Hi everybody, how are ya! Since I'm playing a stealthy archer, I'm wondering what would be a good magika skill to add to my skill tree that would essentially provide me a one or two shot kill from a distance. I've got solid melee skills but I prefer to kill from a distance whenever possible and in a stealth manner. And I thought it would be both fun and useful to add a long range magika skill.

Any ideas? Thanks, G (noob in training)

Prepare for a "destruction magic is underpowered" thread.

Destruction is your best bet, but it doesn't have a stealth bonus that I am aware of. If you go for destruction, I recomend that you pick of potions to fortify the skill whenever you are in town, to boost the damage.

Alchemy.

Traditionally, it's a skill for mages. It'll allow you to create potions AND poisons. The latter are one-time effects on your weapon of choice. By mixing "weakness to ____" and "___ damage" effects, you'll add extra damage to your sneak attacks, and it often means the difference between almost-killing something and barely scratching something.

Note that to get destruction to work as you described it, you generally need to know exactly what you are doing. Destruction Magic can be underpowered, but those who know how to use it are devestating at range.

While I absolutely agree with this, destruction school definitely has no spells that you'll want to use while sneaking, and definitely has no spells that will essentially kill stuff in one-two hits from a great distance, unless you play on a very easy difficulty.

illusion luls. one shot of frenzy at a distance and entire groups will kill each other


i love playing a mage but long distance shooting of Destruction spells when coupled with impact gets boring....i usually set up traps with runes and throw in dragon shouts of various types to make the fights more dynamic and less spammy. potions are prolly your best bet. its considered a stealth skill (only Beth knows why..prolly to make the skills even among the 3 archtypes) but i personally consider it a magick skill...it will allow your bow shots to one hit at max levels. i have made poisons that can do 300 some damage when coupled with enchanted alchemy gear.

destruction?