Absorb Health Enchantment, sucking too much ?

[feliciano182]

So, I just enchanted one of my daedric daggers with 20 absorb health, it's sucking up a lot of charges, my Destruction "rating" is currently at 90.

 

[feliciano182]

Soooooooo, if I didn't make it clear, I'd like to know if that's normal and if something can be done about it.

In the same line of thought, would the Soul Siphon perk help ?

 

[Dagmar]

Define "sucking up a lot of charges".

The size of the soul used to enchant an item determines the base charge, the magnitude of the enchantment strength and your Destruction skill determines the charge drain. In addition each enchantment has a base cost that affects the charge drain and Absorb Health has one of the higher base costs (almost 3 times that of a Fire damage enchantment).

 

[Streets]

And just to add something else in here, if you wear Destruction cost reduction gear, it will make you use less charges on your weapon. If you are wearing 100% Destruction gear your weapon won't spend any charges, remaining "infinite" as long as your gear is on.

 

[feliciano182]

Why this is all very interesting ! Thank you guys.

Also, would any of you recommend the Soul Siphon perk as a way to spend less soul gems recharging the weapon ?

 

[Dagmar]

No. Collecting souls is easy enough to do by enchanting a melee weapon and bow with Soul Trap or Fiery Soul Trap, especially if you have The Black Star. You should also have plenty of coin to simply buy filled soul gems from court mages and general goods traders.