Skyrim:Frenzy (spell)

	Frenzy
School	Illusion	Difficulty	Adept
Type	Offensive	Casting	Fire and Forget
Delivery	Aimed	Equip	Either Hand
Spell ID	0004deee	Editor ID	Frenzy
Base Cost	209	Charge Time	0.5
Duration	60 sec	Range	469 ft
Speed	94 ft/s	Max Life	~5 sec.
Magnitude	14	Area	15 ft
Tome ID	000a2714	Tome Value	330
Appears in random loot at level			23+
Purchase from (Illusion lvl 40+)
Drevis Neloren Sybille Stentor

Creatures and people up to level 14 will attack anyone nearby for 60 seconds.

Frenzy is an adept level Illusion spell that causes creatures and people up to level 14 within a 15 ft radius to attack anyone in sight for 60 seconds.

Effects

• Frenzy, 14 pts in 15 ft for 60 secs
• Rally Secondary, 14 pts in 15 ft for 60 secs

Perks

• Illusion Dual Casting, multiplies effective level by 2.2 (rounded down).
• Animage, animals 8 levels higher can be affected.
  • The highest level enemy animals in the game (not counting leveled companions) are the mammoth, which is level 38, and the betty netch^DB, which is level 40. You have to dual cast to frenzy them, and either animage or rage is both necessary and sufficient - you can't do it without one and having both will not help you. This means animage itself is generally a useless perk for Frenzy; against any animal target in the game, Rage will provide the same performance, and having both won't stack in a useful way. The exception is if you are a vampire, which will stack with both enough to let you Frenzy a mammoth without dual casting.
• Kindred Mage, people 10 levels higher can be affected.
• Rage, all targets 12 levels higher can be affected
• Master of the Mind, allows spell to work on undead, daedra, and automata.

Note that most of these perks will stack, so the overall effective values for the spell with perks are as follows:

	Max Lvl
	Single-cast	Dual-cast	Single-cast, Champion of the Night	Dual-cast, Champion of the Night
Default	14	30	17	38
Animage	22	48	27	60
Kindred Mage	24	52	30	66
Rage	26	57	32	71
Animage + Rage	34	74	42	93
Kindred Mage + Rage	36	79	45	99

Master of the Mind will not stack with Kindred Mage or Animage, which is primarily of interest when attempting to cast spells on vampires, when it will come up that Kindred Mage does not apply, even though vampires have black souls. Death Hounds are not affected by Animage, but they are not animals to begin with; more generally, the perks will not combine when fighting people or animals raised by necromancers.

Notes

• Unlike previous games, casting this spell on a non-hostile target in public is considered an assault, so you can't use it to easily murder someone in front of witnesses. However, if you are hidden when you cast the spell and nobody sees or hears you, you can still get away with it. Though if all of your witnesses are within the range of the spell, there may be nobody left to report it even if you are seen.
• A more common use for this is to cast it on a group of enemies, so they all fight each other instead of you. Odds are you'll be left with just one last severely weakened enemy standing, which you can then mop up on your own.