I've now tried this with 4 different races on master difficulty.

And I've only genuinely survived through the Test with an Altmer who had the Highborn ability to rengenerate magika. On all the other races I've had to crouch and hide till the test was over.

Anyone managed to survive through this without using an Altmer? And if so what did you have to do?

Haven't done it yet, but now I am interested... I am playing a Breton - wait - hold on.... Is that the one down in the midden? With the Auger of Dunlain (sp) Where all you have to do is survive? If so - yeah I did survive....

Yeah it is.

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I will move this now.

i did it, all I had to do was use my restoration spells, go figure.

I did on my nord mage (an oxymoron I know) but that was on adept and I did have a few points in health. I just basically ran around the room and tried to avoid them while i healed and used the base healing spell cus it costs the least.

I just kept healing myself, that's all.

So you just have to survive a certain amount of time? Sounds kinda... easy. Stack on the tank gear, focus on minimizing restoration cost, and just heal and evade. You'll take less damage thanks to the armor, you'll heal what you do take thanks to restoration... bonus points if you threw in magic resists on top of the restoration cost reduction. More so if you're a Necromage Vamp with... say, the lord stone.

Your are left bare, with nothing in your inventory.

Summons help they can keep the enemies distracted, and while you won't keep your potions you can drink them before hand..

Just heal and cast stoneflesh.

I just sneak and sit there until all the spirits come and go. They never detect me. I park my sneaky self opposite them in the room and wait it out.

This test was surprisingly difficult lol. I literally ran circles around the fountain with my redguard. Casting the healing spell like my life depended on it. (master)

After it was over I couldn't help but laugh at how many times I almost died lol.

I'm an Imperial, just getting round to that. Restoration is 63.

I just did this. Histskin and Become Ethereal made it a breeze.

I didn't know what the hell was going on.... suddenly I had nothing, and kind of instinctively went for my Expert spells and healing,
and before I knew it, it was over.
I literally stood there and said, What just happened?
[and yes, still talking about Restoration Ritual Spell ]


I think because at that point my magica and health were so high, I just outlasted the challenge.

I just used Ebonyflesh and would load up Expert healing spells until I lost a good chunk of health, cast them, load them up again, etc. until the test was over.

I stayed hidden in the middle, and kept casting invisibility and summoning Storm Thralls (I had the Perk that gives Atronachs 100 more health and quiet casting).

If your character has some of the quest related perks that boost the effectiveness of Restoration spells, they can survive by dual casting the basic healing spell, even on Master difficulty. Fus is an excelllent Word of Power to meditate on with Paar, it makes your character more resistant to being staggered.