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Illusion spells won't effect the second-most common enemy in the game until you have the 90 skill necessary to get Master of the Mind. Destruction is simultaneously OP and wimpy, depending on whether or not you have Impact and the cost reduction to spam double-cast spells. You need to invest heavily down each magic still perk tree just to make them viable. (It's just one more factor that makes crafting skills the trifecta of Boring But Necessary that they are in Skyrim.) In effect, you have twenty-five perks that are almost entirely useless because another skill tree makes them obsolete. In practice, though, using perks to reduce costs for spellcasting is superfluous, because enchanting can reduce costs all the way to zero for at least two schools at a time. 300 magicka for a single Expert Rout? 1400 magicka for Master level spells? Even with the 50% cost reduction you'd get for investing 5 perks into the tree, and the 41% innate cost reduction you'd get for having 100 skill in the school, you're talking thirty two levels' worth of pumping magicka to be able to cast a single Master level spell once. In fact, it seems that using enchantment to get your spells' cost reduction up is expected, given the costs of the higher level spells. There's a number of things in Vanilla Skyrim's magic system that have bothered me for a long time.įirst off is that both perks and enchantments are focused on cost reduction. When I play a mage, I use all three, but shock is what I have in hand when I don't know what I'm going to run across next, particularly against dragons until I know what element they are. And last, there's nothing quite like taking a mage's magicka away while doing damage. Second, the projectile speed makes it easier to hit targets.

First off, there are way too many things with resistance to fire and frost, but next to nothing with shock resistance, making it a good all-around element.

When combined with elemental weaknesses, both can be absolutely devastating. For efficiency, fire is fast and cheap and combines nasty initial damage with damage over time. The slow debuff makes keeping out of reach pretty easy and the stamina damage keeps their power attacks at a minimum. Frost is great against physical threats like bears and melee npcs. You get so much bang for your magicka it's not even funny, since it hits like three times (more if your enemy backpedals away from you).Īll three elements have their strengths.

But I've played with mods that overhaul combat to actually deplete Stamina and debuff you if you're out so long I may have forgotten what Vanilla is like.Įven then though Ice Storm is hands down the best AoE damage spell in the game, and potentially the most powerful all around damage spell. Really? I've long found Frost to be the strongest element. Some things you need to know about Skyrim () The Elder Scrolls XIII: Born Under a Certain Sign () The Elder Scrolls: By the VIII Divines () The Elder Scrolls VII: Do you believe in mod? () Skyrim III: Get rich selling protective knee gear! () Skyrim II: A Dragon A Day Keeps The Draugr At Bay.

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