Restoration is a perfectly valid school of magic. And don't let anyone tell you otherwise!

The best perk is getting to the cloud district often.

Alteration is the easiest skill to level up, but I just wish I could pick up and throw people with a high level telekenisis spell. Imagine just running around shooting your enemies out of the map.....

Snakeblood perk increases from 50% poison resistance to 62.5%? Doesn't being an undead vampire already give you a 100% poison immunity?

Not happy that he didn't mention that perks/stones retain their higher bonus even if you get cured of Vampirism. As long as you don't reset the perk you get to keep the the NecroMage bonus.

...aaaaand now I'm playing Skyrim again. "Every time I try ta get away, they pull me back in."

Necromage is extremely powerful if, and only if, you decide to become a vampire. Otherwise it does very little. Extra Effect in the enchanting tree doubles your enchanting slots. That's insane no matter what you're going for. Assassin's Blade in the sneak tree takes daggers to 15x damage on a backstab. That's insane for anyone who uses sneak. Quiet Casting means you can shout your lungs out and nobody will hear it. The tactical options are immense. But, to me, the biggest and most powerful perk in the game has got to be Merchant in the speech tree, enabling the player to get rid of all their junk at any given trader regardless of type.

"Best Perk for *ANY* Class" - But only for Vampires/ Paldains - *Illusion 100*

"Will work with any build." "If you can't stand being a blood-sucking vampire, this guide won't work for you."

The Best perk is the A T R O N A C H S T O N E

There are two reasons why I love the Elderscrolls, a lore so extensive it might as well be a parrelel universe. As well as games so glitched its an amazingly fun exploit race to becoming god.

For the vampire khajit don’t forget to add the ring of the “beast” i think, it’s the counterpart to the ring of erudite. Because of a glitch the ring of the beast adds unarmed damage to your vampire lord form and your khajit form. So u will do 20% more damage + plus necromage = 25% more unarmed damage

Imagine using the fast dual wield dps build, but wearing an amulet of Talos, using the Dragon Aspect shout, and then spamming the Elemental Fury shout. Absolute mayhem? Check. Possibly game breaking? Check in both ways!

A vampire that trains and uses restoration? Stendarr: *screams*

First image: Volkihar Castle. I get it, Necromage. See you in the next video!

I thought he was going to say Extra Effect...

I've not watched the video yet, just read the title. My guess is it's the Necromage perk for a vampire.

Depending on what version of the game you are playing, you can also use the circle of protection or guardian circle spells from restoration with the atronach perk and stone for infinite magicka. Just cast the circle and stand in it for crazy magicka regen.

Awesome. I just love to play vampire ilusionist assassin, wich is insanelly OP, and that information just improved more the experience. There is all Fud is talking about: All enchantments placed on clothing/armor increase by 25% in magnitude. Dead Thrall: Increase the maximum level deceased vampire targets can be raised past 50. The Ritual Stone: Increase the maximum level deceased targets can be raised past 75. Atronach: Increase spell absorption chance from 30% to 37.5%. Snakeblood: Increase poison resistance from 50% to 62.5% Dual Flurry: Increase overall speed by 25%. Extra Pockets: Increase carry weight a further 25%. Fists of Steel: 25% more damage per armor rate. Magic Resistance: Increase magic resistance by 25%. Power Shot: Increase stagger by 25% Steady Hand: Time moves 25% slower. Quick Shot: Increase overall speed by 25%. Recovery: Increase magicka regeneration by 25%. Wind Walker: Increase stamina regeneration by 25%. The Atronach Stone: Increase spell absorption from 50% to 62.5% Shielding spells (e.g. without Alteration perks, Ebonyflesh provides 125 armor instead of 100, and lasts for 90 seconds instead of 60). This effect is multiplicative when combined with the Mage Armor perk (e.g. the 125 armor from Ebonyflesh would become 250 at the first level of the Mage Armor perk); the extended duration also stacks with Alteration perk Stability (additional 50% duration for a total of 120 seconds). Affects Dragonhide duration stacking with Stability, but armor provided unaffected. Muffle: Increase duration by 50%. Invisibility: Increase duration by 50%. The Steed Stone: Increase carry weight by +25, though the description still says +100. The Lord Stone: Increase armor resistance from 50-62, and increase magic resistance from 25% to 31.25%. Dragonskin: Increase absorption to 62% and duration to 90 seconds.

I won't leave you guys alone until you start doing Elder Scrolls DnD again

So Necromage turns you into a real super human vampire, super fast etc.

This perk fits my character like a glove. My favorite setup is a light armor slightly sneaky spellsword. Usually Argonian, but any race works.

Just a quick addition for the unarmed build: unenchant the Gloves Of The Pugilist and get the Extra Effect perk for Enchanting. You can now have even more unarmed damage by putting the Pugilist effect on your gauntlets as well!

Guys if you get the necromage perk with the other perks and then heal vampirism, you could still get the effects and be human.

I greatly enjoyed this video because it highlights something I loved about skyrim- the synergy between perks and all the hidden effects of perk combos. I hope that the next ES game expands on this, even if it leads to "op" builds.

A fair warning, stay away from magic absorption if you're going to use any kind of conjuration, because those count as spells targeted at you and therefore will be absorbed.

If u mix 100% spell absorption and no cool down for shouts. U can summon durnehvir, which won’t actually summon him but it will refill a lot of magicka

Please do a Skyrim lore video on what each afterlife is like, depending on who you worship. I will post this on every video uploaded after this one until it is done, or personally refused by FudgeMuppet.

You can power level restoration by spamming equilibrium and a healing spell like close wounds

The best perk is knee armor.

I love you guys. Still playing Skyrim and learning so much with you.

I was honestly thinking the dual enchantment perk lol

5 yrs, and i didnt know this! never liked being a vamp, but that might change. ty guys

I came up with a build based around a role play of the reincarnated first Nightingale.

Moment I saw the video title I was like "is this the necromage perk?" And sure enough! Great video

spent all morning looking for a video about this perk. went to the movies, came back, and behold, as soon as i load youtube, the ideal masters have blessed me with there divine knowledge. cheers boys.

The dual flurry perk combined with bound sword/dagger combo makes you lightning fast when dual weilding! Since bound weapons have no weight.

omg thats amazing, i was using a dagger in my left sword in my right any time i dual wielded but not because of the left hand datermins speed thing but because thats how you properly hold dual wield weapons irl

I love this perk al be useing it all the time. Thanks fudgemuppet

watching this 5 minutes away from starting your Templar build so i'm hyped for this :D

Before: This better not just be the Atronarch Stone and the Necromage Perk. After: *sigh*

15:41 You couldn't be more wrong there. Simply being a Khajiit, your fists do the same base damage as a Dragonbone Sword, and it really shows early game when you're doing so much damage. Add on top of that the fortify unarmed enchantment, even without the fortify restoration glitch, and Daedric Gauntlets, and you'll be doing insane damage.

Thanks for the entertaining content FudgeMuppet!

These are the 3 most op perks i can think of. 3. Necromage 2. Impact 1. Shadow warrior

Atronach ston... Oh wait, perk.

It's unfortunate that the unofficial patch removes all the awesomness from necromage perk even if you're a vampire. With the unofficial patch the perk works the same for vampires than it does with normal mortals. I also don't want to uninstall the unofficial patch because it fixes so much other stuff.

It blows my mind this video gets so much reactions when necro mage vampire was found back in 2011

I cant wait to try this!

the best part is that your weakness to fire is irrelevant with 100% spell absorption since you'll just absorb the fire anyway. Only problem would be fire enchanted weapons though

necromage, also known as the only reason vampire builds are viable. edit: I forgot the rings of blood magic, those are pretty cool too.

Before watching this, my guess for best perk was Extra Effect because you can double the enchantments on your wears and weapons, thus making you so much stronger.

best perk - Merchant in Speech tree. with that you can go to a merchant trainer, buy training and sell them some expensive potions (ie Blue Mnt. Flower + Hanging moss + lavender) and get that money back.

the best perk in my opinion is the one that makes your bow shoot 30% faster, and that with the staggering perk in archery is OP AS F**K

pretty useful

You might've said like, at the very beginning that this doesn't work if you don't want to become a vampire, but hey, you still said it near the beginning so good enough lmao

The Creation Club content Bone Wolf add an effect similar to the Necromage perk when in the party. Even battle; the two effects stack!

Best Perks?? The best perks are crafting perks specially enchanting and alchemy. Just enchant clothes that fortify alchemy and then craft a potion that fortifies enchanting and use it then craft clothes that fortify alchemy again with higher percentage then enchanting potion again and so on till you become the strongest in Skyrim. If only same could happen in real life,one could raise their IQ to 1 million.

Could you make a playlist where you separate your lets plays from say the perks or lore? not saying i don't like your lets plays or streams, but I'd like an easier time watching your perks or lore without getting interrupted by a letsplay or build etc...

Good stuff, thanks!

Thank you fudge muppet. Subscribed to fudgemuppet and Camel is the best perk hehehe :)

Which one’s faster. Zephyr or bound bow?

Actually... A female khajiit werewolf hybrid version of a barefisted character with maxed out barefist damage enchanted daedric gauntlets and right most one handed perks (dual wielding perks) would be the strongest character without mods/cheats. :) My character was Ri'va Adhari, a *Cannibal* khajiit tribe leader out for revenge against the men and mer for slaughtering her tribes people and specifically, her daughter... She'll only trade with khajiit, has no care for helping unless it profits her in some way and has no qualms with any daedra. I also had her become a mix blood hybrid (werewolf/vampire lord) because more power is always better. ×3

PSA THERE IS A WEAPON CALLED THE GHOSTBLADE, IT IS A GHOST SWORD THAT WEIGHTS 2 YOU CAN USE THAT INSTEAD OF A DAGGER.

Can I be a vampire and then get the necromage perk to get these benefits? Or do I have to get the necromage perk while human and then become a vampire??

Ha, why care about what necromage does to enchantments when I can use the restoration potion loop😂

It should be noted if you are playing with the Unofficial Skyrim Patch, the "Necro Mage also improves effects on playable vampires" effect is removed, because, for some reason, they thought it was not intentional by the developers.

Awesome thanks!

Isn't zephyr the fastest bow in the game

Fudgemuppet can you help me get back into skyrim.... I wana use mods but I want friendly mods and I just get really bored of doing the same story. Also I'm a pc player.

And if you have the Mod Undeath it seams to also flag you as undead when you become the Undead Lich not the Lich itself but the character as a whole.

"necromage" ah.. I will definitely have to remember that... When I'm not using ordinator perk overhaul.

Its good but being a vampire go against my religion

Unofficial patch though....

An Archer with light armor can be an unstoppable one hit kill machine by level 40ish. Archery - all perks. Smithing - All perks. Enchanting - around the left to dual effects. Destruction - Up to augmented fire, flames, frost. (for enhanced chaos damage from bow) Smith a powerful dragon bow that does over 500 damage per shot when wearing enchanted gear and on top of that enchant it with Chaos damage. Use sneak attacks often. No perks required just level it to 100. Smith ancient shrouded armor to over 700 rating and enchant ring and necklace with archery and magic resist.

More more more more more more.....there did i let you know enough lol. Always a pleasure guys keep it coming

WEll... +100 carryweight is way better... since it affects truely EVERYTHING. If I dont use spells, necromage is absolutly useless. "Avoid death" also very crucial for everyone who seeks a fight. "Magic resistance" is also great (30% magic resistance) "Shadow warrior" is probably the most broken perk against any non dragon (become invisible for a splitsecond when crouching in combat) Every other perk is specific to a certain playstyle and has requirements (use magic, use X armor/weapon) those 4 perks are useful for everyone at least to some degree. (from top to bottom overall effectiveness)

The best perk is called "Mod" !!

As the unarmed build you can also disenchant the pugilists gloves to enchant your daedric gauntlets for additional unarmed damage. You can get the pugilists gloves from first getting to the rat way in riften, shortly after beginning the theifs guild quests. Some lowlife attacks you wearing the gloves.

Good info but at 7:26 you mentioned after the fact: “you have to get Necromage BEFORE you get perks you want a 25% bonus applied to” and then glossed over how to reset perks…so I’m playing through my first time and I have a handful of perks I need to reset - but that “black book” you mentioned seems to require a whole ‘nother video

hi

My man, this video is a little dishonest. You know you're essentially fibbing to dabblers and newly inducted. To the old timers, you're giving us info we likely know by now. And that part is fine. But it's not a great perk for every build. It's an exploit given that you don't mind a few preliminary requirements that will heavily define the first part of my playthrough and the rest of it to follow.

Thanks for another great video, I have a request for a future video. Can you do this for modded builds using Andromeda Standing Stones and Ordinator Perk Overhaul, since they change pretty much everything? I'm curious to see what you can come up with.

My most recent build is a vampire already! Definitely trying this.

Thanks Scott

Extended Jack of all trades necromage build is my favorite [perks that are modded to be more than reasonable and cause you to go further with levels]

i LOVE discovering these build vids 5-10 years after the fact and after I've discovered I can't use the higher level spells to build levels in magic skill without dedicating the build to them alone :P

I've played the ghost blade build you guys are the best KZfaqrs

Restoration really is slept on. It has some of the best passive abilities in the game.

It should be noted that in the base game, drain vitality used by Ancient and Revered dragon are unaffected by spell absorption. Also, the issue with using a bound bow in an archery build is that it cannot be smithed or enchanted like a regular bow. Zephyr is also a faster bow (I think) than the bound bow and if you max out on smithing enchants/potions (without using restoration exploit ofc), the difference in base damage should be negligible.

Necromage increases your dual-wielding attack speed by 69%. Dare I say, noice and/or schwing.

Maxing out the enchantment skill tree and making it possible to cast spells for 1-2 schools for free, namely destruction is pretty good

With it, the dual flurry is fast, and with the Blood Thirst, a Creation Club content sword, on your left hand, the sword or dagger on your right hand will be extremely fast

For the unarmed build, you should also enchant the gauntlets and a ring with the gloves of the pugilist's enchantment (if possible)

Could you guys possibly do a video on the ideal masters?

Like the legolas reference

dayyym what da fudge did i just witness

5:55 That’s some nice swing speed.

Becomes that one guy who gets all the perks

Yeah the bound bow is fast and has a lot of benefits but if you're going for the magicka absorption setup you'll need normal bows due to the unreliable nature of bound bows being absorbed But due to necromage making enchantments better, this isnt bad. Using destruction perks, enchanting perks and nodding different types of bows to select between is fun. Or just use a stahlrim bow with first and chaos with necrowarp enhancement

If your worried about the added fire weakness just use a dark elf as it negates that weakness