Best perks in Skyrim?

I'm level 16 and have put all my perk points in destruction, conjuration, one handed and light armour. Don't feel like wasting perk points on things like enchanting, blacksmithing etc but worried that maybe I'll loose out on some good stuff if I totally ignore those things.

The perks that let you zoom in on the bow and slow down time are very useful. There's also a perk in pickpocketing that increases your carrying capacity by 100, which I am dying to get (takes forever to get pickpocketing up to level 50). I wouldn't waste any perks on lockpicking. Once you join the theives guild you can find someone who sells a ton of lockpicks, and the locks become generally easy to pick once your level goes up to like 50.

Well obviously it depends what you want to do.

Also from what I've seen on the forums, the thing the illusion trainer in the College says: "Illusion is the most underappreciated school" seems to be true. Not sure why, it's pretty good and even better for those that like to sneak.

If you mean "how can I achieve 3K to 16K health points in a single attcak?" this is your guide:

http://forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/topic/1266212-2469-armor-3199-damage-using-smithing-alchemy-enchanting-only-31-perks/

It's really your choice. Some perks might be better for max damage than others. For the most part, you can beat the game with any combination. Maybe if you purposely invest in non-combat perks you might be really weak in some of the forced combat scenarios, but you probably have to work at it break your character.

That's dumb. You invested in the spell schools but not in enchanting? Enchanting is the most powerful perk tree in the game. If you get enchanting up to 100 and get all the perks (except the soul siphon branch - useless), you can enchant armor, rings and amulets to 25% spell school cost reduction. Get 4 items like that and you can cast ANY spells from a single school entirely for free. Plus you get an extra effect per armor and 2 more armor pieces (2 effects each) to play with. You can easily get close to 100% damage reduction for a type of damage like frost. That's right, enchant some armor to 25% reduction in destruction and you can cast fully charged fireballs for free. Completely. Your magicka bar won't even show up when you use the spell. That means you can be a shield + sword warrior with all related fighting perks by level 60 (this includes the smithing perks needed for Daedric smithing) that can cast fireball for free. Yeah, the magic school perks don't seem so useful now, do they? The main perks there just give you cost reduction to spell schools, but who cares about that when you can cast the spells for free?

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ angry nerd syndrome

Lighten up, Francis.

He's right, though. Enchanting is the nuts.

If you want to roll through the game and have 0 challenge? Blacksmithing, enchanting and alchemy. Other then that just play the way you want. Theres no real best way to play a single player game :P

That's dumb. You invested in the spell schools but not in enchanting? Enchanting is the most powerful perk tree in the game. If you get enchanting up to 100 and get all the perks (except the soul siphon branch - useless), you can enchant armor, rings and amulets to 25% spell school cost reduction. Get 4 items like that and you can cast ANY spells from a single school entirely for free. Plus you get an extra effect per armor and 2 more armor pieces (2 effects each) to play with. You can easily get close to 100% damage reduction for a type of damage like frost. That's right, enchant some armor to 25% reduction in destruction and you can cast fully charged fireballs for free. Completely. Your magicka bar won't even show up when you use the spell. That means you can be a shield + sword warrior with all related fighting perks by level 60 (this includes the smithing perks needed for Daedric smithing) that can cast fireball for free. Yeah, the magic school perks don't seem so useful now, do they? The main perks there just give you cost reduction to spell schools, but who cares about that when you can cast the spells for free?

Slonor

Man, you really know how to make a guy feel old.:|

The perks that let you zoom in on the bow and slow down time are very useful. There's also a perk in pickpocketing that increases your carrying capacity by 100, which I am dying to get (takes forever to get pickpocketing up to level 50). I wouldn't waste any perks on lockpicking. Once you join the theives guild you can find someone who sells a ton of lockpicks, and the locks become generally easy to pick once your level goes up to like 50.

Timk1931

If you want to roll through the game and have 0 challenge? Blacksmithing, enchanting and alchemy. Other then that just play the way you want. Theres no real best way to play a single player game :P

Prexxus

Ill like to like know what are good perks to build on. Im using one hand with shield but is getting meh with the mobs since I take too much damage before I can kill them and my magic is not that strong.

The best trick to level up is smack the greybeards to boost your sneak and leather gauntlets for smitting level.

The zoom-in perk for the bow is indeed pretty essential if you are bothering with archery at all. Even if you don't, it makes observing an enemy camp much easier.

I'm also really fond of the sneaking perk that lets you do 15x normal damage with a dagger sneak attack. Combine it with the shrouded gloves you get from the Dark Brotherhood, and you'll have a 30x damage bonus when you do a sneak attack with a dagger. You can even one-hit-kill giants by just stabbing them in the back.

Other cool perks are the ones you can unlock for both one-handed and two-handed combat, where it lets you decapitate the enemy. Not that valuable gameplay-wise, but it looks awesome.

The zoom-in perk for the bow is indeed pretty essential if you are bothering with archery at all. Even if you don't, it makes observing an enemy camp much easier.

I'm also really fond of the sneaking perk that lets you do 15x normal damage with a dagger sneak attack. Combine it with the shrouded gloves you get from the Dark Brotherhood, and you'll have a 30x damage bonus when you do a sneak attack with a dagger. You can even one-hit-kill giants by just stabbing them in the back.

Other cool perks are the ones you can unlock for both one-handed and two-handed combat, where it lets you decapitate the enemy. Not that valuable gameplay-wise, but it looks awesome.

DraugenCP

you definitely should level up smithing and enchanting. Enchanted deadra weapons and armor destroy everthing.

Eh I wouldn't worry about what best perks to get, the game is pretty easy enough as it is (even on master).