Does anyone here use a purely magic build? I’m experimenting with it at the moment but would like to hear what others are doing.
What foods do you eat? I’m currently using 2X Eitr and one stamina but it leaves me with very little health.
Do you wear the full mage gear or mix and match with some heavier armour? I’m using the full mage set at the moment.
I do fine against regular seekers but fights with soldiers take longer than if I just bashed it with a melee weapon. I took down a gjall but it was pretty sketchy and took a while too. Hits from its fireballs popped my protection bubble almost immediately so I spent a lot of time dodging and recasting the bubble.
I don’t have the frost staff yet so I’m guessing that will make things a bit easier by slowing enemies.
Haven’t played in a while but even with Epic Loot on a pure mage build wasn’t great. The only staff that was really good was the fire staff with double projectile and explosive, the others were subpar, even with BiS armor enchantments on full Eitr set. Shield staff is good as a get out of jail free card but it wasn’t dependable due to health cost. Even with Epic Loot, you’re better off with maxed out black metal axes with throw and return or frostner.
Vanilla, magic is only good as back up, in case you’d rather not run arrows or ran out of them. Frost is pretty good against soldiers, but again, frostner is better at it than the staff.