Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-5543592-20140301033416/@comment-6006054-20140302015522

Man of steak wrote: (Umm.... No. My mage can kill enemies wearing only Dunmer clothes and using apprentice destruction spells, in the daylight or in night. With enough magicka a mage could just spam firebolt, fireball or incinerate, or the frost/shock equivalents. Mages are like carries from DOTA 2. Crap early game, but possibly the most powerful late game.) (not sure what you consider late game. What I call late game is generally around level 70-80. At that point, the non-scaling damage of destruction spells is far outpaced by the tools of warriors and assassins. To me the mages excel at the midgame: before enemy's health gets high from leveling, and before the level restrictions on the necromancy portion of conjuration and illusion make those schools worthless. (conjuration is somewhat of an exception, but about half of its spell list is unusable after high levels). Especially compared to prior Elderscrolls games, Skyrim's magic is junk.)