

Stone: The Atronach - Ranged mages are an annoyance when Become Ethereal is on cooldown, and this takes the edge off.ĭragon Shouts: Become Ethereal (Meditate - +25% health regeneration), Cyclone, Frost Breathe (Dragonborn Frost), Ice Form, Slow Time, Whirlwind Sprint The Forgotten is an explorer of all areas, even the darkest of caves. Race: Khajiit - An early unarmed damage boost is great to have, the aesthetic is great, and Night Eye is often overlooked for builds. The Forgotten is a build built to discover knowledge of all origins, exploring the deep, dark caves of the land and embracing the cold to destroy the guardians that protect this ancient knowledge.

Even the Ebony Warrior! Talk about total domination!! More will be explained in the battle tactics. It works on even the most powerful enemies. The shield effect works on every enemy except dragons. Mammoths, draugr, dwarven centurions (which funny story, they no longer attack you when they come out of the effect). Once this shield is attained, any enemy within melee range is no longer a threat. Enemies that are bashed with this shield become ethereal for 15 seconds, unable to take damage or deal damage. What may not be realized is that the enemy also flees. What does this mean for a character build? A extremely powerful item keeping enemies at bay at all times.

If you have chosen the other two Aetherium Forge choices before, let me tell you: YOU ARE MISSING OUT. Deep Freeze is also extremely powerful in that it paralyzes enemies and makes them drop like broken statues, giving you the chance to continued spell slinging or crossbow bolts while they are down. It also deals stamina damage which can ultimately SHUT DOWN power attacks giving The Forgotten a much higher survivability in that insta-kill power attacks will not be coming his way. Slowing their advance makes for added time to sling spells their way. Frost spells are fantastic for a few reasons: The slow effect is invaluable when fighting multiple melee enemies. Exploding Ice Bolts also provide an added slow effect and damage to stamina. This provides an extreme advantage over fighting enemies 1v1, and even the strongest of enemies will be stopped in their tracks. With the Power Shot perk, each bolt will stagger an enemy with a 75% chance. The Forgotten is able to overcome his foes through the use of Dwemer technology of his Enchanced Dwarven crossbow. The Forgotten is a powerful Ethereal Shield/Crossbow Mage able to take on any opponent. Harnessing specific items, he is able to overcome all enemies by specializing in repelling and preventing by keeping enemies at bay through the ethereal effect, crossbow stagger, as well as frost slow AND paralyze effects provided by the Deep Freeze perk, which in my opinion is the most effective destruction elemental effect. He searches endlessly for ancient relics and mystic knowledge to collect and augment his own powers. The Forgotten is an explorer, a delver, a forager of forgotten lore. I would like to thank Vazgen for the awesome pics I used in the build. As I will explain in the description, the shield offers a very unique ability that does not need recharging and with the right set up, it creates an extremely powerful playstyle. Aetherial Staff? NAY! Every time I see a build (I am guilty of this too) using the crown or staff, I always think "poor shield" and think to make a build based around it.
