Monday, 5 December 2011

Skyrim Breaking Alchemy and Enchanting

Hello everyone its the Plucky Gamer here to tell you how to super enchant / alchemy in the new elderscrolls game Skyrim. But first a few things.......

Before I begin I better warn people of a few things, the will be spoilers both in the sense I will tell you things you might not have discovered and once you know how to break Skyrim you might not be able to resist doing so and that might ruin the game for you. Read this at your own peril I will take no responsibility for loss of fun due to reading this.

The good thing about elderscrolls is the are many ways to solve the problem confronting you, I love the freedom and tricks you can use to progress in the game. It is also up to you to make the game an experience every bit as much as the programmers that made it.

Breaking Skyrim
It is a very simple exploit which I stumbled onto by accident.
Fortify Restoration Potions increase your enchanted items potency. If you re-equip them during the period while your under the potions effect you will benefit from that increased value until you re-equip. Drinking a Fortify Restoration Potion that was a different value of the previous Fortify Restoration Potion will have an increased potency due to the previous potion you drank.

If you have items that increase your potions strength the fortity restoration potion trick will allow you increase your potions you make to a very potent concoctions by making a 1941% enchant potion (just a suggestion can go higher but eventually you can go so high it goes minus and then low figures).

Use Blue butterfly wings and Snowberries to make the potion (14,197% increase to potions strength, 100 alchemcy skill with perks for increasing potions maxed out) should make equipement that fortifies your health to over 6000 and your health regeneration to 3000%, although you will have to make the item in the 30 seconds while the potion is still taking effect. Any fortify enchant alchemical ingredients can be used unless they will have negative effects to make it a posion to you or will kill you upon drinking.


Making your very hard to kill or almost impossible, having equipement that increase your armour, your resistance to disease, shock, magicka, fire, frost and having water breathing seals the deal. I will warn you I jumped halfway off a mountain and my health bar went noticely down so you might still die if you jump off a mountain. I am not sure if fall damage works off percentages, When I have time I will experiment but I am trying to play iron man with this character (when he dies its over) so I rather not die from that.

It took a while for me to max out alchemy and enchanting and stumble across this idea, mainly because I was mislead by reading others posts saying you couldn't get enchantments above 39%. I tried all-sorts to achieve this including getting a follower to attack me with a posioned weapon with foritfy enchant on and making myself weak to posions. Which I belive is another way you can achieve the same result but a lot of hasle and involves lots of efforts. Because weakness to posion potion I was using had fortify restoration increase I noticed this effect and was able to become the legendary enchanter.

At the moment I am increasing my pick pocket skills to keep a orc chieftian alive by equiping him with super enchanted equipment it maybe impossible to keep him alive to progress in the quest but I would like to find out. One of the few things I like to do to challange myself on the game because I like the story side and adventure more than the hacking and slashing which gets in the way of discovering things.

I may start again and see if I can achieve it at level 1 either by deliberately not leveling up (not sure if the game will still count me as level 1) or increasing the fortify restoration preperations before I level.

I hope this was useful, excuse poor spelling and grammar, I am dsylexic and in rush to play some more Skyrim but I thought I would share my knowledge with you guys so you can enjoy not having to hack and slash your way through.