

Each element has its place, with fire dealing extra damage over time, frost draining stamina, and shock destroying enemy Magicka. While some mods add a plethora of new spells to the game, the base game has enough spells for any playstyle. The most consistent damage-dealing spells in the game belong to the Destruction school of magic.

RELATED: Skyrim: Things About Solitude You Never Noticed Each type of magic holds a special niche, with spells focused on healing, summoning, defense, or attack. Different builds have their strengths and weaknesses, but pretty much everyone can agree that the most diverse and adaptable playstyle is a magic build. Today, Game Rant is checking out ten of these forbidden magical fruits, some of which are so surprisingly cool that we wish they were included in our spellbooks.Combat is pretty consistent in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. RELATED: Skyrim: The 10 Most Powerful Weapons With Unique Enchantments, Rankedīut what about those that they can't hunt down? Whether they're buried within the code or reserved for the use of specific NPCs, there's an exhaustive catalog of spells and shouts that players simply cannot get their hands on outside the use of console commands, if at all. Together, they make for a pretty lengthy list of sorcerous powers for players to hunt down.

And although they aren't quite as numerous, Skyrim also introduced " Shouts," which are basically snippets of dragon language that have profound magical effects when uttered (or shouted, rather) by the Dragonborn. Although Skyrim may have done away with the beloved custom spell creation system of previous games in the series, there are still plenty of prefabricated magic for players to add to their arcane arsenal.
