The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

THE BUZZ: Over on the official Bethesda forums for The Elder Scrolls, forum member Sammuthegreat posted a huge list running down the racial abilities and perks that will be available in the upcoming The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Here’s what you’ll have to look forward to.

Racial Abilities

• ORCS: Beserker
• REDGUARDS: Adrenaline Rush,
• WOOD ELF: resist poison, resisit disease, command animals
• NORD: Battlecry
• KHAJIIT: night-eye, claw attacks
• IMPERIAL: Voice of the Emperor, find more coins when looting
• HIGH ELF: regenerate Magicka more quickly
• DARK ELF: Ancestor’s Wrath (surround self in fire), resist fire
• BRETON: Dragonskin (absorb spells), resist shock
• ARGONIANS: Histskin (regenerate health quickly), resist disease 50%, breathe underwater

Perks

Speech

• Buying and selling price 10% better (5 ranks)
• 10% price buying from opposite sex
• Invest in shops and increase available gold permanently in invested stores
• Master Trader every merchant in world gains 1000 gold for bartering
• Buy and sell from any merchant regardless of what they normally buy and sell
• Intimidation attempts twice as successful
• Persuasion attempts more likely successful

Alchemy

• Potions 20% stronger (5 ranks)
• Potions for restore health, magicka or stamina are 25% more powerful (maybe ranked)
• Poisons 25% more effective (maybe ranked)
• Poisons last for twice as many hits
• Two ingredients are gathered from plants
• 50% resistance to all poisons
• All negative effects removed from potions and all positive removed from poisons
• 2 effects of an ingredient are revealed when testing it for the first time (instead of just one)

Illusion

• Dual casting overcharges effect for more powerful spell
• Cast Novice spells for 50% less magicka
• Cast Apprentice spells for 50% less magicka
• Cast Adept, Expert, Master etc spells for 50% less magicka (more levels this time around)
• Spells work on higher level animals
• Spells work on higher level people
• All spellcasting (from ANY school) is done silently
• Spells work on undead, daedra and automatons
• Fear spells work on higher level enemies

Conjuration

• Novice for 50% magicka etc (up to Master)
• Dual casting overcharges –> greater spell effect
• Bound weapons do more damage
• Bound weapons cast Soul Trap on target
• Bound weapons banish certain creatures
• Reanimate undead with 100 more health
• Summon 2 Atronachs or reanimated zombies
• Summon Atronachs at twice the distance
• Summoned Atronachs twice as strong

Destruction

• More damage for each school (fire, frost and shock) ranked
• Novice for 50% magicka etc.
• Shock damage chance to disintegrate targets if their health is under 10%
• Frost damage chance to paralyse targets if health low
• Fire damage chance to make low health enemies flee
• Place runes 5x farther away

Restoration

• Healing spells also restore stamina
• Novice for 50% less magicka etc
• Healing spells do 50% more healing
• Recharging healing spells (information was unclear)
• More is recharged with each hit with healing spells
• Spells more effective against undead
• Once a day chance to autocast 250HP restoration when health drops low
• Magicka regenerates 25% faster

Alteration

• Novice for 50% less etc
• Alteration spells have greater duration (probably ranked)
• Absorb 30% magicka that hits you
• Another couple bad recording again

Enchanting

• Enchants are 20% stronger (ranked)
• Enchanted armour 25% stronger
• “Soul gems provide extra magicka for recharging”
• Death blows to creatures but not people trap souls for weapon recharge
• Health, magicka and stamina enchants stronger
• Extra effect on already-enchanted weapon can be applied
• Shock, Frost and Fire enchants 25% stronger (individual perks for each element) (probably ranked)

Heavy Armour

• Increase armour rating 20% (5 ranks)
• Unarmed attacks with heavy armour gauntlets damage increased by gauntlets’ armour rating
• Half fall damage if all in heavy armour
• Heavy armour weighs nothing and doesn’t slow you at all
• Additional 25% armour if in matching set
• 25% armour bonus if all in heavy armour (not necessarily matching)
• 50% less stagger if all in heavy armour
• 10% damage reflected back to enemy if all in heavy armour

2-handed weapons

• 2h weapons do 20% more damage (5 ranks)
• Attacks with warhammers ignore 25% armour (ranked)
• Attacks with battleaxes do extra bleeding damage (ranked)
• Attacks with greatswords do extra critical damage (ranked)
• Power attacks cost 25% less stamina
• Standing power attacks do 25% bonus damage, chance to decapitate
• Sprinting power attacks do double (critical) damage
• Sideways power attacks hit all targets
• Backwards power attacks have 25% chance of paralysis

Archery

• Bows do 25% more damage
• Zoom in
• Zooming slows time
• 10% crit chance
• Move faster with drawn bow
• Recover twice as many arrows from dead bodies
• Chance of paralysing for few seconds
• Draw bow 30% faster
• Another about arrows can’t hear

Sneak

• 20% harder to detect (ranked)
• Sneak attacks do 6x damage with 1h weapons
• Sneak attacks with bows do 3x damage
• Sneak attacks with daggers do 15x damage (end perk on skill tree)
• Noise from armour reduced 50%
• No longer activate pressure plates
• Sprinting while sneaking performs silent forward roll
• Running does not affect detection chance
• Crouching can make hostile enemies lose sight of you and search for a target

Source: Bethesda Forums