Fair enough. I think I find things like the back door glitch so useful because having played this game for so long I have limited patience for slowly building a character up. I like to get in costume and get my core power set together as quickly as possible. If I'm going to be a blood mage I draw a mental line straight between Helgen and being that blood Mage and go striaght along it. As I say I think that as long as you don't antagonise Morokei the college quest should still work so you can still do the whole thing after. The ring is a matter of ... urrm ... taste I guess :). I love that ring, it's probably my most used daedric artefact. Thinking about it I'm not sure that says anything good about me! Also for some reason in my head argonian = cannibal.

Hey so how do you do the vampiric drain glitch for man/mer/whatever argonians are form?

1) Cast bound sword in your right hand. 2) Use vampire lord power while bound sword is in hand. 3) When in vampire lord form hold down the button for the drain life spell so it's charged. 4) Without letting go of the drain life spell revert form back to human/argonian. 5) You should now have the drain life spell in your right hand. Do not equip any other item or spell in the right hand or you'll need to repeat the process.

thanx. I found multiple ways but all were patched I'll try this one

This is probably the best blood mage build to come out in a while. There's a lot of synergy within the skill set that go well beyond the typical blood Mage formula of spam normal spells, sacrifice health, rinse and repeat.

Very nice build!

I like it better than my own!

Well I have Elysium's approval, that's another thing to cross off my Bucket List 

That last one is Dragon Age 2. It's unfortunate that they didn't have the Blood Mage specialization in Inquisition, I understand why and all, but I still would have liked it to be an option.

Another reason I didn't go straight for equilibrium was that you need 40 destruction to get rune master, and while you can train destruction a couple of times to get that, putting it off until around level 10 when Dawnguard starts and you become a vampire lord, is a lot cheaper.

I'm gonna be mad if they don't at least include the blood Mage class in a dlc