Magic at upper levels demand potions only to be gotten through alchemy. You won't find them. Imagine destruction damage fortified by 150%+ by a potion, and you'll need potions that restore and increase available magica dramatically for 60 to 300 seconds. Also, look at the mage followers. Every one of them will put on heavy armor over any other kind and refuse to wear mage robes. So heavy armor it is, enchanted as you wish with any form of magica, health, or heavy armor. If you take every heavy armor perk, you can sustain a whole lot of blows with little or no damage while you whittle away your enemy with magic. Magic can be a lot of fun. The draugr deathlords become very confused, and often just stand there, or run the other way. Chain lightning blows bandits sky high (and at high levels, you're rich, so their loot doesn't matter if you can't find them.) I'm at level 65 on my current character and can solely use magic to defeat any enemy. But I didn't start out that way. I just kept pounding away at the destruction and conjuration skills, while keeping my daedric sword in my right hand, until I could go it alone with magic. Heck, look at the mage enemies. They're always armed. Don't think you shouldn't be. Finally, keep a dagger with a high-level "turn undead" enchantment (to level 40+)with you in case things get hairy.
what difficulty are you playing on? I'm on legendary and can honestly say that I have never had an unnecessary follower and never used a potion. currently I'm at 101 and still take down legendary dragons and deathlords with relative ease using thunderbolts and fireballs. maybe my enchantments are too robust? I've never even seen a plus 150% potion. are they created through exploit?
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Last time I saw you you were struggling on Adept
Yeah, but I hit level 70 and everything was so easy, I've been cranking it up every since. I found it frustrating that I could take out everything from Legendary Dragons to Draguar Deathlords with one shot. Sure, being a god is fun, but it gets old fast. Now that I'm at level 101, I've made it to legendary.
I find that I use mostly magic now as well (occassionally I use my bow so that I can fill soul gems).
Finding that I have to think more about what I'm doing and my 100 sneak skill is definately coming in very, very handy (as is the silent cast perk).
It's still a little boring that I can take out these incredibly tough foes with thunderbolts and fireballs with spamming in most cases, but I find that I use a lot more of the oil traps and luring enemies in to killing situations (swinging blades, etc...).
There is another thread on runes on the board today and, since I've never really used them or wall spells, I am finding that setting a bunch of runes and walls also helps.
The only ones I seem to have real difficulty with are those areas where you end up with 6 or 8 deathlords together. Those are tough.
I also find I use my conjure dremora a whole lot more than I used to, that and conjure storm antronach. They are excellent fodder and distractions.
Still no followers though.
I am getting a bit bored with Skyrim at this point though so I'm creating a new character named Echo in Oblivion tonight as I'm in the mood for something new that I've not invested very much time in to.
