Soul Gems and Soul Trapping:
- Soul gems come in five standard sizes (here in ascending order): petty, lesser, common, greater, and grand. Each soul gem can capture the soul of any creature with a soul of it's size or smaller. For example, Skeevers have Petty souls and can be captured in any soul gem (except Black, see below). Creatures with Common souls can be captured in Common, Greater, and Grand gems, but not Petty or Lesser.
- Human (and elf and argonian and khajit) souls cannot be trapped save by the sixth type of soul gem, the Black Soul Gem. Black soul gems can capture NPC souls but cannot capture creature souls. NPC souls are always Grand sized.
- Souls display in your inventory with the size following the gem name. For example, a Grand gem containing a Greater soul shows up as "Grand Soul Gem (Greater)."
- There exist two reusable soul gems. They're granted to you by completing the Daedric Prince Azura's quest, and you can choose to either gain Azura's Star, a reusable Grand soul gem, or the Black Star, a reusable Black soul gem.
- Soul Trap is the spell that captures souls. You can get it three ways: first, an enchanted weapon with soul trap on it; second, the Soul Trap spell in the Conjuration school; third, the perk in Conjuration that makes Bound Weapons cast Soul Trap. If a creature dies while Soul Trap is affecting them, and you have a large enough gem, you will capture their soul. Beware: if you soul trap a Skeever and only have an empty Grand soul gem, you'll trap that petty soul in the valuable Grand soul gem!
Enchanting and Disenchanting:
- Enchantment effects are gained by disenchanting items at an Enchanting Altar. Non-unique magical items can be brought to the Enchanting Altar (found near mages, usually) and destroyed to add their enchantment effect to your library of enchantments.
- Enchantments can be added to blank (un-enchanted) apparel and weapons. Weapons are all enchanted with on-hit effects (like Fire Damage, for example). Apparel enchantments grant passive bonuses. Each piece of apparel has a different set of possible enchantments.
- Enchanting an item requires the item you want to enchant, a soul gem to power the enchantment, and an unlocked enchantment effect (from disenchanting) that goes on the item you want to enchant.
- When you enchant an item, you are given a one-time chance to change that item's name. The Smithing improvement level is appended to whatever you name it.
- Enchanting consumes the soul gem.
- The maximum magnitude and charges (for weapons) for the effect are determined by your enchanting skill and the size of the soul gem. Higher Enchanting and a bigger soul means a bigger effect and more charges.
- You can reduce the magnitude of the effect on a weapon to increase max charges.
Recharging Weapons:
- Enchanted weapons and staves are recharged by consuming soul gems. Select the weapon in your inventory and choose "recharge" to recharge an item. You can do this in combat and the item does not need to be completely drained to recharge it.
Unknowns and Oddness:
- There is a hidden soul value. Two petty gems with petty souls can have a different monetary value. I have not discovered if this has any effect on enchanting; it did in Morrowind but not Oblivion.
- The quality of the item being enchanted may have an effect on the max magnitude of the effect or the charges. Again; it did in Morrowind but not Oblivion.
Hints and Tips:
- Recharge weapons with the smallest soul you have available. Petty gems are pretty worthless for enchanting but great for recharging (better than in previous games).
- Don't sell blank rings or daggers. If you're like me you'll have a surplus of rings and daggers from leveling smithing (and just finding them). Enchanting them with a petty soul doubles the value of the rings and daggers AND increases enchanting quickly. (A word of caution: the game scales enemies based on your level, not your combat ability. If you gain a bunch of levels off enchanting and smithing you'll have a tough time with enemies because you haven't gained combat skills).
- Recharging items gives skill-ups. If you have an abundance of soul gems and you want to level enchanting, avoid the recharge perks on the right of the tree. Later, though, those perks are invaluable.
- Be careful trapping souls. Filling a Grand gem with a petty soul kind of sucks.
- There's a set of really useful enchantments in Labyrinthia, as part of the Winterhold College quest line. Deep in the dungeon you'll find disenchantable weapons with Absorb Health, Absorb Magicka, and Absorb Stamina enchantments.
- Dragons will not fill soul gems. You consume their soul for your shouts.
Updated info:
Whether you are a warrior, a blacksmith, a mage, or a thief, enchantments can give you the edge you need to out-do your opponents. Here are a few tricks I have learned over time.
Making money: Enchanting is a rather good way to mass funds. (This method can be used at a lower level to quickly train enchanting)
What you will need: Petty soul gems (Or higher)
A weapon (If you still have them stockpiled from 100 smiting, iron daggers work great)
A Banish Enchantment.
Enchanting any weapon, even an Iron Dagger, with Banish and a petty soul, will increase the value by 1000-2000 depending on your level, allowing you to increase your enchanting and gold quickly. (Note: If you cannot find a Banish enchantment, a Absorb Heath enchantment is quite valuable as well.
Anti-Dragon Shield: This is a fun little toy that can make dragons much less of a threat. Depending on perks, here is what you will need:
A Shield(One you like to use, preferably Dragonscale/Daedric)
A Grand Soul
100 Enchanting(And the Double Enchantment perk)
Resist Fire and Frost Enchantments
Optional Enchantment potions, depending on your perks.
With related perks, or potions, you can enchant a shield to have "50% Resist Fire", Using the double enchantment, you can have both frost and fire at 50%. This is quite useful when combined with gloved/boots with the same enchantments, allowing you to completely negate damage from dragonfire, along with most mages.
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Can you explain how the "charges" slider works when enchanting a weapon? Does more charges = less effect per charge? If not, than why would I ever choose to set the charges at a low number?
ReplyDeleteIf you are picking up a lot of Petty gems, better to go with low charges and a higher effect and use your stock of Pettys to recharge
DeleteIf I understand it correctly, it's the amount of times per day it can be used? Like 10 charges = 10 casts of said spell a day. I'm guessing lower charges are for lower level players. Since it would be cheaper then a lot of charges. Would love more info on the charge mechanic. I'll look into it and update the post accordingly. All feedback is welcomed:)
ReplyDeleteCharges are the total charges the enchanted weapon has. Each use of the weapon removes one charge. These only are recharged by using filled soul gems to recharge them. Basically with enchanting weapons you can reduce the effect of the enchant to get more charges or increase the effect but have less total charges.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the best creature or creatures to get a grand soul for my grand soul gem?
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing larger creatures like giants
ReplyDeleteNo, go do the Azura´s shrine quest to get the black star. Infinite uses and traps souls of all humanoids. Way easier to kill a bandit than a giant!
ReplyDeletedamn it, i gained lots of smithithing enchanting and alchemy and my combat skills are pretty low :/
ReplyDeletewhen i disenchanted my ironhand gauntlets the 15% bonus decreased to 13%, this would be just fine but if i use the enhantment on any other item after it is created the finished item only has a 1% increase? Theres no slider to increase damage and decrease charges like with weapons so i dont know how to get the enchantment to be worth the disenchantment of the original item, ive tried using better items as well as better soul gems but the outcome is always the same, before i confirm it says 13% after i enchant the item says 1% anyone know what im doing wrong.
ReplyDeleteIt's because your enchanting skill is low - you will get closer to that percentage over time
DeleteYou probably don't have a very high enchanting level and/or not a lot of perks to make your enchantments more powerful, so your new enchantments are weaker than what you would usually find in the world. Disenchanting the item once lets you use the enchantment forever in the future, though; If you go and level your enchantment skill a bunch, you can later come back and make 15% gloves, or better. It also helps to use enchantment-boosting potions.
ReplyDeleteHas anyone got any info on enchanting silver weapons? doesnt seem to show how much damage it does on the tooltip when i go to enchant it
ReplyDeleteFor those who don't have the black Star, and instead have Azura's Regular Star, the best Creature to kill for Grand Souls is Mammoths, Giants only give you a Greater Soul.
ReplyDeleteOf note, getting Azuras Star also gives you a follower, as compensation for the weaker star. If you want to level enchanting however, their are a lot of weak creatures. Enchant weapon that steals souls, then use the soul in the star to recharge it after each kill/soul steal.
ReplyDeleteWhich alchelmy perks do I need to get just to do this?
ReplyDeleteI disenchanted +10 unarmed gauntlets early in my skill, I can enchant item as a +1. Will it improve as my skill and gem increases? or did I flub by not waiting till I had a better skill before disenchanting?
ReplyDeleteThanks
Meh, The bar under the weapon = charges and enchantment is the amount of attacks with the enchantment you can use until teh enchantment expires, u need soul gems to fill the weapons charges so you can use the enchantment again, otherwise youl be stuck with a normal blade or w/e. i think thers a perk in the enchantment tree where when u kill something it refills ur enchantment charge which will allow it to never expire. when enchanting a weapon, the bar indicates how much charges it has from left(highest charges) to right(lowest charges), it should be something like this:
ReplyDeleteWeapon Weight Cost
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Its not exact but you should get the message. More charges = Less enchantment effects. Also if your stuck with money. enchanting is a easy way to make fast cash. all to do is steal or buy some soul gems, full them up, go to the smith, buy some iron ignot and maybe some leather strips(or leather), create iron daggers, enchant them and sell. they should range from 300-600 a piece, considering the enchantment you have used. Repeat and you will have 100 smithing and enchantments in no time! now thats a good alternative view of it.
my mistake it came out alot different than it looked when i was typing it up.
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faark took me like 10mimns to correct this.... here u go.. u better understand it
thx a lot bro!!!!
ReplyDeletecast literacy on racist hick....charges 50...duration 1min
ReplyDeleteLol, the wording does sound racist. I'm sure the above poster believes every mistake he makes in life is because of racists. Someone should explain it to ease his mind.
ReplyDeleteLove also how he uses hicks as a racial combat against a perceived racial comment. Oh the irony, not only situationally, but literally. Hicks and rednecks were slang for the white people who worked on the farms with the black people in the south after slaves were illegal.
I'm sure this was not intended by the poster, he gave a visual example of how the slider works, it may contain some words that are not needed. But please keep posts on topic with enchanting:) that's all I ask<3 you all
ReplyDeleteOk, so i dont care much about enchanting everything i can get my hands on. What I do want to do is level smithing and enchanting so I can create an awesome set of armor and two awesome swords for my char. I'm thinking of getting the perk that allows me to enchant an item with two affects and do one sword with absorb health and magicka, another with fire and ice damage, and armor with fortify health and magicka. I'd like to know the best items to sacrifice for these enchantments, and were you can find them. Also, would you recommend waiting until a higher level to level my smithing and enchanting, so that im not a novice at combat and dont get roasted by every dragon that thinks, "hm... num nums!"
ReplyDeleteIf you want to be decent at combat then power leveling your crafting skills isn't good.
ReplyDeleteI found that just playing normally then crafting what I needed, augmented by spamming a bunch of daggers every so often to catch my crafting up works best.
Good rule of thumb for first play through is always keep your main combat skills above your crafting, not precise but this should ensure your enemies don't scale beyond your capabilities.
Or in another way of doing it, try to make it so half to three quarters of your skill gains per level are combat based, that should make sure you are owning,
Also, there is no need to level smithing super high fast to have good equipment. I thin level 30 or 40 gives Elven armor, which is pretty great until you get to the end game.
I am level 20, with 60 one handed, roughly 50 in block and light armor, and 50 in smithing. I have a full set of gilded Elven armor (flawless) that for example, the chest piece alone gives 100 armor.
When u were saying normal gems cant trap NPC's you forgot to mention orcs ;)
ReplyDeleteWarrior char.100 in smith alchemy and enchanting.I have full set of daedra and a full set of dragon(level 45) at the moment.You wanna get the best blacksmith potion possible(100 alc).But before you make your potion you must also have epuipment that boosts your alchemy beyond 100(enchanting 100)plus enchanter potion for those.I have about 1000 in armor.not finished yet.Think it will be insane if its not a limit.my best blacksmithpotion so far is 101%.plus equipment for blacksmithboost too...he will be so dominant that its a bit stupid.
ReplyDeletedoes any know if its unique bosses in skyrim?
ReplyDeleteDarryl, Darryl, Darryl, are you really defending a person who dropped a N Bomb, and than whining that people are upset by it? Why yes you are. I need to correct a few things, as your entire post was not only idiotic, it was also wrong.
ReplyDelete"Hicks and rednecks were slang for the white people who worked on the farms with the black people in the south after slaves were illegal."
redneck came from farmers with sunburned necks. The term originated before slaves were free. "Redneck" could also mean "anger" which is inference to the whip "crackers" working for the plantation owner.
Hick is short for Richard. The term came from England around the 1500s. It is the same thing as a Englishman calling a Irishman a "Patty". Its basically just calling someone a "simplton" or a "bumpkin"
So your claim that the two terms were created post-slavery in an attempt to demean Caucasian farm hands is completely wrong. I have no idea if you pulled that out of your behind, but someone did. And you actually believed it.
"Lol, the wording does sound racist. I'm sure the above poster believes every mistake he makes in life is because of racists. Someone should explain it to ease his mind. "
The wording is racist. No doubt about it.
Of course you are totally wrong, but you are probably also a person who believes "reverse discrimination" exists. Quite possibly a neckbeard cyber libertarian. They are the only people that whine when people call out someone else for being racist. The same idiots who cannot different the difference between "being PC" aka being respectful of differences and people using racist slang.
The intent was totally obvious, but you are defending a person who used the N word. Not only that, you attack the people who are rightfully upset by what the hick posted.
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So you are wrong on every account. This is what happens when you read conservative blogs all day.
Anyways back to the topic,
Skyrim is awesome.
HOLY FUDGE!
ReplyDelete-when u say skyrim, i hear G.O.A.T=game of all time
can you buy a nigr in skyrim to craft for you?
ReplyDeletearen't the redguards niggers?
ReplyDelete"Hick" is not short for "Richard"... "Dick" is.
ReplyDeleteAnd one more thing, stop trying to sound smart when you so obviously aren't. I see so many mistakes in your grammar it isn't even funny. GG.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to me that when you Disenchant an item, you are given the Enchantment with a Base value. From what I have seen this is independent of your Enchanting skill.
ReplyDeleteSomeone here was saying how enchanting armour/clothes/jewellery was getting low values. Firstly, the Base value for the Enchantment is probably 13%. Next, when enchanting an item, the Quality of the Soul used is the main factor for the Actual value for the Enchantment. Note by Quality of Soul I do not mean Quality of Soul Gem since Petty Souls can be trapped in Grand Soul Gems. I'm not sure how much the Actual value is affected by your Enchanting skill level.
After some experimenting I came up with the following hypothesis. Without taking any Perks into consideration, the following are my Approximate Actual values for armour/jewellery Enchantments using different Soul Qualities (in descending order):
Grand/Black Soul = Base value of Enchantment
Greater Soul = 2/3 Base value
Common Soul = 1/3 Base value
Lesser Soul = 1/6 Base value
Petty Soul = 1/12 Base value*
*Not sure about my Actual value for Petty Souls, but if it follows the pattern of the Soul's values above it (Common is half the value of Greater and Lesser is half the value of Common) then it should be approximately 1/12 Base value.
Any Perks that improve the quality of the Enchantment is based off the values above.
Hope this helps some people. Also, if I made any mistakes (I'm not that far into the game yet, hence what I said above being a hypothesis) corrections are welcome.
The real problem is these lazy, good-for-nothin' Elves! Pointy-ear, magic-usin', "Oh, my armor is so light, yet strong!"...it makes me SICK! The whole of Skyrim just reeks of Elf-stink! AAArrrggggg!!!21!!!!!!!!111!
ReplyDeleteEnchanting is fun, it can make you a lot of gold if you do it correctly. I have a soul-trap enchanted bow, and it is so useful sometimes.
ReplyDeleteDarryl is dumb.
ReplyDeleteI was with you until you said " Of course you are totally wrong, but you are probably also a person who believes "reverse discrimination" exists"
The Nigr posting was racist and certainly would offend any black person who might be playing but your comments attacking those of us who believe that anyone can be racist is offensive too.
All racial prejudice is wrong inho and there is no excuse for Black racists either. And Black people can by and have been racist. Indeed in countries like Zimbabwe Black racism is endemic.
"charges" are the amount you can use that enchantment untill you need to fill the enchanted weapon up again,if you have 5shock damage with 150charges thats 5shockdamage and 2.5 magica damage for 150hits till you will need to recharge. higher the effect the less charges you will have the lower the effect the more charges you have.I like to go somewere inbetwine those to numbers
ReplyDeleteGuys I can put this in a few words.
ReplyDeleteA weapon with more charges has less effect than one with less.
Yep, 'bout sums half the comments up!
NIGGER Its a word DEAL WITH IT.
ReplyDeleteIf you are so offended by these vulgar and oh so hurtful WORDS get the FUCK off the internet.
I agree the word nigger is used between black People. And what's with black people making us say African American I'm sorry u want that then call white people cacausion. (that is definitely spelled wrong XD)
ReplyDeletethor halland and darrylisdumb are both fucking retarded nigger lovers
ReplyDeleteWhat's the talk about niggers I happen to be a nigger but the person I play as in the game is a breton. Who by the way is white. All I'm saying is u guys are ggoing baack and forth about rasicst comments when u could really shut up.
ReplyDeleteMy bigger dick is hard for Skyrim :|
ReplyDeletehow come i try 2 soul trap with my bow and it says i don't have large enough soul gem when i have multiple empty grand greater and common soul gems
ReplyDeleteThose won't trap people's souls
DeleteHey hey hey, guis, Soul gems don't discriminate , okay? Black soul Gems devour Blacks, Whites, and Cats, all the same, so why don't we embrace that fact and do the same. Everyone devour each equally while I sit over here and pretend to be a Cave Bear.
ReplyDeleterawr
Guys, Im having problems enchanting armors because i got the enchant " consume x% less destruction & x% magicka regen" but when i use it on apparel i can only get " consume x% less destruction & >>10%<< magicka regen" the regen never goes up. the consume i raised the value but the other doesnt matter if i use enchanting equips or potions.... its always the same... i got all perks on enchanting. SOMEONE HELPP MEE hehehe
ReplyDeleteIt is very simple :)
ReplyDelete1) In order to be able to enchant something, you must learn an enchantment. You learn it by disenchanting an already enchanted item (you find those either at merchants or as loot in chests/enemies)
2) When you have learned an enchantment, you need a filled soulgem to put your learned enchantment on a piece of equipment. You basically can enchant every piece of armor and every weapon you find. Except there is already an enchantment on said item, then it's impossible.
3) There are 5 different soulgems. Petty, Lesser, Common, Greater, Grand. You find empty gems as loot or at some merchants (in the MISC section). As there are 5 different gems, there are 5 different kinds of souls. Named exactly the same. Petty -> Grand.
4) Grand Souls you get either from humanoids or from mammoths. To harvest a humanoid soul, you need to have a black soulgem or the "Black Star", a re-usable black soulgem you get as a quest reward (ordinary black soulgems are destroyed upon use). The soul of a mammoth you can store in an ordinary grand soulgem (you find them as loot or at merchants) and I strongly advise that you keep your distance to mammoths until you have decent gear, since those beasts (and their masters, the giants) will smash you to pieces in one single hit. I strongly advise you to quicksave your game before engaging a mammoth or a giant.
Grand Souls can only be stored in Grand Soulgems, Black Soulgems or "The Black Star (of Azura)"
ReplyDeleteGreater Souls can only be stored in Greater Soulgems or Grand Soulgems.
Common Souls can only be stored in Common/Greater/Grand Soulgems.
Lesser Souls can only be stored in Lesser/Common/Greater/Grand Soulgems.
Petty Souls can be stored in all soulgems, but you will want to be careful. Having a petty soul stored in a grand soulgem is no fun, since not the quality of the gem will decide the quality of your enchantment, but the soul in the gem.
Souls will store themselves automatically in the right soulgem, given that you carry said gem. If you kill a deer, and you have a petty soulgem, the petty soul of the deer will store itself in the petty soulgem. If you kill a deer, but only carry, for example, a grand soulgem, the petty soul will store itself in the grand soulgem, making a valuable gem almost worthless. You dont want that, trust me.
For Example:
(Grand) in the description after "Grand Soulgem" in your inventory tells you, that you have stored a Grand Soul in your grand soulgem.
(Petty) in the description after "Grand Soulgem" tells you, that you have a petty soul in the gem. Since this is not achievable, you should always keep an eye on how many soulgems you have, and which category they are in. Also which soul-category your prey is in.
If you hunt for petty souls, you want to kill animals like: fox, wolf, deer, gout, horker (i think), and also the weaker undead (skeletons, draugr). Draugr deathlords will give you common souls. Giants will give you greater souls. Mammoths and Humanoids will give you grand souls. Bears and Yeti's, even if they are huge and deadly, only give Lesser/Common Souls.
5) How to capture a soul: You need the Spell "Soultrap". You can buy the spellbook from the courtwizard of a city (Whiterun for example). Learn the spell, equip it, charge it, point it at the prey, cast. When the enemie has a purple outlining, the spell is in effect. Now you need to kill the prey within 60 seconds. If you can manage that (and I am sure you can), the soul is yours *sinister laugh*
ReplyDeleteLater on in the game you can find weapons with an enchantment through which you can trap souls without the spell soultrap (much more convenient). As soon as you stumble upon said weapon (they have different names, and sometimes merchants sell them), you should take it and disenchant it. So you can put the enchantment on you favorite weapon. I play a hunter, and I have 2 bows and 2 swords in my bags. One of each enchanted with soultrap, and the other one with something making lots of ouch. So if I'm out for a soul, I take one bow, and if I'm out to simply kill, I take the other one.
6) As for enchantments: The strength of an enchantment is determined by your enchanting skill and the size of the soul in the soulgem. The higher your enchanting skill, the more powerfull the enchantments. The bigger the soul in the gem, the more powerful the enchantment. For example:
Petty Soul (no matter in which soulgem) : 1% more health (for example)
Lesser Soul : 2%
Common Soul: 5%
Greater Soul: 10%
Grand Soul: 13%
If you have disenchanted an item (say 15% alchemy), you only get an 13% enchantment on your chosen item, even if you use a Grand Soulgem with a Grand Soul in it. In order to get more powerfull enchantments, you have to skill enchanting and use perks in the enchanting tree. 5 Perks and your enchantments will be 100% more powerfull, giving you not only 13%, but 25% (for example). You can also invest perks to make fire/frost/spark enchantments more powerfull. Also, at a skill of 100, you can invest 1 perk in order to be able to put 2 enchantments on 1 item (if you are at 100 enchanting, be carefull the first time you enchant something. You have to choose 2 enchants BEFORE you enchant an item. Only if you choose 2 enchants simultaniously, you will get 2 enchants on your item. Enchanting, for example, a ring with +health, and then enchanting it again with +something/else will NOT work!)
And som useful knowledge for the end:
ReplyDeleteIf you are at 100% enchanting, look for an +smithing item. Disenchant it to get the enchantment, take some clothing (gloves, ring, necklace, diadem) and enchant it with +smithing and grand soulgems. Through that, you get +100% smithing overall, and when you improve your gear, you made by blacksmithing, you can improve it with +100%. You can also use "Elixir of the Blacksmith" to get an additional +40% smithing. A daedric bow will make then, if done correctly, not ~60 dmg, but ~110! If you enchant said item with 2 enchantments (for example fire and frost) you will have a weapon that does almost 200 dmg. You will go through the enemies like butter!
Same thing works with potions. Enchant some gear (nothing fancy) with +alchemy, and your potions will get a very nice boost.
Regarding the "charges" of an enchantet item. If you enchant your item to make huge firedamage (for example 38), the enchantment wears off fast. Its like drinking a glass of water. Small sips, and you can sip all day. If you gulp down, the glass will soon be empty. If you enchant for max. firedamage, you will have very little hits until the enchantment is "empty", but you will deal a lot of additional firedamage. If you enchant for min. Firedamage, you will have a lot of hits until the enchantment is "empty", but you will do very little additional firedamage to your normal damage. In order to RE-CHARGE an item, simply select it in your inventory, and you should have an "re-charge" option. Select it, then select one of your filled soulgems, and done.
The "charge" of a weapon does not affect its value. The value comes from the item itself and the enchantment its enchanted with, not the charges. An iron dagger, enchantet with fire damage, will never be as valuable as a daedric dagger, even if the daedric dagger only has one charge left, and the iron dagger 100 charges.
Be careful when pushing smithing/enchanting to 100 in one rush. You will level up VERY fast when improving a trade. First you may be happy, because with smithing you have jumped from, lets say, level 5 to level 12 in almost an instant, but beware! The enemies strength is determined by your LEVEL, not by your skill. You now are level 12, but you combat skill is still at level 5, meaning your enemies will rip you to pieces. Only way to negate this huge gap is to use your smithing and enchanting to equip yourself as best as you can, in order to make more damage and survive a little longer in combats.
Finish the "Mage's College" Questline. If you need empty (or filled) soulgems, for pushing enchanting to 100, you will need a lot of gems, and where better to get them if not straight from the source?
Hope that helped. Dont hate each other, hug each other. If everyone is hugging, no one can draw a weapon ;)
Btw, if you mistakenly store an inferior soul in a superior gem (such as a "petty" soul in a "grand" soul gem), you can just drop the gem in question and when you pick it back up it will be empty.
ReplyDeleteIt saddened me that I had to sift through the racism when I am just trying to sort out the enchantment thing. I am black and do grow tired of anonymity being license for racist behavior. It has so little to do with this thread that I assumed... wrongly at first that the letters stood for something else entirely. Oh well. I guess us black people should stick to Call of Duty and Madden
ReplyDeleteWhat a dumbass saying "black people force people to call them African American that's white people that push that most blacks would rather be called black"
ReplyDeleteSo aside from the racist ignorance here, there is some really useful info mixed in. Question: I just found an item which is enchanted with archery +30%. I understand from the discussion above that if I disenchant this item and try to enchant others then the enchantment will likely max a bit under 30% unless I buy enchantment perks.mmy real question is: are there multiple "Fortify Archery" enchantments? Am I better off disenchanting this item than some other item that raises archery 10% or are they the same underlying enchantment (in which case I'd just want to buy/disenchant the cheapest fortify archery item I can find)?
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from what i under stood is kill the tough bastards that roam with mammoths (giants) to fill a grand soul gem or was it common soul gem and enchant some cheap items or any item that's on someone ie dagger,sword,great sword,axes,battle axe's to level up my enchanting skill and perk's the higher the encantment will be so i gatherd that from hours and hours of trying increasing my skills. now the only infinantly charged wopon in this game is the EBONY BLADE wich absorbs health and the only way to charge it is to kill people you havent completed tasks for or told them you were going to complete them anyway i went on a rampage and managed to kill ten people that i decived wich is awsom fun yo get the ebony blade al u have to do is go to the bannerd mare at witerun ask the bartender about rumours and wait till he says somting about the jarls son acting wierd then go to the jarl and follow the quest from there then u will haveto unlock the basement door for the wispering lady but it's the blade thats doing all the talking behind the door when you have it it will tell you what to do ie killing spree beware the gards will try to arrest u wilst you charge the blade
ReplyDeletethere i hope that will help any body with finding the only wepon that dosent lose it charge oh and you cant disenchant this wepon .
i have loads of gems but i cant enchant my sword its says i run out when i have like 40. why is this?
ReplyDeleteAre they filled soul gems? You can only enchant if you gem says "[Size] Soul Gem ([Size or less]). You need to soul trap something. Either that or you've just found another annoying Skyrim bug.
ReplyDeleteAlso I find this thread's racism disturbing.
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