Let me try to explain the Destruction complaints clearly. : V - Skyrim

» Wed May 16, 2012 12:23 am

No they are not.....................Playign a pure mage is utterly broken right now. Damage is not enough, mana goes to fast and doesnt regen fast enough, not rocket science.

I've seen pure mages playing in their 40's and it's utterly fine. With enchanting you can make schools of magic free to cast and with destruction spells you can stun-lock Ancient Dragons to death. A pure mage also has access to powerful summons, tons of self-healing and defense spells and can make enemies fight each other. Mages are incredibly strong in this game.

They only look weak when compared to broken crafting mechanics on level 60 characters.

» Tue May 15, 2012 9:43 pm

Most enemies don't scale much past 40 anyways; destruction spells are more than sufficient to get you through the entire game no matter what level you are.

Now you're right that you can't stack crafting to make destruction moronically overpowered like you can with melee and archery, but that's kind of beyond the scope of balancing the actual game. Once you've leveled past 40 you've pretty much beaten the game and the rest is just you messing around trying to one-shot things for youtube videos.

I think it would be fun to give destruction some kind of similar scaling so Mages have a better reason to continue building their character beyond the end of the game, but this isn't a ZOMG DESTRUCTION BROKEN ISSUE. People are making way too big a deal out of this.

People need to stop fixating on this magical "40" number. The issue is glaringly apparent WELL BEFORE LEVEL 40 and that's just on Adept level. It's progressivlely worse as you ramp up the difficulty. Sure, it gets harder for every playstyle in general, but not nearly as much as someone who relies on spells for their damage.

» Tue May 15, 2012 11:40 am

without exploit?

NO

Warrior with heavy armor and 2h and cleaving attack perk, gather all guards and 3 shot them, and use 2-3 stamina potions

» Tue May 15, 2012 5:14 pm

Post limit.