Skyrim Discussion

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I just wanted a follower that could use dragon shouts. Blah. Still trying to come up with a good vampire hunter character. Something with archery for crossbows when Dawnguard goes live.

Ran into a number of interesting game mechanics and exploits recently.

Apparently casting cost reduction applies to enchanted weaponry. Since I have -100% destruction cost, weapons with destruction-type magic use no charges. Immediately replaced my stamina absorbing sword with something I enchanted to have 72-point shock&fire damage. Beastly.

Finally came across a min/max formula. It requires mastery of enchant and alchemy. So, you enchant some gear to improve alchemy, then use alchemcy to make enchantment potions. Do that three times and you can get potions that improve enchantments by +29%. Not good enough to make three magic-reduction enchantments equal to four, but it does marginally raise fortify weapon/armor/resistance strength. It also seems good for raising the upper limit on smithing.

This one I learned by accident. When you take the armor off a dead NPC, raise them with dead thrall, and fast travel, their armor is replaced on arrival. I had previously killed one of my Blades and took their armor, improved it, and gave it to another. But that corpse never decayed. So I thralled her for fun and she created a whole new set of Blades armor. Then I farmed her for four new sets of it.