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The world ofThe Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remasteredis full of cool and unique gear to collect. Some of that gear will come with extra effects, called enchantments. These enchantments will have either a minor or major effect on that piece of gear, and can dramatically change how your character functions.
You can also enchant gear yourself. It’s a bit of an involved process, but once you unlock the ability to do so, you can fully tailor your guy to your liking, giving you a lot more agency over how your character fights and interacts with certain parts of the world.
How To Find An Altar Of Enchanting
Getting to an Altar of Enchanting isn’t necessarily a quick-and-easy task. There aretwo different ways to do it, and both are fairly involved in their own ways.
Join The Mages Guild Or Frostcrag Spire
There are Altars of Enchanting inThe Arcane University, in the Chironasium. This is only accessible once you’vejoined the Mages Guildandcompleted enough Questswith them to be allowed into the University, achieving the rank of Apprentice.
There is also an Altar of Enchanting inFrostcrag Spire, which is a player home obtainable for free. It’s located on the north side of the map, to the east of Bruma. But, you’ll need topurchase a Megatallow Candle Box from Aurelinwae, which costs you more than 2,000 gold.
How To Get Soul Gems
To enchant gear, you’llneed to have filled Soul Gems. These can be found in random locations throughout the world, but they can also befilled manually with theSoul Trapspell. TheSoul Trapspell will trap the soul of a monster if the spell has been cast on them soon before you kill them.
You will also need to have a soul gem of the appropriate size in your inventory. It’s a good idea to have a small stock of Soul Gems on you, so you can trap souls as you come across them.
How To Enchant Your Gear
Once you’ve got your Soul Gems and the gear that you’d like to enchant, you canhead to the Altar of Enchanting and get started. There is quite a bit going on informationally when enchanting gear, and we’ll go over every aspect here.
Select The Gear You Want To Enchant
First, you’ll want toselect the gear to enchant. This is the first tab on the left, and all enchantable gear you have in your inventory will show up here, from armor, to clothing, and weapons.
Select The Soul Gem
Next, you’llselect the Soul Gem to use for the initial enchantment. The more impressive the soul gem, the more potent the enchantment will be. But, it’s not necessarily always important to use a larger Soul Gem on every item; it depends on the enchantment.
This comes most into play when enchanting weapons. Themore impressive the Soul Gemyou use, themore damage your weapon will deal, or the more uses it’ll haveuntil it needs to be recharged.
Select Your Enchantment
Once you’ve selected your gear and you’ve chosen which Soul Gem you’d like to use, you canchoose from a variety of enchantments. There will be slight variations depending on the item that you’re enchanting, particularly between gear and weapons.
Gear Enchanting
Gear enchantments don’t typically ever need recharged. These enchantments are static,passive effects if you’re wearing the gear. These can range from things like damage mitigation for certain damage types, the ability to breathe underwater, to creating light that follows you around, and more.
Weapon Enchanting
Enchantinga weaponis quite an involved process. For one,you can add multiple different enchantments on the same weapon, though the enchantment itself will be of lesser quality for splitting the effect.
There are also multiple different UI elements when enchanting a weapon that aren’t immediately obvious:
How To Refill Your Enchantments
Weapon enchantments willneed refilled, and you’ll do this with Soul Gems. The more impressive the soul gem, the more fuel it will provide for the enchantment. Many times, a petty Soul Gem will refill the gauge by a portion of the bar, while a lesser or larger might refill the bar entirely.
