Every school of magic has at least a small group of spells worth using in Oblivion Remastered, but certain spells warrant more frequent use. Whether it’s due to a spell’s effectiveness in battle, its quality-of-life improvement, or how it alters the world around you, there are plenty of valid reasons to use the plethora of available spells and charms.
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Mages have access to six schools of magic in which they can specialize: Alteration, Conjuration, Destruction, Illusion, Mysticism, and Restoration. Each school features distinct qualities that set it apart from its peers, with Destruction and Restoration providing especially self-explanatory examples. We weigh the most powerful, versatile, and fun schools of magic to use in Oblivion Remastered.
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Mysticism
The school of Mysticism offers a range of different applications, from trapping souls to detecting life around you; it’s a bit of a catch-all or miscellaneous category. Perhaps the best spell you can learn from this school of magic is the Soul Trap selection, which allows you to bind the souls of slain enemies into your empty soul gems.
Detect Life is very useful for keeping track of enemies if you’re concerned with sneaking and landing sneak attacks for extra damage, but it’s not strictly necessary. Dispel and spell absorptions are nice, but can be easily replaced by using a Breton, or by selecting the Atronach birth sign.
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Alteration
Alteration is similar to Mysticism in that they’re each most concerned with making your life easier with general quality-of-life improvements. Whether you want to carry more gear, breathe underwater, or automatically pick locks, Alteration offers a spell that can meet your needs.
We’ve all been stuck walking slowly back to a merchant when we have a pack full of valuable goods. Alteration can help with that.
While many Alteration spells, especially the lock-opening variants, are designed to help certain character builds, the school’s feather spells that lighten your encumbrance are universally helpful. If you need shields from certain types of damage, then Alteration can also offer help there.
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Restoration
Restoration is perhaps the most straightforward school of magic in Oblivion Remastered, as it handles one area very well: healing. Whether you’re low on HP or afflicted with a terrible affliction that’s draining your skills, Restoration can help patch you up.
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The three major things you can use Restoration to do are:
- Heal yourself and others
- Absorb skills or HP from others
- Fortify your skills or HP
While temporary fortification boons are best used for enchanting items, healing on demand is undoubtedly the best quality the Restoration school can offer. This cheap alternative to healing or curing potions is helpful for you and your allies, but the school’s situational nature holds it back.
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Conjuration
Conjuration is arguably the most versatile school of Magic in Oblivion Remastered, as it can alter your playstyle completely by summoning gear to use or creatures to command. While there’s no denying that it can be incredibly useful to instantly summon weapons and armor for yourself, they don’t last particularly long, so it’s more of a panic button for when your gear breaks.
However, Conjuration shines in its ability to summon a wide range of increasingly powerful creatures, the higher your expertise rises. By the time you reach Master rank, you’ll be able to summon a Dremora Lord, a Lich, or even an extremely powerful Xivali, which can use magic against your foes. Summoning your minions to assist in combat is a blast and can get you through almost any combat scenario.
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Destruction
Much like Restoration, Destruction magic offers you exactly what you’d suspect, but the effectiveness of this magic in combat makes it one of the best schools of magic in Oblivion Remastered. Destruction offers several sub-categories, including elemental (Frost, Shock, Flame) damage.
Destruction allows you to damage your enemies’ HP or weaken their attributes, skills, and armor. The plethora of synergizing combinations you can create within Destruction is staggering, especially if you combine weakness to elemental damage spells with the same element’s damaging options.
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Illusion
While the Destruction school of magic offers the most direct route to defeating enemies, Illusion provides the most diverse and effective tools for creatively weaving your ideal Oblivion Remastered experience. Illusion magic allows you to affect others and command them with just a touch, or deceive them by making them question their eyes.
Illusion spells provide excellent temporary effects on demand when cast, or offer partial, but permanent bonuses when enchanted on armor pieces.
The major highlight of Illusion is the Chameleon spell, which, when applied to multiple armor pieces to total 100 percent, provides permanent invisibility. Master-level Illusion can also grant you invisibility for two minutes via Spectral Form, enabling expert thievery or deadly sneak attacks.
