Since I've enjoyed reading the updates of everyone's characters I thought I'd flesh out the adventures of my Nord mage Polvar the Quiet.
He defeated Jyrik through liberal use of Fire Atronach and the very helpful meatshield of Uthgerd, it was a very long fight with lots of loops around the room for me but Blaise (yes I name my atronachs) eventually burned him down. The atronach was so useful in Saarthal that I decided to upgrade by crafting a Staff of the Storm Atronach in the atronach forge, all of the ingredients can be found around the college, but I'm not a thief so instead of stealing a Greater Gem from Aren I emptied the bank account and bought one instead.
With my new staff in hand, Brelyna and I headed to Fellglow Keep to retrieve some stolen books. Galvan (my storm atronach) excels at slaying mages and fear/fury work wonders. I was going to trade Orthorn for the books (no point in taking chances, and the guy is a traitor to the college) but The Caller attacked me anyway again Galvan was a beast wrecking the rogue mage while Brel and I focused on the Flame Atronachs.
A few side quests and then off to Mzulft as the new Thane of Winterhold. Mzulft was scary I kept imaging being torn apart by unfeeling automatons who are immune to illusion magic. However I made it through to the Falmer camp outside the Aedrome. I made some noise to attract the 4 or 5 falmer then blasted them with Battle Cry making them easy picking for my squad of mages and atronachs.
Magic anomalies suck on master they nearly killed me. I had the bright idea of using oak flesh with flame cloak to kill them since they are so hard to target, half a second later I'm fleeing for my life pounding health potions, in the end I just hid behind the ruined building and let Arniel and Faralda kill them which took forever but was much safer than my dumb idea.
Off to another draugr infested ruin in search of the Staff of Magnus. I switched Brel for Uthgerd at Whiterun, wanted to see how she fared against a few trolls, and switched out Fear for Turn Lesser Undead, TLU was mvp spell in Labyrinthian staggering enemies while Uthgerd hacked them up. I was most worried about the hall of Fire Ball death and the Deathlord. I diffused the Fire Ball traps with a Mayhem Scroll the shock wave disloged all the gems, it was the best use of a scroll in my entire playthru thusfar, the Deathlord chased me all the way back to that hall before I finally killed him seriously thought that would be my end I just couldn't shake the guy.
I gamed Morokei, long time ago I learned that if you hit the mages containing him with a spell that does no damage like Fury they will break their concentration and attack you, Morokei will be released like usual but he won't attack just floats around the room making him very easy to defeat. Don't know if that's cheating but I feel it's a clever and very wizardy way of dealing with him.
So that's were I'm at now, Level 15 and having a much needed rest in Whiterun before I make the trek back to the college.
Since I've enjoyed reading the updates of everyone's characters I thought I'd flesh out the adventures of my Nord mage Polvar the Quiet.
He defeated Jyrik through liberal use of Fire Atronach and the very helpful meatshield of Uthgerd, it was a very long fight with lots of loops around the room for me but Blaise (yes I name my atronachs) eventually burned him down. The atronach was so useful in Saarthal that I decided to upgrade by crafting a Staff of the Storm Atronach in the atronach forge, all of the ingredients can be found around the college, but I'm not a thief so instead of stealing a Greater Gem from Aren I emptied the bank account and bought one instead.
With my new staff in hand, Brelyna and I headed to Fellglow Keep to retrieve some stolen books. Galvan (my storm atronach) excels at slaying mages and fear/fury work wonders. I was going to trade Orthorn for the books (no point in taking chances, and the guy is a traitor to the college) but The Caller attacked me anyway again Galvan was a beast wrecking the rogue mage while Brel and I focused on the Flame Atronachs.
A few side quests and then off to Mzulft as the new Thane of Winterhold. Mzulft was scary I kept imaging being torn apart by unfeeling automatons who are immune to illusion magic. However I made it through to the Falmer camp outside the Aedrome. I made some noise to attract the 4 or 5 falmer then blasted them with Battle Cry making them easy picking for my squad of mages and atronachs.
Magic anomalies suck on master they nearly killed me. I had the bright idea of using oak flesh with flame cloak to kill them since they are so hard to target, half a second later I'm fleeing for my life pounding health potions, in the end I just hid behind the ruined building and let Arniel and Faralda kill them which took forever but was much safer than my dumb idea.
Off to another draugr infested ruin in search of the Staff of Magnus. I switched Brel for Uthgerd at Whiterun, wanted to see how she fared against a few trolls, and switched out Fear for Turn Lesser Undead, TLU was mvp spell in Labyrinthian staggering enemies while Uthgerd hacked them up. I was most worried about the hall of Fire Ball death and the Deathlord. I diffused the Fire Ball traps with a Mayhem Scroll the shock wave disloged all the gems, it was the best use of a scroll in my entire playthru thusfar, the Deathlord chased me all the way back to that hall before I finally killed him seriously thought that would be my end I just couldn't shake the guy.
I gamed Morokei, long time ago I learned that if you hit the mages containing him with a spell that does no damage like Fury they will break their concentration and attack you, Morokei will be released like usual but he won't attack just floats around the room making him very easy to defeat. Don't know if that's cheating but I feel it's a clever and very wizardy way of dealing with him.
So that's were I'm at now, Level 15 and having a much needed rest in Whiterun before I make the trek back to the college.
