What works better, what is useless, General skill chat Options

[DoomedOne]

So it's time for us to ask the great question after some good time playing the game. Is it truly balanced? Is it playable from any angle, or can you screw up by pushing skills in the wrong directions? Is there a standard skill set that works for vitually every character? Are certain skills better used by playing the game the same way (for instance, a stealth vampire better than a fighter vampire?)

I think certain skills are useless, being mysticism and security that I can think of. Other skills can be important no matter what the character, like illusion, marksman, restoration. So it seems if I want a knight he has to major in part to stealth. A stealthy character finds more options in the game than dash and hack, but at the same time does earn kills as fast. Mysticism only had 3 or 4 spells, and they all seem useless. Soul trap can be done just as easely without majoring in it and work as well (seeing as how rare grand soul gems are it doesn't matter if you ecounter them anyway) Tlekinesis is fun but useless as you can't do any harm to the monster. Dispel is useless because of how rare enchanted characters are anyway. When you do encounter them they're barely any more difficult.

Security can be done by just learning the game, and it doesn't make it that much easier when you get into higher levels. You'll still be searching for lockpicks at every corner.

Blade ended up being all powerful but I don't think it has anything to do with the joining of long and short, it's just there's a lot of seductive stuff that comes in blades. War hammers have there own seduction but not as powerful.

[DoomedOne]

Heh, it's actually level 10 you get the skeleton key, and it's not just because of that, once you figure out the game technique for lockpicking you don't need it.

Acrobatics is a good skill to major in unless you want to spend hours jumping up and down, in which case it well end up equal to a major. At level 50 acrobatics you get the dodge ability, which I find super useful in combat (expecially since my character is keen on disappearing acts, I just dodge back over and over again about 50 feet, go into sneak and it's over, screw invisibility).

You don't eventually get seen with sneak if you do it right. I mean yeah, in the last dungeon of the thief story I get seen in a fat dungeon full of monsters and ended up just standing up and running (for like 5 minutes, that was a long dungeon that I basically completely skipped), then going into a new room and climbing something high, going into sneak, and waiting for the last of those that chased me to wander back off.