I'm currently leveling magic. I was a crystal axe/atgeir user, so trying for a hybrid battle mage.

At the moment I'm enjoying protection w/ Krom and have frost/fire staff on hand for different scenarios. mistwalker/shield and himmin afl on hand as well. Arbalest for Gjall. I hadn't used swords previously, so having to level that.

Food is 1 Stam (Salad), 1 Health (Glazed chicken, Fish wraps, meat platter, etc.), 1 Eitr (stuffed mushroom or seeker aspic)

Using the full mage gear atm, but i do miss fenris mobility a lot. I may mix and match a bit.

As for levelling, elemental is easy to lvl. Just hit stuff as w/ other weapons. Blood is a bit more tricky. You get xp if your prot bubble is broken by damage or of summons kill mobs. So I've been using dead raiser to summon 2 mobs and let them kill stuff. Swamps or BF are good spots with lots of mobs, and both have spawners you can camp too. If you find a big mob, e.g., Lox, Troll, Abom, fuling groups, or even seekers, put prot buff up on skellies sit back and recast as the shield gets broken.

So far, loving the build.