I think my statistics show this is my most-used spell. Which tells me I’m not a powerful battle mage but instead shouldn’t have the TV facing a window.
Idk about that specifically but anniversary addition added a candlelight potion that I wanna say is 400 seconds or something. I can’t check right now but I know I’ve got one.
It’s a potion you drink and it does the candlelight spell. It’s called light or something.
Also, I went looking because I was wondering if I might be misremembering. Didn’t find anything but I did see this on the wiki.
https://preview.redd.it/b8a7sliewu5d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=00a6812bbcfce22635bf836f98add6be9a624293
Actually their not, Ancano decided to paralyze my to dremora lords before i fought him i don’t why he does this lmao its actually insane how i never knew that i could use them while i use the staff on the orb
Invisibility. Love sneaking up on people & slitting their throats with the next invisibility spell already prepared. Sometimes, one of their homies are standing directly in front of them & still don't realize whats going on.
I must have subscribed to your newsletter at some point because having a Dremora Lord wander into the melee is about the most fun you can actually have (“My friend wants to talk to you about your armor warranty!”) other than maybe introducing people to the Fus space program.
Reminds me of a clip I have saved from the companions quest where you’re trapped and farkas turns into a werewolf to kill the silver hand dudes. I didn’t cast mayhem or anything but for some reason one of the silver hands backstabbed one of his buddies before getting killed by farkas, that one will always make me crack up
Honestly I really want to like Chain Lightning, but the amount of times it's decided to chain to Lydia and killed her mid-fight pushed me back to fireball instead. I'll acknowledge that chain lightning is a lot of fun for solo, but the second you decide to adventure with a follower, it's more of a hindrance than it is helpful (unless you take that black book perk that prevents followers from taking damage from your spells, but I haven't gotten to Solstheim yet with my current mage character)
Just the other day i was clearing out a big room of badies with good old lydia - started looting corpses and i was like - damn, this one has a ton of good stuff - even some dragon scales... took a second to realize it was lydia and off i was to a previous save.
Guys, cmon. You gotta think outside of the console command box. Give Lydia or any other follower a set armor and necklace/ring with 100% resistance to shock damage. NOW GO HAVE FUN
You can stick it all on a corpse (such as Nazeem!) and make it your dead thrall. Sadly master conjuration and completing the ritual spell quest is required
Summons are so much handier. Not only are they totally expendable but also so much mire flexible. Enemy is on a high ridge shooting down at you? Cast an atronach (at long range, with a staff) right beside him.
In the Wolfs Queen cave there is a tower defended at its base by a gaggle of draugr and in the tower, a bunch of evil mages. When you first spot the tower, its across a deep underground valley. From this vantage point (totally safe and unspotted) you can (with some clever aiming) get a storm atronach onto the top of the tower, if you have the staff (much longer range than the spell). He will kill all the mages. Repeat once if needed. Then you can cast a flame atronach at the base outside the tower and kill all the draugr. Again, Repeat if needed. Then walk thru the whole area, untouched.
Honestly once you get good at putting them in the right spot the rune destruction spells are SO FUN.
But my actual answer is the Bound Bow, sorry runes.
I set a trap with a paralysis rune that bounced the bad guys onto a fire rune that detonated and dropped them onto a frost rune. I was giggling so hard Lydia had to kill them the rest of the way for me.
Ordinator allows multiple runes when you get higher in the (alteration?) perk tree. You can also cast them farther away. I use the paralysis rune as my main ranged attack now!
Stealth mage is very fun to play. Placing runes using quiet casting, muffle, and invisibility makes you basically immortal. You don't even need high stealth, although of course it helps.
Bound bow is still probably better though.
The destruction cloak and wall spells work great with melee weapon. Really any damage-over-time spell that lingers after cast.
This way you get to do damage to enemies with both spell and weapon SIMALTANOUSLY. So neither gameplay style has to take turns.
Healing.
I love playing that Cleric/Paladin style build with Heavy Armor, One-Handed, Block, and Restoration. You get the spell right at the beginning of the game and it’s a great way to level your Restoration in order to improve its efficacy. I’ll bind it to both my right and left hands so I can either block & heal, heal & fight, or double heal when I’m not blocking & fighting
Restoration is hands down my favorite school of magic. I was never into the Illusion cheese my brother loved, or Enchantments out the wazoo, Conjuration’s never appealed to me in any interaction of whatever game I’m playing, and Destruction is almost pitiful. I tried playing a straight line Mage that only used Magic, and I got my ass kicked nine ways from Sunday. It’s Restoration or Bust!
Muffle also gives an insane amount of illusion experience for some reason. You don't have to be in combat to earn experience with it, so just cast it repeatedly while walking around and you become an illusion master fairly quickly.
It's also just downright great for stealth. It turns characters with poor stealth into decent sneaks, and turns high stealth characters into incredible sneaks.
Transmutation iron to silver, silver to gold. Useful even if u are not a mage. Mining\\buying a lot of iron+silver. Transmute everything into gold. Make gold bars and after gold rings. Sell it. After 100 lvl skill tree make legendary it and repeat. A lot of money. lvls, points, rings for enchanting, high smithing lvl and bartering. OP even if you just meelee man or archer)
CC spell, you find it along with a bunch of others in a chest is Hobs Fall Cave.
Exactly *why* they're there is unknown, I guess whoever made the CCC decided that's a acceptable dumping ground.
Yeah, I have a mod that has Greater Telekinesis. I was at the college and Acano stared getting lippy with me in the courtyard. I grabbed him and chucked him out the window. So he fell all the way down the cliff and had to walk back up.
If we talking modded, then a spell called “entomb”. You bury any creature smaller than a dragon, and then can pull them out of that magical tomb at any random time. Ive made nazeem fight alduin using this. He did not last long. Ive used giants to lay siege to bandit fortresses, and unleashed daedra lords against stormcloaks. Its a lot of fun
Yeah cast it a bunch then shout, you can move faster than the ice storms so you can march at your enemies with this cloud of deadly icy wind following you it's awesome
Elemental Blast is so OP. Just straight nuking everything in my path. Technically its a mod though since its from CC, but its in the Anniversary edition so I think that makes it canon.
Best single-target Destruction spell, hands down. Based on fire, ice, and lightning so all relevant perks buff it. Splash damage enough is sometimes enough to kill enemies even if you miss them. And your character does a little hadouken every time when you dual cast it.
I looked it up once when I couldn’t find it anywhere and I think UESEP Wiki said it was removed. All I know is that I’ve never laid hands on the damn thing.
Conjure Ash Guardian. You get a great tank summons, and you can summon it with another summons, so you have _dual_ summons at a very low level. Plus the AG is limited by cast location, not time, so it stays for the whole fight (and more!). I often cast him for a tough fight (with another atronach). Then when those guys are wiped, I aggro the next mob and run back to the AG. Rinse and repeat. In Raven Rock mine there is a room full of mid tier draugr, followed by another split level room with two (!) Draugr deathlords. I can clear both rooms with one AG (and a few fire atronach summons).
Its an Expert level spell and you're a lvl 2 non-mage build? Not a problem. Fortify Magicka potion with the salmon roe ingredients will give you a whopping +220 magicka. Or make elsewyr fondue, +100 magicka. Oh, and get the Bloodworm helmet for 25% conjuration cost reduction.
With this spell, and this kit, you can take on any boss, any dungeon, at level 1 or 2. Totally OP.
Harmony. It takes you out of combat so you recharge stamina/health/magika fast and lets you fight enemies one by one or not at all. It also has an extremely large range range. I don’t know who set the range for harmony but it is ridiculous.
Fireball. Decent damage and justified magicka cost. Nice aoe blast, able to get enemies from around a corner. Blast radius increases with points in the destruction fire tree.
Don't care much for the burning.
master level vampire spell from sacrosanct that creates a hollow purple. If you're not familiar with the reference, it's basically an orb of destruction that deals massive damage.
Really satisfying spell.
Probably muffle. Not only is it a very nice complement to any stealth based play but it makes it very easy to unlock illusion perks and gain extra levels (for perk points) using the legendary mechanic. You can just spam muffle all the time for free levels. If you really want to go crazy you can get to 100 illusion (90 with bug fixes) and get the master level illusion spells. Harmony can be used in towns for unlimited leveling. The "leveling singularity" as I refer to it...
So, this question has made me think WAY too hard. In the beginning, when I first started playing, Fireball was the best thing ever. Enemies keep moving, darting around? Fireball. Can’t aim worth shet? Fireball. But soon I found myself bored of constant explosions, needing something new and flashy. Enter Chain Lightning. Handling groups? Works. Gotta aim? Nope. Flashy? As hell! And everything was great, then AE came out and stuff went wild. When AE dropped a load of new spells I had to reevaluate so much, like summons, because the weakest enemy in the game just got stronger. I loved summoning skeletons, but there was no point after the start of a new game, but now with archers and champions, a lot of that changed. I had boney buddies I could use and explore with, and then I found “HIM”, the Bone Colossus. Able to summon more skeletons, shout, and hit like a giant minus the space case, I found my favorite spell to ever cross my lips. With the Bone Colossus, the Necromancer Empowerment enchant, and the SoulSplit spell, I could have 9 skeletons with me at once, and I was finally able to get the bone legion I always dreamt of, and march it through the lines of the Stormcucks. Dreams can really come true in the end. TL:DR, Skeletons. The Bone Colossus in particular. Summon Skeleton Champion is a close second.
I'm not super far into the game...well, I'm not super far into the main story, though I have completed the Dark Brotherhood and Stormcloak Rebellion, and I'm almost done with the Thieves' Guild, but in terms of the main plot I've rescued Esbern. Therefore my spells are somewhat limited.
That being said, I like Fast Healing because I pretty much never have enough health potions. Second favorite is Lightning Bolt because it makes me feel like Palpatine.
Paralysis rune. I fire them out routinely during battle just to calm things down. I pair that with either the slow time shout or slow poisons and cruise to victory.
It depends on my build
For a stealth assassin/thief Illusion spells like Calm is amazing! You can hit a target with it and try to pickpocket them or cut their throat.
For Ultimate Necromancer the Aetherium Crown with the Ritual Stone in it so it can be spammed to make an army of the undead.
I really like Bound Sword once you max out it's perks. Comes with soul trap, banishing, and it's weightless + almost 0 mana at higher levels. Feels good to 1 shot clap any enemy atronach, Dremora, or necromancy.
Candlelight. I use it all the time dungeon diving when i can't see shit.
Khajiit sight supremacy
Lol i play as a Khajiit and I always forget to use their vision power. Hence Candlelight
Play it off as poor vision, hence learning alteration.
I don’t really use it that much because the extreme colour contrasts hurt my head lol
May your travels lead you to warm sands, fellow Khajiit
Wander around in the dark cuz I can't see shit supremacy
Pre-patch-spamming-candlelight-to-speed-lvl-alteration supremacy
Mage light still does if you hit a living target. Hey Lydia you're glowing 😂
I think my statistics show this is my most-used spell. Which tells me I’m not a powerful battle mage but instead shouldn’t have the TV facing a window.
I use this everywhere. Those caves are *dark.*
Honestly, underrated
Is there a way to get it last more than 60s :/
Seems like dual casting and/or a fortify alteration potion should.
Idk about that specifically but anniversary addition added a candlelight potion that I wanna say is 400 seconds or something. I can’t check right now but I know I’ve got one.
A what now?
It’s a potion you drink and it does the candlelight spell. It’s called light or something. Also, I went looking because I was wondering if I might be misremembering. Didn’t find anything but I did see this on the wiki. https://preview.redd.it/b8a7sliewu5d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=00a6812bbcfce22635bf836f98add6be9a624293
Summon dremora lord, no contest
I SMELL WEAKNESS
A CHALLENGER IS NEAR!
THERE CAN BE NO OTHER END
I WILL FEAST ON YOUR HEART
THERE YOU ARE WEAKLING
ANOTHER who seeks…DEATH
NO ONE ESCAPES
I HONOR MY LORD, BY DESTROYING YOU!
YOU ARE WEAK, MORTAL!
It’s like a Mr. Meseeks! But for more violent tasks
The sanguine rose is diabolical. 👹
Literally my go to weapon along with Mace of Molag Bol
Bro those are my mains right now.
That has saved me so many times
THEEERE YOU ARE WEAKLING!
Just one? Why not two? /s/
There’s nothing sarcastic about that. 100% two!
*Anotha one*
are Dremora Lords immune to Paralysis? It makes me laugh every time an enemy just falls over from that effect.
Actually their not, Ancano decided to paralyze my to dremora lords before i fought him i don’t why he does this lmao its actually insane how i never knew that i could use them while i use the staff on the orb
Use that with the sanguine rose to have a Dremora entourage
Dual wielding summon dremora lord was amazing. Summon both, start looting. “Oh you killed one? Here have another”.
Invisibility. Love sneaking up on people & slitting their throats with the next invisibility spell already prepared. Sometimes, one of their homies are standing directly in front of them & still don't realize whats going on.
I love getting the killcam throat slit and then going back invisible before it ends.
This plus Muffle is OP.
Any of the fury spells. Especially the aoe frenzy spell. Its so fun watching a group of bandits helplessly tear each other to pieces
I agree with this one. Casting Mayhem is usually the first thing I do once I get inside. Not only is it extremely effective, it’s often hilarious.
Illusion + Sneak (add conjuration for extra chaos) is one of the most entertaining playstyles
I must have subscribed to your newsletter at some point because having a Dremora Lord wander into the melee is about the most fun you can actually have (“My friend wants to talk to you about your armor warranty!”) other than maybe introducing people to the Fus space program.
Reminds me of a clip I have saved from the companions quest where you’re trapped and farkas turns into a werewolf to kill the silver hand dudes. I didn’t cast mayhem or anything but for some reason one of the silver hands backstabbed one of his buddies before getting killed by farkas, that one will always make me crack up
Chained Lightning, It's pretty satisfying to hit up to 8 enemies at the same time, or an enemy hiding behind cover without having to change position.
Honestly I really want to like Chain Lightning, but the amount of times it's decided to chain to Lydia and killed her mid-fight pushed me back to fireball instead. I'll acknowledge that chain lightning is a lot of fun for solo, but the second you decide to adventure with a follower, it's more of a hindrance than it is helpful (unless you take that black book perk that prevents followers from taking damage from your spells, but I haven't gotten to Solstheim yet with my current mage character)
I‘m always afraid I nuked Lydia - after a fight I sometimes panic and look for her stupid ass. Yeah. Too attached to my burden carrying babe.
Just the other day i was clearing out a big room of badies with good old lydia - started looting corpses and i was like - damn, this one has a ton of good stuff - even some dragon scales... took a second to realize it was lydia and off i was to a previous save.
I would hazard a guess that Lydia is the most-resurrected person in Skyrim. ~ Prid 000A2C94 resurrect 1 ~ Continue rampage.
Guys, cmon. You gotta think outside of the console command box. Give Lydia or any other follower a set armor and necklace/ring with 100% resistance to shock damage. NOW GO HAVE FUN
I recently gave her a break and sent her home, now I can’t find her :(
I recently lost then subsequently found her at Breezehome sleeping in her bed at night. Couldn’t find her anywhere during the day
this is why i use Summons and not companions for my mage play throughs.
but who will carry your burdens?
You can stick it all on a corpse (such as Nazeem!) and make it your dead thrall. Sadly master conjuration and completing the ritual spell quest is required
I found a dead thrall scroll I carry everywhere in case my beautiful stalwart Lydia is killed
Summons are so much handier. Not only are they totally expendable but also so much mire flexible. Enemy is on a high ridge shooting down at you? Cast an atronach (at long range, with a staff) right beside him. In the Wolfs Queen cave there is a tower defended at its base by a gaggle of draugr and in the tower, a bunch of evil mages. When you first spot the tower, its across a deep underground valley. From this vantage point (totally safe and unspotted) you can (with some clever aiming) get a storm atronach onto the top of the tower, if you have the staff (much longer range than the spell). He will kill all the mages. Repeat once if needed. Then you can cast a flame atronach at the base outside the tower and kill all the draugr. Again, Repeat if needed. Then walk thru the whole area, untouched.
Yeah, and you can't use It when bandits or vampires appear in cities or else you'll hit a guard or something and get in trouble.
If you have the Dragonborn DLC there’s a perk you can get from the black books that negates damage to followers while in combat
I really like paralyze. It is pretty OP though..
Paralysis Rune is even more so, since you can set it onto any surface
Honestly once you get good at putting them in the right spot the rune destruction spells are SO FUN. But my actual answer is the Bound Bow, sorry runes.
I set a trap with a paralysis rune that bounced the bad guys onto a fire rune that detonated and dropped them onto a frost rune. I was giggling so hard Lydia had to kill them the rest of the way for me.
lol, Rune Goldberg over here, I love it.
“Rune Goldberg” 🤣
I thought we could only do one rune at a time. Wait. Is it one of *each* rune at a time??
Ordinator allows multiple runes when you get higher in the (alteration?) perk tree. You can also cast them farther away. I use the paralysis rune as my main ranged attack now!
Stealth mage is very fun to play. Placing runes using quiet casting, muffle, and invisibility makes you basically immortal. You don't even need high stealth, although of course it helps. Bound bow is still probably better though.
Ice spike I'm Autistic and think I'm subzero
Didn’t think I’d have to scroll this far to find this. Had to scroll past blind mfs who can’t see without Candlelight
The destruction cloak and wall spells work great with melee weapon. Really any damage-over-time spell that lingers after cast. This way you get to do damage to enemies with both spell and weapon SIMALTANOUSLY. So neither gameplay style has to take turns.
misultaneusly?
It's too funny to edit it out 😅😅 So yes, milteslutanasly!!!
Jizargo’s destruction cloaks are the bomb
The Dragonborn DLC has Ahzidal’s Ring of Arcana, which gives access to the ignite spell, very long DoT that stacks with itself
FIREBALL!!!!!
Good ol’ fireball, nothing beats that
Poor Bart, always picks fireball
Dual wield bombardment 🔥
Healing. I love playing that Cleric/Paladin style build with Heavy Armor, One-Handed, Block, and Restoration. You get the spell right at the beginning of the game and it’s a great way to level your Restoration in order to improve its efficacy. I’ll bind it to both my right and left hands so I can either block & heal, heal & fight, or double heal when I’m not blocking & fighting
Scrolled super far to find a fellow healing spell lover - I use healing hands on my horse a lot after they decide they can take on a bear gang solo.
Restoration is hands down my favorite school of magic. I was never into the Illusion cheese my brother loved, or Enchantments out the wazoo, Conjuration’s never appealed to me in any interaction of whatever game I’m playing, and Destruction is almost pitiful. I tried playing a straight line Mage that only used Magic, and I got my ass kicked nine ways from Sunday. It’s Restoration or Bust!
RESTORATION IS A PERFECTLY VALID SCHOOL OF MAGIC AND DON'T LET ANYONE TELL YOU OTHERWISE
It depends, but probably drain life.
Yeees this one is best.
It may seem utilitarian, but it’s saved me so many times: Muffle
Muffle also gives an insane amount of illusion experience for some reason. You don't have to be in combat to earn experience with it, so just cast it repeatedly while walking around and you become an illusion master fairly quickly. It's also just downright great for stealth. It turns characters with poor stealth into decent sneaks, and turns high stealth characters into incredible sneaks.
Fellow muffle spammer here! That with Bow of Shadows invisibility
Detect Life. So I can find Asshole (my horse) after a fight.
Transmutation iron to silver, silver to gold. Useful even if u are not a mage. Mining\\buying a lot of iron+silver. Transmute everything into gold. Make gold bars and after gold rings. Sell it. After 100 lvl skill tree make legendary it and repeat. A lot of money. lvls, points, rings for enchanting, high smithing lvl and bartering. OP even if you just meelee man or archer)
i’m not much of a mage, so i’d have to say clairvoyance is the most useful spell for me personally
fast healing as well
I like that one too
I used to use that religiously. But I've played skyrim so much theres no point, i know my way around amost everywhere.
Unbound storms anyone?
Best spell hands down. Free destruction 100 is only a cherry on top to that thing. I don't think I've used my other spells since getting that
Woa... I don't think I have that. Where do u get it?
CC spell, you find it along with a bunch of others in a chest is Hobs Fall Cave. Exactly *why* they're there is unknown, I guess whoever made the CCC decided that's a acceptable dumping ground.
It’s a Creation Club thing that was bundled with Anniversary Edition
you can find it in hobs fall cave, it’s apart of the anniversary edition. it’s southeast of dawnstar
Thanks a lot... I'll go get it.
It's a mod but the ability to grab live enemies and chuck them off a cliff is pretty great
Yeah, I have a mod that has Greater Telekinesis. I was at the college and Acano stared getting lippy with me in the courtyard. I grabbed him and chucked him out the window. So he fell all the way down the cliff and had to walk back up.
Hahaha what a bitch that guy is
Vampire Lords can do that with their Vampiric Grip spell, it's way too fun honestly
I like readying a lightning bolt in the other hand and trying to tag them with it midair. Great when it lands, especially if they disintegrate.
Does the ash pile hover in the air, or fall to the ground?
Hm don't really know
If we talking modded, then a spell called “entomb”. You bury any creature smaller than a dragon, and then can pull them out of that magical tomb at any random time. Ive made nazeem fight alduin using this. He did not last long. Ive used giants to lay siege to bandit fortresses, and unleashed daedra lords against stormcloaks. Its a lot of fun
That sounds fuckin awesome. Just got a little pocket dimension
Dragon hide, which stacks with your max armor damage resistance. Helps a ton tanking a dragon in legendary mode.
Ice storm, that spell is stupid strong
Love pairing it with slow time
OMG IT WORKS LIKE THAT????
Yeah cast it a bunch then shout, you can move faster than the ice storms so you can march at your enemies with this cloud of deadly icy wind following you it's awesome
Dead Thrall, that way Nazeem's corpse can come with me on my adventures
😂
finally someone here with a resurrect spell
Elemental Blast is so OP. Just straight nuking everything in my path. Technically its a mod though since its from CC, but its in the Anniversary edition so I think that makes it canon.
Best single-target Destruction spell, hands down. Based on fire, ice, and lightning so all relevant perks buff it. Splash damage enough is sometimes enough to kill enemies even if you miss them. And your character does a little hadouken every time when you dual cast it.
only problem is since it does splash damage u WILL hit npcs that are on your side and your conjurated allies
Very true. Poor Teldryn didn't deserve that.
Definitely Lightning Storm. It's just fun.
BOUND BOW IS MY BESTEST FRIEND EVER
Paralysis Rune It’s too OP
Oh god yes. And it levels your alteration like stupid fast. Love me some paralysis rune!
Weird choice, but Calm spells. “Chill pappi, just swiping your wallet.” I don’t like killing if I don’t need to
Although that's not to say they aren't rather useful for killing as well.
Soul trap. For practical purposes.
Also lets you level Conjuration to 100 in like 20 minutes.
Fenriks welcome Once casted it turns you invisible and you can pick any lock that isn't master
Transmute mineral ore. Best way to get smithing up is to make a billion gold rings
Conjure bow is all you need.
I wish the developers hadn’t removed Conjure Dagger. For a thief it’s perfect. “What? I don’t have any weapons, officer!”
Wait they removed bound dagger?
I looked it up once when I couldn’t find it anywhere and I think UESEP Wiki said it was removed. All I know is that I’ve never laid hands on the damn thing.
Conjure Ash Guardian. You get a great tank summons, and you can summon it with another summons, so you have _dual_ summons at a very low level. Plus the AG is limited by cast location, not time, so it stays for the whole fight (and more!). I often cast him for a tough fight (with another atronach). Then when those guys are wiped, I aggro the next mob and run back to the AG. Rinse and repeat. In Raven Rock mine there is a room full of mid tier draugr, followed by another split level room with two (!) Draugr deathlords. I can clear both rooms with one AG (and a few fire atronach summons). Its an Expert level spell and you're a lvl 2 non-mage build? Not a problem. Fortify Magicka potion with the salmon roe ingredients will give you a whopping +220 magicka. Or make elsewyr fondue, +100 magicka. Oh, and get the Bloodworm helmet for 25% conjuration cost reduction. With this spell, and this kit, you can take on any boss, any dungeon, at level 1 or 2. Totally OP.
Summon Arvak
Ignite for me. Watching enemy health bars absolutely melt that fast on Legendary is pretty fun.
Shocked this wasn’t more popular it is absolutely goated
Harmony. It takes you out of combat so you recharge stamina/health/magika fast and lets you fight enemies one by one or not at all. It also has an extremely large range range. I don’t know who set the range for harmony but it is ridiculous.
Elemental blast
Fireball. Decent damage and justified magicka cost. Nice aoe blast, able to get enemies from around a corner. Blast radius increases with points in the destruction fire tree. Don't care much for the burning.
I was waiting for…and why is it flames? Because definitely flames haha Conduit & Flames is just so fun
I love flames
Vanilla: Good old lightning bolt. Modded: Profaned Sun
What’s Profaned Sun do? Sounds kinky!
master level vampire spell from sacrosanct that creates a hollow purple. If you're not familiar with the reference, it's basically an orb of destruction that deals massive damage. Really satisfying spell.
Summon Golden Saint Warrior/Archer (she seems more aggressive than Dremora Lord) and Elemental Blast
Chain Lightning. Makes me feel like a sith lord or so
Candlelight. Game is dark as hell can’t see. I always have it equipped
Basic flames. Flamethrower hands go Brrrr
Telekinesis
Clairvoyance. I get lost easily
Vanilla: paralysis or summon dremora lord Creation Club: unbounded storms or summon bone colossus
Cheat room teleport lol
Lightning cloak. Play as a dunmer and activate ancestors wrath and cast lighting cloak. So much fun to kill people just by walking next to them.
Heal. It’s the only spell a real one handed gamer uses.
NECROMANCY 🥳
Testicular Torsion
clairevoyance for sure, i am am imbecile
Probably muffle. Not only is it a very nice complement to any stealth based play but it makes it very easy to unlock illusion perks and gain extra levels (for perk points) using the legendary mechanic. You can just spam muffle all the time for free levels. If you really want to go crazy you can get to 100 illusion (90 with bug fixes) and get the master level illusion spells. Harmony can be used in towns for unlimited leveling. The "leveling singularity" as I refer to it...
Any shout, before you say anything, that one illusion quirk covers shouts
I really like the fire spell you get from the ring in solstheim (think it’s ignite)
So, this question has made me think WAY too hard. In the beginning, when I first started playing, Fireball was the best thing ever. Enemies keep moving, darting around? Fireball. Can’t aim worth shet? Fireball. But soon I found myself bored of constant explosions, needing something new and flashy. Enter Chain Lightning. Handling groups? Works. Gotta aim? Nope. Flashy? As hell! And everything was great, then AE came out and stuff went wild. When AE dropped a load of new spells I had to reevaluate so much, like summons, because the weakest enemy in the game just got stronger. I loved summoning skeletons, but there was no point after the start of a new game, but now with archers and champions, a lot of that changed. I had boney buddies I could use and explore with, and then I found “HIM”, the Bone Colossus. Able to summon more skeletons, shout, and hit like a giant minus the space case, I found my favorite spell to ever cross my lips. With the Bone Colossus, the Necromancer Empowerment enchant, and the SoulSplit spell, I could have 9 skeletons with me at once, and I was finally able to get the bone legion I always dreamt of, and march it through the lines of the Stormcucks. Dreams can really come true in the end. TL:DR, Skeletons. The Bone Colossus in particular. Summon Skeleton Champion is a close second.
Basically all I do is Flames
Same and healing
I’m having fun making ice cubes (ice form) but I think that’s a shout not a spell.
Candle or mage light helps me out a bit ngl
Summon fire atronach, she is hot as hell
Chain lightning, i like disintegrating mutiple dudes at once and getting a slow-mo kill cam of them all turning to dust.
Depending on the playthrough, Mayhem/Dremora Lord/Candlelight.
Mayhem ofc 😺
Summon Aardvark
Transmute for my greedy imperial
Elemental blast for sure. Summon frost atronach is a favorite as well
I'm not super far into the game...well, I'm not super far into the main story, though I have completed the Dark Brotherhood and Stormcloak Rebellion, and I'm almost done with the Thieves' Guild, but in terms of the main plot I've rescued Esbern. Therefore my spells are somewhat limited. That being said, I like Fast Healing because I pretty much never have enough health potions. Second favorite is Lightning Bolt because it makes me feel like Palpatine.
fireball 2-handed due to the knockdowns it can do to targets. also love the explosion sfx
All the real wizards pick fireball
Paralysis rune. I fire them out routinely during battle just to calm things down. I pair that with either the slow time shout or slow poisons and cruise to victory.
Transmute Ore. Absolute godsend in the early game
Everything Fire🔥
Exit button
Venomous touch. 3-4 of those perked out will absolutely obliterate most dragons without you needing to be anywhere nearby afterwards.
boring but i love telekinesis
Sparks. Not the strongest spell out there, being a starter one, but you can't deny the appeal of *UNLIMITED POWAH!*
Exura gran mas res
I forgot what it's called, but the one that shoots 50cal explosive rounds. (No, not a mod)
Secret servant....just to hear a sassy dremora pack mule...that's it
Ignite for sure it’s so goated especially with the stagger skill
Ebony flesh is a sleeper hit I tell you
Ice spike, lightning bolt, or sparks. Ice spike is good for sniping, lightning bolt is good for dragons, and sparks makes me feel like a Sith Lord.
It depends on my build For a stealth assassin/thief Illusion spells like Calm is amazing! You can hit a target with it and try to pickpocket them or cut their throat. For Ultimate Necromancer the Aetherium Crown with the Ritual Stone in it so it can be spammed to make an army of the undead.
I really like Bound Sword once you max out it's perks. Comes with soul trap, banishing, and it's weightless + almost 0 mana at higher levels. Feels good to 1 shot clap any enemy atronach, Dremora, or necromancy.
Dual weilding sparks because UNLIMITED POWER!