Hey folks!

So I am really trying to crank up my enchanted weapons and armour.
I hate having to wait what it seems weeks for the alchemists to sell an enchanter's elixir (the top version).
I've been focusing on alchemy a bit more and leveling that up.
I can't find info on making my own enchanting potions/elixirs.
I already found out that I can't find or create enchanted apparel to 'boost' enchanting.

Some one please give me some advice or even better what ingredients to use to make my own!

Thanks in advance!

You can find all sorts of guides on how to do this online. The short answer is yes. The long answer is very complicated and gets into laddering up your gear by making enchanting gear that fortifies alchemy AND alchemy potions that fortify enchanting, etc., then using each to get the other's numbers higher.

Link, please?

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1313851-complete-character-design-freedom-damage-resist-caps-and-ridiculous-damage-thread-7/

Note: If you fully synergize Smithing + Enchantment + Alchemy the game may become "too easy to enjoy". Everyone's different so this may be what you're looking for. I know that I successfully broke my first character a while back and didn't really enjoy the game much until I started a new character.

IIRC you don't even have to do the full loop of everything to break your character on most difficulty levels. With the best of the purchased +Enchanting potions you can generate some pretty darned good +Alchemy bonus armor / rings && +Smithing bonus armor / rings. Now put on your +Alchemy armor/rings and make a +Smithing potion. Now put on your +Smithing gear, drink your potion, then improve your equipment.

I agree. It gets you in a cycle of higher levels and enemies requiring even higher levels of crafting to compensate finally resulting in an overpowered character. I now find that limiting crafting skills to around 50 gives good benefits without overdoing it. Even better, it eliminates tedious grinding. Of course, just MHO.

The way I've played (I'm at L41 and I'm a battlemage who uses the warrior side more often), is that I always looked and mined for iron ore and bought a few iron ingots when I was back in Whiterun and made iron daggers (usually about 6-10 per session) which upped my smithing a little. Then I took those same daggers and enchanted them with absorb health and sold them. That upped my enchanting a little. And I'd do some potions and up my alchemy a little. My Smithing is 100, my Enchanting is 91 and my Alchemy is 69. I have the perks in the smithing tree along the heavy armor route and enchanting just short of extra effect.

My own enchanting potions are up to 9% (but I can *fairly* regularly get enchanting potions at the alchemy shop). My smithing potions are up to 29%. I have found 3 and enchanted one alchemy item (hat, necklace, ring, gloves) and I wear them when I make potions. I have a similar set of items for smithing and the notched pickaxe and I wear them when I smith.

I use the low end enchanting potions when I'm just leveling up and selling off my low end enchanted items. I save the good ones for when it matters.

It is worth it, but it's going to be a while before my alchemy is good enough to match the best store bought elixers. My smithing elixers are 29% vs. 40% for the best store bought so I'm doing better there. My little at a time approach has done pretty well for me, allowing me to have improved dragon armor (Lydia too) and decent swords (Daedric two-handed with 40 points of shock). I enchant frost and fire protection onto my armor to protect myself from Dragons (Lydia too) and I have a necklace of shock protection for mages. I'm an imperial so I need the frost protection.

I therefore think the answer to your question is yes it's worth keeping at it.