PvE Playstyles - anyone else run in stealth?

Bonzodog01

Everyone that plays this game has a style of playing it that most suits them. Some of us are ranged players, like to maintain it whenever possible. Others love the toe-to-toe playstyle, kill everything, get into the fight.

I am trying a playstyle that not many seem to use in PvE - absolute stealth. I built a Woodelf Nightblade Thief for this sole purpose, Using Bow/DW, 5 Nights Silence Armor with 3 x Hundings Rage, and points put everywhere that maximises stealth advantage, including in the CP tree. He quests by only killing when there is no alternative, or it is a specific requirement of the quest. I have him running the Thieves Guild, and I am loving it. I suspect that Dark Brotherhood will be even better.

I already have him either use focused aim from hidden high range (has a higher chance of crit, and thus one shot kill, sniper style), or I ambush from hidden if I have to.

He doesn't lose stamina anymore whilst in stealth, and can move at normal speed due to the 5 x set bonus. I was interested to note that a lot of NPC's will stealth with you when they are following.

He is also an out-and-out thief. He will steal it if its worth anything. Provisions...not so much. He saved King Casimir....then cleaned the castle out. But I am wise with theft choices. Some places are just not worth it, even if there is a chance of decent rewards. Learning to balance these choices makes for the best thief.

susmitds

I do the same with my Khajiit nightblade. I literally run hidden among the enemies and eliminate the only target. Can't be bothered to kill everybody.

sirrmattus

Stamina doesn't regenerate in stealth anymore.
My v16 bosmer with sword and board is super fun in pvp

Necrelios

I play my stam DK as a stealth class. You won't get the extra bonus from stealth attacks like NB, but igneous weapons compensates fairly well so you can still one-shot normal npc's from stealth, remain undetected, and benefit from all the same cp passives.

With improved hiding passive from legerdemain, it's really easy to remain undetected, pop out and kill an NPC, then finish along your route to the next target. I'll run with 5 hundings, 3 agility, and 2 lekis usually or 5 hundings and 5 darkstride (with 3 darkstride jewelry). I will use either DW + Bow or DW + 2H.

Tomg999

Cool. I have a V16 Nightblade that I just turned into a stealth char. She goes DW/DW, 5 Nights Silence Armor with 4 x Nightshade, lotta points in all of the ledgerdemain & thief skills. It's awesone, and a lot of fun.
Almost never goes out of stealth - can recover stam while in stealth - and the eye is rarely all the way open. Hardly ever caught stealing. Breaks into houses and walks around at will, can pretty much just walk by anyone. Doesn't get in many fights; I just grabbed the Nightshade gear from guild traders, it's V7-9, but it doesn't matter.
Just need to get her Force Lock up to max so she can steal faster.

Can't wait to try her in Dark Brotherhood.

Cryptical

sirrmattus wrote: »

Stamina doesn't regenerate in stealth anymore.

False.

Stamina doesn't regen WHILE MOVING in stealth. This is a very important distinction.

With my v15 khajiit dual wield stamblade, I've done ambushes from stealth that one-shots some mobs and doesn't alert the other mob that was standing right next to the target. That detection radius passive really helps.