Angel uses torches but has an enchanted night vision ring if the situation gets too serious or if she is looking for something specific. She also uses a detect life amulet with a range of 120. In the wilderness, she sets up a portable campsite at night and sleeps.

Voted for several characters. The Khajiit uses his racial night-eye lesser power when he needs to - no cost, nothing to carry. The archers use a torch because it naturally extinguishes when they grab their bow and close in for a sneak shot, and the melee characters will use a (short-range) light spell when they need both hands for sword and shield, but would like to see whet they're hitting.

I find that night-eye's infinite range is a bit of a limitation. Seeing a distant light or flame gives you a clue to things that gets drowned out by night-eye. So even the Khajiit will use a short-range (weapon reach is about enough) light spell to illuminate what can be touched, while leaving the distance dark, as he wanders around.

I've played around a bit with the Illuminate spell, which lights up your target instead of yourself. Just as good for target-location, and it can be found on arrows, too. It seems that enemies always have night-eye once you're detected, so giving them some light makes no difference to their capabilities.

Buffy carries torches, a ring of light and a ring of night eye. She also runs with load of detect life.

It is actually the detect life she prefers most. The main thing she is looking for in dungeons are foes, and they show up as pretty pink glows throughout the dungeon. She has learned to move slowly in the dark to (usually) avoid traps. She doesn't really care about loot very much, but when she does want to look around or search, she makes sure it is safe (detect life) and lights a torch (she prefers the look of the torch light to the other options. When done looking around an area, she douses the torch and moves on. If she really needs to see when enemies are around, she will briefly don her night eye ring, look around and take it off.

In her stories, she tends to slip on a ring of light to look around because it doesn't make lots of sense to be lighting and dousing big old clunky torches all the time. In her game however, she has a bow and a torch. When the bow is equipped, it is dark (most of the time). When she wants light, she unequips the bow and out pops the torch. By tapping her bow again, the torch is gone. EZ.

Yay for Light! Haha I wonder what the world looks like with Detect Life, Light, Torch and Night Eye, enemies would be brown?

it really depends on which character im playing, but the majority of all of my characters use torches the most.

Hence the multiple choice option haha.

When using detect life and night eye, enemies look like everything else does with night eye: blue. The blue glows are quite distinguishable however. Never tried night eye + light/torch though.

there was a time i was not so sure i wanted to try night eye in day light, coz i thought it would be blinding u know... i imagined 'night eye brightens everything, so i must be careful not to wear an amulet in daylight, or my character will be blind'.

so i tried and obviously nothing bad happened. sometimes we take the realism too much in account.

Oh my, you are exactly right. I have flown hundreds of hours in tactical aircraft on night vision goggles. That same thought occurred to me.

Usually none at all... it adds some excitement to it. Also I use life detect, so i don't really need it except for traps, which I can hear.

So I voted other.

Since most of my charcter is stealth character so I usually rely on my own vision. But in a dungeon that really dark where I can't see anything, I usually use night-eye (Potion).

I use night eye, because it looks cool and light spells glitch on my copy of the game, they make my character glow untill I reload him. They also make sneaking difficult.

Turn up the brightness on monitor then a relatively short term light spell if I search for something.
Downside with night eye is that everything become pretty monochrome and without shadows so it make it hard to locate things, yes has used it a couple of places it was very dark.

Torch for best visibility at low levels, or if mana is an issue. Night Eye if I wish to go undetected. Otherwise, Light. I like the idea of Night Eye, but miss the color you get with Light or a torch.

Amen to that.

Nighteye.

Night eye makes it hard to see details.. it's too easy to fall into traps

Torches require a free hand.. if I have one, they're the best (or illuminate staffs)

Light spells otherwise. Magicka-heavy at times but worth it!

The Torches are so easy to find and it's so easy to switch back to your weapons. Night-eye is fun and cool looking.

Night-eye. Is it ok to mention mods in this forum? If so, I use Timeslip's "Nighteye Shader Replacement" mod. The "verybright" setting is the one I use, it allows some colors to show up, so no monochrome issues really.

Nighteye, it is just perfect, i think it's a little bit like normal daylight. But my character prefers to fade in the darkness...

I usually enchant some headgear with light and hotkey it for whenever I need light. Only problem is a bug associated with doing that. If you have the enchanted headgear equipped, load a save without it equipped, and then go to equip again. That'll crash your game, at which point you'll have to reboot/ reload the game back up again, to the title screen.

Edit: I haven't tried enchanted headgear with nigh-eye, but I don't like the constant blue world effect. I don't think it should glitch like headgear enchanted with light, though.

You guys realize you can just turn the brightness setting up in the options menu when you think it's to dark? Sometimes I think everyone forgets about the simple things.

I suspect that a lot depends on people's hardware. I play on PC, with a big monitor, and on the default brightness setting, I have no trouble seeing anywhere in the game. If anything, caves and ruins are brighter than they really ought to be. In other words, I need to turn my brightness down in order to need Nighteye at all. I don't bother doing that, because I don't like the Nighteye effect: The monochromatic view takes away one's sense of where the shadows are, and makes sneaking more difficult.

Light feel too revealing as said before, so i use night-eye or a torch

What does that have to do with this topic?