Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-12277465-20140501182332/@comment-70.176.41.208-20140531065908

I roll through the game at Expert and Master level with my Desctructo Tank... not sure what everyone here is talking about.

You just have to build it right... for a really hard hitting destruction mage, heavy army fully perked is the way to go, make sure you get the stagger reduction, + the stagger reduction meditation from parthenax... enchant up a full suit of ebony or daedric, and make sure you have your slow time shout maxed up. Also, you max your fire skills, you buy yourself destruction potions from your local vendor, OR, you use your alchemy skill to make your own (I think perking up alchemy sometimems ruins the challenge, but each to their own) You can rip through dungeons, training a bunch of draugr around, dodge behind pillars and chugh a simple 25gp potion from a vendor and suddenly you are popping off a 320 dmg AE fire storm and leveling entire rooms... on Master setting, even severl Draugr deathlords are no challenge... and if you are old and your reflexes are slow like me, and you are NOT that good of a gamer, well, you rely a little heavier on that slow time shout.. that's the whole purpose of the thing.

Remember the world you are playing in! The lore of ES is full of heavy plate with Battlemages... a properly built destruction mage in Elder Scrolls is wearing Dædric Armor (and you really only need 2 perks in smithing -- steel + arcane... because you can load up on Daedric armor at the atronoch forge and it's super easy to hit armor cap without having the daedric smithing perk)