*To become the most powerful one must become the most weak.* - Todd Howard circa 1587 AD also if you enjoy the skyrim and want more then perhaps a skyrim together multiplayer challenge can be constructed!
@@N0T4K0P you're basically the top secret thalmor agent that was sent to weaken the empire further and then kill stormcloak leader once Skyrim is break free (that's how I imagine it)
You forgot about the sunfire spell. It's a restoration spell that heals the living but, as restoration is meant to do, harms the undead. That said, it counts as an attack and so will, despite doing 0 damage, agro enemies to initiate combat.
I like how he completely ignores the sun spells from Dawnguard that deal sun damage to undead. It's the only way of killing dragon priests with this build.
Spiff missed the golden opportunity to simply sit there with the Ebony Mail, doing absolutely nothing but using restoration spells while the enemies simply died from overwhelming amounts of gothic presence.
Actually, the Beacon can appear in any dungeon boss chest. Did a quest to investigate a cave (It was a quest from Solitude). After completing it and opening the chest, I somehow found Meridia's Beacon there. So I assume it can be found in any dungeon, aside from BFB. Or whenever you hit a certain level.
It can spawn in most boss chest as soon as you reach lvl 12. So it's quite easy to have it spawn in the first dungeon, if you like to level a bit before doing the main quest.
The perk is reflecting damage as it says, it's just when you have less armor the enemies attack would do more damage to you, meaning the reflected damage is higher. Anything you can do to increase the damage you take should increase the reflection damage
Low/Negative armor + fortify health +fortify regeneration for an optimized combo I guess (That's only assuming you can use negative armor that doesn't kill you instantly as soon as you take damage though.) EDIT: After watching the video that does seem to be the case, the fortify regeneration enchantment would allow you to heal back the increased damage taken by attacks to increase build viability (As long as it isn't instant death).
You know, you didn't actually use the damage reflection for anything but the ash guardian... So you could have just stopped wearing the armor and been immortal while poisoning things
@@missingno8649 Unfortunately most Restoration spells do nothing to the Undead, other than the turn undead type spells which just makes them flee. However there IS "Bane of the Undead" a master level Restoration spell that sets undead under LV30 on fire and makes them flee. And two Dawnguard Restoration spells, "Sun fire", "Stendarr's Aura" and "Vampire's Bane" which are all damaging against Undead. But you'd have to do a lot of Dawnguard questing to unlock them.
@@maximumdon7637 sun spells from dawnguard are also restoration and they affect everything (despite saying it does damage to undead) and nothing can resist it so yeah restoration is broken with the right spell
Yeah. I feel like the whole thing would have been a lot easier if he ditched the reflect armour idea after he got the poison and could actually take hits from things.
@@Person01234 I'm pretty sure in Skyrim you cannot actually take off the exploited health fortifying armor. For some reason- I think- whenever you use the busted enchantment exploit and give yourself an obscene amount of HP with it, whenever you take off that enchanted armor, you immediately lose all of that immense health and the game just kills you. So once it's on, it's stuck on forever.
I feel like everyone forgets that in the dawnguard DLC, you can get a restoration spell that does minor damage, with extra to vampires, as a novice spell from the merchants inside the castle
I assume not many people do it because 1) DLC so some people might not have it (I know it’s come out on so many things I could run it in my Nokia 😂) 2) Dawnguard is just… bleh? It’s not that great of a DLC imo 😅
I don't think it was intentional in such a way, I imagine that they just take the damage the player would take and apply that to the attacker, so the lower the players armor level, the more damage they would take, which then results in the fact that lower armor means more damage output. I would've probably programmed it the same way to be honest. Simply because I hadn't thought of the exploit until this video
@@ewanarends5512 And as Spiffing Brit demonstrates in this video you die instantly if you try that unless you waste hours of your actual life monotonously doing a loop of potions to enchanting to potions until you can enchant yourself a big enough buff to undo the damage. Like he said it himself he got to a 100 in heavy armour and 70 in a magic school. With 70 in archery, one handed melee and two handed melee you can oneshot most things and you won't die.
@@ewanarends5512 it's perk is really high, the max armor is ~580 (no reduction afterwards); maxing out heavy armor is pretty much guaranteed, once you have the perk (both heavy armor skill and perks increase the armor). By the time you get the perk, it's next to useless, esp. if you dont just power level armor but wear anything than iron/steel
it's probably programmed to deflect post-mitigation damage. as in with lower armor, you take more damage, hence more is reflected back to the attacker.
Not sure if you've done a video of the Mage God build, all you need to do is become a vampire, get the Necromage perk from restoration tree, get the atronach standing stone power, and then get the atronach perk from the alteration tree (in that order) and you will have 100% spell absorption, from that moment on your are entirely invulnerable to all spells, dragon breath attacks, poisons, and diseases, as well as anything else that applies to your character as a magical effect.
@@GreedyOrange In real world vampire lore, vampires are easily killed by a stake through the heart, which formdoggie is humorously analogizing to a wood allergy, and also vampires can't enter a home without permission.
27:55 You can actually level destruction by being set on fire. Best way to do this is of course to step in and out of a forge rapidly which puts a lot of fire on you. Coincidentally this is also the best way to level restoration as you can heal while having full magicka regeneration.
The best way to level Restoration is to use turn undead spells as they give more experience per cast. Once you are able to get Repel undead spell you can multiply the experience per cast by hitting multiple enemies at once with it. You can use the three skeletons in the Whiterun hall of the dead but the more targets you have that you can affect the bigger the multiplier so any dungeon filled with low level Draugr or skeletons will do. You can literally get from around 40 restoration to 70 in under ten minutes using this trick if enough affected targets are grouped together. Cost reduction speeds up the gains if you can get them of course. Also ironically the Poison Rune itself can level restoration much faster than healing as long as you hit multiple enemies with each rune. It is a bit harder to do but still better than healing yourself for hours. Basically any spell that hits multiple targets will raise the skill by as many hit for each cast making it more efficient even if it seems to be more magicka heavy to begin with due to initial cost.
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Is it really an exploit if you have to destroy your actual soul to do it? Like I feel like the balance here is that Spiffing Brit's brain dribbled out of his ears to do the loop.
Fun fact: I once did that Int overflow error on my stealth skill by accident. An empty shop called the guards on me when I messed with its ledger. It felt like a sting operation.
The funniest part for me was the fact he just didn’t take the sun spells, the books have destruction on them but they’re actually scaled off restoration
It's a restoration spell that heals the living but, as restoration is meant to do, harms the undead. That said, it counts as an attack and so will, despite doing 0 damage, agro enemies to initiate combat. And he said he was not going to start a fight/ agro.
You could also make a fortify restoration potion so powerful it becomes a negative, so the healing hands spell now heals negative health, i.e. does damage, it would also make the poison rune the only spell that can heal you
One of the weakest builds I've found is ice magic only, most bandits are resistant, undead are resistant, vampire nords are immune, and dwarf stuff is immune as well
@@dancook6114 We both know Spiff would just wall glitch and steal the spells from his chest, you only need to get the first two, Gunnar and idr her name. after you get them all three chests appear.
Fun fact, using integer overload on fortify health makes you immortal. You're locked in negative health and can never hit 0 health, making all sources of damage do nothing. Downside is removing the equipment instantly set you to 0 health, killing you.
I found a way to remove that armor it also permanently locks your health in at whatever fortify health is what you do is this man create a fortify health potion drink that b**** then unequipped the armor the arm is going to try to take all of your health but because of the fortify health potion you're going to have some extra help keeping you alive then it's going to glitch out and stay at that f****** level forever so you want a natural million health make a potion with a million health f*** having enchantments I'll make it a reality
Spiffing Brit, one glitch/exploit I never see talked about in Skyrim. If you have atronauch stone (or any other spell absorbtion) you can use the light from meridian’s quest dungeon for infinite mana. Just stand in front of one of the beams to take minor damage while refilling your mana. You can use a few different spells to max level their skill trees for a mage. Only hard part is having to find the beacon itself.
From the premise "can we beat Skyrim with only restoration magic", my immediate thought was 'it's going to be an integer overflow to heal for negative, isn't it?'
Wouldn't that just kill you though? If it heals for negative, wouldn't it take your own health away? Or did you mean with the healing hands spell? Jeesus, I walked myself through it.
You missed out on a thing that would have made fighting Draugr much simpler: going to Fort Dawnguard and picking up the Sunfire spell that specifically damages undead.
@@thatoneguy-qc1bp You don't even need to be level 10; Going to Fort Dawnguard at any level will force-start the questline. Mind you though you might be underleveled and still have to, I think, play until you recruit Sorine Jurard.
The final restoration build is one where your armor is only barely negative. Like perhaps -10k and then have 1000k life and enchant some stupid high health Regen. Any damage you take will be instantly healed and you still one shot. This effectively becomes the unkilling, unkillable, killer.
14:29 She has steel boots of muffling. The rarest enchantment that can be found on a random piece of vendor gear. Ive had entire playthroughs and attacked and reloaded 100s of times and failed to get unenchantable muffle boots
I don't know if it is considered an exploit or a tactic... Regardless, my favorite build in Oblivion is to have 100(+)% chameleon, essentially rendering you invisible at all times. After that, any method of combat is viable, but I typically would fire off conjuration and watch the battles. I've been playing Elder Scrolls for so long now, but have never made my stats nearly as high as you did in this video. Bravo!
I think what you needed is to fine-tune the fortify smithing until you got a negative armour value that isn't quite *so* negative. Somewhere in the range of negative a thousand rather than negative billions. Then you get billions of health, and any time anyone attacks you it reflects a few thousand damage back to them. You also take a few thousand damage, which when compared to your billions of hitpoints, is nothing. You could also super-enchant a piece of armour with fortify restoration so your healing, poison rune, etc are always overpowered.
The concept is interesting and I wanna agree but it's boring to have nothing threatening you. I'm sure spiff had also done more fort resto'd playthroughs off screen and I'm telling you that dealing billions of damage or having billions of health gets boring the 14th time you have the entire city of whiterun slashing at you.
@@Ultimate_Gamer_3000 His whole thing is breaking the game by making these brokenly overpowered builds. I'm just offering a way to make it even more broken. :)
I'm so used to Spiff's characters being such cursed and twisted monstrosities that Goth Becca looking relatively normal makes her insanely attractive by comparison
@@tiggerthemighty8279 Ah you misunderstand, as Reanu Keeves is *not* one of Spiff's characters. He is a being of such unspeakable age and power we would be fools to take credit for him
A True Edge Lord Story: "I stood in the Frozen Wastelands... The Cold freezing the breath I partake...." "I waited and watched as the Walruses beat and gored my body, down to the bone..." "When I felt my flesh fall away, I used Magic to restore my body..." "...And I allowed the beating to continue... Again...and Again... and Again!" -Goth Becca
Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Contemplate how the Roman empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years to accomplish the religion of the Israelites C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and have proof. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life. - Revelation 3:20 Revelation has been unfolding since Jesus died. The Popes have claimed to be equal to God and set themselves in Jesus' place (antichrist(s)). Vatican City (Which is its own nation BTW) have risen up to fulfill the role of the false prophet Regarding the man of lawlessness or antichrist, 2 Thessalonians 2:4 says “Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” The restrainer that the Apostle Paul was referring to in 2 Thessalonians was the Western Roman Emperor, who held back the Popes from taking power. Once the last Western Roman Emperor was removed from power in 476 AD, the Pope was given civil and ecclesiastic authority over Rome; healing the deadly head wound of the beast in Revelation 13, as they took the Emperors title of Pontifex Maximus, leader of the church and state. “We may according to the fullness of our power, dispose of the law and dispense above the law. Those whom the Pope of Rome doth separate, it is not a man that separates them but God. For the Pope holdeth place on earth, not simply of a man but of the true God.” (Source: “Decretals of Gregory IX,” Book 1, chapter 3.) Pope Pius V blasphemed, “The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth.” (Source: Pope Pius V, quoted in Barclay, Cities Petrus Bertanous Chapter XXVII: 218.) Pope Leo XIII declared, “We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.” (Source: Pope Leo XIII Encyclical Letter, June 20, 1894) The antichrist sea beast of Revelation points to the office of the papacy, the Popes of Rome, who controlled the Roman beast for 1,260 years, from 538-1798 AD. Daniel 7:25 says “And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.” The Popes of Rome spoke against Elohim and proclaimed to be God. They reigned for 1,260 years, from 538-1798 AD. during which they caused tens of millions of saints to be killed. The Pope’s title is Vicar of Christ, which in Latin is ‘Vicarius Filii Dei’, and equates numerically to the number 666
Fun fact, the effective armor rating cap in Skyrim is 800. It gives an 80% damage mitigation which is pretty damn solid but its really easy to go over the cap even using non-exploit smithing in the late game. I thought I was Chad thundercock with tens of thousands of armor rating but its effectively the same as 800
@@nathen4171 actually its 667. each piece of armor (heavy and light including shields) adds a hidden 25 points of armor. so if you are wearing all four pieces with a shield you only need an armor rating of 542 to reach the cap or 567 without the shield. the damage reduction is simply (displayed_rating + hidden_rating) * 0.12 with a cap at 80%
Brit, you and my bf are the main reasons I got into Skyrim. He introduced me while you show me so many fun things about the game I'm still very new to learning. Thank you for the awesome content. Update: We broke up. At least you're still here, Brit.
With mods (apocalypse and others) the restoration tree becomes a super powerful killing school. With spells like blight which use your knowledge of disease to literally infect enemies with deadly diseases that debilitate them, and there's even a spell that literally just kills them. It's called slay and if I remember correctly, all it basically does is essentially kill the enemy as long as it's not too high level. Just imagine, using your knowledge of anatomy to literally end the pitiful existence of your enemies by touching them.
Slay kills enemies below 20% HP, not that effective unless they're already in killmove range in which case it takes longer to swap to a spell and hit the enemy than just do a dagger killmove
With ordinator instead of vanilla skill tree false light resto build is probably the single most broken build in the game that lets you oneshot everything with targeted heal spells. Spells being op with mods is a recurring thing because vanilla magic tends to be a lot weaker than melee/range when playing "honestly" and not abusing crafting loops to scale damage infinitely
Fun fact: dawnguard has a set of restoration spells that do damage to undead. This includes draugrs. Mind you they're not perfect but with a restoration potion like spiff's it might one shot them. Not sure.
@@thelocustgod9098 oh definitely. I just wanted to cover my own ass because my experience with them might have differed from the norm (My game is modded to hell and includes a vampire city attack mod)
Touch healing spells also hurt undead. Healing hand would have been a simple solution to the Draugr scourge lord. Edit: Thats always why they added Heal Undead spells with dawn guard
Hearing a Brit call the 4th of July “Treason Day” warms my gat shaped, cheeseburger filled, American heart. Bless you sir, I’ll be thinking of you over a nice hot cup of coffee.
"It's the 4th of July, which means it's treason day, baby!" - as an American, I do appreciate this accurate representation of our culture, on this, our holiest of days. Fun fact: the first person the US ever executed for treason was an abolitionist preacher, convicted of treason for... *checks notes...* arming a slave revolt. He us now the hero of the city I live in.
It's fun and all talking how messed up US is, but then you must remember that the alternative to it is a hell called Britain. Talking historically of course
@@GrandSnow469 Historically? I was born in London,and moved to the other side of the planet as soon as I could. England IS a festering, sespit of unspeakableness. would probably be better off living in the 13th century in England tbh.
Needed some tweaking for sure. I think he needed an overpowered piece of armour to negate some of the damage compared to his health. He was taking far more damage than necessary to kill anything
Against anything that isn't immune to poison, it would be better to just not wear it and focus on the poison rune while having millions of health thanks to the ring. Did come in clutch getting the dragonstone though so there is that
He should have tried to maximise the integer overflow so he got as *high* as a negative number as possible. (Remember, high here means more positive, so the number would read smaller.) Then combine that with other heavy armour that is smithed to high enough values to leave him with somewhere in the region of -1000 defense. That would still reflect thousands of damage back to his enemies but he would take negligible amounts of damage compared to his health pool.
If I remember correctly I wound up playing a one handed/heavy armor/block/restoration character my first playthrough of Skyrim? I'm not saying it was a good strategy exactly, but I think my logic at the time was that fast healing worked without stamina and blocking worked without magika.
best way to level up restoration is actually to use the turn undead spells, although it won't level up your armor it is extremely fast and you can get AOE or piercing turn undead spells to use on multiple undead to level up super fast like lv 50 to 51 in one 50 mana spell
One of my favorite things is that, per spell cast, the Poison Rune spell is actually among the most powerful spells in the game...with a technical base damage of 90. Bethesda really missed a trick by not adding more poison spells (and/or disease spells...disease is technically a type of damage in the game's code). Restoration as a viable, if expensive, offensive direction...if it had been in the base game, there could even have been perks to affect it. I've seen it done in multiple mods, and it ends up being one of my favorite ways to play the game...the arbiter of life and death. I absolutely love DoT spells in general in games...and also love to play characters that are all about affecting the balance between life and death, positive and negative, yin and yang. Having a character in Skyrim that heals their allies while using the same type of magic to damage their enemies is a lot of fun. And...it even makes sense too. While poison spells used to be in the Destruction school in Morrowind, I had no problem seeing them in Restoration...if you know how to heal someone, you know how to kill them.
Guardian circle ? It’s a master level spell that’s supposed to be available for purchase from the restoration school once you reach master level.. unfortunately, it’s one of the bugged spells where the vendor may never have any master level spells for sale. I don’t know if they ever fixed it.
Reminds me of the 190% Reflect Damage build in Oblivion. You could literally get a ton of random stones from the top of the towers that close the random Oblivion gates by just spamming the grab command at the item in the world. Each gave a different enchantment effect depending on whether it was used on a weapon or piece of armor. One of those was Reflect Damage, and you could easily make a set of armor that had over 100% Reflect Damage, so when someone hit you, not only did you take _zero damage_ and make you effectively immortal, it _also_ did more damage to them than it would to you.
I just had the Atronach sign and a bunch of spell absorption items (Spelldrinker Amulet and the Sourcerer's Ring). The rest of the itemslots (during combat) were used for Shielding and enhancing my hand to hand.
Breton 50% Magic Resist. Get the Ring Of Mundane another 50% Magic Resist. Magic Proof. Then when I touched the sigil stone, id autosave before it entered inventory, if it wasnt +50 Magic. Reload until it was. Then Id have plus 50 on every piece of equipment aside from 1 ring. Then have 700-800 Magic. With no weaknesses, and could cast Massive spellls I made, while being 100%Magic Proof. Most fun I had without Mods My Fav was Forify Speed 100, fortify Athletics 100 and WaterWalk, with a Light effect because why not, for 60seconds. Or Forify Speed 50 and Waterwalk on Touch, and cast it on my horse. No more than 50 though, would clip through the terrain alot when I did, was too fast
I've got an idea. Using the "Skyrim Together" mod for multiplayer so that both characters can exist at the same time, can you create a character able to kill Reanu Keeves in combat? See if your exploiting experience now can overcome your past exploits.
"We need our armor rating to become negative!" Wow, a Spif Skyrim video where he doesn't use the fortify-restoration loop?! "We're going to fortify-restoration loop so much it integer overflows to a negative value!" ....... I see. This game really is that simple, this exploit is like the duck-tape of Skyrim.
@@willford55543 the original was called duck tape because of the cotton duck cloth it was made of. Then soldiers started calling it that because of the way it was waterproof, so water shed off it like water off a duck's back. Then it found commercial use (ironically terrible at sealing duct material) and became known more as duct tape, except for duck brand duct tape. ... so both work, really.
@@nessesaryschoolthing yes i really hope tes 6 has still op enchant and custom spell building, but op within fun gameplay boundaries, kinda like turning cheats on GTA. It should make really fun stuff happen but not so much that it totally breaks the game, bethesda should plan ahead for these scenarios.
In the dawngaurd fort there is a damage based restoration spell called sunfire it only deals damage to the undead but with all the perks in restoation possible it is insanely deadly
Becca handles the potion because shes all too familiar with the "motion" rotflmao Now for a conspiracy Go watch black yoshi's videos & tell me whether him & spiffing brit are the same person
This whole time, I was wishing that healing spells were based on percentage of max health so that having perfectly balanced health in the billions was feasible to heal, but then I remembered that the health regen enchantment and potion works based on health percentage per second
"RESTORATION IS A PERFECTLY VALID SCHOOL OF MAGIC!" It's okay, Colette. I found out it was Ancano who left that letter on your desk. He's been dealt with.
You could just create a ring or something that increases you health as well, your health has to be way higher than your negative armor, because you get the negative worth as damage
i wonder if the incalculable % glitch could be used to turn restoration values into a negative, thus making it so you could kill other creatures with healing hands.
@@DustinBarlow8P You forget about the "healing hands" spell, brother, with it you can induce self harm in OTHERS AS WELL (i think idk i haven't tested it out)
Pro tip: If you hold down the mouse button on the slider in the wait menu, You can push "E" to confirm the number of hours to wait, then quickly slide the timer to 1 hour. This causes the game to wait 24 hours (or however many hours) in the time it takes to wait a single hour. Saves a bunch of time.
I feel like the reflect blows with negative armor rating strategy backfired more than it benefited. While it certainly made for hilarious moments, it probably would have been more effective to just use regular heavy armor stacked with Fortify Health.
The regenerate health enchantment would have worked well with the insane amount of health you had, so that getting hit wouldn't be much of an problem except maybe for the dragon
The fact he could’ve made his life so much easier if he just took the chest peice off or at least made another one with a smaller negative and just didn’t, is either true conviction or true laziness
24:45 is the most enthusiastic 'take that you big ol' pile of rocks'.. It sounds to me that it took Spiff quite a few saves to accomplish killing the beast.
One issue with this build is the amount of health you lose with every hit. I haven't tried this so I may be wrong, but if you use an op fortify enchantment potion, then enchant something with fortify health regen, your health could regen faster than the damage you take, making you immortal while the enemies still take damage. I'll say again, I haven't tried this, so I might be wrong.
I wonder if you could finesse the armor rating overflow exploit to make one piece of armor that overflows and goes to the huge negative number, and another piece that has a very high but not overflowed positive number, so you could get an armor rating that is negative enough to make damage reflection powerful, but not so negative that it overwhelms even the insanely fortified health...
Don't forget that poison rune is a restoration spell. And there's also spells specifically for killing the undead from restoration. It's a viable build, just much more boring.
"How to beat Skyrim with Restoration...!" And heavy armour and alchemy and enchanting and smithing. I mean Spiff not following his own rules is kinda the joke but it was pretty predictable what'd happen.
Fun Fact: there is actually a few more damaging restoration spells the only problem is it only works on undead but with your current class is your biggest weakness, you have to do the dawnguard dlc and stay with the dawnguard until you recruit the two new people, one of them sells the spell you need and a few others as you progress through the questline
@@mmorkinism i honestly rather exploit rather than just using commands. Its that false feeling of earning it. If i use console commands i just lose interest in the game because i did nothing. With exploits you still do nothing but it *feels* like you did
*To become the most powerful one must become the most weak.* - Todd Howard circa 1587 AD
also if you enjoy the skyrim and want more then perhaps a skyrim together multiplayer challenge can be constructed!
Im weak do i qualify?
HELLLO THERE, LADIES AND GENTELMAN!
Spiff you are yet to disapoint with the constant entertaining content you bring. thx for the vids
just become weak and raise yourself to the power of -1
Agreed.
"Restoration is a perfectly valid school of magic and don't let anyone tell you otherwise."
Says the wizzard crying to himself in the mirror
@@thespiffingbrit This is why you pay extra attention in Destruction classes, you'll end up crying your goofy Redo of Healer self to sleep otherwise.
@@thespiffingbrit herself
Tbf I cant play Skyrim without restoration
Conjuration is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural
"This is the only playthrough where I decided to side with the stormcloaks."
*Plays as a High Elf*
Haha how did i miss this
The only playthrough in which I joined the Stormcloaks was also one where I was an Altmer.
*self guilt intensifies*
you dismember empire your greatest nemesis so yeah
@@N0T4K0P you're basically the top secret thalmor agent that was sent to weaken the empire further and then kill stormcloak leader once Skyrim is break free (that's how I imagine it)
"the poison rune is now doing 150,000 damage per second. This is a lot better"
I cannot believe I found this comment at 1 min old! Hello everyone! Have a great day. :)
Yo second
Yes
Lol almost nobody found this
Chaos attracts chaos lmao
You forgot about the sunfire spell. It's a restoration spell that heals the living but, as restoration is meant to do, harms the undead. That said, it counts as an attack and so will, despite doing 0 damage, agro enemies to initiate combat.
Sunfire you say?
*Hear Tien, Krillin, Goku, Imperfect Cell, and Semiperfect* SOLAR FLARE!!!
@@tigerwarrior1787SEMIperfect?! How can you be SEMIperfect,! You're either PERFECT or you're NOT ME! ;)
@@munstrumridcully You see Prince, as a soon to broken man once said: You're either perfect, or you're not me...
Can't remember the drauger spell restoration spells are great for dungeons
11 years later, Skyrim content is still going strong.
Everything is Skyrim always has been
Sometime soon I think I will have watched more Skyrim content than I actually played Skyrim, and 99% of that is just spiff videos.
Bc skyrim is a great game and since skyrim, barring a few games, there really hasn't been anything else better
Even Oblivion is still going strong. Todd you magnificent bastard.
Multiplayer had to wait for an ENTIRE DECADE
And freakin Restoration Mains
You became some good at restoration that you restored my faith in restoration
Sup Kevin, keep on making slamming good vids
I’ve never seen your videos but I watch reaction content on your comments
Yo Kevin
Hey there Kevin, my name is friends...
All hail the Dear Leader, Bore Ragnarok!
The wildest part of this video was watching him use a Fortify Restoration potion to actually fortify his restoration spells
Lmao
Wait, whut? They have a purpose besides being exploited until the game breaks? 😱
Wait. Do people use potions in Skyrim??? 😱😱😱
@@SmittyWJManJensen on harder difficulties yes.
@@SmittyWJManJensen well,obviously. It's the best way to abuse the game.
I like how he completely ignores the sun spells from Dawnguard that deal sun damage to undead. It's the only way of killing dragon priests with this build.
No, because as he explained in the beginning, he's using vanilla Skyrim (the version without the DLC's like dawnguard)
@@eduartblackwood8503 I’m fairly certain vanilla does not exclude DLC, just mods
@@eduartblackwood8503you, uh, you mean like without the DLC that adds Solstheim? The place that he goes to get the poison rune?
@@eduartblackwood8503 he literally goes to Solstheim for the Poison Rune which is the island from the Dragonborn DLC
Spiff missed the golden opportunity to simply sit there with the Ebony Mail, doing absolutely nothing but using restoration spells while the enemies simply died from overwhelming amounts of gothic presence.
So you’re saying he could have let them… cut themselves on the edge?
You couldn’t get it since you can’t sacrifice people without killing them offensively
@@rjhogan07 No, they'd cut themselves into pieces. You know, as a last resort.
@@tanks608 Can you use the poison rune for it?
@@astuteanansi4935 I have research to do
The fact that all the leveling took so long and then made Meridia's Beacon spawn in the chest for the first dungeon is just golden.
Actually, the Beacon can appear in any dungeon boss chest. Did a quest to investigate a cave (It was a quest from Solitude). After completing it and opening the chest, I somehow found Meridia's Beacon there. So I assume it can be found in any dungeon, aside from BFB. Or whenever you hit a certain level.
It can spawn in most boss chest as soon as you reach lvl 12.
So it's quite easy to have it spawn in the first dungeon, if you like to level a bit before doing the main quest.
I once found the beacon in the same chest that had the forgemaster’s fingers.
@@archcrusadervadim4467 I found it in a giants chest yesterday
Now that I have access to mods in Skyrim I'm easily level 40-50 before I even talk to Alvar or Balgruuf.
The perk is reflecting damage as it says, it's just when you have less armor the enemies attack would do more damage to you, meaning the reflected damage is higher. Anything you can do to increase the damage you take should increase the reflection damage
interesting, iirc negative armor was a thing, can it be applied on the player permanently?
I shouldnt have answered before watching the whole video xD
Low/Negative armor + fortify health +fortify regeneration for an optimized combo I guess
(That's only assuming you can use negative armor that doesn't kill you instantly as soon as you take damage though.)
EDIT: After watching the video that does seem to be the case, the fortify regeneration enchantment would allow you to heal back the increased damage taken by attacks to increase build viability (As long as it isn't instant death).
Ahhh, masochism
Classic skyrim, making a top-level perk basically useless because it operates on post-mitigated damage
You know, you didn't actually use the damage reflection for anything but the ash guardian... So you could have just stopped wearing the armor and been immortal while poisoning things
there was miku galderson
he although could heal the undead to death...
@@missingno8649 Unfortunately most Restoration spells do nothing to the Undead, other than the turn undead type spells which just makes them flee.
However there IS "Bane of the Undead" a master level Restoration spell that sets undead under LV30 on fire and makes them flee. And two Dawnguard Restoration spells, "Sun fire", "Stendarr's Aura" and "Vampire's Bane" which are all damaging against Undead. But you'd have to do a lot of Dawnguard questing to unlock them.
@@maximumdon7637 sun spells from dawnguard are also restoration and they affect everything (despite saying it does damage to undead) and nothing can resist it so yeah restoration is broken with the right spell
Thank you @sporemystify
I like how it went from a "The armor will kill them" build to "Poison rune it is!"
And instead of then making good armor to be the Immortal Poisoner he kept the overflow armor.
Yeah. I feel like the whole thing would have been a lot easier if he ditched the reflect armour idea after he got the poison and could actually take hits from things.
@@Person01234 Or put the health enchantments on ring + neckalce, too. 3x that health pool, he'd be killing anything every 10 hits *shrug*
@watchmejumpstart Because then we'd be watching someone just powergaming for an entire video, ain't exactly fun with no risk.
@@Person01234 I'm pretty sure in Skyrim you cannot actually take off the exploited health fortifying armor. For some reason- I think- whenever you use the busted enchantment exploit and give yourself an obscene amount of HP with it, whenever you take off that enchanted armor, you immediately lose all of that immense health and the game just kills you. So once it's on, it's stuck on forever.
I feel like everyone forgets that in the dawnguard DLC, you can get a restoration spell that does minor damage, with extra to vampires, as a novice spell from the merchants inside the castle
Thanks for saving me the comment, already did that run and damn it was dumb. Was a tad disappointed having assumed that was the run he was going for
I assume not many people do it because 1) DLC so some people might not have it (I know it’s come out on so many things I could run it in my Nokia 😂) 2) Dawnguard is just… bleh? It’s not that great of a DLC imo 😅
Me, about 10 years later: WAIT WHAT
@@carlwheezer623 I mean, you can't even buy the game without the DLC anymore lol
Also, Dawnguard is the best DLC for the game bar none.
@@bable6314 personally I like the Dunmer so I really appreciated going back for Solstheim
Only Todd Howard would have the genius to create a game where the ultimate Heavy Armor skill works best with a low armor stat.
I don't think it was intentional in such a way, I imagine that they just take the damage the player would take and apply that to the attacker, so the lower the players armor level, the more damage they would take, which then results in the fact that lower armor means more damage output. I would've probably programmed it the same way to be honest. Simply because I hadn't thought of the exploit until this video
Nah he borrowed it from AD&D 2nd edition. THAC0.
@@ewanarends5512 And as Spiffing Brit demonstrates in this video you die instantly if you try that unless you waste hours of your actual life monotonously doing a loop of potions to enchanting to potions until you can enchant yourself a big enough buff to undo the damage.
Like he said it himself he got to a 100 in heavy armour and 70 in a magic school. With 70 in archery, one handed melee and two handed melee you can oneshot most things and you won't die.
@@ewanarends5512 it's perk is really high, the max armor is ~580 (no reduction afterwards); maxing out heavy armor is pretty much guaranteed, once you have the perk (both heavy armor skill and perks increase the armor). By the time you get the perk, it's next to useless, esp. if you dont just power level armor but wear anything than iron/steel
it's probably programmed to deflect post-mitigation damage. as in with lower armor, you take more damage, hence more is reflected back to the attacker.
Not sure if you've done a video of the Mage God build, all you need to do is become a vampire, get the Necromage perk from restoration tree, get the atronach standing stone power, and then get the atronach perk from the alteration tree (in that order) and you will have 100% spell absorption, from that moment on your are entirely invulnerable to all spells, dragon breath attacks, poisons, and diseases, as well as anything else that applies to your character as a magical effect.
Pitty you still have that extreme wood allergy, though.
Also, that pesky disorder you suffer from when they don't invite you in.
@@formdoggie5 dafuq are you talking about?
@@GreedyOrange clearly, you are the smartest person to ever walk the earth.
@@GreedyOrange In real world vampire lore, vampires are easily killed by a stake through the heart, which formdoggie is humorously analogizing to a wood allergy, and also vampires can't enter a home without permission.
27:55 You can actually level destruction by being set on fire. Best way to do this is of course to step in and out of a forge rapidly which puts a lot of fire on you. Coincidentally this is also the best way to level restoration as you can heal while having full magicka regeneration.
Really?
@@Ssuperman Yep. Hopping on a forge will level your Destruction, I've done it myself. It's fixed by Unofficial patches.
The best way to level Restoration is to use turn undead spells as they give more experience per cast. Once you are able to get Repel undead spell you can multiply the experience per cast by hitting multiple enemies at once with it. You can use the three skeletons in the Whiterun hall of the dead but the more targets you have that you can affect the bigger the multiplier so any dungeon filled with low level Draugr or skeletons will do.
You can literally get from around 40 restoration to 70 in under ten minutes using this trick if enough affected targets are grouped together. Cost reduction speeds up the gains if you can get them of course. Also ironically the Poison Rune itself can level restoration much faster than healing as long as you hit multiple enemies with each rune.
It is a bit harder to do but still better than healing yourself for hours. Basically any spell that hits multiple targets will raise the skill by as many hit for each cast making it more efficient even if it seems to be more magicka heavy to begin with due to initial cost.
He could also level up destruction by trainer. 5 levels for level up.
my goodness. the things you learn. even after countless hours in the game.
"Restoration is a perfectly balanced school of magic, don't let anyone tell you it is full of exploits!"
@Bloo Berri of course i do
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NEWS FLASH/SEMI CONSPIRACY TIME:: The Spiffing Brit is also Black Yoshi - Compare the voices & you'll see the light
Regeneration is not an exploit its a lifestyle LOL
Is it really an exploit if you have to destroy your actual soul to do it? Like I feel like the balance here is that Spiffing Brit's brain dribbled out of his ears to do the loop.
Restoration is perfectly balanced as all things should be.
Fun fact: I once did that Int overflow error on my stealth skill by accident. An empty shop called the guards on me when I messed with its ledger. It felt like a sting operation.
🤣🤣
You: steals from Belethor*
Everyone in skyrim:
Every single living thing in Tamriel: "Stop right there!"
lol I like the idea that your character is so incredibly bad at stealth that you are always visible to all guards at any time
@@adventuresofthedragonborn2096 no
@@adventuresofthedragonborn2096 no
The funniest part for me was the fact he just didn’t take the sun spells, the books have destruction on them but they’re actually scaled off restoration
It's a restoration spell that heals the living but, as restoration is meant to do, harms the undead. That said, it counts as an attack and so will, despite doing 0 damage, agro enemies to initiate combat. And he said he was not going to start a fight/ agro.
"The only problem with being faster than light is that you can only live in darkness"
- Goth Becca, probably
“Infinite damage, instant death. Perfectly balanced.”
Perfection.
This is, unironically, the closest I've seen you come to creating a perfectly balanced Skyrim character.
It is ironic tho that's the whole point
You could also make a fortify restoration potion so powerful it becomes a negative, so the healing hands spell now heals negative health, i.e. does damage, it would also make the poison rune the only spell that can heal you
One of the weakest builds I've found is ice magic only, most bandits are resistant, undead are resistant, vampire nords are immune, and dwarf stuff is immune as well
That’s why we use lightning magic. Because it’s cooler than fire and better than ice
@@dudemcguy8949 UNLIMITED POWERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
@@dudemcguy8949 fire feels objectively OP though
@@songbird6414 fire deals damage
But I doubt they are immune or resistant to twin cast head locks.
Every time Spiff said "Standing here" I finished his sentence with "I realize." It makes sense today was the Nanomachines-Son Build.
You were just like me trying to make history
@@snakyYT I really want to like this but who's to judge right from wrong.
@@Kalion-mi1zc When our guard is down I think we'll both agree.
@@snakyYT That violence breeds violence.
@@siraustinthecompanion7725 And in the end, it has to be this way!
I like how you decided to drag the draugr back to the traps rather then learn one of the undead damaging spells in the restoration tree.
Well to get those you do need to go through some fairly tough dungeons before florentius will be available
@@dancook6114 or do the dawn guard dlc
@@dancook6114 We both know Spiff would just wall glitch and steal the spells from his chest, you only need to get the first two, Gunnar and idr her name. after you get them all three chests appear.
@@hunterphill42525 ...Florentius is part of the Dawnguard DLC
@@chrismaples9392 idrhername sounds like a valid skyrim name
“It’s treason day baby!!!” Hahaha that had me rolling
"There's a dude over there just watching me getting pounded by walruses"
You should at least charge extra for that.
Fun fact, using integer overload on fortify health makes you immortal. You're locked in negative health and can never hit 0 health, making all sources of damage do nothing. Downside is removing the equipment instantly set you to 0 health, killing you.
I thought that he was going to do that for maximun(minimum?) Balance™️
He already did this, didn't him? With Reanu Keeves iirc
What if you heal yourself? Couldn't you get killed by enough healing?
I found a way to remove that armor it also permanently locks your health in at whatever fortify health is what you do is this man create a fortify health potion drink that b**** then unequipped the armor the arm is going to try to take all of your health but because of the fortify health potion you're going to have some extra help keeping you alive then it's going to glitch out and stay at that f****** level forever so you want a natural million health make a potion with a million health f*** having enchantments I'll make it a reality
That's why you do something like if(currentHealth
- "A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON"
- "Shut up Meridia"
Perfect reaction. Some things never change 😂
Its the skyrim of "shut up meg"
Wait till she sees what else i do to it besides touch it with my hand. She wont want it back when im done with it.
When did he say that?
@@norishimogawa6125 Around 32:17
@@Sirquini thx
Spiffing Brit, one glitch/exploit I never see talked about in Skyrim.
If you have atronauch stone (or any other spell absorbtion) you can use the light from meridian’s quest dungeon for infinite mana. Just stand in front of one of the beams to take minor damage while refilling your mana.
You can use a few different spells to max level their skill trees for a mage.
Only hard part is having to find the beacon itself.
From the premise "can we beat Skyrim with only restoration magic", my immediate thought was 'it's going to be an integer overflow to heal for negative, isn't it?'
I wonder if that’s possible
Wouldn't that just kill you though? If it heals for negative, wouldn't it take your own health away? Or did you mean with the healing hands spell? Jeesus, I walked myself through it.
@@thatonekid20111 you can cast restoration magic on others.
@@thatonekid20111 lol I had the same experience.
@@GangsterFrankensteinComputer healing hands more like the touch of death.
You missed out on a thing that would have made fighting Draugr much simpler: going to Fort Dawnguard and picking up the Sunfire spell that specifically damages undead.
Was looking for this comment
Can you get before killing Alduin?
@@magleskov yes as long as you're level 10 at least
@@thatoneguy-qc1bp You don't even need to be level 10; Going to Fort Dawnguard at any level will force-start the questline. Mind you though you might be underleveled and still have to, I think, play until you recruit Sorine Jurard.
Wth dude draugr are one of the most patheticaly weak enemies
“The objectively worst faction in all of Skyrim, the Stormcloaks”
The Blades: Hold my bloodthirst
I was about to say the blades aren’t in skyrim, but that proved your point
@@astrangesquid4096 technically there's a couple, including the girly that wants to kill the white dragon mentor
Ever heard of bards college?
@@kapitanmeloun1537 I'm pretty sure the Bards college questline was never completed. It makes sense why it kinda sucks.
@@kapitanmeloun1537 Nah, at least _they_ don't act like they're superior _to their literal superior._
From the makers of the glass cannon we bring you the “obsidian feather”
The final restoration build is one where your armor is only barely negative. Like perhaps -10k and then have 1000k life and enchant some stupid high health Regen. Any damage you take will be instantly healed and you still one shot. This effectively becomes the unkilling, unkillable, killer.
The ultra instinct build
14:29
She has steel boots of muffling. The rarest enchantment that can be found on a random piece of vendor gear. Ive had entire playthroughs and attacked and reloaded 100s of times and failed to get unenchantable muffle boots
Chucked
I can feel the hidden rage of this comment lol
There are plenty of non-vendor boots that have Muffling, you just need to know where to look
INSIDE Morvarths lair there is a pair of fur boots with muffling on them
@@kidakaze There are, but none of them are disenchantable so you're stuck wearing shitty boots with only one enchantment
I don't know if it is considered an exploit or a tactic... Regardless, my favorite build in Oblivion is to have 100(+)% chameleon, essentially rendering you invisible at all times. After that, any method of combat is viable, but I typically would fire off conjuration and watch the battles.
I've been playing Elder Scrolls for so long now, but have never made my stats nearly as high as you did in this video. Bravo!
I think what you needed is to fine-tune the fortify smithing until you got a negative armour value that isn't quite *so* negative. Somewhere in the range of negative a thousand rather than negative billions. Then you get billions of health, and any time anyone attacks you it reflects a few thousand damage back to them. You also take a few thousand damage, which when compared to your billions of hitpoints, is nothing.
You could also super-enchant a piece of armour with fortify restoration so your healing, poison rune, etc are always overpowered.
The concept is interesting and I wanna agree but it's boring to have nothing threatening you. I'm sure spiff had also done more fort resto'd playthroughs off screen and I'm telling you that dealing billions of damage or having billions of health gets boring the 14th time you have the entire city of whiterun slashing at you.
I was just thinking that . Slightly negative armor rating and billion health . You'd have to wait on that 10% chance lmao
@@Ultimate_Gamer_3000 His whole thing is breaking the game by making these brokenly overpowered builds. I'm just offering a way to make it even more broken. :)
not possible to make it less than -2.14m pretty sure
yeah I was very confused why he wasn't making fortify restoration boots
I'm so used to Spiff's characters being such cursed and twisted monstrosities that Goth Becca looking relatively normal makes her insanely attractive by comparison
She's still attractive, even if you aren't.
Most Attractive Altmer I've seen.
Reanu Keeves will hunt you down for such blasphemy!
@@tiggerthemighty8279 Ah you misunderstand, as Reanu Keeves is *not* one of Spiff's characters. He is a being of such unspeakable age and power we would be fools to take credit for him
A True Edge Lord Story:
"I stood in the Frozen Wastelands... The Cold freezing the breath I partake...."
"I waited and watched as the Walruses beat and gored my body, down to the bone..."
"When I felt my flesh fall away, I used Magic to restore my body..."
"...And I allowed the beating to continue... Again...and Again... and Again!" -Goth Becca
sounds...
and the best part is there is a courier that will tell the tale
Sounds like something that Goth Becca would've posted on her Livejournal.
Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Contemplate how the Roman empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years to accomplish the religion of the Israelites C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and have proof. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life. - Revelation 3:20
Revelation has been unfolding since Jesus died. The Popes have claimed to be equal to God and set themselves in Jesus' place (antichrist(s)). Vatican City (Which is its own nation BTW) have risen up to fulfill the role of the false prophet
Regarding the man of lawlessness or antichrist, 2 Thessalonians 2:4 says “Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” The restrainer that the Apostle Paul was referring to in 2 Thessalonians was the Western Roman Emperor, who held back the Popes from taking power. Once the last Western Roman Emperor was removed from power in 476 AD, the Pope was given civil and ecclesiastic authority over Rome; healing the deadly head wound of the beast in Revelation 13, as they took the Emperors title of Pontifex Maximus, leader of the church and state.
“We may according to the fullness of our power, dispose of the law and dispense above the law. Those whom the Pope of Rome doth separate, it is not a man that separates them but God. For the Pope holdeth place on earth, not simply of a man but of the true God.” (Source: “Decretals of Gregory IX,” Book 1, chapter 3.)
Pope Pius V blasphemed, “The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth.” (Source: Pope Pius V, quoted in Barclay, Cities Petrus Bertanous Chapter XXVII: 218.)
Pope Leo XIII declared, “We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.” (Source: Pope Leo XIII Encyclical Letter, June 20, 1894)
The antichrist sea beast of Revelation points to the office of the papacy, the Popes of Rome, who controlled the Roman beast for 1,260 years, from 538-1798 AD.
Daniel 7:25 says “And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.” The Popes of Rome spoke against Elohim and proclaimed to be God. They reigned for 1,260 years, from 538-1798 AD. during which they caused tens of millions of saints to be killed.
The Pope’s title is Vicar of Christ, which in Latin is ‘Vicarius Filii Dei’, and equates numerically to the number 666
He could have leveled Destruction by simply going to a trainer. Just go and say "Hey, train me in Destruction so I can heal better"
I thought this same thing. He should remake the video. Lol
I love how the courier was just standing there, thinking, "What did I just walk into? Should I interrupt?"
Fun fact, the effective armor rating cap in Skyrim is 800. It gives an 80% damage mitigation which is pretty damn solid but its really easy to go over the cap even using non-exploit smithing in the late game. I thought I was Chad thundercock with tens of thousands of armor rating but its effectively the same as 800
Online it says the armor cap is 567 for a damage reduction of 80%. Where’d you get the 800 from?
@@nathen4171 damn Id heard it was 800. 567 is even funnier honestly
@@nathen4171 actually its 667. each piece of armor (heavy and light including shields) adds a hidden 25 points of armor. so if you are wearing all four pieces with a shield you only need an armor rating of 542 to reach the cap or 567 without the shield. the damage reduction is simply (displayed_rating + hidden_rating) * 0.12 with a cap at 80%
You's are all wrong, it's actually 420
Well actually if you have like a billion armor you can’t take damage at all
Brit, you and my bf are the main reasons I got into Skyrim. He introduced me while you show me so many fun things about the game I'm still very new to learning. Thank you for the awesome content.
Update: We broke up. At least you're still here, Brit.
It's my first time seeing a girl playing Skyrim
Who said they are a girl ????
@@DeoSiege
Ew gay
@@nicerecruit4216 gay slander detected opinion rejected
Same! Finally started playing again just before the brand new 2962810390th release, Skyrim AE
With mods (apocalypse and others) the restoration tree becomes a super powerful killing school. With spells like blight which use your knowledge of disease to literally infect enemies with deadly diseases that debilitate them, and there's even a spell that literally just kills them. It's called slay and if I remember correctly, all it basically does is essentially kill the enemy as long as it's not too high level.
Just imagine, using your knowledge of anatomy to literally end the pitiful existence of your enemies by touching them.
Slay kills enemies below 20% HP, not that effective unless they're already in killmove range in which case it takes longer to swap to a spell and hit the enemy than just do a dagger killmove
With ordinator instead of vanilla skill tree false light resto build is probably the single most broken build in the game that lets you oneshot everything with targeted heal spells.
Spells being op with mods is a recurring thing because vanilla magic tends to be a lot weaker than melee/range when playing "honestly" and not abusing crafting loops to scale damage infinitely
Spirit tutors make restoration jacked with high magicka
Of course good luck finding them first
I’m sure Todd actually watches these when he has nothing better to do and genuinely enjoys every loophole you create
He takes notes for ES 6
Him seeing all this new content is what inspires him to keep releasing new versions on Skyrim, lol
he makes me watch them instead
@@hoddtoward2623 with tea in hand?
@@confusciouspuff1013 Where is 2 sky 2 rim?
Fun fact: dawnguard has a set of restoration spells that do damage to undead. This includes draugrs. Mind you they're not perfect but with a restoration potion like spiff's it might one shot them. Not sure.
Honestly, they are pretty good for the most part.
@@thelocustgod9098 oh definitely. I just wanted to cover my own ass because my experience with them might have differed from the norm
(My game is modded to hell and includes a vampire city attack mod)
Touch healing spells also hurt undead. Healing hand would have been a simple solution to the Draugr scourge lord.
Edit: Thats always why they added Heal Undead spells with dawn guard
Imagine my surprise when Spiff actually balanced his character with weakness instead of making her solely overpowered. Perfectly balanced indeed
Hearing a Brit call the 4th of July “Treason Day” warms my gat shaped, cheeseburger filled, American heart.
Bless you sir, I’ll be thinking of you over a nice hot cup of coffee.
12:14 It's post-mitigation damage, so the higher your armor, the less damage you take, the less damage you take, the less damage you reflect back
Weird design choice for the final perk of a skill dedicated to...damage mitigation
"It's the 4th of July, which means it's treason day, baby!" - as an American, I do appreciate this accurate representation of our culture, on this, our holiest of days.
Fun fact: the first person the US ever executed for treason was an abolitionist preacher, convicted of treason for... *checks notes...* arming a slave revolt. He us now the hero of the city I live in.
Was it in the south?
It's fun and all talking how messed up US is, but then you must remember that the alternative to it is a hell called Britain. Talking historically of course
@@GrandSnow469 tbh all countries committed lots of atrocities unfortunately
@@apttewly I feel like the entire history of the human race can be summed up with, “Jesus wept.”
We just suck.
@@GrandSnow469 Historically? I was born in London,and moved to the other side of the planet as soon as I could. England IS a festering, sespit of unspeakableness. would probably be better off living in the 13th century in England tbh.
I feel as though the ultimate armor ended up being more of a detriment than anything lmao
Needed some tweaking for sure. I think he needed an overpowered piece of armour to negate some of the damage compared to his health. He was taking far more damage than necessary to kill anything
Couldn’t he just have combined light armor with the one negative heavy armor piece, or is it calculated via damage resistance in total?
@@Sheeshening To reflect damage he needed to wear all heavy armor
Against anything that isn't immune to poison, it would be better to just not wear it and focus on the poison rune while having millions of health thanks to the ring. Did come in clutch getting the dragonstone though so there is that
He should have tried to maximise the integer overflow so he got as *high* as a negative number as possible. (Remember, high here means more positive, so the number would read smaller.) Then combine that with other heavy armour that is smithed to high enough values to leave him with somewhere in the region of -1000 defense. That would still reflect thousands of damage back to his enemies but he would take negligible amounts of damage compared to his health pool.
A paladin build would be pretty damn cool -- giving you have the right mods to give actually useful restoration spells
or use dawnguard's sun magic
@@CertifiedElite420 Sun spells only affect undead
If I remember correctly I wound up playing a one handed/heavy armor/block/restoration character my first playthrough of Skyrim? I'm not saying it was a good strategy exactly, but I think my logic at the time was that fast healing worked without stamina and blocking worked without magika.
best way to level up restoration is actually to use the turn undead spells, although it won't level up your armor it is extremely fast and you can get AOE or piercing turn undead spells to use on multiple undead to level up super fast like lv 50 to 51 in one 50 mana spell
Yeah, but Spiff just likes to do A Little Trolling
I mean, technically you can also using healing hand to just straight up murder undead.
it has a high crash rate if you spam it.
One of my favorite things is that, per spell cast, the Poison Rune spell is actually among the most powerful spells in the game...with a technical base damage of 90. Bethesda really missed a trick by not adding more poison spells (and/or disease spells...disease is technically a type of damage in the game's code). Restoration as a viable, if expensive, offensive direction...if it had been in the base game, there could even have been perks to affect it. I've seen it done in multiple mods, and it ends up being one of my favorite ways to play the game...the arbiter of life and death. I absolutely love DoT spells in general in games...and also love to play characters that are all about affecting the balance between life and death, positive and negative, yin and yang. Having a character in Skyrim that heals their allies while using the same type of magic to damage their enemies is a lot of fun. And...it even makes sense too. While poison spells used to be in the Destruction school in Morrowind, I had no problem seeing them in Restoration...if you know how to heal someone, you know how to kill them.
that one might be on purpose as not much other reason to lvl restoration, for most players.
And this is why BULBASAUR NUMBER ONE, BEST STARTER, BEST PICK
Restoration could technically be able to "overheal" causing some super aggressive cancer, dealing disease damage and be valid form of offense :^)
@@shaderunner7.0 one "damage over time, heavy on the time" coming right up
@@samuelelliott8453 it won't be heavy on time if the restoration speeds the progress up thousands of times :^)
29:30 You literally died from an arrow to the knee. That's the real magic here.
Isnt there a high level resto spell that makes a field where undead burst into flames and run if they walk into it?
Yes there's 2 the other one you get it from the Dawngaurd it's a Warhammer
Guardian circle ? It’s a master level spell that’s supposed to be available for purchase from the restoration school once you reach master level.. unfortunately, it’s one of the bugged spells where the vendor may never have any master level spells for sale. I don’t know if they ever fixed it.
Reminds me of the 190% Reflect Damage build in Oblivion. You could literally get a ton of random stones from the top of the towers that close the random Oblivion gates by just spamming the grab command at the item in the world. Each gave a different enchantment effect depending on whether it was used on a weapon or piece of armor. One of those was Reflect Damage, and you could easily make a set of armor that had over 100% Reflect Damage, so when someone hit you, not only did you take _zero damage_ and make you effectively immortal, it _also_ did more damage to them than it would to you.
I just had the Atronach sign and a bunch of spell absorption items (Spelldrinker Amulet and the Sourcerer's Ring). The rest of the itemslots (during combat) were used for Shielding and enhancing my hand to hand.
and now he made a video about it lol
@@bragiodinsen4604 Yep. I saw. He still didn't also get 100% Reflect Spell though, which is possible.
I kept failing Molag Bal's quest thanks to that. Took me ages to figure out what was going wrong.
Breton 50% Magic Resist.
Get the Ring Of Mundane another 50% Magic Resist.
Magic Proof.
Then when I touched the sigil stone, id autosave before it entered inventory, if it wasnt +50 Magic. Reload until it was.
Then Id have plus 50 on every piece of equipment aside from 1 ring.
Then have 700-800 Magic. With no weaknesses, and could cast Massive spellls I made, while being 100%Magic Proof.
Most fun I had without Mods
My Fav was Forify Speed 100, fortify Athletics 100 and WaterWalk, with a Light effect because why not, for 60seconds.
Or Forify Speed 50 and Waterwalk on Touch, and cast it on my horse. No more than 50 though, would clip through the terrain alot when I did, was too fast
I've got an idea. Using the "Skyrim Together" mod for multiplayer so that both characters can exist at the same time, can you create a character able to kill Reanu Keeves in combat? See if your exploiting experience now can overcome your past exploits.
Did you just suggest that our lord and savior, Reanu Keeves is mortal?!?!
@@zichithefox4781 kill him
At this point it's down to values no longer being valid, or the game just crashing.
Honeslty, I love SkyrimTogether, but it's still way too unstable for it to make for a decent video of Spiff's quality.
@@_Jay_Maker_ That is the most nonsense I've ever heard about Spiff videos.
At first, I was excited to see a healing-only build for Skyrim, no violence or damage dealt!
Then I realized that this is Spiff we're talking about.
Without realizing it, Spiff has been perfecting his Sheogorath build.
"We need our armor rating to become negative!"
Wow, a Spif Skyrim video where he doesn't use the fortify-restoration loop?!
"We're going to fortify-restoration loop so much it integer overflows to a negative value!"
.......
I see. This game really is that simple, this exploit is like the duck-tape of Skyrim.
It's like the opposite of duck-tape because it breaks everything. It's a universal solvent. The anti-game equation.
@@nessesaryschoolthing so it's WD-40
Pretty sure it's duct tape, although I think there is a brand called duck tape.
@@willford55543 the original was called duck tape because of the cotton duck cloth it was made of. Then soldiers started calling it that because of the way it was waterproof, so water shed off it like water off a duck's back. Then it found commercial use (ironically terrible at sealing duct material) and became known more as duct tape, except for duck brand duct tape.
... so both work, really.
@@nessesaryschoolthing yes i really hope tes 6 has still op enchant and custom spell building, but op within fun gameplay boundaries, kinda like turning cheats on GTA. It should make really fun stuff happen but not so much that it totally breaks the game, bethesda should plan ahead for these scenarios.
In the dawngaurd fort there is a damage based restoration spell called sunfire it only deals damage to the undead but with all the perks in restoation possible it is insanely deadly
It makes Restoration perfectly viable in every fight that isn't a dragon.
Praise the Sun
Slightly disappointed the Ring wasn't called Potion Seller
But then again, Becca *could* handle the potion. Very well, actually.
Becca handles the potion because shes all too familiar with the "motion" rotflmao
Now for a conspiracy Go watch black yoshi's videos & tell me whether him & spiffing brit are the same person
My dyslexia made me think your name was the spitting brit for years.
This whole time, I was wishing that healing spells were based on percentage of max health so that having perfectly balanced health in the billions was feasible to heal, but then I remembered that the health regen enchantment and potion works based on health percentage per second
"We can't go to Bleak Falls Burrow..." I was genuinely expecting a jump cut to you getting NPCs to walk into traps over and over until they died.
"RESTORATION IS A PERFECTLY VALID SCHOOL OF MAGIC!"
It's okay, Colette. I found out it was Ancano who left that letter on your desk. He's been dealt with.
You could just create a ring or something that increases you health as well, your health has to be way higher than your negative armor, because you get the negative worth as damage
i wonder if the incalculable % glitch could be used to turn restoration values into a negative, thus making it so you could kill other creatures with healing hands.
:o
But you can only heal yourself, so the magic school would change from Restoration to Suicidal. Imagine that skill tree?!
@@DustinBarlow8P there is a spell to heal others
@@DustinBarlow8P You forget about the "healing hands" spell, brother, with it you can induce self harm in OTHERS AS WELL (i think idk i haven't tested it out)
I need to see if that's possible but I can barely follow the steps in the video
Pro tip: If you hold down the mouse button on the slider in the wait menu, You can push "E" to confirm the number of hours to wait, then quickly slide the timer to 1 hour. This causes the game to wait 24 hours (or however many hours) in the time it takes to wait a single hour. Saves a bunch of time.
Thanks bro
More like wastes time faster 😉😎
Would this work with controller as well? (I haven't played skyrim on console in ages so I don't rightly remember)
Had to pause the video because I was laughing too hard at “Treason Day”. Keep up the excellent content, Spiff
same here. im scrolling to read angy triggered comments but total dissappointment so far
I feel like the reflect blows with negative armor rating strategy backfired more than it benefited. While it certainly made for hilarious moments, it probably would have been more effective to just use regular heavy armor stacked with Fortify Health.
He needed it like that to gain the poison rune spell, granted he could have taken it off after gaining the spell but where’s the fun in that?
27:20
>Has hundreds of millions of health
>Hovers over magic at 190
>Adds 10 more health from level up
TSB: "Can you beat Skyrim with only restoration?"
MittenSquad: *"Hold my beer."*
Also Paul: "and hold my controller. Oh i guess you can also hold my life. God knows im not using it like he intended"
@@patrickaycock3655 Pretty accurate
I see a man of colture as well
@@MinkioTauro “colture”?
@@orangeismyfavoritecolor Yes - colture as she is spoke my friend.
Watching spiff doing the alchemy and enchanting somehow made me think of Sauron making the ring lol
Seeing him do the fartclouds of murder reminds of Wario in Super Smash Bros Brawl.
"The fart clouds of murder!" My good sir that is mustard gas. You are violating the Greybeard Conventions. Well done.
Just when the world needed him most, Spiffing Brit returned to Skyrim.
"There aren't many good restoration spells"
"Restoration is a perfectly valid school of magic"
And don't let anyone tell you otherwise!
The regenerate health enchantment would have worked well with the insane amount of health you had, so that getting hit wouldn't be much of an problem except maybe for the dragon
The fact he could’ve made his life so much easier if he just took the chest peice off or at least made another one with a smaller negative and just didn’t, is either true conviction or true laziness
Its an overflow integer. There is no smaller negative. It will always be -2.14 billion
Goth Becca is truly one of a kind woman, we should all learn to cherish her until the end of all days
I bet the npcs of skyrim have often wondered where the crazy man with the fork went to.
An orgy with drug dealing khajiits
Now for a conspiracy Go watch black yoshi's videos & tell me whether him & spiffing brit are the same person
Who knows, maybe one of them has met Big Head...
24:45 is the most enthusiastic 'take that you big ol' pile of rocks'.. It sounds to me that it took Spiff quite a few saves to accomplish killing the beast.
"Ralof you are NOT being useful in the slightest"
Says the person who's only ability was healing at the time.
One issue with this build is the amount of health you lose with every hit. I haven't tried this so I may be wrong, but if you use an op fortify enchantment potion, then enchant something with fortify health regen, your health could regen faster than the damage you take, making you immortal while the enemies still take damage. I'll say again, I haven't tried this, so I might be wrong.
No regen can save you if the amount of damage you receive is more than the amount of your health.
@@catherine_404 yea you'll just get a killcam of your skull getting bashed in lol
@@catherine_404gotta stack em both I spose
I wonder if you could finesse the armor rating overflow exploit to make one piece of armor that overflows and goes to the huge negative number, and another piece that has a very high but not overflowed positive number, so you could get an armor rating that is negative enough to make damage reflection powerful, but not so negative that it overwhelms even the insanely fortified health...
health regen only kicks in after you stop taking damage
Step 1) Get a beefy companion and outfit accordingly
Step 2) Keep said companion alive while they do the murdering
Also get that spell that heals other people. So you can heal them. It's still restoration, just not yourself
@@robert.7230 i think it's called Healing Hands?
Don't forget that poison rune is a restoration spell. And there's also spells specifically for killing the undead from restoration. It's a viable build, just much more boring.
step 3, search for black yoshi on YT & llemme know whether him & spiffing brit are the same person
the fact that there are still skyrim videos blowing up on youtube shows how much of a classic this game is and always will be
1st time watchimg your video now and I was laughing too much, so much that I want to try this and definetly subscribing now
"How to beat Skyrim with Restoration...!"
And heavy armour and alchemy and enchanting and smithing.
I mean Spiff not following his own rules is kinda the joke but it was pretty predictable what'd happen.
You're dedication to making this videos are absolutely insane. Extremely impressed and fun to watch. Thank you.
When the dragon ate him last second with like one health I lost it.
Please fight Alduin and beat the game with this build lmao
Spoiler!
@@wordzmyth Why are you reading the comments before you watch the video? lol
@@FantasticMisterHawks you mean there are people who watch the entire video before checking the comment section?
Love it. This must be the most broken complicated annoyingly funny Todd Howard creation possible
I always love seeing spiff play skyrim and breaking it in ridiculous ways🤣. Then i go back to waiting patiently for his next game breaking video.
You dont have to wait, check out more on Black Yoshi & tell me whether him & spiffing brit are the same person
@@rdesousa8955 he's definitely not the same person.
31:35 the dragur that got shot from the trap and ragdolled the other one almost made me shit my pants from laughter
Fun Fact: there is actually a few more damaging restoration spells the only problem is it only works on undead but with your current class is your biggest weakness, you have to do the dawnguard dlc and stay with the dawnguard until you recruit the two new people, one of them sells the spell you need and a few others as you progress through the questline
Fun fact: People that use "Fun Fact" to start their comments are lame!
@@kevinbrooks9074 lmao
I’m surprised he didn’t just do the thing where you stand in the fire pit in riften and constantly heal yourself to max restoration off the bat
When people grind skills like that much more efficient is just to use console commands (if you're essentially cheating your way to max skill anyway).
I tend to just leap off a cliff and heal myself on the way back up, lol
That wouldn't have leveled up his Heavy Armor skill
@@mmorkinism i honestly rather exploit rather than just using commands. Its that false feeling of earning it. If i use console commands i just lose interest in the game because i did nothing. With exploits you still do nothing but it *feels* like you did