I agree, also. Verena needs to raise her destruction skill and was in a Riekling village using Thunderbolt and she had to hit one 3 times with that spell to kill it. Verena is level 71 so you would think that a powerful spell like that would do a whole lot more damage. Thank the Divines for Conjuration!
If it takes 3 thunderbolts to kill a Riekling then i fail to see why destruction would be as underpowered as most of the forums dwellers claim. It takes 4 swings of my legendary deadric sword to bring a Riekling down (Level 98 in one-handed, all damage increasing perks, and the sword has the damage value 82).
Rieklings arent one hit one kill weaklings even if they look like it.
Yes i could take him down quicker with power attacks and yes my attacks can be executed more swiftly then your magic (since magic has a "charge" time), but on the other hand magic has range.