oru, avatar, i've never talked to anyone who can go any significant distance outside of a town without having to use a weapon at some point to defend themselves, even breton mages. there will always be a point where you have to drop the fancy stuff and get your hands a bit dirty... so just pick and train one weapon skill (long swords are best for early in the game, staffs become good LATE when you can enchant them)

thats why i just cut my losses and go with a khaajit assassin theif who learns magick as time goes on... no need to flounder for the first half of the game while i suck at being a mage... i can just come in, get trained, and cast new spells now.

I prefer range spells, a 100 fire damage 10 radius + 100 poison damage 10 radius Nuke spell can easily take out anything.

regardless, i think a mage should be pure, if you add a weapon skill I notice you'll end up using more that that weapon to defeat enemy than your spell.

yeah, kakero, im trying to play a pure mage too, right now. but for a beginning player who doesnt even understand the experience and leveling scale, maybe he's being to ambitious. there are better character types to learn with than a pure mage.

hehe, I understand bit more now!!!

the game is terrible [img]tongue.gif[/img] I spent 2 hour standing there casting my own mini-spells and levelled up fro level 4 to level 13.

then still got slaughtered by a fire anarouch or whatever even with a fighter friend. :(

I simply can't stand enemy fireballs

Questions from NEWBIE:


1) I found that running quickly sideways is a goodway to dodge enemy spells when u see them casting it... is this a generally good tactic?

2) Touch area spells don't damage myself???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What about MY summons and companions? Do they spread spherically?

How weird!!!!!!!!!!!

Hahahahhaha just read the above thread:

http://www.elderscrolls.com/ubbthrea...=&fpart=1&vc=1


Basically it saids:

How to splatter ur enemy.

It Levitates them really high up and then lets them free fall...hehehhee

1) I found that running quickly sideways is a goodway to dodge enemy spells when u see them casting it... is this a generally good tactic?

yes, this is the best way to beat a ranged opponent. i think i mentioned this when i told you to run at random diagonals towards the flame atronarchs.

2) Touch area spells don't damage myself???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nope, shouldnt.

What about MY summons and companions? Do they spread spherically?

also shouldnt, though im not sure, i dont summon, then drop bombs like that. i just summon and levitate at the same time... if i'm going to do a bomb like that then i summon beings to help me afterwards. i never keep companions longer than i have to because they get in the way of real fighting.