For starters, a pure mage can do anything every other class can do, and then some. Last edited by Iaius Amaius Heron on Sun 3:31 pm, edited 1 time in total. If they weren't nords, but instead dunmer or redguards, nobody would call them "racist". Tholf the Slow, who wears a cape made out of Altmer skin, and soaks his silver spear in Breton blood to keep it sharp and unrusted
Why not everyone just walk up and poke them? What dey do? Wiggle fingers at me and hit with flying flames that hurt less than drunkenly stepping in last night's campfire? And dey call ME dumb." "Me hear bout dem mage things who are said to be very powerful and such, but every time I meet one I just walk up and poke them and they fall down. But when it's time to throw down, there's nothing quite like a battle-axe or bow-and-arrow.īut pure mages - without several mods to boost them - are nigh-unplayable, or an exercise in masochistic gaming which attracts the same people who play I Wanna Be The Guy or Hell Revealed. Which is why everyone should use spells to help with traveling and staying alive. However, you will end up never using these spells in combat because a) all ordinary enemies can be killed with a few normal attacks, making fancy attacks unneccessary, b) all bosses and other stronger-than-average monsters are immune to those effects so there's no point in using them for long fights where they'd actually come in handy, and c) the spells usually don't work anyway. In the course of your travels you may find useful-sounding spells such as Petrify, Silence, and Instant Death. Quoting the Grand List of Console RPG Cliches: "But what about Damage Attribute, Paralysis, etc?"
Not to mention that Ring/Amulet/Boots of Constant Effect Restore Fatigue that everyone has to avoid the annoyance of having to stand still for 30 seconds in front of every shopkeeper so your sweaty, panting rear can sell a pearl for more than 10 septims. And Fatigue auto-regenerates at an insane rate.
It takes a quarter of a second and maybe 1/64th of your Fatigue to do the same with a weapon (even mid-grade Dwarf-make halberds and such). And most who can threaten you have permanent reflect and/or high Resist to most of what you can throw at them. It takes about 2 seconds to do the hand-wave thing and about 1/4 your mana pool (assuming an Altmer under the Atronach birthsign) to kill something that might actually threaten you. In my experience, compared to slaying with a sword, spells SUCK! I need to powergame with Galsiah's Character Development to get 3000+ MP and 150+ magic skill and 200+ Willpower before I find magic tolerable - at least for killing enemies which, let's face it, is 98.75% of the game.
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