enchantment

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If you have a high enchantment skill....how do you actually enchant
something.

 

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"The Artist" <the_artist@talisart.com> wrote:

>If you have a high enchantment skill....how do you actually enchant
>something.
>

Equip it. Grab a charged soul gem from the inventory, and
drop it on the little picture of yourself.

You'll be asked whether you want to recharge an already
existing enchanted item, or enchant a new one.

Success rate is incredibly low without a boat load
of fortify potions though.

 

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"The Artist" <the_artist@talisart.com> wrote in message news:<BVL_c.322250$J06.171805@pd7tw2no>...
> If you have a high enchantment skill....how do you actually enchant
> something.

Drop a soul gem on your character (paper doll) as if putting on an
item of clothing. This will activate the enchant window. Having a
very high intelligence helps with enchantment (boosters of some sort
work very well here) as it is quite difficult to enchant something.
Start with either small effects or really big boosters to be
successful.

By "boosters", I mean use something that temporarily fortifies your
intellect.

 

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"DeAnn" wrote:
> By "boosters", I mean use something that temporarily fortifies your
> intellect.

I had a Spellmaker create a spell that boosts my Intelligence and Luck by
100 points for 2 seconds. Then I would quick drop the soulgem on my
character and start enchanting. Unfortunately, that used a good bit of
magicka, and the spell failed sometimes. So I cast the spell successfully,
dropped a soulgem on myself, and created an amulet that ... increases my
Intelligence and Luck by 100 for 2 seconds! I called it "Amulet of the
Enchantress". Now I can save my magicka for more important things.

BTW, I have found that Intelligence of 175 and Luck of 150 is good enough
for enchanting most weapons and armors, plus medium quality clothing.
However, if you want to create constant effect items, or max out extravagent
and exquisite items, even Intelligence and Luck of 200 is usually not
enough. I don't mean you'll fail more often than you succeed, I mean you'll
fail every freakin' time. That is when you'll have to break out the potions
and start pushing your Intelligence up to 500+. I hate doing that, because
I consider the way potions accumulate to be something of a flaw in the game,
but it is simply impossible to create high quality enchantments without
abusing alchemy. This is especially silly when NPC enchanters like Galbedir
can enchant *anything* while having mediocre Enchant, Intelligence, and
Luck. This is probably the only situation in the game where I feel it is
justified to gulp down dozens of the same potion.

--
Rick Cavalla
rac22@NO.erols.SPAM.com
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"Beyond me, night is total / And through the colonnades I walk..."

 

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Rick Cavalla wrote:

> I hate doing that, because
> I consider the way potions accumulate to be something of a flaw in the game,
> but it is simply impossible to create high quality enchantments without
> abusing alchemy.

Well said, I completely agree. There is a nice solution, though: The
"Homoeopathic alchemy" mod removes fortify intelligence effect from the
game (for potions, not for spells/enchant) and adds a fortify enchant
potion. So instead doing the 500+ intelligence trip, *one* well mixed
fortify enchant potion plus *one* fortify intelligence spell works quite
well. You still need high enchant and alchemy skills for the real good
enchantments, but that's fine. That's how the original game should have
been, in my opinion.


Peter

 

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Rick Cavalla wrote:

> BTW, I have found that Intelligence of 175 and Luck of 150 is
> good enough for enchanting most weapons and armors, plus medium
> quality clothing. However, if you want to create constant effect
> items, or max out extravagent and exquisite items, even
> Intelligence and Luck of 200 is usually not enough. I don't mean
> you'll fail more often than you succeed, I mean you'll fail every
> freakin' time.

LOL, ROTFL, and thanks!
I'm still a lil' bug, on Morrowind...

Vilco