Ha ha, indeed, I suppose if I could be bothered I could just keep summoning and start blasting them but it would certainly take time...not always a good idea to over train otherwise you lack in other skills or level to quickly

@ox: Yeah, that was one of the recommendations, the Cheydinhal one iirc...strange stuff, but very interesting

I've made my mages staff, I've taken the lead from you ox, got myself a paralysing one heh

Got 2 on the go at the moment, I find it impossible to just stick to the one save, my quirks are getting worse Loving spellcasters though, Battlemage my favourite build at the moment. A custom 'proper' Battlemage of course.

I could've sworn you can pimp up destruction by just casting flares randomly. I didn't think hitting a target was required (though it probably would be for touch spells). It's been awhile, though.

I don't think so, it needs a target. A simple summoned skeleton sorts that out but destruction takes so long to level it would be hellishly boring

This is an indication of how many usages the skills need to level:


http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Increasing_Skills

As you can see, Destruction takes a long time and Restoration takes forever. Conjuration is the easiest, a good one to put as a minor skill.

I never realised how slow mercantile is to level...have to try that as a major...

Yeah, its ok, mages are pretty fun, but they can get hurt pretty quick without armour and all your cash goes on spells

Even with a high destruction it takes a lot of 25 point spells to kill things...

So its fun but not that easy

12th Lvl now, doing stuff for Traven, got to go and find a couple of artifacts

Oh yeah, Mannimarco is a pansy. Don't get me started on that (and how inconsistent it is with lore). But maybe we should let BJ find out all that stuff for himself Gfree.

I've actually read the king of worms book in the arcane library I think, he sounds a very uber demigod type of figure, I've read your thread a couple of times Ox, my fault if I caught anything spoiler-ithic

I gather that he's less than uber when you have to fight him and you don't believe it was the real king?

Idd, the book sounds like he's a figure capable of destroying entire armies.