Poll of the Day > You can get 1 skyrim skill tree irl, what do you pick?

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You have all the perks in said tree (and the magica and spells from said tree if you choose one of the magic trees)

I expect sneak and magic based trees to be popular ones

I would probably go with illusion

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Restoration. I may live longer.

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wwinterj25 posted...

Restoration. I may live longer.

You could also become a healer

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big guns

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I want to say sneak because it's so fucking OP in the game, but pragmatically speaking illusion would have the same practical benefits (via its invisibility and muffle spells) and restoration would be neat if it could dramatically improve the user's lifespan.

Speech would probably be one of the most OP skills of all, but the skill tree is mostly focused on merchant stuff. And a 30% boost to persuasion doesn't necessarily equate to much IRL, nor does doubling intimidation.

In general, most of the normal weapon skills won't be terribly useful because the weapons are obsolete. The same kinda goes for the armor, which also isn't practical much of the time. That really just leaves the magic and stealth-related skills. And then that really depends on how it ties to the real world. For example, enchanting would be OP since it lets you use abilities from multiple styles, but would you need to charge it with souls?

All things considered, I probably am leaning towards illusion since it has a wide array of useful effects and a fun element to it.

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Muscles posted...

You could also become a healer

That too.

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Yeah illusion would be nuts, basically gives you mind control and invisibility

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I'd pick conjuration, just so I could ride the purple flaming skeleton horse around everywhere

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Enchanting

I would have zero cost in other skill trees and my natural ability in other skill trees would be magnified

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Whichever one takes away my erectile dysfunction

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Heavy armor!

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if I take a magic skill, do I have plenty of mana?
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First thought was lockpicking, put that's too sketchy for my tastes. Sneak sounds like a good choice, granted, still stetchy but doesn't neccessarily have to be illegal, and with the fully skill tree, I probably won't be caught....

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Sneak is the way to go. You just drop into a crouch and steal everything that isn't nailed down right in front of a room full of people.

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Magic no stealth. Though, their stealth is like magic with the way you can sneak around. Haha.
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My heart yearns for Conjuration, but I'd probably go with Enchanting. Might not be as fun, but I think it'd be more useful in the real world creating interesting knickknacks. Well, assuming I could collect the ingredients. Be kind of useless to have the skill but lack the tools, in which case I'd fall back to Conjuration.

Alchemy?

I can sell the potions that do everything all the other trees do?

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Nightwind posted...

Alchemy?

I can sell the potions that do everything all the other trees do?

You are limited to real world ingredients though, I'm sure you could still make some great potions still though

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Without gaming the system with enchanting or alchemy, I'd choose restoration. Such an incredible power.

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Restoration but I need the promise I won't be kidnapped and studied in a lab for the rest of my life, squeezed of my restorative juices.

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restoration also gets a sun blast, nice for solar panels
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FellWolf posted...

Restoration but I need the promise I won't be kidnapped and studied in a lab for the rest of my life, squeezed of my restorative juices.

sorry bro we gonna seize you

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Kinda realized how OP conjuration would be, given that you have permanent summons where if you could stack permanent summons you'd eventually build an army >_>

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Speech would just be fun for that passive buff. People just agree with you 30% more of the time, you can constantly haggle for discounts at stores.

Imagine just getting 10% off at mcdonalds everytime you went there.

Gotta think big guys

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Joshs Name posted...

Speech would just be fun for that passive buff. People just agree with you 30% more of the time, you can constantly haggle for discounts at stores.

Imagine just getting 10% off at mcdonalds everytime you went there.

Gotta think big guys

It wouldn't really work because most people at those stores don't have the authority to discount. A concept like that only works with owner-operators or other people who can randomly discount. And in the case of discounts, it's kind of a minor buff; conversely, if it was about the money, you could pick another tree to make far more cash.

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With stealth you would have to deal with security cameras being a thing

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CarefreeDude posted...

With stealth you would have to deal with security cameras being a thing

just steal a cardboard box

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Zeus posted...

It wouldn't really work because most people at those stores don't have the authority to discount. A concept like that only works with owner-operators or other people who can randomly discount. And in the case of discounts, it's kind of a minor buff; conversely, if it was about the money, you could pick another tree to make far more cash.

rules as written buying and selling prices are 10% better and goes up with rank. It just happens to be the skill is called haggling, so i'm claiming it.

You can also sell any type of item to any merchant, so everytime I want to buy a burger I'll bring something to sell which will make my quarter pounder even cheaper

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Joshs Name posted...

Speech would just be fun for that passive buff. People just agree with you 30% more of the time, you can constantly haggle for discounts at stores.

Imagine just getting 10% off at mcdonalds everytime you went there.

Gotta think big guys

10% off of McDonald's is just wasting 10% less 100% wasted money.

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Alteration would be my choice. Telekinesis, has lots of uses. With Transmute ore, i can make lots of money really fast. Waterbreathing could be really fun, since i live near the ocean. Ebonflesh to protect myself from harm. And paralyze if things get dicey.

A very close second is Restoration. Although, it probably would only work on wounds not diseases. I may be thinking of something else, but i vaguely remember not being able to cure diseases with the restoration tree.

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Zeus posted...

Kinda realized how OP conjuration would be, given that you have permanent summons where if you could stack permanent summons you'd eventually build an army >_>

you can only summon two at once
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SunWuKung420 posted...

10% off of McDonald's is just wasting 10% less 100% wasted money.

if I had a 30% higher chance to persuade you I would argue with you

instead I'll just have to agree

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Joshs Name posted...

if I had a 30% higher chance to persuade you I would argue with you

instead I'll just have to agree

You couldn't persuade me to believe lies anyways.

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Alchemy:

Potions and poisons you make are twice as strong.
Potions you mix with beneficial effects have an additional 25% greater magnitude.
Poisons you mix are 25% more effective.
Eating an ingredient reveals all its effects.
Two ingredients are gathered from plants.
50% resistance to all poisons.
All negative effects are removed from created potions, and all positive effects are removed from created poisons.

I'm going to put big pharma out of business with my aloe vera treaments.

Then I'm going to put everything in my mouth like a toddler and discover all the poisons hiding in everyday products.

Potions aren't real though

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CarefreeDude posted...

Potions aren't real though

what do you think coffee is

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Joshs Name posted...

if I had a 30% higher chance to persuade you I would argue with you

+30% chance of persuading Sunny is still just wasting 100% of your time.
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Muscles posted...

You are limited to real world ingredients though

That's hardly fair. By the same logic, none of the magic school skill trees should have any effect whatsoever, because magic doesn't eixst in the real world either.

If I'm picking Smithing, it should imply that I get access to weird dwarf and elf metals, dragon scale gear, and magical never-melting ice even if no one else does.

About 90% of the skill trees in Skyrim would be completely useless outside of Tamriel.
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CarefreeDude posted...

Potions aren't real though

Neither is magic and spells in Elderscrolls are learned by buying them not by gaining or leveling a skill.

What's the deal with dismissing real world ingredients? Those aren't magical enough for ya?

Give someone ayahuasca or scopolamine in the middle ages and they'll think you stole their soul or something.

Joshs Name posted...

You can also sell any type of item to any merchant, so everytime I want to buy a burger I'll bring something to sell which will make my quarter pounder even cheaper

"What can I get for these 137 buckets, which are totally not stolen."

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Alchemy, easily.

"Sir, I'm sorry to tell you that you have cancer, Alzheimer's, and clinical depression."

*eats hawk feather* "No, I don't."


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NeoSioType posted...

What's the deal with dismissing real world ingredients? Those aren't magical enough for ya?

Give someone ayahuasca or scopolamine in the middle ages and they'll think you stole their soul or something.

Actually I think "potion/medicine" making was one of the tangible forms of sorcery in the old testement. The other being divination afaik.

A decent amount of the stuff in elder scrolls is real world plants.

conjuration (preferably modded versions, but i'd even take vanilla)

i'm summonin the BOYS

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Joshs Name posted...

rules as written buying and selling prices are 10% better and goes up with rank. It just happens to be the skill is called haggling, so i'm claiming it.

You can also sell any type of item to any merchant, so everytime I want to buy a burger I'll bring something to sell which will make my quarter pounder even cheaper

If it's a place you can't haggle, it can't have any impact. In the game, the raw skill already influences buy/sell prices.

NeoSioType posted...

I'm going to put big pharma out of business with my aloe vera treaments.

Then I'm going to put everything in my mouth like a toddler and discover all the poisons hiding in everyday products.

The problem with alchemy is that many of the raw ingredients don't exist IRL.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

That's hardly fair. By the same logic, none of the magic school skill trees should have any effect whatsoever, because magic doesn't eixst in the real world either.

ES magic generally doesn't involve external ingredients and other things required to make it function.

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Zeus posted...

If it's a place you can't haggle, it can't have any impact. In the game, the raw skill already influences buy/sell prices.

the premise of your argument is flawed, my friends and i have successfully haggled down a fast food resteraunt by 5 cents at around 3am after the pub.

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What? You need magicka to use elder scrolls' magic. It's a lore thing intrinsic to the universe (aetherius).

And actual knowledge of how the spell works (books and scrolls).

I love seeing a big geek fight like this now and then, thank you everybody.

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Joshs Name posted...

the premise of your argument is flawed, my friends and i have successfully haggled down a fast food resteraunt by 5 cents at around 3am after the pub.

Were you buying... baloney?!

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Zeus posted...

Were you buying... baloney?!

can't remember, but it was definitely at oporto so for sure would have been a burger meal and chips

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