im not sure anyone has done a topic like this before because im sure there will be similar ones to this. the other day i was watching gameplay vids on youtube when i came across the magic when i paused it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7PMYnjGD6g&feature=relmfu
if you pause at 4:37 you may notice that he is using adept and novice that do a lot of dammage for spells of that level if you watch he has a master spell that does 75 fire dammage but an adept spell that does the same. now what im trying to get at is a small theory. if you increase your destruction does it like make you weaker spells more powerful aswell or does it do what is does on oblivion and just lets you use higher leveled spells. if anyone knows anything about how the magic works please post somethhing i dont know if there has been anything about this and if there is im sorry for wasting time if there has been. BUT i have a question to ask we all know how you can find rare items on these games just deppends on where you look or easter eggs example. on oblivion you can find a giant slaughterfish or mudcrab or the troll at dive rock (i think its that) or how you can find rare weapons like that bow and mace hid in one of the oblivion gates. do you think there going to do some of that in skyrim like really powerful weapons but you have to go through loads of puzzels to get them or being able to find like legendary spell tomes to learn amazing spells. thanks for your time. :biggrin:

I believe that the spell effectiveness increases as your level increases and also as you invest in more perks.

For instance, let's say you have a fire spell that does 20 damage and costs 30 magicka at level 10 in destruction. Now let's say you increase that destruction level to 25. The damage would go up and the cost of the spell would go down; for this conversation's sake, let's say it now does 40 damage and costs 20 Magicka (I have no idea about the degree of change, this is all for the sake of the conversation). You can also invest in perks that increase damage and achieve other effects, one of these effects being the decreasing of spell cost. One of the listed perks is an increase to damage by 25%, so now if you invested in that perk, the spell would do 50 damage and still only cost 20 magicka.

Or at least that's how I think it works.

i dint read to much of what you said..... but in the demo, todds perks were all over the damn place, he switched from a 6 damage fire spell to a 75 damage fire spell, then he down graded his 1h weapons =/. whatever your question is, i hope your atleast less confused about the demo