How to play as a pure mage with SkyRe?

[yafeshan]

I want to share my pure mage experience on legendary difficulty.

I find it very easy as long as I have a follower tank (love you lydia). It was so easy that I had to max difficulty and playing legendary since then. My mage still dies to wolves on 1 hit but you have too many methods to evade enemy when you have apocalypse spell package.

When you can get your conjuration up, it is even getting better. It is challenging some times, when I cant find a good position to hide. Mages are not meant to survive when they got hit. Trying to use all magic schools together, alteration is especially very useful with spell package. Alchemy can be very powerful when you start spamming slow time potions. You do not even need any follower/summoning help when you have a big pocket full of slow time potions.

[Deleted2993601User]

Of course the game gets easier if you add mods which adds spells which are probably OP anyway.

[chanchan05]

Of course the game gets easier if you add mods which adds spells which are probably OP anyway.

The vanilla game with no mods is too easy even on legendary difficulty. The first mod I ever installed for Skyrim was Deadly Dragons because Alduin was a joke even on Master (before DLCs). Since then, my mod build has been focused on making Skyrkm more difficult.

[richardjreidii]

Honestly, I can't play a mage without Smartcast. I don't use the auto buff/heal etc options, as that feels too cheesy, but spell rings to instantly cast my armor spells or invisibility or what have you (anything but damage spells really), I just love.

[avallanche]

The vanilla Skyrim is great... the first time you play. After that, it's just boring.

Mage = Stunlock

Archer/ Thief = Hit kill Sneak attack

Warrior = Immortal, 2 hits kill... dont even bother to get out of your horse to kill a dragon.

With Skyre the game become more interesting, more dynamic and A LOT more fun... u can kill and get killed a lot easer and you have to actually start thinking before do things.

As a pure mage, first thing is to start planning, finding better positions, thinking what skills will help you more. Low lvl skill will actually grow in power and you have to ponder which skill will be better for every situation. Planning is the key.

Also, the adept difficult in skyre is way more harder than the legendary difficult in vanilla. That is because in vanilla, the difficulty only change the enemy's HP... you will find beggers with 600-800 HP... that just make the game boring because they dont put up any resistense, just take longer to kill. Skyre brings a better AI, making the enemys behave better, use shields better, position better and stuff. And there are other mods out there that do that even better then skyre.

Edited January 15, 2014 by avallanche

[Lord Garon]

I find vanilla Legendary much harder than SkyRE with Deadly Dragons on Expert, let alone Adept. Normal Difficulty settings don't affect HP at all, they just change the amount of damage done; you do less, they do more.

 

SkyRE is an interesting change, I like it so far. All the different perks and crafting and magic changes give you more options and make it a more involved experience, IMHO. The mobs might be stronger, but nothing really dramatic. Not like Requiem; now that's a "difficult" overhaul and I only play that one when I'm in the mood to really work at it.

[oyclo]

I find playing a pure mage somewhat difficult with Skyre but thats with Asis for increased spawns and deadly combat installed. I don't like using followers unless Asis does something funny (like spawning 9 giants in a camp, that was a hell of a fight) and you will find that if you let melee get in close you WILL lose your head.

 

Skyre does give you a lot of options with much improved necromancy. What i do find is trying to blast your way through though will quickly leave you with mana problems.

Edited January 29, 2014 by oyclo

[skymandodat]

Hello,

I've started a new character and decided to play as a pure mage.

But when I fight against 2 wolves, they easily kill me with 2~4 hits, and my fire spell basically deals no damage.

Could anyone give me some helpful advice?

[skymandodat]

Start with conjuration and use that until you level up and can get a perk to make your spells do real damage

[AlexZander40]

Uninstall SkyRe. Those so called "overhauls" tend to cause more issues than they fix. I've come to learn that magic is pretty balanced as it is, actually. If anything, melee is overpowered.

No way. SkyRe is excellent. The perk overhauls were a must for me. And when I am done with this playthrough, I will be giving Perma a try. With Oblivion I play with Francesco's Overhaul, with FO3 Fallout Wander's Edition, with Fallout New Vegas Project Nevada. They all fix major issues with these games catering to the console crowd. Don't give up on SkyRe.

 

Now every gamer has their different tastes on what they like with their gaming experience with Skyrim to be, and that's fine. But T3ndO put tremendous effort and work into Skyre, it is very well done.

 

To the OP, as far as certain enemies being too tough at the beginning of the game. With Skyre, did you run WTF through the Reproccer? It will randomize enemies' difficulty in different regions. So enemies could be easy, medium or hard in the Riverwood area depending on how WTF reproccs that area.

 

I have not tried a pure Mage playthrough with Skyrim yet. Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim I like to do characters that can do a combination of Melee/Magic or Ranged/Magic. Though, with Skyrim I am playing a Nord that mainly focuses on 2H weapons and Smithing. I save a pure Mage playthrough for games like Baldur's Gate 2, Neverwinter Nights or Dragon Age.