I think Magic combat is AWSEOME!

Why? For 3 reasons.

1. You can canon a enemy when holding him\her up while shooting a fireball! *svosh* flies far away!
2. You can cause a storm of lightning, fire and frost! 10\10 EyeCandy <3
3. Magic is the one thing that has like a box of tools you can use quickly in combat, just endless of crazy possibilities on how you can destroy your enemies!

Well it is entertaining but nothing else really some spells are good.

1. I like using magic this time, because its fun unlike in past games, but i would like to have spellcrafing, it added a sense of freedom in magic.. so yes, i even had my first main character(or character past level 10) who is pure mage
2. Spell effects are very cool.
3. It's not balanced, destruction is weak at higher levels and some skills like illusion and conjuration are too powerful.

I like magic in Skyrim because:
-I always enjoy caster type of rpg gameplay, even more so in Skyrim
-I like flashy stuff, and unlike previous TES magic is visually spectacular
-I like aoe
-I like kiting
-I like buffing/healing myself and debuffing enemies
-I like crowd control
-I like having specific utility for specific situations
-I like having the capability for incredibly high bursts of damage

oh so many more reasons
people whine about destruction damage, need to learn a few tricks

What tricks? Break the game with enchanting? Stun lock enemy with firebolt spam for the next 20 minutes? Abuse the AI and its inability to tackle the obstetrical known as a table?

Oh yea, I could summon the dremora gang to kill my enemies. Works wonders. But then thats the only contribution to the fight you can do, as your fireball isn't going to kill that marauder now is it.

Magic Combat is not awesome. Magic combat almost always seems to end with a weapon in my hand.

Wait, what..

You use Frost to slow a enemy down that can handle alot, that will stagger him and reduce his stamina, works nicely.
You have Fire for the enemies that die rather easily..
Shock to get down the casters.

All the mambojambo tricks enchants stun whatever cheats you was talking about isn't happening in my world and magic is so awseome!

Magic is hard, for some.. I find magic more fun as you have 3 enemies.

You can some spells that make them fight eachother, one of them dies. You raise him as undead, then he fights them off.
While this happen, you got time to cast some beautiful fire spells or whatever to your likings.

Even Bound Sword if you want to get close upon them, even bow! So what's so bad with magic!? NOTHING! It's brilliant!

So why do you like magic in this game?

Out of curiosity, what level are you?

I don't see these effects happening in vanilla Skyrim. NPC casters have near unlimited mana and crazy damage output, and NPC melee?

Better hope you have enough mana for atronach summon spam.

You know you can stop their mana regeneration? O.o

Yes
Yes
No

The spells look better, have a better variety of forms, but the numbers are way off.

This, but I'm finding the http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=611 mod combined with the augment increase from http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=382 make everything much better. And a lot more 'splodey. :clap:

...doesn't help the consolers much though. :sadvaultboy:

You know it's almost completely negligible?

NPC casters are horribly broken compared to PC casters, when you consider how horrible their damage dealing tree is at higher levels.

It's pretty awesome on normal everyday creatures, especially when things come together and I'm switching between summoning guardians, shooting jets of flame, flinging fireballs etc. etc. for what the situation calls for. The problem is with the damage sponge enemies that have tons of HP.

Don't you understand?!?! It's no good because I can't destroy everything with one fireball!
:whistling:

Or with 15 fireballs. Hell, some enemies take even more than that. And I promise you under NORMAL circumstances, that would be at least a mana bar or two.

Spells (at least most of them) should scale with leveling and skill, and there shouldn't be a set level for which monsters are affected of certain spells like Calm and Fear etc.

These changes and magic would be way way better in my opinion.

Who votes that magic is balanced in TES?!

Magic has never been balanced in TES. Magic is more than just destruction, you know... Conjuration makes a total joke of the game, and Illusion (More specifically, "Rage" and "Calm") either does nothing or completely breaks everything.

It takes me like 10~20 arrows to kill a bear with archery level 85, all damage-boosting perks unlocked + the 3x crit starter hit.

If anything I'd say it's fairly balanced.








I've got to say though, I was expecting archery to be much more deadly- and arrow MUCH more rare.
By level 3 I had like 300+ iron arrows and 200 Steel

I don't know if you know this or not, but different types of arrows have different damage modifiers. Iron and steel arrows are amongst the weakest arrows. But I can say that bears are the biggest damage sponges in the game.

I might make a mage because Conjuration is awesome.

Well I'm loving the magic system but I'm only level 25. I think the system has loads of potential, I can't wait for modders to get into it so we can get some crazy combined dual casting spells.

Well I think it makes sense that there is a limit to what illusion magic affects. If you actually put perks into it and dual cast it, then you can affect pretty much everything, except boss monsters.

Get 100 in enchanting and enchant 4 pieces of clothing items with 25% of any effect/school use a spell coinciding with that enchantment and see what happens :teehee:

This works better with some schools than others. Free restoration spells = lol. Free destruction spells = meh.