Skyrim Anniversary Edition: Guide to the 10 playable races in Skyrim RANKED
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- Skyrim Anniversary Edition: A players guide to the 10 races in Skyrim, all ranked including their starting skills, abilities, powers and playstyles!
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The fact you take running speed into consideration when ranking your races makes this video stand out.
Persinally, since this is for Anniversary, I would take Survival Mode into consideration as well.
Yeah that's a good idea, admittedly this is the one area of the game I have limited experience with, I've only tried it on AE a couple of times. I might do an updated guide in the future with this included😁
@@mike-thegamingdad Great video, but I have to agree with Leto85 about Survival Mode. The Nords, Elves, Orcs, and Khajiit all gain racial bonuses that help counteract either cold, fatigue, hunger, or a combination of all three. Khajiit and Argonians are also capable of eating raw meat without risking disease, but the Argonians get slammed with a 25% weakness to cold. Taking all of this into account, I imagine the Orcs would move into the top spot on your list. :)
@Homer Tipton Hey there, you would be correct about the Orc 😁. When I began my survival mode let's play, I did a quick update at the start of the video and re-ranked the races based on survival mode, and the Orc moved up to 1st. Bretons stayed 2nd due to their utility. I'm trying to remember the other changes. I definitely moved the Nords up, and the Wood Elves. High elves moved down. I may have kept the Argonians somewhere in the middle as that weakness to cold is a serious problem when needing to go up to Winterhold or The Throat of the World.
@@mike-thegamingdad Thanks for telling me about the updated ranking in your Let's Play series. I just watched that episode and agree with most of your changes - Orcs are definitely the most hardy race now! I would've ranked the Argonians lower than all three Elf races, but I understand having a soft spot for a particular race. For me it's the Dark Elves... nostalgia for Morrowind, I guess. 😊
@Homer Tipton no problem at all and thanks for watching it 😃. Yeah there's a few obvious choices like the orc but then a lot of it can be subjective can't it. The DE power is actually great for keeping warm, it's just a shame it's not unique, as in you can just become a mage and use the flame cloak spell over and you. Would be cool if it was better in someway
I’ve just started the Skyrim Anniversary edition on my Switch, so your various guides are going to be invaluable as I go along. 😊👍🏻
Ah excellent, well I hope you enjoy playing it and thank you very much for checking out my content 😁🙌🏼
Voice of the Emperor is actually a much stronger, not weaker, version of the Pacify-spell since it works on humanoid targets up to level 99 without needing all of the illusion perks. It has 2 major upsides: 1) It can fix some broken NPC behavior to (sometimes) fix some quests and 2) It can let you get a melee sneak attack off on an enemy that is already in combat with you (if they are alone or other enemies are not looking after being pacified). The passive ability is so utterly useless (it often doesn't work at all), though, that I still rank imperials second to last.
Interesting about using voice of the emperor to fix broken NPC behaviour, hadn't thought to use it that way before 👍🏻
Nice video Mike .your dad told me to have a look at your UA-cam and your video is really good. I’ll definitely be watching out for more content on your channel as I’m also a gamer on the new Xbox
Damn how have I overlooked the Orc as well...that power makes perfect sense for an assassin now! Thanks!
No problem!
Thank you for this. When I first played Skyrim in January 2021, I knew nothing about the Elder Scrolls games or its VAST history. I was a complete newbie. I played as a High Elf because I wanted to be a mage. Since then, I've been marinated in ES lore and played 7 of the 10 races. I still haven't played as a Khajiit, Argonian or Orc. I think of them as beast races. As one who loves role playing, I see the special abilities as a survival mechanism. An ability that lets you exceed the norm for a limited time. And I'm totally okay with it being once a day, since in reality we crash after an adrenaline rush. As the Dragonborn, we're getting stronger, so racial survival traits would become less useful as you become a god.
I think I'll try the Khajiit. I love cats ^_^
Glad you are enjoying it! Yeah they are immense games, incredible amounts of detail goes into the worlds. My very first race I played was an Argonian lol. I think I picked them because their ability Histskin sounded quite OP and it saved me a few times!
I played a Breton on my second playthrough and fell in love with their versatility. Now I have a hard time playing anything else. I think I'll try the unarmed Khajit next, or maybe I'll fall back on a Breton but mix it up by playing a necromancer.
Nice yeah I know what you mean, they are noticably stronger I feel having played all the races, that 25% base resistance is such a head start for any type. Thats cool about giving the unarmed build a go! With this style I recommend committing to it if you do, what I mean is unarmed doesn't scale in the same way as other weapons (it can be improved by using items like Gloves of the Pugilist but you can't put perk points into it etc) so if you end up levelling up lots of other skills as well, your overall level will eventually overtake the unarmed usefulness. It works best I've found if you try and keep your overall level lower and don't 'jack of all trades' the character 😁
They're not NEARLY as OP as they were in Oblivion (ES4)... Their advantages are nearly pointless in Skyrim.
1. Reaching the 85% magic resistance cap EASY with enchanting + perks.
2. Spell absorb reaches 100% with any race, if you choose.
Imperials have a stronger boost Restoration, Destruction, Enchanting, and Heavy Armor, plus a generally MORE USEFUL once-a-day power that has no replacement later in the game (insta-cast, mass Calm spells simply don't exist).
@@michaelmcclelland9876 If you want to invest a little time in the alchemy/enchanting loop (and I am not even talking insane levels, just a dozen times) you can make all of the racial bonuses pointless. The orc racial ability? Who cares when you have weapons doing 500+ points per attack and armor levels over 2000? Etc. Etc. Etc. NONE of them are impressive even a little if you want to play games just using even the LEGAL exploits in Skyrim. The point is, if you just want to play around with a new character, which ones are going to be the most useful in the beginning? I still like the Breton. If we are talking a fully developed high-level character? Then none of them matter. And yes there is a mass calm spell called Harmony. It is not as effective as Voice of the Emperor but it exists and I don't usually care about calming large groups of people anyway you get more experience from killing them.
@@davidnoel9355 That's a fair point. Arbitrarily deciding which exploits are "legal" vs insanely broken glitches is a grey area (as with most Bethesda games). And yes, these usefulness ratings are heavily geared towards beginning of the game players (hence Khajiits being #3 with their pathetic claw damage that is QUICKLY outclassed).
@@michaelmcclelland9876 I've never been a huge fan of the resto loop trick. I'm going to throw it into a future video as a way of speed levelling a few skills but otherwise I try and avoid it as it breaks the mechanics so much that the roleplay element is lost which is what I usually go for. Its cool that you have found a lot of value in the imperials Voice of the Emperor power though! Thats the beauty of this game, everyone has their preferred races and playstyles and everyones tier list will be different. I've tried to love this power but unless I've wanted to get away or only enter a location to grab a chest item and keep the enemies calm I've ended up not using it nearly as much as I thought I would (I prefer combat and eventually will need to deal with them anyway etc) 😄
Great video overall, keep up the good work !
I agree that Bretons and Orcs are the best but I have a lot of fun playing the renegade imperial. The Dark Elves are great too.
I'm very tempted to give Imperial's a go soon again 😄, they are probably my least played race (them or redguards I reckon)
I agree with all of this minus the Khajiit. While claws help in the early game, they also prevent you from levelling the offensive skills you will need to survive in the mid game. Unless you are committed to playing an unarmed build, they are outclassed by every other race in terms of starting benefits. Fantastic video though!
Yeah thats fair 👍🏻 it's definitely a 'once you've made this choice, you need to stick at it'. I probably should have specified more the need to keep your overall player level low with the khaajit, whereas naturally you'd expect to level more anywhere else. I did an updated survival mode version of this at the start of episode 1 of my survival mode let's play. I think khaajit moved down a place, although it would have been more had they not had warmth bonuses and the ability to eat raw meat and not suffer food poisoning
It really depens on how highly you value enabling a different playstyle. I personally rank Khajiit 3rd lowest, ahead only of the Wood Elves and Imperials - and that's with taking uniquely enabling unarmed combat into account - it's just not a mechanically supported playstyle because it lacks a skill tree, perks and weapon enchants (minus Fists of Steel). Still cool and enough to get ahead of a weak hodgepodge of almost nothing (Woodelves) and a useless passive + very niche ability (Imperials), imho.
Small correction about the redguards: You can't actually fully spam power attacks with vegetable soup (trust me, I play on legendary difficulty and consume this soup a lot), but you can with Adrenaline Rush, so there is still a DPS and stagger increase when using that ability, you also can't afford to put points into stamina on legendary difficulty or you'll be a one-hit kill from full health for many tougher enemies, making redguards a decent-ish option, imho.
Orcs are great magicians if you get physical damage you get half it save me a lot also if you use conjuring you are unstoppable with it like conjuring a battle axe
I always liked playing imperial because it always feels nice to get a few extra coins. (Always forget the power because I usually just have a shout)
I died hearing the wood elf being 10 as I am 2 hours into my game with that race. Fml. oh well 4th times the charm. Awesome content.
Ah sorry buddy! To be honest the good thing about this game is, you can play any style you want with any race. My ranking for the wood elf is based on them just not having a good ability, whereas most of the races have 1 that is useful at least, but none of them are 'unplayable' as such as long as you are enjoying it thats the main thing lol😁. I posted my first build guide the other day, got lots more ideas for them which I'll work on so keep any eye out hopefully one will give you inspiration for future playthroughs 😁🙌
I've been playing as Breton through countless playthroughs of this game and I always chosen the ritual Stone because it always help me out in a pinch when I'm dealing with multiple enemies and went more towards a mage and or possibly a battle mage type build in the game
Nice yeah I love the ritual stone, causes such mayhem in bigger battles 🤣
@@mike-thegamingdad , I also forgot to mention that anyone doing the Aetherium Wars Quest and to make the crown to have the effect from the previous standing stone would also be helpful
@@steveburnham5073 yeah I use that one a lot, I think I used it on my night king build guide which uses the ritual stone as well 😁
You should have mentioned the Dark brotherhood gloves w/ double sneak attack damage + berserk (60x dmg bonus)
Hands down the best for Mages is a High Elf just because of the 50 extra starting mana is huge, that's about 5 extra seconds of a novice spells or two extra apprentice spells with the apprentice perk taken in destruction and Mages need all the help they can get and for a Warrior or even an Archer is an Orc, Berserker rage is insane for Warriors and amazing for Archers, that 100% increase in physical damage and 50% damage reduction is so helpful. But even still it doesn't necessarily mean you need to play these races with these class types as when you get far enough into the game those bonuses will be less impactful, but oh boy early, on are those really fucking helpful.
but considering you can get -100% casting cost to any magic school, and bonus to magicka is completely redundant
Histskin stacks with things like Vegetable Soup, fortify healing rate enchantments and home-cooked meals and the like. It's great for unarmed builds too.
Wear the Lord Mail while you're add it to drain enemy's health as well.
You mean ebony mail...but yes a good idea
@@michaeldavies7949 Ebony Mail poisons the foe, but the Lord Mail drains health.
@@Leto85 Is the lord's Mail a mod? Also didn't the Lord's mail have different enchantments in Morrowind?
@@michaeldavies7949 It's part of the Creation Club, and integrated in the Anniversary Edition.
I've never played anything but redgaurd .. I like them for two hand attacks I'm thinking of trying a kajit though..
I always choose Witcher as my race, or Darth Vader, or sometimes i even play as a oompa loompa, i just get tired of not being able to fit the armor i wear.
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The example for night vision were not very good. There are some areas that are very dark, and not having to have a light source helps you keep from being seen. You can miss things, and it makes it easier to see under water as well.
Imperials are so underrated since the beginning. Getting money will always be welcoming. 5 golds per chest is better than some spell resistance when you can just easily get 100% absorption. 😔
Voice of the emperor can be useful. One good use of this is when you piss off an important PNJ and need to talk to him. It's the equivalent to a really powerful calm spell without any investments.
And Imperials got great starting bonuses : restoration and destruction which are hard to level up. Enchantement. Heavy armor and one handed for battlemages. They only unfairly lack speech for some reason.
I always choose between Breton and Imperial. Because I love to either be a battle mage, or a ranger
Great choices I like both of them aswell 😁
Fire traps count as magic so I stood on a trap with Dragonskin activated and absolutely destroyed a Dragon Priest without moving by absorbing both the trap and its attacks. Also the high resistance to magic basically makes you invincible in those situations. Magic is the biggest problem I face in Skyrim and Bretons make me feel like a god.
Yeah they are awesome aren't they. When I learnt that dragon breath counted as magic I realised how fantastic a choice for the dragonborn they were 😂
Fire resistance is absolutely useful!! You can shrug off dragon fire like it’s nothing!
From Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim i always play Khajiit.
Why? Because is a Cat.
So far, I've played as an Imperial, Redguard and Breton exactlyin that order; the 3rd choice is my favorite of them.
Nice! Yeah I really rate the Breton (obviously lol), very versatile and good for a lot of playstyles
@@mike-thegamingdad I often go with warrior and the Breton has a certain advantage: never need to worry about losing their weapon. Also, I omitted this because it's irrelevant to the video, but my characters have a certain commonality: they're all ladies.
@@georgemercer402 that's cool, any reason they are always female? You just enjoy playing as ladies? I usually mix it up, I've played so many different styles both male and female. I do enjoy playing as a female warrior sometimes and absolutely wrecking bandit camps full of men🤣
@@mike-thegamingdad Mostly due to having grown up with 2 sisters and being the only boy, it gives me a chance to "see things from the other side". Besides, women are just as capable
Bosmer are one of my favorite races but it’s basically like playing a race without a bonus. Altmer are my least favorite but they’re the strongest unless you don’t want to use magic at all for role playing reasons but ever build can capitalize on at least one skill and leveling them is so easy
They also have the best speed so it’s like a no brainer I just hate them
Yeah I agree on both points 😁👍
I just started my first playthrough, I also chose Argonian.
Good choice 😉
My 3 favorite races are the altmer, orc and the argonian which happens to be the 3 base classes in rpgs mage tank and rouge which I find pretty cool
Nice yeah I have a soft spot for the Argonians. They were my race on my first playthrough. Histskin is an awesome ability as well
@@mike-thegamingdad yeah although I find histskin to be the only really useful skill they have I just don’t feel the impact of the other ones
@@thinenansflipflop yeah the rest are all pretty rubbish
I play as a khajiit but until i watched this video i had no idea that claws did so much damage! It passes most of my weapons when it comes to damage, but the dawnbreaker will always be my choice
Yeah claws are great especially early on! Weapons scale so are better in the long term, dawnbreaker is a great choice as well 😁👍🏻
I just pick randomly and always play long distance archery and mage. Guess I'll have to actually pay attention now and play again, what a shame!
Always nice to start a new playthrough :). That's the beauty of Skyrim though, you can choose any character you want and be anything you want to be, no two people will play it exactly the same. If you do start a new playthrough I've finished filming and editing a new start guide now to cover the first few hours in game. Away for a few nights currently but Saturday I'll record the audio and hopefully get it up on here Sunday!
The Imperial and nord powers are not weak. They are the MOST powerful calm and fear effects They have a spell magnitude of 99. That is high enough to affect everything in the game that those spells work on. Pacify and rout with dual cast and perks have a magnitude around 88. You'd have to use potions or be a vampire to get them stronger than voice or battle cry.
That is good to know! I haven't found too many uses myself for the nord one but a previous commenter mentioned slow potions which makes it a lot easier to kill enemies who flee which I need to try!
@@mike-thegamingdad I'm a big fan of the imperial voice power. I would have put Imperials higher on the list. I agree Breton is best.
Definitely better than Dark Elves. Probably not better than Nords.
Just started a khajit stealth/unarmed/necromancer character. So cash. Xbox360 vanilla Skyrim is goated.
@@graveleater9746 that is awesome! Hope you have fun with that save! 😁🙌🏼
I think you dramatically undervalue the Nord's Battle Cry
You can corner enemies before you fear them and just beat them up
It's really broken for early game fights on legendary
vampire dunmer master race in terms of potential and in terms of role play/survival i would go with an argonian shadowscale
Redguards are your dual welding race, I would say nords and imperials are your sword and shield race
Yeah thats fair 👍🏻
Dunmer are the most well-rounded race across all of the games, and Ancestor's Wrath is arguably better than Ancestor Guardian (their racial power in Oblivion and Morrowind), so they can potentially excel in any build or role.
Orcs are far and away the best for any physical damage build (unless you're dual weilding/power attacking all the time and prefer redguard). For example, you want a stealth boi? Orc. Double your stealth damage. 15x dagger stealth damage not good enouth? 30x with the shrouded gloves still not enough? How about 60x then? It's ridiculous how much damage the orcs get. Never not a good ability. Definitely the strongest for melee or bow builds, but not necissary. Just really damn good for the dps. Not even to mention the defense
Bretons are probably my second place because absorbing 50% magic damage is also never not good. So many magic users, so many dragons. Combine it with the standing stone of the same effect and you're pretty much immune to dragon breath, very nice. (Resistance caps at 80%, but absorbtion DOES go up to 100%)
Those, I think, are the two strongest and most useful races for almost every build. Probably better choices for specific builds, but they're pretty good generally. Use whatever you want tho, most of the racial abilities can be made obselete with a standing stone, couple of levels, or an enchantment or shout
Khajiit at 3 is wild. Unarmed is definitely very cool, but it’s also the weakest build in the game (at least beyond the early game), and their night eye actually makes things harder to see. I’d put them last because they functionally have no advantage whatsoever outside of tavern brawls. If this were an unarmed ranking though they’d obviously be top tier.
But you did put Bretons and Orcs highest, so I’ll forgive you~
Haha yeah there are a few obvious choices for best, but there's a lot of subjectivity for the middle bandings. I had a lot of fun playing as a khaajit, and I'd been pre warned to try keep my overall player level low to keep the game from advancing, so maybe I enjoyed it more than if I'd not done. There was something ridiculous about an enormous cat performing wrestling throws on entire camps of bandits 😅.
I did a 2nd ranking at the start of my survival mode let's play episode 1. Just re-ranking this initial list and I think I moved khaajit down a bit. It would have been more but the warmth and raw meat factor kept them a little higher.
I’ve been sitting at the character creation screen for TWO HOURS now
Haha that was me when I played the first time 🤣
You're a female, indecisiveness is one of your many negative traits. What do you want to eat?
I’m gonna start playing dark elf now considering they are balanced in stealth, and magic because combat skills are easy to level up
Yeah the dark elves are good, had a few different saves with them and enjoyed them all 😁👍🏻
In late game it will not matter much.
I agree 99%. I'm conflicted at the 😼Khajiit's high placement. I agree that they basically monopolize any unarmed build but I think you gave unarmed too much credit as it relies on crafting skills which make any playstyle powerful anyhow.
Yeah thats fair, plus unarmed builds mean you should try and keep your overall level lower, as its harder to avoid power creep with unarmed. I did another tier at the start of my survival mode let's play ep.1, I think I moved the khaajit down 1 place. But that was only because of their additional warmth rating and ability to eat meat raw. Would have been lower still otherwise
@@mike-thegamingdad I'm gonna check that out too.
@@alexanderstilianov awesome thank you 😁
I began a new play after buying the Anniversary Edition and chose a Nord for with the same commonality as my previous plays; I haven't started any faction stories yet due to a certain decision needing to be made.
Nice hope you enjoy that playthrough 😁👍🏻
@@mike-thegamingdad What I find to be odd though is that my Nord still seems to be affected by the cold weather despite having 50% resistance to it with Survival Mode being active; it must be cold-based attacks only based on my observation.
@georgemercer402 hey yeah the 50% frost resistance is only to frost damage. Nords get +25 warmth so they are affected less by the cold, but it still affects them heavily in very cold areas. If you played as an argonian who have -25 warmth you would see a difference as their health drops rapidly in the cold
@@mike-thegamingdad That's what I was thinking; I knew the Argonians would feel it the most due to being cold-blooded.
Now rank irl races
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For Wood Elves, they become better archers with mods. Better Wood Elves is one mod that gives them better Archery Perks and better Bow dmg. It also gives the Wood Elf the ability to summon an animal for combat depending on level.
Nice sounds like an interesting mod!
Khajiit, Nord, High Elf, Orc, and Breton are my go to races for Skyrim. I don’t bother with the other races honestly. In fact, I don’t think that I’ve ever played or beaten any bit of the game as a Wood Elf, Red Guard, or Imperial.
Mainly because Wood Elf and Red Guard are very arbitrary and niche races only loosely featured in the game. Imperial has a prominent role in sake of the civil war, but once you either pick a side and end the war or settle an agreement between the two factions with the grey beards, then they basically become almost an after thought.
And I did play test and try some builds with the dark elf, but the novelty wore off pretty fast.
I never bothered at all with the Argonians, but with what you demonstrated with them, I just might.
And to think… I played this on PS3 back from 2012 -2013, on PS4 & Xbox One X from 2017 -2019, and now again in 2022 on PC & Xbox Series X. lol
Nice sounds like your Skyrim journey is similar to mine, I started on the PS3 10 years ago, then Skyrim SE on PS4 maybe 2016-2020. Then I picked it up again the AE version this year on PC 😄
I use Battle Cry to fish for Salmon Roe at waterfalls.
Now this deserves a love! Does that actually work?! 🤣 I did not know that, I thought unrelenting force was the only thing that did that!
@@mike-thegamingdad It does! When I do it at the first waterfall towards Riverwood, before the waterfall where the gem is found, I get 5 or 6 salmons flying in the air. That equals to the double amount of Salmon Roe.
Unrelenting Force does the same, but we don't have that yet this early in the game.
@@Leto85 thats awesome I'll try that out on my next playthrough 😆
@@mike-thegamingdad Command Animal will do the same if done at a waterfall.
Why dors everyone like the khajiit so much? Their night vision is useless as there are plenty of irl and in game ways to see in the dark, their lvl 25 sneak is useless aswell because its the easiest skill to level up and their unnarmed attacks are decent early they aswell as many races lower on this list "get replaced or outclassed by better stuff later on". So, exept the fact that they look cool and have interesting lore, unless you're doing an unarmed build, they should be put to the bottom of the list
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No, it's a pretty upscale ability.
Bretons used to be better then every other race in older TES games, simply because they take 50% less magic damage from all sources and elements, while races like dunmer & nords only took half as much from a single element. What i don't understand is why they removed High Elven magic weakness that was there from the beginning. They basically gave High Elves more magika pool, gave them infinite magika for 60 seconds and took away their 25% magic weakness, making them the best race to play as a mage, particularly early to mid game as later you can still get infinite magika on any race you want, making their racial ability worthless late game.
Yeah they are strong early to mid, which is an advantage as mage play is difficult early on as spells tend to tail off until you get strong gear.
i always play as a nord, i can't identify myself with khajits and argonians, i will go with breton this time, the only hard thing its making him less ugly lol
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I identify with the argonians, due to the fact they're slow to trust others and a bit different to everyone else. They're the outcasts like Orcs. hardened and tempered. I also LOVE the oblivion lore for them.
Make his jaw low and his chin long. Move his mouth down and now you have a Chad Breton.
This list does seem a bit biased but I do agree with the Bretons.
I am a Nord main but betweem the two of them, the Bretons seem a bit more civilized. Even if they aren’t quite as tanky.
I did a survival mode re-rank at the beginning of episode 1 of my survival let's play and the Orc moved above the Breton, although the Breton stayed in second. I think the Nord may have been 3rd. Biggest riser was the wood elf and the biggest fall was the high elf if I remember correctly
@@mike-thegamingdad Nords seem the most versatile overall. They are resistant to the cold and have more health than most races (except for Orcs) at the cost of magicka usually.
I almost always play imperial lol
Breton all the way. Bosmer for me next. Third I’d say Dunmer.
Argonian is easily the only option. Their racial Histskin ability for x10Hp regen trumps any other. Waterbreathing is mildly helpful but not bad, and the 50% resistance to disease is decent until getting 100% resistance as a werewolf.
No other racial ability is more useful than Hirstskin.
Argonian was my first ever race 😁 loved that play through, wish I could go back and experience it for the first time again!
Definitely
Sooooooo, basically Orcs are the best warriors, and Bretons are the best mages? And Khajiits are the best Stealthy Characters? Or most of the time, since Orcs still have "Berserkers Rage".
Yeah pretty much that, in my opinion of course 😁
Bretons are absolutely the broken race of the game and definitely orcs are next yet I will place nords in 5th place cause thier 50% cold resistant is absolute most useful against most of the enemy's in Skyrim
They should have created more races in the newest version
Yeah I'd love this, there are loads more races in Elder Scrolls games that they could use!
I've tried everything I think but I always end up as a Nord... it just doesn't feel right being a dragonborn Orc.. is it even lore accurate? I feel like the Nord just fits best. Anyone else feel this way?
Yeah I get what you mean, I love to roleplay my characters and the Nord is the obvious choice for the dragonborn. My playthroughs with other races tend to focus away from the main quest but luckily the game is vast enough that this is possible to do 😄
I do the same, shouts make up for the Nords lack of magic.
I can justify Redguard or imperial also being dragon born.
Orc to me is just an adventurer character. I can get along with him being a companion/werewolf.
I roleplay to only using major skills (starting stats of 25) I can fill in all perks in that skill tree, for minor skills (starting stats of 20) I can only take one path through the tree.
I also think about what faction suits which race and stick to that. So I have different characters for different playthroughs.
E.g argonian has lockpick as major skill, I can have all lockpick perks. 😂
He also has alteration as a minor skill. If I get magic resistance perk I cannot then pick up adept alteration perk as the branch ended but I can have all 3 for 30% magic resistance.
Gians fist (+10 unarmed damage) has been a god send as he’s a unarmed thief that wears light armour.
He won’t become dragon born, he joined the thieves guild and looked for stones of barenzia.
On master difficulty it’s been a tough playthrough, being seen = death.
Means I never have OP characters and they all feel and play very different.
My dark elf will never be as proficient in illusion as my high elf, but my high elf doesn’t have the destruction ability/versatility of my dark elf.
Perks like the critical strike for swords in one handed skill actually make a difference for a non smithing character like imperial.
For enchanting I picked the elemental boosts on weapons and armour (left branch)
my orc went with enchanted skill boosts and health, magicka and stamina boosts.(middle branch) as he could smith his weapons and armour.
My Redguard was my most powerful archer by far as khajiit and woodelf use alchemy over smithing. Combined with 10x stamina regen he was a beast combat archer abusing steady hand (slow time 50%).
Also meant a stealth archer character (woodelf) had to be more strategic and use poisons cleverly, I didn’t have the huge 3x stealth archery bonus as my weapons remained unsmithed.
🤔 huh im surprised you didn't mention any of the races survival perks...
17:18 Orcs also have the bloodkin which let's them enter any Orc Strongholds [other races will have to do a retrieve the forge master finger tips or other method of gaining access]...
Hey I cover that the Survival Mode differences at the start of the Survival Mode playthrough 😁
If you're making a lv81 character then Orc is better than Breton because you'll probably still hit the magic resistance cap through other effects. And cat people are pretty garbage.
Yeah it was hard to pick between orcs and bretons. I actually moved the orc up to first when I re-ranked these considering survival mode as well
The kajhit is a really small character model and all it's abilities combined is not better than the argonian health regen.
Yeah thata fair, all subjective with a lot of the races I always feel like the Orc and the Breton are clear and then the rest can depend what day it is where I rank them 😁
What other games do you play ?
Thank you! At the moment due to having 2 young children and working full time the only game I've got time for is Skyrim so I can make content for this, but before Skyrim I played Red Dead Redemption 2 (PS4), The Last Of Us, GTA5. I usually stick to RPG's, but I used to also play things like the Final Fantasy series. X and X-2 were probably my favourites. My gaming days go way back though to the SNES (Mario, Zelda etc) and then PS1 onwards (back then DOOM was one of my favourites on the original playstation). I've played most things to be honest, the only games I don't tend to go for now are First Person Shooters (never been mad for COD, Fortnite etc). What about you?
@@mike-thegamingdad nice reply. You should try Kingdom Come Deliverance
@@nitsuanomrah6997 yeah I've watched a few videos of when ESO played it and it looked good will have to check it out 😁
I know that in game the Bosmer aren't the strongest but they're still my favorite. Their lore is immensely interesting and they truly are the best archers in Tamriel.
It's interesting you say that as for survival mode skyrim I moved them from 10th to I think 5th or 6th. They were the biggest jumpers in the ranking I did in episode 1 of my let's play.
And my next build guide I do I plan to be wood elf based, I'm actually excited to start it as I've not done one based on them before. But I was watching lord of the rings recently and it inspired me to start one 😁. I'm doing a guide on alchemy first but I'll start it after that is finished
@@mike-thegamingdad that's awesome to hear, they really are an awesome and underrated race, they're just so cool. I'd recommend reading up on their lore like their gods and culture, its super interesting. I'm excited to see your upcoming guide and love the content btw😁
@asterodon thank you very much! Yeah I'll be sure you check them out I love reading up on back stories/lore, especially when it comes to the elvish races!
@@mike-thegamingdad the elf races are very cool and I love how different they are in TES compared to other fantasy universes, like how the Orcs are a race of elves and aren't inherently evil like in other fantasy universes. Whats your favorite race in TES?
@asterodon yeah I like the lore of the orcs in TES, they are still treated as this almost barbarian race. They have elvish blood but they aren't treated as such.
Wow that's a difficult question as I've played most of them throughout TES and have enjoyed them all. If I had to pick one I'd probably say game play wise it would be the Breton. My soft spot though would be the Argonian. Can't really say why I've just loved them..they always feel quite down trodden
Breton hands down
Is there an "elder" race? Cause there's a mod that alters race heights and that's one..
I think in the game data, 'elders' are called 'old people race'. But it's not a race as such, just elderly humans. I'm not sure why it's set up this way with them classed seperate. My best guess would be it's so they could give them different racial classifications (they essentially have no racial powers and no abilities, so a Nord elder doesn't benefit from frost resistance or have battle cry). But they aren't a race that you can play as in game.
@@mike-thegamingdad thanks!
What's so wrong of being an Argonian Warrior/Hunter Like I do?
Nothing at all, my first playthrough was an Argonian over a decade ago and I loved it, did over 800+ hours on that save and then special edition came out so I got a PS4 😁👍🏻
I always play as a wood elf or imperial
Wood elves are actually really good in survival mode, they lend themselves to that mode really well. It's all subjective though at the end of the day any race can do any playstyle 😁
Bretons with CC running around with 25%MR passive + Lord stone + Studded Dragonscale Armor from lvl 7 beating the game in less than one hour xD
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I stopped using the Breton once I discovered that high spell absorption means high chance of conjuration spells not conjuring anything... I LOVE conjuration.
I can't even describe how MAD I was the first time this happened: I got ambushed by really strong vampires on my way back home, I was getting overwhelmed by their thralls, hounds and spells so I activated the absorption skill to combine with my atronach stone. Then I tried to conjure my strongest creature, my MVP: the undead dragon from soul cairne...
The shout failed (got absorbed), the dragon didn't appear and the shout timer didn't let me try to conjure it again... I got killed and lost 2 hours of progress because I forgot to save...
No Bretons EVER AGAIN!
Jeez, did not know about that 😬😅
Orc it is, then.
Khajiit claw damage is useful at the beginning of the game ONLY, as the damage is very quickly outclassed by all weapons the second you begin taking perks, smithing, enchanting, etc. Yes it IS fun to see the custom animations for unarmed kills, but its PURE NOVELTY (zero functional advantage whatsoever)! 🙄
oh yeah the Khaajit aren't the optimised build choice, you almost have to go the mother way and keep skills low. But definitely fun and as you say novelty. I had a lot of fun trying it out but this is all subjective of course 😄
I was so disappointed when I went from oblivion to skyrim and there was no unarmed skill tree :(
Marksman potions boost unarmed attacks for some reason.
@@mcmalave2789they fortify all skills, even one handed daggers that are immune to one handed potions 🤷🏻♀️
What kind of madman disables fast travel?!
haha I've actually really enjoyed survival mode Skyrim 😅
Has anyone ever had the thought about how unbalanced the skills are even without racial powers? Stealth archers are powerful yet races have low starting skills for that build. Orcs are op and high elves start with the highest skills in diffrent categories of magic. Redguard are the most balanced yet there as weak as everybody else. Argonian's do less unarmed damage then khajit's yet more than human races. If they could spray poison out of there mouth and poison on there claws, they would have an edge. The human races from nords, bretons, imperials and alike have nothing special going on. Nords have battle cry which does nothing but have enemies run away. Battle cry causes fear which there is a perk that increases damage to enemies with fear but have to be on fire to do so as far as I know they do not stack with racial powers. Orcs are strong but the power doesn't last long. Wood elf's should of had a instinct kill ability for animals to make it easier to hunt especially on ledgendary difficulty. I created a Jack Sparrow pirate build. Imagine a pirate that could use magic? What spells would be best suited for them and gear? A scimitar, flesh spells, light armor, using traps and the environment around you. Running away from enemies when it's to risky, setting up traps. Enemies chase you to high ground and you jump to low ground. It actually is quite fun playing a pirate on ledgendary difficulty and is effective. Juts make sure to do all the quest related to boats, seas and such alike.
Like the idea of the pirate playthrough, really interesting build that 😁👍🏻
@@mike-thegamingdad I tested it and you can survive longer on ledgendary difficulty. Having a follower helps distract enemies. I used a redguard because of starting skills and adrenaline rush can be used in combat or to run away.
Did anyone else just choose imperial because it wasn’t ugly 😭. No? Just me?
Cool
Now do it in real life
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For the most part, pretty much the same rankings I've seen among most of the other lists. I'd like to give s bunch of tips as well.
1) you think little of Redguards because you said having high stamina in general makes their power bad. Upping stamina with level ups is a complete waste since you sacrifice survivability with less health, you have vegetable soup and absorb stamina for unlimited power attacks, a cheap house in whiterun to store stuff. And for mobility, whirlwind sprint and become ethereal shouts. Or just pick a taller race since they have a higher movement speed. Their placement is fine. They're just probably worse than you expected. Definitely the worst human race.
2) For Imperials and Nords their power will remain useful as long as you avoid the illusion skilltree like the plague. You'd need a minimum of 5 perk points to copy the Imperial power
•novice illusion
•bottom left one to multiply the level by 2.2
•the one up the middle to increase the level magnitude for calm spells
•the 2 on the right to effect animals and then people at higher levels
5 perk points that could be spent elsewhere. For the nords it's just one more up the middle since you need the calm perk to get to fear. And attacking enemies doesn't break the affect of other calmed enemies as long as you don't fuss with them.
3) As a Nord main, I strongly recommend combining deathbell and salt pile. Salt pile is common everywhere and deathbell is common in the morthal swamplands. This will make a slowdown poison that cripples them by 50% of their movement. You'd be able to keep up with that mage in that clip no problem and hack him down as he can't even defend himself. Battlecry a great power if you want to take down a strong enemy while the others won't bother you.
4) Like the Nords, I strongly recommend a specific potion for Argonians. Garlic and juniper berries. This will make a health regeneration potion that stacks multiply instead of just adding. So for example a 50% health regeneration potion will give you 15 times better regen instead of 10 times. The power is insane and definitely makes argonians top tier I think.
5) clothing pieces with fortify magicka is easily exploitable. Once you're out of magicka, unequip and reequip the magicka piece which will refund the magicka back. Since your magicka will never drop below 0, you'll be taking advantage of what's essentially infinite magicka. Futhermore, another thing you can do on top of this is charge up a spell without casting it, unequip and reequip the magicka piece, then do the same for the charged spell. This will refund the magicka it took to cast the spell on top of the magicka you get from the magicka piece. For example you have a ring with 50 magicka. You charge up a spell for 45 magicka and exploit both the magicka piece and the spell. This will give you 95 magicka almost instantly. Maybe then exploit a spell that costs 90 magicka to add onto the original 95 total to cast the more expensive spells. This can also be used for stamina but not for health. Since it requires you to have low health, you'd be in killmove territory. It sounds complicated but when you understand it like I have, it becomes habit. Leveling up magicka is a waste, and the magicka regeneration the high elves have is useless to me. The only thing they have going for them is their 8% movement speed from their height. Otherwise I think they're a pointless race.
6) Khajiit are just terrible. This isn't even groundbreaking news for most players. Unarmed builds are inferrior to weapon builds in every way other than the very beginning. Unarmed can't compete with their reach, enchantments, smithing and temporary potion upgrades.Even in brawls, it's still just better to abuse the argonians histskin to carry you through the fight. Nighteye is replicated with a simple brightness adjustment and they get a 5% movement speed weakness if they play a female. If you're playing the super unoptimal unarmed build then go ahead, but at that point you clearly aren't playing for a min/maxer so there's no appeal to the Khajiit.
7) I just find it ironic you called out orcs because you thought they were one trick ponies but have bretons ranked number 1.
Thank you for taking the time to comment! To be honest I had my reservations about the Khajiit unarmed build, its one I sat on for ages and then gave it a go and it surprised me how much I enjoyed it. I expected to be left behind as I levelled and eventually it just become impossible to play (as the game got progressively harder as it levelled with me), but as I'd stuck to it I wasn't adding any levels into combat, and I wasn't using any form of magic either. I pretty much was only levelling armour, smithing, enchanting and to a lesser extent speech, alchemy etc. As my overall level stayed low, it was relevant pretty much all the way through my playthrough.
I did ponder whether to rank the high elves lower based on the magicka regen becoming useless if you exploit it, I chose not to do it when I played as a pure mage only as I didn't want to enchant to reduce magicka cost reduction. It felt like it didn't sit with the play style I was going for, but I wasn't aware of the unequip re-equip trick I'll check that out!
I think on both points though this is the beauty of Skyrim, there's so many ways to play it, some more 'optimised' than others yes, but everyone will have their own tier list. It's always interesting to hear other peoples views on them!
On the crafting points, I don't think I've used the Garlic/Juniper Berries and Deathbell/Salt potions so thank you will take a look at those! Crafting is one of the areas I need to delve deeper into, I tend to have my usual 10-15 potions that I stick to. I'm just finishing off a build guide to post probably tomorrow and I was going to put a few recommended potions into it for that build so would be interested to see if I've missed anything
@@mike-thegamingdad If you have any river bettys, you could mix that with deathbell instead of salt pile and it will add a damage health along with the slow. They are pretty inconvenient to come across though.
aw shit new racism just dropped
Dude you talk way to quiet I can barely hear you through my headphones
Sorry buddy, this was my first ever video and it was too low on some of my earlier stuff, I have hopefully improved that now :D
Adrenalin rush is worthless simply because u can make cabbage/vegetable stew and recover stamina for 740 seconds not 60 like red guards do. Power attacks and blocks only needs 1 point of stamina to be used. So despite Adrenalin Rush recovering more stamina, its still worthless, as in the end it comes down to, would you like 12 minutes of infinite stamina or 1 minute of infinite stamina?
The Elder Scrolls 6 Had better fix the worthless racial abilities and not Nerf the good racial abilities as they did in Skyrim. If we can take anything away from STARFAIL is that the next elder scrolls wont even be 1/100ths as good as Skyrim was, so don't even bother and wait for Wayward Realms instead, i definitely wont be paying for TES 6 as i already know its gonna suck given the amount of litteral shit we got from Bethesda in the last decade!
Never did a sneak archer build in my life. Y'all gay.
im deciding between that or a straight warrior sword and shield type build. hard choice
@@raiden3013 you can do both at the same time you know ?
Orcs are extremely underrated. Berserker Rage is the best racial power hands down, Dragon Skin after that. I just wish the Bretons weren’t so damn ugly in Skyrim; it’s the only thing that keeps me from playing as them. No matter how hard i try in the character creation, Bretons always look like absolute dorks.
Haha that is true especially the males 😅
Don't use the "you can just use a potion" argument against the wood Elves if you aren't going to say it about the high Elves magic
nah high elves racial power(and redguards and argonians) is meant to make it so you don’t have to use a potion to begin with. why use a potion when highborn is faster and free? wood elves provide poison resistance while potions remove it entirely and are pretty common loot and are cheap to buy and make yourself.
These types of videos are ridiculous
Do this but for real life Earth