For my skyrim character, I originally started out maxing out smithing-armor-arms, then bows and shield. I usually did mage, but the crafting bug hooked me early on. Then by the time main quest was over and beyond, character was maxed out using 100+ mod and a gamut of other player mods, some of which became cheat items. So my character was wearing the extra cloth slots to enchant and alchemical mix hundreds of % past the vanilla settings and had so much armor mod and regenerating health and stamina so fast with the athletics mod, was almost undying except for long falls. So I guess he never became a full mage. Still missing a few of the magic perks,although got many of the useful ones, plus cheat mods to add more perks etc. Havent finished Dragonborn or Dawnguard yet, maybe got due to getting tired of the game. Been a long time since I played it.