I'm sure many of you know what I mean- when using atronach stone the player's own conjuration spells will often be 'absorbed'. I tested this on 1.5 and it was still bugged. Has 1.6 fixed the problem?

The perk does it too... That's why I re rolled a new Mage. It's irritating, isn't it?

Fortunately, I discovered this idiocy right away with the stone, and didn't screw up my character with the harmful perk.

As a mage who does not use conjuration, atronach is amazing. It's my favorite thing.

Okay, what's the problem with that stone and what perk are you talking about, please? I have a conjurer build right now.

The short version is that Spell Absorption causes many Conjuration spells to fail when cast.

Atronach Stone - 50%
Atronach Perk - 30%
Breton racial power - 50%

The mechanics behind it are that a summoning spell is treated as a self buff. This buff can be absorbed by your own Spell Absorption which results in the spell failing and your Magicka being refunded.

It's sad because the Atronach Stone is by far the best stone for a Mage on the game and this Conjuration bug really ruins it.

An easy way to see this problem is to create a Breton, active their racial power and then start spamming a Conjuration summon. You will notice that half the time nothing is produced by it.

i have the stone active and haven't had any problem with conjuration in a long time now. but not sure if it's fixed or just dumb luck

Is THAT what it is?
I always thought my atronach was failing to summon because I didn't find -JUST- the right flat piece of land to summon it on.

I have the perk and stone and it seems to be fine... but then again, i dont remember having the problem before

Curious... And odd that Beth are unaware of this. Surely it's been posted in bug reports by now?

It's not an accurate description. And it seems to happen a lot more than just 30%

Really annoying in combat when you have to spam summon atronachs over and over.

EDIT: massive iPhone auto correct fails.

I honestly didn't see it as a bug, it absorbs magic cast on you, a summon is technically speaking, magic cast on you.
The first time I realized what was happening I went "Oh lol, seems fair." And just tried my summon again.

I read in UESP that when conjuration fails due to spell absorption, you get more magicka back than you put in. This may be a useful exploit for some mages.