Author: 101samantha101
Date: Mar 29, 08 9:12am (PT)
Subject: nooby question about destruction
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what exactly does the destruction skill do?
Author: Eve B Hart
Date: Mar 29, 08 2:48pm (PT)
Subject: re: nooby question about destruction
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To quote the
Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages, "The destruction skill is the mastery of the spell effects of the College of Destruction. Their spells harm living and unliving things, and include elemental damage, draining, damaging, vulnerability, and disintegration magical effects."
Author: 101samantha101
Date: Mar 29, 08 9:50pm (PT)
Subject: re: nooby question about destruction
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so does is increase the damage caused every time u increase the skill?
Author: Eve B Hart
Date: Mar 29, 08 11:28pm (PT)
Subject: re: nooby question about destruction
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No, because how much damage a spell does is based entirely on the spell's construction - a spell that does 30 points of fire damage is always going to do more damage than one that does 10 points of fire damage - but how high your destruction skill is factors heavily into your actual ability to cast a given destruction spell.
Author: 101samantha101
Date: Mar 29, 08 11:29pm (PT)
Subject: re: nooby question about destruction
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so if it was higher then i would have more of a chance casting a destruction spell?
Author: Eve B Hart
Date: Mar 29, 08 11:36pm (PT)
Subject: re: nooby question about destruction
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It depends on the spell, but, essentially, yeah. The higher the magicka cost, the higher your destruction skill needs to be. There's an indictation in the magic menu of your chances of casting each individual spell; the higher your destruction level, the better the chances that you can cast it.
Author: 101samantha101
Date: Mar 29, 08 11:45pm (PT)
Subject: re: nooby question about destruction
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so if i had a spell, lets say summon deadrath(i think thats how you spell it) and i only had 60 destruction, how much higher would it have to be to cast it?
Author: Eve B Hart
Date: Mar 30, 08 7:07am (PT)
Subject: re: nooby question about destruction
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Summon spells are conjuration, not destruction.
Author: kiddkidder13
Date: Mar 30, 08 7:36am (PT)
Subject: re: nooby question about destruction
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It would also depend on the time. The longer you want to summon something the higher skill you would need.
Author: Eve B Hart
Date: Mar 30, 08 10:30am (PT)
Subject: re: nooby question about destruction
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Any time you want to do something bigger, or longer, for a spell, your skill will need to be higher to cast it.
This is the equation that determines your chance to cast a given spell:
([Luck / 8] + [Willpower / 4] + [Spell Skill * 2.5] - [Magic Cost * 1.25] ) * ( 0.6 + [0.4 * Current Fatigue / Max Fatigue])
Author: 101samantha101
Date: Mar 30, 08 10:56am (PT)
Subject: re: nooby question about destruction
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ah right, thanks again
Author: davedemon
Date: Apr 02, 08 4:53am (PT)
Subject: re: nooby question about destruction
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Well what destruction does is it allows you to cast poisin spells damage health spells and that type of thing.
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