Sparks

A stream of lightning that damages Health and Magicka.

Sparks fires a continuous stream of electricity that does 8 shock damage per second to Health and half that to Magicka – a good way to stop an enemy mage from casting. Dunmer start the game knowing it.

Tips

With the Disintegrate perk, shock spells turn low-health enemies to ash.

Spell details

  • School: Destruction (Novice)
  • Effect: Lightning that does 8 points of shock damage to Health and Magicka per second.
  • Base Magicka cost: 19 per second
  • Casting: Concentration, aimed
  • Spell tome: Spell Tome: Sparks – value 46 gold, ID 0009CD53

More Destruction spells

Flames (Novice), Frostbite (Novice), Fire Rune (Apprentice), Firebolt (Apprentice), Frost Rune (Apprentice), Ice Spike (Apprentice), Lightning Bolt (Apprentice), Lightning Rune (Apprentice), Chain Lightning (Adept), Fireball (Adept), Flame Cloak (Adept), Frost Cloak (Adept), Ice Storm (Adept), Lightning Cloak (Adept), Whirlwind Cloak (Adept), Icy Spear (Expert), Incinerate (Expert), Thunderbolt (Expert), Wall of Flames (Expert), Wall of Frost (Expert), Wall of Storms (Expert), Blizzard (Master), Fire Storm (Master), Lightning Storm (Master).

Cost, effect and tome value read from the Skyrim game files (base values before skill, perks and gear).

Where to get the spell tome

  • In a cage with a dead mage in the torture room of Helgen Keep during Unbound.
  • Faralda at the College, Lucan Valerius in Riverwood, court wizards and general goods merchants.
  • Loot from spellcasting draugr, Forsworn and mages.

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