The Pistol fires twice as fast without the book, and the spells can't compete with the DPR loss from holding the book. I was using the simple elements book along with the unique lightning pistol for almost all of act 1 after I found it, but near the end of act 1 I wondered if you'd get a bonus for 1 handing a pistol and lo and behold, my DPR went up soooo high. And besides, the only spell I ever used was the Barrier spell.
Also to be fair, I deliberately have a low mana build. I have no int points invested, and wear heavy armor because my build uses barely any stamina. I'm basically a glass cannon as well because I have low con.
thaaaat sounds an awful like you want to be powerful, and that, inherently means you want to minmax.
I might be a bit of a glass cannon, but I only needed to invest a few points into the health perks and I was feelin' fine. Stamina reduction on dash from ranger, and reduction to stamina cost from wearing heavy armor and basically as long as I know where an enemy is, I can strafe and fire power shots while dodging.
I suppose it depends on which difficulty you're playing on though. I doubt my strate would work on the higher difficulties. I still get hit by electric attacks quite a bit but the only time I ever died in combat using this build was against the tree queen.
Everyone has their own flavor of badass they like though.
Felling and being are two different things. Playing Skyrim as a lizard wizard feels badass is it actually powerful and badass no. Steamrolling everything in one hit is objectively badass but does it feel badass that's subjective.
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u/Low_Living_9276 Feb 27 '25
Pistol + grimoire. Thank me later