User blog comment:Paarthurnaux/Alteration?????/@comment-3492791-20120916182258/@comment-3492791-20120916183719

Umm, what? How are those two even related?

Despite what Collette will tell you, restoration has very little practical use. It has healing, which it's function is obvious. Ward spells, to block hostile spells and increase armor rating to a minor degree. And Turn undead spells, which make undead flee like pedophile near the police.

Ward spells are not horrible practical, as usually at the level it takes to obtain it, everyone can break it, and it cost all your magicka to keep it up. Turn undead spells are not at all practical, as it won't effect the enemies you actually want to leave, because they are too high level, and using it on anyone else just makes it a pain to chase them around trying to kill them.