Spoiler Enchanting For Beginners (PC, XBOX, & PS3)

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Enchanting Guide
You Will Need

  • An enchanted item from which to learn a new enchantment or an already learned enchantment.
  • An item (weapon, armor, clothing, jewelry) that is not enchanted that you wish to enchant.
  • A soul gem with a soul trapped in it.
  • Access to an Arcane Enchanter.
To learn an enchantment
  • Disenchant an enchanted item with the Arcane Enchanter to learn its enchantment permanently.
  • The enchanted item is destroyed when you disenchant it.
  • You will only learn the effect, the magnitude is unimportant.
  • Not every enchanted item can be disenchanted. As a general rule, an item with a unique enchantment can't be disenchanted.
To Enchant an item
  1. Use an Arcane Enchanter.
  2. Select the item you wish to enchant.
  3. Select the enchantment you wish to apply.
  4. Select the soul gem you wish to use. The soul gem will be destroyed during the enchantment process. The level of the soul held in the gem, your skill, and whether a Fortify Enchanting potion has just been quaffed all affect the amount of charges on a weapon, or the magnitude of the enchantment on apparel.
  5. You may rename the item if you wish:
    • Press the Triangle to enter a name.
    • Type F if you wish to rename the item. Type the new name, then hit enter when finished.
    • Press the Y button to enter a name.
  6. Select the Enchant option from the menu.
Optimizing enchanting/skill exploit:
WARNING: Using this procedure, especially together with the "Fortify Restoration/Fortify Skill/equipping-unequiping" exploit described at the end of this topic, can be useful in giving you a boost. But it can also easily render the game so unbalanced that all challenge (and enjoyment) may be lost. If you wish to try it, save your game prior, and begin with modestly enhanced enchanting potions by performing the steps below once or twice, and avoid the "Fortify Restoration stacking exploit" described in the notes below the steps. Having enchantments that allow you to kill every enemy with one weapon strike, and making you virtually impervious to damage can become dull very quickly. For most players, lowering the difficulty level, temporarily or permanently, is a better way to increase your capabilities.
Note: This procedure works because the Fortify Restoration effect strengthens the Fortify Skill effect, and Restoration is itself a skill. Some of the following information is at least somewhat incoherent because it has evolved haphazardly over numerous editors and through many versions of the game. Some things referenced may have been removed from the section, or may no longer work due to exploit patches contained in recent updates. It remains, and in its present imperfect form for now, because it has been popularly requested information.

  • You can use these methods to increase your stats at any point, for any skill level, using this same method. However, you will benefit even more at higher alchemy, enchanting, and restoration skill levels, and should generally focus on increasing these before optimizing.
  • A procedure is:
  1. Wear four pieces of apparel enchanted with Fortify Alchemy (head, necklace, ring, arms).
  2. Craft a potion of fortify restoration at an alchemy table.
  3. Drink it.
  4. Steps 2-3 can be repeated multiple times.
  5. Craft a fortify enchanting potion.
  6. Use the enhanced fortify enchanting potion, along with powerful soul gems, to enchant one or more items.
  • If you wear four fortify alchemy 20% pieces of apparel, and have 100 alchemy skill, as well as the benefactor perk, after two iterations you can equip a 25% fortify destruction/restoration/etc. enchanted gear and you will have 108% magicka reduction for that magic school as long as you never take that item off again.
  • The earliest this is possible is level 7 with enchanting 20 and alchemy 30. You need to have the benefactor perk, physician perk (prerequisite for the benefactor), 2 levels in alchemist, and 2 levels in enchanter. You need four grand soul gems on four equipment with fortify alchemy.
  • This Fortify Restoration potion exploit works because fortifying restoration strengthens any Restoration effect on an item, including Fortify Skill enchantments, and this effect of Restoration Potions stacks. By taking a Fortify Restoration potion prior to equipping Fortify Alchemy and Fortify Smithing items (or by taking several Fortify Restoration potions, since this exploit works on potions as well) you can increase the Fortify Smithing and Fortify Alchemy enchantment strength on items. Because the effect stacks with each potion taken (by un-equipping and reequipping the apparel after each potion taken), you can increase these enchantments exponentially and make exponentially more powerful Fortify Enchant potions with the Fortify Alchemy apparel
    • Extremely high Fortify Enchantment effects may cause your game to crash when trying to enchant an item.
  • Beware of creating overly powerful weapons. Even without following the above adjuncts it is possible to create a one hit/shot kill weapon. The problem arises if you have followers or NPCs you want to keep alive. You can accidentally send them to Sovngarde on a regular basis in the thick of the battles causing a lot of exasperating game reloads.
 

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