Spoiler College of Winterhold - Destruction 101

[DarthSpecturm]

Looks like Fire and Lightning are deadlocked! I thought of you guys when I was spending perks to get my fire damage up, wouldn't have done that had I not learned the error of my ways. So thanks for the help and advice, ya'll! We are stronger... together [in a Master Splinter voice.]

I have a new question, though. The other night I was putting all kinds of ice spikes into a Draugr Deathlord, and the sumbitch was able to attack through some of my dual-casts! Does impact work during a power attack? There's definitely a timing-issue to stun-locking (which I was totally trying to do.) I've noticed that you have to wait until your opponent is standing again before any stun attempts can be made--but this guy got a few more swings in than I intended to allow. Could it have been the ice? I now know that Draugr hate fire but they don't mind ice so much (was trying to slow 'em down.) Any ideas, fellow archmages?

Impact should work during a power attack, but I do believe you need to do an X amount of damage to stagger an opponent, only the expert spells can stagger every single enemy that is stagger-able. Next time, try it with a fire spell instead, dragrs are weak to that and you probably can just kill your deathlord before he is so close that you need to rely on your stagger.

 

[Zolo-Shea]

Certain amount of damage, eh? Okay, that makes perfect sense. Thank you, DarthSpecturm.

Looks like Lightning pulled up and away with the lead! Where's my shockies at!?

 

[Zolo-Shea]

So my shockies seem to be NOWHERE! That's fine, I'll represent with or without you punk-ass bustas.

We haven't spoken much about Vampiric Drain, that's a mighty fine spell, right there. If you want the battle to last a good ten minutes, that is! Is there much vampiring to be had with your maging? What can be done to fix the limp, sad nature of this spell?