CAN YOU BEAT SKYRIM LEVEL 1 ONLY CHALLENGE - Skyrim Is A Perfectly Balanced Game With No Exploits
Skyrim is a classical RPG game which practically everyone has played in there life. This is partly due to the fact that they managed to port it onto PC, Xbox, playstation, switch and Samsung smart fridge. The list goes on. Anyway today we are discovering that skyrim is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits well excluding the wooden sword and reanu keeves. Today however we investigate how effective going into vanilla skyrim anniversary edition and beating the game using only exploits as we intend to beat skyrim at level 1 thats right its a can you beat skyrim level 1 only challenge where I am not allowed to gain a single bit of experience. So today I chose to revisit the game and ask the question. What if you couldnt use any weapons armour or magic and Can you beat skyrim with a unarmed build in one hit because you are wearing 1000 sets of rings? These are the important questions which have gone unanswered for too long! So yes today we are going to break the game without the power of enchanted forks and overpowered armour and instead use our bare hands as we beat skyrim without levelling up!
This Challenge was in large part influenced by the majestic @ymfah and his amazing How To Beat Skyrim Level 1 challenge: • How to Beat Skyrim Lev...
What you have seen here today is part of a fantastic perfectly balanced series on youtube where I go from game to game and break them with wacky exploits to gain things like unlimited gold. If you enjoyed this then be sure to check out more. The style is similar to RT game and callmekevin in parts. A large influence on this series has come from Valefisk and The Killian Experience.
So sit back relax and enjoy this skyrim challenge! And Skyrim anniversary edition gameplay
00:00 - Coming Up
00:13 - The Intro
01:30 - Starting A New Adventure
02:33 - Making A Level 1 Hero
03:52 - Escaping Helgen With Nothing
06:26 - Visiting Dawnstar For Exploits
07:06 - Getting The Lord Stone
08:17 - Doing The Main Quest
09:35 - Getting OP Rings
11:30 - Duplicating Everything
13:00 - Becoming A Cannibal
15:30 - Duplicating Again
15:53 - How To Wear Multiple Rings And Amulets
18:30 - Skyrim Is Broken
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*No Weapons, No Armor, No Magic AND NO PROBLEM!!!! TERRY IS OP!!!!!!!!! Be sure to like the video else Terry is going to be upset and trust me we dont want to see that...* Just realised I bought stuff and it didnt raise speech XP... Terry did you exploit skyrim I guess a workaround is to break out of bounds and rob the merchants chest instead of buying direct! Sorry for not noticing :)
what happened to your mic?
In terry we trust
terrible terry seems to have advanced far
Fwi buying and selling items gives you speech xp lol
You failed the challenge. You traded a few times so you gained barter xp.
In case anyone didn't realize, the rags you start the game wearing don't count as armor. Same with any other basic clothing. Terry is a nudist by choice, and not by requirement.
Terry is a merciful god.
Idk why but I’ve been laughing for 30 minutes over this comment lmao
Terry likes the fresh air
@@amandathedag7434 if you did you need help and if you didn’t why comment
@@jakobwing9660 you’re not very fun at parties are you
Skyrim fun fact: the claws racial ability actually adds 12 points of unarmed damage to your attacks instead of the advertised 15 points of damage. Just another good ol’ Bethesda feature.
So how much is unarmed damage without claws? Because I remember that claws was 15 damage 'instead' of the normal damage.
@@Olav_Hansen 1
@@phantom__1117 wait but that still makes it only 13...
yeah and khajit also have a base unarmed damage of 10 rather than the 4 base damage of other races, meaning they have an extra 18 unarmed damage than other races, I'm also pretty sure the 22 damage combined with the speed of unarmed attacks means you have a higher base dps than any weapon
@@phantom__1117 Unarmed damage for most races = 4 Argonian = 10 Khajit = 10 + 12 (claws) = 22
I always thought it was funny that if Alduin would have been like 10 seconds later, you would have been executed and he would win. Dude waited 1000 years waiting for his time to shine and undershot it by a few seconds
To be fair, Alduin did get Samurai Jacked by a bunch of Nords so he didn't have any control over when he would show up.😆
I saw a video where someone downloaded a bunch of joke mod and one of them was that the execution doesn't get interrupted by Alduin so you just die and restart 😅
Maybe since alduin is trying to revive the dragons, maybe he sensed the soul of one in you and the shout he does at beginning is him, "reviving" the dragon soul in you, creating the very dragonborn that comes to kill him
@@V2guardian Huh... Well that would make him a pretty clumsy villain if all he had to do was keep his trap shut and the Legion would have salved his problem🤪. Do you think a Dragonborn dragon soul feels different to sense than an ordinary one? If not I can understand Alduins indiscretion. If so, (as he seems to make a B-line for the Dovakin) then... Well... Nope no way around it Alduins dumb😆.
Alduin didn’t wait at all , he was pinged into the future with an elder scroll, instantaneous for him but 1000 years calm for the rest of spira.
spiff: "theres going to be no exp" also spiff: buys a ring, gaining speech exp in the process
You beat me to it
If he stole it he would have gained both sneak and pickpocket. If he killed the vendor would the item be available in inventory?
@@Anankin12 nope
@@davideleuterius6465 is the chest buggily accesible?
I guess you can say zero level up xp. his leveling bar is still at 0, because you need a level up in a skill
Spiff: no exploits Also Spiff: now to loot the exploit chest
Wait are you telling me skyrim is not a perfectly balanced game with no exploits
It's in the game and hasn't been removed so it's a feature
What exploit do you have to do to get the chest?
@@bobzombie2710 multidimensional hand to reach through the realm of skyrim exploit. I thought we all knew this
@@bobzombie2710 multidimensional hand aside, it's also the fact that Todd Howard's greatest disciple refers to it as an exploit chest.
Fun fact, the opening scenes physics aren't scripted, its simulated every time you start a new game, which is why sometimes a bee will fly in the way causing the cart to freak out, and other times it goes completely normally
I remember being outside a gamestop in 2011 waiting for the midnight release, they had a projector playing the intro on the store window. And it bugged out like crazy. At least we knew it was gonna be a good bethesda game
It's also why you can mod in dogfighting dragons and the guards and horses will freak out, resulting in getting stuck walking into a wall with NPCs staring at you like they know you're to blame for the eternally stuck ride to nowhere.
The bug that was a bug
I remember something like that happening ruining my game so I had to restart. I then ruined it on my OWN terms by turning the first dragon jnto a skeever. The game didn't like that
it also gets fucked up by mods pretty quick and pretty bad. live another life is an esential mod just to skip this shit. besides it is just soul crushing to go through every time you create a character.
Spiffing: “no levelling or exp” also spiffing: buys stuff and gains exp* Ymfah: “pathetic”
The title says level 1
@@averyhaferman3474 though he maybe level 1, he still levelling stats, that still fails a level 1 run
@@HolyHunterOfGold Spiff also established a rule upfront that he wasn't going to gain *any* skill exp
@@tbotalpha8133 Partial Skill xp can still be removed by going to prison and sleeping it off. Spiff leveling up a skill tree means it's an impure lvl 1 challenge, and he did state, no skill level ups, true level one, which he sadly failed.
I love how spiff always makes a knockoff of a large brand then bestows upon them a detailed backstory
“A cat inside a video game with a god complex.” So, a cat inside a video game, then.
🤓☃️
You win comments today. Cheers. 😆
And at least half the cats IRL?
You try being that size and still have these giant walking gods afraid of you and worshipping you and feeding you. If you were half as entitled to affection as any house cat, you'd have a complex too.
Skyrim and Spiff. A volatile mixture that results in exploits, imperialism and absolute decimation of peasants.
there are not exploits here only smart thinking
OH NOOOOOOOO!!! I have two girlfriends, but very few people on YT are happy for my relationship success. They disl*ke all of the videos I make with my 2 girlfriends. Please be kind, dear dre
Everyone's a peasant to Terry the Tiger so it's the most equality rich content on KZhead.
Absolutely majestic decimation of peasants*
I was wondering how you decimalise a peasant for a sec lol
The ring of the beast(Dawnguard only) would be exceptional for this challenge as it increases your health by 100 and your unarmed damage by 20 and if you copy it even just 5 times now you have 500 extra health and 100 extra unarmed damage
Imagine your friend slowly and aggressively transforms into a horrifying beast with blatantly magic shadows and pure evil surrounding him the entire time. He looks down with a snarl you’ve never heard from any sort of animal before. And his glowing eyes filled with death stare into yours and he says only one thing….. “hey bro I wanna trade sum stuff.”
Spiff gained xp at 11:22 and 20:00 by buying rings and gaining Speech experience. How could you betray us like this?!
Glad someone else noticed that besides myself
Was about to comment that haha, but at least he didn't level up from it
Well it is called the "LVL1 Character"challenge not the "No XP " challenge
I just realised this and came to the comments to see if anyone else noticed
And i dont think you can find the unarmed enchantment anywhere except that gloves and vampire ring
You know, I'm starting to think Skyrim might NOT be all that balanced. It clearly has NO exploits however, these are traditional game features for the savvy minded.
Blasphemy this is a perfectly balanced game
It just works
After 10 years and like 7 different releases they still aren't fixed. I think that qualifies as a feature.
@@jordonkautz1470 A "fixed" Skyrim is a bland one-off like nearly every other game out there. Keep my Skyrim open source and inexplicably moddable Todd, thanks.
I love Terry. He is misunderstood, and is totally not holding us hostage.
No teleporting needed for duplication btw. You can just step outside then step back in immediately done. Also once you get to dropping larger amounts on the floor just get your follower to pick them up and leave and reenter, get follower to pick them back up again. Rise and repeat. This will save a bit of time for your future videos.
I apologize since it’s been a few months but does this method also work on dropped currency or Ores? If it does I might try it..
I'm late but I thought there was a way easier way.
@@Level13Gaming What's your easier way? I'm curious.
I absolutely love Terry! He’s not just a furry because he is Khajit, but he’s also a werewolf. He’s a double-furry!
Furry2
A ffuurrrryy
Guard: Is that fur? Coming out of your ears? Terry: Of course there's fur in my ears, I'm a cat.
He is also catdog
One step closer to the furry singularity.
You make duplicating an item way harder than it needs to be. - Lydia picks up the item - you walk out the gate - turn around and walk back in You don't need to muck around with any of that fast travel bologna
That indeed works. Only issue I've come across is sometimes items randomly disappear, or an old lady that walks by and gives it back to you. Hiding in the little cubby to the right of the gate solves the latter issue.
I tried a run of never leveling just to see how far I could get until the quests force me to level up, and honestly you can basically play the entire game and it's DLC's without ever leveling up! What helps is the fact that all the skills passively get stronger the higher they get, so for example while you would never be able to make any good armor or weapons, with the help of a high enough Blacksmithing level, enchanted items and alchemy potions you can upgrade your gear to really high end qualities,.. same goes with making potions and enchanting. I even managed to kill Karstaag at level 1,.. and yes it was HARD and took plenty of attempts. What made me want to do this challenge was the simple fact that enemies scale to your level regardless if your main combat skills are low but your other skills keep giving you levels before you are able to get to the next milestone in a combat skill.
4 months late but I do say it's impressive that you killed Karstaag at lv 1. I would've given up once I found out his base level was 90. (I think. Some enemies scale with the player and other enemies have a base level that scale with you after the fact and even some like Miraak have a levelling cap)
I remember when oblivion came out, and as an impatient teen I had no idea sleeping = the level up system, so I'd spent hours playing (struggling as a level 1) when I'd finally realised I must of got 20+ levels in one go
*i must have got "Must of got" infuriates me
@@bastienpabiot3678 understandable, only took 4 months, I'm impressed someone did it 😂
@@DaeXbx 😂
@@bastienpabiot3678 Like when someone says "I could care less" instead of couldn't.
I want to see him actually beat the final quest with Terry.
Yeah, I thought he would actually beat the game, not just get OP and then mess around. Might be that at some point in the main quest line you can’t proceed without gaining experience in a skill somehow.
Sorry to potentially ruin such a marvellous challenge from the amazing Brit, but buying the ring of minor health did increase Terry's Speech Skill ...
Wau wau wu wau
Was about to say the same but you beat me to it
Beat me to it
13:48
Went down to the comments just to see if someone caught that too.
Terry is a pretty cool guy. He conquers planets and doesn’t afraid of anything.
eh*
Doesn't afraid of anything, indeed... _Prepares to contact Reanu Keeves_
Lol, I love the "doesn't afraid of anything" meme. Glad to see it again in the wild amongst the other KZhead comments!!
I love Terry. He is a sweet, innocent destroyer of universe and is simply misunderstood. Praise Terry. Praise Yorkshire Tea.
I love Terry, he's a sweet, innocent, destroyer of universes, who is simply misunderstood.
NOOOOOOOOO it should've been Tigger he's public domain now! I'm putting Tigger in everything!
yeah
@@darkskyinwinter what
"You're ruining my immersiveness Dragon" Sums up Skyrim Dragon attacks pretty well.
The fire and frost breath shouts actually hit quite hard and are capable of one shotting enemies like draugr. Being level 1, spamming these would be really powerful
Good times... though I feel like the sound and the video were a little out of sync as of around 18:30 or so. Minor issue and this was still a great watch. Upvoted and my love to Terry... may he only punch those that deserve it.
When i first played skyrim i didnt understand the leveling system, and must have played 20 hours before finally seeing "level up" in the menu, i had met the grey beards, became a werewolf, joined a civil war, and burned some guys beehives while being basically an NPC irl
Thats the funniest shit ive seen all week, thanks dude 🙌
Oh thank God I'm not the only one that did this
I did the same thing, but in my case I just discovered the level up mechanic when I was in skuldafn. English is not my first language and I didn't know English at that time.
I'm the exact opposite lol, I did pretty much every side quest and got to lvl 20 with all the deadric artifacts all without doing the whiterun quest, I was wondering so badly how to get shouts 😅
Same but not that far in lol
I could have sworn any buying and selling gave you speech XP.
Even the wiki says so
It does, so saying at the start "0 experience" was wrong but he'd still be at level 1 as it takes a whole lot more than that to level up. Still an entertaining video
There's a couple times in the video that you can see he has indeed gained xp. But he didn't level anything up so I don't think it really matters.
This was.. hilarious. You have earned a subscribe and a like. Terry should be well compensated for his good deed, lol.
"You're going to taste his fists of fury!" "Wait, because he's a cat I guess its fists of *FURRY* " Me: "But Terry has claws!"
Everytime i see skyrim x spriffing brit, i know its gonna be a blast! Lemme grab my tea one sec to relax to good content.
A very poor choice of word
Take that tea and just flush it down the toilet. Grab an espresso instead. It actually has a nice taste instead of just putting random leaf's into some water.
@@CharlieKellyEsq i see you are not a man of culture
@spiffingbrit wouldn't be very happy with you. And definitely not Terry the tyrant.
@@greysonellsworth5124 well Terry is just a cat, and spiffing brit is just a brit
11:19 - Probably I'm not the only one but trading also gives you xp.
No doubt that's why he made sure to only buy two things to avoid speech levels ^~^
Does buying increase speech or is it buying and selling?
@@davidnotonstinnett both
As long as you don't actually get the sill increase, you can go to jail to rest your skill progression. Like make a couple iron daggers then go to jail. Your blacksmith skill should go back down as long as you don't get the pop-up for the skill increase
@@AmataTai He said no xp at all, I'm certain he just completely forgot that you get speech levels from buying things. Oh i just saw his edited top comment he absolutely forgot.
Terry is a terrifying god of destruction and degradation. Don't be fooled by the smooth description and demonstration of this monstrosity! Damning this beast is not even a problem, it's barley a inconvenience
Just subbed never wanna miss this fun honestly :D Changed everything
11:22 - And 19:40 - And there you failed the no experience run. You gain experience for every barter transaction, buying or selling.
And 13:78 he has roughly 20% of his XP bar filled
After I realized he's gonna buy stuff, I was secretly just waiting for the point in the video where he gains a point in Speech and has to start all over. :D In the end he didn't trade that much, oh well.
The great thing is that the enemies won't scale to higher levels since he's level one so he has the damage of a endgame player while fighting level one enemies
The enemies only scale within a preset range of levels depending on the enemy, so while some may be level 1 most are higher as their minimum level is higher.
I believe giants have a fixed lvl? But that's the only mob I think
Yes! I did this on stream a few years ago! It was such a great challenge! In my run, I relied on followers, shouts, staves, and scrolls to get through. No armor, no magic, no weapons, nothing!! Got Stenvar as a follower and found the Giant Club and we went to town. At one point we also had Vigilance the war dog running with us as well. It’s actually a fairly simple (not easy) challenge! Great work!!
Also, the Thalmor Embassy worried me the most, but got it done!
I love the energy you put into the intro!
All the memes and exploits aside, Skyrim is one of my favourite games ever. Especially when shuffling around mods with different playthroughs.
I feel like, whenever the question starts with “can you beat” and ends in “Skyrim”, the answer is always Yes!
Can you beat skyrim without killing anything?
@@devinhull5758 That answer is actually a no. To beat Skyrim, you have to deal the final blow to Alduin, so you can beat the story dealing only one point of damage at the minimum
@@phoenixsoren Lol thanks, I did know this but that is probably the only challenge you can't beat Skyrim doing
Yea, Skyrim is, as others have said, wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle
You can beat skyrim without walking, so yeah
I love the weird backstories he gives his characters
12:23 Spiff there is a faster way...... drop items near the wall by Belethor's shop, Have Lydia pick them up then visit him, reset his inventory (also you can sell your unwanted items before the reset if you want), head back outside and the items will be duplicated as well as you making infinite money
Nah, purchasing anything gives speech XP. While it virtually gives no good bonuses for the video stuff, it also technically counts
@@KolincaResNovae it was selling and I understand but regardless you don’t have to buy anything you can just reset his inventory and it will respawn the items near the wall
@@DSteele117 oh, my bad I misunderstood you. Yup, that would work.
Someone really said "I wish I could shout peoples souls outa there body" then proceeded to make a whole game based of that one dream
Dr. Strange: ¬_¬
Spiff: Actually, I want to free you in the truest way posible Thalmor prisoner *backs away in sudden realization*: oh
i have not watched many of your skyrim videos so far, but your obssession with todd howard is hilarious. i ship it.
I love Terry. (Please don't hurt me, Terry.)
Sure Terry's plan might be to take over Skyrim, but next thing you'll know he'll challenge his brother and take over Kellogg to make his own brand of cereal called Mini Long Pork Crunch.
That sounds disgusting enough to be worth trying, count me in. 👍
I remember when grandma was sick and we were poor. Terry came by and donated some suspiciously bloody loot to pay for her potion. Good dude.
God I love skyrim vids. Brings out the best in spiff
“It’s not Terry’s fault that everyone chooses violence first” Terry Wogan’s last words
Now I want to watch ymfah's level 1 Skyrim playthrough again.
Actually loved this episode!
I’ve actually done this XD you can get the sigil stone from a chest under the floor at the college and use the underforge to make some pretty OP stuff. That Paralyzing staff really helped
Always glad when watching spiff, being reminded that the community actually made him create his own watermark for the stock pictures after he bought them. And keep it up with the skyrim videos, our never ending source of joy.
Haha didn't he have to after being threatened with court for unlawful use of images, so he had to buy them?
@@katieheys8564 yeah but I mean that after he bought them, and started using the bought ones, people missed the watermarks and that's when we got the current ones with SPIFFCO lol
@@mohr0023 haha I remember. Those were wacky times. His channel has absolutely exploded since then!
I just love the fact that he was essentially exploiting the system by using the images with their watermarks. It was so annoying the first time I saw one of his videos until I realized he was doing it on purpose. Even though he's using the spiffco watermark now, I still wanna giggle when my brain notices the watermarks.
the amount of times i’ve seen the game intro solely because of spiff is truly incredible, considering i’ve only played it once
"We need to talk and transform to Lydia at the same time." Given Spiff's track record, I immediately accepted without question that he would be able to transform Terry into Lydia.
I just realized you made a 'pitch meeting' reference... I appreciate that lol
Having many rings increases unarmed damage IRL too I think having dark brotherhood robes can help, without increasing exp
Funny thing is it's more likely to break your own hand by punching with rings in your fingers
@@specialperson170 How else are you supposed to level up bone strength?
@@huntermcintosh8173 milk
@@huntermcintosh8173 drink milk then smash own hand
I'm surprised you didn't go and grab the rings of blood magic, specifically the ring of the beast; 100 health and 20 unarmed damage. Plus vampire lord at level 1 is op
Depends on the difficulty, on Legendary you get oneshot by some enemies, without proper healing it's really not worth it.
@@Patrick_The_Pure yeah, but he definitely wasn't playing on legendary. Guards in Helgen would've done way more damage, given he was nekkid with no lord stone buff.
And since those rings are quest rewards you don't gain speech experience
can you get level 1 vamp lord, though? thought it was only available doing dawnguard content, which starts at like 14.
@@leeman27534 yes, you can. The quest automatically unlocks at lv10, but you can still reach Dayspring Canyon without any prompts and start the DLC "early"
He could’ve used staffs, while they have destruction magic effects they don’t actually increase the skill. Some do 50 points of damage which is super op at level 1
Without magic skills tho their charges would be doodoo. Plus I'm pretty sure recharging gives enchanting exp so they are very one-and-done
Though charging the staffs would level up enchanting, so he'd have to keep collecting large amounts of those thing for it to be practical, but apart from that it was a clever idea of yours, that didn't even cross my mind.
Because of you, I re-installed Skyrim without any mods but with all the 3 DLCs.. So here goes my time again.
Is there tea in Skyrim, or would that give you and Reanu Keeves too much power over it?
as a mod? yes. vanilla? no
Theres a rule that if something doesnt exist in skyrim, its probably a mod.
@@mrhawkyy1: And just like the hallowed Rules of the Internet, there's a followup/corollary rule that if it doesn't exist yet, you must make it. NO EXCEPTIONS!
13:48 you can see you've gained a small amount of xp, probably from speech when you bought the ring of stamina. Still a great run!
I was going to say he can't buy or sell anything to make 0 xp
Thought it was just me who noticed it haha
I knew he was going to fail as soon as he started collecting gold and didn't unassign his sneak key. ( I guess you could spend the gold on on a carriage ride but still. ) I did this exact same run a couple years ago with no exploits , wasn't easy , lots of resetting because I accidentally gained xp. But it is possible without glitches or exploits.
@@FreekoTravis But it is an level 1 run and not 0 exp
@@VladtheSlv7 Literally wrong but ok lol
I’m glad to see this channel is still here in 2022
Good to have you back Mr. Brit
Could’ve gone for the ring of the beast from the vampire quest line. It makes claws do 20 additional damage, which works with khajit racial. Doesn’t really matter considering the glitch with many equipped rings tho
can you obtain it without leveling up? I thought the dawnguard quest line would require level 5!?
@@Soraphis91 it sort of "activates" at that level, but you can always go to fort dawnguard to start it
Wait where do you find that?! I've been playing an unarmed Khajit Ninja and had no idea about that ring
@@lucasparadox6823 You have to become a vampire and do vampire quests.
@@lucasparadox6823 You need to join the Volkihar and do the "Rings of Blood Magic" side quest from Feran Sadri. The ring in question is the "Ring of the Beast" which gives 100 Health and 20 Unarmed Damage.
Take a sip of tea for every time Spiff says “quite frankly”
Careful even the most British of Britt's can only handle so much power
I ran out of my third carton help
God, you want me to overdose!?
Quite
frankly
Freaking awesome 👏 I was thinking of making a video like this too I have so much time on my hands right now lol 😂
I’m 5 mins in this video and I’m thoroughly enjoying it 😂
As others have pointed out, he failed the no xp challenge by bartering, but he could have become a vampire (stage four vampirism gives +20 unarmed damage) and completed the Dawnguard DLC to get the Ring of the Beast (+100 hp and +20 unarmed) and gotten similar results.
He also said you could just break out of bounds and steal from the chests because with skyrim, broken workarounds are the norm
Go to prison, reset partial xp and you're set. Really not that big a deal, as long as you don't actually level up a skill you won't get xp.
The challenge was zero XP and he had XP. Failed is failed. No excuses.
Do you get that ring by siding with Harcon? Does it actually say that you get more unarmed damage at vampire stage 4?
@@ecargfosreya No, doesn't give you extra unarmed damage, only resistances, stat debuffs in sunlight and some abilities, but no unarmed. The ring itself can be obtained from joining Harkon. As soon as you have to deliver back the blood chalice, make a save before you do it. Turn it in and hope Faran Sadri gives you a quest, and then hope it's the blood magic ring quest. If not, reload and try again.
how can you deceive us on this perfectly balanced playthrough with no xp when you clearly have xp at 13:48
Also, buying and selling items definitely gives him xp
Yeaa some of this seems iffy. Definitely entertaining, but theres no such thing as a vendor selling a "Ring of fortify unarmed". Only comes on gloves of the pugilist and ring of the beast
@@thegkey1795 At 20:12 you can see him wearing a backpack, which means he's playing the newest version which includes "mods" as part of the base game.
@@thegkey1795 it's the new Creation club thing, I'm pretty sure the one that adds the new Brawler Gloves adds the enchantment to the loot pool, It be wrong though
@@TaikaJamppa Anniversary Edition comes with Creation Club mods, and one of them apparently adds some under-used vanilla enchantments to generic loot/merchant leveled lists. I can't confirm as I don't have AE and as soon as I realized the updates for SE add CC content I figured out how to downgrade.
Terry isn't just destroying universes... he's changing lives.
I've done this myself, the leveling isn't forced, so you overpower your enemies after a few hours because you take and do far less and more damage than anything around you without really even trying.
LVL 0 Skyrim Run?! You are Crazy!
Yes... Yes I am
My friend and I have been theory-crafting for this concept for years, probably since 2016 about whether this is possible. We managed to do it at level 1 as a Kajiit who joined the Companions (werewolves).
i've actually (Well, kinda, didn't really think about 0 exp, just largely didn't use skills) done it a few times, i call it the monk run. unarmed, unarmored, no buying/selling, etc. i do usually make some vegi soup, though, which gives exp, and usually abuse the hell out of werewolves getting extra hp, armor, healing options that don't involve restoration or chugging potions, etc.
Spiff, there's a Todd Howard song which you would love, it's called 'It just works - Chalkeaters'. I think it's a beautiful representation of how our beloved Todd views Skyrim and his other perfectly balanced games.
oh, when you said "most powerful level 1 character" that reminded me of the infamous "Pun-pun" D&D character. a Kobold PC with the appropriate skills and the right kind of Familiar can pull off something similar to the "enchant-potion-loop" in Skyrim, repeatedly boosting his stats to absurdly high levels. one of those skills is "wild shape", BTW.
I love that the random dungeon you went into after the Lord Stone was the Dawnguard dungeon with Serana. Come to think of it, werewolf and vampire could be a solid way to win at level 1.
Also there is a fun feature of the game how you can be a Werewolf and Vampire together. Join the Companions becoming a Werewolf and during the Dawnguard DLC take the Potions of Blood from Harkon's Castle and with Serana as follower, give her the Potions of Blood. She uses one in the middle of combat and you will have become a Werewolf Vampire.
Most vampire skills are tied to a school of magic and would give experience. And while transformed into a werewolf, your equipped gear doesn't work.
@@JohnA.Zoidberg not vampire, because you can't normally get vampire till you're able to do some dawnguard stuff and that starts at what, level 14? you can also still do melee vamp stuff, though the sunlight penalties kinda suck. as for werewolves not being able to equip gear, that's kinda the point for a run like this - they've got natural armor and healing built in with opening up bandits like a lunchable. werewolves are more sturdy than leather armor or other similar low level gear anyway. and you can't get hit in light/heavy armor without gaining light/heavy armor exp, so if you're going for a no exp route AS WELL, werewolf's better than nekkid. literally the only thing you're missing out on is a ring and amulet that you can't buy, or whatever enchanted robes you can find which are mostly using magic based so don't actually matter. it's basically a unarmed, naked, no magic, no making potions, no buying anything, no making food, etc run. werewolf's not exactly slowing your roll in any way... in fact, it's basically doubling/tripling your health/stamina, doubling your damage, providing far more damage and armor probably possible in this run, giving you a bit of an attack speed bonus, AND healing which otherwise would be a PITA as you're limited to basically picking vegis, eating raw meat, or found potions.
@@leeman27534 I actually finished a run like this, but glitchless. Inspired by this video. I was wrong about the vampire lord stuff. You can start Dawnguard manually at any level by talking to Agmaer in Dayspring Canyon. It's pretty much the first thing I tested. Base werewolf form is less damage than khajiit unarmed damage, even without gear. The extra resistance helps a bit though so you could go that route if you really want to, or if yiu don't have Dawnguard. But you can only transform once a day, which is a big drawback. Alternatively you can unlock vampire lord right at the start of the game, then do a few sidequests until you get the ring of the beast and later on, the amulet of bats. You can level up the vampire lord perk tree because it works off kills, not experience. And vampire lord transformation does not have a cooldown. You can pop in and out whenever you want. A max rank vampire lord has decent self healing, a caster form that amps up that self healing and lets you kite hostiles around (you will need it) and a melee form that lets you wreck enemies. So I'd say vampire lord is definitely the best option. Most, but not all enemies scale down. You'll know when you fight them. Having Serana as a follower helps a lot. She's fine with your transformations, unlike most followers, she's surprisingly potent in combat and you can let her engage first as she's essential. I finished Dawnguard, Dragonborn and the base main story quests at level 1. If you go all the way, Miraak's robe is very nice for when you're not transformed. Not to mention several black book perks.
Thank you Spiff for always advertising Yorkshire Tea... after purchasing about 540 units of it, I may be as addictet to it as a Khajit to Skooma... so thank you very much.
Spiff: Not going to use any exploits. Spiff: Now let's use the exploit chest, duplicate jewelry exploit, and wear multiple amulets and rings exploit...
Those aren't exploits. Those are intended features by the best developer, our lord and savior Todd Howard.
I live for these videos.
I'd love to see Pt.2 taken to the logical conclusion of 50+ Fortify Unarmed and Fortify Health so Terry is walking around one banging everything and walking through any damage like He Man
Spiff: "I took an arrow to the knee." Herbalist: Symptoms of level 1: fusfusfusfusfusfusfusfusfusfusfusfusfus
Intro 10/10 love them every time
What a lovely video to watch while drinking Tea from my Skyrim Cup
fortify unarmed rings? wait, that gains you enchanting experience. Shouts, I suppose, plus talos amulets and jail item stack glitch. That alone could probably get you by. Rings of health, backpacks, amulets of talos, seems like it would all do just fine.
He failed by buying rings
@@sandornagy3484 He failed by leveling up his speech, and also installing mods for rings of fortify unarmed damage.
@@Patrick_The_Pure i know you could find the unarmed gloves when doing a thieves guild mission didn't realize that there was no rings for it
@@Patrick_The_Pure eh, i don't think having mods fails the challenge, really. i mean, if they were ridiculous, maybe. also, the anniversary edition apparently does add things like fortify unarmed rings and backpacks to the game. he also still did it at level 1, even if he intended to get no exp. also, if you were thinking this was actually meant to be a 'challenge', you're on the wrong channel, man. this was 'how badly can i break the game, following these rules'
I could watch you break Skyrim every time it releases.
The subtle nod to Pitch meeting was great 😂
5:45 for some reason my ears picked up on a "quite simply", another "quite simply", a "quite _frankly",_ and one more "simply" (and all in under 10 seconds!) how simply quite remarkably frank of you, spiff.
Alternatively, Argonians also have increase unarmed damage, as well as other useful traits, like water breathing and resistance.
On the other hand, they do have a reputation for being lusty.
@@Coid nothing wrong with that:)
Yes and Argonions are my favorite race. But for this type of thing Khajit unarmed combat is stronger then Argonion.
@@morrigankasa570 Marginally- Argonians abilities to self heal without leveling up- not to mention disease immunity and water breathing would make this type of play through much easier. I mean the other khajit passive is better stealth, which cant be used. Soo.
@@TheBlackDeck true the Self-healing and Disease Immunity. Like I said my favorite Race is Argonion and I use those things and the Waterbreathing to great effect. But in all the Skyrim videos of this guy I have never seen him actually do anything with Waterbreathing.
Fantastic content. Truly what the world needs and has made me laugh much more than it should. All of your Bethesda content is A+ work.
So fun fact, you didnt need to be naked. Things like robes/clothes, shoes, gloves, and hats, all are classified as “clothing” not “armor” and will not increase any skills when worn, and will mot benefit from any perks except for a few in the magic skill trees, but none from the armor trees. Its not super useful without enchanting, but is possible. And there are a few pieces of enchanted clothing, mostly robes, which dont exactly help, since you cant use magic, but they are technically an option. Also, if i remember right, using staves dont actually increase your magic skills at all, so you can use those. Like a grand staff of mending to heal yourself, for example, would be very useful here.
Spiff: Absolutely ZERO xp Me: what about the time you bought that ring which upgrades your speech xp levels? Spiff: Shhh keep your voice down, you want everyone to hear you?
Fun fact: You can't actually get the ring he got for unarmed damage. You need to disenchant The Gloves of the Pugilist (which will level your skills sadly) and then enchant a ring with it (which will also increase your skill points).
Technically even buying the health ring breaks the "gain not a single point of experience" since buying and selling items gives exp for speech as far as i know. but it takes a lot to gain an actual level in speech
@@torbeni.7731 Actually, you're incredibly right! And to be honest it probably didn't take long as the exp is proportional to the price and he bought a fairly expansive ring for base level speech!
Note: On 28th June 2019 Spiff was at 559,409 subs, that's an increase of over 2.1 million subs in less than 3 years a massive number so very well done @The Spiffing Brit well done indeed you have blown all our expectations out of the the water. :)
20:31 those were certainly all words lmao
Terry the tiger is lovely. 🤣