Boarmaster

Nord - Greatsword - Staff - Light - Barbarian - Conjurer

Background

The Boarmaster is a Nord warrior who specialises in the training and use of boars on the battlefield. The boars are used as shock troops to charge ahead of their master before she enters combat with her mighty battleaxe.

Weapons

Any two-handed weapon at the start of the game.

The final weapon is a Nordic Battleaxe enchanted with Fiery Soul Trap and a lowered Absorb Stamina. When enchanting the Nordic Battleaxe add the Fiery Soul Trap first at full power and then add Absorb Stamina and move it down in power 10 steps until the weapon changes from Green to Purple. The reason for this is that it makes Conjuration determine the charge usage of the weapon instead of Destruction and as this build has over 100% Fortify Conjuration you will not need to recharge the weapon from soul gems

The Fiery Soul Trap enchantment can only be found on one item which is a Battleaxe located at Ironbind Barrow. Follow the path on the Eastern side of Whiterun past Tundra Homestead. Keep following it until you reach a junction and then head East. The barrow is located to the north of Nightgale Inn. The battleaxe you want is on the back of the chair in the boss room.

The Staff of the Worms from Gallows Hall, which is at Mara’s Eye Pond to the South West of Windhelm, is used to make Brittleback Boars Thralls. This is a bug with the staff as Dead Thrall are supposed to only be humanoids. This didn’t work for me on the Brittlebacks in the wilderness but it did work on the ones in the pens in Brittleback Cave.

Armor

Craft a set of Leather Scout Armor at the start of the game. Then gather a set of Scaled Armor which can be acquired for free with 3 items from the mudcrab infested area to the south east of Gjukar’s Monument and the helmet from Lost Echo Cave, which is west from Solitide, North past Statue of Meridia and then west along the road.

The final gear is a Nordic Circlet, Studded Armor, Scaled Boots and Scaled Gauntlets. You can keep the Scaled Armor if you want but I went for Studded Armor for a more barbarian look. The damage reduction cap is reached regardless of which armour you have in the body slot.

The Nordic Circlet can be purchased from most vendors.

The Empower Necromancy enchantment can be found on the Ascendent or Elite Necromancer’s Robes and spawns on high level necromancer bosses. I tried Hob’s Fall and Sunderstone Gorge and then I went to Yngvild and did a quick save before entering the Throne Room. On my 11th attempt he was wearing the robes I wanted. If he’s not wearing a hood with a skull mask then it definitely not the right gear so just quick load and try again. I was level 58 when I did this and Yngvildis on a very large island to the east of Dawnstar.

Spells

Illusion for Call to Arms to buff up the boars. Restoration for healing spells.

Standing Stones.

The Lord Stone for 50 armor rating and 25% magic resistance.

Shrines

Use a shrine of Talos for 20% shout cooldown.

Shouts

Character Creation

Female Nord

Bretons and High Elves come out top for starting skill points for this build on 30/35 but I envisioned this build as being a Nord who tames boars on Solstheim so went with that instead. Nords get a 20/35 point skill boost but it’s in all the combat skills used by the build so will make the early game easier where you will play as a light armour, two handed warrior.

Pick female as the sex for your character as there are more male humanoids than females to fight in Skyrim so the 10% damage bonus against the opposite sex from Agent of Dibella gets more use.

Attribute Distribution

Distribute attributes at a ratio of 0 / 2 / 1. At level 59 which is required for all the perks the attributes are:

Perk Point Distribution

The skill boosts for Nords are marked in bold.

Skills and Perks

Mage Skills

Warrior Skills

Rogue Skills

Spells

Alteration

From the Bow of Shadows quest that you get from the steward in Dragonsreach you can get the Detect Life spell book at the stables once you have read the ledger in Acradia's Cauldron. Cast this in the market during the day to level Alteration.

Conjuration

I levelled Conjuration last and with 100% magicka cost reduction from the gear I just spammed Soul Trap on mammoths while on an area they could not reach.

Destruction

Destruction is not used in this build.

Illusion

Courage can be used to initially level Illusion to 25 to get Apprentice Illusion and then go to small tavern and cast it by getting as many people in the area of effect as possible. Once Illusion is at 90 complete the Illusion Ritual at the College of Winterhold to get access to Master level Illusion spells. Then go to a populated market place and cast Call to Arms repeatedly until it is 100.

Restoration

Restoration is used for emergency healing in combat and to replenish Stamina, which should be more common. Heal Undead is used to heal your minions.

Enchantments

The effects listed below are based upon 100 Enchanting skill, all the enchanting perks in the build and with a set of enchanted crafting gear. Read my guide on making crafting gear if you are not familiar with it.

The Absorb Stamina is lowered down 10 notches to make the battleaxe use Conjuration rather than Destruction when determining charge usage and also the alchmey effect that boosts the enchantments. This means that the weapon and the Staff of the Worms will not use any charges.

With the Sallowed Regent Black Book the magnitude of all enchantments can be increased. Please note that Black Books can only be used on Solstheim.

The magnitude of the enchantments can be further increased by equipping 4 pieces of Azhidal's gear.

Alchemy

Potion of Fortify Health

All of the ingredients can be found in or around Whiterun.

Potion of Regenerate Stamina

Fly Amanita and Dragon's Tongue can be found at Kynesgrove, which is just to the south of Windhelm. Fly Amanita are numerous in the mine there as well. There’s a lot of Scaly Pholiota to the south of Ivarstead. There's a path to Ivarstead through the mountains from Helgen.

Potion of Fortify Enchanting

Dreugh Wax and Stoneflower Petals are only available from Khajiit caravans. Some travel between Whiterun and Markarth. Snowberries are abundant near Windhelm.

Potion of Fortify Smithing

Dreugh Wax and Gold Kanet are only available from Khajiit caravans. Some travel between Whiterun and Markarth. Glowing Mushrooms are in Falmer caves.

Farming

For more information on getting to and setting up your farm read my guide.

Main Area (27)

Side Area (11)

Planters (6)

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