when you'll reach 60 and more, you'll have to face

Here it is... It's under "Enchanting"... It's a long one...

Optimizing

When getting into end-game situations, or simply wishing to maximize your damage outputs,one can use Enchanting, Alchemy, and Smithing to do incredible things for both melee and ranged users.

1. Get enchanting, alchemy, and smithing to 100. Smithing is the easiest to power-level, with enchanting close behind. Use your 5 training sessions on Alchemy, as it takes the longest. If you can, grab any necessary smithing perks for your armor/weapon choices. If you have the perks to spend, grab all levels of the pure power perks (the first one) for alchemy and enchanting, and the insightful enchanter perk. 2. Buy or make a bunch of cheap sets of clothes or armor of any kind for: Hands, Feet, Body, Necklace, Ring, and helm. 3. Stock up on grand soul gems and certain ingredients by any means necessary. 1. Ingredients for Fortify Enchanting (Choose any two of the four): Blue Butterfly Wing, Hagraven's Claw, Snowberries, and Spriggan Sap. 2. Ingredients for Fortify Smithing (Choose any two of the four): Blisterwort, Glowing Mushroom, Sabre Cat Tooth and Spriggan Sap. 3. Ingredients for Fortify Restoration (if you want to use the stackable Restoration 'glitch') (Choose any two of the five): Abecean Longfin, Cyrodilic Spadetail, SaltPile, Small Antlers and Small Pearl 4. Make sure you know the enchanting effects you want on your final armor,as well as Fortify Alchemy and Fortify Smithing 5. At the enchanter enchant one full set of Fortify Alchemy apparel. A set of alchemyapparel will have one item for head, neck, arm and hand. e.g. Circlet, necklace, bracers, and ring. (Alternatively, if you don't mind using the Falmer helmet glitch, you can wear one together with the mask Krosis or an alchemy enchanted circlet, giving you five alchemy buff slots instead of four.) 6. Then, wear the alchemy clothes, and verify using Active Effects that the enchanting effects are active. There seems to be a bug where sometimes enchanted items' effects are not active upon wearing. To correct just remove and then re-equip enchanted items. (At this point, you can also use the Fortify Restoration exploit, see notes below). 7. Now make some Fortify Enchanting potions using combinations of: Blue Butterfly Wings, Hagraven's Claws, Snowberries, and the Spriggan sap. Alternatively, there are two respawning Enchanter's Philters in the Archmage's Quarters at the College of Winterhold; these increase the strengthofenchantmentsby 20% for 60 seconds. 8. At the enchanter, drink the strongest enchanting potion you made orfound, and enchant a new set of items with Fortify Alchemy. 9. This works twice, but after two iterations the Fortify Enchanting potion will not increase the item's enchantment strength (xbox tested). You can also drink 'Fortify Restoration' potions and re-equip each set of Alchemy clothes before you make the next round of potions. 10. Make some final Fortify Enchanting potions, and some Fortify Smithing potions (using Blisterwort, Glowing Mushrooms, Sabre Cat Tooth, and Spriggan Sap) to get your enchanting back up to max, and enchant your used weapons and armor as you please. 11. Also, at the enchanter (and while your enchant potion is on) enchant a final set of cheap items with Fortify Smithing. Then, head to a smithy with a grindstone and workbench. 12. Finally, wear your smithing items and equip the Notched Pickaxe, drink your smithing potion, and improve any weapons and armor you have. You will, of course, need materials todoit,but most should be fairly easy to come by. You will probably reach the armor cap with any armor you're wearing, and increase your weapons to massive heights (more than 500), especially with any offensive skill enchants.

Notes on optimizing enchanting:

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 levels, and should focus on leveling it,andyour other skills up, before optimizing. Even more powerful enchantments can be achieved by using an exploit connected to Fortify Restoration potions. The potions will increase any Restoration effect on an item, including Fortify Skill enchantments. 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 strengthonitems. 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.

All straight off of uesp.

Not gonna happen for me any time soon, I'd guess. Level 48, finished the main, college, and companion quests, killed the DB, plus did a buttload of side quests. Not interested in the thieves guild, so I'm starting to run out of new things to do. Gonna hit level 50 for the badge, enchant up some double-effect gear, and retire that character.

Fortify restoration loop allows many things. . Craft a 334% fortify destruction potion and drink it before getting the atronach perk and your spell absorption will be become 100% permanently (which means complete immunity to magic/poisons and no need to bother about your resists anymore). Use a 500% restoration potion before equipping an amulet of Talos in order to get shouts with no cooldown. Enchant your equipment with 100% fortify destruction, alteration, etc. for free spells and infinite charges for your weapons. Instead of boosting your weapon damage use enchantments with something like 10000% fortify one handed, marksman, etc in order to be able to use whatever cool weapon you want.

Lol I love this glitch! I bought this game a few days ago for my PS3 and immediately started searching online for any tricks to make the grind go faster before I really began. I read about the dawnstar chest....cool, but nothing too great. Then I read the fortify restoration glitch and got into it....MAN I love this! Got out of helgen and went to dawnstar to camp the chests for enchanted weapons and potions. Then went and made a bunch of gear and soon I had full leather/hide gear with thousands of points of health and a steel sword with like 40k damage!! Spent the rest of the game time just getting insane leveling and one-hitting everything. Never ran out of stamina and never needed to heal.

I killed off most of the city populations which meant fewer quests but at the same time the game went by much faster. I couldn't imagine playing this game without cool mods and glitches like this. Anyone else tried it?

I used restoration to put more points in alchemy, enchantment and smithing. But not too high.

Remember Morrowind, you could wear a lot of enchanted items, even with invisibility and chameleon. Here you can only wear 4 gears, 1 ring and 1 necklace. So why not take benefit of the restoration "glitch". Are you sure it's a glitch??

I use a glitch with 2 trolls to increase my archery skill and I'm proud and happy to use it... Why? Because Beth gives master training in archery only to the thiefs. I don't want to become a thief so I'm soooooo happy to train with that glitch. And don't tell me it's normal... No it's not as archery is essential against dragon. If they put dragons they must allow full archery skill to all the players. For me it's a nonsense.

Anyway I was really strong already at the start as I worked hard on alchemy, smithing and enchanting (used restoration effect only at level 70). So if someone wants to start the game in a strong way. Gooood. It's like putting the difficulty level very low.

I like this post.

Does the shout/talos amulet thing last, or do you have to drink a potion every time you want to bypass the cool-down?

You should be proud if you took time off Skyrim to go and help someone in need, you should be proud if you did something to help others at your expense, you should be proud if you achieved a masters degree you'd been working towards for years, you should not be proud to use a glitch to level archery on a couple of trolls as that takes no effort on your part.

I'm another puzzled by this, I can understand people who try this with one of their characters but to only play this way is just baffling to me.

You say you play for fun so how it is fun just one shotting everything?, I've played with legendary fully enchanted weapons with a few of my characters, it gets boring as hell pretty damn fast. How can you find that fun?.

For me fun is surviving a battle by the skin of my teeth, altering my strategy on the fly and succeeding in a battle which I was looking like losing. What fun have you got in your game?, do you even look in chests?, me I get a little buzz when I find something in a chest thats better than what I'm using now, you go through the whole game with no rewards, every reward you gain is vastly inferior to what you currently have, again no fun at all.

You have a strange way if playing games, why don't you just turn the difficulty down to the lowest setting and you'll do the same thing anyway.

a massive ammount of fail has been detected

I'm sorry to hear that the way someone else plays Skyrim has negatively impacted your play experience.

I guess you kind of have a point there, but not really.

Should everyone agree with the OP who posts in here? Pretty much, otherwise you're a troll to some degree (oh noes!)
I'd ask what YOUR point is in saying you disapprove? Are you hoping to change the OP's play-style?
If not, then you seek to change the rest of the glitch lovers' play-style?

I'm not grasping the logic behind these disapprovals on something so harmless.

Oh, I see. My gosh I never realized how wrong we were. From this moment forward I shall never take advantage of a video game ever again.
My honor's at stake here.

I think you are totally missing the point, the standard way to level up those skills is by simply enjoying the game and the story, I play through the game having fun enjoying the missions, then in the middle of a battle I get a little sense of achievement and progression when I see my character has had an increase in skill and gained a nice new perk to play with.

I think you'll really struggle to do all the mission, find all the artifacts etc, because you'll be bored out of your skull long before you complete most of the quests.

You seem to think everyone grinds for hours when playing but tell me why would I grind any skills when my character gets more powerful than I like just by playing through the missions?, I don't get the same loot everytime, as I move up through the levels I can find better armour and weapons. For example my archer currently has an Eminent Ring of Archery but only Major Archery Helmet so I'm always on the lookout for some better gear, my Nord Warrior is always looking to upgrade his armour so I'm hoping to eventually find some Daedric armour. Sure I could smith it in five seconds but thats boring to me, I want to find it as a reward for battling through a particularly hard dungeon, then when I open a chest there's always a chance it will have something cool in it for me.

It's a video game. You're bragging about feeling pride in "playing the legit way", while simultaneously mocking that guy for feeling "pride" in playing in a less legitimate way, while marginalizing his "pride" to real world deeds. As if you playing Skyrim a different way also isn't any less trivial in the greater picture of life.

The rich, delicious irony....it's so sweet.

You're a fan of the carrot on the stick gameplay, I get that. Going from a 20% damage bonus to a 25% damage bonus just gives you the thrills, and getting a garnet and 30 gold is totally different from an amethyst and 10 gold, and thus is much more exciting!!!!!!!!!!!....I guess? The typical story (dozens and dozens of useless favor/side objective/side quests) and the bigger storylines (nothing very gripping or amusing, I can watch a movie if I want that). That's what there is. I get the same quest rewards as you do, the difference is I got them faster. I do enjoy the game, what makes you say I don't? I enjoy not working on a video game, it's a lovely experience.

I'm not bragging I wasn't aware I have anything to brag about, I've used the glitch before but I didn't enjoy it for long-term play (28 hours in that character).

I don't feel any pride whatsoever in playing the legitimate way (your term not mine), I feel a sense of achievement of clearing tough areas etc, helps to keep the game fun for me.

Semantics. Achievement, pride....point is your achievement isn't any greater then his is. So you bringing up master's degrees/helping less fortunate people is just a cop out.

Semantics. Achievement, pride....point is your achievement isn't any greater then his is. So you bringing up master's degrees/helping less fortunate people is just a cop out.

warned ya about the haters