Hunter class?

Avoca · Post by **Avoca** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 6:00 pm

I want to make a class that im gonna call hunter and im gonna use a spear and i wanna get so close as i can to look like Hircine so any suggestions on what race i should be and what skills i should take would be nice.

TheKAEnchanter · Post by **TheKAEnchanter** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 7:48 pm

Stealth Speacilty

Attributes:
Agility
Speed

Major skills:
Light Armor
Marksmanship
Spear
Athletics
Sneak

Minor:
Armorer
Mercantile
Acrobatics
Alchemy
Hth

Race: Kajhit or bosmer
birthsign: serpent or lady

Coot · Post by **Coot** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 3:21 am

I agree with most of KA's suggestions, except for Mercantile. I figure somebody who's in the wilderness most of the time has no use - or talent - for Personality related skills.
Some other skills that IMHO will suit a self-reliant woodsman: Restoration, Illusion (will complement your sneaking very nicely, also: Night-eye, Light, Charm/Frenzy) or Alteration (Water walking and breathing, Levitate, Swift swim, Slowfall, Jump).
Mysticism would probably not be a good choice for a hunter, however, it does have the spell Detect (which is, admittedly, near useless, but it would suit a hunter, roleplaying-wise

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Rookierookie · Post by **Rookierookie** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 3:49 am

Maybe change Mercantile for Short Blades. After all, I've never, ever, heard of anyone go out into the wilderness without a knife.

Avoca · Post by **Avoca** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 7:16 am

what gear is the best for this kind of character?

TheKAEnchanter · Post by **TheKAEnchanter** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 7:50 pm

hunters deal with merchents more then anyone because they're the ones the trade the most raw goods.

ch85us2001 · Post by **ch85us2001** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 7:57 pm

This is a great premise. A crazy person living in the woods and coming into town once a month to rade pelts for gear. Just great. But I would make the race Nord.

GA_Havoc · Post by **GA_Havoc** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 11:42 pm

Or you could go for the Kahjiit, plenty of succesfull feline predator/hunters in the real world, and Hircine is also mostly beast.
Another good race may be Bosmer, their background/skills serve nicely for a hunter.

Avoca · Post by **Avoca** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 7:40 am

Maybe i should use Hircine's mask then i look almost exactly like him (if i use his spear to of course).

GA_Havoc · Post by **GA_Havoc** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 5:30 pm

There's also a transform mod on area summit, but I don't remember if changing to bear/wolf was possible.

PCB-GOTY-ES · Post by **PCB-GOTY-ES** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 2:05 pm

I agree with KA, keep merchantile because most trader or people that you barter with only like you like 41/100. So if you don't have merchantile and say you sell someone raw ebony (worth 200 drakes) and you don't have merchantile as one of your prim. or sec. attributes, the person you barter with will probably only give you around 80 for the raw ebony. So stay with merchantile.

ch85us2001 · Post by **ch85us2001** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 2:50 pm

Yes but making gold isnt one of the goals.

Coot · Post by **Coot** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 2:56 pm

Isn't the Mercantile skill bugged or something.

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 3:27 pm

[QUOTE=Coot]Isn't the Mercantile skill bugged or something.[/QUOTE]

Yes, it has never been fixed either. Apparently, as your ability to get cheaper prices for items increases, merchants will also begin to reduce the amount of money they give you, upon your selling them something

IMO, it is better to have a high Speechcraft and just boost the disposition of merchants up to 100 using "Admire."

I don't know if the results are quite the same, but it is preferable to a bugged "Mercantile" skill.

Or... just don't bother at all... It's not as though obtaining cash is tough in this game.

Avoca · Post by **Avoca** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 7:55 am

thKAenchanter wirtes that i should have Hth, what is that?

Coot · Post by **Coot** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 8:37 am

Hand to hand; fighting with your bare hands. There's advantages and disadvantages. The main problem is you have to stun your opponent first (punching him so hard that he falls down) and only then can you hurt his health. It's not the worst skill in creation but not the best either. If you want to have another combat skill you'll probably have more use for Short blades, which you can use in conjunction with Sneak for critical strikes (sneaking up on your opponent, then stab him, it'll do a lot of damage if successful).
But, I think you'll benefit more from some magic skill.

Genetic · Post by **Genetic** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 12:29 am

Im actually goin with a character like this. To fit the role though, i go with unarmored and wear the gandoleers(sp?) hat. It looks sweet IMO. Although, eventually i might wear the ebomy mail as my only piece.

Eric V · Post by **Eric V** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 5:27 pm

hunters often carry a bow, build ur agility wit that.