Originally Posted by Task Force (Post 1800976)

I gotta say this is probably the best game I have played in along time. Well worth the 60$s

Originally Posted by Drewcifer (Post 1803426)

http://skyrimcalculator.com/#20582

Here just wanted to share this build. This is the mage build that I made, from level 1 on up I had no trouble whatsoever and by level 20 you will be an unstoppable god at the highest difficulty level. Infact by level 40 I had to switch to another character because I felt like I had enabled cheats.

I put 250 in health and everything else in Magicka, ignore stamina, its completely usesless to a mage.

Every fight enable your allteration shield, wear only cloth for your mage armor bonus. if your getting hit hard, attempt to move, if you can't throw up your ward until you can get out of the way of harm.

as far as combat tactics go, summon in whatever you think would fit the situation flame/Frost/storm. And then begin to attack via dual casting your fire spell or lightning spell of choice. Flame for most enemies will shred everything, but Lightning destroys dragons and magic users in seconds, as well it moves at the speed of light.. so missing with lightning almost never happens.

I built enchant up so that I could get the gear I wanted, I took whatever I could get the most enchantments on, so gloves/hat, cloths, boots, ring, necklace, headband.

If anybody needs any further help let me know, I just wanted to post this up for anybody interested in a mage.

I'm really not sure where all this bussiness about mages not being glass cannons and not having the damage output they should, once you have the right gear and right spells, perks, etc you should be able to two shot an ancient dragon, and no more then three shot a giant if you have to use something LESS then a master spell.

Originally Posted by mookiemookie (Post 1803472)

The early game was a little rough, and I died quite a bit. Once I got Lydia and started using her as a tank, things got really easy. By the end, Draugr Deathlords were the only thing that offered any challenge, and even then it was a small challenge. The Impact perk is very overpowered in my opinion...I was spamming dual cast firebolts at everything and stunning them, and my magicka pool was so deep that most everything was dead before I ran out of magicka and it had a chance to do anything. Alduin was cake.

Originally Posted by Drewcifer (Post 1803502)

The trick is to perk to 'impact' in your destruction tree as fast as possible, all extra points need to be spent on alteration to get to mage armor for your survivablity. Conjuration can be built on an as you need basis.

I tend to fight without a follower, but I always have one Artonach summoned, either Flame, or Storm dependings on the type of destruction I'm casting as it won't hurt my summon. If you stick to my build and my forumla not even the early game is difficult, although levels 1-10 you might be alittle more reliant on zombies, and possibly any staff you have as magicka can be a slight issue but not much.

Originally Posted by Biggles (Post 1804115)

Never understood why they say that....:hmmm:

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen (Post 1804134)

Back in Morrowind, the character creation process featured a series of questions. One of them was about what you would do if your sweetroll was stolen.