Obtain three Grand soul gems using Grand souls.Obtain as many of the ‘insightful’ ‘corpus’ and ‘additional effect’ perks as possible.Get enchanted bonuses that increase its effectiveness by 20/40/60/80/100%.Raise your enchanting skill to a level of 40 or higher.To learn the “Fortify destruction” spell, disenchant.Find an item that’reduces the cost of destruction spells in terms of mana.’.Frost excels at fighting numerous opponents in close quarters. This may be useful since opponents that do not move out of it will be struck several times, resulting in much greater damage. Frost is similarly effective against numerous targets, although it moves more slowly. Aoe on numerous targets is a breeze with Fireball. Choose one (or more) of the Fire/Ice/Shock branches to pursue.įire spells do a lot of damage, but the bolts’ travel time is slow enough that they may miss the target if you battle at range.As quickly as possible, get Dual-Casting and, more importantly, Impact.As soon as they become available, purchase the half-casting-cost bonuses for Novice through Master.Evilnight’s Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Mage Guide