i'm not the guy of the video but i could tell you that you should invest on the "silent casting" perk from the illusion skill tree if you haven't already. It is one of the most useful perks in the game because it makes EVERY SPELL AND SHOUT silent. Get that perk and use the runes wherever you want and then, use the bound bow to shoot the runes directly, this will cause your enemies to investigate the source of the noise and BOOM. :D
Still, due to the fact that most of the monsters in Skyrim are ice based, Fire is much more effective as a central focus. Because face it, only mages summon the fire elementals. But just out in the wild you face ice elementals, ice wraiths, hoarkers and just all manner of ice based creatures.
Draugr, vampires and weirder undead are resistant to frost damage and go up like kindling when faced with fire damage. Bleak Falls Barrow is the perfect place to test it. Just use the standard-issue flame spell, put your first perk into novice destruction, and hose down every single draugr you face with dual-casted Flames, while backpedaling.
I actually play a fire mage, and I find that when I invade places like say a abandoned fort (lots of bandits) the flames can scatter the melee-heavy groups of enemies, effectively keeping most of them away from you.
it is not sarcasm , i love it when you explaining it nicely and politely . unlike some of the other youtubers that say bad words while presenting tutorials . btw , subscribed ! =]
breaks the game and end up making it boring soon. I try to at least make "op"(not really) by making a string of an outfit make reducing magic moves, so I have to at least switch a lot if I want to make spells "low cost". it often tends to make me lean more towards other methods of attacking, or just skip swapping if I feel rushed
@@courierz9451 alternatively if you don't want to break the game but also don't want the magicka problem you should use equilibrium with fast healing. And also this will only " barely " make you able to beat most enemies, if you truly want to be over powered without using enchanting you should use alchemy that fortify your destruction's damage. With thunderbolt spell you can easily burst down 200 damage per second. ( With max lightning effectiveness 50% and extra 20% damage from potion note that once you used up your mana you'll be very weak and had to cast equilibrium risking people killing you. Use fast healing or cure wounds if your hp falls below 50% since it's the danger zone where you can easily get one shotted by most enemies on expert+ difficulty)
You could do a very similar action using Frost as well, however instead of warding them away you would dramatically slow them down and make ineffective in combat.
@ebls2000 Really glad I could help! Generally, whatever you feel works best for you is the way to go. My suggestions are general and are for people who would want to get ideas or recommendations :)
In Skyrim, one of my builds is an Imperial Destruction Mage who is lv 100 in Destruction. I have all the perks. I actually use fire much more than any other element, and I tend to use frost the least. Have not yet cared to even try deep freeze even though I have the perk. I actually love the Intense flames perk. It works very well for me, as the enemy cries for mercy and cowers. He doesn't always run away, sometimes he just crouches and yields. Either way, the enemy is very easy to pick off. If they run, it makes the finishing move more engaging and fun as you see your foe run away from you. It is basically a hidden fear spell built into the Intense flames perk. Very cool. As for runes, I have been able to use fire runes successfully as an offensive spell. With the rune master perk, runes become great for taking out foes from a distance who are hiding around the corner. I just cast the rune on the wall next to them from afar, and it immediately explodes because of their proximity. Surprisingly effective because, unlike fireball or incinerate, there is no travel time for fire rune (or any of the runes)- once you cast it, the rune *instantly* appears on your target surface. My favourite spells are fire ball and incinerate. Wall of flames is excellent for close quarters, or when surrounded.
You forgot to mention the velocity of the missiles,there's a order. Frost < Fire < Shock,frost is the slower kind of missile,fire is in the middle,and shock is almost instantly! I think it's a good point to work as well. Nice video
1. I think they do, I'm pretty sure at least fiery spell does! 2. Well, it really does depend on them fitting to your play style. If you don't want to go melee, it would probably be best that you steer away from those, but if you think they will be a valuable addition to your arsenal, then by all means you have to try to incorporate them. Again, there are certain problem you will encounter (with particularly tough melee enemies), so you've got to be reasonable and careful enough :)
I feel like when I compare Ice Storm and Chain Lightning, having augmented frost and shock, shock does more dps, and disintegrate is the most powerful in my opinion
I wish that there were an enchantment for destruction damage+... it sucks deep throat, that even the highest destruction spells are as effective, as throwing rocks on legendary difficulty -_____________-
I like it how you use deep throat as a signal for negative meaning, last time I checked it was AWESOME :D Now on the topic: yeah, dude, it really does suck, but what can you do. Without proper modding the game is a little bit bare-bones and lacks in several departments.
QuickSaveTV That is not true,when you look at one or two handed weapons you can see that you can make it so those weapons deal 100% more damage,same goes for bows.But if they allowed you to upgrade your destruction damage even more it would be over powered,for melee weapons you have to come closer to the enemy,allowing them to hit you,for bows you need to buy or collect arrows if you want to use it,but for magic it is ranged combat and you only need magicka which will regenerate after a while of usage,and when you upgrade it to 100% less magicka cost it would be WAAAAAY too strong,no one would ever choose anything but destruction magic.
@@beynesyalayay5300 um, they do let you improve destruction damage outside of the perks in the school and the elemental masks there are a bunch of ways to improve destruction damage like aspect of terror for 15 fire damage after augmented flames 2 necromage for an additional 25% magnitude and 50% duration against undead and undead are all over the place Iand shalidor's destruction scrolls from a repeatable quest from the college librarian give additional 50% magnitude and 50% cost reduction. If all of those apply firestorm does over 1100 damage in 25 feet including 40% burn damage but not including initial fire weakness or alchemy, so it can do even more damage if the targets start weak to fire and all these things stack with alchemy. The best order for alchemy is weakness to magic then weakness to poison then weakness to whatever element you're going to use and then a potion of destruction. You apply poison with bound bow so you're still using magic only
There are generally 2 routes when it comes to magic: using enchants to focus on a few schools, or using enchants to boost mana and mana regen to use all schools while using other things to reduce cost like perks and shalidor's scrolls.
@TheKevinLingwo the character class you're referring to would probably be a Witchhunter. I'll do the video about it once I have a moment of free time (essentially my character is a Witchhunter as well). Sadly, I need to do my research paper, or else something bad is going to happen. Expect this video on Tuesday - Wednesday.
@talktoapossum1 You are very welcome, it was my pleasure! I never talked about how you improve Destruction and that's really frustrating... I'll cover for that in the future.
If you look at the tree, you can see the flame tree happens earlier and ends earlier. So I feel it is a good earlier road especially underneath level, my opinion. Then as you move you should move up on frost and sparks.
I see your point, however: 1. Intense flames as I've noticed while I was using it would make targets flee before their actual 10% HP mark. So, sometimes I would have a situation where a perfectly healthy individual "on fire" would just run the hell away from me. Very nice way to look at Disintegrate, by the way. However there is one minus of Shock compare to Ice and Flames: its cost. It's by far the most expensive school to master, but of course can be battled by enchanting and/or high magicka
QuicSaveTV Intense Flames is actually a very useful perk. ESO mentioned in a video that fire counts as a fear spell, so if you invest in the illusion skill tree in the fearmagic section, you fire spells will have more damage. The most powerful spell will probably the ignite spell, because when the enemies are on fire it will do extra damage per second and if you cast it several times, it will even do more damage than any sword or bow.
@008abdullah Thanks, glad you like them! If you want to go for destruction magic I say go ahead and pick 2 attacks at least. Whether it's going to be Ice and Fire, Ice and Shock or Shock and Fire it is up to you. Some monsters are invulnerable to some damage types, so it pays to be prepared and have additional attack type. Oh, yeah, I'm a Professional Russian :)
Frost trolls in labyrinthian are good to get armor ,destruction, block,archery ( with bound bow) and resto up because they regenerate health quickly. For destruction levelling up you'd use any frost spell against them since you are using a lot of magicka without killing them.. For archery levelling up you use the bound bow and tap the fire button and fire off LOTS of weak shots.
@008abdullah oh that really depends on your play style... Different trees offer different benefits, so choose wisely. As to which one would be useful... Well, all of them! Illusion for decreasing enemy group's strength and do other fancy things, Conjuration to increase your hitpoints by adding additional summons into your group and even restoration to restore some HP and Stamina (if you're gasping). You might want to check out my other videos about that, as it's not so easy to put it in 2 words
In a way that is correct. But you have to remember, last 15% HP are not as hard to take down as first 15% :) Plus the enemy often gets on the ground and trying to recoup, giving you even more time to attack. Flames is probably the cheapest spell in the tree, I agree. I never knew Necromage adds a bonus to Flames :D
@gjurof more specifically? Generally: Enemies are tougher, hit harder, perform fatalities more often and even when you are at nearly full HP, being more aggressive and progress faster than you!
I've only just begun to explore the fun things you can do in Skyrim, but I've found that Alchemy is a very good friend to most mages, particularly early on. For instance, if you're up against a troll, start the fight by tipping your arrow in a weakness to fire poison, shoot him with it and then scorch his ass. He'll be dead in no time flat. Stuff like paralysis and drain magicka/stamina are also a lot of fun. Poisons can be a huge help to mages.
My advice in being Destruction mage is to invest perks in both the Destruction and enchanting tree. As if you do it correctly you should be able to put Destruction costs 25% less to cost on head gear, ring, necklace and body amour. Thus Destruction doesn't cost any magicka. With impact you can continue to throw powerful Destruction spells and lose the inconvenience of running out of magicka, and it will be very easy to take out targets.
Getting Dual Casting would be counter-intuitive, but Impact might become a very important spell in your inventory. Thing of it this way: sometimes you might want to switch to spells completely (at range, against extremely tough opponent), so perhaps taking it would not be so bad :)
Не волнуйся, это очень просто! Выбираешь на зачаровательном столе предмет, эфеект и камень душ. После этого жмешь "T" и вводишь имя. Жмешь "Enter" и ты готов к бою! Если ты на консоли, я, честное слово, не знаю... Наверняка есть какой-то способ, и там и там персонажа надо как-то именовать :) Удачи!
If you manage to level your enchantment and get the perks on it along with destruction, you won't even need the master destruction perk nor the expert perk. You could just get thalmor robes, disenchant, and make four items that make destruction cost less, along with master robes of destruction. Your spells will cost almost nothing.
I never said a word about mana :) Moreover, this stunlock your enemy is actually crucial, it's not worthless at any rate. It's like saying that Armor Piercing Rounds for your gun are worthless, because they don't deal as much damage to unprotected target as JHP would do (Even though they allow you to fight universally well against all types of targets).
@balletjenr1 Hi dear friend! Thank you very much, I'm glad you like it! Yes, I've got some interesting ideas about Conjuration which I would like to talk about, but my conjuration is still at... 30? I don't want to mislead people, because I need a valid comparison. I will do it at some point in the future, just as Illusion and Alteration. That's going to be our last, but not least In Detail coverage. Have a great day and stay tuned for more content!
Also, Disintegrate makes it so that all enemies basically have 15% less health. Very useful I'd say. Also with Aspect of terror and 2/2 Augmented Fire, Flames (The spell) becomes the most mana efficient destruction spell, i think it does like 27 damage per second and even more when used against undead with necromage from Restoration.
Good vid but please dont spend skills in the mana reduction branch as you will be able to enchant your items to reduce the cost or simply enchant mana regen and you'll only need to pause a second between some spells to refill on mana.
Just get the perk early in the game get the enchantment mid game and legendary for your perk back or even just use a dragon soul to get your perk back. Its extremely helpful early game especially if you're not high elf and there are several ways to get the perk point back when you have you enchantments.
Takes way too long to get your enchantment to that level and if you power grind it too early it will fuck with your scaling. Better to get the perk point and if you need it back later when your enchantment is strong either use the book from the dlc that gives you your perks back without losing your levels or go legendary
It's true, but only if you think in terms of damage. For instance, fighting melee warriors in any circumstance (even if they are Nords with 50% res) would be more beneficial for you with ice spells (ranged control, stamina burn). Don't focus too much on outright damage, think about side effects as well :) Of course at a certain breaking point you will be able to burn through your enemies as easy as if they were made of butter, but this is a story of another day! :D
I'll try to fit it in under 500 chars. DI kills the target quicker. It does not influence your Crow Control capabilities, which are generally of higher importance of damage. In every RPG, including MMOs players often forsake DMG to get more CC, because CONTROLLING your enemy wins battles, NOT KILLING him faster. Well, I managed :D
I think disintegrate is the best elemental specialty perk. Lightning spells cost the greatest amount of magicka so if your enemies die earlier you will save valuable magicka for other spells. Oh and by the way, thanks for making me notice that little detail in the Intense Flames perk; I wouldn't have noticed it myself. Still I don't think it is a bad perk. If it was then they wouldn't have made it. If some enemies flee you can concentrate the fire on the remaining and cause more damage.
frost is VERY useful , but dont forget ! : you are in skyrim - the land of Nords ... every single Nord have 50 % immune to frost .... soo .. you are fucked .
@AndroxineVortex Here you got it right! You have fire for mundane situations and shock spells for other more specific situations. Now, even if your enemy has 100% resistance against fire you will be able to smack him with some shock :)
@Flebkh It's reasonably well thought :) However, I think you should instead use the same spell on both hands, so that you can combine them together in a more powerful version. You don't really need to be prepared for fire/frost immune enemy at all times, you can just keep it at your favourites menu instead.
Disintegrate disintegrates targets if their health is low. The game consideres low to be anywhere below 15%. So this perk effectively reduces the health of every enemy in the game by 15%. Very useful for shock spells.
You should advice people to get enchanting to 100 first so you can cast spells for free, otherwise you will always run out of Magicka, especially when dual casting. You cannot just focus on one “Element”, you need to use all 3 because enemies have different resistances, you don’t want to be fighting a flame atronach or a dunmer with fire or a nord or automaton with Ice. Fire is a good element because of the amplified damage, so as long as it’s not resisted it’s good. Lightning is good against mages because it drains Magicka, and also good against moving targets or birds because it reaches the target instantly. So you need to focus on all 3. If you focus on enchanting first then you don’t need to waste perks on “apprentice, adept, expert, Mater destruction/Conjuration/restoration/illusion perks”, since you will cast for O Magicka cost. Dual cast increases spell strength by 2.2, at the cost of 2.8 Magicka cost. Before enchanting you rarely have enough Magicka to dual cast for long, after enchanting you will be dual casting 99% of the time. You need all the augmented perks, no need to choose only 1, you don’t want to be useless fighting 40% of your enemies. Ignore “Intense Flames”, it’s really annoying that the enemy you are about to kill (less than 25% health) will start running instead. Like an undead about to die inside a cave will go running deeper waking up every other undead to come after you. It’s rather an useless perk. Deep freeze is good, enemies with 25% health or less will be paralyzed. This perk is even further increased with the alteration perk “Stability” which increases its duration 50%. Disintegrate will kill an enemy with 15% or less health, not 25% like the others. The problem with frost spells is that most enemies are resistant to frost in Skyrim, starting with Nords. Solstheim is better for frost spells. Fire spells damage are even further increased by the “Aspect of terror” perk in the illusion tree if taken after both perk of “augmented flames” perk by 15 points of damage. I read it add 10 only if taken before. Fire rune does not increase. So don’t invest in runes in the long run. Ignite is one of the best spells, low mana cost and the highest damage, surpassing incinerate when dual casted with Aspect of terror added (~360 damage over 15 per cast), damage stacks.
Many of skyrims enemies are resistant to frost, but deep freeze is very useful. I personally think shock is good because it hits its target almost instantly good against dragons.
DI kills the target quicker. It does not influence your Crow Control capabilities, which are generally of higher importance of damage. In every RPG, including MMOs players often forsake DMG to get more CC, because CONTROLLING your enemy wins battles, NOT KILLING him faster.
Your first proposal is very situational. Generally, you should keep your distance as a pure mage and such situation that you described will not happen. Very interesting, I never knew that about Aspect of Terror. But, let's hope those small exploits are getting fixed eventually...
@CognizantCheddar I was not aware of that. I think it's a bug, since FLAME attacks should deal additional damage. If it would be correct then Marksman's Potion's increase of ANY and ALL weapon damage is also a good thing >_< Well, since frost is useful against bandit chief, that's what you should focus on. Your priorities are bosses, dragons, trolls, mammoths and giants, NOT common rabble.
In many cases you can't just disintegrate enemies, special conditions must be met. With paralysis no conditions are required you can paralyze almost any target and plan out whom you going to kill first and how :)
@Destrucktive I, personally, find alchemy limitedly useful. Smithing for you would be only to improve your armor and alchemy seems not so useful as it would focus on poisons or potions which you would probably not use at all. You can survive by buying healing and magicka potions from a shop. However, if you want to reach max 81 level you should practice all skills in the game (eventually you'll need to get 17 of them to 100 and 1 to at least 95, I think).
I'm a little bit mixed about frost spells. Sure they can paralyze with deep freeze but in Skyrim you are going to be predominantly fighting Nords which are resistant to frost. Draugr are also resistant to frost and so are Frost Dragons.
In my experience flames are easily the best spell + melee combination to focus on. The OP doesn't seem to realize that if you hit a character that is on fire with a melee weapon you get a major damage boost. Frost is certainly useful for the stamina damage, but it's just not so appropriate for common enemies. Something like a Bandit Chief, sure, frost damage is great to gimp him. For the common bandit types, you're better off setting them on fire and killing them quickly with power attacks.
It's possible, all it could be that you've attacked a dragon that had no resistance against shock. Yeah, but it also drains enemy mana, sure as hell it's useful! :D
Great tutorial. I made myself a powerfull pure mage, using all points in magic scholls (exception for 4 points in speech to get merchant). Alteration e Illusion are full, echanting all perks exception of soul squeezer and soul siphon, restoration I just didn´t use point perks in respite and ward absorbe (prefere alteration), conjuration all perks exception of oblivion binding and 1 point in summoner, and finally destruction, all perks exception of rune master, desintegrate and intense flames.
I'm a fire bender, so fire and lightning for me. For some reason I've never liked any water based powers or anything like that. Fire is powerful and lightning is quick.
My character is generally weak when using illusion magic. So the intense flames has been quite useful versus groups of enemies. But that paralysis is much more useful.
That is a galactic achievement right there, you mean all 251 videos? If so, man, you must really like what I do! :D You are welcome! Come back for more!
Yeah, you can do that too, I think it even brings it down to 100%, but I wanted to give you more food for thought and information in this video, instead of just saying "Hey, if you exploit the game like this, you'll have 100% spell cost reduction" :P
@toddcronk I've enchanted my heavy dragon bone armor to increase my magicka and to regenerate it faster. Additionally, especially for the tutorial and magic practices I've made two jewelry pieces - again for increase magicka and increased magicka regen. In total - 4 pieces with +62% mana regen, resulting in +248% magicka regeneration speed
It's AMD Phenom II x965 (4x cores, 3,4GHz each), NVidia GeForce 470GTx, 12 Gb RAM (that wasn't always like that, at a day I've created that video I had 4Gb).
@talktoapossum1 I like Fireballs (hold to arm then release to fire away), because they are cheapest and easy to use. Plus they deal with trolls for good.
Thank you for the valuable critic, I will keep it in mind for the future videos :P It was nonetheless one of my early works, you might want to take a look at my recent content, I am much more proud of it than I am of my old ones :P
@mrpatman7 I agree for the most part, but I think you don't really need to bother with Undead too much. But it seems that Fire is generally more effective against Trolls and Undead, so it's probably the best idea to use it this way. Then again, taking all corresponding Perks might become very perk-intensive and will not be worth it after all.
You are missing the point here: Disintegrate does not burn out stamina and does not slow down an approaching berserker with two axes each sized as your whole damn body! Be what it may be, just cutting down enemy hitpoints by 1/4 is not necessarily best choice in every situation. It is great when you fight against mages, however!
Well, I have years of experience in RPGs and I'll tell you this: CC and, generally, anything that helps you pin your enemy to the ground is useful for all classes, be that ranged or melee. However, in Skyrim, there really is no one that strong to fight against to really require it. It's PvE only, after all :) Shock is not necessarily the best tree, even though the resistance mentioning from you is fair. Shock is the most expensive and does not carry collateral damage.
Deep Freeze vs Disintegrate? How can paralyzing an enemy be superior to killing it? As far as I can see Disintegrate basically reads "Lighting spells damage increased by x%". And since almost nothing in the game is resistant to Lightning, Lightning is the best element imo. Plus Lightning spells hit instantly, no trailing projectile to worry about. Owns fast moving targets like flying Dragons.
@CognizantCheddar think of that this way then, bandits are not the hardest enemies in the game, so just forget about them. Yeah, it's valid, frost as such is not effective against nord bandits and against frost atronachs, as well as it's not the best idea to use against frost dragons, BUT, we still have classical flame dragons and all the rest enemies in the game. In the same manner I can say, you shouldn't take flame, because Dunmer have 50% res against fire.
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Distraction skill tree
It's the best magic skill tree if you're a pacifist.
Dont make fun of his accent he is from Elswyr
I went for shock... BECAUSE I AM A SITH LORD BITCH.
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i'm not the guy of the video but i could tell you that you should invest on the "silent casting" perk from the illusion skill tree if you haven't already.
It is one of the most useful perks in the game because it makes EVERY SPELL AND SHOUT silent.
Get that perk and use the runes wherever you want and then, use the bound bow to shoot the runes directly, this will cause your enemies to investigate the source of the noise and BOOM. :D
I always go shock no race is imune to it and storm atronachs are very rare
Still, due to the fact that most of the monsters in Skyrim are ice based, Fire is much more effective as a central focus. Because face it, only mages summon the fire elementals. But just out in the wild you face ice elementals, ice wraiths, hoarkers and just all manner of ice based creatures.
Draugr, vampires and weirder undead are resistant to frost damage and go up like kindling when faced with fire damage.
Bleak Falls Barrow is the perfect place to test it. Just use the standard-issue flame spell, put your first perk into novice destruction, and hose down every single draugr you face with dual-casted Flames, while backpedaling.
I can’t decide whether ignoring the phone call was professional or unprofessional but I appreciate you for letting it ring through anyways!
It couldn't have been work if that's what you're thinking! Was a friend or something. :D
I actually play a fire mage, and I find that when I invade places like say a abandoned fort (lots of bandits) the flames can scatter the melee-heavy groups of enemies, effectively keeping most of them away from you.
I made a pure mage today and was hoping to learn about destruction when I start building my character. Perfect timing haha, great info!
it is not sarcasm , i love it when you explaining it nicely and politely . unlike some of the other youtubers that say bad words while presenting tutorials . btw , subscribed ! =]
Gotcha, thanks for the feedback. I just didn't think it was necessary at a time...
Glad you enjoyed it.
When I got to 100 in enchanting I just enchanted so my spells doesn't cost any mana at all :)
Too boring.
breaks the game and end up making it boring soon. I try to at least make "op"(not really) by making a string of an outfit make reducing magic moves, so I have to at least switch a lot if I want to make spells "low cost". it often tends to make me lean more towards other methods of attacking, or just skip swapping if I feel rushed
@@courierz9451 alternatively if you don't want to break the game but also don't want the magicka problem you should use equilibrium with fast healing.
And also this will only " barely " make you able to beat most enemies, if you truly want to be over powered without using enchanting you should use alchemy that fortify your destruction's damage. With thunderbolt spell you can easily burst down 200 damage per second. ( With max lightning effectiveness 50% and extra 20% damage from potion note that once you used up your mana you'll be very weak and had to cast equilibrium risking people killing you. Use fast healing or cure wounds if your hp falls below 50% since it's the danger zone where you can easily get one shotted by most enemies on expert+ difficulty)
You could do a very similar action using Frost as well, however instead of warding them away you would dramatically slow them down and make ineffective in combat.
@ebls2000 Really glad I could help!
Generally, whatever you feel works best for you is the way to go. My suggestions are general and are for people who would want to get ideas or recommendations :)
In Skyrim, one of my builds is an Imperial Destruction Mage who is lv 100 in Destruction. I have all the perks. I actually use fire much more than any other element, and I tend to use frost the least. Have not yet cared to even try deep freeze even though I have the perk.
I actually love the Intense flames perk. It works very well for me, as the enemy cries for mercy and cowers. He doesn't always run away, sometimes he just crouches and yields. Either way, the enemy is very easy to pick off. If they run, it makes the finishing move more engaging and fun as you see your foe run away from you. It is basically a hidden fear spell built into the Intense flames perk. Very cool.
As for runes, I have been able to use fire runes successfully as an offensive spell. With the rune master perk, runes become great for taking out foes from a distance who are hiding around the corner. I just cast the rune on the wall next to them from afar, and it immediately explodes because of their proximity. Surprisingly effective because, unlike fireball or incinerate, there is no travel time for fire rune (or any of the runes)- once you cast it, the rune *instantly* appears on your target surface. My favourite spells are fire ball and incinerate. Wall of flames is excellent for close quarters, or when surrounded.
You forgot to mention the velocity of the missiles,there's a order. Frost < Fire < Shock,frost is the slower kind of missile,fire is in the middle,and shock is almost instantly! I think it's a good point to work as well. Nice video
1. I think they do, I'm pretty sure at least fiery spell does!
2. Well, it really does depend on them fitting to your play style. If you don't want to go melee, it would probably be best that you steer away from those, but if you think they will be a valuable addition to your arsenal, then by all means you have to try to incorporate them. Again, there are certain problem you will encounter (with particularly tough melee enemies), so you've got to be reasonable and careful enough :)
I feel like when I compare Ice Storm and Chain Lightning, having augmented frost and shock, shock does more dps, and disintegrate is the most powerful in my opinion
I wish that there were an enchantment for destruction damage+... it sucks deep throat, that even the highest destruction spells are as effective, as throwing rocks on legendary difficulty -_____________-
I like it how you use deep throat as a signal for negative meaning, last time I checked it was AWESOME :D
Now on the topic: yeah, dude, it really does suck, but what can you do. Without proper modding the game is a little bit bare-bones and lacks in several departments.
QuickSaveTV That is not true,when you look at one or two handed weapons you can see that you can make it so those weapons deal 100% more damage,same goes for bows.But if they allowed you to upgrade your destruction damage even more it would be over powered,for melee weapons you have to come closer to the enemy,allowing them to hit you,for bows you need to buy or collect arrows if you want to use it,but for magic it is ranged combat and you only need magicka which will regenerate after a while of usage,and when you upgrade it to 100% less magicka cost it would be WAAAAAY too strong,no one would ever choose anything but destruction magic.
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depends, wether you GIVE or RECIEVE it...
@@beynesyalayay5300 um, they do let you improve destruction damage outside of the perks in the school and the elemental masks there are a bunch of ways to improve destruction damage like aspect of terror for 15 fire damage after augmented flames 2 necromage for an additional 25% magnitude and 50% duration against undead and undead are all over the place Iand shalidor's destruction scrolls from a repeatable quest from the college librarian give additional 50% magnitude and 50% cost reduction. If all of those apply firestorm does over 1100 damage in 25 feet including 40% burn damage but not including initial fire weakness or alchemy, so it can do even more damage if the targets start weak to fire and all these things stack with alchemy. The best order for alchemy is weakness to magic then weakness to poison then weakness to whatever element you're going to use and then a potion of destruction. You apply poison with bound bow so you're still using magic only
Oh, and both melee and archery tend to burn through stamina
you put everything in good description...your a good explainer
There are generally 2 routes when it comes to magic: using enchants to focus on a few schools, or using enchants to boost mana and mana regen to use all schools while using other things to reduce cost like perks and shalidor's scrolls.
@TheKevinLingwo the character class you're referring to would probably be a Witchhunter. I'll do the video about it once I have a moment of free time (essentially my character is a Witchhunter as well).
Sadly, I need to do my research paper, or else something bad is going to happen. Expect this video on Tuesday - Wednesday.
I think you can fairly safely do that and be just fine. If you plan it out properly you will be in great shape.
@talktoapossum1 You are very welcome, it was my pleasure! I never talked about how you improve Destruction and that's really frustrating... I'll cover for that in the future.
If you look at the tree, you can see the flame tree happens earlier and ends earlier. So I feel it is a good earlier road especially underneath level, my opinion. Then as you move you should move up on frost and sparks.
I see your point, however:
1. Intense flames as I've noticed while I was using it would make targets flee before their actual 10% HP mark. So, sometimes I would have a situation where a perfectly healthy individual "on fire" would just run the hell away from me.
Very nice way to look at Disintegrate, by the way. However there is one minus of Shock compare to Ice and Flames: its cost. It's by far the most expensive school to master, but of course can be battled by enchanting and/or high magicka
QuicSaveTV Intense Flames is actually a very useful perk. ESO mentioned in a video that fire counts as a fear spell, so if you invest in the illusion skill tree in the fearmagic section, you fire spells will have more damage. The most powerful spell will probably the ignite spell, because when the enemies are on fire it will do extra damage per second and if you cast it several times, it will even do more damage than any sword or bow.
@008abdullah Thanks, glad you like them!
If you want to go for destruction magic I say go ahead and pick 2 attacks at least. Whether it's going to be Ice and Fire, Ice and Shock or Shock and Fire it is up to you. Some monsters are invulnerable to some damage types, so it pays to be prepared and have additional attack type.
Oh, yeah, I'm a Professional Russian :)
Awesome video, helped me get an idea how to short my rookie mage out. Cheers my friend!
Frost trolls in labyrinthian are good to get armor ,destruction, block,archery ( with bound bow) and resto up because they regenerate health quickly.
For destruction levelling up you'd use any frost spell against them since you are using a lot of magicka without killing them.. For archery levelling up you use the bound bow and tap the fire button and fire off LOTS of weak shots.
@008abdullah oh that really depends on your play style... Different trees offer different benefits, so choose wisely.
As to which one would be useful... Well, all of them! Illusion for decreasing enemy group's strength and do other fancy things, Conjuration to increase your hitpoints by adding additional summons into your group and even restoration to restore some HP and Stamina (if you're gasping).
You might want to check out my other videos about that, as it's not so easy to put it in 2 words
In a way that is correct. But you have to remember, last 15% HP are not as hard to take down as first 15% :) Plus the enemy often gets on the ground and trying to recoup, giving you even more time to attack.
Flames is probably the cheapest spell in the tree, I agree. I never knew Necromage adds a bonus to Flames :D
You are not wrong, the immunities of the enemies is a major hindrance to actually deal full damage, but their effects still apply.
@KalConduitman Yes, you need to find a Spell Tome with Sparks, Shock bolt or something alike. The perk itself only augments your ability.
Thank you, I appreciate both the support and the compliment! :) Stay tuned for more!
@gjurof more specifically?
Generally: Enemies are tougher, hit harder, perform fatalities more often and even when you are at nearly full HP, being more aggressive and progress faster than you!
I've only just begun to explore the fun things you can do in Skyrim, but I've found that Alchemy is a very good friend to most mages, particularly early on. For instance, if you're up against a troll, start the fight by tipping your arrow in a weakness to fire poison, shoot him with it and then scorch his ass. He'll be dead in no time flat. Stuff like paralysis and drain magicka/stamina are also a lot of fun. Poisons can be a huge help to mages.
My advice in being Destruction mage is to invest perks in both the Destruction and enchanting tree. As if you do it correctly you should be able to put Destruction costs 25% less to cost on head gear, ring, necklace and body amour. Thus Destruction doesn't cost any magicka. With impact you can continue to throw powerful Destruction spells and lose the inconvenience of running out of magicka, and it will be very easy to take out targets.
Subscribed. You are really easy to listen to and explain things very well. Thanks for your videos. :-)
Getting Dual Casting would be counter-intuitive, but Impact might become a very important spell in your inventory.
Thing of it this way: sometimes you might want to switch to spells completely (at range, against extremely tough opponent), so perhaps taking it would not be so bad :)
Не волнуйся, это очень просто! Выбираешь на зачаровательном столе предмет, эфеект и камень душ. После этого жмешь "T" и вводишь имя. Жмешь "Enter" и ты готов к бою! Если ты на консоли, я, честное слово, не знаю... Наверняка есть какой-то способ, и там и там персонажа надо как-то именовать :)
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I have watched all of the mage video's and so far i liked them very much
If you manage to level your enchantment and get the perks on it along with destruction, you won't even need the master destruction perk nor the expert perk. You could just get thalmor robes, disenchant, and make four items that make destruction cost less, along with master robes of destruction. Your spells will cost almost nothing.
Heh, I seem to have found this video almost 10 years late. I enjoyed the vid and will check out some more. Howdy from oklahoma
The formula I know for this is 2.2. Essentially any spell in dual cast should deal 2.2 the effect, which means you should have 660 when dual cast.
I never said a word about mana :) Moreover, this stunlock your enemy is actually crucial, it's not worthless at any rate. It's like saying that Armor Piercing Rounds for your gun are worthless, because they don't deal as much damage to unprotected target as JHP would do (Even though they allow you to fight universally well against all types of targets).
@balletjenr1 Hi dear friend!
Thank you very much, I'm glad you like it!
Yes, I've got some interesting ideas about Conjuration which I would like to talk about, but my conjuration is still at... 30? I don't want to mislead people, because I need a valid comparison.
I will do it at some point in the future, just as Illusion and Alteration.
That's going to be our last, but not least In Detail coverage.
Have a great day and stay tuned for more content!
Also, Disintegrate makes it so that all enemies basically have 15% less health. Very useful I'd say. Also with Aspect of terror and 2/2 Augmented Fire, Flames (The spell) becomes the most mana efficient destruction spell, i think it does like 27 damage per second and even more when used against undead with necromage from Restoration.
Good vid but please dont spend skills in the mana reduction branch as you will be able to enchant your items to reduce the cost or simply enchant mana regen and you'll only need to pause a second between some spells to refill on mana.
Just get the perk early in the game get the enchantment mid game and legendary for your perk back or even just use a dragon soul to get your perk back. Its extremely helpful early game especially if you're not high elf and there are several ways to get the perk point back when you have you enchantments.
Takes way too long to get your enchantment to that level and if you power grind it too early it will fuck with your scaling. Better to get the perk point and if you need it back later when your enchantment is strong either use the book from the dlc that gives you your perks back without losing your levels or go legendary
It's true, but only if you think in terms of damage. For instance, fighting melee warriors in any circumstance (even if they are Nords with 50% res) would be more beneficial for you with ice spells (ranged control, stamina burn). Don't focus too much on outright damage, think about side effects as well :) Of course at a certain breaking point you will be able to burn through your enemies as easy as if they were made of butter, but this is a story of another day! :D
I'll try to fit it in under 500 chars.
DI kills the target quicker. It does not influence your Crow Control capabilities, which are generally of higher importance of damage. In every RPG, including MMOs players often forsake DMG to get more CC, because CONTROLLING your enemy wins battles, NOT KILLING him faster.
Well, I managed :D
I think you can only purchase Frost Cloak, it is not anywhere to be found (I might be wrong, but I'm 70% positive).
@UnnecassarilyGaming I think it drops down to 30% during combat. So, if your regeneration was ~3/second, in combat it will come down to ~1/second
I think disintegrate is the best elemental specialty perk. Lightning spells cost the greatest amount of magicka so if your enemies die earlier you will save valuable magicka for other spells. Oh and by the way, thanks for making me notice that little detail in the Intense Flames perk; I wouldn't have noticed it myself. Still I don't think it is a bad perk. If it was then they wouldn't have made it. If some enemies flee you can concentrate the fire on the remaining and cause more damage.
frost is VERY useful , but dont forget ! : you are in skyrim - the land of Nords ... every single Nord have 50 % immune to frost .... soo .. you are fucked .
@AndroxineVortex Here you got it right! You have fire for mundane situations and shock spells for other more specific situations. Now, even if your enemy has 100% resistance against fire you will be able to smack him with some shock :)
I like the shock bolt best out of all because it hits the target quicker, which is good on dragon in the air.
ive watched all of your videos. thanks youve helped me out alot! :D
@Flebkh It's reasonably well thought :) However, I think you should instead use the same spell on both hands, so that you can combine them together in a more powerful version. You don't really need to be prepared for fire/frost immune enemy at all times, you can just keep it at your favourites menu instead.
@Beharkei Thanks! You might also want to check Restoration in Detail then!
Disintegrate disintegrates targets if their health is low. The game consideres low to be anywhere below 15%. So this perk effectively reduces the health of every enemy in the game by 15%. Very useful for shock spells.
You should advice people to get enchanting to 100 first so you can cast spells for free, otherwise you will always run out of Magicka, especially when dual casting.
You cannot just focus on one “Element”, you need to use all 3 because enemies have different resistances, you don’t want to be fighting a flame atronach or a dunmer with fire or a nord or automaton with Ice. Fire is a good element because of the amplified damage, so as long as it’s not resisted it’s good. Lightning is good against mages because it drains Magicka, and also good against moving targets or birds because it reaches the target instantly. So you need to focus on all 3.
If you focus on enchanting first then you don’t need to waste perks on “apprentice, adept, expert, Mater destruction/Conjuration/restoration/illusion perks”, since you will cast for O Magicka cost.
Dual cast increases spell strength by 2.2, at the cost of 2.8 Magicka cost. Before enchanting you rarely have enough Magicka to dual cast for long, after enchanting you will be dual casting 99% of the time.
You need all the augmented perks, no need to choose only 1, you don’t want to be useless fighting 40% of your enemies. Ignore “Intense Flames”, it’s really annoying that the enemy you are about to kill (less than 25% health) will start running instead. Like an undead about to die inside a cave will go running deeper waking up every other undead to come after you. It’s rather an useless perk. Deep freeze is good, enemies with 25% health or less will be paralyzed. This perk is even further increased with the alteration perk “Stability” which increases its duration 50%. Disintegrate will kill an enemy with 15% or less health, not 25% like the others.
The problem with frost spells is that most enemies are resistant to frost in Skyrim, starting with Nords. Solstheim is better for frost spells.
Fire spells damage are even further increased by the “Aspect of terror” perk in the illusion tree if taken after both perk of “augmented flames” perk by 15 points of damage. I read it add 10 only if taken before. Fire rune does not increase. So don’t invest in runes in the long run.
Ignite is one of the best spells, low mana cost and the highest damage, surpassing incinerate when dual casted with Aspect of terror added (~360 damage over 15 per cast), damage stacks.
I meant frost, flame or shock. If you master two schools of destruction you will be able to adjust your strategy to various enemies.
Many of skyrims enemies are resistant to frost, but deep freeze is very useful. I personally think shock is good because it hits its target almost instantly good against dragons.
DI kills the target quicker. It does not influence your Crow Control capabilities, which are generally of higher importance of damage. In every RPG, including MMOs players often forsake DMG to get more CC, because CONTROLLING your enemy wins battles, NOT KILLING him faster.
Your first proposal is very situational. Generally, you should keep your distance as a pure mage and such situation that you described will not happen.
Very interesting, I never knew that about Aspect of Terror. But, let's hope those small exploits are getting fixed eventually...
@CognizantCheddar I was not aware of that. I think it's a bug, since FLAME attacks should deal additional damage. If it would be correct then Marksman's Potion's increase of ANY and ALL weapon damage is also a good thing >_<
Well, since frost is useful against bandit chief, that's what you should focus on. Your priorities are bosses, dragons, trolls, mammoths and giants, NOT common rabble.
Man, it was almost half a year ago. On which second can I see it?
In many cases you can't just disintegrate enemies, special conditions must be met. With paralysis no conditions are required you can paralyze almost any target and plan out whom you going to kill first and how :)
No don't make them more casual, I love all the info! Good job with all of these tutorials, very very helpful.
@Destrucktive I, personally, find alchemy limitedly useful. Smithing for you would be only to improve your armor and alchemy seems not so useful as it would focus on poisons or potions which you would probably not use at all. You can survive by buying healing and magicka potions from a shop. However, if you want to reach max 81 level you should practice all skills in the game (eventually you'll need to get 17 of them to 100 and 1 to at least 95, I think).
I'm a little bit mixed about frost spells. Sure they can paralyze with deep freeze but in Skyrim you are going to be predominantly fighting Nords which are resistant to frost. Draugr are also resistant to frost and so are Frost Dragons.
In my experience flames are easily the best spell + melee combination to focus on. The OP doesn't seem to realize that if you hit a character that is on fire with a melee weapon you get a major damage boost.
Frost is certainly useful for the stamina damage, but it's just not so appropriate for common enemies. Something like a Bandit Chief, sure, frost damage is great to gimp him. For the common bandit types, you're better off setting them on fire and killing them quickly with power attacks.
I like the thought of being a Jedi/Sith guy like Darth Vader's ex apprentice. :D
It's possible, all it could be that you've attacked a dragon that had no resistance against shock. Yeah, but it also drains enemy mana, sure as hell it's useful! :D
Great tutorial.
I made myself a powerfull pure mage, using all points in magic scholls (exception for 4 points in speech to get merchant).
Alteration e Illusion are full, echanting all perks exception of soul squeezer and soul siphon, restoration I just didn´t use point perks in respite and ward absorbe (prefere alteration), conjuration all perks exception of oblivion binding and 1 point in summoner, and finally destruction, all perks exception of rune master, desintegrate and intense flames.
I'm a fire bender, so fire and lightning for me. For some reason I've never liked any water based powers or anything like that. Fire is powerful and lightning is quick.
My character is generally weak when using illusion magic.
So the intense flames has been quite useful versus groups of enemies.
But that paralysis is much more useful.
That is a galactic achievement right there, you mean all 251 videos? If so, man, you must really like what I do! :D
You are welcome! Come back for more!
Yeah, you can do that too, I think it even brings it down to 100%, but I wanted to give you more food for thought and information in this video, instead of just saying "Hey, if you exploit the game like this, you'll have 100% spell cost reduction" :P
@toddcronk I've enchanted my heavy dragon bone armor to increase my magicka and to regenerate it faster. Additionally, especially for the tutorial and magic practices I've made two jewelry pieces - again for increase magicka and increased magicka regen. In total - 4 pieces with +62% mana regen, resulting in +248% magicka regeneration speed
It's AMD Phenom II x965 (4x cores, 3,4GHz each), NVidia GeForce 470GTx, 12 Gb RAM (that wasn't always like that, at a day I've created that video I had 4Gb).
@talktoapossum1 I like Fireballs (hold to arm then release to fire away), because they are cheapest and easy to use. Plus they deal with trolls for good.
@grievous823 I'll try to think of something!
Thank you for the valuable critic, I will keep it in mind for the future videos :P
It was nonetheless one of my early works, you might want to take a look at my recent content, I am much more proud of it than I am of my old ones :P
If that works better for you, then of course you did the right thing!
That has to be the best quality of a video ever 0.0
@mrpatman7 I agree for the most part, but I think you don't really need to bother with Undead too much. But it seems that Fire is generally more effective against Trolls and Undead, so it's probably the best idea to use it this way.
Then again, taking all corresponding Perks might become very perk-intensive and will not be worth it after all.
Thanks, glad you like it.
Good luck with your Dark Elf :)
You are missing the point here: Disintegrate does not burn out stamina and does not slow down an approaching berserker with two axes each sized as your whole damn body! Be what it may be, just cutting down enemy hitpoints by 1/4 is not necessarily best choice in every situation. It is great when you fight against mages, however!
Very detailed review of the tree. Subscribed. :)
Well, I have years of experience in RPGs and I'll tell you this: CC and, generally, anything that helps you pin your enemy to the ground is useful for all classes, be that ranged or melee. However, in Skyrim, there really is no one that strong to fight against to really require it. It's PvE only, after all :)
Shock is not necessarily the best tree, even though the resistance mentioning from you is fair. Shock is the most expensive and does not carry collateral damage.
Technically, chain lightning can sometimes hit allies and then there's storm call that hits everything but the caster
May your road always lead you to warm sands!
I like the shock one because if they disintegrate they can be affected by necromancy
I will be going for Flames and Frost! Lightning looks boring :p
Lightining boring dude? Its emperor palpatine main power
It's amazing against mages, cuz it drains Mana well
Oh wow this video came out before necromage vampire was discovered it looks like
@RockyBellic That's why all the suggestions given here are on MASTER ;)
i went frost and it was very weird. i kept missing and it felt really bad , frost felt to go slower than fire so i had to respec into fire again.
Deep Freeze vs Disintegrate? How can paralyzing an enemy be superior to killing it? As far as I can see Disintegrate basically reads "Lighting spells damage increased by x%". And since almost nothing in the game is resistant to Lightning, Lightning is the best element imo. Plus Lightning spells hit instantly, no trailing projectile to worry about. Owns fast moving targets like flying Dragons.
@CognizantCheddar think of that this way then, bandits are not the hardest enemies in the game, so just forget about them. Yeah, it's valid, frost as such is not effective against nord bandits and against frost atronachs, as well as it's not the best idea to use against frost dragons, BUT, we still have classical flame dragons and all the rest enemies in the game.
In the same manner I can say, you shouldn't take flame, because Dunmer have 50% res against fire.
I guess they made them a bit more "playable". This weakness to magic would be insane disadvantage, especially when fighting Dragons and Mages.