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I just wanted to give some advices on how to make a pure barbarian immune to almost anything but physical damage.My build does not rely on crafting loops tha i consider as 'cheating' or at least absusing the crafting system. I forgot to mention Galdur amulet, to get the quest simply look around in the mage library (the one with the funny old orc) after completing saarthal ruins.I probably completed the quest around 12 or 15, the main problem is the fact that bosse may disarm you. So bring extra weapons or raise conjuration a bit to be able to buy the summon two handed axe spell, a fire atronach that may help too.It seems that you can block the disarm spell but i cannot confirm it.The amulet is very nice at low level since it provide 30 mana/stamina/health. Firstly, love your work.

Barbarians are my favourite build at the moment. I have a level 49 Nord and he's basically a wrecking machine. I've only completed companions main quest and am basically just side questing atm. My barbarian, unlike yours though, is a crafting specialist. I agree with you about the loops and whatnot being cheating and for me that spoils the fun too.

So I have slowly built up my barbarian naturally. The first essential skill is indeed two handed, then block and light armour. Once I had raised these three main skills to a high level I then branched out into crafting. Smithing was important for my weapons and enchanting followed suit but more for defensive purposes than offensive. You see I never got into alteration for magical immunity like your build. I rely instead on enchantments and masks to protect me from spell casters. I'm also kind of role playing in that I've only ever used fur armour.

Once I'd maxed enchanting, alchemy became to tempting to resist so now I'm levelling that in order to become even more powerful. No restoration loop, just natural alchemy. The Black Books of Hermeaus Mora are worth collecting too as their bonuses are helpful to the barbarian character build I've found. I'm constantly seeking to perfect this build and will incorporate what you've done to compliment my character. I can't wait to see how my barbarian stacks up against the ebony warrior!

Note that i don't blame people who optimize with crafting, but for that toon i wanted to really be a barbarian fighter that would be interested mainly in smithing. She tried to play with herbs but decided that it was too complex for her. She ended up making decent enchantement (skill 40-50) only because she would break anything new she found.Since I did some smithing regularly while leveling i ended up with a full set of self made glass armor. Part of it was made with a smith filter effect and a minor smith ring (nothing spectacular indeed). But i was quite close to finish the main quest with scaled tempered armor.I used a tempered skyrforge 2 handed forge till i got wuuthrad. Remember to pick up the sweet skyforge that vulkas (or was it farkas??) drops when he turns into a werewolf.Light armor is really nice to catch up those annoying mages, mobility is also nice if you need to retreat or if you want to charge some archers. Last but no least it is also good for stamina regen (once you get the perk), this allow you to put most of your points in health.

You should probably put still 20 points in magicka just to allow yourself to heal, cast a stoneskin or pop a fire atronach.I should certainly had focused a bit more on blocking, but i usually got out bad situation using unrelenting force and healing me, or simply running away.This build has some weaknesses:- Killing dragons is slow, they never did really anything (with over 70% of magic resist their breath barely move your health). With no perk in archery I must wait them to land. Once i got rich enough i decided to ignore them, unless they landed.- Bandit boss or undead lords are actually the most dangerous encounters.Hevnoraak mask is there only to deal with Chaurus and giant spiders. If you don't feel like doing valthume early in the game (believe me around 16 you will find there undead lord hitting you with ebony weapons. Yes they do hurt a bit), you can decide to kill grelock to obtain the brotherhood armor which provide 50% resistance to poison.

Poison resistance is situationnal but very important, so i only wore Hevnoraak when i heard the sound of nearby chauruses. It's also possible to find poison resist necklace at some shop but it's random and may be you need to be high level to start finding some. Since almost any dwemer ruin had been partially invaded by falmers poison resist is truly important.Ps: Almost the same build can be used with either shield + sword or dual swords.- The dual sword deliver way more damage, but your range is lesser and you cannot block. And well it does not feel so cool;-) even if it is indeed a stronger build especially with dual power attack perk.- Shield + sword is way safer (especially if you take block perks), but again it is not barbaric at all;-). Wuuthrad is awesome, I have that on my Barbarian that I built over the weekend as well.I am doing the smithing, but no alchemy.

Skyrim Crafting Items

There are shops in every city that specialize in that skill, I buy & sell potions there instead.Draugr lords suck. Between the Ebony sword and all that damn shouting, I struggled.

I honestly wish we could shout that often. Then again, the game would be far to easy.I like the Hevnoraak mask. All the local creatures no longer give me rockjoint or other niggling poisons when they bite me. My leather helmet is only for cave diving when I see bandits.I cannot have my barbarian go the DB route, sneaking is not in his nature, so they must be eliminated.I think that with the sword & board that this would be just as good.

Not all barbarians were 2H monsters. Some had the S&B, some were proficient with the bow as well.

Would not be nearly as powerful though.