Mage build on legendary difficulty

[Greatest Pulse]

Why is it hard to increase destruction level on this difficulty? i sacrified health point to increase mana point, this is stressful

[Rez Elwin]

Because unlike other magic schools it's not solely dependent on mana cost, it's the damage you deal. You're doing 75% less damage so you're also gaining 75% less xp.

[alexander_dougherty]

Yeah, this is one of the reasons mods that change how magic works are so popular.

[Greatest Pulse]

Originally posted by Rez Elwin:

Because unlike other magic schools it's not solely dependent on mana cost, it's the damage you deal. You're doing 75% less damage so you're also gaining 75% less xp.

So its the difficulty that make it less progressive with destrucstion school?

[Greatest Pulse]

Im trying to play it on legendary only until i clearing every quest, do you guys think its possible with vanilla magic?

[Greatest Pulse]

Originally posted by alexander_dougherty:

Yeah, this is one of the reasons mods that change how magic works are so popular.

i do have apocalypse spell mod, its helpful but damn if i aint get oneshot everytime

[Rez Elwin]

Yes, for destruction, higher difficulty will slow down skill progression.

Vanilla magic works just fine, but you'll need alchemy to boost your destruction damage. With Apocalypse though you might not need it.

[alexander_dougherty]

Originally posted by Greatest Pulse:

Originally posted by alexander_dougherty:

Yeah, this is one of the reasons mods that change how magic works are so popular.

i do have apocalypse spell mod, its helpful but damn if i aint get oneshot everytime

That is one of the most popular ones. I read the name Odin quite a bit too, but not sure if that's SE only...

[Rez Elwin]

Originally posted by alexander_dougherty:

Originally posted by Greatest Pulse:

i do have apocalypse spell mod, its helpful but damn if i aint get oneshot everytime

That is one of the most popular ones. I read the name Odin quite a bit too, but not sure if that's SE only...

Odin in made by Enai Siaion, same person who made Apocalypse, and it does a lot of what Apocalypse does and then some. Odin changes the way spell casting works where as Apocalypse just adds spells. It exists for both SE and LE.

[Aetrion]

Destruction magic is generally a hot mess in Skyrim because the only thing that ever scales is the mana cost. The only real way to make Destruction magic shine is to get yourself a mana cost reduction suit that drops the cost of using it to nothing. It genuinely makes the game better because waving things like shields or paralyzes or summons in there becomes a meaningful way to improve your performance, rather than everything competing for the same resource.