Skyrim is worse than Oblivion in every way

Somewhat related to the topic...

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/615805-the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim/66830043

The wonderful gripping tale of a guy who could not figure out how to play Hearthfire, so he bullied some poor chump working at Bethesda's tech support into telling him how to do so. Make sure to watch some of his videos too, they are an interestin case study of the

 

(Watch the whole thing through.)

 

So, how do you actually make magic awesome in this game? Tried a Destruction based run but didn't even get Destruction to get to 30 before CONJURATION EXPLODES INTO THE SCENE WITH FIRE ATRONACH SUMMONING AND DUAL BOUND SWORD ZOMG I HAVE PURPLEZWORDZ AND FACE RAPES IN MELEE AT LEVEL 5.

OK. seriously. How ?

 

Destruction in Skyrim sucks. It's really only useful as a supplement to a one-handed weapon with an agile character.

 

The slight level scaling favors Bound Swords so much too. Cause no way in hell you get access to those grade of weapons early game. But the downside is Conjuration levels up too quickly and you start having not much skills to invest into.
I'm somewhat disappointed with the magic power in this game after experiencing 'one shot-one-kill archer' simply slow-mo skirmishing everyone to death in heavy armor.

 

Blah blah blah, filled with nonesense about how he wants games to be easier.

 

Yeah, archery is win button. I have played two characters, an archer and a spellsword, and the archer had a ten times easier path through the game. Completely unbalanced.

 

Get a mod that scales destruction damage (which happens with NPC mages but not with player mage in vanilla).

 

OK, what about armor enchant choices?
Archer builds go for Archery boosts. Cause 20% boost of damage is insane when all 4 pieces (Hand, Helm, Ring, Amulet) are combined together.
Same deal with 1H/2H - they need damage, though in 1H case - you better off dual wield or you're not taking advantage of the dual enchant damage.
For mages....eh. I don't know what to give him. He could use more HP, cause he has none. He could use more armor, cause he's like tissue. But mana regen is a bitch, and spamming pot is pretty normal for non-Bound weapon builds.
Mages are utter shite overall in vanilla.

 

Watch it again.

 

Fortify Destruction potions increase damage, while Fortify Destruction enchantments reduce casting cost (which is useless because there are perks that do the same + you can increase mana every level up if you want).

Some Bethesda dev must've fucked up and they didn't care enough to fix it themselves.

 

They had destruction improve with leveling by lowering cost, so you can spam it. It's not as fun as more power and it doesn't work well with high level HP bloated enemies anyway. Stupid.

You can still be an effective caster though, using conjuring and such.

 

For a mage the best would be a combination of cost reduction for your spells (up to and beyond 100% so your spells are free). Make either a full set of items that reduce casting for all schools or make several robes of free casting and combine them with other parts of more health.

 

So I discovered that mage's spell from the stores scales with your level.
Oh for fuck's sake. This is kinda lame.
But Bound Bow with 20 skill on Archery does 50 damage from range - and since it's a sneak attack it's 100 per pop.
So Popamole.

 

Yep. For every 25 levels you get more spells; at level 90 you can get the ultimate spells after a quest (the alteration one you can only get after starting the main quest, the destruction one requires copious amounts of following on vague clues just like in Morrowind.

Oh, and if you get to Labyrinthian makes sure to check in the eastern part of it on the overworld to find Shadilor's Maze. There's some interesting stuff there.

 

Can't be arsed to search if it's already been posted, but a Skyrim to Morrowind total conversion is on its way. Skywind.

They have the world builded so far, still missing everything else unfortunately.

 

That's just amazing. I should be sick and tired of Morrowind by now, but, for some reason, I just can't bear to part with the world and end up re-installing this game over and over again. Seeing how lovingly the Skywind team re-created the stone arch by Koal cave reminded me of why I like this game so much.

 

Despite Enchanting being the "crafting for mage type" skill, mages can't even enchant anything as robes already come with unbeatable enchant, there are almost no gloves and they use spells for fighting anyway

 

If they actually remade Morrowind, quests and all, I would be into it. Chances of that happening: 0%.

Still neat for videos though.

 

There's still OpenMW.

 

That's the worst sexual entertainment ever.

 

I think Prison life is not supposed to be entertaining, sir.

 

Da fuck is wrong with people?

 

You're only saying that because RK47 is playing a female character.