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Character Build: The Transient Sorcerer

Tags: #Character Build Elementalist  #Character Build Mage  #Character Build Illusionist  #Race:Breton  #Rank:Legendary 
  • March 15, 2015

    Dual Casting Flames increases the damage.

  • March 15, 2015

    By how much exactly?

  • March 15, 2015

    The formula seems to be: 2.2x spell effectiveness for 2.8x spell cost (remember, though, that you are casting two spells at the same time so 2 is the base value, not 1 -USEP

  • Member
    March 15, 2015
    Yup, 22 x 2.2 = 48 Thanks Dragonborn ;)
  • Member
    March 15, 2015

    I usually play on master most of the time, so I was a bit skeptical looking at that spell list. Also since the unofficial skyrim patch fixes the aspect of terror/flames damage increase (among other things), I modded in an enhanced version of flames that mimics the damage of AoT + flames. I still took aspect of terror though, for the sake of the build.

    Well about a couple hours in, I get absolutely destroyed by a group of vamps. So, I decided to use that mirage trick you listed. Oooh boy, they were wailing on that poor familiar for a good long time..enough time for me to roast all of them ahahaha! You probably knew this already, but you can actually use that trick on any enemy, as long as there are atleast two of them. I just cast ash shell on one, then dual cast fury on another, and they will proceed to attack their invulnerable comrade. Meanwhile I move in and burn em'. I haven't gotten MfD or slow time yet, but I will get there eventually. 

    All in all, pretty solid build. Felt extremely underpowered at first, but once I got the techniques down, it became much more fun and viable! I still have a lot more to do on my character, but i'm enjoying myself so far. I originally was going to just like this for the very fitting music, but I found the build to be good as well.

  • Member
    March 15, 2015
    Haha awesome, glad you came around to it. Very fun playthrough with some interesting tactics that will get you through anything. At first glance those Novice spells seem simple but use them in the right circumstances and you can pull some badass combos off :) thanks for the +1 Rodak
  • March 16, 2015

    I'm wondering if there should be a page somewhere on the site.

    "Patches that Revert Glitches Fixed by the Unofficial Patches"

    Aspect of Terror

    Necromage

    Fortify Restoration

    It also took me WAY too long to realise that Ramble On wasn't in fact playing in my head and was coming from one of my 15 open tabs. Since I've already liked this, +1 in spirit, my brother.

  • Member
    March 16, 2015
    Are you not a fan of Zepplin or Autoplay in general? The link is visible so you can pause it at will ;)
  • Member
    March 16, 2015
    Haha, it wasn't just in your head but it will be now! Maybe you could put it on the main CB page. There are tons of builds that use patched glitches so it would come in handy. Thanks for the soul bump, El (and not Ellie) :)
  • Member
    April 10, 2015
    I heard Ramble On on the radio as I was driving home from work and INSTANTLY thought of this build. You know what... I'm okay with that :D