» Tue Dec 13, 2011 7:09 am
Altmer: Highborn is essentially just free magicka potions. This is nice, but it's nothing special.
Argonian: Histskin is also just free potions. It's not impressive.
Bosmer: Command Animal provides a unique effect not normally available through spells. Unfortunately, being only usable on animals makes it worthless at higher levels, but it's pretty good for a while.
Breton: Dragonskin provides the rare spell absorption effect. It is extremely powerful, greatly dimishing the danger of difficult mage boss battles.
Dunmer: Ancestor's Wrath is just a free Fire Cloak. Normally that spell is already obsolete when you get it because the damage is so low, but dunmer get this early enough to have some use from it. It's also free once a day, so it always remains at least kind of okay.
Imperial: Voice of the Emporer is an AoE disable. Has twice the duration of Battlecry, but breaks when you attack. This makes it only useful as a panic button to save you.
Khajiit: No.
Nord: Battlecry is an amazing AoE fear effect. It only lasts half a minute, but during this time you can freely attack things without concern.
Orc: Berserk doubles weapon damage and halves damage taken. It's not as useful to a mage, but a strong orc warrior makes a great boss killer using this.
Redguard: Stamina potions do the same thing.