So with one of the new Black Books, enchanting and alchemy abilities can be raised. Has anyone found any other ways to boost enchanting/alchemy that would help with the creation of max level crafting gear?

Best bet is to get the highest (25% I believe) level % potion and using that. Fortify Restoration MIGHT help, but I don't know.

There is also the idea to get your Alchemy to 100 and then start making fortify enchantment potions until you get one at the highest % possible.

Alchemy 100: craft fortify alchemy potions, drink, then uberalchemize fortify enchanting/smithing potions
Enchanting 100: drink aforementioned potion and enchant a full set of gear for fortify enchanting, then uberenchant another set for smithing
Smithing 100: drink aforementioned potion while wearing aforementioned gear and then ubersmith some truly game-breaking gear...don't forget to enchant it afterwards using the aforementioned method for uberenchanting.

Honestly how do you not know this? Also, ubercrafting sickens me.

I've logged over 1000 hours on 3 seperate toons, and not once, ever, on any of them, have I been able to enchant gear, to raise my enchanting even further. As a matter of fact, looking at it right now, I see absolutely no way to place a fortify enchanting enchant on my gear. How pray tell, are you doing that?


You cannot put fortify enchanting onto your armor in Skyrim. This is intentional as it prevents a direct feedback loop. You cannot make a fortify alchemy potion for the same reason.

Just make fortify enchanting potions and enchant fortify alchemy clothing and put it on/drink, then make new potions and enchant new gear, and then put it on and repeat the cycle until your enchanting effects are appropriately ridiculous.

Create gear giving bonuses to fortify alchemy, make potions fortifying enchanting. repeat.

It's not new.

Lol, read it fully before you quote and post. He said FORTIFY ENCHANTING ON ARMOR.

Regaurdless of his typo I'd expect a 1000+ hours member to know what I'd call the most famous Skyrim exploit.

Are you being serious? I know plenty well about some exploit plebs use. My entire point, and calling him out was the Fortify Enchantment to armor. Please quit being dull.

Ok, wow, I was definitely unclear given how confusing this thread got. I just meant new ones in Dragonborn; I'm no stranger to mixing alchemy/smithing/enchanting to get really high bonuses (haha, but not fortify restoration, that's just cheap.) Sorry for any confusion, especially related to "fortify enchanting armor," which, yeah, isn't a thing.

He wrote "enchanting" instead of "Alchemy" this clearly calls for about a paragraph of condescending idiocy.

You clearly don't understand.

There is an armor set. Ahzidal's Armor, from Kolbjorn Barrow.

Oh, yeah, the boots. Forgot about those. Do they actually boost past 100, or do they stop like the Notched Pickaxe?

I clearly do understand. Quit being a pleb and go bother somebody else. You are not being cute/funny. Nobody cares.

I haven't tested it out yet, so I cannot verify that.

Yes you can make potions who boost your enchanting skill, who again let you make stronger enchanting potions.
An master enchanter can make items with +25% fortify alchemy. This let you make an potion with fortify enchanting 34% from only 15% without enchants.
With this you can make +28% alchemy gear, +36% potion who gives you +29% alchemy gear. No more is posible without vampire necromage, the fortify restoration exploit or moded gear like ear and nose rings who uses other equipment slots.

Note that the fortify enchant +37% potion only give an 20% boost to enchant strength, making it an minor bonus rather than an exploit.
The real strong skill is enchanting who let you make +145% potions and do 196% more damage, however +100% potions and 160% more damage is possible with items you find or buy.

I tried, equipping several different variants of the relics (to make sure it wasn't just one specific set) and got no results. From what I can tell, either the enchantment only raises your physical skill level by 10 and still caps a 100, or it literally does not work.

As for the Notched Pick-Axe, mine works just fine to help me improve my smithing, even at 100, so idk what's going on there.

What are you talking about? Okay maybe I misspoke and there really is no fortify enchant enchantment but still it's not like a "direct feedback loop" would be any worse than what we have already. Besides you can make fortify enchant potions. How is that any different?

EDIT: please quit being anol.

I'd say the OI exploit is much more famous.

I honestly don't know why people bother doing that enchanting exploit. Just drop the difficulty down a notch or two and save yourself some time.

I play on the lowest difficulty because I like reality and if you take an arrow to the head you should drop. I also don't enchant or smith any gear. I'm currently wearing a mourners robe with the hat, no enchants and have decent fights which seem more realistic then shooting 50 arrows into a bandit before he drops. Usually it only takes 3 or 4 and I die in a couple of hits, perfect balance. I rarely ever lose but fighting the ebony knight was a task. I still haven't beaten him.

Not sure why you would want to break the game with enchants.

Haha, if your going to cheat, do it right, your wasting so much time making enchant gear then alchemy potions, you're supposed to drink a fortify restoration potion, make alchemy potion, keep doing this until desired alchemy potion is reached, then make fortify enchanting potions that you will then use to make fortify alchemy gear so you don't have to use fortify restoration potions anymore. But I don't make god equipment anymore, I put limits on it so that I can create gear with stats that match those of gear that are used by people who invested in stat increasing perks. For example, giving yourself four times the magic, is the same as investing perks in all the apprentice, adept, expert, and master perks for all magic trees. I use techniques like this to save perks so I can make the perfect build. God enchantment are no fun anyway, I've been there, done that, mastered the scary concept of negative stats ( I now know how to make enchantments stay without having to wear the gear, as well as remove the god enchantment(having unlimited magicka in vampire lord form is fun, but too overpowered))