Okay,

I've never really used magic other than to fool around with it and a bit of restoration.

I was having a look at the different spells out of curiosity and something struck me as odd, although it's probably because I don't understand it well.

Let's take the Master Illusion spell Mayhem for example. The description says: Creatures and people up to Lv25 will attack anyone nearby for 60 seconds.

Now, I see there's a Rage perk that says: Frenzy spells work on higher level opponents (+12 levels). I assume that would apply since Mayhem is in the Frenzy-style category of spells. So 25 + 12 = 37.

Does that mean that after your character reaches level 38, since creatures and ennemies level up with you, the spell becomes useless? Seems too early for a master spell.

Thanks for the feedback.

The perks Animage (+8 levels on animals), Kindred mage (+10levels on people) and Dual casting (+120% levels) also increase the level of illusion spells. See http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Illusion for info.

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Ah, I see they are cumulative. Makes more sense. So even if you don't dual cast it can still go pretty high. Thanks. Should have been straight to UESP. Lesson learned.

NP. UESP is da sh*t for info.

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