well bretons are a bit tankier then high elfs but high elfs have 50 bonus magicka which realllllly helps early game.
So what should I be?

Keep in mind that the Breton racial will cause half of your Conjurations to fail when it's active.

it doesnt say anything about that in the wiki?

Altmer, Magic resistance is a bit borked right now, so the Altmer are way ahead.

Ah, Resisting your own spells. Never gets old -_-

You get that from the Alteration Magic Resist perk too, by the way. This is one of these little things most people let slide by that would actually really need fixing

EDIT: never mind. It's not my resist magic causing it. I just realized I am rocking the Atronach stone bonus...

so breton or high elf? bretons start with conjure familiar so in the first bit i could get it to like level 27-28 maybe?

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Conjuration

"Currently a bug exists which causes Summoning spells to fail. As the spell appears to target yourself, any existing Magic Absorb can cause the Atronach or Dremora not to appear, "refunding" the casting cost for no net loss. This can be easily reproduced with a Breton's Dragonskin, Alteration's Atronach perk, or the Atronach standing stone. Magic Resist does not appear to have this effect."


Altmer racials become useless after mid game and Breton racials are either broken or counter productive (at least for Conjuration) at the moment due to bugs.

k so altmer it is!

too true, guess it comes down to which Race looks the best then.

Go Khajiit!

khajit ftw

The racials don't matter that much, although some are better than others.

Orc is actually a good mage choice because berserker increases your damage output, even with spells.


Just pick whatever you identify the most with. There really are no great advantages to any race... If you play just to wait 24 hrs and use your racial over and over then you're probably not going to have very much fun anyway.

I picked a breton for mine, just for the added resistance. Bugs will get fixed.

I thought I'd try a Dunmer/Vampire - It gives you a summon, extra sneak, stronger illusion, and the racial counteracts the vampiric weakness.

Good idea. Dunmer look cool in this game too.