Nightblade 1-hit assassin

Jakob_Goldberg

Hey there, I created a Khajit Nightblade to pseudo-RP a dagger-wielding assassin who goes around, backstabbing everything with 1 hit.

Sadly, I found that neither the Nightblade class, nor dual wield daggers have a skill that helps me with achieving 1-hit-kills. I have to use wrecking blow with 2H weapons for the time being, but that looks rather ridiculous and breaks the immersion (Sneakily murdering someone with a huge warhammer? Oh cmon!)

Can I learn a skill that increases my sneak damage with daggers? (Like Assassin's Blade in Skyrim, which increases my sneak damage by 15x while using daggers)
Have you go other suggestions on how I could achieve my desired build?

dem0n1k

Blade of Woe (as long as your targets are NPCs)

Vercingetorix

Uh, you might want to take a trip to Anvil.

casparian

Join the Dark Brotherhood. That guild questline grants a skill (not a weapon skill, but a special power) that one-shots non-elite enemy NPCs. (It also produces cool cinematic kills. It was clearly meant to give something like the Skyrim dagger-assassin experience.)

If you don't have that DLC, you have two options.

- An Onslaught build. The Two-Handed ultimate, Onslaught, can be made sufficiently powerful to oneshot most enemy NPCs, and it refunds its entire ultimate cost on kill, so you can use it again on the next baddie. To maximize Onslaught damage and ensure oneshots with it, you probably want to wear the Sword-Singer set in combination with another weapon/physical damage set (Automaton, Clever Alchemist, even Hunding's). Con: not daggers. As you mentioned, sneakily killing someone with huge two-hander is not very immersive.
- A dual wield heavy attack build. This works best on Dragonknights, who get insane heavy-attack damage, but it can probably work on a Nightblade, too, since enemy overland NPCs are so weak. You probably want to wear Automaton, Clever Alchemist, and one piece of Kena or Velidreth, to maximize physical damage. (There are sets in the game that maximize heavy attacks and sets that maximize damage from stealth, but unfortunately they're for bow users and magicka users.) Then sneak up to the baddies and heavy attack them. Cons: gathering those sets is a lot of work, and again, it's not very immersive, since your assassination skills are coming entirely from gear. Also, heavy attacking doesn't feel very assassiny.

Jakob_Goldberg

I just checked that Blade of Woe thing, sounds really cool! Thanks for your help, guys!

PlagueSD

If this is what you're looking for, Blade of Woe is what you want (Only works on NPC's)