My Recommendation: Fire, as it does great damage (Ranking from lowest to highest amount of damage done: Frost, Fire, electric), doesn't waste all of your magika instantly, and stuns your target for easier kiting when combined L&R hand. There are several creatures in the skyrim world that have immunities and resistances to each of those: Frost, Fire, and electric.īe sure to get the stun perk and a dual casting perk in which ever specialization you see fit. Do not focus on one specific type of cast (IE just fire).

If you are going pure mage: Destro, be sure to spread out your perks. Any more concerns ask in the comments and I will try and add in more information as I currently understand it. I hope this high level overview has been helpful and addressed your questions. You will need to have enough mana on hand to cast them, but it may not be worth while to put perks in here aside from those that allow you access to have 2 summons at once.

When considering Conjuration keep in mind that the max level summons, known as thralls, are permanent until they die.

This is -not- the win button, but it definitely puts you on a bit more even footing than you are with out it. When my brother got this he went from having to do some fancy kiting of enemies to being able to constantly stumble them. If you are trying to be an offensive mage you will really want to go with all of the elements in the long run so you are never stuck with just one choice. But Ice works against fire based dragons (and I've found it very useful against giants), fire works against both kinds of trolls, all of the undead, and electrical works good against mages. A lot of people find Electrical the most useful simply cause it instantly strikes what is under your target, you do not have to lead your target.

There is no end all be all elemental skill.

For example you can do nothing in the destruction tree with out starting with the Novice perk.

You can not get a higher tier perk with out getting the lower ones.

My mage knowledge is mostly second hand but I can give out these pointers so far:

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