Fortifying Magic Skills, What's the purpose? Options

[dogybab]

what is the purpose in fortifying your skills, especially magic skills? in my experience when magic skills are boosted by spells, enchantments, or even being a vampire, they don't seem to benefit you in any way other than being able to buy or create spells. Also you don't get any skill perks either in your other skills. what gives?

[Olav]

Does that mean that if you have a base skill of 100 in Conjuration and fortify it by 10 it still costs the same to summon something?

Btw I miss the Golden Saints. They were sexy!

[Joryn]

Does that mean that if you have a base skill of 100 in Conjuration and fortify it by 10 it still costs the same to summon something?

Btw I miss the Golden Saints. They were sexy!   

Thats what happened with my finger of the mountain spell at least. It costs 710 magicka to cast and does 200 damage to either 5 - 15 (I think its 5) radius. And when I fortified my lvl 100 destruction, it did nothing. Shame really. I miss the good old days of being a better than master acrobat, where you actually had to go out of your way to do a jump that would hurt you.