Skyrim talk:Magic Anomaly

Killing the little horrors

The magic anomalies are somewhat like ice wraiths but extremely tough: very fast, attacking in a swarm and are always leveled up higher than you.

The article here was a little sparse, so here are some tips found searching the internet:

• take a follower and/or summon atronachs or other creatures to help - a storm atronach took out a load of them very quickly
• hide and restore your health during the fight
• they get stuck easily -- I was out in mountains near Saarthal with little place to hide, but backing up into a bit of a depression against a cliff helped. In town, they can get trapped in porches and between buildings which makes them easier to hit
• melee weapons work better than magic
• they hit you with both shock and frost magic

Also, don't bother trying to deal with the big anomaly that spawns them. I wasted several lives thinking that closing it with the Staff of Magnus would help, but it just generates them and then goes away. — Unsigned comment by Katjaroja (talk • contribs) at 09:15 on 27 May 2019 (UTC)

I wouldn't fully agree with "melee works better than magic". Melee weapons can damage them fine, but they tend to quickly float toward and away from you, and many of your swings will miss. Fast melee weapons might do the trick, but 2H weapons are frustrating against these. --Olaus (talk) 02:25, 23 August 2020 (UTC)