Magic Skills: The Path of Magic – Restoration

Restoration spells shape life energy, allowing you to heal yourself and your companions, drive back the undead, and create protective wards. Your Restoration skill increases when you use these spells effectively: to heal damage, turn undead, or shield yourself in combat. It does not increase if you heal someone who is already at full health or if you cast a Turn Undead spell when no undead are around.

• Constellation: Path of Magic
• Available Perks: 13

Available Restoration Perks

1. Novice Restoration ★

• Cast Novice-level Restoration spells for half Magicka.
• Requires: None

2. Regeneration ★

• Healing spells cure 50% more.
• Requires: Restoration 20, Novice Restoration

Regeneration makes all healing spells more effective. It has a low skill requirement and is definitely worth taking early, when the concentration spell Healing may be your only restorative spell. Those few extra points of health a second can make all the difference during a particularly dangerous battle.

3. Restoration Dual Casting

• Dual casting a Restoration spell overcharges the effects into an even more powerful version.
• Requires: Restoration 20, Novice Restoration

Dual Casting doubles the effectiveness of some Restoration spells (Healing, Wards) and the duration of others (Turn Undead). But except in the most dire of circumstances, you’re far more likely to want a weapon in your other hand than a second Restoration spell.

4. Apprentice Restoration ★

• Cast Apprentice-level Restoration spells for half Magicka.
• Requires: Restoration 25, Novice Restoration

5–6. Recovery (2 ranks) ★

• Rank 1: Magicka regenerates 25% faster.
• Requires: Restoration 30, Novice Restoration
• Rank 2: Magicka regenerates 50% faster.
• Requires: Restoration 60, Recovery 1

A fantastic perk for any mage—after all, who can resist having more Magicka? It’s also a fine choice for nonmages who still want to use magic occasionally, as it helps make up for the Magicka regeneration they miss out on by not wearing mage robes.

7. Respite ★

• Healing spells also restore Stamina.
• Requires: Restoration 40, Novice Restoration

Respite is ideal for warriors but is less effective for a pure mage, since you may not use Stamina except when sprinting away.

8. Adept Restoration ★

• Cast Adept-level Restoration spells for half Magicka.
• Requires: Restoration 50, Apprentice Restoration

9. Ward Absorb

• Wards recharge your Magicka when hit with spells.
• Requires: Restoration 60, Novice Restoration

This perk allows your Wards to absorb 25% of the Magicka from incoming spells. This is handy if you use Wards extensively, as the additional Magicka helps to offset their cost and allows you to maintain them for longer.

10. Necromage

• All spells are more effective against undead.
• Requires: Restoration 70, Regeneration

Necromage improves all of your spells, not just Turn Undead spells. Spells with a duration last 50% longer; spells with a magnitude are 25% stronger. So your Destruction spells now do 25% more damage to undead.

11. Expert Restoration ★

• Cast Expert-level Restoration spells for half Magicka.
• Requires: Restoration 75, Adept Restoration

12. Avoid Death

• Once a day, heals 250 points automatically if you fall below 10% health.
• Requires: Restoration 90

Effectively an “extra life,” Avoid Death is a free, passive power that automatically activates to restore your health when you need it most. The Restoration skill requirement is steep, but if you can meet it, it’s well worth your time.

13. Master Restoration ★

• Cast Master-level Restoration spells for half Magicka.
• Requires: Restoration 100, Expert Restoration

Racial Benefits

• +10 Restoration
• Imperial
• +5 Restoration
• Argonian
• Breton
• High Elf

Trainers

• Journeyman: Aphia Velothi, of Raven Rock, Solstheim.
• Expert: Colette Marence, instructor at The College of Winterhold.
• Expert: Keeper Carcette, Keeper of the Vigil, Hall of the Vigilant.
• Master: Danica Pure-Spring, priestess of Kynareth, in Whiterun.
• Master: Florentius Baenius, monk of Fort Dawnguard, The Rift.

Other Resources

• The following quests can also increase this skill:
• The College of Winterhold Quests: Radiant Quests: Shalidor’s Insights.
• Other Factions Quest: Pantea’s Flute.
• Daedric Quest: Discerning the Transmundane.