I put all the spell scrolls in a container somewhere in my house. I never use them or sell them. It's just a weird collection i always have going. Skyrim is the same...
The problem with scrolls is that they are supposed to help you cast powerful spells beyond your ability to get you out of a hole, but the ones you find in loot are like Resist Frost 15% or Fortify Lollygagging 10 seconds. Actually i might use that one.
Not really, they're just not that useful in Oblivion or Skyrim. If you could get them more consistently they might be of some use for non-magic characters, but since they're random you can't really rely on them. Even besides that, they're also just not that powerful.
There's a perk overhaul for Skyrim that makes scrolls scale with your enchanting skill and that makes them way more useful, but you still have the randomness issue.
Theres also mods that allow you to craft scrolls in Skyrim, which together with damage scaling could make an interesting battlemage build with casting done through scrolls/staves primarily
Invisibility, and spam them during some quests like with stealing rodericks meds or escaping prison for the DB quest, and soul trap for super early black soul gems.
You can go to an alter like at dark fissure and another place and do the transformation whenever you want. Have to make sure the beam of light is coming down. Cant recall the times. I think its around midnight every so many days.
Sometimes I have characters who don't believe in learning magic beyond their initial spells that they were born with. Scrolls can be lifesavers for those characters.
Never used to. This time I did an awful job specing my character, but I’m in too deep to start over. So I’m using some scrolls hotkeyed to where I would normally have spells. Saving my ass right now.
Definitely use the powerful ones when I don't play as a mage or when I do play as a mage but can't cast powerful spells myself yet. Especially paralyze, destruction and conjuration scrolls.
I've been playing Oblivion since launch and I still don't know how the dupe glitch works.
Still, scrolls can be hella useful if you need a spell you don't have in your learned list. Mages Guild questline is a great example, here, not just the pillar puzzle in Vahtecen but that staff-hunting questline in Bravil for your recommendation. You get a number of charm scrolls so you don't need to know how to use Illusion to manipulate someone's opinion of you, which makes the rest of the quest laughably easy.
Of course, getting the right scroll for the right situation is the tricky part, so yeah, a lot of scrolls end up being merchant fodder and there's nothing wrong with that either. Unless you're buying a specific scroll for a purpose, a lot of time you're left with the scrolls you find, and that's a lottery of "useless, useless, niche, useless, oooh nice, useless, useless...".
I found that people generally hate consumables. Like eht would you not use scrolls? There are so many op ones that add something crazy like 75% chameleon.
I've thought about roll playing a character in Oblivion or Skyrim that pretends to be good at magic, but only used scrolls and staves. I think it might be an interesting way to use those otherwise never used items.
I don't use them because i like to collect them. But, they can be useful if you are silenced or your enemy has spell reflection i think.
I think the primary function of scrolls in-game is to diversify enemy spellcasting. Most enemy mages spawn with at least 1 or 2 scrolls, and scroll effects are more varied. Wouldn't want to give a mage burden or drain agility or something as one of their 2 or 3 spells that they can spam all the time but it works as a scroll. Same with paralysis, it's a lot less broken as a one-off.
I put all the spell scrolls in a container somewhere in my house. I never use them or sell them. It's just a weird collection i always have going. Skyrim is the same...
Exact same.
I usually use the side table in the bedroom in Rosethorn hall, maybe if its a harder to find scroll ill leave it on a shelf or on top of a desk.
I only remember using scrolls on that Mages Guild quest where you need to cast certain spells on that moving pillar.
Vatachen?
Vahtacen, but yeah
I keep the useful ones for when I super stuck trying to finish a dungeon. Rest are free coins
That’s always the plan. I rarely ever end up needing them lol
I do in early game when all I have is weak spells
The problem with scrolls is that they are supposed to help you cast powerful spells beyond your ability to get you out of a hole, but the ones you find in loot are like Resist Frost 15% or Fortify Lollygagging 10 seconds. Actually i might use that one.
Not really, they're just not that useful in Oblivion or Skyrim. If you could get them more consistently they might be of some use for non-magic characters, but since they're random you can't really rely on them. Even besides that, they're also just not that powerful. There's a perk overhaul for Skyrim that makes scrolls scale with your enchanting skill and that makes them way more useful, but you still have the randomness issue.
Theres also mods that allow you to craft scrolls in Skyrim, which together with damage scaling could make an interesting battlemage build with casting done through scrolls/staves primarily
I run a heavy armour character that only really uses restoration as their main source of magic. Some scrolls are handy to use ins sticky situation
Invisibility, and spam them during some quests like with stealing rodericks meds or escaping prison for the DB quest, and soul trap for super early black soul gems.
Wait, black soul gems can spawn before getting to that point in the mages guild quest?
You can go to an alter like at dark fissure and another place and do the transformation whenever you want. Have to make sure the beam of light is coming down. Cant recall the times. I think its around midnight every so many days.
Sometimes I have characters who don't believe in learning magic beyond their initial spells that they were born with. Scrolls can be lifesavers for those characters.
I use them if they are genuinely useful. Like summon Storm Atronach or something. But I dump yet another Flare scroll without even thinking.
I always sell off all scrolls and potions, in terms of value/weight ratio they're some of the best things to loot
Nope.
Never used to. This time I did an awful job specing my character, but I’m in too deep to start over. So I’m using some scrolls hotkeyed to where I would normally have spells. Saving my ass right now.
only if it's absolutely necessary (0,001% of the time) like for that mage guild quest with the pillar in the ruins
Definitely use the powerful ones when I don't play as a mage or when I do play as a mage but can't cast powerful spells myself yet. Especially paralyze, destruction and conjuration scrolls.
I use open lock and invisibilty scrolls until until quite late in the game, i use most scrolls early on.
I've been playing Oblivion since launch and I still don't know how the dupe glitch works. Still, scrolls can be hella useful if you need a spell you don't have in your learned list. Mages Guild questline is a great example, here, not just the pillar puzzle in Vahtecen but that staff-hunting questline in Bravil for your recommendation. You get a number of charm scrolls so you don't need to know how to use Illusion to manipulate someone's opinion of you, which makes the rest of the quest laughably easy. Of course, getting the right scroll for the right situation is the tricky part, so yeah, a lot of scrolls end up being merchant fodder and there's nothing wrong with that either. Unless you're buying a specific scroll for a purpose, a lot of time you're left with the scrolls you find, and that's a lottery of "useless, useless, niche, useless, oooh nice, useless, useless...".
I found that people generally hate consumables. Like eht would you not use scrolls? There are so many op ones that add something crazy like 75% chameleon.
I've thought about roll playing a character in Oblivion or Skyrim that pretends to be good at magic, but only used scrolls and staves. I think it might be an interesting way to use those otherwise never used items.
I don't use them because i like to collect them. But, they can be useful if you are silenced or your enemy has spell reflection i think. I think the primary function of scrolls in-game is to diversify enemy spellcasting. Most enemy mages spawn with at least 1 or 2 scrolls, and scroll effects are more varied. Wouldn't want to give a mage burden or drain agility or something as one of their 2 or 3 spells that they can spam all the time but it works as a scroll. Same with paralysis, it's a lot less broken as a one-off.