Did you take the Dual Casting, Animage and Hypnotic Gaze perks? Your Calm should have affected every thing that can be effected by Calm spells and Fury and Fear should have worked on most creatures.
I'm not sure what kind of point you're trying to make with this statement. It's no different than saying Destruction is a killing school of magic because that's the only thing you can do with it. It is what it is.
I said it's great if your goal is crowd control. That's objectively and analytically true no matter how you try to rephrase it. It's no more narrow than Destruction magic giving you killing as the only option to deal with enemies.
My main gripe with illusion magic is simply that it does not work half the time, i can't count how many times its gotten me killed all cuz i shot a bolt of frenzy at a group of high level bandits from a mile away and instead of attacking each other they all decided to hike up the mountain to where i was and slaughter me! Its just not reliable, i dunno if bethesda designed it this way on purpose or if its a bug but either way it sucks.
If you're going to use Frenzy effectively you have to use stealth, e.g. the Quiet Casting perk, and the Muffle and Invisibility spells. The reason why they're attacking you is because even though a Frenzy spell does no damage it's still flagged as an assault by the game and the NPC AI so it's like going up to a guy and causing him to be generally pissed off while punching him in the face. You have to be undetectable by your target to ensure that they won't aggro on you.
Then you don't know what to tell me because your the only one reaching here. Protection is damage resistance. A cloak does nothing to stop enemies from attacking you. It has zero influence on their combat AI.
I've never seen any enemy refuse to cross an elemental damage wall. I have seen them use ranged attacks instead of crossing the area but that's what they would do normally anyway. When an enemy doesn't have any ranged attacking options I've seen them walk through or attempt to walk through elemental damage walls to get to me. I've laid them down as thick as an entire hallway length and it doesn't deter them which is great for me when a group of them chases me down a narrow hallway as a I lay down the effect while retreating.
No. If you deem that protection then you're adopting a rather absurd position that anything that inflicts damage is protection. By that line of though my Archer's bow is protection because she can kill a group of enemies before they can lay a finger on her with it in open combat. When speaking in terms of game mechanics protection means damage resistance, i.e. physical damage resistance. magic resistance, elemental damage resistance, poison resistance, disease resistance, fall damage resistance and spell absorption. If you ascribe the infliction of damage as a form of protection because dead enemies can't inflict damage then the word doesn't convey anything meaningful and there's little point in even using the term.
Ascribing definiitions to words so they have meaning isn't splitting hairs. It's a cornerstone of logical discourse even if you lack the capacity to appreciate that fact and can only rely on enganging in logical fallacies that require adopting absurd and lolable positions but have fun with that.
Ascribing definiitions to words so they have meaning isn't splitting hairs. It's a cornerstone of logical discourse even if you lack the capacity to appreciate that fact and can only rely on enganging in logical fallacies that require adopting absurd and lolable positions but have fun with that.
