Solo assassin/fighter questions

mumumomo

I am starting a solo run (minimum reload) with an assassin dualled to fighter.

In terms of thieving skills my priority would be find traps > detect illusion or set snares -> which one?

I am wondering at which level to dual :
- level 6 : 2 traps, 2 poison. Dualling completed during BG. Only find traps as thieving skill.
- level 11 : 3 traps, 3 poisons. Improved poison. Dualling right after chateau irenicus, max find traps and detect illusion. Dual completed at 1m xp
- level 16 : 4 traps and poisons, max find traps, set snares, and detect illusion. Dualling completed quite late (3.5 Mxp).
- level 21 : max backstab, 5 traps and poisons. Takes for forever to dual (5.7 Mxp)

I am mostly hesistating between 11 and 16 and would like your feedback on it.
At 11 i will have to choose between set snaresa nd detect illusion. The problem at level 16 is that the fire traps suck (too many ennemies immune)

As for proficiencies i would go for GM in shortbow (tuigan with poison weapon), scimitars (5 atk/round with belm), quarterstaff (huge damage with gww, blunt damage). Any other idea?

Thanks for your help

enqenq

Scrap Detect Illusion, you can get an item that lets you cast True Seeing (from one of the wild mages IIRC). Can't confidently comment on more than that though.

Skaffen

You get the stone with true sight in Rasaad's SoA quest. Plus you can get the thief's hood in Watchers Keep.

Weapon's wise I would go longsword for Blackrazor which will give you strength plus haste buffs and healing. I would not go for dual wielding - too much hassle to manually unequip every time you want to shoot. You loose too much flexibility, I'd go single weapon styke instead.