Thanks everyone for the kind comments! I really hope this helped you all out on starting a new character in the game. If you got questions, let me know. Or maybe some suggestions.
The reason for making this modpage: I really like to make character builds. Try them out, doing some quests and getting the gear I need. And I like to share such experiences. I really got inspired by YouTubers like FudgeMuppet and Zaric Zhakaron.
But it seems that this is the easy route: If I would make a video about it, I would get a few views and that's it. While here, I got 6126 views. So many people have read my tutorial (probably). And making gameplay videos is not really my thing.
I think I will make more tutorials like this one. But that will take a while until I deside to make one.
Something that I would really love for this kind of gameplay would be magic curse spells such as drain health and constantly reduce the size of the opponent until you can turn him into a child (only works on human), turn target into chicken or other animals (horse, cow, dog, elk, rabbit, skeever) when below 20% health, turn non-essential men target below 20% health to a women servant, eat childrens and get stronger for each of your victims, witch hunters going after you, love potions, armor pieces with an enchant that scales with the number of person that you cursed with a specific spell. Its been a long time since I never made anything with the creation kit. This sounds interesting to combine with your mod.
I was really hoping this was a replacer or enhancement for the generic Witch enemies encountered in the game. Thanks for the tutorial. I might consider it for my next playthrough.
I really like what you did with this. You bring up some very good ideas for playing the Witch but you have a couple things not entirely correct. Witches, just like any other profession, has those who like other people and those who don't. Some choose to live the solitary life while others will "blend in" seamlessly into a city's population. In most cases, it's OTHER PEOPLE who dislike what a witch does. Be it out of fear, such as the standard Nord dislike of magic in general, or it is from being misinformed (usually deliberately) by some authoritarian group or religion. Witch covens were and still are a common item and these gatherings often include non-witches who are not there to become the main course of a feast either. In actual history the main reason for the medieval witch hunts was the church wanting to stamp out any competition for the gold in the pockets of the people and to have complete control over what people thought, did and how they lived. Sadly many an innocent was killed in their pursuit of this. In game, a witch draws no more dislike than any other spell caster unless they are known to be causing harm to people in their area unlike a vampire or werewolf who will be immediately attacked once it is known they carry that trait.
I do agree on your choosing of what skills such a character would find most important to pursue their profession in game and might add that skills such as foraging would also be vital to the gathering of ingredients if living solitary and self sufficient. I use Hunterborn to fill in this area and often level up my foraging skill quickly very early in my games. More ingredients means more potions I can make and I can find more food to eat as well.
All that said... Good job on this tutorial and great ideas for people to try out in their games!
Been meaning to do a witch/shaman type build for a while, so this could help when I get around to it. The main thing is what kind of witch to do: the more ritualistic shaman type witch, or the classy kind like Morticia Addams... Perhaps a fusion? Either way, I'll be taking this guide into account when I finally make this character. My thanks for the inspiration!
Yes it is. That but I included an tutorial to do a Witch playtrough in Skyrim. I am not a modder myself. The easiest thing I can do is making face presets. Sorry to disappoint.
Well, I think better than a tutorial would be an example - creating a witch follower is a real challenge because you have to define behavior, not only visual aspects. I would expect a follower with a preference for alchemy that rarely uses weapons but potions and spells and that is sometimes picking up herbs when sandboxing in pampas.
With this build, you don't need weapons. Altough I personally like to use a dagger. (Nettlebane fits well). As for the follower: maybe it will come. But I make no promises. But what you ask for is nice, but also impossible when it becomes a regular follower.
Not really - you can change combat behavior, you can define a sandbox package with a parallel find procedure (find herbs) and an activate procedure with find results and as package condition world space tamriel (being in pampas)
Read through your list of everything and can't find the little hooded cape your witch is wearing. Can you tell which armor mod it is from please? Have used all the ones listed and never seen that little capelet. Thank you for the preset!
Here are the total mods I used for the outfit my character is wearing.
Cloak: Firekeeper. You can find this at this Tumblr website: http://wtfuun.tumblr.com/post/155242793915/xuniana-skyrim-mod-release-fire-keeper The reason I did not include this, is because the pictures are NSFW. And it does not give an author name, so Nexus would not allow links to unofficial modpages.
Hood: Gwelda Armor Pack I used the Witch hood with white hair. This hood fits with the firekeeper cloak.
Boots and gloves: Sotetta Necromancer
Fishnet Stockings: Gwelda Little Red Riding Hood
Shirt/dress: zzjay wardrobe I used the black hunter shirt. But you can choose whatever collor you want.
Necklace: Necromancer Amulet Replacer. http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/63607/? This one replaces the Necromancer Amulet from a dull, low ress. flat, blue amulet to a badass skull
I enjoyed reading and your character is really good! Nice take on poisoning part *_* (and that is how I'll do Brotherhood questline, thanks for the tip!)
I would suggest also such mods as Religion, Patron gods of Skyrim and Buyable daedric shrines, this can add to every character and every roleplay, imo ^_^ I had a witch character once, but she was more of Peryite worshipper:
Armor from Vigilant mod, also a lot of brooms One from MagicArts, and one from mod which was exactly about flying on a broom
The broom mod is indeed a good mod for this build! The only thing I don't like about that is the sitting animation XD. It looks silly. I tried the Princess Horse Animation mod by yukl to fix it. But the broom pointed to wrong way with that.
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I really hope this helped you all out on starting a new character in the game.
If you got questions, let me know. Or maybe some suggestions.
The reason for making this modpage:
I really like to make character builds. Try them out, doing some quests and getting the gear I need. And I like to share such experiences.
I really got inspired by YouTubers like FudgeMuppet and Zaric Zhakaron.
But it seems that this is the easy route: If I would make a video about it, I would get a few views and that's it. While here, I got 6126 views.
So many people have read my tutorial (probably).
And making gameplay videos is not really my thing.
I think I will make more tutorials like this one. But that will take a while until I deside to make one.
Thanks for the tutorial. I might consider it for my next playthrough.
I do agree on your choosing of what skills such a character would find most important to pursue their profession in game and might add that skills such as foraging would also be vital to the gathering of ingredients if living solitary and self sufficient. I use Hunterborn to fill in this area and often level up my foraging skill quickly very early in my games. More ingredients means more potions I can make and I can find more food to eat as well.
All that said... Good job on this tutorial and great ideas for people to try out in their games!
The main thing is what kind of witch to do: the more ritualistic shaman type witch, or the classy kind like Morticia Addams... Perhaps a fusion?
Either way, I'll be taking this guide into account when I finally make this character. My thanks for the inspiration!
That means my idea did it's job
Have fun!
That but I included an tutorial to do a Witch playtrough in Skyrim.
I am not a modder myself. The easiest thing I can do is making face presets. Sorry to disappoint.
Don't feel too sad...
As for the follower: maybe it will come. But I make no promises. But what you ask for is nice, but also impossible when it becomes a regular follower.
Here are the total mods I used for the outfit my character is wearing.
Cloak: Firekeeper.
You can find this at this Tumblr website: http://wtfuun.tumblr.com/post/155242793915/xuniana-skyrim-mod-release-fire-keeper
The reason I did not include this, is because the pictures are NSFW. And it does not give an author name, so Nexus would not allow links to unofficial modpages.
Hood: Gwelda Armor Pack
I used the Witch hood with white hair. This hood fits with the firekeeper cloak.
Boots and gloves: Sotetta Necromancer
Fishnet Stockings: Gwelda Little Red Riding Hood
Shirt/dress: zzjay wardrobe
I used the black hunter shirt. But you can choose whatever collor you want.
Necklace: Necromancer Amulet Replacer.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/63607/?
This one replaces the Necromancer Amulet from a dull, low ress. flat, blue amulet to a badass skull
I hope this covers everything you wanted to know
I would suggest also such mods as Religion, Patron gods of Skyrim and Buyable daedric shrines, this can add to every character and every roleplay, imo ^_^
I had a witch character once, but she was more of Peryite worshipper:
Armor from Vigilant mod, also a lot of brooms
The only thing I don't like about that is the sitting animation XD. It looks silly.
I tried the Princess Horse Animation mod by yukl to fix it. But the broom pointed to wrong way with that.