Destruction is very well on 1-40 but then, it gets underpowered.
Please add enchantment to increase damage done by destruction spells, so just like melee or archers, we can improve our power.
One swing deals 160 damage while master destruction spell only deals 75 damage

Proof :
Legendary dragons appear at 78 level and they have
4163

hp

An 78 level character should at least be able to deal 250dps.

But mage cannot improve his spells as he levels up. He is stuck. He can improve magicka but thats useless if you have destruction spells cost %x less. Because you can down it onto %100.

Lets see highest mage burst spell
75 dps. requirement of full less cost enchantments to cast properly.

Expert spell also deals 60 damage one cast, around 130 when dual cast.
so its 130 dps.


With the highest burst you can do , it will take 30 seconds for you to kill a single dragon. (considering that you will shoot an thunderbolt every second without missing)

Another one. Great.

Create Fortify Destruction potions. Your damage will increase.

It was balanced on oblivion, allowing us to make our own spells, i had an 1 shot spell that consumed all my magicka. But was instant kill

This. Currently the only way to buff it.

Too much efford,for small gain and its not temporary

Most people, save Team Bethesda and Machoists, understand that magic is a train wreck. Unfortunately Team Bethesda is too full of themselves to do the right thing.

Every. Freaking. Day.

I, for one, find power output of Destruction to be perfectly adequate.

Magic was not balanced in Oblivion. It was ridiculously not balanced.

And yet... if buffed people will complain that the destruction skills are broken and too powerful.

As far as I am concerned destruction has dual casting with stagger and it has fun effects (fear, paralyze, and disintegrate). The only real issue I foresee is Kartaag, which I didnt really have a problem with casting dual incinerate spells and flame tempest when I could afford the few seconds for the cast.

For those effects to appear you actually need to damage your enemies enough that they have little health left. Now, that is a choir of itself for end-game creatures, not to mention that on some creatures the effects don't even work.