Yeah, the spells are really underwhelming.

Playing any sort of destruction mage is basically, FIRE, then MORE FIRE! THEN FIRE EVERYWHERE FIRE SPELL!!! XBOX EXTREEEEEEEEEME!!!!

This thread will be locked soon due to the lame 'to big a thread' excuse they use but...

Please for the love of Jebus, stop saying 'My mage is fine at 24' the issue is SCALING, when the spells stop scaling but the enemies don't THEN you have the problem. READ THEN POST.

I know that, however after I push alteration and destruction to 100 (expect to do this before level 30) I am going to start leveling one handed.

Do you have Fire Cloak or Ice Cloak?

I am finding it's best to use more than one destruction spell.

The cloak spells are very weak on high levels aren't they? I wish we had touch spells like in Morrowind and Oblivion for close-combat fighting in Skyrim.

Mages are fun to play. Despite the smaller number of spells compared to previous Elder Scrolls games you still have more options to swing the tide of the battle in your favour than any other class.

I roleplay a nudist warrior and just beat the game with ease just using one handed weapons and a shield, i'll probably put all my spare points into destruction and give it a try to see what all the fuss is all about.

My only problem is no weakness spells to improve damage

that's a battlemage... I shouldn't need to change the way a MAGE is meant to be played to be able to use my magic effectively....


And once again, TO FEW SPELLS! It's ridicolous!

if you use all of the schools then yes... that might be true! But the destruction spells are still very weak...
Just look at the video i linked at page 11...
He kited those draugr around forever while i took them out in notime with arrows... and he uses big bad frost attronachs and [censored] fire BOMBS... It's a bit weird...

We can't be a pure mage anymore spell making is gone

I know... it is quite boring that they lock them actually... I mean, this forum IS for discussing right? And discussions can be loooong...

Post limit.