Clockwork Apostle

Dark Elf - Mace - Staff - Clothing - Heavy - Conjurer - Spellsword - Warrior

Background

The Clockwork Apostles are devout followers of the Clockwork God, Sotha Sil. They reside in the Clockwork Basilica, located within the Clockwork City's Brass Fortress. Those seeking to become an Apostle must possess great expertise in magic, machinery, or some other skill that they deem worthy

Weapons

Any Mace at the start of the game, upgraded to a Dwarven Mace and then Sunder.

Sunder can be acquired by reading the journal in New Gnisis Cornerclub in Windhelm and the completing the resulting quest. This weapon doesn’t appear to increase in damage with the Augmented Destruction perks or Fortify Destruction potions in the same way as a Chais Damage enchantment does but it does use no charges with Fortify Destruction enchantments of 100% or more. It does have 300 charges so that's a lot of hits per recharge.

The Athereal Staff is also used to summon an Auromaton to help you in combat. This can be acquired by completing the lost to the ages quest, which is the same one you acquire Zephyr in. There's a book called The Aetherium Wars and a copy can be found in Dragonsreach to the left of where the alchemy and enchnting table are near Farengar. The charge cost is not reduced by Fortify Conjuration enchantments and most of the conjures don't get an increased duration of more than the standard 60 seconds with a Fortify Conjuration potion. Therefore expect 18 chargesof usage before you need to recharge it.

Armor

Any heavy armour as you level up. The final gear is a Gold and Ruby Circlet, Extravagant Robes, Dwarven Boots and Wraithguard. You could use Dwarven Plate Boots as they have a slightly hgher armor rating than the standard Dwarven boots but I found that they clip slightly through the robes when standing still so decided not to use them.

Wraithguard is acquired in the same guest as Sunder.

The Extravagent Robes can be bought from Radiant Raiment in Solitude.

Spells

Utility spells from Alteration, Elementals spells from Destruction and Heals from Restoration.

Standing Stones

The Lord Stone for 25% magic resistance and 50 extra armour.

Shrines

Use a Shrine of Azura for 10% magic resistance.

Shouts

Character Creation

Female Dark Elf

Pick a Dunmer as they are the perfect match for the build based on the origin of the build.

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. All Dwemer Automatons count as Male.

Attribute Distribution

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

Perk Point Distribution

The skill boosts for Dark Elves are marked in bold.

Skills and Perks

Mage Skills

Warrior Skills

Rogue Skills

Spells

Alteration

Candlelight was the only spell I needed as all the magical defences come from enchantments other sources than Alteration.

Conjuration

Use Soul Trap to fill soul gems, which can help recharge the Aetherium Staff.

Destruction

Get Elmental Flare as soon as you can from Farengar in Dragonsreach. I was killing wolves in 3 shots on Legendary difficulty at the start of the game and it does some area of effect damage, which is unusual for a spell of such a low level.

With 2 ranks in Augmented Fire, Frost and Shock the damage from Elemental Burst raises from 40 to 125. This can be further boosted with Fortify Destruction potions.

Illusion

Courage can be used to level illusion by casting it at an NPC.

Restoration

Just the healing spells from Restoration.

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.

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

You can get all the Blue Mountain Flowers you need in Whiterun. The two farms to the east of Whiterun also get you all the Wheat you need.

Potion of Fortify Destruction

Get 2 Glowing Mushrooms just inside Shimmermist Cave to the north east of Whiterun and the remaining 7 are in the secret lab at the farm. Go back to Helgen and take the path towards Ivarstead and gather all the Snowberries you need from there. Steel-Blue Entoloma are from Khajiit merchants.

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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