If a game allows me to (ab)use stealth mechanics and fight unnoticed at range, I'm absolutely going to do it.

Why would I want to fight you up close? I might get blood on me, positively ghastly. No thanks, I'll do it from over here.

Honestly, with >400hrs in Skyrim (VR+pancake), I can't deny that falling back on sneaky WMDs is a fully viable solution to many hurdles along other builds' leveling paths. Unless you're holding yourself to a "no ranged, no sneak" run, it's simply irrational to avoid it at multiple points throughout the game. 🙂‍↕️

Personally, I don't see why the gripe is still active. No one has any room to judge how anyone else enjoys their fully offline, single-player games. 🤘🏼 Especially in this era.

Find your happy places wherever you can. Shit everywhere is pretty fucked. Let others be happy, and you'll get there, fellow lemmings —and more easily. 💚

Skyrim fight system are shit and magic lacks variety and punch that's why the way of least resistance is a one hit kill without being noticed.

That's how I was with paladins in diablo 2 LoD. I would try making a zealer or some other different build but always come back to the hammerdin cause its so cheesy lol.

It's been eons since I touched Skyrim.

But I did do some enchanted two axe berserker build that plowed through everything like butter. Honestly got boring just mulching through every encounter without any strategy. Probably why I quit.

I once played through like that by prohibiting all bow use for myself, just have to be consistent at first and then you get used to selling all arrows because you finally don't need to hoard them anymore.