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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali
I never even touched mage. I think the only time I ever even used magic (beyond shouts or powers) was when they made me do it at Winterhold those few times. I don't even use my healing magic. I do enchant the balls out of stuff, though.
I dunno what it is, but I'm on my second character and I still love being a warrior. Maybe it's the sadist in me, but there's nothing more satisfying than strategically (yet quickly and ruthlessly) wrecking an entire camp full of Foresworn and decapitating nearly a third of them... with a sword enchanted with absorb health and enchanted Daedric armor with all sorts of stamina buffs.
DLC is yes. I'm waiting.
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That sounds kind of like what I rolled with in Oblivion and was mainly the reason I avoided it, I was looking for a new style of play. Still have yet to go the role of the thief, though, may run a second playthrough just to see how I like it. Magic just gives the variety in spell casting that I enjoy, each magic skill is pretty damn unique from the other. Sure destruction and restoration are standard stuff, but illusion and conjuration can be game changers. Illusion especially can be a gamebreaker if you know how to use it right (I don't use it this way cause it removes any challenge at all from the game).
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Originally Posted by Yac
Playing a mage is ... well, not as fun as I was hoping it would be. The mage quest line is as fun as it is short, if it lasted 3 times as long I'd be praising it. Plus to me, it was kind of too easy - cast a dual hand flame cloak, ice cloak, run around and enemies die. Around lvl 26 with the archmage robes, the dragon mask that gives you +100% magicka regen, a full set of 20-40% resistance boots and roughly 20k in cash, I decided this is no fun. Sure I could have increased the difficulty level, but that wouldn't really be more fun, just frustrating.
So I created yet another, at this point lvl 22 Imperial archer/soldier/assasin and it's been a blast. I might be alone on this but to me both regular combat and spellcasting suck - only archery gives me the satisfaction and makes me feel I'm actually using skill, not just button mashing.
As for DLC, from what I heard they're not going to be releasing a ton of small 9$ add-ons that will add amazing stuff like horse armor  They're planning to do something similar to what they did with Oblivion - "old school big" add ons. |
Like I said though, destruction spells don't scale so level 40-50 would've been a much greater challenge for you then level 20-30 as a mage.
Also (*OVERUSED JOKE ALERT*), I'm holding out for some special $10 knee armor that Bethesda releases, can't take too many more arrows.