How to increase Magicka?

[Charlemagne]

Beyond getting Intelligence to 100. That will give you 200 m. which is not sufficient for a lot of the most powerful spells. Of course there is the Breton (250) and the Altmer (300), I've always played altmer mages because of this. But I was trying to experiment with an Imperial mage. The thing is I am nearing 100 Intelligence and already feeling mediocre, and relying more an more on my sword and armor. However, a non-Altmer mage *should* be viable.

There don't seem to be rings, robes and amulets that increase magicka as in Skyrim, at least I haven't found any. I know there are "fortify magicka" spells but they seem rather inane. They don't increase the pool that much, the time is limited, the spell itself costs magicka, and to use them in the heat of a battle is a bit complicated.

[CHASE6]

You can enchant your equipment with Fortify Magicka. Using grand soulgems with grand souls should bump up quite a bit. You could enchant a full set of armour. Or, if as a mage you play un-armoured you could enchant a robe, hood, shoes and wrist irons. Also, enchant 2 rings and an amulet.

[Charlemagne]

Well that explains it. I haven't reach a point where I can enchant stuff. I suppose before that you have to do with what you have!

[Bomb Bloke]

Note that casting skills reduce casting costs. Training them reduces the need to have a massive pool of mana.

[Col Com Dante]

You can also make Potions using Carrots and Clouded Funnel Cap (Fortify Int) and/or Painted Troll Fat, Blind Watcher's Eye, Blister Pod Cap, Ginkgo Leaf, Watcher's Eye, Columbine Root Pulp, Ectoplasm, Purgeblood Salts, Void Salts, Ginseng, Hunger Tongue, Nightshade, Red Kelp Gas Bladder and Water Hyacinth Nectar (Fortify Magicka).

Doing this will ALWAYS damage your endurance a little. Carrot and Clouded Funnel Cap are the only two ingredients with fortify intelligence, and they both have damage endurance as an efffect.

However at Alchemy 100, with a full set of masters equipment, you'll get 173 more magicka for 146 seconds, and just +83 for another 122 seconds after that for a mere 1 point of endurance damage.

[Charlemagne]

OK looking forward to those higher levels. I first finished the campaign as a knight, and then I played a few games as an altmer mage but didn't finish and never got to the place and level to enchant (actually I did that, finish the mages quest, when I was a knight and wasn't interested in that aspect...)

[CHASE6]

Unless you have mods, you will need to slog through the mages' guild to be able to enchant 'at will'. Its not level dependent. You need to finish the quest-line. Having your magic schools at 100 though will allow you to create powerful enchantments for your gear and powerful spells.

[Darth Cannabis]

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Magic_Overview

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Spell_Making#Spell_Stacking

I am liking a couple pages, but in particular on the second one, scroll down to spell stacking, and spell stacking on self.

This is the art, that I am going to teach you, namely the art of magicka stacking, followed by the popping of a welklyd stone to have enough magicka to unleash, absolutely any spell you can possible come up with and create.

1st the basics. You understand the intelligence for total magicka, but don't forget about Willpower and Luck in relation to the magical.

Luck, actually will decrease the cost of your spells. Check the pages on attributes, and it can explain in more detail, but in general higher than average luck, means lower than average magicka costs, on the spells themselves, due luck's effect, on the effectiveness of your skill's level.

Willpower has no effect on spells themselves, but its important for your magicka recharge. You can check more details on it, but the key thing to note, is that the rate is constant percentage of your magicka bar. I think at 100, your magicka bar should take 30 seconds (not 100% sure on time) to recharge. This is regardless of how much the bar actually is. If your magicka is normally 500 and recharges in say 45 seconds, boosting it to 5000, won;t change that, it should still take 45 seconds (based on Willpower).

Now why that important, because by using spell stacking, on self to buff magicka, you can boost your total magicka, to however much you need for any spell you create. You can do this thru pure magicka boost, or intelligence, but either way, you just keep stacking the magicka until you have a large enough total. While at it, you can also try to boost that willpower so it recharges faster, drink a magicka potion, or simply pop a welklyd stone to recharge the entire magicka bar. This in essence, is the art of magicka buffing. Note, once you adopt magicka buffing into your mage play as general, your going to be building that restoration like crazy.

Using a stone in such manner, to fill a massive magicka pool, is a sure way to unleash insanely powerful spells, costing 1000s of magicka. The magicka boosts themselves, only have to last a few seconds, since stone fills the bar instantly, and you use all that magicka on one insane power spell. For the most part thou, only a minor mastery of mana buffing, for decent 2 min long buffs to magicka and regeneration (thru will buff or potion), will be enough to cast more and be effective in combat with your more basic spells, particularly if combined with alchemy.

That is another way to buff your magicka. A good solid alchemy potion, will give you enough of a boost, to do a bit more casting.

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Useful_Spells

this last link, is just a list of custom spells, as once you get into the spell making aspects, it will help inspire many of your own creations.

[Charlemagne]

Hey thanks Darth I will study that, and very well written.