15 "Useless" Skyrim Spells That Are Actually Game-Breaking

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  @OnyxNemesis · 10 months ago

  9/10 when I can’t find a solution clairvoyance shows me a path through a solid wall which does not open. It’s just a wall 😂

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  @davi_s80tendo66 · 10 months ago

  You forgot to mention that runes are useful for grinding too because you get xp relative to the number of enemies you hit so if you hit 3 or 4 enemies with just one rune you get a lot of xp points with the same amount of magicka

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• JE

  @jentzi23 · 10 months ago (edited)

  One of my favourite spells is Magelight. It&apos;s fun to cast and when cast a bit up on a wall or on an outcrop, statue etc, it functions just like a lamp. I play in first person so Candlelight doesn&apos;t really work well, but Magelight? No problem.<br><br>Plus you can use it to target prey. I once tested it on a deer and saw it run off with the Magelight attached to it.<br>That was a fun day.<br><br>Edit: Oh, and I am listening to this at 08:52 in the morning, in Sweden.

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• DY

  @Dylion09 · 8 months ago

  Bruh telekenesis though. Learned something new

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  @flexiblenerd · 9 months ago

  Current character is actually making excellent use of flaming familiar. You can&apos;t improve a pickaxe as a weapon but you CAN enchant it with fiery soul trap; I used a greater soul gem (didn&apos;t have a grand at the time). Also don&apos;t have full enchanting yet, so only one enchantment - but two effects. And being a devotee of Namira, she actually has 2 crippling diseases right now; so the pickaxe is doing 1 damage - plus the fire damage, plus whatever poison I throw on it, and a flaming familiar on top of that to weaken her enemies before she rushes in for the final devastating blow. She&apos;s literally a disease-ridden woman dressed in ragged robes wielding a pickaxe and guarded by an exploding hellhound. And I haven&apos;t increased her magicka, either - only her health.<br><br>Not the most godlike way to play but it&apos;s a fun sort of RP and you&apos;d be astonished how powerful a flaming familiar actually is at low levels.

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  @dylanschmidt9056 · 10 months ago

  Another useful feature of Vision of the 10th Eye is it&apos;s incredibly obvious when it&apos;s active, it lasts 30 seconds, and it&apos;s unaffected by any perks that increase spell duration. &nbsp;Without mods to alter potion durations, fortify smithing and enchanting effects only last 30 seconds. &nbsp;So I use it as an indicator for when my crafting potions are about to run out so I don&apos;t waste any materials or botch anything.

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  @brettmiller3360 · 10 months ago (edited)

  On another note, watch out for those MUD crabs. &nbsp;They have been gaining experience since the early 80&apos;s so they&apos;re all end bosses.

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• IN

  @insylem · 10 months ago

  &quot;Ebony Warrior is too powerful for calm&quot;

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• RO

  @robertlogan5354 · 8 months ago

  3 am in illinois. <br>every character (i&apos;ve never played all the way through the main quest) i have played, even pure warriors, i use clairvoyance and csndlelight. i use the hell outta clairvoyance, actually. like, others would probably say too much. <br>my real-world sense of direction is pretty good, but i get hopelessly lost in games really easily, and if i&apos;m on a mission, i don&apos;t want to spend two hours trying to &nbsp;reach an objective because I took a wrong turn somewhere.

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  @sikhandtakerakhuvar9678 · 9 months ago

  Probably not much realized, but magelight will trigger a rune trap. &nbsp;Disarm ones laid for you, or detonate those you put next to a sleeping drauger, that somehow missed overlapping their hit box and therefore didn&apos;t go off. &nbsp;<br><br>Runes are also likely underutilized. &nbsp;Especially buffed, 2-handed casts with destruction at high level, if cast so as to overlap a sleeping drauger in its crypt (revealed by aura or detect), will sometime kill them outright. &nbsp;With the range extension on runes, usually won&apos;t even alert the other ones nearby.

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• CH

  @christopherfarrell9227 · 10 months ago

  Currently doing laundry in Kansas at 8:55 AM. I love using candlelight. Makes fighting draugrs in pitch darkness much easier.

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• MO

  @modestalchemist · 10 months ago

  Transmute is just giving iron a pep talk

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