#we've used spears for both hunting and combat as the default for basically all of human history and there's a damn good reason for that | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

turtlemagnum · 11 days ago

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fire magic being so prevalent in morrowind is so funny to me, like for most people AND animals it does fucking nothing and yet it's considered like the default kind of offensive magic. like imagine if you lived in a world were certain races were magically immune to certain kinds of damage and white people were immune to bullets, i feel like the US wouldn't have nearly as many guns if that were the case y'know? meanwhile Every Dunmer On Nirn has an 100% resistance to fire and yet they all seem to think specializing in fire magic is a good idea. i mean, it would be if you existed in like cyrodiil or summurset or something, y'know, a place where most people DONT have immunity to fire. but you live in morrowind, where almost everyone's a dunmer. it's the same reason why i never bother with ice magic when i play skyrim, why would i specialize in the kind of magic that most people are gonna be able to resist, that's asinine. anyways, that's why shock's objectively the best kind of offensive magic in TES, basically nobody resists it and a lot of daedra (some of the most powerful beings in existence) are weak to it, and also it doesn't cost as much energy to use as a straight up damage health spell. incidentally i feel like lightning magic would be the most useful for offense in any realistic context too since like, you realize how easily that shit can kill you??? we're literally conductive bags of water, as are pretty much all animals, that shit'd kill literally anything with minimal effort

#to be fair destruction magic is probably the weakest it's ever been in morrowind #like. almost everything has a resistance to some kind of magic or a reflect or an absorb #it only really becomes useful in combat when you've got enough HP that tanking 100 points of shock damage that've been reflected back at yo #is like. viable #which. to be fair it does if you build your character correctly #but in the meantime martials are like. The Way To Go.#in my experience magic is too useful in its utility to not use (especially with stuff like mark and recall and intervention and all that)#but in terms of combat it's probably preferable to just hit em with your sword a buncha times. that's what i do #though i tend to just use every kind of weapon. even if it requires spending thousands of dollars on training it feels like it's worth it #personally i always gravitate toward spears. not to go on a weapon rant but spears are really good in morrowind and are fucking optimal irl #like. there's a reason when guns were still shitty we put blades on the end of them to use them as shitty spears. that's how good spears ar #we've used spears for both hunting and combat as the default for basically all of human history and there's a damn good reason for that #but i digress

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