Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25597018-20130201002445/@comment-1853435-20130216052847

Paranoidsam wrote: Well, tonight I've tested the water as a mage... at Level 73, with REALLY low magic skills...

Long story short... I ain't doin' that again.

The game is heavily favored toward the warrior class. I’m at level 81 and I have about 18 perks left to take so I’ve been playing around with different mage skills/perks just to see what they do. Even with all the applicable destruction perks and using master level spells there’s no way you will do the kind of damage that can be dealt with one good sword. About the only way would be to use conjuration spells and just summon a bunch of minions to do your fighting for you. Personally I find that kind of boring though.

On the other hand I’ve found even on master difficulty, the game is simply to easy as a warrior type character. I’ve stopped using potions to increase my smithing/enchanting as well as not using enchantments to fortify damage or armor just to put some challenge back in the game.