User blog:Mictlantecuhtli/Breton Juggernaut (Skyrim)

This build is extremely resilient to most forms of damage, primarily physical, magical and elemental with a few others thrown in also. The character also boasts a 75% resistance to being staggered (including unrelenting force shouts, high level archer enemies with Power Shot and normal melee power attacks). Once all essential perks and spells have been acquired the character can easily survive on the highest difficulty, Master with less concerns than many other character types.

Race and gender, fighting style, and defensive focus

 * Race and gender: Breton, Female
 * The choice of this race is solely for the 25% magic resistance and ability to gain nearly 100% resistance to magic while wearing no armor (meaning no wasted enchantment slots).


 * Fighting style: Mace and Shield
 * The choice of this style is for the ease of gaining elemental protection (without requiring enchantment slots), the ability to bowl over enemies using a shield charge and negate arrow damage entirely (rather than merely reduce it). The mace is used due to a series of perks allowing it to ignore a large portion of enemy armor, a necessity on higher difficulties.


 * Armor type: Heavy Armor and Alteration spells.
 * Reasons for this choice are the higher armor rating, availability of perks reducing stagger from enemy attacks and a perk which reduces falling damage while wearing heavy armor. Alteration is used to both fortify the natural magic resistance of Bretons and add bonus armor and damage reduction.

Guardian Stone effect and quest perks
There are 13 such stones in the game world, four of which deal with increasing the rate at which skills are gained. In addition to these 4, a fifth stone is used exclusively once level 80 has been reached.

In addition to these stones there are bonus perks, which can be attained once certain quests have been completed. These perks can easily add to the power of a character.


 * The Lord Stone, which provides 50 points of damage reduction (first 50 points of physical damage from an attack is ignored) and 25% magic resistance.
 * This stone alone gives the Breton 50% magic resistance, without the need of any apparel and the damage reduction can be effective at blocking damage from arrows the shield does not deflect.


 * Agent of Mara, the reward for the quest The Book of Love. It provides 15% magic resistance to the character.


 * Ancient Knowledge, the reward for the quest Unfathomable Depths. It provides a 25% armor bonus to Dwarven Armor and increases the rate at which Blacksmithing raises by 15%.
 * Currently bugged, providing the 25% armor bonus to all heavy and light armor, also the 15% bonus is actually a 15 point increase to the smithing skill rather than the rate at which it increases.


 * Agent of Dibella, the reward for the quest The Heart of Dibella. It increases the damage the player inflicts against the opposite sex by 10%.
 * Best used by a female character, as more enemies are male than female.


 * Dragon Infusion, the reward for the quest Dragon Research. It reduces the melee damage the character takes from dragons by 25%.


 * Sinderion's Serendipity, the reward for the quest A Return To Your Roots. It grants the player a 25% chance to create two potions instead of one when using an alchemy workbench.


 * Force Without Effort, one of the possible rewards for the quest The Throat of the World. It increases the stagger effect on attacks versus enemies by 25%, while decreasing the chance the player is staggered by the same amount.

Perks
All perks are listed under their respective skill tree, skill trees are listed in alphabetical order.

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