" challenge.

[@PitterC]

Does the legend remember Faz-Cone?

[@ZekeWaters_]

@@PitterC Of course, an entrepreneur never forgets