I'm surprised at all the Conjuration hate, I didn't used to like it but then I started using Bound spells, and I loved it, Turn undead is also pretty sweet. I at least think it's useful if for nothing more than to have good weapons early on and get some easy souls in the mid to late game. Then again, the poll is fairly even, which is a good thing. I'm glad that there are such varrying opinions on this though.

As for me, I based my votes on which one I used the most as my favorite and cant make a character without having it as a major skill. And that would be Alteration, I dont know why but I like having a high Alteration and it always seems to come in handy for me. As for my least favorite, I went with conjuration. And thats mainly just based off of how much I use it, which is never. And it just seems kind of redundant to me once you reach a higher level

Alteration is nice for any character to have (I think... Been a while). The rest are all more for doing just one thing (IE: Alchemy makes potions, Destruction hurts people), but it's mainly Conjuration that I'll go so far as to leave out of my mage custom classes. Though, Enchant is my second favorite, still nice to have it as a major skill, since super enchantments aren't cheap, and I like super enchantments