pure mage is working out so far for me. there is a lot more mage equipment in this game and it's readily available from the start, though you might have to do some digging around to find good spells. pure Destruction isn't really an option though. it's too tedious and difficult after a couple of levels. Destruction + Conjuration seems to work well.
just beat the College of Winterhold (mage's guild) questline. it felt short but then again I didn't have to play errand boy for all of the local chapters before joining like I did in Oblivion. so now I have a free house with tons of goodies (enchanting altar, alchemy altar, rare ingredient garden, and some other stuff) and some awesome robes. the game actually glitched into giving me two copies of the robes, but I'm not complaining.
the ending of the questline was sort of funny too... first the part in Labyrinthian withand then, back at Winterhold,Spoiler: showwhat a pussy.Spoiler: show
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