Skyrim Magic....forced to use too many skills

Post » Tue Jun 05, 2012 5:51 pm

Forced to use too many skills? LOL.

That is the complete opposite of my complaint about magick. In my experience, you can get away with spamming just 1 spell that is being dualcast for the stun-lock. It is extremely cheap and disheartening. I find that warriors and archers are far more interesting to play. This is pretty sad imo, because the mage is usually my prefered playstyle. Outside of the mage guild quets, there is no compelling reason to play one, since the spells get progressively dull to use. Eventually you can just spam fireballs at the ground near a target. Destro mages are all one-trick ponies.

I think bethesda realizes just how dull destro mages are, and they made them weak at high levels just to encourage people to branch out to other fields to keep things a little more interesting. I swear, if destro spells scaled with level, you'd all be complaining about boring and EZ mode they are.

I'm no too fussed about it though, because I know that some mods will make things more interesting by tweaking the mechanics and making more destro spells useful for different purposes and maybe even tweaking the mechanics of magic to increase the amount of synergy, tactics, and strategies available to spellcasters.

I like mixing all of this up on the same character.. I just have to be careful not to get overlapping or redundant skills. Coupled with Shouts, I have a lot covered. And only a few trees are maxed (or going to be), so that prevents EZ mode.
User avatar
April
 
Posts: 3479
Joined: Tue Jun 20, 2006 1:33 am

Post » Wed Jun 06, 2012 4:10 am

i make due with just destruction restoration and alteration
User avatar
Cccurly
 
Posts: 3381
Joined: Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:18 pm

Post » Wed Jun 06, 2012 1:26 am

I think that destruction + conjuration + atronarch sign is all you need to be a successful mage. 90% of enemies go down after a fireball or two. In those rare times when someone is giving me trouble, I summon an atronarch. And fighting mages is really fun, because thanks to atronarch sign their spells just refill my magica. My character is lvl 17 currently and I find the game much easier than with my previous thief/warrior character.
User avatar
Darlene DIllow
 
Posts: 3403
Joined: Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:34 am

Post » Tue Jun 05, 2012 5:56 pm

I am under leveling a mage at level 20 on Master Level, I have destruction and alteration in the high 70's-low 80's, I have also done some enchanting and use restoration when its absolutely necessary, I think I am around 25 or 26 in restoration. The only other skill I have is speech with it I have to level regardless, I used the tower stone early on to unlock chests but now I don't open that many chests as I don't really need the loot for anything. With the Atronach Stone and 3 perks in magic resistance, enemy mages don't give me many problems, where I have the most problems are High level dragons, If you pick your engagement points you can really hammer them and then flee before they can get you with a blast.
User avatar
le GraiN
 
Posts: 3436
Joined: Thu Mar 22, 2007 6:48 pm

Post » Tue Jun 05, 2012 5:34 pm

This is really had to play with as you are constantly having to switch between 5-8 different spells (with a hotkey system that really svcks), preparing for a battle is actually really tedious as you need to cast protection, a summon, then set up if you need a ward spell ready, or dual destruction and then what kind of destruction.....cause using that frost spell on a frost troll is useless. If you get ambushed? Well now you have to do all that while also running away from the enemy. And you have ot do thise chore, like recasting protection and summons constantly as you play, battle go on for too long? guess you end up running in circles recasting your spells.
I always thought they needed to make stuff like summons and armor spells last a lot longer. It's ridiculous that they only last like 30 or 60 seconds or something like that. 10 minutes would be a big improvement.
User avatar
April D. F
 
Posts: 3346
Joined: Wed Mar 21, 2007 8:41 pm

Post » Tue Jun 05, 2012 7:28 pm

I'm a mix currently, Spellsword sort of. (re-read op)
I dont bounce through a ton of spells. and am currently level 49.

Destruction - Lightning @ 100
One Hand - Lightning Enchanted Mace @ 95
Heavy Arm - Daedric @ 91

Other focus being - Archery @ 50
- Alchemy @ 84
- Smithing @ 100
- Enchanting @ 92
User avatar
Andrew Perry
 
Posts: 3505
Joined: Sat Jul 07, 2007 5:40 am

Previous

Return to V - Skyrim