I am getting mixed feedback here. 8 people jump up and say they can't kill anything at high levels with destruction spells. Then 2 people say destruction is fine, but only on adept or lower, its the higher difficulty which makes the enemies stronger which thus makes the magic weaker. Then you have people like chronobomb who actually go into the game and test and find that their destruction skill actually raises slower than their other skills even with the same usage. Only one of those things is actually a problem.


One other thing here, what is the obsession with levels? This isn't Diablo 3, its not meant to be a loot casino. TBH the combat and "leveling" mechanics in TES and Bethesda games like Fallout have never really been that robust or "balanced." Nor have many other recent products like Bioware's Dragon Age games or even their Mass Effect games. If you play this game looking for the kind of polish and attention to combat systems that say Blizzard prioritizes in Diablo or WOW, you aren't going to find it. Its just not what these guys do. (and yes I listed only AAA mass market RPG titles for a reason. Skyrim will like have sold more than $ 400 million worth of dics before the end of next week. Morrowind was not, but Skyrim certainly is mainstream.)


Whether that warrants a vastly greater attention to the combat and character building aspects of this series is certainly worthy of discussion, but [censored]ing and crying about destruction magic spells when you are level 45+ in a game that isn't built around those things is not going to get you anywhere.

I am getting mixed feedback here. 8 people jump up and say they can't kill anything at high levels with destruction spells. Then 2 people say destruction is fine, but only on adept or lower, its the higher difficulty which makes the enemies stronger which thus makes the magic weaker. Then you have people like chronobomb who actually go into the game and test and find that their destruction skill actually raises slower than their other skills even with the same usage. Only one of those things is actually a problem.


One other thing here, what is the obsession with levels? This isn't Diablo 3, its not meant to be a loot casino. TBH the combat and "leveling" mechanics in TES and Bethesda games like Fallout have never really been that robust or "balanced." Nor have many other recent products like Bioware's Dragon Age games or even their Mass Effect games. If you play this game looking for the kind of polish and attention to combat systems that say Blizzard prioritizes in Diablo or WOW, you aren't going to find it. Its just not what these guys do. (and yes I listed only AAA mass market RPG titles for a reason. Skyrim will like have sold more than $ 400 million worth of dics before the end of next week. Morrowind was not, but Skyrim certainly is mainstream.)


Whether that warrants a vastly greater attention to the combat and character building aspects of this series is certainly worthy of discussion, but [censored]ing and crying about destruction magic spells when you are level 45+ in a game that isn't built around those things is not going to get you anywhere.

Personally I think the problem isnt in Destruction but in the really broken alchemy/crafting/enchantment sytem. I really dont think that is was ever intended to make as a warrior over 2000 damage per strike. Videos on youtube where someone kills a dragon in 2 hits on Master difficulty are proving that. when they will remove that the other direct damage skills will be brought down to more balanced levels

I think this is the culprit as well.

Warriors and rogues are gear dependent, and if they did not exploit blacksmithing and enchantment to create gear that dwarfs legendary daedric rewards, you will find that they will also have similar problems on Master difficulty.

Personally I think the problem isnt in Destruction but in the really broken alchemy/crafting/enchantment sytem. I really dont think that is was ever intended to make as a warrior over 2000 damage per strike.