Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25597018-20130201002445/@comment-4057437-20130216173712

There are ways to raise magic skills just as there are for other skills. For Destruction, we bite the bullet and pay for training, at least to get to level 60, so we can take the perks that increase the power of our shock, fire and frost attacks. Without those perks, it takes forever to do enough damage to level up. It takes patience, but if you favorite a destruction attack (we like Ice Spike as the spike remains visible in the victem's body a long time, making it easier to find) and use it on lower level targets of opportunity, such as deer and mudcrabs, it will go a long way towards improvong your skill.

Of course there is always Shadowmere, but there is something distasteful about hurting your own horse...