Greetings Wizards! Your boy is back and with one of his longest vids to date! 🧙♂ *FAQs* Q: Can't you scale the mountainside to reach Volsung without having to enter Volskygge? 🧙♂ Indeed you can! I forgot to mention this and is a much easier and faster way of obtaining the Volsung mask. Q: Doesn’t the Greater Power, “Highborn”, allow Altmers to increase their rate of magicka regeneration by 25x for 60 seconds once per day, not 25%? 🧙♂️ Quite right! Apologies for the error - have been playing a Nord for far too long 😅 Q: Can't the Dragon Priest Masks be worn with a Falmer Helmet for increased armor and additional enchantments? 🧙♂ Indeed they can! Dragon Priest Masks with a low base armor rating like Morokei will benefit the most, but all masks will benefit from additional enchantments. You could have a total of 5 enchantments on your head alone! The Falmer helmet can also be equipped and worn at the same time as any circlet, Penitus Oculatus helmet, and the Masque of Clavicus Vile. Q: Isn’t Volsung tempered with a Corundum Ingot? 🧙♂️ Oops! Yes, that’s quite right! It’s not tempered by Ebony Ingots but by Corundum Ingots. Q: What mod list are you using? 🧙♂️ That would be Septimus - Anniversary Edition Extended from Wabbajack.
To be fair they are thousands of years old. King Author was said to hold the greatest weapon known to man but you throw a nuke his way and suddenly that sword doesn't look so impressive.
@@AspenBrightsoul Yeah but Skyrim hasn't advanced like that, its been pretty static in terms of technology and magical power for thousands of years. I mean the Dwarves were coming up with steam power and automatons but they blew themselves up real good and that whole thing ended
@Christopher Taylor Actually magical "technology" is increasingly common amongst the more common folk, maybe not so much in Skyrim but we see in Morrowind that more and more reasurch has been put into improvements to the point they are novel. Like how every slaver has a load of shakles with a magic draning effect, and hell in Oblivion the main marketplace has a store that will teach you a magic spell for cheaper than a decent sword. The rest of the world is steadily advancing, I mean maybe less so now that the mages guild disolved, but still. Skyrim is a bit of a magic backwash.
@That Pleb Wouldve been neat to have them have powers/spells tied to the stories behind the priests (at least for the ones that have one...). Like Morokei could let you sap magicka from enemies like he does throughout the dungeon, Ahzidal could give you a combination fury, calm, and rally spell that makes enemies friendly to you like how he mind controls Ralis, etc.
Here's a tip that Makes Volsung even better: Go to Volsyygg, Go to the left of the dungeon entrance (outside), go up the side of the hill. You can walk right up the side of the hill directly to the Word Wall and Dragon Priest, skipping the entire dungeon. And I've noticed that if you start hitting him with a melee weapon as soon as he exits his coffin and then keep wailing on him, he just _doesn't_ attack you.
i didn't even know that volsung was connected to a dungeon, i've always kind of just ended up skyrimming my way up there following the dragon roost marker.
i believe the wooden mask takes you to a pocket dimension ancient dragon priests wouldn't of needed a time traveling mask; but a pocket dimension to hide a mask they wanted forgotten does make sense.
Yeah, that seems the most likely theory and also so that the sanctuary would stand the test of time, for access to an eternal shrine where the final mask was never out of reach
Maybe it didn't go back in time back then. It's not named so it could have been unfinished. Alduin crashing in the current era from the past made a sort of bridge. The unfinished mask absorbs the energy of the bridge and takes you back to the day he left. There is no owner of the wooden mask, it was always meant for the dragonborn.
Thanks to the AE there is a ring called "Denstagmer's ring". That ring add a +20% resistance to frost, shock or fire damage. Combining with the mask of Otar you'll get a 50% resistance to all the 3 elements
I prefer the warlocks ring the health regeneration boost and slight movement speed boost is nice but it’s the fact I get a ward when I block that sells it and said ward stacks with spellbreakers and is effected by the ward absorb perk it all really helps against pesky mages and dragons that refuse to land
That plus the Imperial Dragon armor in the AE for the Civil War mod adds ANOTHER 30% to each element. So that's 80%, almost the cap. There is another ring that does magic resistance in general and shock resistance, so that might be better.
I will say, the masks become a lot more useful in Survival mode, since they often handle problems that are introduced by the new rules, or make them easier to deal with. Also, Morokei and Konahrik are my favorite masks.
Spellbreaker is amazing! One of my favourite Daedric Artifacts 🛡️ I’ll plug Daedric Artifacts Ranked here (for those who haven’t seen): ua-cam.com/video/t42uzCBT25c/v-deo.html
@@theWelshWizard Yeah, and the Daedric Prince isn’t gonna take your soul to his realm of Oblivion when you die. Probably one of the only Daedric Quests I’ll do without feeling bad my character doesn’t get to enjoy an eternity in Sovngarde.
So many people asking about mods and debating builds, meanwhile I'm just happy that my favourite mask was the highest ranked mask outside of Konahrik. Volsung FTW!
I'm genuinely surprised that the DB masks don't rank higher. Not only are those resists pretty clutch on higher difficulties, they contribute to the absurd damage of the new Elemental Blast spells.
Also that shock was lowest. Dragons are either 50 to frost or flame. Nothing resists lightning (aside from named dragons, who resist all equally), only 4 enemies, two of which are 1-location only, are immune. And removing magicka from dragons stops breath attacks or shouts. It’s also the easiest to hit due to being hitscan. Sure, few things use it, but aside from enchantments, you got nothing to reduce it. No race gains resistence, unlike frost or flame.
It's a stupid list. Stuff like +20% bow damage on a mask with barely useful skills you could enchant better on other gear? (Like who the Hell goes adventuring with their potion making gear?). Compared to elemental damage resist/buffs? Sure most 'builds' can dabble in potion making but you don't need a dragon mask for that. @@samakiraroyjanssen6326
A thought on Hevnoraak. I've not gotten it yet to test it on my current playthrough, but potentially, immunity (85% resistance) to disease DAMAGE might actually make it a much more interesting pick if playing with mods. Assuming it actually resists it, which it may not. Disease damage in general is a very, very difficult resistance to get normally, as well as tons of stuff just not getting it, since it's, to my knowledge, just not available in base Skyrim. It's still probably not a fantastic mask in that context, but might be a great thing to just carry, in case. On a side note, one of my most fun times in Skyrim has been just becoming a mask collector. Lots of mods add masks, and just accumulating them, putting them on display, ect is surprisingly enjoyable experience. Lots are just recolors of the wooden mask, sadly, but there's impressive variety out there, too.
I personally prefer using garlic bread over cure disease potions they only weigh 0.1 each whereas potions weigh 0.5 (meaning you can carry 5 pieces for the same weight as 1 potion) plus they heal 1 hp lol you just need a homestead with an oven (or any place with an oven I have no clue about anything beyond the legendary edition on the ps3) a full loaf of bread garlic and butter and it gives 2 each time
I remember seeing your vids fly through my recs for a bit now but since I've been playing Skyrim myself again recently I decided to finally click in and I gotta say - very worth it! Good voice, good editing, good script for this one in general and the fact that you've been including captions for a long time is very appreciated! Definitely gonna be checking in more.
Last time i commented that you cant convince me to play Skyrim again, and here i am, playing it for 2 months already. Again. And also subscribed to you, great content and like your character.
21:44 here is a tip from when I was adventuring, Nahkriin won't actually attack you before he gets his staff so, all you have to do is block him with your body and hit him while he tries to get his staff
With the running Tip at 6:32 just keep a dagger on you and a torch you hold the torch and dagger then put your dagger away and you can sprint forever it’s called the Olympic Torch strat
@@theWelshWizard ya though looking back on it my wording was not perfect you start running with the dagger and torch then as your mid sprint you put the dagger away and you can keep endless sprint as long as you never go backwards or take super a sharp turn
@@Jango_Thicc your stamina will look like it’s going down and it is but when it runs out you won’t start panting and stand still you will just keep running
@@RinSyuveil That’s really good to know. But on console it looks like my character is running slower when I sheath a weapon while I am sprinting, is that just an fov change making it “look” like im going slower or is my speed actually decreased with the exchange of infinite sprint
Another well made video from the wizard, before this I never thought to combine frost and shock to take advantage of their effects, this might inspire a new play through
there was a theory that Kohnarik was supposed to be your mask by birthright as your the heir to the Dragon bloodline (Youd dont needa be a Septim to be the dragonborn
Combining the Kohnarik mask with a pair of those temple priest robes from the priests in Raven Rock, Solstheim, makes for solid dragon priest look. Since the robes already come with a 75% boost in magicka regeneration enchantment, they cannot be enchanted any further... however, you can still enchant a pair of gloves, shoes, a necklace and a ring for total of 8 extra enchantments.
That poison & disease resistance one actually is my default headgear when travelling. Because it's always annoying when meanwhile you've reached maximum armor cap, but easily got disease by one bite of a bear, wolf, or damn skeaver ambushing. Same with vampire. Their spell always get me disease like every time. When entering a battle, especially against dragon or wizards, Otar is my top equipment. But it's just me who like playing the orthodox two handed tank warrior. Like that old guard said, "Best offence is a good defence, am I right?!" Btw, I like how you deliver enough information, straight to the point, but not forget to give a bit trivial joke. Good content. Safe travel, land strider. May your road lead you to cloud district very often.
I find the Dragonborn DLC masks far better than the other base game masks given it has the only bonus destruction damage enchantment while the rest can be replaced with other armor or enchantments like the increase magicka and regen ones are useless once you wear multiple armor pieces that each have 25%~ lower magic cost in x school of magic. Elemental resists are also an enchantment you can get and have a higher % in by just doing the enchanting yourself
“Argonians have an innate 50% resistance to disease” I started a new survival playthrough last night as an Argonian and contracted Rock Joint from the third wolf I met after river wood.
Rank all possible stewards. Then perhaps one day all followers and or marriage candidates. The pool of choices for stewards is probably perfect for video length and I’ve yet to see someone else do a banger video on that but I know The Wizard can!
One question, and out of curiosity. What mod did you use for the dragon priest mask being on your charcter's hip 27:54 into the video? It looks awesome!
I have hard time choosing for my numbear one spot between Ahzidal, Nahkriin, and Konahrik Dragon Priest Masks. Ahzidal mask will even grand you small bonus to the enchanting if you wear his set special of armor (I am not using any game breaking glitches to create broken items). Nahkriin mask is really good for spellsword build, or mages wearing heavy armor. Konahrik mask works really well for warrior builds, and bonus points for the design.
my ranking would be slightly different. volsung > ahzidal/dukaan/vahlo > krosis > morokei > nahkriin/vokun > rahgot/miraak > otar > konahrik > hevnoraak volsung is far and away the most useful imo. its a lightweight waterbreathing enchantment that also gives you better prices and carry weight, so any character can make use of it. whether its throwing it on to sell things, to swim, or to grab a few extra pieces of loot. water breathing doesnt really have much use in skyrim tho, sadly, especially without underwater combat. the dlc mage mask are all really good and help spells lack of scaling for their specific elements. krosis is just a good general ranger type mask, or for potion crafting. making lockpicking easier it just a bonus. morokei is just a good general mage type mask, unlike the rest of the mage mask, which require you to be more specialized. nahkriin and vokin are both good for their respective schools. the remaining mask are generally only good if you ignore enchanting imo. rahgot if you use stam/enjoy power attacks, miraak if you use mana. otar can be really good early on, specifically if you have a racial resist, but otherwise enchanting can easily replace this once its maxed out. konahrik is very underwhelming for me, bc if im low enough to proc it, im probably dead, or its just faster to use a heal spell/potion. it does however work really well with restorations avoid death perk, and it does look really cool. im just not a fan of low hp RNG procs myself, when i could use another helm and have its effect 24/7 while also staying healthy. hevnoraak, last and certainly least. vampire OR werewolf form both grant you 100% disease immunity, with werewolf only taking away the rested bonus. the only value this mask has is if you dont plan to do either, then its actually pretty good. i almost always just become a werewolf for the disease immunity, even if i never use the werewolf form myself, so i view this mask as completely useless. this was a neato vid tho, thank you.
"can be upgraded with the daedric smithing perk" started to get meme able near the end, i would suggest say all can be upgraded with the perk with exceptions (then name them as they come up). still a great video :D
I was angry about the whole Dragon Priest shrine, because I worked my butt off painstakingly locating and clearing the dungeons and nearly dying several times to get ahold of all eight masks (on Skyrim) then I had to walk all the way back to Labyrinthian, and once I placed all the dragon priest masks on their respective busts, Bethesda has the audacity to not even give me an achievement for it!
Water breathing is also an excellent skill for escaping guards if you happen to get caught being naughty... so i hear. Obviously I wouldn't have any firsthand experience with such things, or outstanding bounties. I'm obviously just a law abiding citizen that enjoys long underwater swims upriver.
And if you like Dragon Priest Masks? There's mod for Dragon Priest Armory, with each Priest coming with their custom armor too! Heck, if you want you can just go find a Clay Mask and enter another time, and craft your own armor too. Including a Hearthstone Armor, that has Enchantment Boost, and real epic black and red shade... Konahrik's Accountrements.
I remember there was a conjuring book you could get via the console thing that gave you a spell to summon dragon priests. Those dragon priests, in turn, summoned two of those giant lightning elementals. It was glorious. 😁
I expected the poison resist helmet to be closer to the top slot due to how difficult it is to get poison resistance outside racials and poison resistance potions, and how hard poisons scale at the higher levels. immunity to magic and melee are self explanatory, but dealing with poisons is rough up until you get Hevvy.
i love skyrim. I've been playing it for over forty hours, for the first time ever, and i have the krosis mask without even realizing how cool it is or what a dragon priest is. there's so much I haven't yet seen !!
Otar is actually really good, due to the fact that elemental resistance is applied seperately from magic resistance. So, with 85% magic resist, you can reduce incoming magic damage by 85%, 30% elemental resistance will reduce your damage taken by 30% of that damage. Coupled with the fact that helmets don't have any real useful custom enchantment slots for pure warriors, Otar is probably among the best pieces to use as one.
Yeah, elemental resistance combined with magic resistance can grant you a max resistance of 97.75% in one element. But a much easier way of achieving full resistance to magic (as well as to a whole lot more) is through absorb magicka. 100% absorb magicka means no damage to you and a well supplied magicka bar when versing spell casters and dragons 🔥
@@theWelshWizard My tops would be otar or hevnoraak. From the perspective of a melee fighter. Breton (or alteration perk 3)+ agent of mara + lord stone + shield of ysgramor gives you 85% magic resist. The fishing ring and otar give you 50% so I believe that makes it 92.5%? I am going to assume the wiki is correct on damage and the ancient dragon has the highest spell damage with fireball/ice storm of 200 damage. That would be 600 damage on legendary. That would leave the damage at 45. It hurts, but I'd say a warrior should easily have 300+ hp by the time they fight ancient dragons means it shouldn't be but 15% of total hp. The physical attacks of ancient+ do something like 600-900dmg...which is still 45-68dmg so avoid that. Train archery. Assuming the wiki is accurate. Idk. Mages would do less magic damage than a dragon. I don't care much for absorb Magicka because having to wear a couple pieces of miraak set I feel is too limiting. hevnoraak is invaluable. Unless you find a poison immunity asap, it might be your only way to get that resist poison besides being a vampire. A basic falmer does 15 poison damage and a warmonger does 36 poison damage unresisted per second for 3-4sec. It stacks. The damage is insane on legendary. An arrow and sword strike would kill a character with base hp. God forbid you get hit with a third arrow. That would do upwards of 200dmg with the arrow/sword damage taken into account. I don't go anywhere near falmer without poison resist.
My Favorites are Nahkriin (great for heavy armored Mage builds), Hevnoraak (great for non-vampires and non-werewolves), and any of the three Elemental ones (for those elementally themed character).
This is why I prefer mods that buff the Dragon Priest masks so that they feel like unique, powerful items and not just "well i can get a better one by making it"
If you use Dukaan with a Stalhrim weapon that has a Chaos enchant and a frost enchant Both Dukaan and Stalhrim will boost both of those enchantments by 25% for a total 50% damage boost
Bit of a nitpick here, as it isn't very important, but Volsung is upgraded with a corundum ingot, not an ebony ingot. bit more accessible, which adds to the mask's appeal. :) great video btw! will definitely be checking out your other stuff :D
I love vokun. The combination of bound bow plus invisibility and silent casting perk plus slowtime shout buffed by stability is a build many already did. This mask helps alot in that. It also helps you being a necromancer that can buff the zombies/summons with courage thanks to the perk that alows you to use ilusion perks on undead, and paralyze is always useful. The mask is just so useful The elemental mask are also very good, althought very niche. Best to worst are, for me, fire, shock and frost. Fire for the spell on ahzidal ring and shock form boosting the Kamehameha
I main as mage in ES games so Morokei is always my first go to as well as the entire Winterhold college questline. First thing I do to get my starting mage equipment. If I'm on PC, I kill Marcurio for his awesome robes but will resurrect him cause he's my fav NPC in game and always marry him lol
I accidentally got Volsung by scaling the mountain while going to the Thalmor place. Dude didn't even attack back, it was incredibly hilarious, especially cause you say its one of the best
The whole time I was waiting to see where my favorite one, Krosis will end up, and man, number 3, I was not disappointed. Turns out in my less than 100 hours of casual playtime across half a dozen characters was enough for me to see that it was good.
As the mask of The First Dragonborn, Miraak had many possibilities. Like perhaps... an extra daily use of "Mul Qah Diiv!" A simple magicka increase is incredibly lame.
plus, if you get lucky, you can buy a disenchantable necklace from Radiant Raiment in Solitude with "resist poison", assuming you are there before you reach level 20. Just get your enchantment skill up and you can make better poison resistance gear than the mask.
Greetings Wizards! Your boy is back and with one of his longest vids to date! 🧙♂
*FAQs*
Q: Can't you scale the mountainside to reach Volsung without having to enter Volskygge?
🧙♂ Indeed you can! I forgot to mention this and is a much easier and faster way of obtaining the Volsung mask.
Q: Doesn’t the Greater Power, “Highborn”, allow Altmers to increase their rate of magicka regeneration by 25x for 60 seconds once per day, not 25%?
🧙♂️ Quite right! Apologies for the error - have been playing a Nord for far too long 😅
Q: Can't the Dragon Priest Masks be worn with a Falmer Helmet for increased armor and additional enchantments?
🧙♂ Indeed they can! Dragon Priest Masks with a low base armor rating like Morokei will benefit the most, but all masks will benefit from additional enchantments. You could have a total of 5 enchantments on your head alone! The Falmer helmet can also be equipped and worn at the same time as any circlet, Penitus Oculatus helmet, and the Masque of Clavicus Vile.
Q: Isn’t Volsung tempered with a Corundum Ingot?
🧙♂️ Oops! Yes, that’s quite right! It’s not tempered by Ebony Ingots but by Corundum Ingots.
Q: What mod list are you using?
🧙♂️ That would be Septimus - Anniversary Edition Extended from Wabbajack.
can you add a mod link to the player home showed in 27:49? I don't have a beefy PC, but I do love a good player home!
@@leahriggins76 added to the description 👍
have you or will you ever release your modlist?
Where did you get that wizard setup mate
You should do a video on How to all skills to 100 or the best skill in Skyrim
Like the Gauldur amulet, none of the priest masks are as powerful or impressive as the should be given the lore and how they are described.
Yeah, they’re not hugely powerful (apart from Konahrik imo) but some are very useful, especially if you hunt down the priests early on!
To be fair they are thousands of years old. King Author was said to hold the greatest weapon known to man but you throw a nuke his way and suddenly that sword doesn't look so impressive.
@@AspenBrightsoul Yeah but Skyrim hasn't advanced like that, its been pretty static in terms of technology and magical power for thousands of years. I mean the Dwarves were coming up with steam power and automatons but they blew themselves up real good and that whole thing ended
@Christopher Taylor Actually magical "technology" is increasingly common amongst the more common folk, maybe not so much in Skyrim but we see in Morrowind that more and more reasurch has been put into improvements to the point they are novel. Like how every slaver has a load of shakles with a magic draning effect, and hell in Oblivion the main marketplace has a store that will teach you a magic spell for cheaper than a decent sword. The rest of the world is steadily advancing, I mean maybe less so now that the mages guild disolved, but still. Skyrim is a bit of a magic backwash.
There are mods to fix that
I think the masks could’ve been treated like Azhidal’s rings, where you get a unique spell for wearing them.
That would’ve been cool!
Would have made them so much better
Or a unique power so magic isn't relied on.
@That Pleb Wouldve been neat to have them have powers/spells tied to the stories behind the priests (at least for the ones that have one...). Like Morokei could let you sap magicka from enemies like he does throughout the dungeon, Ahzidal could give you a combination fury, calm, and rally spell that makes enemies friendly to you like how he mind controls Ralis, etc.
@@dumbsterdives Yeah but I guess a mod could add things if there is one.
Here's a tip that Makes Volsung even better: Go to Volsyygg, Go to the left of the dungeon entrance (outside), go up the side of the hill. You can walk right up the side of the hill directly to the Word Wall and Dragon Priest, skipping the entire dungeon. And I've noticed that if you start hitting him with a melee weapon as soon as he exits his coffin and then keep wailing on him, he just _doesn't_ attack you.
Thanks, I forgot to mention the first tip but the second I didn’t know about!
That happens with alot of the dragon priests
Wait, so that's why some dp just float there and do nothing?
Exactly how i did it, just didn't want to vlear a dungeon
i didn't even know that volsung was connected to a dungeon, i've always kind of just ended up skyrimming my way up there following the dragon roost marker.
i believe the wooden mask takes you to a pocket dimension ancient dragon priests wouldn't of needed a time traveling mask; but a pocket dimension to hide a mask they wanted forgotten does make sense.
Yeah, that seems the most likely theory and also so that the sanctuary would stand the test of time, for access to an eternal shrine where the final mask was never out of reach
Maybe it didn't go back in time back then. It's not named so it could have been unfinished. Alduin crashing in the current era from the past made a sort of bridge. The unfinished mask absorbs the energy of the bridge and takes you back to the day he left. There is no owner of the wooden mask, it was always meant for the dragonborn.
@@marvincooper9926 good theory
Thanks to the AE there is a ring called "Denstagmer's ring". That ring add a +20% resistance to frost, shock or fire damage. Combining with the mask of Otar you'll get a 50% resistance to all the 3 elements
Oh wow, I didn’t know about that! Need to fish more 👀
I prefer the warlocks ring the health regeneration boost and slight movement speed boost is nice but it’s the fact I get a ward when I block that sells it and said ward stacks with spellbreakers and is effected by the ward absorb perk it all really helps against pesky mages and dragons that refuse to land
Totally balanced
That plus the Imperial Dragon armor in the AE for the Civil War mod adds ANOTHER 30% to each element. So that's 80%, almost the cap.
There is another ring that does magic resistance in general and shock resistance, so that might be better.
I will say, the masks become a lot more useful in Survival mode, since they often handle problems that are introduced by the new rules, or make them easier to deal with. Also, Morokei and Konahrik are my favorite masks.
House Telvanni approves of this ranking! Very informative content and beautiful editing as always!! ❤
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I admit I would not have expected Master Neloth to be one to use hearts in his comments... Then again, I'm no master wizard.
I really wish the wooden mask did more time travel in different dragon mask locations just so we could check out the past
Maybe it could have a whole quest line where at the end you discover the Dragon Priest it belonged to.
@@autismreal4maybe it could be similar to Namira’s quest?
Even if it were something simple. Like finding lore about the individual dragon priests.
@@HappyBeezerStudiosemagine walking through an ancient tomb, this mask had so much potential.
The shock one , and the one that increases magica with destruction cast reduction are my favorite ones.
The fact that people are STILL making content about skyrim is both incredible and absolutely baffeling to me. xD
The best usage of the masks is the multiple armor sets glitch, wearing every single mask and all those buffs stacked 🤣
Volsung was the first dragon priest i ever found playing Skyrim so it forever has a place in my heart... + It looks aweasome
Mine was krosis
I use the spellbreaker shield coupled with the elemental protection perk to reduce elemental damage and being a nord having that frost resistance
Spellbreaker is amazing! One of my favourite Daedric Artifacts 🛡️
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@@theWelshWizard Yeah, and the Daedric Prince isn’t gonna take your soul to his realm of Oblivion when you die. Probably one of the only Daedric Quests I’ll do without feeling bad my character doesn’t get to enjoy an eternity in Sovngarde.
So many people asking about mods and debating builds, meanwhile I'm just happy that my favourite mask was the highest ranked mask outside of Konahrik. Volsung FTW!
I'm genuinely surprised that the DB masks don't rank higher. Not only are those resists pretty clutch on higher difficulties, they contribute to the absurd damage of the new Elemental Blast spells.
Also that shock was lowest.
Dragons are either 50 to frost or flame. Nothing resists lightning (aside from named dragons, who resist all equally), only 4 enemies, two of which are 1-location only, are immune.
And removing magicka from dragons stops breath attacks or shouts.
It’s also the easiest to hit due to being hitscan.
Sure, few things use it, but aside from enchantments, you got nothing to reduce it. No race gains resistence, unlike frost or flame.
It's a stupid list. Stuff like +20% bow damage on a mask with barely useful skills you could enchant better on other gear? (Like who the Hell goes adventuring with their potion making gear?). Compared to elemental damage resist/buffs? Sure most 'builds' can dabble in potion making but you don't need a dragon mask for that. @@samakiraroyjanssen6326
A thought on Hevnoraak.
I've not gotten it yet to test it on my current playthrough, but potentially, immunity (85% resistance) to disease DAMAGE might actually make it a much more interesting pick if playing with mods. Assuming it actually resists it, which it may not.
Disease damage in general is a very, very difficult resistance to get normally, as well as tons of stuff just not getting it, since it's, to my knowledge, just not available in base Skyrim.
It's still probably not a fantastic mask in that context, but might be a great thing to just carry, in case.
On a side note, one of my most fun times in Skyrim has been just becoming a mask collector. Lots of mods add masks, and just accumulating them, putting them on display, ect is surprisingly enjoyable experience. Lots are just recolors of the wooden mask, sadly, but there's impressive variety out there, too.
I personally prefer using garlic bread over cure disease potions they only weigh 0.1 each whereas potions weigh 0.5 (meaning you can carry 5 pieces for the same weight as 1 potion) plus they heal 1 hp lol you just need a homestead with an oven (or any place with an oven I have no clue about anything beyond the legendary edition on the ps3) a full loaf of bread garlic and butter and it gives 2 each time
That is handy to know, thanks! Might be cooking some garlic bread in the next ranking 👍
Hawk feathers do the same exact thing.
@@owlrecluse2234 but they don't heal an hp lol but yeah if you can't make garlic bread hawk feathers are a better bet for weight than potions
I remember seeing your vids fly through my recs for a bit now but since I've been playing Skyrim myself again recently I decided to finally click in and I gotta say - very worth it! Good voice, good editing, good script for this one in general and the fact that you've been including captions for a long time is very appreciated! Definitely gonna be checking in more.
Thank you! I’m glad I could have a good first impression :) new ranking coming soon! 🧙♂️
You need to make a collection for your mods asap! The Combat looks so fun
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Love the belt collector wizard image in the thumbnail!
Last time i commented that you cant convince me to play Skyrim again, and here i am, playing it for 2 months already. Again. And also subscribed to you, great content and like your character.
Thanks man! And welcome back!
21:44 here is a tip from when I was adventuring, Nahkriin won't actually attack you before he gets his staff so, all you have to do is block him with your body and hit him while he tries to get his staff
With the running Tip at 6:32 just keep a dagger on you and a torch you hold the torch and dagger then put your dagger away and you can sprint forever it’s called the Olympic Torch strat
Wow, will have to give this a go, thanks!
@@theWelshWizard ya though looking back on it my wording was not perfect you start running with the dagger and torch then as your mid sprint you put the dagger away and you can keep endless sprint as long as you never go backwards or take super a sharp turn
@@RinSyuveildoesn’t your sprint speed decrease. when sheathing a weapon mid sprint or is that visual or just a console problem
@@Jango_Thicc your stamina will look like it’s going down and it is but when it runs out you won’t start panting and stand still you will just keep running
@@RinSyuveil That’s really good to know. But on console it looks like my character is running slower when I sheath a weapon while I am sprinting, is that just an fov change making it “look” like im going slower or is my speed actually decreased with the exchange of infinite sprint
Another well made video from the wizard, before this I never thought to combine frost and shock to take advantage of their effects, this might inspire a new play through
it would be cool if there were stories that had someone wearing a wooden mask in Skyrim, Like books or something, to hint at the Dragon Priests
there was a theory that Kohnarik was supposed to be your mask by birthright as your the heir to the Dragon bloodline (Youd dont needa be a Septim to be the dragonborn
Loved the puns and jokes, sweet video !
Wow, thanks man! Really appreciate that :)
@@theWelshWizard always looking forward to your magical videos !
As an archer Krosis has a special place in my heart, usually the first mask i get in the game as well
If you're running mage build the mask that's found with the staff of magnus is pretty solid.
Great job on this video
Also, I prefer the mask that gives more defense to electricity
As even tho they may be few, they hit like a tank when they do
okay not even a minute in and I am subscribed. I really enjoy how you make this videos already, and this is the first video I've seen from you.
Thank you! And welcome aboard!
Amazing content as always
Appreciate it!
A 30 minutes video from Welshwizard?
Sign me up!
Love seeing areas from Kohnarik's Armory mod lol
Combining the Kohnarik mask with a pair of those temple priest robes from the priests in Raven Rock, Solstheim, makes for solid dragon priest look. Since the robes already come with a 75% boost in magicka regeneration enchantment, they cannot be enchanted any further... however, you can still enchant a pair of gloves, shoes, a necklace and a ring for total of 8 extra enchantments.
Tip for Dukaan: Pair it with Stahlrim weapons. Stahlrim items natively increase all Ice-based enchantments on them.
I love these videos. For a Welshman, you are pretty entertaining.
Your channel is awesome! Your style and production quality are top notch. Another great video!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed 😊
That poison & disease resistance one actually is my default headgear when travelling. Because it's always annoying when meanwhile you've reached maximum armor cap, but easily got disease by one bite of a bear, wolf, or damn skeaver ambushing. Same with vampire. Their spell always get me disease like every time.
When entering a battle, especially against dragon or wizards, Otar is my top equipment.
But it's just me who like playing the orthodox two handed tank warrior. Like that old guard said, "Best offence is a good defence, am I right?!"
Btw, I like how you deliver enough information, straight to the point, but not forget to give a bit trivial joke. Good content.
Safe travel, land strider. May your road lead you to cloud district very often.
I find the Dragonborn DLC masks far better than the other base game masks given it has the only bonus destruction damage enchantment while the rest can be replaced with other armor or enchantments like the increase magicka and regen ones are useless once you wear multiple armor pieces that each have 25%~ lower magic cost in x school of magic. Elemental resists are also an enchantment you can get and have a higher % in by just doing the enchanting yourself
“Argonians have an innate 50% resistance to disease”
I started a new survival playthrough last night as an Argonian and contracted Rock Joint from the third wolf I met after river wood.
I've been waiting for this.Akihiko
Dayum you, ya crazy Welsh Wizard! Now You've gotten me wanting to play Skrim again!
Rank all possible stewards. Then perhaps one day all followers and or marriage candidates. The pool of choices for stewards is probably perfect for video length and I’ve yet to see someone else do a banger video on that but I know The Wizard can!
One question, and out of curiosity. What mod did you use for the dragon priest mask being on your charcter's hip 27:54 into the video? It looks awesome!
That would be Belt-Worn Dragon Priest Masks - From Warmonger Armory. I’ll add the link in description 👍
Those masks floating around you is freaking cool
Would love to see your ranking on which cities / villages or Houses are the best.
House ranking coming next!
@@theWelshWizard can’t wait!
Fun fact:
The poison gas in Calcelmo's laboratory in fact just superheated steam. :D
it possible to contract at least one disease (Bone Break Fever) as a vampire, despite vampires being listed as having 100% disease resistance.
This is my second video, it's 12:12 AM and I'm outside glued to the screen, SUBSCRIBED!! 👊🐻
I love your videos!
I like electricity resistance during the College questline, as you get a lot more lightning users in that progression. Useful if only for those quests
It says morokei gives 100% more regen but it’s still slow af during combat to the point it’s basically useless. That’s why I go for Nahkriin.
Yeah, it’s armor rating doesn’t help it’s cause either and a shame you can’t use Mage Armor perk
I have hard time choosing for my numbear one spot between Ahzidal, Nahkriin, and Konahrik Dragon Priest Masks.
Ahzidal mask will even grand you small bonus to the enchanting if you wear his set special of armor (I am not using any game breaking glitches to create broken items).
Nahkriin mask is really good for spellsword build, or mages wearing heavy armor.
Konahrik mask works really well for warrior builds, and bonus points for the design.
my ranking would be slightly different.
volsung > ahzidal/dukaan/vahlo > krosis > morokei > nahkriin/vokun > rahgot/miraak > otar > konahrik > hevnoraak
volsung is far and away the most useful imo. its a lightweight waterbreathing enchantment that also gives you better prices and carry weight, so any character can make use of it. whether its throwing it on to sell things, to swim, or to grab a few extra pieces of loot. water breathing doesnt really have much use in skyrim tho, sadly, especially without underwater combat.
the dlc mage mask are all really good and help spells lack of scaling for their specific elements.
krosis is just a good general ranger type mask, or for potion crafting. making lockpicking easier it just a bonus.
morokei is just a good general mage type mask, unlike the rest of the mage mask, which require you to be more specialized.
nahkriin and vokin are both good for their respective schools.
the remaining mask are generally only good if you ignore enchanting imo.
rahgot if you use stam/enjoy power attacks, miraak if you use mana.
otar can be really good early on, specifically if you have a racial resist, but otherwise enchanting can easily replace this once its maxed out.
konahrik is very underwhelming for me, bc if im low enough to proc it, im probably dead, or its just faster to use a heal spell/potion. it does however work really well with restorations avoid death perk, and it does look really cool. im just not a fan of low hp RNG procs myself, when i could use another helm and have its effect 24/7 while also staying healthy.
hevnoraak, last and certainly least. vampire OR werewolf form both grant you 100% disease immunity, with werewolf only taking away the rested bonus. the only value this mask has is if you dont plan to do either, then its actually pretty good. i almost always just become a werewolf for the disease immunity, even if i never use the werewolf form myself, so i view this mask as completely useless.
this was a neato vid tho, thank you.
"can be upgraded with the daedric smithing perk" started to get meme able near the end, i would suggest say all can be upgraded with the perk with exceptions (then name them as they come up).
still a great video :D
I did find myself getting bored of that line lol - but next time I’ll do that 👍
I was angry about the whole Dragon Priest shrine, because I worked my butt off painstakingly locating and clearing the dungeons and nearly dying several times to get ahold of all eight masks (on Skyrim) then I had to walk all the way back to Labyrinthian, and once I placed all the dragon priest masks on their respective busts, Bethesda has the audacity to not even give me an achievement for it!
Water breathing is also an excellent skill for escaping guards if you happen to get caught being naughty... so i hear. Obviously I wouldn't have any firsthand experience with such things, or outstanding bounties. I'm obviously just a law abiding citizen that enjoys long underwater swims upriver.
😂
And if you like Dragon Priest Masks? There's mod for Dragon Priest Armory, with each Priest coming with their custom armor too! Heck, if you want you can just go find a Clay Mask and enter another time, and craft your own armor too. Including a Hearthstone Armor, that has Enchantment Boost, and real epic black and red shade...
Konahrik's Accountrements.
I remember there was a conjuring book you could get via the console thing that gave you a spell to summon dragon priests. Those dragon priests, in turn, summoned two of those giant lightning elementals. It was glorious. 😁
i hear all this info and get confused, then remember my skyrim is modded heavily
Okay, that mussel pun was magnificent
I expected the poison resist helmet to be closer to the top slot due to how difficult it is to get poison resistance outside racials and poison resistance potions, and how hard poisons scale at the higher levels. immunity to magic and melee are self explanatory, but dealing with poisons is rough up until you get Hevvy.
Volsung was literally the first one I found and haven’t taken it off since 😂🙌🏽🙌🏽
i love skyrim. I've been playing it for over forty hours, for the first time ever, and i have the krosis mask without even realizing how cool it is or what a dragon priest is. there's so much I haven't yet seen !!
You know, I was fully expecting to have to leave a comment about the wooden mask. Good job! 😂
Otar is actually really good, due to the fact that elemental resistance is applied seperately from magic resistance. So, with 85% magic resist, you can reduce incoming magic damage by 85%, 30% elemental resistance will reduce your damage taken by 30% of that damage. Coupled with the fact that helmets don't have any real useful custom enchantment slots for pure warriors, Otar is probably among the best pieces to use as one.
Yeah, elemental resistance combined with magic resistance can grant you a max resistance of 97.75% in one element. But a much easier way of achieving full resistance to magic (as well as to a whole lot more) is through absorb magicka. 100% absorb magicka means no damage to you and a well supplied magicka bar when versing spell casters and dragons 🔥
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My tops would be otar or hevnoraak.
From the perspective of a melee fighter.
Breton (or alteration perk 3)+ agent of mara + lord stone + shield of ysgramor gives you 85% magic resist. The fishing ring and otar give you 50% so I believe that makes it 92.5%?
I am going to assume the wiki is correct on damage and the ancient dragon has the highest spell damage with fireball/ice storm of 200 damage. That would be 600 damage on legendary. That would leave the damage at 45. It hurts, but I'd say a warrior should easily have 300+ hp by the time they fight ancient dragons means it shouldn't be but 15% of total hp.
The physical attacks of ancient+ do something like 600-900dmg...which is still 45-68dmg so avoid that. Train archery.
Assuming the wiki is accurate. Idk.
Mages would do less magic damage than a dragon.
I don't care much for absorb Magicka because having to wear a couple pieces of miraak set I feel is too limiting.
hevnoraak is invaluable.
Unless you find a poison immunity asap, it might be your only way to get that resist poison besides being a vampire.
A basic falmer does 15 poison damage and a warmonger does 36 poison damage unresisted per second for 3-4sec.
It stacks.
The damage is insane on legendary. An arrow and sword strike would kill a character with base hp. God forbid you get hit with a third arrow. That would do upwards of 200dmg with the arrow/sword damage taken into account.
I don't go anywhere near falmer without poison resist.
My Favorites are Nahkriin (great for heavy armored Mage builds), Hevnoraak (great for non-vampires and non-werewolves), and any of the three Elemental ones (for those elementally themed character).
This is why I prefer mods that buff the Dragon Priest masks so that they feel like unique, powerful items and not just "well i can get a better one by making it"
another great top, keep the good job
Thanks!
If you use Dukaan with a Stalhrim weapon that has a Chaos enchant and a frost enchant Both Dukaan and Stalhrim will boost both of those enchantments by 25% for a total 50% damage boost
The enchantments also get a bonus from the elemental destruction perks most powerful weapon imo
That's pretty cracked xd
amazing video!
I laughed stupidly loud at “unless I pull a mussel” lmao well done
Haha 😉
4 minutes in, great editing my man, appreciate your hard work!
Anyone thought these masks are almost like Bionicle?
Bit of a nitpick here, as it isn't very important, but Volsung is upgraded with a corundum ingot, not an ebony ingot. bit more accessible, which adds to the mask's appeal. :) great video btw! will definitely be checking out your other stuff :D
Well spotted! My apologies - I have mentioned this in my pinned comment 👍 and I appreciate the kind words, thanks :)
That gameplay mod is crazy. It’s not exactly my preference, but it’s still impressive how it changes the combat.
I love vokun. The combination of bound bow plus invisibility and silent casting perk plus slowtime shout buffed by stability is a build many already did. This mask helps alot in that. It also helps you being a necromancer that can buff the zombies/summons with courage thanks to the perk that alows you to use ilusion perks on undead, and paralyze is always useful.
The mask is just so useful
The elemental mask are also very good, althought very niche. Best to worst are, for me, fire, shock and frost. Fire for the spell on ahzidal ring and shock form boosting the Kamehameha
I main as mage in ES games so Morokei is always my first go to as well as the entire Winterhold college questline. First thing I do to get my starting mage equipment.
If I'm on PC, I kill Marcurio for his awesome robes but will resurrect him cause he's my fav NPC in game and always marry him lol
I just subscribed last night and honestly I'm enjoying the content so far.
Glad to hear it! More to come soon 🧙♂️
Fixed Morokei with the 20% shout cooldown reduction is my go-to mask.
Another great video, you are a credit to the community. Can see the huge effort you put in
Thanks man!
Volsung's always been my fave, even if I'm almost always doing stealth archer-thief.
I like coupling morokei with the arch mage's robes. My go-to spell for dense areas is to use unbounded storms
My favorite mask is whichever one I come upon because I always forget about the Dragon Priests being in areas, lol 😂
All your vids are very interesting and your voice makes it more fun to watch! I subscribed and hope that theres more vids coming.
Thanks man! Gonna speed up following this next ranking and try posting more regularly - but I always say that lol
I was able to wear all of the masks at once with a glitch, With just the Solstheim masks you'll be set if you're a mage
“Benefits from the deadric smithing perk which doubles its improvement”
I accidentally got Volsung by scaling the mountain while going to the Thalmor place. Dude didn't even attack back, it was incredibly hilarious, especially cause you say its one of the best
The whole time I was waiting to see where my favorite one, Krosis will end up, and man, number 3, I was not disappointed. Turns out in my less than 100 hours of casual playtime across half a dozen characters was enough for me to see that it was good.
Been watching you for about a week and i cant get rid of the feeling like im watching Limit Breakers (skyrim edition)
Wizards alike 🧙♂️
I love how he always looks like a pimped out skeletor with the masks on
As the mask of The First Dragonborn, Miraak had many possibilities. Like perhaps... an extra daily use of "Mul Qah Diiv!" A simple magicka increase is incredibly lame.
Mirak should have 30% or 50% damage when fighting dragon or shout regen quicker..the fact he first dragon born
so you basically doubled your subscriber count in just one year! 😮 🎉
I absolutely love how your game looks!! Do you by chance have a list of mods that you use?
This mod list is Septimus AE from Wabbajack
Yeah the Dragon Priest Masks cancelling out Mage Armor seems like a pretty big oversight.
Yeah, it would’ve been useful for Morokei in particular as it’s armor rating is poor
i love your videos and the time and effort put into it :) keep it up!
plus, if you get lucky, you can buy a disenchantable necklace from Radiant Raiment in Solitude with "resist poison", assuming you are there before you reach level 20. Just get your enchantment skill up and you can make better poison resistance gear than the mask.
poison resistance is very useful when fighting Frostbite Spiders, Chaurus, and Falmer.