Some Illusion sells useless?

[Set-115689]

Are some of the spells just too low level to use like calm? Is the only way to make them usable is to craft them?

[The Flying Rodent]

Basically it depends when you learn them. Enemies in Oblivion mostly level with you, which means that for certain spells like Calm/Frenzy/Command, their usefulness will depend on ‘your’ total character level at the time.

Generally speaking though, I’d say the Illusion spells that are, say, Journeyman and under that have a ‘level’ magnitude (except for maybe the Frenzy spells), are only useful up until the early teens, if that. In fact, I don’t think a Calm spell exists above Journeyman, which means that, as you said, you’ll have to craft one to make it useful beyond a certain level.


However, the Journeyman level Invisibility and Paralysis spells can potentially be useful at any level.

The list can be found here:

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Illusion_Spells

[Bansheebutt]

More or less, yes.

To my knowledge, not even applying Weakness-to-Magic beforehand will enhance them, as it's not a Hostile spell type.