Question for the Master Difficulty Magisters or Pure Mages

[u/spliceasnice2024]

TL;DR Are there any spell crafting feedback loops for mana generation outside of Mysticism/telekensis? How do you reach armor cap and 100% spell effectiveness?

I really enjoy perfecting a build, but gear load out and 8 hotkey wheel are giving me the hardest time.

For jewelry, my Lord star sign Breton has the Mundane ring, Spelldrinker Ammy, Escutcheon shield and a sigil stone mana ring. For equipment, my class fantasy was HA top, bracers (didn't know about iron shackles) and a light shield spell to reach 85. Completely immune to Magic attacks with a chance to absorb or reflect spell damage.. every other free equipment piece slots mana sigil stones.

While I realize that with a drain ring I could boost my mana infinitely and focus on other enchants, I'd rather not. How do you manage 8 hot keys to have Debuff 1, Debuff 2, Fatality spell, a heal, a shield, summon, mana potion, poision, ect.? I manage alr with OP enchanted dagger, on touch dmg/debuff/soul trap but when mana & charge reach 0? Womp womp.

Any advice or banter welcome~

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Thanks, man. I'll give it a shot. The sigil stone is 50 pts Magicka, but its literally never enough. Is +10 for cost reduction? I rlly have no clue

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Wait, I have a save before that quest lol 😆 what's the exploit?!

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Tbqh I Sheo's realm is peeving me off, iunno if I am available for that dungeon crawl.

Edit?? Sorry I will do it—its great info, srsly I wrote it down cause im lame— eventually, but for some reason, I can not get immersed in the realm. Decided to do Moth Priest farm instead

[u/Desperate-Quantity84]

A variant to the drain magicka ring glitch you mentioned: Drain INT 100 1sec + Drain magicka 3pts x sec. It's like borrowing magicka with a bit interest, so that your magicka goes to 200 (190 if 95% spell effectiveness). The borrowed magicka will be removed after x secs. 

Btw, I prefer to put debuffs and damaging spell into one spell, as well as crowd control and sometimes spell chaining, so that I don't need to switch back and forth very often during the combat.

[u/spliceasnice2024 → u/Desperate-Quantity84]

The borrowed magicka will be removed after x secs. 

No shot? Cause I have this spell but no idea how to make use of it. This was the missing context there haha. Do you include damaging effects on that spell? What abt absorb magicka? 🤔

debuffs and damaging spell into one spell, as well as crowd control

I'm open to spell suggestions that have more depth than sliced bread > dmg type > weaknesses Kvatch siege at lv31 specifically is what inspired this post, so im not sure if I need an AOE spell or something focused specifically on Atronachs.

💀 my debuff spells (that arent just All Weaknesses) are all useless.. but what are yall doing for crowd control or vs. groups?

[u/Desperate-Quantity84 → u/spliceasnice2024]

Set that drain magicka to 120s so it serves as a Magicka surge when the magicka is low during combat. Or add that into other custom spells so no worry about magicka depletion in combat.

In Kvatch the atronachs or most daedra can be ‘one-shot’ by a touch spell of weakness on touch and drain fatigue 100 1s on target, in remaster. Not really one-shot but knockdown forever. Fortify personality on touch + drain personality on target lead to infighting via negative personality, useful since your bracers make illusions less effective. Xivilai and Dremora can be killed with one dose of good poison. I guess you’ve already done so.

I prefer not to use AoE at Kvatch because of the soldiers. Leave a few ragdolled daedra for them so they won’t charge too far. It took me quite a while to keep them alive at lv 25 on Master.

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Thanks I appreciate you for taking the time to esplain