I've seen a lot of posts around that have been moaning about how weak destruction is.

My response: you aren't doing it right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzTWYNxs0nA&feature=plcp

Notice how he had to fortify his destruction skill, poison the dragon multiple times (with arrows) and overcharge his attack to actually kill it.

Pretty much this right here.

There's nothing wrong with augmenting your Destruction skill to make ends meet, but it's a whole other story to say you one-shot an Ancient Dragon with Destruction when it also includes half a dozen Weakness to Magic potions and Fortify Destruction spells across the bored. Also, what difficulty was this on, dear OP?

yes because mages are well know archers and all carry bows.................

Try reading the whole threads. Everyone knows you can do high damage, provided you chug a fort destruction pot and pre-poison your enemies one at a time. Congratulations on your discovery - you are the first I assure you... Try doing that 100,000 times for all your enemies and tell me destruction compares.

Also- why did you make another thread on this when there is an open discussion on page 2? Here is the link for next time:

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1369350-and-this-is-why-destruction-is-broken

PS- I didn't even look at your movie, but I bet I guessed the method you used correctly.

My response: Next time read first then post.

Um... One-shot means to kill them in ONE shot, as in one attack. Applying the poisons and all that count as shots.

You can't say you one-shotted anything if you landed more than one attack on them.

"He" is me, btw. And yes, that's exactly what I did. Your point is...?



This was on Normal, I believe that if I were to go Necromage and buff up the strength of my potions I'd be able to one-shot on Master. I tried with this setup on Master and it took two shots.



Thanks..? I know it's known by some, I made the video and thought it'd be a good idea to post on the forums hoping to help someone out. Don't get all pissy just cause you already know how it works. I wanted to help out people who didn't know about it, so I posted this topic. And you don't NEED to do it 100,000 for all enemies, because doing it this way is highly impractical.

By just popping a fortify des. potion it becomes much easier and much more practical. The poisoning was just for the theatrics, because most look at the 90 damage tag on expert spells and call destruction weak, so boosting it over 3000 just makes the skill look nicer and might make people rethink calling destruction weak.

What are you going on about talking about other threads? Page 2? I don't look through the first 5 pages of topics before posting. I just post hoping to help people.

My response: stop being a dike.

Right, how did I not get the impression you were "just trying to be helpful" from a movie link to a brag vid and a "you're doing it wrong" sentence.

But I think the first couple posts before me summed things up already, so I'll just leave it at that.

If you want to join a discussion thread about it, that's page two right now. It could use a bump if you can bring anything "helpful" to the table.

Brag vid? Thought you didn't watch it?

I've heard it explained to me, never seen it in action. So I tested it and recorded my results then uploaded the footage. Bragging? No.

Lord Hircine was pleased with the video, you had my thanks mortal.

Any time man/woman.

At least it helped someone (maybe not a big reader )

I took this post as a slight (to the issue) because of the title and the post itself, if genuine helpfulness is truly whats meant then no harm done, I just took a different impression from the wording.

Um ha ha ha ha. I've actually one shoted one with fortify restoration exploit, and I still stand by the statement that it's too weak. Don't you just love how they crash land before they go through the death animation.

7 hits.

One shot implies you did it with one shot.
If you need to set it up to that extent with potions and poisoned arrows, you're just hopping in and out of loopholes.

"I one-shotted an ancient dragon the other day." "Nasty creatures"

Ha one shot means ONE shot one kill...the 1st poison arrow is your one shot

Thats like saying i one hit kill an ancient dragon with a iron knife after hitting him a few times with my daedric battle axe

Yet another yt channel plug hidden behind a sensationalist topic title

That's not one-shotting, he used at least what was it 5, 6 maybe 7 shots.
Destruction is still under powered you shouldn't have to poison the dragon and drink a potion.

Also you need dragonrend, so you have to be pretty far through the MQ as well.

See, I can one-shot an Ancient Dragon using nothing but my fists. And I mean one-shot. As in, a right hook to the face. This is because my gauntlets have a "fortify unarmed" enchantment on them thanks to the restoration glitch. I don't use potions, or poisons, or arrows. Just one punch in his face. Even on Master.

What you're doing is not one-shot. Six arrows and a destruction spell is seven shots.

Lol @ repeating statements for like 5 posts in a row. I KNOW it's not technically "one-shot" killing, but it's over 3000 damage with one spell. That's what I wanted to emphasize, no need to tear the the thread up and dislike the video. I thought it was cool how much damage you could do, so I posted my test. You can even read in the description of the vid, I KNOW it's not a one shot kill.

And to those who are bragging about killing things using the fortify restoration glitch, that's the equivalent of using console commands and just typing "kill" on everything you see. Honestly, no one cares about your 1325465245 damage gauntlets.

Well if you know it's not a one-shot you shouldn't claim it as such.

And yeah, this is akin to the fortify restoration glitch, which is part of the reason I'm not impressed. Would it be fair to say that Unarmed doesn't need a skill tree because I can make gloves that do more than a million damage in one hit? I don't think so.

Also, I'd dislike the video purely for your snarky attitude.


If I don't like your attitude in your post, I'm sure as sugar not going to like the video you linked me to.

Hey Einstein. Who taught you how to count? I think you need to bone up not just on your abacus skills but also language interpretation. A shout plus multiple arrows plus multiple poisons, plus blahblahblah, plus final a Destruction cast isn't "One Hit'.

Seriously. Think before you post.

Indeed.

And OP, I was not bragging about my use of the fortify restoration glitch, just giving you a comparison to an actual one-hit kill. Because to be honest, I would choose my cheap glitch over having to use 7+ Potions/Poisons and 7 Arrows every time before I kill an Ancient Dragon.

I honestly don't understand where people are getting this attitude thing from. Is it because I didn't hint that I was being humorous in the OP or are you all just on your period today?

@bacillus, read the whole thread before repeating what everyone else has said since post 2.

@tluav, I'm glad you like to break the game. This is a LEGITIMATE way to kill a dragon with one magic spell. Not some cheap ass way.