Ok before you post saying how many topics there are of this, I must reiterate the idea of repetition goes far beyond the boundaries of such minds.

Destruction is nothing compared to Archery and Melee.

Now you might say that Destruction is "overpowered" or that its absolutely fine regarding effectiveness and stop posting threads like this.

However, times that miniscule the actual effectiveness of this skill is being shunned and after 6 patches and Dawnguard most likely wont do anything to recompense for such damages that were sustained.

But again, like insensate Nords, you will all argue that the magic system is not flawed. Most will say that Destruction isn't that bad, or its simply overexxagerated in terms of usefullness.


But I take this quote from someone.

"Actually it IS that bad. It is a spell school that offers nothing other than the ability to deal damage. No utility at all, unless you want to count the "side effects" of certain spells like draining magicka or stamina, which BY THE WAY, you are more likely to just straight up kill your target rather than deplete his stamina/magicka reserves. And who uses frost spells when a majority of the enemies you will fight have large amounts of innate frost resistance. Anyways, this is a school which offers only the ability to deal damage, and yet, schools of magic such as conjurations, or my favorite, illusion, offer the ability to do way more damage and have some killer utility applications as well. The dremora twins have FAR more damage potential than a destruction mage with limitless magicka. They keep going until their time is up or you're out of targets. Oh, and lets not forget that they'll take all those hits for you. A frenzied briarheart can wipe out an entire forsworn encampment by himself, and if it was one of the caster briarhearts, possibly more if you could lead him to them. And then if he ever did set his eyes on you, lol calm and walk away. You can't do that with destruction. You'll simply be left out of magic running around a table wishing you picked something other than destruction to hurt things with.

Now you could go into the whole enchantment thing, but that's putting a band-aid on an amputated arm. Even with 0 cost destruction spells, it does less damage than those other two schools. If there were damaging restoration spells, I have full confidence that THEY would be better than destruction spells. Hell, they'd probably have cool side effects like healing you to boot.

Wait a minute, isn't there like a guardian circle restoration spell that fears and burns undead while healing you? "

Destruction is actually underpowered in Skyrim. And since you can't create your own spells there isn't any chance of getting O.P

Destruction works adequately early on, I think, but it loses its usefulness as the enemies get more powerful and the melee weapons get better. My Dark Elf character was a master of it, but by the time I was ready to retire her (for now, anyway), she was hardly using it, preferring her Glass Mace of Flames.

If you're not willing to train your character up in archery, Destruction magic is a moderately useful substitute.

The OP should really qualify tha the issue is for console players. For PC players, there are mods that bring destruction up to par.

Obviously...