SureAI

I devoted countless hours in a modded Oblivion as a pure mage, and had more fun than I thought possible.
How viable do you think a pure mage is in Nehrim?
By pure mage, I mean a mage who has devoted himself to the study of magic, and is physically frail yet powerful in the ways of spellcraft. No swords, armor or other weapons. Points going almost exclusively into intelligence and willpower. No strength, endurance, etc.
In Oblivion, it was doable mostly because of the conjuration line, which allows the poor mage to summon minions to keep the enemies occupied while he smashes them with spells.
But in Nehrim, without any summons, I'm worried I'm going to be doing nothing but running in circles to keep from getting pounded. And I've never pictured Gandalf as running backwards while flinging fireballs at goblins. I'm not into the whole kiting thing.
So is this worth it? Or should I just give in and go sword/shield with a few utility spells under my belt?

I'm currently level 20 and have played pretty well exactly as you describe with no probs after the first couple of levels. I'm still wearing full light armour though - there's so many pieces that provide good magic related bonuses. Don't train up Destruction too high though - there is plenty around to fortify it.
It would be nice to have Conjuration, and early on Magicka is limited, but at least for now my character seems pretty powerful.

Sounds cool, but how do you keep the baddies off of your mage?
Do you just vaporize them before they get to you? Because I was looking through the Nehrim Wiki and I don't see enough crowd control spells to keep them occupied. Some spells with some freeze components, but not enough, I don't think.
You're not finding yourself getting hammered by monsters constantly?

although i played a mage-swordman character in light armor, i can say a pure mage can be real strong and powerful. magic in nehrim is much more powerful like in oblivion and if you spend your learning points to magic schools, soon you can have really strong spells.

with shield spell, paralyze spell and invisibility spell you can defend/evade/neutralize almost every opponent and from there you need destruction spells. frost spells have the freeze effect, fire spells have the knockdown effect...

if you are hammered by the monsters too often, probably they are too strong for you, i think.


i returned to oblivion after nehrim and i really miss the buff spells like fortify this and that for 1000 sec and alike...