I just got my conjuration to 100, did my quest to get the thrall. And now I have to cast my summon spells sometimes 4-5 times to get ANY of my summons to appear. Not sure what is going on.

Anyone else getting this issue at all?

I have been

It wasn't always like this, it used to work fine. Then I start casting, getting this purple flash over the screen and nothing

I have noticed if I have the summon in both hands and cast it with my right hand it seems to work more often - Might just be random though

Same it worked fine up until I got past the Master quest for Conjuration. I just tried summoning the spectral assassin I got from the TDH, that too failed and is now on cooldown for a day. Very annoying bug.

need some help here..

Yes I know I'm reviving an old thread, but after doing a search, this is the most recent I've seen concerning this issue.

My summons were working fine until I got Conjuration to 70. Now, I can still summon my familiar and atronachs, but if I try to use a staff (, etc.) or my special Dark Brotherhood summons , even though it does the animation/makes the sound and resets my daily timer for my DB summons, nothing is actually summoned.

Please help.

This might not help you at all, but do you have the Atronach Stone activated? Or have some sort of high magic absorption skill?

The reason I ask is because I played a Breton Summoner with the Atronach Stone and my summons wouldn't work half the time either, which really made things dicey in battles. I read somewhere tho that since summoning was a spell that targeted yourself, it's possible that you might just be absorbing the spell when you cast it, recovering the Magicka.

Just check. If you summon and nothing comes out but you don't lose Magicka, and you have a high magic absorption skill on your armor or whatever, it's possible you're just eating your own summons.

also dont know if this helps..

i noticed theres a range on summoning,if the pointers red it wont work.

could be that thats going wrong

As for the DB summon. I noticed this accidently. I had thought that the summon didnt work a couple of times though it had reset the summon. However, i was in a big cave and was looking down below me to the ledge, it was a long way off (that big cave where the elder scroll is) and summoned the assisan, and wouldnt you know it, he turned up where the cursor was pointing. A hell of a long way off down the bottom of the cave thing.

So i think this can be the problem as well.

I have also noticed sometimes when sommoning with the rose that he runs off too quick and i havent realised he was there and later find him coming back.

Spell absorption absorbs summons. If you have the Alteration perk or the Atronach stone (or both), you will absorb some summons on casting them.

yes, i have the very same problem. conjuration at 100 and some spell absorption. i hope absorbing the summons is not intended.

To respond to some of the suggestions...

1. I made sure the pointer was not red each time I tested the summons.
2. I was on a flat 'land' surface - not in a cave or building with multiple levels where he could have been summoned to a different floor.
3. I do not have the atronoch stone activated. I have never had it activated.
4. I have no magic absorption skill on my armor.
5. I have the atronoch perk which is supposed to absorb 30% of any magic that hits me.

I don't see how #5 could be affecting me though, I've had it for a while and just started having the summoning issue recently. Like I said, I can summon my own spell atronochs fine, and summon my familiar fine. It's the DB summons and -anything- from -any- staff that I'm having issues with. I can hand the staves to one of my housecarls, go into battle, and they can use them just fine to summon dramora or atronochs.

I'm going to assume it was a programming oversight. None of the other on self spells get affected by Spell Absorption do they?

It has to be the 30% Atronach. Just try this mod here and report back:

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=3352

Yeah, I found this thread for an issue where I am having cast my Atronoch summons over and over. Sometimes they show up, sometimes they don't but I don't lose magic, and sometimes I lose magic but they still don't show up. At least some if the time, I do believe it's because if the Atronoch Stone that I have activated. I'm going to try the mod listed above, but wish they would fix this issue.

The mod worked wonderfully. Thank you for the suggestion!

I have noticed that sometimes when I cast a Atronach, they spawn somewhere else, especially if I try to cast of a non flat surface. For example, If I cast on the side of a mountain, it will spawn at the base of the mountain.

In Oblivion it was telekinesis that was self-absorbed. I would create all my spells with a telekinesis component that would automatically restore a portion of the mana used for casting the spell. It was one of those, um, how Bethesda calls them 'humorous' little bugs. Abosrbing summons, though...man, I feel for people who play Skyrim without mods.