My save file is 6.5 mb now, lvl 23, it is still playable but does stutter a lot after loading in a new environment. Definitely not as smooth anymore as when I started playing. Controls are unfortunately also getting less responsive during combat, which doesn't help the feeling that I keep getting less powerful as I level up like in Oblivion.
Maybe I'm screwing my character by playing a mage and doing a lot of alchemy, enchanting and blacksmithing. My level is mostly driven by non combat skill ups. Most of my perks are in magic but even with all the extra magicka upgrades on gear, 75% of level-ups spend in magicka and 100% extra regen I still run out of it way too soon. Luckily there's the freeze breath shout every time I need some extra time.
Switching to a weapon or bow is pretty pointless now, they hardly do any relevant damage having used them very little so far and I can't afford any hits since I never got the armor skill ups. 2 or 3 hits and I'm dead.
Having to constantly switch back and forth between stoneflesh, healing, ward, conjure flame atronach and destruction spells is also starting to drive me crazy. Why is there no radial quick select menu, or ability to switch quickly between a couple of presets ugh.
How does a warrior build play out? Should I switch and mainly do melee with spells on the side. Maybe just lower the difficulty. Or wait for a patch to fix the non responsive combat issue.







