Skyrim Perks List Revealed

With only 10 days until Skyrim, many are becoming anxious and new bits and details are coming out. There’s even a leak of Skyrim itself. However, I have something more legit than a leak: The Perks List. Less appetizing than the full game I know but you shouldn’t be downloading pirated copies anyways readers! Check out some of the perks in this perks list below:

Warrior:

The Warrior – Archery

• Bows do 25% more damage
• Zoom in
• Zoom in slows time
• 10% Crit Chance
• Move faster with drawn bow
• Recover twice as many arrows from dead bodies
• Chance for paralyze
• Draw bow 30% faster

The Warrior – Block:

• Quick Reflexes
• Elemental Protection
• Deflect Arrows
• Shield Charge
• Deadly Bash
• Shield Wall
• Power Bash
• Bash Disarm

The Warrior – Heavy Armor:

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

The Warrior – One Handed:

• Hack and Slash
• One Handed Prowess
• One-Handed Tactics
• Bone Breaker

The Warrior – Two Handed:

• 2H weapons do 20% more damage (5 ranks)
• Attacks with warhammers ignore 25% armor
• Attacks with battleaxes do extra bleeding damage
• Attacks with greatswords do extra critical damage
• 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
• Backward power attacks have 25% chance of paralysis

The Warrior – Smithing:

• Steel Smithing
• Arcane Blacksmith
• Dwarven Smithing
• Elven Smithing
• Orcish Smithing
• Advanced Armors
• Glass Smithing
• Daedric Smithing
• Ebony Smithing
• Dragon Smithing

Mage:

The Mage – Alteration

• 50% Magicka Cost (5 Ranks)
• Dual casting overcharges for more powerful spell
• Absorb 30% Magicka that hits you
• Alteration spells have greater duration (Ranked)

The Mage – Conjuration

• 50% Magicka Cost (5 Ranks)
• Dual casting overcharges for more powerful spell
• Bound weapons do more damage
• Bound weapons cast Soul Trap on target
• Bound weapons banish certain creatures
• Reanimate dead with 100 more HP
• Summon 2 Atronachs or reanimated zombies
• Summon Atronachs at twice the distance
• Summoned Atronachs are twice as strong

The Mage – Destruction

• 50% Magicka Cost (5 Ranks)
• Dual casting overcharges for more powerful spell
• Shock damage has chance to disintegrate targets if health is low
• Frost damage has chance to paralyze targets if health is low
• Fire damage has chance to make targets flee if health is low
• Place runs 5x further away
• Fire spells cause more damage (Ranked)
• Shock Spells cause more damage (Ranked)
• Frost spells cause more damage (Ranked)

The Mage – Illusion

• 50% Magicka Cost (5 Ranks)
• Dual casting overcharges for more powerful spell
• 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
• Kindred Mage

The Mage – Restoration

• 50% Magicka Cost (5 Ranks)
• Dual casting overcharges for more powerful spell
• Healing spells 50% more effective
• Spells more effective against undead
• Magicka regenerates 25% faster
• Once per day autocast 250PH restoration when health drops low
• Healing spells also restore stamina

The Mage – Enchanting

• Enchantments 20% stronger (Ranked)
• Enchanted armor 25% stronger
• Soul gems provide extra magicka for recharging
• Death blows to creatures but not people trap souls
• Health, Magicka and Stamina Enchants are stronger
• Extra effect on already enchanted weapon can be applied
• Shock enchants 25% stronger
• Fire enchants 25% stronger
• Frost enchants 25% stronger

Thief:

The Thief – Alchemy

• Potions 20% stronger (5 ranks)
• Potions for restoring Health, Magicka or Stamina are 25% more powerful
• Poisons are 25% more effective
• 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 positive effects removed from poisons
• 2 effects of an ingredient are revealed when testing it for the first time instead of 1

The Thief – Light Armor

• (Detail pending)

The Thief – Lockpicking

• Wax Key – Enables you to make a copy of a key for a lock you just picked
• Further details pending

The Thief – Pickpocket

• Light Fingers – Reduces the influence weight and value of items on your chance of successfully pickpocketing an item (5 ranks)
• Night Thief – Pickpocketing unconscious/sleeping NPC works almost every time
• Poisoned – Silently place poison in other peoples’ pockets to harm or kill
• Cutpurse – Pickpocketing gold is 50% easier
• Extra pockets – Carrying capacity is increased by 100
• Keymaster – Pickpocketing keys almost always works
• Misdirections – You can pickpocket equipped weapons
• Perfect Touch – you can pickpocket equipped items

The Thief – Sneak

• 20% harder to detect (5 ranks)
• Sneak attacks do 6x damage with 1H weapons
• Sneak attacks do 3x damage with bows
• Sneak attacks do 15x damage with daggers
• Noise from armor reduced by 50%
• No longer activate pressure plates
• Sprinting while sneaking performs silent forward roll
• Running does not affect detection stance
• Crouching can make hostile enemies lose sight of you and search for new target
• Vanish – Forces your attacker to focus their attacks on another while entering combat in sneak mode

The Thief – Speech

• Buying and selling price 10% better (5 ranks)
• 10% price from the opposite sex
• Invest in shops and increase available gold permanently
• Master Trader – all shops have 1000 more gold to spend
• Buy and sell from any merchant regardless of what they normally sell
• Intimidation attempts are twice as successful
• Persuasion attempts are twice as successful
• Bribe—forces guards to ignore your bounty