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Destruction perks look kinda whack, my favorite magic school looks overall kinda whack in this game so far
but haven't got any higher level spells yet
lol for the last hour i was getting assraped by not one but two dragons, one of whom was a blood dragon. ers were double teaming me like a cheap porn star
Destruction perks look kinda whack, my favorite magic school looks overall kinda whack in this game so far
but haven't got any higher level spells yet
Pretty sure the damage maxes out in the 70s so not sure if it's worth maxing
Yeah i always like good ol fashioned damage magic, and it looks pretty nerfed for this game.
Being a pure mage gets tougher later in the game, Bethesda toned down magic. Melee is a breeze, magic is harder. Destruction spells are wack the higher you go.
Just opened up the Skyrim I got for Christmas....and there was no disc inside. FML.
why even give me your digits? idk, it just happens.
Finally got my returned and got a copy with an actual disc in the box. Been kind of avoiding the thread since then to not catch any spoilers. But this game is effin' boss, and worth the wait.
Put in about 8 hours so far I would guess, I'm level 7 with a Dark Elf battle mage. I'm on my way to whatever wack ass missions the Greybeards sent me halfway around the world for, and just killed my first solo dragon (second total, but the one in the Whiteguard tower fight didn't really count as I was just pot-shotting it with arrows).
Had to beat this dragon twice because the first time I killed it, it took Lydia out. So I re-loaded, told that bia to wait at the bottom of the mountain, then went up and took care of business myself. I didn't have much trouble taking it on solo, just loaded up on Anti-Fire gear and the shield of fire warding, used Healing to keep my health up when needed, and stunned it when it was on the ground with dragon shouts then just kept hacking away with my sword. Still like a 15 minute epic battle though.
I've been putting most of my perks into Destruction Magic and One Handed weapons, but it sounds from reading some of this like that may not work out too well in the long run. Seems to have been doing okay so far, though.
Last edited by Dex; 12-31-2011 at 04:06 AM.
I'm level 27 I believe.. and I've been doing just about the same, I'm a redguard though, and it's worked for me.. I use a combination of melee and magic depending on the situation and I've had no trouble.. I have however toned it down with the destruction perks.
Lydia is ing annoying; I just commanded her to stay in my house and do the cooking and cleaning, as the dumb starts fights when I'm trying to do stealth attacks with the bow. Would have been better had the Jarl just given me an actual mule to put all my away on.
I disagree; the dragons are really easy to take out with destruction magic as long as you can find some cover to pop into and out of. I don't know how you wouldn't get constantly blasted by the fire/ice doing melee attacks.
See that's one of the reasons I've been doing destruction/melee mage/warrior kind of thing... when the dragon is flying I usually just hide behind something and do magic or arrows, when he lands I run up to him and start stabbing the out of it, if he decides to go up again I go for cover again.. usually one or two fire/ice attacks from a dragon won't kill me, it'll take more than that. Frost dragons (so far) are the ones that give me the most trouble, cuz they tend to bite :P
My strategy is to hide behind something when it lands, double charge either a fire or ice bolt spell (depending on which the dragon is weak against) jump out of cover to hit hit with it, then jump back to avoid the fire/ice it blows. Then the dragon flies up and you stick around the cover and run to the other side when he lands. Repeat and you can beat any dragon without getting hit once.
Yeah I usually try to just melee the damn dragons when they land because if I hide.. lydia will ing dieor village people or whoever is around, so I try to go at it and try to kill it as fast as I can so he doesn't end up killing a smith or something, it usually works.. I've killed blood dragons rather easy, but there's no way anyone can get close to a frost dragon.. within seconds you're inside it's mouth if you try to melee..
I'm a level 42 Orc and I merk motha as! Got like an 800 armor rating, a daedric war hammer with 160 plus attack n frost damage kill almost everything with one hit.
a little late but.... ouch
anyone else run into that ghostly headless horseman on the way to markarth? WTF is that all about?
How did you get them to believe that you had no disc, I bougt eastbound and down and got a case instead
Apparently the Walmart where it was bought had just left the cases open on Christmas Eve due to the crowds, and they had a large rash of games stolen out of their boxes. The lady I talked to said they found quite a few empty boxes laying around with just a small slit in the cellophane, so didn't take much convincing at all.
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Do destruction spells become better ranged at higher level spells? Most my spells only go for fifteen feet or so, making me wonder if I should start investing in a lame pussy bow to truly attack from a distance.
I don't think so, but there is a perk that allows you to cast rune spells a lot further. I've used this as a quasi-sniper tactic.
I only use long-range spells like firebolt against dragons where I can always attack from a distance from behind cover. A bow is a way better option for long distance attacks against every other enemy I have come across though. I used perks to strengthen the fire and ice spells (twice each) for dragon fights, but otherwise I only use the close-range versions. I definitely wouldn't go any farther up the destruction tree than getting ice and fire maxed out.
But the range is unchanged by level, I believe. You have to either buy or find the longer range spells.
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