Yea i have a lvl 28 conjuration build with conjuration 100 and its just boring asf so i started a new game. Ir was just wayyyy too OP even on master difficulty
@@dovakhiin7407 I just started a playthrough where my chick supposedly escaped from cyrodil and was once a healer. So obviously she mainly has restoration skills, and even heals her companion during combat. But why she had to escape was because of her unacceptable ways. She would resurrect loved once so you could say bye to them one last time, even if they didn't live very long. Currently shes trying to get to the point to where they won't die, and she can return people to their families for good. (goal is to get conjugation leveled up and have the dead thrall perk. During any quest line my main focus will be keeping everyone on my side alive, including the civil war. Challenging so far but I think it'll be fun and keep me from just shitting on everything and getting bored.)
@@dovakhiin7407 It always gets like that, no matter what you use for combat, I play till level ~ 30, get super strong, get bored and start a new char or quit for a few years..
Durnahviir is the best boy, wish we could reincarnate him as a little baby dragon that would be also useful in interiors and less chaotic and fucking buggy outside. For some reason i can summon him 2 times xD or when he lays down on wrong part of the floor and just is stuck in it But I love Durnahviir. Soul Cairn is nice location but fucking boring and feels empty, Durnahviir is the only thing that compensates that quest. There is a mod that gradually restores Durnahviir flesh on his model each time you summon him and it's superb.
He forgot to mention two of the best things about the Storm Atronach. While there are several enemies in the game that are resistant to fire or frost damage, very few are resistant to shock, and since the Storm Atronach is immune to shock, you can just spam Chain Lightning when it gets into melee. No matter who you hit, only the enemy takes the damage.
Plus, it's range is great, and thanks to a little feature of dragons, it is the single best one to help you challenge them. Their flight is based on their magicka.
@@raulmancha3621 You either need the Konahrik mask that has 3% chance to summon dragon priest if your health is below 10%, or cheat this spell player.addspell 10fc16 to make him normal summon. You can also cheat this spell after getting Konahrik, just for roleplay.
@@raulmancha3621 The Dragon Aspect shout (only with all 3 words) can do that too: If your health is below 50%, it summons the spirit of ancient Dragonborn.
@@pelinalwhitestrake3367 yes!!! I know that one, it also reduces by 20% shouts cool down, I combine it with talos blessing and talos amulet, also recorder ring from a mod
I've used it on one occation, when I aggroed it to level up light armor. Then I got bored and summoned another one, then watched them fight one another. Dogfights seem to be the best use for the spell lmao
Fun fact: Dremora Lord has the highest damage of all summons but Wrathman has the highest HP. I love the Flame Atronach because of its crazy accuracy. That thing can hit a flying dragon with near perfect aim.
cut to my flame atronachs both backing up 15 fr farther from the enemy than where I spawned them and proceed to throw fireballs into a wall right in front of them
@@coolghoul8515 either she's hitting with crazy accuracy that honestly astonishes me, or she's backed up 15' behind me in the position she's supposed to be when she hits something but doesn't do anything.
Could you imagine being a Dremora summon and you're in the middle of taking a shit when someone summons you and you just drop into the battlefield holding a newspaper with your pants around your ankles 😂😂
@@vroshabhisam5582 oh. I thought it was just that the dramora were invincible to a degree and just had to return to their ethereal realm to respawn so they can be resummed. It honestly makes more sense if it's a spirit of a demon because as a demon I would find it quite annoying being randomly pulled into a different dimension because somebody's in the middle of a fucking fight 🤣🤣
“I honor my lord, by destroying you!” They are great, conjure two and watch tear down the enemies. Flame Atronachs are great for ranged combat and cost much less magic so they can be cast earlier. Frost Atronachs are great when you risk being swarmed, conjure one between you and the enemy and let them try to handle that.
Arniel's Shade is actually really good if you add in the fact that it costs no magicka to cast and is invincible. So it does its fighting for the full 60 or 120 seconds it's summoned for, then you can just summon it again right away for no cost.
His summon can also be cast faster than any other summon (near instantly), despite needing both your hand slots to do so like a Master-level Conjuration spell.
Agreed. IMO he is the most useful summon for anyone that sticks to the shadows. I used him to fight Karstaag and he took his agro the whole time. All I had to do was fire off some magic, shoot some arrows,…or do nothing, wait and let him take care of it.
It’s only downside is that it provides no xp for anything (at least on special edition). However, it’s zero magika cost is what makes it really broken. If it runs out of magika itself or gets stuck, you can instantly re-summon it. This makes it an amazing meat shield
Dude lightning storms Dragons back to oblivion anytime I summon him against one. He's just: "Pitiful mortal, I've ascended to the Aetherium plain where Dwemer rule. First I take your wings, then your life!!"
Arniel's quest was honestly quite interesting, for me. He was looking into the Dwemer, and with how it plays out, it somewhat indicates the Dwemer are still alive, but they are in the pocket dimension in which his physical body gets transported to.
I'm pretty sure the Dwemer vanished completely of existence and they aren't in any place, they just vanished after trying to manipulate Lorkhan's heart
@@ElCabra91 You've just repeated what I was saying, lol. "Vanished out of existence", meaning, not in the Realm of which Nirn is placed in. They are trapped in a different dimension for meddling with Lorkhan's Heart. So, indicating that they are in fact alive, just not in the Realm of which we are in.
@@ElCabra91 Depends how you look at it. It seems the dwemer used special soul gems for their automata when outside of the range of the heart. His experiment was basically a smaller scale version of what the cheif tonal architect did which would implie the same thing happened to him
@@ElCabra91 IIRC one of the theories suggested that they merged into Numidium. But being a construct Numidium cannot summon them the way the player summons Arniel.
Howdy, a quick note. It was brought to my attention that the Dragon Priest Summon is actually a cut spell from the game. It is technically in the game but only obtainable through console commands. If you are wondering the command, a quick google search will pop it up. I apologize, I did not see that when I was conducting my research on these spells. Sorry again. I was wondering why I had never seen this spell, I assumed it was just a really rare drop or hard to obtain. However this summon can still happen through a mask in the game, but the tome itself is not available.
It wasn't cut from the game, it just isn't a normal spell. It's summoned randomly when you're wearing a draonpreist mask called "Konahrik". So the spell is still in the game, you just don't cast it via normal means.
@@James--Parker The chance is pretty low. 3% of summoning a Dragon Priest if u are below 15% of your max health. I guess that's why I didn't know this till today.
man I hope they make spell-casting more interesting in TES VI. There have been tns of mods that add a lot of flavor and mechanics to Skyrim and I expect there to be some major improvements over Skyrim with the next game. However I also expect to be disappointed.
@@renzoraschioni7954 ion know how to dumb it down further than those 5 schools of magic and enchanting. The only thing they could do is give you a flat magic stat and have everything scale off that. Hope Todd doesn't read this and get any ideas
I want Morrowind skills to come back with a side of Skyrim Skill tree.... If i want to jump everywhere while 1 punching the life out of my enemies then i will. (but seriously why there isn't unarmed skill tree in Skyrim?)
@@radhummingbird97 god I wish I’d thought of that. Until I learned to play the game I just ran past it like the fucking wind and hoped for the best. I’d eventually lose it if I had enough stamina
@@gamer-san8923 because that spell supposed to be used only in that quest. But you can buy the spell called "summon demora lord" from phinis gestor if you want to summon dremora outside the quest or use sanguine rose like the other guy. There's also "summon dremora merchant" in dragonborn dlc
The game become too boring when I reached 100 conjuration, no matter what attacks me, dragons, dragon priests, trolls, whatever! I just summon 2 dremora lords and grab the popcorn
Any skill tree reach 100 make the game easy as fck. I played steal archer and with sneak and dark brotherhood set i can 1 shot most enemy. The boss is also the same. Just put a follower to distract it and sneak shot behind.
One huge weakness that the seeker has is that it is extremely vulnerable to ranged attacks due to the fact that its movement is restricted to a slow glide. Archers and spell casters rip it to shreds in no time at all.
You forgot to mention that Arniel's Shade literally costs 0 magicka to summon and is immortal (doesn't take any damage). He doesn't die, his timer just runs out. And when that happens you can just summon him again at no cost.
I had illia and a goblin follower. I gave illia the sanguine rose and she would summon a dremora and use her own summon for a storm atronach. The goblin would summon a storm atronach. I would summon a flame thrall. I just sat back and watched them take an entire fort by themselves.
I remember playing with a spell mod years ago that wound up adding in a game breaking spell that summoned a Mudcrab who exploded on death... So many encounters were made trivial by just unleashing one into a room ahead of me, so that little suicidal mudcrab will always have a special place in my heart. I can't find the mod anymore, think it might've been Midas's?
The zombies were overlooked for a good reason, but I want to add something regarding our trusty rotting friends outside of combat or aesthetics: they are perfect chests. You can use the spell to permanently reanimate one humanoid after dumping all your trash into the corpse and it can still move freely and (more imprtantly) fasttravel with you. You don't even have to search for new corpses when you want your stuff back. Just summon/conjure other units -for example an atronarch- and the zombie will just fall over instead of falling apart into a pile of ash. You can reanimate it again when you are done with your stuff.
flaming familiar is kinda op. 1.The explosion does 50 dmg (the same as a fireball) + the cost is way smaller compared to the fireball 2.For some reason the guards dont attack you if the explosion kills anybody so you can Summon it next to a npc wait for it to explode or attack it yourself to make it explode and nobody cares (I used it in the dark brotherhood mostly but still cool) 3.If you have high enough conjuration you can get a perk that allows you to summon it super far so It becomes a more accurate fireball.
I love the sanguine rose, sure it uses soul gems instead of magicka but it summons an unbound dremora that doesnt want to kill you. And also you can use it along with a summon or conjuration shout
Super late to mention this but still one of my favourite parts of an ash guardian is that they don't count against your summon limit and also they will guard wherever they are summoned for a crazy amount of time, so if you want you can have one set up around your home to deal with any trouble
I really wish we could have evolved the 3 elemental Atronachs into their Ancient counterparts (the only one we ever saw was the Frost one, which was Summoned by Vyrthur). Would be nice to see actual progression in the summon, since there are two summon spells of (visually) the same Atronach for each.
Conjuration classes are some of my favorites to play in Skyrim. I really would've like it if your conjurations could be "leveled" individually. I like the Familiar as well, so it's unfortunate how weak it is and will always remain unless you've got a mod for it. I thought Mistman would look cooler. For some reason I was expecting him to be wearing a ragged black cloak giving a kinda of grim reaper look. Haha, I love how the Troll just turned and ran from the Seeker. I mean, I would too. The Dremora Lord appearing in just his small clothes had me dying! He's so badass he doesn't need armor.
@@solitudeguard2316 yeah man, I used to use dragon aspect all the time until I began the civil war questline, then whenever he appeared he would just kill all of my friends
Any time i get to watch a new video on Skyrim, it's a good day. I like that you ranked all of the summons and not just a best/worst top 5 or something like that. Great video. Keep up the great work dude. Your channel should have way more subs.
Arniels shade it’s actually a pretty good summon I think I remember it costing zero Magica also it’s immune to physical attacks so it’s good for any playthough any build should use it If you get it maybe except stealth archers while they’re not detected once they are detected tho they should probably use this spell because he can take melee hits Also in your demonstration he does his spark spells he has other spells like chain lightning for example I bet his Ai just uses it with crowds though hence why he just used spark spells
@@memeshort7189 I’ve been setting up my load order for a new play through and it was one of the spells I tested (mostly because I plan on doing the dragonborn dlc).
Ok the half naked Dremora for me is a win 😂 i know it's been long man but I just started playing skyrim and im watching some videos and yours is great and the commentary 🤌🏿😂🔥
Id bump up the ash guardian and here's why: I've played with build where you are basically absorbing all magic from spells. Spawn a hostile one and bam, unlimited magika. You can do that with a circle of protection but that's a master spell and restoration is hard to grind. Either way this is extremely useful for mages, especially if your a vampire in broad daylight. OwO
Dragon priest Itselt can summon Storm atronach/Dremora lord when summoned! + He himself is one man army using expert level and AOE spells better than respective Elemental atronachs!
@@KamleshMallick in oblivion there was a lot of different creatures to summon and were good for different situations. Say i wanted to go full necromancer and only summon undead, i could summon zombies as meat shields since they took much damage or maybe skeletons since they make good fighters
@@ded2thaworld963 I see so more variety in oblivion. So modding Skyrim is the way to go. Consider this www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/16225/? The amount of new Conjuration spells seems impressive
yo Arniel's shade is literally s teir, the reason for this is that he DOESNT TAKE ANY PHYSICAL DAMAGE meaning he can only take damage from spells. this makes him the best tank and also the fact that he costs NOTHING to cast. how did you over look this???
I like the Wrathman best. I play a sneaky mage and a meatshield that can actually deal damage is pretty good... I like them better than Dremora as well, because they usually last longer in combat for some reason.
I use the flaming familiar a lottttt, especially in draugr filled caves/ruins. He can seek out enemies but you have to time it at least 5 seconds before you want your enemy hit. They def do a lot of good in the beginning and more towards the end depending on your build. They’re pretty cheap for conjuring, and I most commonly use him with a mix of builds. Really enjoyed this video ^-^ I will agree the ghost pupper has a place in my heart
I stumbled on being a Summoner in my first run though and oh my god I loved it. Twin Strom Atronachs for anything ranged or Dragons and twin Dremora Lords for any close in combat. I would just let them run loose and then I would just conjure swords or bows and cast spells when needed. Very, very powerful and fun. I am thinking of doing another Skyrim run through in the near future and you can bet I will go Summoner. I will have to find me that dragon priest summon though, that one looks quite awesome.
Arniels shade is awesome because it always lasts the full 60 seconds cuz he can’t take any damage it can take a boss enemy’s attention for a while plus you can spawn him in a lot farther than most summons so if you want him on a different roof to take an archer off you it’s a lot easier
If Karstaag was a permanent thrall then he would take the cake for best summoned creature. But of course they had to make things “fair” so you can only summon him 3 times.
Ash spawn are probably my favorite vanilla summon, they are like tankier flame atronachs and have melee attacks. Seekers are pretty fun too, nothing like setting eldrich horrors on unsuspecting bandits.
I love/hate the Conjuration school in Skyrim. I love having the ability to summon up your own posse of two or four beings to fight on your behalf. And I hate how said conjured beings do not level up with you.
@Ralis Sedarys That's where the necromancy variant comes into play. Using Dead Thrall on a Volkihar Vampire(requires Necromage) or a Forsworn Ravager, or any of the Arch level spellcasters gives you quite a bit of power in fights. The Vampire and some of the spellcasters can also heal themselves, making it rare for them to get dropped in a fight.
Seekers have a fear effect with them, so the troll was right to be scared. As for the dragon priest, I would say it's second because it also summons either a frost or (usually) a storm atronach. So you get 2 summons for the price of one.
