Important Timestamps People WITH Arcane Accessories 0:45 Guardian Stones 1:45 Hobs Fall Cave 3:13 Spell Tome Chest Room 3:25 Spell Tome Chest 3:50 The Under 10-minute method 5:43 Money Making Method People WITHOUT Arcane Accessories 8:24 Ritual Stone 8:57 The method 9:34 The Slow Method
A couple points: 1. Destruction XP is based on both the base magicka cost of the spell and the base damage of the spell, before cost reductions and damage bonuses. 2. Destruction XP from damage is actually REDUCED on higher difficulties, reaching -75% XP penalty on Legendary. The highest difficulty that Destruction gives 100% XP is Adept. 3. In order to receive XP, the spell must hit a valid target AND deal damage; the target does not need to be hostile, and can be essential, so targets like Shadowmere are valid; even the player themself is a valid target. Since it's based on magicka cost, this makes the rune spells (the highest base cost being the Lightning Rune; the only spells with a higher base cost are Fire Storm, Blizzard, and Thunderbolt) the best spells to use for Destruction grinding. With 323 base cost + 50 base damage/target, with a single target, it should take ~1100 casts of Lightning Rune to go from 15 to 100, reduced to ~820 with 1.3x XP from Mage Stone + Well Rested. (Just for clarity, this doesn't take into account starting at 25 when you can first learn Lightning Rune) This isn't useful reaching 100 the first time through, but if you've already gone Legendary with Destruction and learned Blizzard before resetting, you can use that to rapidly level since it damages yourself and has a base cost of 1106, requiring only ~500 casts (~370 with 1.3x XP). Standing in forges should still level up Destruction VERY slowly; any forge except the Sky Forge should work. The damage from forges is actually created in-game by a script causing the player to cast a Destruction spell on themself, but for some reason they made it a non-zero base cost so it actually gives Destruction XP.
Lol have literal thousands of hours into skyrim and learned something new. Never thought of using lightning rune and taking damage to grind destruction. And it’s effective and efficient. Have a like good sir.
I think 2024 skyrim youtube content is best since we now have the best minmax methods collected from the past decade Thanks for helping the cause, you have my subscribe
Awesome video,been playing skyrim since day one and i am 65 years young now.Keep up the great work i will subscribe to your channel.cheers from an old Aussie living in Turkey.
I love the 2011 vibes this video gives not only in terms of content but also in terms of form and structure. This is the concise, helpful stuff UA-cam used to be great for.
I stumbled across Shorks vids and then booted up my original purchase from way back which I barely touched. Now I am already 62 hours played and counting. I even purchased the Special Edition and Anniversary bundle today as it was 75% less discounted for me. Believe it or not I ditched WoW to start this 13 year old game. 😄
Definitely Gonna try some of these, the reanimated skeletons is my favorite for some reason... Looks like your creating a dance party. " Alright, Everyone On 3... 🎵🎶Spooky Scary Skeletons🎵🎶"
I've been using the glitch to sell a merchant's items to him to abuse trainer npcs. First , the trainer must also sell items so whenever you train you get your gold back and also can get more gold for higher skill training by reseting their inventory (also it's good for getting free items too since you can both buy the item and get back the gold) While doing this you will be leveling your skill of choice and speech at the same time. At low levels , under 20ishy , this process will go quick because you will level up verry fast . Later , however , you will need either a verry expensive item (such as a daedric sword) sell it to the trainer so it's in their stock and than sell it over and over with the glitch to level up speech. Alternatively , I like to level up skills such as illusion , conjuration or alteration to get a quick level up. I could suggest the following skills if you would consider using it in no particular order mind you : -Enchanting with Neloth -Smithing with Eorlund (the companion smith) or Gunmar in Dawunguard -Restoration at with the Wintherhold mage for level 75(to get necromage) or siding with Dawnguard and saving Florentius -Alchemist in Whiterun to get the level for Restoration loop.
Itend to max out enchanting, then craft fortify destruction enchants at 25% each, giving 100% magicka cost reduction. Then i just spam the fire rune on every enemy.
When i do this in my playthroughs i usually will go fort dawnguard to i think castle volikar of something near the corner of solitude and it almost maxed it out each time.
The lightning was really loud and muffling my voice. The clip split must've been longer than I expected. I don't say anything during it though. My voice and the games audio are in different spots. I was just showing off the spell for fun.
Balimund's forge in Riften also works, and I think it's faster than the horse/daedra method. You just have to jump like once every 2.5 to 3 seconds to get damaged.
If you listened to what I said, you wouldn't have to make this comment. It can be purchased from the CC on special edition, but come base on the anniversary edition.
Guessing its user error on my end but when it comes to fast traveling for the leveling up when i spawn at either stable the spell still goes off and hurts the horses around causes bounty and what not, something i can do for this or is this my cost for power 😆?
@@ShorkWasTaken yeah the chest is there but nothing, I have closed the game and loaded a save before I started the dungeon and still it’s not in there.
@@ShorkWasTaken I hadn’t no, i went there found out there was no chest, brought the arcane package came back to a save before i entered the dungeon and it still wasn’t in there, just the first few
The chest is not in the ordinary version of skyrim , ive searched that chamber from top to bottom, there is no spelll tome chest on the right of the bookcase
Ive yet to find an expert or master desctruction spell and im like level 27 or 28. Highest i have is Fireball/ice thingy and thats Adept. Where do i get expert and master destruction spells?
The best place to find higher level spells is the destruction teacher at the college of winterhold. Faralda can sell them to you. The higher your destruction the more the spells she has. The spell tome chest is still a great place to get spells
There are 3 Destruction Master spells, and they all can only be acquired after completing the Destruction Ritual Spell quest, which requires you to reach 100 Destruction to unlock. There are 6 Destruction Expert spells, and they will only appear in Enthir and Faralda's vendor inventories once you reach 65 Destruction; they will also begin to appear in random loot once you reach level 35.
@ShorkWasTaken No, I'm sorry. I was under the impression that the unbound storms spell was available to all versions. But I love your videos anyway, so please keep it up. And thanks for the prompt reply.
Something a person can do is make a nice fortify destruction potion and cast some kind of rune in a cave full of bandits or something. Works like a charm for me, deals a ton of damage cause the potion increases the radius of the rune's effects. Bonus: it's funny as heck watching the bandits fly away from the blast of one rune.
This is cool but i dont understand why people would use it? If you are role playing then its just cheating but if you plan to cheat why not just use a console command and get whatever you want immediately.
Important Timestamps
People WITH Arcane Accessories
0:45 Guardian Stones
1:45 Hobs Fall Cave
3:13 Spell Tome Chest Room
3:25 Spell Tome Chest
3:50 The Under 10-minute method
5:43 Money Making Method
People WITHOUT Arcane Accessories
8:24 Ritual Stone
8:57 The method
9:34 The Slow Method
You're the 🐐 for this
No stupid intro, no stupid sponsor, just straight to the point of the video. Man I wish more youtubers were like you.
That's how I want to keep but if I ever get offered a bag for a sponsor I will take it. I'll make sure it's skippable though
@@ShorkWasTaken based
It feels very old school youtube actually like it. Like skyrim makes me nostalgic.
A couple points:
1. Destruction XP is based on both the base magicka cost of the spell and the base damage of the spell, before cost reductions and damage bonuses.
2. Destruction XP from damage is actually REDUCED on higher difficulties, reaching -75% XP penalty on Legendary. The highest difficulty that Destruction gives 100% XP is Adept.
3. In order to receive XP, the spell must hit a valid target AND deal damage; the target does not need to be hostile, and can be essential, so targets like Shadowmere are valid; even the player themself is a valid target.
Since it's based on magicka cost, this makes the rune spells (the highest base cost being the Lightning Rune; the only spells with a higher base cost are Fire Storm, Blizzard, and Thunderbolt) the best spells to use for Destruction grinding. With 323 base cost + 50 base damage/target, with a single target, it should take ~1100 casts of Lightning Rune to go from 15 to 100, reduced to ~820 with 1.3x XP from Mage Stone + Well Rested. (Just for clarity, this doesn't take into account starting at 25 when you can first learn Lightning Rune)
This isn't useful reaching 100 the first time through, but if you've already gone Legendary with Destruction and learned Blizzard before resetting, you can use that to rapidly level since it damages yourself and has a base cost of 1106, requiring only ~500 casts (~370 with 1.3x XP).
Standing in forges should still level up Destruction VERY slowly; any forge except the Sky Forge should work. The damage from forges is actually created in-game by a script causing the player to cast a Destruction spell on themself, but for some reason they made it a non-zero base cost so it actually gives Destruction XP.
Lol have literal thousands of hours into skyrim and learned something new. Never thought of using lightning rune and taking damage to grind destruction. And it’s effective and efficient. Have a like good sir.
I think 2024 skyrim youtube content is best since we now have the best minmax methods collected from the past decade
Thanks for helping the cause, you have my subscribe
Awesome video,been playing skyrim since day one and i am 65 years young now.Keep up the great work i will subscribe to your channel.cheers from an old Aussie living in Turkey.
Greatly appreciate the support.
I love the 2011 vibes this video gives not only in terms of content but also in terms of form and structure. This is the concise, helpful stuff UA-cam used to be great for.
2:20 Novice Necromancer’s Novice Necromancer. Sensational
Yeee new vid :)
The more you make the more my Skyrim addiction grows, I love it
I stumbled across Shorks vids and then booted up my original purchase from way back which I barely touched. Now I am already 62 hours played and counting. I even purchased the Special Edition and Anniversary bundle today as it was 75% less discounted for me. Believe it or not I ditched WoW to start this 13 year old game. 😄
When I read, "Novice Necromancer's Novice Necromancer", I thought I was having a stroke. LOL
That first skeleton popped like a baloon lol
Crazy seeing how youve already tripled in subscribers since i found your channel. Its awesomea
Definitely Gonna try some of these, the reanimated skeletons is my favorite for some reason... Looks like your creating a dance party.
" Alright, Everyone On 3... 🎵🎶Spooky Scary Skeletons🎵🎶"
The horse looking at you like "your destruction sucks lol"
I might’ve just found my new favorite Skyrim UA-camr 🗣️
I haven't gotten to Hobbs Fall yet in my current save, but I used strangulation on the horse rapid fire, and it got destruction up pretty quickly
Can't thank you enough for this!!! I subscribed
06:17 "G0d$ b3 pr4i$3d "
I've been using the glitch to sell a merchant's items to him to abuse trainer npcs.
First , the trainer must also sell items so whenever you train you get your gold back and also can get more gold for higher skill training by reseting their inventory (also it's good for getting free items too since you can both buy the item and get back the gold)
While doing this you will be leveling your skill of choice and speech at the same time. At low levels , under 20ishy , this process will go quick because you will level up verry fast . Later , however , you will need either a verry expensive item (such as a daedric sword) sell it to the trainer so it's in their stock and than sell it over and over with the glitch to level up speech. Alternatively , I like to level up skills such as illusion , conjuration or alteration to get a quick level up.
I could suggest the following skills if you would consider using it in no particular order mind you :
-Enchanting with Neloth
-Smithing with Eorlund (the companion smith) or Gunmar in Dawunguard
-Restoration at with the Wintherhold mage for level 75(to get necromage) or siding with Dawnguard and saving Florentius
-Alchemist in Whiterun to get the level for Restoration loop.
Itend to max out enchanting, then craft fortify destruction enchants at 25% each, giving 100% magicka cost reduction. Then i just spam the fire rune on every enemy.
Ok, subscription done. For some updated Skyrim advising. I keep forgetting exploits. So,yeah. Thnx.
I dont have that ancient chest, so so sad
When i was just same cave and place. I searched whole that part. There is not that spell tome chest. Just regular chest. Damn bugs
When i do this in my playthroughs i usually will go fort dawnguard to i think castle volikar of something near the corner of solitude and it almost maxed it out each time.
So it's good to see one I can do that doesn't require starting dawnguard
I did Riften and Markarth just because a carriage can take you right to it.
Ignore the stupid comments. You're videos are legit. Keep it up buddy! ( 10 year Skyrim gamer)
What do I do if the spells do no not load into the chest in hobs cave?
Audio breaks at around the 7 minute mark to 8:26. Intentional?
The lightning was really loud and muffling my voice. The clip split must've been longer than I expected. I don't say anything during it though. My voice and the games audio are in different spots. I was just showing off the spell for fun.
The forge is in riverwood, but it is ungodly slow.
Balimund's forge in Riften also works, and I think it's faster than the horse/daedra method. You just have to jump like once every 2.5 to 3 seconds to get damaged.
@theepicduckjr.1408 that's kind of interesting, considering he uses fire salts in them.
NOPE! UNBOUNDED STORMS - Is NOT in standard Disc- edition, which I use. It was introduced in the Anniversary Edition of Skyrim!!!!😢
If you listened to what I said, you wouldn't have to make this comment. It can be purchased from the CC on special edition, but come base on the anniversary edition.
If youve got a way to max out enchanting id love to see.
It's the next video and was a lot easier than expected
all you need is 10 unechanted staves and 10 heart stones
@@ShorkWasTaken looking forward to it.
Guessing its user error on my end but when it comes to fast traveling for the leveling up when i spawn at either stable the spell still goes off and hurts the horses around causes bounty and what not, something i can do for this or is this my cost for power 😆?
Ps: after more tries, figured it put. Thank you for your work
i have the arcane thing but the spell isn't appearing in the chest for me
Is it enabled in the menu?
@@ShorkWasTaken yeah the chest is there but nothing, I have closed the game and loaded a save before I started the dungeon and still it’s not in there.
@@StralianBtw have you already taken the spells?
@@ShorkWasTaken I hadn’t no, i went there found out there was no chest, brought the arcane package came back to a save before i entered the dungeon and it still wasn’t in there, just the first few
Pls answer.
Why i cant find tha ancient spell chest when im in the same room and same spot where he found it but in my game its nowhere to be seen?
Do you have it installed?
The chest is not in the ordinary version of skyrim , ive searched that chamber from top to bottom, there is no spelll tome chest on the right of the bookcase
I said it's in the anniversary edition or with the arcane accessories CC dlc
@@ShorkWasTakenno your video says all versions.
@@burplemantis for all versions as in versions with and without things. Try reading, I have it in both the description and comments.
Ive yet to find an expert or master desctruction spell and im like level 27 or 28. Highest i have is Fireball/ice thingy and thats Adept. Where do i get expert and master destruction spells?
The best place to find higher level spells is the destruction teacher at the college of winterhold. Faralda can sell them to you. The higher your destruction the more the spells she has. The spell tome chest is still a great place to get spells
There are 3 Destruction Master spells, and they all can only be acquired after completing the Destruction Ritual Spell quest, which requires you to reach 100 Destruction to unlock. There are 6 Destruction Expert spells, and they will only appear in Enthir and Faralda's vendor inventories once you reach 65 Destruction; they will also begin to appear in random loot once you reach level 35.
So what if you have the version that doesn't have the chest?
Skip to a different part of the video then
I play osrs =D Also I got there and there is no chest in sight?
Im playing on the Switch version and the chest doesn’t appear. Did it got removed in one of the updates?
No
It's not all versions. I've got special edition, and the spell tome chest isn't there.
You didn't listen to what I said.
@ShorkWasTaken No, I'm sorry. I was under the impression that the unbound storms spell was available to all versions. But I love your videos anyway, so please keep it up. And thanks for the prompt reply.
@@stephenrowland5436 it's all good.
The chest was not there for me 😮
Same here
@MrKeaty i went into creation club and installed everything owned and it was there after
@theonlyworldunknown5729 I went to mine and I didn't have anything to download, and I have the anniversary edition. So I don't know why it won't spawn
@@MrKeaty interesting.
Is unbound storm only found in this one place??
No, but it's a guaranteed spawn.
Hope you blow up in views man
Hey I didn't know this one who would've thought lol
Something a person can do is make a nice fortify destruction potion and cast some kind of rune in a cave full of bandits or something. Works like a charm for me, deals a ton of damage cause the potion increases the radius of the rune's effects. Bonus: it's funny as heck watching the bandits fly away from the blast of one rune.
This is cool but i dont understand why people would use it? If you are role playing then its just cheating but if you plan to cheat why not just use a console command and get whatever you want immediately.
There's only console commands on pc
We need trophies and like to cheat without using cheats that stop trophies 😊
Riften forge will damage you.
Does it only work with mods?
There's no mods
@@ShorkWasTaken or DLC? because I went there and there was only one chest
@kevinbrendonn1977 yea it's dlc. It's says that right in the description
Does this work on xbox360
Most of them should. Ancient spell tome chest won't be an option though.
The chest with scrolls isn't appearing in the cave even though I have arcane accessories installed
Are you using old or current load order?
@ShorkWasTaken I was on an old save so I started a new one sad I lost my progress but I just ran through the Civil War thats all
I would just say to double check and make sure it's installed and you're using your current load order.
Neverkind i had to press "download all creation club content" or whatever, my bad @@ShorkWasTaken
@@CherokeeBoys happy to help
The chest wasn’t in the cave. Would it be somewhere else?
Do you the creation club that activates it?
I can't do that because it doesn't show up
What doesn't show up.
Those spellbooks
@@dylanbolyard4655 do you have the DLC?
Oh
Chest is gone. This is patched.
Bethesda doesn't do patches. It's part of the creation club.
lmfao 8:44
i dont have it
Did you read the description?
TND
Creation CLUB SUCKS
I do not care
How to identify a WoW player, constant jumping. 😂
Never played WoW, just jump because it's usually how you move faster in most games.