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[shodanjr_gr]

I got a full set of glass armor plus a few soul gems with Grand Level souls in them (Flame / Storm Atronarchs).

What i wana do, is enchant my glass armor with a Shield Enchantment to reduce the amount of damage i recieve.

Is that even possible?

When i go to the Arcane Univercity and try to enchant something, my enchantment options are very very limited (for instance, the only Fortify Skill enchantment that i can put on my items is fortify Armorer....).

Am i missing something?

[Carlo210]

Listen.
I have a shield 20% enchantment on my glass cuirass that I got from a sigil stone.
Don't enchant your armor with anything other than weapon-stat buffs, stat buffs (even though I disagree with their usefulness), and health/magicka buffs. Magic school buffs are useless in most cases (destruction spells don't cost any less beyond level 100 destr.).

Your max armor rating is 85. Don't put more than one 20% enchantment on your armor because, at level 100 light armor, you get a 50% bonus anyways (making a 50 AR a 75 AR).

For me, the best enchantment is the sigil stone +50 magicka. Four of my pieces of Glass armor (boots, greaves, gauntlets, shield) are enchanted with this, giving me 200+ magicka points. Also, magicka regenerates faster depending on your amount of magicka. Willpower doesn't determine how fast your magic regenerates by value. No, it determines how fast it regenerates by how long it takes for your blue bar to fill up from empty to full.

[Greenpants200]

To answer you question.  You usually need the corresponding spell.  In this case, a shield spell.

[shodanjr_gr]

Hm... so if armor rating tops at 85, im not gona bother with a shield enchantment (im already at 65).

So Ill prolly go for extra magika cause im quite shoddy at it...

[Strangelove1]

Can you give me a step by step on how you enchanted your armor with +50 magicka?  That would be AMAZING.  I have a bunch of those gems but I don't even know how to enchant anything.  I'm level 23 right now.

[Hyper_Eye]

Enchanting is quite simple. You need access to the arcane university, a weapon or worn item to enchant, and a full soul gem. Go to an enchanting podium thing and activate it. Select the item you want to enchant. Select the soul gem you want to enchant with (the bigger the soul the better the enchantment.) Select the effect you want. Create the enchantment. You will see the cost of the enchantment at the top. Weapon enchantments require recharges. Worn item enchantments are constant.

[krims0n]

QUOTE(Strangelove1 @ Apr 9 2006, 10:00 PM)

Can you give me a step by step on how you enchanted your armor with +50 magicka?  That would be AMAZING.  I have a bunch of those gems but I don't even know how to enchant anything.  I'm level 23 right now.

The +50 magicka is via a Sigil Stone. I think you can only get +20 from a grand soul gem. What sigil stone you get is randomly decided when you pick it up, so you can save your game before hand and keep trying to make sure you get the stone you want.

The magicka sigil stone can also do absorb magicka 50pts. This is pretty wicked too, throw it on a daedric dagger, and you can recharge your magicka in a few slashes.

[davinator456]

i think u get + 24 to magicka with grand soul gem.

[boxrocker]

^^^^

That's right.  +24 Magicka with a grand soul gem or a grand black soul gem.  To bad you can't use varla stones.

[Strangelove1]

This game just blows my mind.  My game is at 40+ hours and I'm only about halfway through the main quest, maybe 1/4th way through the mages guild.

[boxrocker]

No kidding.  The wife got upset with me for playing so long.  I now have to "pace myself" but she just doesn't understand how big this game is.  It's sooooo easy to play for hours and hours (especially with all the loading screens...).

It has now been three days since I've played.  I may have to start up OA.

[THDVL]

Any idea where I might find some sigil stones? I finally got all the glass armor and I'd really like all that extra magicka Carlo210 is talking about.

[boxrocker]

Go into any of the main oblivion gates.  Try the one by Kvatch.  Each of the main gates are controlled by a Sigil stone.  Here are some pointers.

There are only 13 Sigil stones in the game.
The effect of the Sigil stone is random so save right before you pick it up.  If you don't like what it gives you, reload.
They can be applied to weapons and armor anytime.
Your current level in the game has direct impact on what kind of effects the stone will give you.

[THDVL]

Awesome! thx for the reply.. I think I'm at level 24 right now, Hopefully I'll be able to get some cool effects. I decided to go through all the mages guild quests first and then eventually make my way to the other guilds and the main quest.  Looks like I'll be playing this game for a looong time  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy.gif)

[Carlo210]

QUOTE(Strangelove1 @ Apr 10 2006, 04:00 AM)

Can you give me a step by step on how you enchanted your armor with +50 magicka?  That would be AMAZING.  I have a bunch of those gems but I don't even know how to enchant anything.  I'm level 23 right now.

sigil stones


Save before you pick one up in Oblivion. Reload until you get desired stone (+50 magicka ones are the best hands down).

QUOTE(boxrocker @ Apr 13 2006, 12:54 PM)

Go into any of the main oblivion gates.  Try the one by Kvatch.  Each of the main gates are controlled by a Sigil stone.  Here are some pointers.

There are only 13 Sigil stones in the game.
The effect of the Sigil stone is random so save right before you pick it up.  If you don't like what it gives you, reload.
They can be applied to weapons and armor anytime.
Your current level in the game has direct impact on what kind of effects the stone will give you.

There are much more than 30. For example, I have two +50 magicka stones in my skingrad house right now. They both have the same genre of effects to them, but the cast on strike enchantment is different. One of my stones is:
Damage magicka 50pts on strike
Fortify Magicka +50

and my other stone is:
Absorb Magicka 50pts on strike
Fortify Magicka +50

Not only that, but even speaking of just the contrant effect enchantments:
There are stones that fortify almost every attribute and a few skills. Also, there are many magical effect stones (ex: feather 125 points on self, nighteye on self, 25% chameleon on self, light 50ft on self, detect lift 110ft on self) and stones that fortify Health, Fatigue, and Magicka.

QUOTE(THDVL @ Apr 13 2006, 04:02 PM)

Awesome! thx for the reply.. I think I'm at level 24 right now, Hopefully I'll be able to get some cool effects. I decided to go through all the mages guild quests first and then eventually make my way to the other guilds and the main quest.  Looks like I'll be playing this game for a looong time  

Level 24 and you don't know what sigil stones are?