The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim It offers endless replayability thanks to flexible character customization and near-endless quests. Some of this customization comes from Skyrim’s crafting skills, which allow you to create, improve, and enchant your gear.
Unlike most games, Skyrim’s crafting items are absurdly powerful and are the path to getting the most powerful gear. Enchanting contributes greatly to this, giving equipment magical effects. As long as you have an Arcane Enchanter and a filled Soul Gem, you can turn an ordinary weapon into a fire-infused tool of death. Here’s a complete guide to Skyrim’s Enchanting skills, including leveling tips and unique enchantments to watch out for.
Updated by Charles Burgar on May 18, 2023: Skyrim’s enchanting system hasn’t changed, but crafting the ultimate weapon can be a tedious and somewhat confusing process. We’ve updated this guide with improved leveling and enchanting tips to help you craft the most powerful weapons and armor possible, and reorganized several sections to make them easier to follow.
Why Level Enchantment?
Enchanting is one of Skyrim’s crafting skills that allows you to imbue weapons, armor, and trinkets with magical properties, such as elemental damage or walking on water. For the purposes of the Guardian Standing Stone, Enchanting is part of the Mage skill archetype.
The gear crafted in Skyrim is far superior to the unique items you’ll find throughout your adventures, in part due to the powerful power of Enchanting. With Enchanting ranked 100 and all perks active You can create a weapon that deals an additional 100 points of elemental damage or is almost immune to elemental damage. Some magic resistance enchantments are applied to the equipment. All builds in Skyrim can benefit from enchanting gear, so many consider Enchanting to be one of Skyrim’s most powerful skills.
fascinating overview
There are four ways to level your Enchanting skill.
- Enchant non-magic equipment in the Arcane Enchanter.
- Extracts magic equipment from arcane enchanters, destroying items in the process.
- Buy levels from Enchanting trainers.
- Reading certain books will improve your Enchanting skill.
Enchanting and disenchanting items are the best source of enchanting XP. Leveling up this skill requires a lot of non-enchanted items, so it’s a good idea to level up smelting along with enchanting.
Use Arcane Enchanter
You need three things to enchant an item in Skyrim.
- Items without enchantments
- Filled Soul Gem
- Arcane Enchanter
You can enchant most equippable items in Skyrim, including weapons, armor, and trinkets. Items that already have enchantments cannot be enchanted, but these items can be disenchanted to unlock additional enchanted properties.
Arcane Enchanter—Skyrim’s name for an enchantment table. In the enchantment menu, you can select the item to enchant, the enchantment to apply, and the type of soul gem to use to enchant the item. Enchanting an item will cause you to lose the selected Soul Gem. These items cannot be re-enchanted, so think carefully about what you apply to them.
Disenchanting an item is a similar process. While using the Arcane Enchanter, go to the ‘Unenchant’ tab and select the item you wish to dismantle. Disenchanting an item permanently destroys it, disenchanting the item for future use. Once the recipe is unlocked, items with the same enchantment cannot be dismantled again. You cannot disenchant Daedric Artifacts or similar unique items.
Fascinating Skill Trees and Perks
Skyrim’s Enchanting tree consists of: 9 unique perks, most of which have multiple ranks. The table below shows what each perk does with each investment point.
Increases enchantment strength by 1% for every 10 levels in Enchanting.
perk name |
technical requirements |
explanation |
---|---|---|
Wizard |
doesn’t exist |
New enchantments are 20/40/60/80/100% more powerful. |
soul presser |
20 Enchanting, Enchanter |
Soul Gems provide additional Magicka to recharge. |
fire enchantment |
30 Enchanting, Enchanter |
Fire magic on weapons and armor is 25% stronger. |
Frost Enchanter |
40 Enchanting, Fire Enchanting |
Frost magic on weapons and armor is 25% stronger. |
soul siphon |
40 Enchantment, Soul Presser |
Critical strikes against non-human creatures trap 5% of the victim’s soul to recharge their weapons. |
Storm Enchanter |
50 Enchanting Frost Enchanter |
Storm enchantments on weapons and armor are 25% stronger. |
Insightful Enchanter |
50 Enchanting, Enchanter |
Armor skill enchantments are 25% stronger. |
Corpus Enchanter |
70 Enchanting and Insightful Enchanter |
Armor’s Health, Magicka and Stamina enchantments are 25% stronger. |
additional effect |
100 Enchanting, Storm Enchanter OR Corpus Enchanter |
Two enchantments can be applied to the same item. |
The fastest way to level up your enchanting
It’s a good idea to level up the Enchanting skill along with the Smithing skill, another crafting profession needed to craft the most powerful items in Skyrim. When crafting weapons and armor with the Smithing skill, take those items to the Arcane Enchanter to give them magical properties. Use the largest soul possible to maximize your experience gains.
The leveling process is as follows.
- Get as many of the increased XP effects as possible.
- Craft an iron dagger or dwarven bow at the smelter.
- Run to your arcane enchanter and enchant every item you just crafted or purchased.
- Sell ​​all enchanted equipment to the village merchant and bankrupt the village.
- Use your newfound wealth to buy more craft supplies.
- Repeat this process until the skill level reaches 100 or all nearby villages run out.
Before starting this process, Make sure you have plenty of charged soul gems ready.. Soul Gems can be found as loot in dungeons or purchased from the Court Wizard in each Hold Capital. Winterhold College also has an NPC that often sells Soul Gems. If you have a lot of soul gems, use weapons enchanted with soul traps to fill them. If you run out of weapons enchanted with this enchantment, you can easily get the Mace of Molagh Val and soul trap your enemies.
leveling tips
To speed up the leveling process, enchant items with as large a soul as possible. Grand Souls grant the most experience, while Minor Souls grant the least. Enchantments applied to equipment are irrelevant. Disenchanting equipment uses the same principle to grant additional experience based on the strength of the enchantment. The stronger the enchantment, the more experience you get when destroying an item.
If you need more XP, A Mage Standing Stone near Riverwood increases all Enchanting experience gained by 20%. Sleeping in your own bed also grants you the Well Rested buff, which grants you an additional 10% experience bonus for 8 in-game hours. If you are married and your spouse lives in the same house, you will receive the Lover’s Consolation buff instead. Increases experience by 15% for 8 in-game hours.
Those who own the Dawnguard DLC or the special/anniversary editions of Skyrim also Acquire the Aetherial Crown and attune the Lover and Mage Standing Stones at the same time., Enchanting skill EXP increases by 35% when Circlet is equipped. You can craft this item by completing the “Lost to the Ages” quest.
all fascinating books
Keep an eye out for books that increase your Enchanting level if you’re a bit short of level to reach Enchanting level 100. There are 6 in total Things to note:
book |
location |
note |
---|---|---|
black tragedy |
glenmoril rally |
Found atop the Arcane Enchanter |
Armor Enchantment Catalog |
Temple of Mehrunes Dagon |
Not applicable |
Weapon Enchantment Catalog |
Castle Dour, Solitude |
At a table in the Emperor’s Tower Wing |
Enchanter’s Primer |
House of Carlotta Valentia, Whiterun |
between the bed and the table |
twins secret |
Dwemer Museum in Markas |
Calcelmo’s Arcane Enchanter |
Ogma Infinium |
Outpost of the Seventh Sign |
Acquired by completing the “Discerning the Transmundane” quest. |
All Enchanting Trainers
3 NPCs can enhance enchanting skills for a moderate gold cost. You can only increase your Enchanting level 5 times per level this way. Trainers cannot level up Enchanting beyond their proficiency.
trainer |
skill level |
location |
note |
---|---|---|---|
Sergius Turianus |
75 |
College of Winterhold |
dwell in the halls of the elements |
gatekeeper |
90 |
Temple of Dibella, Markas |
Appears after completing “Heart of Dibella”. |
Nelot |
90 |
Telmitrin, Solstheim |
doesn’t exist |
How to maximize fascination
Aside from enchanting perks, the best way to enhance your enchanting effect is Drink a potion with the Fortify Enchanting effect. This potion can be crafted by combining the following ingredients:
- ancestral moth wings
- blue butterfly wings
- Chaurus Hunter Antennae
- Hagraven Claw
- snow berry
- spawn ash
- spriggan sap
Equip an armor piece with the Fortify Alchemy enchantment to make this potion even stronger.
There is also a buff named “.magic seeker” A buff that increases the enchantment effect by 10%. This buff can be obtained from the Sallow Regent Black Book obtained during Solstheim’s main quest.
Unique magic to watch out for
Some Skyrim Enchantments can only be obtained by disenchanting one-of-a-kind items. While far from the best, these magics offer advantages that are difficult to replicate. Here are a few of them.
Magic |
explanation |
Item/Location |
---|---|---|
Burning Soul Trap |
If the target dies within 5 seconds, fills the soul gem and burns the target for X points. Targets on fire take extra damage. |
Steel Battleaxe of the Burning Soul (Ironbound Graveyard) |
Huntsman’s Prowess |
X points of extra damage to animals. |
Poacher’s Ax (Stopped Stream Camp) |
notched pickaxe |
Increases user’s smelting ability by 5 and deals X impact damage to enemies. |
Notched Pickaxe (World’s Throat) |
Tranquil Moon Enchantment |
*Gain X points by burning targets while the moon is up. |
Lunar Weapon (Silent Moon Camp) |
*This spell is intercepted and does not normally deal extra damage. To fix this, install unofficial Skyrim patched mods.
For even more powerful enchantments, check out our best Skyrim Enchantments article.