» Wed Jan 30, 2013 9:07 am
Destruction seems to get weaker as you level up. During the tutorial sequence, I do reasonable damage with it, but by late in the game, even characters I built as battlemages (focus on magic, back it up with melee) seem to function more as spellswords. About the only time they still use destruction is against dragons, because I svck at archery (none of my six characters uses it, though several tried).
My fix:
1. Eliminate the ability to spam destruction so that it has zero magicka cost (max it out at 80 or 85 percent reduction), then increase spell power as follows:
Apprentice - 1.5x
Adept - 2x
Expert - 2.5x
Master - 3x
2. Retain the ability to spam destruction's magicka cost down to zero and modify it as follows:
Apprentice - 1.2x
Adept - 1.4x
Expert - 1.6x
Master - 1.8x