Ghost class build, Skyrim

For this character choose Breton or Dunmer, high elf might be best but be ready to die a whole lot in the beginning stages of this build. Begin with leaving Helgen, buy some illusion, conjuration and destruction spells from the Riverwood trader and use light armor, your sword and destruction magic while going through Bleak Falls Barrow. Turn in the Dragonstone and follow the main quest line to get unrelenting force. Okay now stop following the main quest line. Find and raid the following locations, IronBlind Barrow, Ustengrav and Lost Valley Redoubt. You’re looking for the three words for Become Etheral. This is by far the most useful shout in the whole game and that includes the one you get from the main questline in Solstheim. While raiding those three places be sure to use illusion magic as much as you can to calm and possibly enrage opponents and cast conjuration spells in every fight you can. Now you have three words and should have more than 25 illusion. Spend your first couple levels increasing your magicka. With a 3 to 1 ratio of magicka to health while ignoring stamina. Okay, now you have muffle and hopefully some magicka regen gear. Forget the light armor and equip magicka regen. Now this part is gonna be super tedious. Cast muffle, A LOT. You might want to cast it while discovering new locations or while going to and from places while doing your main/side and misc quests. Your objective should be getting to 90 illusion and getting the entire illusion perk tree. Great! Now while you’re doing that join the college of Winterhold. And the dark brotherhood. Get shrouded boots, shrouded gloves and work your sneak up to 50 and get the X15 backstab, with the gloves its X30. And if you leveled your swordsmanship, level your base damage by getting the bladesman perks and leveling blacksmithing would help too, although I never got the perks for blacksmithing. Okay now that you’ve gotten this far you should be able to take advantage of the first main advantage of this character. Effective silent dispatches. With the boots you move quietly, with high magicka and the invisibility spell from Drevis Neloren you are undetectable. With high magicka and regen you can keep casting invisibility while you are invisible and use quiet casting to make sure your spells don’t give away your location. And with a dagger you’re dealing massive damage, sometimes twice or 4 times if you’re dual wielding before the opponent notices you. And if you feel threatened you can just go ghost form using become etheral shout and bounce on a fool, cast invisibility and come back for the kill. Now that you have the basics go to Arkngthamz and begin the “Lost to the ages quest” At the end of the quest choose the Aetherial shield. Now whenever you’re in conflict you can go etheral and become immune to damage and then shield bash your opponent making them immune, making you come out of eherialdom but also making them run away. Which gives you a chance to summon an atronach and go invisible. And finish them off with your dagger. Now finish the mage guild questline and equip the Archmage robes and Morokei (Dragon Priest mask drop) and scour the shopkeeps for whatever highest magicka regen ring you can find. By now you should be level 25+ and your character should be incredibly powerful. Because you can cast calm, sneak behind them in plain sight pratically and dispatch of foes whenever you need to with backstab. But wait theres more! Now that you’ve reached a higher level loot and fetch quests are returning real money. Now you can take advantage of training and aggressive leveling. With high magicka and regen you can level up certain schools of magic relatively quickly in combat. Like alteration and conjuration. Destruction and restoration is always hard, but you don’t need to get them past 50 really. So get Alteration, Destruction, Restoration and Conjuration to 50 using a mixture of training and leveling by casting again and again while standing on land and fighting slaughterfish and then go to Tel Mithryn in Solstheim. Get the ash shell and conjure ash guardian spells. Start the Dawnguard quests and get Serana as a follower. Now you’re so close to being seriously OP. From the dark brotherhood questline you also have “Marked for Death” the second most useful shout in the game. Level your conjuration to 100, which should be easy because it levels fast in combat by repetitively casting you high magicka cost spells. And then get twin souls. Cast dremora lord twice, hit bosses with marked for death repeatedly and go invisible imediately With Serana added, with her Necromancy spells every fight can quickly become 5 of your side against 1 to 4 of their side. Congratulations. Turn the difficulty up to legendary. Your character will still never take damage and destroy everything super quick. The end!