So Linara is just about to get that MG quest where you go to Bruma, investigate, yada yada. The thing is, I love Bruma. I love the whole city, and the mages guild, and eventually am planning on buying the house there. The thing is, I know that J'skar will be the only one left alive. So is it worth it to not finish the MG questline? Replies please.

You may want to put that in 'spoilers'...

If you are on the PC, there are mods to rebuild it, but the Mages Guild has many rewards, so I would finish it, unless you are really really attactched to that guild.

I don't find the rewards of completing the quest to be that exciting. There is some items that are useful to use in other quests but they have to be surrendered in the progression of the Mages Guild quest-line. The few actual rewards are far from being essential and I never really use them in any case. Having completed the quest many times I now stop before Bruma gets destroyed. I like the Guild members and don't want them killed. The banol replacements from mods are no substitute!

Linara,

Buffy loves her guild of mages. She will never take the questline far enough so that it starts killing off fellow mages. She would not forgive me if I let her do that without warning her first. And knowing it in advance, I am quite sure she will never allow it. Who wants to be Arch Mage anyway? Lol.

-facepalm- Spoilers, of course. Sorry about that. Thanks for the advice guys, I think I'll stop my mages guild advancement here, and save up for the Bruma house. Again, thanks.

Yes, I no longer take the MG questline past the rank of Warlock or beyond the second Skingrad quest (Info at a Price).

If you're on the PC you can load a mod that rebuilds the Mages Guild Hall afterwards.

Otherwise, I it's up to you whether you continue the Mages Guild questline or not. But if Arch Mage Traven has already asked you to go to the guild hall, then it's already "toast".