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Restoration is one of the five schools of magic in Skyrim. Restoration magic focuses on spells that cure physical ailments. Restoration spells allow players to recover from damage during and out of combat using spells such as Healing or Close Wounds but also allow them to cast Steadfast Ward to reduce and mitigate incoming damage. Restoration also provides powerful anti-undead abilities like Vampire's Bane and Turn Undead for players to use. The Restoration skill tree has a total of 12 perks and it requires a total of 13 perk points to complete the tree. The School of Restoration involves control over life forces. This skill makes it easier to cast spells like Healing, Turn Undead, and Magical Wards.

School of Restoration in Skyrim

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Restoration Perks

Skyrim School of Restoration Spells

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Spell Name	Mastery (Level)	Base Magicka Cost	Description
Healing	Novice (0)	12 per second	Heals the caster 10 points per second.
Lesser Ward	Novice (0)	34 per second	Increases armor rating by 40 points and negates up to 40 points of spell damage or effects.
Fast Healing	Apprentice (25)	73	Heals the caster for 50 points
Healing Hands	Apprentice (25)	25 per second	Heals the target 10 points per second.
Necromantic Healing	Apprentice (25)	37 per second	Heals the undead target 10 points per second.
Steadfast Ward	Apprentice (25)	58 per second	Increases armor rating by 60 points and negates up to 60 points of spell damage or effects.
Sun Fire	Apprentice (25)	24	Ball of sunlight that does 25 points of damage to undead
Turn Lesser Undead	Apprentice (25)	84	Undead up to level 6 flee for 30 seconds
Close Wounds	Adept (50)	126	Heals the caster for 100 points
Greater Ward	Adept (50)	86 per second	Increases armor rating by 80 points and negates up to 80 points of spell damage or effects.
Heal Other	Adept (50)	80	Heals the target 75 points.
Heal Undead	Adept (50)	115	Heals the undead target 75 points
Poison Rune	Adept (50)	246	Targets that fail to resist take 3 points of poison damage per second for 30 seconds.
Repel Lesser Undead	Adept (50)	115	All affected undead up to level 8 flee for 30s.
Stendarr's Aura	Adept (50)	248	For 60 seconds, undead in melee range take 10 points sun damage per second
Turn Undead	Adept (50)	168	Undead up to level 13 flee for 30s.
Vampire's Bane	Adept (50)	72	Sunlight explosion that does 40 points of damage in a large radius to undead
Circle of Protection	Expert (75)	171	Undead up to level 20 entering the circle will flee for 30 seconds.
Grand Healing	Expert (75)	254	Heals everyone close to the caster 200 points.
Repel Undead	Expert (75)	353	All affected undead up to level 16 flee for 30s.
Turn Greater Undead	Expert (75)	267	Undead up to level 21 flee for 30s.
Bane of the Undead	Master (100)	988	Sets all undead up to level 30 on fire dealing fire damage over 4 seconds in a large radius around the caster. All affected undead around the player up to level 30 flee for 30s.
Guardian Circle	Master (100)	716	Undead up to level 35 entering the circle will flee for 30 seconds. Caster heals 20 Health per second inside the circle

Skyrim School of Restoration Perks

Perk Points in Skyrim

Players gain 1 perk point every time they level up their character. A player will need 251 perk points to get every perk to the maximum level which is achieved at level 252.

Before spending perk points to get the bonuses from the perk, the player must first unlock the perk. Perks can be unlocked on their respective skill trees by having enough levels in the skill as well as the prerequisite perks leading to the perk. All skills have their base perks unlocked with perks further into the tree being unlocked as points are invested and levels gained.

Perks can have multiple levels to them giving increasing bonuses with more perk points invested in them. Different skill trees will need different number of perk points to fully unlock all the perks in each tree. Players may want to check and consider the number of perk points they need for their builds and at what level they will need to be to unlock everything they want to have.

Reclaiming Perk Points in Skyrim

There are 2 ways that players can reclaim the spent perk points in Skyrim that are quite difficult to get to so players do still want to be careful with their perk points. At level 100 players can set the skill to be Legendary. This will refund all perks invested into that tree as well as set the skill back to level 15. This will also allows players to increase the skill experience once again and gain new levels and more perk points.

Alternatively players who have completed the Dragonborn main questline will be able to reclaim points repeatedly by using the Black Book: Waking Dreams. This will require them to have a dragon's soul from hunting a dragon.