
This means it takes a lot more spells to take down a giant or a bear or a troll or any Nord bandit with frost magic, than it does with fire magic. So not only does frost magic give me more experience per spell I cast than fire, it also does less damage due to most creatures innate resistance to frost. But a lot of enemies are resistant to frost magic. Similar to shock magic, not very many foes are resistant to shock magic. It's good if you want to do the most amount of damage in the least amount of time.

They also offer a little more xp, 48 mana base cost, 48 experience points.īut heres the thing, but for dunmer not very many Skyrim's foes are resistant to fire. Then I discovered Frost Magic and am more relying on ice spikes than anything else. For 2 pounds extra carry weight, I keep expert destruction robes and an adept hood handy wherever I go since armor does nothing for me fighting against mages and dragons. It is ok to swap out your armor for mage robes if you're fighting against an enemy that uses magical attacks since armor is only useful against physical attacks anyways. One thing that helped me level up destruction is I bought expert destruction robes (I felt ok with buying these, normally I prefer to find everything as loot but I read that expert and master robes virtually never show up as loot anyways) and having an amulet of akatosh, adept hood, and blessing of akatosh to keep my mana pool full, but at the higher levels leveling up destruction was still a pretty slow process. However this was an extremely slow and laborious process. They inflict a lot of damage, they offer a decent mana/experience ratio, 41 mana base cost for 41 experience points.

On my current play through I've done almost all of my destruction magic with firebolts. If it feels cheap or like I'm abusing how the xp system works to level up a skill I don't do it, for example conjuring a familiar and then placing a rune underneath it, or for restoration, falling off a cliff from a height I can survive and then healing myself.īut for people doing a legitimate play through similar to me, no farming of skills or buying trainers, where they feel they should only develop their skill if they're really in actual need of it I think I discovered a fast way to level up destruction magic. First of all I don't farm skills, nor do I ever buy training from a teacher.
