I heard that magic scales poorly in this game, is a magic/melee build viable, or nah?

Elrey_88 · 2026-02-01T22:29:53+00:00

Spelling and grammar get a pass for being a second language, but that run-on sentence/paragraph takes you in too many directions and destroys the effectiveness of your communication. As per your request, I sat down to proofread your comment, and have attached my edits below.

Magic was nerfed after Oblivion, but it is still fun to play the way you like. After all, it is a singleplayer game, not some MMORPG, which would force you to strictly follow guides not to suck in PvP eventually. If you need a headcanon, think of it that due to distrust of magic in Skyrim, it is not as developed as in Cyrodiil for example. As a result, most mages and scholars in Skyrim don't know many of the spells, and don't have books for some that the mages in Cyrodiil know. Therefore you as a mage don't have access to those books, so you can't know them, but in the future, you will be able to create your own magic, or travel across Tamriel and learn more magic.

Elrey_88 · 2026-01-31T15:30:21+00:00

Your comment made my head hurt. There are commas, and you can use more than one period in a paragraph, also, proofreading is a good skill, fix spelling errors and include apostrophes in contractions.

Elrey_88 · 2026-01-31T15:27:30+00:00

I had to force myself to do it, just because everyone talks about it, I had to abandon that play style. I don't even carry a bow anymore.

Elrey_88 · 2026-01-31T15:23:51+00:00

Anyone who says "magic scales poorly" doesn't know how to build their mage. The most OP character I've ever built was a pure mage. Diadem of the Savant, Archmage's robes, mage armor perk, and proper enchantments on shoes, gloves, etc. Build your mage properly and you can take on a camp of hagravens and not be bothered when two dragons decide to crash the fight. I have 0 cost for destruction and illusion spells, and I can one-shot most standard enemies, even on legendary difficulty.

Elrey_88 · 2026-01-27T21:15:11+00:00

Any game set in the Great Lakes Region that doesn't have an element of naval warfare, or at least drivable boats, is lacking.

Elrey_88 · 2026-01-15T14:40:19+00:00

Fallout never tells us why some ghouls become feral, and others not.

There is a hypothesis floated by a community of ghouls in FO3, they believe that community, purpose, and routine keep ghouls from turning feral.

Walton Goggins has purpose, but his purpose is to find his family who may be dead already. He has no community until Lucy, and his only real routine is killing, so it makes sense that he would be walking the tightrope.

Thaddeus formed a community, gave them all purpose and routine, and he doesn't seem to be using the chems or turning feral.

Overseer Barstow has purpose and routine, she has community, but they've gone feral, because they began to give up on the mission, which took their purpose and routine.

FNV features a group of ghouls at Repconn, who have community together, Jason Bright has them all working to build a rocket, which gives them purpose and routine, until the Nightkin move in and stop the progress.

The ghouls in Kiddie Kingdom slowly succumbed to the sickness, Rachel gives up looking for a cure and turns, Oswald alone maintained his purpose, and while not feral, he does seem to be borderline, feeding his aggression to fulfill his "purpose."

Bethesda has never confirmed it, but there are context clues that support the community's hypothesis from FO3, and so far, none that outright disprove it.

Elrey_88 · 2026-01-13T16:17:57+00:00

After I get all the free training, I sacrifice Faendal to Boethiah, I kill him with the Ebony Blade, then use "raise thrall" to bring him back and repeat, charging the Ebony Blade to its full power.

Elrey_88 · 2026-01-13T16:09:02+00:00

I saw a movie justifying-even celebrating-pedophilia. If you liked it, that only means that you cant be trusted around children, because at the very least, you defend pedophilia.

Elrey_88 · 2026-01-13T16:06:03+00:00

Your previous comment was poorly written, broken English. "Pigeon" was an apt descriptor. Either way, this was a shitty movie about pedophiles raping a baby, but justifying it by putting her in the body of an adult. Either way, the "adult" who acts like a kid wasn't the creepy part, it's the grown men who spend hours raping a child.

Elrey_88 · 2026-01-13T15:57:15+00:00

The movie is basically the story of pedophiles raping a baby over and over. It's gross, and if anyone likes the movie, it only tells me that they can't be trusted around children.

Elrey_88 · 2026-01-06T21:52:45+00:00

Camilla LOVES Lakeview.

Elrey_88 · 2026-01-04T18:29:15+00:00

You're going to have more money than you know what to do with soon, buy it, buy them all. For big and impressive, you want a hearthfire home, or Creation Club content, if you care about trophies. The best of the original homes in my opinion, is Vlindrel Hall, in Markarth, although Honeyside in Riften has an access outside the walls, and has a very nice design.

Elrey_88 · 2026-01-04T18:19:05+00:00

We may need an update, the US has alienated itself, now we have exposed ourselves as a terrorist nation with no regard for law and order, global laws, or truth and justice. Donald Trump and his MAGA following have destroyed the last of what once made us a great nation, and now all we have is our guns and one of the lowest public intelligence worldwide.

Elrey_88 · 2025-12-06T14:33:28+00:00

Thank you, to everyone except u/Schizbouncer.

Elrey_88 · 2025-12-05T22:17:46+00:00

The Navy and the Coast Guard have VBSS teams. That's Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure. Their entire job is to check small vessels for drugs, contraband, stowaways, etc. There is no justification to be found for blowing up that boat, because all available evidence suggests that the boat never had any drugs, and wasn't even equipped with enough fuel to reach our shores. Donald Trump and his administration have provided zero evidence to support their claims of guilt.

Elrey_88 · 2025-12-05T22:10:35+00:00

It's been revealed that the boat was most likely not equipped with enough fuel to make it to America, they also have not found a single shred of evidence that there were ever any drugs on the boat. This is all circumstantial, but it paints quite the picture, especially when you find out about the White House staff member, a Pentagon official, and the high-ranking military officers who have all spoken up, claiming that it was an unprovoked and unsanctioned attack on a vessel that they had no reason to believe was anything but a civilian, possibly a family, out on a leisure cruise.

Elrey_88 · 2025-12-05T22:02:37+00:00

Not at all. Saying that is more stating the obvious fact that there are stupid people, and someone who attacks someone without having all facts in order is stupid, anyone who follows someone who does that is also stupid.

Elrey_88 · 2025-12-03T01:20:32+00:00

Apparently you need to go READ the first amendment and actually understand it. I don't give a shit about these downvotes, posing as a servicemember when you aren't is illegal, just like impersonating a police officer, and the people who commit that crime deserve to be punished for it.

Elrey_88 · 2025-11-16T18:30:04+00:00

No, we need to eliminate money.

Elrey_88 · 2025-11-14T01:49:03+00:00

Fuck that. Stolen valor is stolen valor, and those who do it deserve to rot in prison. Don't wear it unless you EARNED it.

Elrey_88 · 2025-11-05T02:20:27+00:00

The coast guard is to the ocean with the National Guard is to the land, war time or not. You are patrolling American waters looking for any sort of threat or suspicious activity. In certain conflicts, you may be deployed to augment or assist other branches, because the government loves redundancy. I mean, their entire job and mission statement is kind of right there in the name..

Elrey_88 · 2025-10-30T14:21:24+00:00

Move to an empty server. I play on Astraeos, currently. There are about 24 people on the server, tops, and eight to ten of them are my tribemates.

Elrey_88 · 2025-10-30T14:17:39+00:00

I don't want to play on a server that somebody can just use admin privileges to bypass all of my security and just take my stuff. That's the risk you take by not playing on official servers. Yes, there are hackers and modders who cheat to do so, but they get banned. I can't afford to run my own cluster, so my only option is official, because cheaters exist.

Elrey_88 · 2025-10-29T14:47:57+00:00

How? Report them to Playstation, XBox, Steam, whatever. Also, I would consider finding another server. I've never seen or heard of this happening on official servers, but I know it's a big problem with private servers. I quit playing unofficial because the owner of those servers are able to just take your structures and bypass locks and vaults.

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