Have I gimped my NB?

Somakarma

So I begin the game by rolling a Dumner NB for dual wield bonus, and am now lvl 18 using dual/bow/stealth. Is the racial choice going to hamstring me later on? From what I gather, wood elf or khajit would have been a better choice. And Dumner are for DKs.

I've also leveled Provisioning up to 30 and spent some hours in the other crafts, so pretty reluctant to reroll.

dday3six

You just have a pretty much useless passive with Fire Damage, at the end of the day. You still get increased Stamina and Magicka. Unless you are just deadset on Max/Min it's not going to cripple you.

Penguiins

Personally would rather play a race I like, regardless of their passives, but the hard-core players will tell you it wasn't the best choice!

Mighty_oakk

I wouldn't sweat it.

Race/class balancing is always evolving in mmo's. So whats best today may be meh tommorow.

The champion system kind of makes any class race combo equal if you have some extra champ points.

MCMancub

It's only an issue if you care to min/max (which is entirely unnecessary in this game).

Zanen

At lvl 18 I'd reroll Bosmer in a heartbeat.

You're maybe 6% into the leveling process and cap is only the beginning of your character progression.

Racials matter.

AlnilamE

My DW/resto/bow dunmer NB says no.

dday3six wrote: »

You just have a pretty much useless passive with Fire Damage, at the end of the day. You still get increased Stamina and Magicka. Unless you are just deadset on Max/Min it's not going to cripple you.

Well, he can always put fire enchants on the weapon. The Fire resist is pretty nice in some dungeons, though.

TheShadowScout

Dunmer dual-dagger & bow nightblade main here, works well enough.

Yeees, you will find people telling you redguard make a bit better nightblades because of this, and bosmer because of that, but in the end... only min/maxers really care about that last half percentage point.

If you like dunmer, play dunmer. (and the fire resistance -is- useful in many cases)

drogon1

Dunmer fire resist is pretty meagre atm. I wouldn't tout it much.

I'd reroll at your level, and I'm hardly a min/maxer.

If you like dark elf race aethetically tho, then stick with it. Racials matter, but not enough to trump the race that will make you like your character more.

For stam nb, go bosmer, redguard, or imperial.

For magic nb, go breton, high elf, or imperial.

Imperial and dunmer are prolly the best all arounders - so there's that.

Somakarma

It's a shame that the character starter page only gives a description of the races rather than the racial skills that it locks you into.

If I was to roll a Bosmer NB, would you recommend continuing the crafting on this Dumner, to twink the Bosner? Or learn a craft on Bosmer as well?

lathbury

Somakarma wrote: »

It's a shame that the character starter page only gives a description of the races rather than the racial skills that it locks you into.

If I was to roll a Bosmer NB, would you recommend continuing the crafting on this Dumner, to twink the Bosner? Or learn a craft on Bosmer as well?

yeah if there was only some sort of world wide system where if we wanted to know a piece of information before making a choice. we could use it to find out.