What are the best spells?

[Space is the Place]

Each TES game has it´s powerfull spells, some that are useless and the rather rare one that sounds like nothing that breaks the game.

Thing is Daggerfall doesn´t provide much info on spells you can buy, so I wanted to see if some vet players can give me a short guide on the best choices.

For now with my mage I just have Shock for defending (usefull, although lots of running around waiting on mag regen mod to do it´s thing) and Recall, but this one I have yet to investigate how does it even work.

[Tomcat]

You buff yourself with extra spell points enchanted gear. Also give yourself spell absorption either through enchantment or through initial character trait.


Then you create a custom damage spell with max damage and max duration which does Aoe Damage at range.


Then you proceed to blast everything with said ball of magic which can reabsorb into your magicka if you shoot it close enough.


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If you want something more practical. Make a free action spell with minimum duration (dont buy the one the shop sells since you dont need duration). Get cure poison and cure disease. Get a levitate spell. Get a recall spell.


If you want to practice stealth, make a true invisibility spell.

If you want to jump around on top of houses like Spiderman, make a jump spell.

[Space is the Place]

I don´t know what any of what you said means, but I bought fireball and launch it on my feet. DOes tons of damage and also gets me magicka back.

Unless there´s something more powerfull than this, I´m happy lol

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I think they are saying you can make a more powerful version of an aoe damage spell and it would theoretically absorb more if it didn't toast you by being more powerful than your absorption.

Levitation is a very handy for ranged spell combat in certain areas, use jump and crouch to go up and down.

I use store bought God's Fire because I am not joining the guild until later due to reputation and advancement. Fireball, Firestorm, Lightening, Wildfire, Ice spells, and Shock are other spells I like. Light, Heal, Stamina are spells I use a lot as well. Spamming Heal spell during combat has saved my life countless times.

As far as Recall goes you need to set the Anchor first to teleport to, it gives the teleport the destination. Second time you cast it choose Teleport, and after you teleport recast it again to set the anchor again because it doesn't stay.

[Space is the Place]

yeah I´m playing so much that I actually figure out stuff shortly after posting XDXD

I´m using HotKeys mod and currently I have fireball, a self made heal that heals very little for very little magic and can be spammed, sleep on target, normal heal, levitation, water walking and self made teleportation. I´ll probably install the mod that expands the teleportation system.

Got a horse and a wagon and for now I mostly just go out of town in Wayrest waiting to find a battle due to wildernessNPCs mod, I start throwing fireballs to kill everything and loot them, repeat until cart is looded and get back to town to get rich so I can continue buying spells and testing them. Training also it´s quite expensive so I gotta get those swep gold pieces.

I think tomorrow I´ll try to figure out the bank system, all that gold is starting to weight on me and I saw a house for sale, need to check those systems.

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I use carry weight mod as well as wagon and airship. You can stash your gold in the wagon just make sure it is in wagon and not on the ground. Airship has a chest you can stash stuff in including gold.

Houses are expensive but Airship is a mod and you can set the price in mods' settings. Airship can be manually flown btw it is one of the coolest mods. Forward and back for movement and velocity, and float up and down for height and velocity but careful because it needs to be reversed to shut down when you reach the height/depth level you want or it will keep going in the up or down direction. And the same reverse method to slow down and stop for forward and back movement. I press Esc to get off the ship wheel but I hope there is a better button I don't know about yet.

Monsters don't seem to respawn when one is on the airship but it is very fast movement to get to the npc battle spots when at full speed ahead. And the airship stays parked in the sky where you left it so you can transfer loot to it. But I leave a recall at the door of the shop I am using.

Btw you can change the name of the spells by clicking the spell and then the name at the top of the screen. Hit sort after. A1 Stamina will come before A2 Light allowing one to arrange things, but you can name them anything.

Hotkeys is cool but it messes up my game in ways so I'm stuck with old school.

[Space is the Place]

Where you got HotKey in your load order? I had problems inititally but after re-arrange it now it works like a charm.

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I don't know I deleted it. What place should it be at in the mods?

[Space is the Place]

I have it below all visual mods and even lively cities or convenient quest logs, but above new features like magic compass, readied spellcasting hands, loot menu and even convenient clocks and transparent windows.

So it´s on the later end of the middle of my load order. Initially I had it way up and was not working, then I put it way down and also didn´t work. It was only when in the middle but still above magic compass and convenient clocks that it worked. And I think it may have something to do with those two because they are the ones I had to struggle the most finding a load order in which they will work (for example if I have convenient clocks over magic compass, the compass disappears and never comes back)

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Do you use Dream or just Unity?

[Space is the Place]

Both

[The Great Cornholio]

balyna's balm for healing

5 pt custom free action spell

cheap heal fatigue custom spell

cheapest custom levitate spell

cheapest custom water walking/water breathing spell

cure poison - better off casting from an item - rank up in mages guild until you can buy items

cure disease - expensive to cast - potion is best

recall

magic shield/magic reflect enchanted on items - necessary if not using Unity, may not need with Unity and high hit points


melee character doesnt need anything else
destruction spells if its in your template