Spend points on mana until you have 250 base and then spend heavily on health - you actually can rock more health and have as much armor as any melee class albiet with a spell. If you allow your destro to lag then you have problems at all levels - it is your top priority skill followed by alter for the protection/para. 1200 weapon hits are powerful, but considering the damage shields and being armor capped as a mage you aren't too worried about them. Alteration gets game breaking paralyze and that changes everything without how hard it is for you to win. Anytime you can't put a skillup on that put it on alteration first, resto second. Do this - All Destro magic until you can't place points.

Skyrims mobs scale with your level and most of the time if you have problem killing its because you're working trade skills too much early pumping your levels up too quick for the damage you can output with the magic. Resists are flat and my only problem with killing any enemy has ever been mana.

Firebolt is 25 dmg vs base Fire which is 8/sec).Īm I missing something about how to effectively use destruction magic in the game? Is it currently not worth focusing on being a mage? (that last question is a bit subjective so feel free to ignore it) Since I don't have access to them until I a) level up quite a bit, b) I actually find someone who sells the specific spells I want and c) can afford to buy them, how do I keep my destruction spells from becoming useless when my physical attacks are constantly getting stronger?Įven the upgraded spells don't seem to make up the damage difference by the time I get them (e.g. It would seem that while base damage increases with every skill level for physical attacks, the only way to increase base damage for offensive spells is to.buy stronger spells? Having read various threads and discussions (both here and on other sites) I'm wondering how to effectively play as an offensive mage (note that I do not mean a mage who goes around offending people).

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