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Restoration

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This page details an overview of the Restoration skill in Skyrim, including recommended perks, leveling tips, and where to find Restoration trainers.

Restoration, Skyrim.

Restoration Overview

Your Restoration Skill Level determines the Magicka cost of your Restoration spells. Restoration spells consist of healing magic, ward spells, and spells designed to combat undead enemies. In the Restoration tree you’ll find perks to increase the amount of healing gained from Restoration spells, perks that increase Magicka regeneration rates, give you a once per day respite from near-death experiences and perks that cause healing spells to restore Stamina.

Restoration is the best way to heal your character in Skyrim. Potions have weight and require the tedious aspect of collecting resources and creating the potions. Why go through all that work when you can just expend Magicka to do the same thing? Especially when you can craft armor to make the entire process free. Free, unlimited healing is a good thing, and the crafting skills can give it to you.

The Restoration tree, then, despite having spells tied to it which are very good for pretty much every character, can safely be ignored once you acquire Magicka-reducing equipment. There are, however, a few good perks worth getting even if you go this route.

Recommended Perks

Suggested Perks Ranks
Novice Restoration 1
Regeneration 1

As usual, all the perks that reduce your Magicka cost can be ignored, save Novice Restoration, which is a mandatory perk expenditure to get at the better stuff. At the very least you’re going to want to get the Regeneration perk, which increases the amount of healing you get from your Restoration spells by 50%. A few other perks might interest you, like Respite, which allows your healing spells to also restore Stamina. Other than those two perks, you might also consider getting Recovery en route to Avoid Death, which will give you a free pass from death once per day. Not necessary, but nice.

Leveling Tips

Restoration levels slowly. It’s not as bad as it was in Oblivion, but there’s a good chance it’ll be one of the last skills you get to 100. The way to level? Heal. Which means you need to be hurt. The more you heal, the more powerful spell you cast, the faster you’ll level. Despite that, the most mindless way to level up is to simply strap on some armor improved by your crafting skill (the higher Armor Rating the better) which negates the Magicka cost of Restoration spells. Once done, find a helpful Mammoth, provoke it, and let it hit you. While it smacks you around, dual cast the basic healing spell: Healing. Weigh down your keys and let your Light Armor, Heavy Armor and Restoration skills level up. The armor skills level up faster than Restoration will, so be sure to turn those skills legendary when necessary. Considering how slowly Restoration itself levels up, it’s not a skill you should really use to grind, but the armor skills are one of the best ways to level, and Restoration is just along for the ride.

Restoration Trainer Locations

Trainer Skill Level Location
Keeper Carcette Adept (Lv. 15 - 50) Hall of the Vigilant (south-west of Dawnstar)
Colette Expert (Lv. 51 - 75) College of Winterhold
Danica Pure-Spring Master (Lv. 76 - 90) Whiterun, Temple of Kynareth
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Guide Information
  • Publisher
    Bethesda Softworks
  • Platforms,
    PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, XB 360, XB One
  • Genre
    Action RPG
  • Guide Release
    11 November 2021
  • Last Updated
    7 November 2021
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  • Guide Author
    Greg Wright

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Skyrim is the homeland of the Nords, a fierce and proud warrior people who are well suited for the bitter cold and mountainous terrain which defines the land. Now scarred by civil war, Skyrim faces its darkest days with the return of the legendary dragons and their leader, the World-Eater Alduin. The future of Skyrim and even the lands beyond hangs in the balance, as the people await the prophesized Dragonborn, a hero born with the power of The Voice and the only one who can contend with the dragons. You are that Dragonborn; your task is to investigate why the dragons are returning, and discover a way to defeat them. At the same time, you’re free to explore Skyrim at your own pace, uncovering its many wonders along the way.

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