Here's one thing i never got the hang of ....

[johnny]

Here's the deal.... i'm standing in front of an enchanter, with an exquisite shirt and a grand soulgem with a trapped soul of a Golden Saint in it. This should be the proper stuff for a shirt with constant effect, right ?

I wanna put a constant effect of fortify strength 0-20 points on the shirt, but how exactly does that work ?

[Oruboris]

When you open the enchant menu and select a grand soul gem [or Azura's star] containing a golden saint or ascended sleeper, the small box in the lower left corner of the menu will give you the option of choosing 'constant effect' when you click it. With lesser souls or lesser gems, that box only gives you access to the 'cast when used' and 'cast when strikes' effects.

Oru

[ 09-13-2003, 12:15 PM: Message edited by: Oruboris ]

[johnny]

Argh... i never noticed the little box in the window. Got it now, thanks. I got a trunk full of gems with Golden saints, and i also have a truckload of exquisite clothes, so i guess i'm gonna pump up my strength a little now.

[Oruboris]

just a quick note: an exqusite shirt has a total enchantment value of 60, not nearly enough to get a +40 constant effect for any attribute. You could leave the lower value VERY low, and run the max very high, then re-eqiup the item until you get a number you can live with, but that gets old fast. If the shirt were the only one you were going to enchant that would be fine: I stick as much stuff like recall, water walking and breathing, etc, all into belts, and leave the other items free for constant effect attribute boosts.

I *still* haven't got a daedric tower sheild, but I have several daedric round ones. They have a max enchant of 150, which will yeild a constant effect +30 strength [or other attribute] boost.

Oru

[johnny]

Get your luckskill up, and you'll find one soon enough. How high exactly is the enchantment rating for a Daedric towershield ?

[HammerHead]

I think it's around 215-220. You can actually boost your strength up 88 points with that alone, but it's a real pain reequipping it.

C

[johnny]

How come ?

[ 09-14-2003, 07:06 AM: Message edited by: johnny ]

[HammerHead]

Because to get 88 as CE you'll have to enchant the shield from 0 to 89 (where for some reason 88 is the highest possible). When you equip the shield, your strength will be fortifyed at a random number between 0 and 88.

If you WANT 88 it could take a lot of reequipping or you could get lucky and get it right the first time. I usually settle for something in the 80's.

Anyway, with that kind of strength, you'll be a virtual killingmachine. [img]smile.gif[/img]

C

[johnny]

I'm slowly becoming that anyway, my Daedric parrying katana also has an enchantment rating of 150, and i put a fortify strength 40 constant effect spell on it, which brings my strength to 193 overall.

Bring em on.

[Oruboris]

Not on topic--sorry-- but I put absorb health 10 point on my daedric claymore. Sucks the health out of the enemy, gives it to me: pretty sweet, but a little too good...

My daedric round sheild gives me +30, I could have set it up on a 0 to whatever, but I did that with my chameleon rings and amulet, and am just not patient enough to re-equip all that often.

But the cool gloves [Zenithar's?] you can get from the '6th house' cave give +20 str, +20 agl, and of course you can keep your 'corpus' disease for a while, just to get a little extra...

Oru