Paralysis - as said before, in intense fights I generally forget to use it.

I find it's the effect that is least upset by getting the staff at early levels too - whilst your Destruction staff's damage will be pathetic in a few levels, and you'll probably procure a more powerful damaging staff, a small amount of paralysis is always going to be very useful, even if it just grants you a few seconds of mana regeneration and healing time.

I always pick soul trap only because i can sell it for 1200 koins. i never keep any staves i find , then again im never a mage character either.

Has anyone used a Telekinesis staff as a Magicka reserve for an Atronach? Charge it up when you can and absorb the spell when needed.

Paralysis. This staff becomes essential to me when my mage is just starting out. Not so much at later levels.

My first was shock damage. Now it's either silence or paralyze.

Shock. It's the least resisted of the elemental damages and when you first get the staff it does good damage for your level. I've found the game will hand you a paralysis staff, among others, but the damage on the mage staff is a good deal. I usually get it at lvl 10 and it can be very useful against wisps for a melee guy.

Mara

Paralize, but i play a Spellsword, so only really use it when running away or when theres multi mobs

That breaks my heart.

I'm not kidding.

I'd have to go with the majority on paralysis

Usually it gets left at home or whatever passes for it with my char

But there are times.....

Going toe to toe with Umbra at max diff I found it was the only way to put the [censored] down

i'm often chosin telekinesis how awsome isn't the abillity? And doing it whit a staff that's pure awsomeness

I appreciate the thought. I play dead-is-dead but it really should be called 'no-reloading-to-fix-a-problem'. Sarrah's lost stall brought the game into a blend with reality in a way that eating and sleeping in the game could never do. Reloading to get her staff back was one of the hardest things I ever had to resist.

Shock Staff. The walk strait over to the spell makeing alter to whip up a weakness spell that boosts it's damage by 4x. Double casting said spell ramps up the damage by 16x.

No, but I do use a custom TK spell for that. I'm not sure if the staff would work, since you are not actually casting the spell. I might test it since all my characters use that sign.

I always take the Paralysis staff, and will definitely be doing so on my new Alchemist character who relies on Poisons and Staves for combat (the only magic he directly uses is Weakness to Poison and Soul Trap).

My mage-types don't need the damage staffs, and all my characters run up Speechcraft and Personality so the Charm staff is essentially useless.

The main reason I take the Paralysis staff every time is the ridiculous cost of the effect; I greatly reduced it in my game in order to test a custom spell with it, and even then it was still prohibitively expensive to use on a regular basis despite having a custom refill spell handy. As for custom enchanting with it? Fuggeddaboutit, unless you want a weapon that never has more than about 5 shots, and that only with a Grand Soul powering the enchantment.

Paralyze

It looks like I'm not alone in picking the staff of paralysis, though unlike some of the respondents here I've used it extensively (to the point where I'm spending an eternity recharging the darned thing, but its worth it in the end). On my current play through though I may just go for something different, perhaps charm or dispel.

Just to be clear, for those playing with no mods:

1. Paralize is not available for you to enchant with at the alter.

2. For those effects that are avail for enchanting onto a weapon, the game caps you to a max power of 85 per charge/strike. If you use a grand soul, that nets a weapon with 19 charges (1600 divided by 85 and rounded). It is not possible to, for example, enchant a weapon where each charge has a power of 320, which would be required to limit a grand soul created weapon to 5 charges. That is, any weapon you enchant with a grand soul will have at least 19 charges.

Again, mods can change all of this.

Usually paralysis. Either that or silence.

Zappy Zappy. :shocking:

Paralyze. Never use it though. Weighs me down and it's rarely useful so I leave it in a drawer in my waterfront shack. I stick with my sword, bow, potions, and the handful of spells I can cast.

Soul trap. I really don't know why, but all the other things seems so... Non-usable for me?

I went for Paralysis.

Paralysis every time, far too amusing, and great for when you need to run away from something really nasty

Paralysis.

ESPECIALLY as a mage type character. Even at higher levels it's still useful to have.

I picked Telekinesis too. But only because I was tricked (by the Abomb) into believing something went wrong when I picked something else. Therefore I went through the whole thing three times before giving up. Man, would I wipe the streets with the guy who never bothered fixing that thing :stare: :stare:

Paralyze is obviously the best. Its so overpowered against anything that doesnt resist it.