Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25597018-20130201002445/@comment-1853435-20130212090825

DarthOrc wrote: No, there are not enough. We kill dragons with one poisoned arrow with a sneak attack. That takes perks in archery, sneak, smithing, alchemy, destruction and enchanting. Yes, we do use some magic, but there just aren't enough perks to allow our destruction spells to be anywhere near as deadly. We did use some perks on our armor and restoration skills as well as enough perks in pickpocket to get Extra Pockets.

Seeing as I don't know what difficulty you’re playing on or what level dragons you’re referring to I can’t really comment. However what you’re describing is an extremely narrowed skill set. If you want to define your character development to such a fine degree as that, then you’re obviously going to be limited in other areas. While I might not be able to drop a high level dragon with one sneak shot, I can drop most other enemy including high level Draugr’s in one.

My point was that with the proper use of enchanting, smithing and to some degree alchemy, you can be a virtual killing machine in all three schools of combat. I have a different set of clothing/armor/jewelry with enchantments geared specifically toward each school of combat and I’m quite deadly in all three. My warrior armor is actually geared toward one handed, bows and sneak with fortify destruction thrown in and I’m pretty deadly wearing that alone.

I’m currently at level 80 and I still have 20 more perks I can take, so if I decide to take them I’m only going to get deadlier. A few areas I think are wasted on perks are lockpick, sneak, pickpocket, restoration, block and the heavy armor skill tree. I have no lockpick perks but I can pick a master level lock with 6 or so tries. Same with pickpocket, I’ve taken around 900 gold in one try and I have zero perks in that. I really see no point of pickpocket anyway, you can make more gold in 5 minutes selling a few high value potions than you can make in 5 hours of picking pockets.