depending on what level it could be very nice. i keep it around on display since its one of very few truly unique amulets in the game.

Bethesda always does that. The lore is full of amazing stories that describe amazing things, but the actual locations, objects, etc.. are represented in-game as either completely lackluster or.. well, not at all. Just look at Aldiun. He's supposed to literally eat the world, like you or I would eat a sub, though his size in-game is probably due to engine limitations.

My guess is that the amulet isn't all that powerful because Bethesda likes their games to have a sense of balance, and if you were able to take down an army of imperial battlemages after equipping it, they assumed you wouldn't be able to actually enjoy Skyrim. Then again, the battlemages that are in-game aren't all that powerful (despite how they're talked about in-game, which is frustrating).

So true and I've also met people saying dealing 500+ damage dps is normal and they call destro underpowered.

i had a lot of fun getting my butt kicked all over skyrim on this 4 part quest.

i liked the amulet. it replaced at least 2 other items.

i also liked the weapons that i got from the bosses.

plus there was other loot.

good quest over all.


and yes beth is aware that so many people power level everything that the amulet was made too weak for their liking.

LOL - This reminds me of the Mehrunes' Razor plug-in for Oblivion. Especially at higher levels, the dungeon run is worth far more than the reward.

I was also disappointed with the finished amulet. Loved the story and the boss fights but not enough to want to do this quest again.

What other piece of equipment gives you bonus to all three in one piece? It's a good reward for a battle mage.

my reaction was the same...THIS is the amulet so many died for? loved the quest, the story and the boss battles, but the amulet made it all very comical. i was hoping when it was reforged it would double the boost. also, why does it boost stamina and health? it's a quest based around magic and you cannot complete it without joining the college, shouldn't it be purely magic boost?

even without enchanting, i haven't found a unique item or quest reward that was better than random items in stores or from fallen enemies. extremely disappointed with the unique items in skyrim. really, the only thing that makes them unique is a small variation of styling (if you're lucky).

this i find surprising since FO3 and (especially) FNV had unique items nailed.

I suppose with the CS one could make the amulet very powerful indeed. That's what I'm waiting for.

If you read the book, "Lost Legends", it will activate the quest to find the pieces, so you don't have to stumble upon the first piece as the original poster would suggest. There is a copy at the Blue Palace in Solitude so you can start the quest very early, especially if you take a carriage from Whiterun to Solitude.

The amulet is decent if it's rushed very early in the game. It's far from what I expected it to be, but that's understandable considering the amount of time the amulet has been hidden.

Based on the information in Lost Legends, the amulet was hidden sometime in early First Era; roughly 3700-4200 years before the opening events in Skyrim depending on the definition of early. In comparison, Keening, which also lost much of it's power between Morrowind and Skyrim, has only been missing for 774 years based on the end of the Morrowind timeline and beginning of Skyrim.

Assuming magic decomposes and a flat rate each year, I did some math to make an estimate on what the amulet's stats might have been by comparing bonuses. Keening went from 150 points of bonuses to 30 over a 774 year period; roughly a 0.155 loss per year. Using that number, the amulet provided anywhere between 221 to 247 health, mana, and stamina in it's original state.

Keening's mortal wound has also gone from instant death to a five health loss, so it's not a stretch that the amulet has lost additional abilities as well.

Wasn't aware there is another amulet that buffs all three stats. Please share.

This isn't the only artifact that's lackluster. The Necromancer's Amulet is less the mighty artifact it was in Oblivion and Morrowind and more vendor trash.

Well.... I believe most games of this nature are running up on the "overblown, overpowered, over-the-top" stuff.... Even WoW is scaling everything down in the next xpac. That's going to piss off a bunch of people, but ultimately it needs to be done. "Re-normalizing" is more common now - game series are lasting longer for one thing. And reasonable people see that in a game like this one (where all you need to do to be god is input tgm in the console.... on pc - which is the only platform in which I have any interest) scaling back magic items which have been "outside the world" over a couple hundred years or so makes sense.

If you're really upset about the "gimping" of those items.... on pc, likely the modders will fix you up eventually. Or you can just play god-mode.

I can get behind this. Or that Gauldar was having a bad day (or not having his enchanting potion, been dead and such) when he fixed the amulet for you.

Actually I would rather it has some special effects not normally obtainable, like amour bonus or magic absorption.

Nice quest but the reward is useless. It would have been better if it carried an enchantment to make magica, stamina and health regenerate faster all at the same time. As it is, it's just good for a display case (if they work, which isn't always the... case! )

I thought it was okay but I guess the fighting was a little bit too much.

I'm using a mod that ups it to 50/50/50 and even with that I'm reluctant to go through this questline a second time.

Yes I like you're idea. Giving it a unique enchantment would be much better.

This is just a typical, and expected symptom of adding in unchecked crafting. There needs to be a balance between crafted and found/quested equipment, or you run the risk of rendering one or more of them irrelevant.

After you get to level 35 or so all the rewards seem a bit underpowered, most of them are less powerful than the things I can make myself. Quite often when I get sent of to retrieve something or other and then forget to take it because it doesn't seem worth picking up.

I agree to some extent, but as others have pointed out, you can't really get an amulet from a quest that is too powerful. Maybe the end result should of had 100% chameleon

Gee do I miss that armour...

In a way it's good that you can craft armour better than what you can find. Levelled equiptment become useless as you level up, and if you put extreamly powerful items as quest rewards then you can just rush to that quest at the begining of the game and have it from the start. If you get you're crafting up enough to smith and then enchant a picece of armour better than what you could find, then you'd have to be atleast level 20 from all the crafting, and then of course add in all the levels you get inbetween while you get the gold or materials needed to get that skill high enough...

Both my charicters were above level 35 before they had these super items.

Anyone find the amulet of gauldur disapointing haven't find Necromancer's Amulet of "legend".

How about earrings and a nose ring too? Seriously though, at least one other ring.

Yeah, I got that item on a L46 character, and compared to the custom dual-enchanted pendant he was wearing it was an utter joke. That said, this item can be gotten at the lowest of levels, at which point it's pretty good.

The quality of self-made items does get at least a little out of control at high skills, but I honestly prefer that to the scenario where you spend all that time and all those resources leveling up your crafting skills, but your best goods are inferior to things found in stores and/or random loot. I'm not sure how to balance it, though, since if you dial the self-made stuff down or the preset stuff up too far you render crafting irrelevant...

You balance it by making crafting better then store bought and better then loot, then you add in a small amount of unique very powerful gear that can't be gotten until later in the game. Crafted stuff will still be useful, will retain the benefit if being customized for your character and powerful, yet you still have some unique items that are awesome and guarded by enemies that don't scale down so they can't be gotten really early on.

They did this already with dragon priest masks, those guys are level 50 no matter what you are so they can't be earned too early. They need to do this with a few more items.