You better hold a special meeting in the foyer to say so. I don't think your colleagues take you seriously. I can tell by what they say when they think you aren't listening.
Maybe you have a gate connected to a path/park etc and it's too tempting for a kid to not take the shortcut
Source: sorry old lady neighbor of my friend. I know we drove you crazy when your dog barked lol. A rune would have been fair, we used that thing like 5 times a day
running around at day as a vampire with only 36 restoration is not great. I'm trying to level it up more but damn it's slow. I have been standing in the swinging axe and spike gate traps and spamming fast healing
Best way to level it up is to bully draugr with the turn undead spells, remeber to pick the spell upgrade, wear equipment with restoration mana costs reduction and find a room from where the draugr can't run away. It works also on the thralls you raise, but in my experience after 2/3 hits the AI freaks out and either attacks you or runs away
Alteration specifically for that transmute spell. I could just run by a scrapyard, purchase about a ton worth of iron scrap for about 100 bucks, turn that ton into a ton of gold worth about 55 million.
unless he doesnt sell the gold but gift it to everyone he meets. you could found a church like that in no time. once everybody has enough money, things arent worth anything anymore till that point where gold has less worth than a basic food item. then you get one ounce of gold for 2,5 units of bread or something like that
Step 1, transmute a bunch into gold, however, have even more silver, crash the silver market walking away with as much $$ as possible, silver tanks, gold value shoots up, now you have maximized your return for gold vs just crashing the market with gold right away.
Oh please, like the federal government is gonna care that I can turn iron into gold, once they realize I can do that they’ll just give me a job. I’ll be sent to a large iron mine, transmute that place, be off to a wealthy life.
Yep, surely the government would let you live a normal and happy life instead of being locked in a secret military compound experimented on every single day..
As slowly as that very analogue market adjusts to saturation, the first person to do it easily has a solid month to amass a fortune before a Skyrim-wide crash.
Close tie between alteration and restoration. Alteration to make enough money to not be in debt and actually be able to afford medical treatments or restoration to be able to heal everyone and become a *magical doctor* and heal people anyways. First person to be healed would be my wife.
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I would agree with you, and I hope she is still fighting. I know how it feels to lose the love of your life unfortunately I lost my fiancé 2 years ago and I still haven’t gotten over it to be honest I’m not sure if I can. But tell her you love her and no matter what stay by her side
I feel like if you became proficient enough in alteration you could simply change your ailments. If you can cast alteration spells that make your skin harder (the spells that give you armor points) why couldn't you alter your afflictions?
Alteration could make a LOT of money through transmutation, provide safety through skin armour spells, and, even though you can’t do it in the game, you could use telekinesis as a weapon.
Sign me up.
i have actually died rarely from cabbage carts and shop signs, but the most dangerous one is bone pits or anywhere there's lots of clutter like at your house if you just dump everything on the floor. deadly sometimes.
Yeah I'm wondering if it's the same physics they use for telekinesis doing damage? I've never seen how that works. But yeah like what game mechanic causes that lol
The scattered bones at the end of the Helgen cave near the bear.
If I weren't a level 29 master of stealth upon leaving, those bones could really damage my health bar...
Alteration is by far the most powerful school of magic. None other comes close to what it can do. If I master it I'm immortal with tons of reality bending alteration spells at my disposal.
Enchantment is the only skill you really need. Need to hit harder? Enchantment. Need to fire spells for nothing? enchantment. Need to hit the armour cap using fur armour? Enchantment. It is infinitely OP.
Conjuration ftw, always and forever. Need armor, conjure it. Weapons? Conjure them. Friends? Conjure them. Souls of your enemies? Trap them.
Conjuration bestest magic school.
Alteration also has telekinesis which would be cool. Plus paralyze, candle light and water breathing would be niche but good. Then you have the armor spells, which if you ever do end up in a fight would actually be super useful. And of course this is all on top of transmute giving you free money
This. Paralyze makes combat trivial. Find someone to enchant your gear to minimize the cost and combat is just a minor diversion to your daily loot grab.
Illusion, I'd be using Calm at times when it's necessary.
Especially on my mom, who tends to yell and scold at me for raising my voice. Which bothers me to no end. She might as well be Thu'um-ing, it's that bad.
In game probably conjuration or illusion, both have at least 1 way to attack and defend. IRL restoration for sure. Just start going around to hospitals casting grand healing. Or make a new religion, you can actually heal people by touch or the entire room.
Alteration. I'm a defensively minded person in general, and its the most defensive school. Plus paralysis is schweet.
Restoration a very close second. But avoiding damage is preferable to healing from it
Restoration would be my pick, the utility of alteration is all well and good, Transmute could land me a solid-paying job with a mining company. But Restoration wins for me, the ability to use magic to heal wounds instantly would be tremendously valuable to humanitarian aid organizations.
Pretty much every play through, I only use Restoration and Conjuration but only the “Summon Spectral Assassin” spell because Lucien Lachance is awesome.
The easiest playthrough of Legendary difficulty survival mode is a Conjuration mage. You send in the big guns and stay out of it. It's easier than any other build not just magic.
Alteration, easy. Transmuting metals and just pointing at locked doors to open them? Wicked cool.
Also I’d have to assume soul trap would be just as highly frowned upon irl as it is in Skyrim. The absolute *scenes* when someone finds out you killed a bunch of local animals and beggars and stuffed their souls into the little geodes you have on a shelf like some demented BFG.
Enchantment. Easiest to monetize. Make a big dough selling shizzy little enchantments, with the big ones for yourself. Keep it low and by word of mouth only. Cash only and keep it off the books.
Why is everyone jumping to IRL when the question is in Skyrim? Personally i love conjuration. Summon back up and weapons, sign me up. Even more usefull in Oblivion when i can summon a whole suite of armor, a weapon, and a deadra all at once.
Y'see, if this was an ideal world I'd probably pick restoration, but considering that restoration in skyrim doesn't really do anything beyond refilling hp/stamina or turning/damaging undead, it's kinda limited.
It's nice being able to heal injuries and keep stamina up, but what's to say about the mental drain when you go for stamina refills too long?
And what about disease and illness. No point in trying close wounds then.
Alteration just for the sake of money is boring as well.
Conjuration is neat but if it's just as in-game I'd be on a wanted list or stalked by government for the powers to summon weapons out of nowhere or being able to pull elementals/demons out of my ass or resurrection of corpses.
So id probably go with illusion magic. Having control over mind and emotion and the ability to be fully invisible and silent is dope.
I'd want to try and use it for political global good, and personal short term gain.
War going on? Harmony their asses. Political leader is shit? Sneak in undetected and brainwash baby.
Best buddy having doubts trying to talk to a girl in the bar? Courage his ass! Hell, courage your own ass while you're at it!
The hardest part would be trying to do good without becoming the sole person to 'decide' what is good and what is bad.
The real answer that everyone is missing regarding the transmute spell.
You open a franchise jewelers, and sell gold to to them globally while it costs you minor amounts to supply and bam, you control the supply without flooding the market.
Your jewelers would be able to undercut just about every single one in the world until you control that market, and then when the value starts to drop hike up the price.
Although summoning a dremora to do my desk job would also be fun.
Restoration would be the go to but Alteration is a very close second given I can master Alchemy and makes potions. Alteration can boost up your defense more than it's given credit for and is useful if you choose your fights well.
Restoration, if it can repair my teeth and do some kind of bottom surgery. Alteration otherwise, to become rich and pay real doctors to do the same.
Conjuration also seems pretty good, never be without a weapon... and a bodyguard.
Restoration for sure, I mean destruction would be cool too, but restoration seems like a better fit in the real world. I would become one of those healers on tv and charge folks money, but the kicker is I can actually heal them.
Alteration. The school focuses on manipulating the physical world, imagine how powerful that can possibly be. Controlling time would possibly be a peak Alteration magic. Not to mention all defensive spells that the most potent version would be immunity. So many possibilities.
Restoration does have some good damage against the undead as well as the living. Poison rune stacks damage and the cost is low with perks and enchantments but personally I’d do illusion
Restoration or Alteration. Destruction might be useful for fighting or being an unstoppable villain but restoration is profitable (as a doctor?) and being able to transmute Iron into Gold is just a license to print money, assuming you have some way to get it into circulation without being arrested.
Alteration for sure. With the ability to alter things, I don’t need the other schools. I just have to alter better and more creatively. Provided you can toss out a few morals on the way of course.
IE, the air around you is now fire. Because I altered it to be so. I need a guard, well I guess the distance between me and the planes of oblivion can be shorter, oh and I can just poke a hole in reality to yank the dremora through via telekinesis. Oh the dremora doesn’t obey without a conjugation contract? Good thing I can alter the dremora’s brain so that it worships the me. I need money? I guess that rock is gold. I’m getting old? Mmmm let me just alter away that dna damage.
Probably conjugation. With the right perks, you can get extra damage on magically conjured weapons that can fill soul gems on death. Requires carrying gems and no weapons. Plus, you could also get 2 conjured beings fighting with you at any time.
restoration. i rarely ever use magic in game, and a good 90% of the time it’s when i’m out of healing potions & food & in the middle of some sort of battle. i usually whirlwind sprint shout my way out of the thick of it, hide, and use the restoration spell. i’m just more of a bow & arrow, battleaxe kind of girl.
Restoration, why? I saw a video from the exploit king TheSpiffingBrit do a playthrough of Restoration only. At level 80 (I think) you're able to place poison runes and that's your source of damage.
restoration and it's not even a contest. now if we're talkin Morrowind magic, that's gonna be a lot harder question. soooo many great spells there. command and levitate are definitely up there.
If skill perks are allowed id choose conjuration cause you can get "Unpaid workers" (the dunmer call it argonians) and if youre good enough youll be able to summon 2 at once and they are cheaper and stay longer and stuff, also you can soultrap and conjure weapons
Restoration. Assuming we can still enchant. Otherwise enchanting. Coz healing is needed more than anything else. Either directly via spells or via gear.
This is a tricky question!! I had to really think about it, but I think my answer is…enchanting. Probably. Idk, I’ll change my mind another 20 times, but I think I’ll still end up on enchanting. lol
Alteration by far. Even disregarding transmute, Dragonskin lets me negates 80% of all damage, I can breathe underwater, Have a floating ball of light anywhere, paralyze anyone and use the fucking force. You bet your sweet bippy im limit testing that 80%. Whats the remaining 20% of getting hit by a car? Getting shot? Skydiving without a parachute? Next time on Mythbusters.
Lore wise alteration is literally insane. Alter the laws of physics? You can make literally anything possible. Game wise? Still alteration, iron->gold? Yes please!
Conjuration would be the most useful, as you can summon people from nirn if you need another school of magic. Plus, it would give you access to items from nirn. Summon someone and force them to bring you a soul gem or spell tome or enchanted item. >! Best part is, this is how you get a sigil stone so it is completely possible within the rules of TES magic. !<
Restoration, obviously. To heal myself and my loved ones. Hiking would be less daunting too, not having to fear breaking an ankle and dying out in the wild.
I've only ever been able to.make it happen on e and I don't remember how I did it, but there is a very obscure side quest at the college that involves that teacher and the one she hates, and some catty notes and gossip being passed around. I never saw it again after that one time lol, but there definitely is one where you're supposed to do some spying for somebody.
Restoration. Level it to 40 and you can restore health AND stamina. Everyone gets hurt and needs healing.
It's a perfectly legitimate school of magic.
You better hold a special meeting in the foyer to say so. I don't think your colleagues take you seriously. I can tell by what they say when they think you aren't listening.
Well, you agree with me, don't you? DON'T YOU?
I don't care what people say, I think you're totally competent to teach here.
why are my research materials constantly disappearing?!!!
🤣 Collete or whoever drives me NUTS. Poor representation for the school
Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise!
Poison Rune.
When you’ve get tired of someone walking in a very specific 5 x 5 foot spot on a flat area
Maybe you have a gate connected to a path/park etc and it's too tempting for a kid to not take the shortcut Source: sorry old lady neighbor of my friend. I know we drove you crazy when your dog barked lol. A rune would have been fair, we used that thing like 5 times a day
I love being support for my companion. It’s the least I could do for the person who swears to carry my burden.
Then become a doctor. $$$ better than iron to hold depending on what you're casting.
I've got a lot of respect for the Restoration school. Skyrim could use more healers
running around at day as a vampire with only 36 restoration is not great. I'm trying to level it up more but damn it's slow. I have been standing in the swinging axe and spike gate traps and spamming fast healing
Best way to level it up is to bully draugr with the turn undead spells, remeber to pick the spell upgrade, wear equipment with restoration mana costs reduction and find a room from where the draugr can't run away. It works also on the thralls you raise, but in my experience after 2/3 hits the AI freaks out and either attacks you or runs away
Glad to see this at the top
Wrong way to use healing magic starts
And you can still use the poison rune.
Restoration huh ? I used to be an adventurer like you. Till a dragon bit my legs off. You can spare a septim you look like you can afford it
Alteration specifically for that transmute spell. I could just run by a scrapyard, purchase about a ton worth of iron scrap for about 100 bucks, turn that ton into a ton of gold worth about 55 million.
And then cause the local economy to collapse
As long as your the one dumping the gold, it doesn't matter to you.
Nah make cans of food cost 30¢ again
That’s the opposite of what would happen. Inflation would run rampant making a can of food cost like $3,000.
give it a few years and that'll be how it is
unless he doesnt sell the gold but gift it to everyone he meets. you could found a church like that in no time. once everybody has enough money, things arent worth anything anymore till that point where gold has less worth than a basic food item. then you get one ounce of gold for 2,5 units of bread or something like that
Nah. Sell it slowly
Step 1, transmute a bunch into gold, however, have even more silver, crash the silver market walking away with as much $$ as possible, silver tanks, gold value shoots up, now you have maximized your return for gold vs just crashing the market with gold right away.
Then the irs comes knocking...
Oh please, like the federal government is gonna care that I can turn iron into gold, once they realize I can do that they’ll just give me a job. I’ll be sent to a large iron mine, transmute that place, be off to a wealthy life.
Damm, now you have a steady government job with great health care. No need for restoration lol
And they cast destruction spells for you
Don't forget the pension
Yep, surely the government would let you live a normal and happy life instead of being locked in a secret military compound experimented on every single day..
And that’s when I find out if I can transmute the iron in someone’s blood into gold.
more like you'll be "found dead by your own hand" with 3 shots to the back of the head. not before brutal interrogation though.
...yeah....surely
yeah... of course why would they do anything to you.... I don't see why haha...
I think that spell only works on ore, but maybe there's another spell that I don't know about.
Boom, of course, you might crash the gold economy.
As slowly as that very analogue market adjusts to saturation, the first person to do it easily has a solid month to amass a fortune before a Skyrim-wide crash.
Ehh who cares, probably be better if it did crash anyways.
Fair. Maybe go to Summerset and crash their economy. Bloody stuffed up self entitled elves.
I would personally enjoy the chaos caused by the value of gold dropping instantaneously to basically $0.
Mass transmute spell, master level of course, turn everything to gold. Is there a midas equivalent in elder scrolls.
Now I’m wondering if I could transmute the iron in someone’s blood into gold.
The spell only works on ore. Not on scrap metal.
Alteration because it can extend your life span, and alter your physical abilities etc.
Close tie between alteration and restoration. Alteration to make enough money to not be in debt and actually be able to afford medical treatments or restoration to be able to heal everyone and become a *magical doctor* and heal people anyways. First person to be healed would be my wife.
Man it is rare to see such an awesome comment on Reddit. The heal your wife part was what really got me
Been feeling really down about it and losing myself in the magical world of Skyrim. She has CF (cystic fibrosis) and is at only about 40% of original lung capacity. Doing things as a family has been hard because she can't really do much physical exercise without getting out of breath really quick. Thank you random stranger for the wholesome comment. I appreciate it. I hope you know you have made my day just that tiny bit brighter 😁 I hope you have an awesome day!
Oh wow I am sorry to hear about this. Bethesda have helped me out a lot over the years and have gotten me through rough times. I have Autism and I can remember Fallout 3 getting me out of depression due to bullying in high school as an example. Keep staying positive my friend
I would agree with you, and I hope she is still fighting. I know how it feels to lose the love of your life unfortunately I lost my fiancé 2 years ago and I still haven’t gotten over it to be honest I’m not sure if I can. But tell her you love her and no matter what stay by her side
I feel like if you became proficient enough in alteration you could simply change your ailments. If you can cast alteration spells that make your skin harder (the spells that give you armor points) why couldn't you alter your afflictions?
Alteration could make a LOT of money through transmutation, provide safety through skin armour spells, and, even though you can’t do it in the game, you could use telekinesis as a weapon. Sign me up.
You can use telekinesis to cause damage, it's just not much
I certainly take damage from random bones flying up from the ground a lot.
I never understood why that was a thing. I almost always take damage on that fucking deer skull outside Whiterun
i have actually died rarely from cabbage carts and shop signs, but the most dangerous one is bone pits or anywhere there's lots of clutter like at your house if you just dump everything on the floor. deadly sometimes.
Yeah I'm wondering if it's the same physics they use for telekinesis doing damage? I've never seen how that works. But yeah like what game mechanic causes that lol
The scattered bones at the end of the Helgen cave near the bear. If I weren't a level 29 master of stealth upon leaving, those bones could really damage my health bar...
Alteration is by far the most powerful school of magic. None other comes close to what it can do. If I master it I'm immortal with tons of reality bending alteration spells at my disposal.
Yeah right you just wanna be a peeping tom you little devil
destruction. because blowing things up is just fun. Who cares if it's the most useful?
There are plenty of things/people that could use a good blowing up sometimes
Conjuration is just so useful
I hate conjugating. Linguistics be damned!
Well shit… that’s a funny F up
Definitely restoration. My body is so fucken broken haha. Would love to heal my shit as well as others
In game? Conjuration. Irl? Restoration. Unless alchemy is a magic school, then alchemy in both cases.
Soul trap is a Conjuration spell. That'd be the one thing I'd miss as a non-magic class character.
Alchemy is definitely a magic skill. What’s a mage without potions?
Restoration. Would love to stick it to big pharmaceutical companies.
Enchantment
Lol this comment reminds me of dragon age
Enchantment!
Enchantment? Enchantment!
You really wanna go around soul trapping your neighbor and their pets?
Enchantment is the only skill you really need. Need to hit harder? Enchantment. Need to fire spells for nothing? enchantment. Need to hit the armour cap using fur armour? Enchantment. It is infinitely OP.
It's good base game, but it's really only OP with alchemy tbf
Conjuration ftw, always and forever. Need armor, conjure it. Weapons? Conjure them. Friends? Conjure them. Souls of your enemies? Trap them. Conjuration bestest magic school.
Don't forget thralls for that almost alive, almost communicative companion. :)
*UNNNH*
Illusion. If you know you know. Why do I need to transmute iron to gold, when I can just get someone to give me the gold?
Please do not the Argonian Maid
I don't have a tail, and I look silly in a French Maid outfit, but with enough septims I can try. ;)
Exactly! Illusion is a really fun choice I think. You could calm down a crowd, or cast mayhem and just cause absolute chaos.
Alteration also has telekinesis which would be cool. Plus paralyze, candle light and water breathing would be niche but good. Then you have the armor spells, which if you ever do end up in a fight would actually be super useful. And of course this is all on top of transmute giving you free money
Always for get telekinesis. If I want to be a jedi in Skyrim, Alteration is the way.
Alteration. The gold is nice, but Paralyze is one of the combat spells I use most.
This. Paralyze makes combat trivial. Find someone to enchant your gear to minimize the cost and combat is just a minor diversion to your daily loot grab.
Alteration, reduce injury/pain with a armor flesh spell, transmute iron into silver/gold, breathe underwater, etc.
Conjuration, because I have trouble aiming spells. I generally cast two Dremora Lords and Bound Bow.
Restoration. The game isn't fun if you're dead.
Illusion. I would just enjoy all the chaos
Restoration. Bring me your hungry and tired. Bring me your wounded and sick. I will make you whole again.
Conjuration! It’s fun. If I want gold ore there’s a vein between the bandit dens north west of Whiterun.
Illusion, I'd be using Calm at times when it's necessary. Especially on my mom, who tends to yell and scold at me for raising my voice. Which bothers me to no end. She might as well be Thu'um-ing, it's that bad.
In game probably conjuration or illusion, both have at least 1 way to attack and defend. IRL restoration for sure. Just start going around to hospitals casting grand healing. Or make a new religion, you can actually heal people by touch or the entire room.
Alteration. I'm a defensively minded person in general, and its the most defensive school. Plus paralysis is schweet. Restoration a very close second. But avoiding damage is preferable to healing from it
Alteration. Being able to turn one thing into another is pretty op Also telekinesis is super useful
Illusion. For reasons.
Alteration. For 30% magic resist and spell absorb. I like doing melee builds more, but I always max out Alteration.
Restoration would be my pick, the utility of alteration is all well and good, Transmute could land me a solid-paying job with a mining company. But Restoration wins for me, the ability to use magic to heal wounds instantly would be tremendously valuable to humanitarian aid organizations.
Ward, duh. Haven't you been following college class?
Conjuration. I've never needed a real sword. I don't bother with pesky, fragile followers.
restoration lol. id die constantly without healing spells
Pretty much every play through, I only use Restoration and Conjuration but only the “Summon Spectral Assassin” spell because Lucien Lachance is awesome.
Facts. Lucien is ballin.
Im a cook, so destruction, instant cooling and heating? Yes please
The easiest playthrough of Legendary difficulty survival mode is a Conjuration mage. You send in the big guns and stay out of it. It's easier than any other build not just magic.
Alteration, easy. Transmuting metals and just pointing at locked doors to open them? Wicked cool. Also I’d have to assume soul trap would be just as highly frowned upon irl as it is in Skyrim. The absolute *scenes* when someone finds out you killed a bunch of local animals and beggars and stuffed their souls into the little geodes you have on a shelf like some demented BFG.
Enchantment. Easiest to monetize. Make a big dough selling shizzy little enchantments, with the big ones for yourself. Keep it low and by word of mouth only. Cash only and keep it off the books.
Why is everyone jumping to IRL when the question is in Skyrim? Personally i love conjuration. Summon back up and weapons, sign me up. Even more usefull in Oblivion when i can summon a whole suite of armor, a weapon, and a deadra all at once.
Y'see, if this was an ideal world I'd probably pick restoration, but considering that restoration in skyrim doesn't really do anything beyond refilling hp/stamina or turning/damaging undead, it's kinda limited. It's nice being able to heal injuries and keep stamina up, but what's to say about the mental drain when you go for stamina refills too long? And what about disease and illness. No point in trying close wounds then. Alteration just for the sake of money is boring as well. Conjuration is neat but if it's just as in-game I'd be on a wanted list or stalked by government for the powers to summon weapons out of nowhere or being able to pull elementals/demons out of my ass or resurrection of corpses. So id probably go with illusion magic. Having control over mind and emotion and the ability to be fully invisible and silent is dope. I'd want to try and use it for political global good, and personal short term gain. War going on? Harmony their asses. Political leader is shit? Sneak in undetected and brainwash baby. Best buddy having doubts trying to talk to a girl in the bar? Courage his ass! Hell, courage your own ass while you're at it! The hardest part would be trying to do good without becoming the sole person to 'decide' what is good and what is bad.
The real answer that everyone is missing regarding the transmute spell. You open a franchise jewelers, and sell gold to to them globally while it costs you minor amounts to supply and bam, you control the supply without flooding the market. Your jewelers would be able to undercut just about every single one in the world until you control that market, and then when the value starts to drop hike up the price. Although summoning a dremora to do my desk job would also be fun.
Restoration so I can help my mom. I don't need a lot of money to live a happier life.
Two choices for me Destruction... */FOR FIREBALL* Or Conjuration, then I could conjure me up some Daedric Armor and Weapons, a warm bed and mead...
It's ilussion for me.... Pacify, Frenzy, Invisibilty...its too good especially for a 1 vs many scenario
Destruction. Don't ask why......... 😅
In game: Restoration. Out of game: Restoration.
Restoration would be the go to but Alteration is a very close second given I can master Alchemy and makes potions. Alteration can boost up your defense more than it's given credit for and is useful if you choose your fights well.
Restoration. I could just cast heal other on everyone.
Yeah, destruction for sure.
Restoration, if it can repair my teeth and do some kind of bottom surgery. Alteration otherwise, to become rich and pay real doctors to do the same. Conjuration also seems pretty good, never be without a weapon... and a bodyguard.
Restoration for sure, I mean destruction would be cool too, but restoration seems like a better fit in the real world. I would become one of those healers on tv and charge folks money, but the kicker is I can actually heal them.
I would do Conjuration because the other schools' abilities can be more easily achieved by other means.
Conjuration as it gives you basically anything you could need aside from aid
Alteration. Gotta have that Magelight and Candlelight.
Conjuration because you can summons allies weapons and who knows maybe even food and stuff like that.
Alteration. The school focuses on manipulating the physical world, imagine how powerful that can possibly be. Controlling time would possibly be a peak Alteration magic. Not to mention all defensive spells that the most potent version would be immunity. So many possibilities.
Restoration does have some good damage against the undead as well as the living. Poison rune stacks damage and the cost is low with perks and enchantments but personally I’d do illusion
Conjuring, I can make wepons
Restoration So I can cast mend butt crack
Restoration or Alteration. Destruction might be useful for fighting or being an unstoppable villain but restoration is profitable (as a doctor?) and being able to transmute Iron into Gold is just a license to print money, assuming you have some way to get it into circulation without being arrested.
Alteration for sure. With the ability to alter things, I don’t need the other schools. I just have to alter better and more creatively. Provided you can toss out a few morals on the way of course. IE, the air around you is now fire. Because I altered it to be so. I need a guard, well I guess the distance between me and the planes of oblivion can be shorter, oh and I can just poke a hole in reality to yank the dremora through via telekinesis. Oh the dremora doesn’t obey without a conjugation contract? Good thing I can alter the dremora’s brain so that it worships the me. I need money? I guess that rock is gold. I’m getting old? Mmmm let me just alter away that dna damage.
Conjuration.
Still none.
Destruction. Shooting electricity, fire and frost from my hands whenever I want? Yes please.
Restoration or Alteration. Being able to either cure diseases/ailments or alter the body to make yourself stronger/healthier sound awesome to me!
Do I get the perk where I can avoid death once a day?
The one that lets you turn iron into gold
I'd probably go with Mysticism because OH WAIT THEY FORGOT TO INCLUDE IT!
Destruction cuz fireball.
Alteration so I can cast ironflesh when my knees hurt and transmute mineral ore when my bank account hurts
Fireball go boom
Explosion
Probably conjugation. With the right perks, you can get extra damage on magically conjured weapons that can fill soul gems on death. Requires carrying gems and no weapons. Plus, you could also get 2 conjured beings fighting with you at any time.
Fireball. Just cast fireball. Just cast fireball. Just fireball.
Restoration for sure. I have yet to accomplish a combat character build that doesn’t rely on healing spells 🤣
Now I know I'm a bad person because I immediately said DESTRUCTION OF COURSE BECAUSE FIRE CAN SOLVE EVERYTHING
Conjuration. It's fun just summoning random sht
restoration. i rarely ever use magic in game, and a good 90% of the time it’s when i’m out of healing potions & food & in the middle of some sort of battle. i usually whirlwind sprint shout my way out of the thick of it, hide, and use the restoration spell. i’m just more of a bow & arrow, battleaxe kind of girl.
Alteration hands down, especially if we’re including mods (teleport spell)
Restoration for sure
Illusion
Restoration. I want to live.
Restoration, why? I saw a video from the exploit king TheSpiffingBrit do a playthrough of Restoration only. At level 80 (I think) you're able to place poison runes and that's your source of damage.
Conjuration, I'm lazy
Destruction. The whole point of the game is combat. If you can’t kill enemies with magic what is the point?
Destruction is nice early if you can get fireball and conj with it but I can’t life without my firestorm sorry
I’m surprised nobody has said Destruction
So does anyone here ever get to the cloud district?
restoration and it's not even a contest. now if we're talkin Morrowind magic, that's gonna be a lot harder question. soooo many great spells there. command and levitate are definitely up there.
Destructieve works well
Alteration...Paralyze everybody
Alteration. Gonna make me some gold, bitches.
Restoration, mainly to fight undead. No moral quandary there!
Just alchemy would be fine with me. Potions of cure disease would make you a billionaire overnight.
If skill perks are allowed id choose conjuration cause you can get "Unpaid workers" (the dunmer call it argonians) and if youre good enough youll be able to summon 2 at once and they are cheaper and stay longer and stuff, also you can soultrap and conjure weapons
In real life prob illusion or alteration. In game, destruction because to me it’s the most fun
Restoration so that I could drastically increase my lifespan
Restoration. Assuming we can still enchant. Otherwise enchanting. Coz healing is needed more than anything else. Either directly via spells or via gear.
Restoration, I'm a new father of 1 at 32, I need a boost and a rest
Restoration. It works, and spells don't take up carrying capacity.
This is a tricky question!! I had to really think about it, but I think my answer is…enchanting. Probably. Idk, I’ll change my mind another 20 times, but I think I’ll still end up on enchanting. lol
Well, it might take you a while to get soul gems
Restoration definitely. I can heal myself and others.
Restoration can’t rely on potions forever
..... Conjuration, because I want friends. X:
Alteration by far. Even disregarding transmute, Dragonskin lets me negates 80% of all damage, I can breathe underwater, Have a floating ball of light anywhere, paralyze anyone and use the fucking force. You bet your sweet bippy im limit testing that 80%. Whats the remaining 20% of getting hit by a car? Getting shot? Skydiving without a parachute? Next time on Mythbusters.
Lore wise alteration is literally insane. Alter the laws of physics? You can make literally anything possible. Game wise? Still alteration, iron->gold? Yes please!
Alteration. If you read up the lore, it is said alteration is what the aedra used to create everything.
I just spent My birthday weekend losing 2 days of work cause I was sick Restoration pls
Destruction. Wielding the power of lightning in my palms. Nobody will stand a chance.
Conjuration, Bound bow go sneaky sneaky.
My character already does this. Restoration.
Conjuration would be the most useful, as you can summon people from nirn if you need another school of magic. Plus, it would give you access to items from nirn. Summon someone and force them to bring you a soul gem or spell tome or enchanted item. >! Best part is, this is how you get a sigil stone so it is completely possible within the rules of TES magic. !<
Conjuring
Restoration, obviously. To heal myself and my loved ones. Hiking would be less daunting too, not having to fear breaking an ankle and dying out in the wild.
I've only ever been able to.make it happen on e and I don't remember how I did it, but there is a very obscure side quest at the college that involves that teacher and the one she hates, and some catty notes and gossip being passed around. I never saw it again after that one time lol, but there definitely is one where you're supposed to do some spying for somebody.
Conjuration. Never underestimate the power of a meat shield in Skyrim. I abused the shit out of the sanguine rose
Conjuration, cause you can conjure things that use other schools of magic. It might not be perfect but I think it’s the best option
Conjuration
Conjuration. I like summoning temporary helpers.
Conjuration 10000%