Ok, thanks for the answers. Sounds like my vamp's early days are going to be fairly challenging as I try to boost restoration to 70 whiile holding out on certain perks to get the bonus.
I'm going to make a necromage after reading this, and pondering some questions.
Does the necromage perk effect stone abilities(like Atronach)? And does it effect the vampire abilities themselves, so instead of being a vampire boosting sneak by 25% it would boost it by 25%x1.25?
Does it matter which you get first, the vampirism or the necromage perk?
What is a good way to level restoration quickly short of jumping off cliffs? I really don't use the skill at all(prefer alchemy
), and when I did use it on a pure mage I remember it being my slowest leveling magic skill. Does casting turn undead for instance level faster than just having a frost troll repeatedly hit me in the face?
It affects the stones, lord stone is boosted to +62 armor and +29 magic resistance, atronach effect is boosted to 62%.
I'm not to sure about the vampire abilities, I think it's only perks/abilities that are gained
after being a necrovamp, so you will need to reset your stone to get the boosted effect.
The quickest way I've found is pickpocket train restoration up to level 51, from either danica at whiterun, colette at winterhold or the leader at vigilants hall. Then get the mage stone and head to High Hrothgar, get all the fortify restoration gear you can and continually cast close wounds. Alter the difficulty so you can stand in the wind regenerating enough magicka so you don't have to step out, master will be the most effective way if you can survive.