If you are going with Light Armor you just need Elven, you lose 5% dps but have much lighter armor.

Thanks, 5% loss is worth the perks elsewhere to me, appreciate the help!

Am I doing something wrong?

I have enchanting and alchemy to 100 and all the correct perks.

I enchanted a helm, gloves, necklace and ring to 28% alchemy (and equipped them). I then produced a 29% enchanting potion using these. However, when I drink this and go to enchant a new set of alchemy equipment I still only get 28%...is this correct? I thought I was meant to be able to get greater than 28%, but it seems I am capped at 28%.

Your enchanting potion should be 32. Do you have 5/5 Alchemist, Physician and Benefactor?

I remember discussion of one of them being bugged somewhere in the previous thread, I'll see if I can find it.

Actually, I wonder if I have 4/5 alchemist...I will check.

So with 28% alchemy enchantments I should be getting a 32% potion?

Edit: This is exactly what was wrong. All sorted now, silly me

Someone made a topic yesterday about not getting any +smithing benefits from his enchanted gear, only from potions. Another 1.02 bug?

Correct

My smithing gear is working fine in 1.2

I don't understand the alchemy/enchanting loop. I'm getting close to 100 alchemy and am going to be doing this soon but don't understand how or what I need to do for the loop.

Make a 15% Fortify Enchantment potion.
Drink the Potion.
Make a set of gear with 26% alchemy enchantments.
Wear the Gear.
Make a 31% Fortify Enchantment potion.
Drink the potion.
Make a set of gear with 29% alchemy enchantments.
Make a set of gear with 29% Smithing enchantments.
Put on the new alchemy gear.
Make a 130% smithing potion.

Can you repeat the loop further to get even better percentages?

Nope, it doesn't count fractions in potions/enchants so unless you can go up a whole number it just rounds down.

Great!

Thank you.

Last question, Alchemy is starting to be a pain to level, do I jsut need the 7 perks and 80/100 skill? At 80/100 I can have all 7 perks. Or do I need 100/100?

It's not just the tooltip; there is a loading screen "hint" that mentions this too and it states that the resist is 50%.

You need 100/100

Use this to craft poison/potion of value over 400, should get your alchemy up pretty quick

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?pli=1&hl=en_US&hl=en_US&key=0Aj_bdEnICFt8dE4xLUtraTJfcUxoeHFDTXlUeGNxMHc&type=view&gid=1&f=true&sortcolid=-1&sortasc=true&rowsperpage=400

Those last points can be a royal pain.
Pick up any skill books you may have missed, and consider using the Oghma Infium on your thief skills if you haven't already.

Don't wait for 100 alchemy to start. Get a lower percentage fortify alchemy set now. ANY fortify alchemy equipment is always better than none, even if you have to use petty soul gems. That way you can make better potions which costs more and levels you faster.

If I remember correctly, my set (created at 100 enchant using grand soul gems and boosted by 80 alchemy potion) was strong enough to take me directly to the +29 alchemy cap after I reached 100 alchemy. So you are not "wasting" any grand soul gems.

Created a topic about Shadowstrike but I'm not getting a lot of replies there. Which set of gear can be used with this enchantment? The current fortify skills are powerful enough, but I'm wondering if we can't squeeze more damage and sneak points out of the system?

On a side note: 20% Fortify Enchanting Potions can be found on the vendor or in the Archmages quarters. MIght be a good idea to just get a couple of those, start with smithing and enchanting and pick up alchemy with an already decent set of gear.

Alchemy and smithing I'm fine levelling up. Both have been unbearably easy, even if alchemy takes a considerable amount more time.

But enchanting. Best I've been able to do so far is go out and kill a bandit, filling the Black Star, then enchanting one of my many daggers to get a skill up. There has to be a faster way though. This would take AGES to finish at this rate. Or I might run out of bandits.

Advice on Enchanting Power Levelling? I'm desperate.
I finally caved and made a Breton =p

Find the following enchants from blacksmiths: absorb health, paralyze or banish. Absorb health is rare, but nowhere as insane as paralyze or banish. I've noticed that Niranye (Thieves Guild fence in Windhelm, she has a small shop across the blacksmith) commonly has paralyze bows in her inventory.

I hope you still have your 300~500 iron daggers - if you don't just repeat the same process of buying iron ingots + leather to make your own iron daggers. Camp at College of Winterhold, there are 4 tutor mages that sell petty filled soul gems. Clear them out, enchant your iron daggers and sell them. If you have banish, then the process is much faster as you can buy petty and lesser filled soul gems and still make a profit. If money is not a concern and you're willing to make a loss, go ahead and buy greater filled soul gems as well. I do think that it works the same as alchemy, in the sense that the greater value the enchantment the faster it levels. Falion at Morthal and the mage at Dragonreach are also easily accessible mages, but you have to deal with loading screens and you only have access to one mage at a time. Still it beats staring at the screen while waiting for 48 hours to pass.

The same bonuses apply, so check that you have Mages Stone equipped, and Well Rested bonus to give +30% to leveling enchanting.

Unless this is wrong... It's off the Elder Scrolls Wiki page:

The following actions raise the Enchanting skill
Disenchanting items. Skill gain increases with the value of the item.
Enchanting items that do not currently possess an enchantment. Same skill gain regardless of item and size of soul.
Using a Soul Gem to recharge weapons (Soul Siphon does not count). Larger skill gains based on size of soul.

I'll look for the rare enchantments though. I just remade my character, so I'm grinding out weapon skills still, haha. Poor Hadvar. Surprised he has any blood left in him.
That's exactly what I was looking for. A place to buy soul gems, enchant, and sell for profit. Perfect. Thanks =)

Do you know which enchants are best of the 3? Or in which order they're most effective? I've been enchanting Stamina drain on the daggers. It was the best I'd found up to that point.

Edit: Has anyone experimented with rested bonuses? Given that I could increase the skills 5/10/15% faster with that, and another 20% with the class stone. That's a lot of time I'd be cutting down on.

Yes, item and soul size do not factor in. I could be wrong but I believe that the value of item chips in on skill gains. A simple test will be to enchant all iron daggers with low value enchantments like fire/frost/shock/soul trap and count how many iron daggers it needs to hit say 75~76. Then reload and do the same for banish/paralyze/absorb health. Looking forward to some feedback on this.

Banish provides the highest value for enchantment, while paralyze and absorb health are closely tied for silver and bronze. They are both a significant step below banish however.

Why you sould be buying petty and lesser gems is due to their cost. They aren't cheap, and if your absorb health daggers are selling for 250+ you can only make marginal returns with petty, and you will lose money if you buy lesser. The key point here is that you want the maximum amount of filled soul gems, indeed regardless of size per 48 hours cycle. Banish weapons sell for upwards of 500, and if your Speech is leveled and you took some perks to Investory (though that's not recommended), you can sell each banish weapon for 800 septims.

Be warned that banish weapons can be frustrating to locate. I've made 3 characters, and while 2 of them found a banish weapon within 15~30 minutes, another took 3 and a half hours of constant traveling to spawn one.

If you finish the WInterhold College Quest Line you can find a lot of free empty and filled Soul Gems there. They'll be restocked approx. once a week. Get Banish and only enchant weapons. It is by far the most profitable enchant. If you don't care about "RP" elements marry Ysolda in Whiterun and move her to Breezehome. She will set up a shop there. While crafting Potions go sell them to her and to the general Goods vendor. Buy all filled petty, lesser and common Gems off of them.

In addition you can buy all of the empty gems as well and hire a follower who will use melee weapons/bows. Give him a weapon with fiery soul tap and let him fill the empty gems for you (you'll have to put them into his inventory though).