How to Mage:


• When you start using a higher level spell, take the perk that allows you to use it for half the cost.
• Use fire as your default, unless your enemy is resistant to it. Fire has the lowest cost. Frost is in between, and lightning is the most expensive.
• Have excellent enchantment skill, and disenchant any robes you find that give magika restoration bonuses.
• Complete the Black Star quest as soon as possible, and make sure you have the soultrap spell, or a weapon enchanted with it. The Black Star is a reusable soul gem that uses human souls, which have a value equal to a Grand Soul, which is much harder to get.
• Enchant your armor to increase the regeneration rate of your magika. With Black Souls, a high Enchantment skill, and the right perks, you can make your armor even more effective than the Archmage's robes, and you'll still get the armor bonus.
• If you're short on cash, buy some leather and iron and make some iron daggers. then give them a fear enchantment, mana drain enchantment, or stamina drain enchantment. Sell them back for a huge profit.
• No matter what, you'll be in situations where you don't have any magika, and there's no time to waste waiting for it to regenerate. When this happens, you NEED to be able to use a conventional weapon. My high elf mage has a greatsword that's been refined to the "flawless" level. You might also want to give this weapon the Soul Trap enchantment if you have it, since the Soul Trap spell is fairly costly to cast, and takes time to charge up.
• Conjuration and restoration are your friend. if your health is dwindling and you have no means to regenerate it, summon a an ally of some form, and retreat to heal yourself.
• What Shadowfred said about Impact? Yeah that's important. dualcast whenever possible, and take the Impact perk. Impact makes it so all your dualcasted destruction spells cause the enemy to stagger when they're hit, which makes keeping your distance extremely easy.

Also, remember that no matter what your character is, Blacksmithing is an extremely important skill, especially if you want to have the coolest looking and most effective armors (Glass and Dragonscale for light, Daedric and Dragonbone for heavy). To level it the fastest, simply craft iron daggers. They only cost one iron ingot and one leather strip to make. It took me about eight daggers to get from level 70 to 71, without the Warrior Stone activated. Hell, unless you have an astounding Speech skill, which is a real bi­tch train, it's also the only affordable way of having a reliable means to get new equipment.

/nerd

Alright, time for journal entries from all of Frenchfry's characters.

This Machine, Imperial Warrior. Day 9, 5:30 PM
Just killed a Blood Dragon with my bare hands. Sure, a sword and shield is more effective, but I had to put that Fists of Steel perk to use SOMEHOW. I also killed two giants at the same time as a werewolf, since they can't even stand up once I get swinging.

Wade, Dunmer Assassin, Day 16, 1:23 AM
Shadowmere killed a bear for me today. Forget followers, this horse is all I need in an ally. At least he's smart enough to wait outside while I work, so I can remain undetected.

Arya, High Elf Mage, Day 6, 3:20 PM
Selling copies of The Doors of Oblivion made me rich. Buying iron and leather to train in Smithing made me poor again. Enchanting all fifty of those Iron Daggers and selling them for 300 gold each made me filthy rich. It's great having the Black Star gem. Simply killing humans and trapping their souls with my Soultrap greatsword is so much easier than hunting Mammoth for their Grand Souls.

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Well then I died and went to Hell.

Haha, so now everyone's just gonna call me Stefan, huh?
I can't believe you actually remembered to do this. I'm so... *Wipes away tears* so happy.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go put this alcohol and sex skill to good use. Probably at the same time.

do you know the biggest asses are the chansey parents that leave their child out of the cold for chansey 3 year not knowing were he is or having no food to eat. just the clothes on his back and sleeping in a abanded house that he is scared that the cops will take him to jail or prison. im the kid that this happen 2 planning his revenged on his dumb-ass step father and his chansey annoying uncle. so those are the biggest assholes in the world for me.

Yeah okay.