Trigger Warning: Wall of Text.
Hello all. Relatively new member here and this is my first post of any substance. I apologize if the technique that I am about to outline has been posted already. (If it is, I haven't read it, though I haven't read all this leveling posts, so.)
This guide is how to level a mage to 100 conjuration, illusion, restoration, and alteration, and destruction to whatever you have the patience for swiftly.
1) Out of the gate make sure you grab the Frost Mirram hanging in the Old Storeroom in Helgen Keep and then you'll want to obtain the following spells: Muffle, Oakflesh, Fire and Frost runes, Conjure Flame Atronach, Frostbite, and Soul Trap.
2) Get Atronach Stone blessing.
3) Head east from the Stone and pick up the mammoth tusk from the dead mammoth that is laying in the water not too far away. Mind the giant, please.
4) Do Azura's Star quest. (Optional, actually, but in Illinalta's Deep you can gather 2 ruined books and a Frost Salts you will want later and it provides some basic leveling which is needful)
5) Head to Treva's Watch and do the Infiltration quest. (Target here is the Detect Life spell)
6) You will want to have selected Novice Restoration, Regeneration, and Novice Destruction at this point.
7) Run to Shearpoint and kill Krosis. (Mask and Staff are the targets here) With the Atro stone the fight even at low level requires you merely to pay attention to you health as you cast Flames with one hand, Healing with the other and hug his Frost Cloak to keep your magicka regenerating as quickly as possible. He will always summon a Frost Atronach upon awakening and that should be killed first. If one's health becomes dangerously low during the fight use a potion or temporarily switch the Flames hand to a second Healing spell until the danger has passed.
8) Obtain a Deathbell flower and an Ice Wolf pelt. Deathbell is all over Hjaalmarch and an Ice Wolf should spawn fairly early just down the road from Winterhold. Or you can buy one from a merchant. Using the beat, reload, and repeat technique to get it if you must.
9) Go to the College of Winterhold and take the grand tour. Grab the Void Salts in your room and head down to the Midden to use the Atronach Forge. Deathbell, Void Salts, a Ruined Book, and a Mammoth tusk will get you the Storm Atronach Summon and Ice Wolf Pelt, Frost Mirram, Ruined Book, and Frost Salts gets you the Frost Atro.
10) Head to Raldbthar. Get comfy (You're going to be here a hot minute.)
11) As you enter there is a Bandit sleeping on a pallet. Allow him to stand up and then kill him (or her) and drag the body into the nearby constant fire trap.
11) In one hand have Healing equipped and with the other cast Soul Trap and then Muffle a few hundred times or however many times is required to get Illusion and Conjuration to the level you want it.
12) Think of a movie you'd like to watch. (I recommend Big Trouble in Little China, but that's just me.)
13) Put Detect Life in your non-Healing hand rig your keyboard/controller to keep them both active and go watch that movie. (Or call your Mom, she misses you and thinks you spend too much time playing video games, just humor her, OK?) There should be three bandits in the rooms nearby for your Detect Life spell to hit. (You didn't kill them, right?)
14) Occasionally pause your movie and check your skill levels quitting when you max out or have hit the levels you want.
15) Get the Mage Stone blessing.
16) Equip Conjure Flame Atronach in your right hand and set up Frost Rune and Frostbite as hot buttons on your left. Conjure the Atro, place a Frost Rune under it and then detonate the rune with Frostbite. Repeat this until you either hit the level you want (optimal) or just can't stand the tedium any longer (what typically happens to me.)
17) Pat yourself on the back. You have fairly rapidly opened up all of the casting skills and have twin potent atronachs, a Staff of Fireballs, and Azura's Star to keep you alive until you can get the money to fill the holes in your spell and equipment inventories that this power-leveling has created.
18) Have fun.
Well, that's my first real post. I hope that it helps someone, somewhere, as my way of repaying all the help that this blog has provided to me.
Cheers!
--Nazdrakke
Trigger Warning: Wall of Text.
Hello all. Relatively new member here and this is my first post of any substance. I apologize if the technique that I am about to outline has been posted already. (If it is, I haven't read it, though I haven't read all this leveling posts, so.)
This guide is how to level a mage to 100 conjuration, illusion, restoration, and alteration, and destruction to whatever you have the patience for swiftly.
1) Out of the gate make sure you grab the Frost Mirram hanging in the Old Storeroom in Helgen Keep and then you'll want to obtain the following spells: Muffle, Oakflesh, Fire and Frost runes, Conjure Flame Atronach, Frostbite, and Soul Trap.
2) Get Atronach Stone blessing.
3) Head east from the Stone and pick up the mammoth tusk from the dead mammoth that is laying in the water not too far away. Mind the giant, please.
4) Do Azura's Star quest. (Optional, actually, but in Illinalta's Deep you can gather 2 ruined books and a Frost Salts you will want later and it provides some basic leveling which is needful)
5) Head to Treva's Watch and do the Infiltration quest. (Target here is the Detect Life spell)
6) You will want to have selected Novice Restoration, Regeneration, and Novice Destruction at this point.
7) Run to Shearpoint and kill Krosis. (Mask and Staff are the targets here) With the Atro stone the fight even at low level requires you merely to pay attention to you health as you cast Flames with one hand, Healing with the other and hug his Frost Cloak to keep your magicka regenerating as quickly as possible. He will always summon a Frost Atronach upon awakening and that should be killed first. If one's health becomes dangerously low during the fight use a potion or temporarily switch the Flames hand to a second Healing spell until the danger has passed.
8) Obtain a Deathbell flower and an Ice Wolf pelt. Deathbell is all over Hjaalmarch and an Ice Wolf should spawn fairly early just down the road from Winterhold. Or you can buy one from a merchant. Using the beat, reload, and repeat technique to get it if you must.
9) Go to the College of Winterhold and take the grand tour. Grab the Void Salts in your room and head down to the Midden to use the Atronach Forge. Deathbell, Void Salts, a Ruined Book, and a Mammoth tusk will get you the Storm Atronach Summon and Ice Wolf Pelt, Frost Mirram, Ruined Book, and Frost Salts gets you the Frost Atro.
10) Head to Raldbthar. Get comfy (You're going to be here a hot minute.)
11) As you enter there is a Bandit sleeping on a pallet. Allow him to stand up and then kill him (or her) and drag the body into the nearby constant fire trap.
11) In one hand have Healing equipped and with the other cast Soul Trap and then Muffle a few hundred times or however many times is required to get Illusion and Conjuration to the level you want it.
12) Think of a movie you'd like to watch. (I recommend Big Trouble in Little China, but that's just me.)
13) Put Detect Life in your non-Healing hand rig your keyboard/controller to keep them both active and go watch that movie. (Or call your Mom, she misses you and thinks you spend too much time playing video games, just humor her, OK?) There should be three bandits in the rooms nearby for your Detect Life spell to hit. (You didn't kill them, right?)
14) Occasionally pause your movie and check your skill levels quitting when you max out or have hit the levels you want.
15) Get the Mage Stone blessing.
16) Equip Conjure Flame Atronach in your right hand and set up Frost Rune and Frostbite as hot buttons on your left. Conjure the Atro, place a Frost Rune under it and then detonate the rune with Frostbite. Repeat this until you either hit the level you want (optimal) or just can't stand the tedium any longer (what typically happens to me.)
17) Pat yourself on the back. You have fairly rapidly opened up all of the casting skills and have twin potent atronachs, a Staff of Fireballs, and Azura's Star to keep you alive until you can get the money to fill the holes in your spell and equipment inventories that this power-leveling has created.
18) Have fun.
Well, that's my first real post. I hope that it helps someone, somewhere, as my way of repaying all the help that this blog has provided to me.
Cheers!
--Nazdrakke
