Soul Magic Skill in Builds?

BuzzZaw60 · May 2017

Hello and Good Morning All

I'm playing on the console and have two "Newbie" characters going...a Breton > Mage and a Khajiit > Nightblade with both at 23 and 21. Since starting I've always slotted "Soul Magic" in my bars so to constantly fill the Soul Gems I accumulate and revive since I play solo PvE and seem to die from time-to-time and charge my weapon.

But when I look online for build ideas and how some structure their load outs, I rarely see Soul Magic Skill in there....I'm just using Soul Trap. So is this something I don't need all the time early on, in one bar only, change out when need to or perfectly fine as is for now?

In each bar on each character I put at least one of the Class Skills...so that's three slots. One Weapon Skill...another slot. And Soul Trap last slot with a Ultimate in the final. So far I've got about 22-24 Soul Gems in each character and when I pick up a empty one I'm always throwing Soul Trap along with all the other skills....

Thanks as always for your time and help....much appreciated.

BuzzZaw82 - PS4

Saturnana · May 2017

In my experience, you find filled soul gems more often than I do empty ones. So I only ever put Soul Trap on the bar when I run out of filled ones. The ultimate is sometimes used in builds I think, but for the most part people don't really use the Soul Magic's active skills in combat (I find the passives really useful.)

I put 1 skill point in Soul Lock which gives a 5% chance to fill a soul gem on any kill, and that keeps me supplied.

AcadianPaladin · May 2017

With a baby (L4) DK tank, the only ranged attack I had was stonefist but that stuns. I wanted to make foes run to me and my baby shield. So I slotted soul trap for a couple levels just to reach out to make a foe run to me. Within another couple levels though, I found better options. Lol.

Merlin13KAGL · May 2017

No point in keeping it slotted at all, since the skill line doesn't advance with skill use like other lines do.

Collect your empties, and every once in a while, slot the skill and go on a mudcrab killing spree to fill them.

The skillpoint in Soul Lock is better placed elsewhere, unless you simply have more than you'll ever need.