» Sun Dec 11, 2011 1:05 pm
I have encountered just the opposite, I think mages are more reliant on potions to be effective.
With any character in this game, you have to concentrate on 4-5 skills and do those very well, and at least three of them should give you some sort of combat efficiency.
Obviously you could get to level 20 just from pickpocket, lockpick, smithing, and alchemy, but you will still swing a sword like a 1st level character - while fighting 20th level bad guys.
That same example usually applies on a lesser scale to any ineffective character- you've just leveled up too many different things and without SOME specialization in SOME combat related skills you are going to get your butt kicked...