Hello everyone

I recently started a new game because I wanted to finally get around to testing a mage character, which I have not *gasp* done before.
Now, since this is my first time, I lack any sort of experience with mages, and so I just wanted to present my thought process when making my character and see what you think. I calla this my "Battle Mage".

For my main skills, I picked

Destruction - In my oppinio, a must have for anyone who plans to "solve problems" with magic.

Restoration - There is somewhat of a debate about this one. On one hand, I thought, I could just use the "wait" option to regenerate my life. On the other hand, if I am in the planes of Oblivion, or in a cave full of nasty creatures, that will not work. So I finally decided to go with it, but I am still unsure.

Alchemy - Magicka and health regen potions are very useful, and it ties in nicely with destruction, since they both use intelligence.

Alteration - I though of this as a nice allrounder ability, which provides everything from unlock spells to enrage spells.

Armourer -So far, I have picked this on all my characters because it boosts endurance and keeps my armor in shape.

Illusion - I like the "light" spells and there are some later spells that looked interesting (for soicla interaction maybe?)

Heavy Armor - Boosts endurance and keeps me safe at the same time.

As you might have noticed, I did not pick a weapon skill. I generally do not use a weapon, since I am planning to rely only on spells.
My biggest concern is that when I have multiple magic skills, I might have a hard time using them all enough to level them up.

Another concern I have are the purchaseable spells - one of the reasons I never liked playing mages was that I found it diffucult to find good spells, and I do not like the system in which spells are treated like goods. I would of preferred a WoW style of approach, with a spell trainer in each city who has a collection of spells.

Well, a battlemage traditionally uses a mixture of both sword and broad with magic spells to augment, so your character is more of a sorcerer :L

You can make custom spells after you've completed the mage guild's reccomendation quest at the arcane university, so you don't have to worry about that.

Well, naming it is less of an issue . I just wanted feedback as to what I could do better, what I am doing completely wrong etc. Maybe someone can give me a quick mage "tutorial"?