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An enchanted item is one which has a secondary magical effect such as buffs or debuffs to the wearer or target, and can be obtained from defeating enemies, bought from vendors, or looted from chests and other containers in the game world.


To disenchant an item you own, you first need an item that's already enchanted with magical properties and use a crafting station unique to Enchanting called an Arcane Enchanter to disenchant it. This instantly gives you permanent knowledge of this recipe for future applications to other pieces equipment.

Enchanting Items

Once you've learned magical properties to transfer to a piece of armor, you can select from your list of learned enchantments and apply it. Magical properties are specific to certain equipment types. To be able to enchant another item in your inventory, you must also have at least one Soul Gem with a soul trapped inside it.

Choose the item you want to enchant, the enchantment you wish to imbue it with, and a filled Soul Gem to complete the enchantment. The level of your Enchanting skill along with any acquired Perks and the quality of the Soul Gem used in the process will affect the outcome. Ergo, the higher your skill and quality of the component parts, the better the quality of the enchantment.

This may result in higher buff or debuff percentages or allow an enchanted weapon to be used longer before its magical effect is depleted and needs to be recharged. Empty Soul Gems in your inventory can be filled through use of the Soul Trap spell; an enemy upon which this spell is successfully cast will automatically fill an appropriate Soul Gem if it is killed within the following 60 seconds.

Enchanted Weapons

The magical effects within enchanted weapons consume a certain number of charges before the effects wear off and revert it to a normal state. That's not to say the enchanted weapon can never return to its magically weaponized glory! Exhausted enchanted weapon simply need to be repleted with a filled Soul Gem to restore its magical juice.

To do that, go into your inventory and select the weapon. Pick Recharge and pair it with a Soul Gem.

Tips On Leveling Up Enchanting

  • Save up low weight enchantable items such as rings, amulets, iron daggers, etc. during your travels. If you want to level smithing as well, you can get that skill to 100 easily by making iron daggers and just use those.
  • Find, buy, or craft a weapon with soul trap as early as possible. If you craft, opt for a 1 second duration. (only use a 1 second duration on bows as the finishing moves done by every other weapon can use up that 1 second and cause you to lose the soul you were trying to get)
  • Visit the College of Winterhold and buy petty (or petty, lesser, and common if you can afford them) soul gems. If needed, wait two days for them to refresh their stock.
  • Do quests as normal, always using your soul trap weapon. Recharging it will increase your enchant skill but not as efficiently as enchanting items. Note that non-hostile wildlife will give petty souls.
  • Enchant your rings, daggers, etc and sell them to purchase more soul gems. Profit-wise by far the best enchantment is Banish Daedra on weapons followed by Fear. Rings should get the fortify sneak enchantment. Eventually you will become quite rich and may opt to buy filled soul gems to speed the process.
  • Try to get Azura's Star as early as possible and opt to turn it into the Black Star. Use it in conjunction with a soul trap weapon whenever facing bandits or other humanoid enemies. Ideally, you should recharge your weapon using the Black Star after each kill. Recharging your weapon enchantments will count towards your enchantment skill. Additionally, the Black Star will ensure you always have a grand soul on hand for big enchantments.
  • As with all skill grinding, be sure to use the standing stones near Riverwood (in this case, the Mage) and the Well Rested bonus from sleeping for maximum efficiency.
Tip: When building your Enchanting early on, simply use up those Petty Soul Gems to recharge an enchanted weapon and also level up your skill.

Maximize Enchantment

  • Drink an enchanter's potion to increase your enchantment's strength by 10 percent before doing an enchantment.
  • Could be possible to have a stronger version of the enchanter's potion (a home made potion is always stronger then one sold or looted).
  • To maximise your enchanting experience, you could also give your item a name. Before enchanting hit Y (Xbox default) or triangle on Playstation3.
  • If you're really dedicated to getting empowering your weapons and armor, getting 100 in the Alchemy skill and 5/5 in the Alchemist skill as well as enchanting armor that gives increased power to creating potions you can create Potion of Fortify Enchanting which can give over 30% increased power for your enchants. in addition to this you can create even more powerful alchemy enchants and then stronger enchanting potions.

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