Let me give you a brief overview of the spellcrafting system since it's pretty much unchanged from before. You'll need to progress through the mages guild stuff first or grab frostcrag spire to get access to the altars of spellmaking, but once you do the possibilities are really interesting. The basics work just like you'd expect where you can adjust the range of your spells between self touch or target, tweak how powerful they are and even set up area effects if you want to get fancy with explosions.

A thing worth knowing is that while the system works the same way, the interface looks a bit cleaner now and it's easier to see exactly what affects your magicka costs. You can still make some really potent combinations, like area healing mixed with damage spells, but just remember you'll need a decent magicka pool and some gold saved up since the better effects aren't cheap to craft. The whole system feels more accessible now, but all those classic spell combinations you might remember still work perfectly fine.

All the customization is there with magnitude affecting how strong your spells are, duration letting you set how long effects last, and you can even adjust the size of area effects which is great for crowd control. Just keep in mind that the more powerful you make something, the more expensive it gets to cast.