Lol I love this glitch! I bought this game a few days ago for my PS3 and immediately started searching online for any tricks to make the grind go faster before I really began. I read about the dawnstar chest....cool, but nothing too great. Then I read the fortify restoration glitch and got into it....MAN I love this! Got out of helgen and went to dawnstar to camp the chests for enchanted weapons and potions. Then went and made a bunch of gear and soon I had full leather/hide gear with thousands of points of health and a steel sword with like 40k damage!! Spent the rest of the game time just getting insane leveling and one-hitting everything. Never ran out of stamina and never needed to heal.

I killed off most of the city populations which meant fewer quests but at the same time the game went by much faster. I couldn't imagine playing this game without cool mods and glitches like this. Anyone else tried it?

I think it is pretty commonly known. Some (me) choose not to exploit it as we feel it trivaizes the challenge of the game.

If you don't think the same as I do, that is just fine. Glad you are having fun. It is a single player game. I am sure you put out huge numbers of death/ownage.

Edit: btw welcome to the forums, but you may get hated on for this (topic.) Some people feel the need to extend their views on how to play this game onto other peoples' games. - Just a warning. Best thing to do is ignore it.

PS: if you are also a vampire- you can boost that (smithing) power by another 25% with the necromage perk. So you can make yourself even more godlike.

Yeah I knew it would take most of the challenge out of the game but I didn't want to play for the challenge I wanted to play for fun, and grinding in skills or grinding in battle is not fun for me. I can't imagine how anyone could stand to do work on a game when there's already so much work in real life.

I mean I even played portal 2 but that at least had a dynamic to it.

I always just cap myself to keep some edge to the game. I like being powerful but I also like having a bit of danger involved.

I just don't understand,why would you buy a game like skyrim then?I mean,you obviously knew it's an rpg,and since you only found fortify glitch recently,you had no way of knowing you'd find a shortcut through everything

Each to their own, as the first reply to the topic says, it's a single player game, by using glitches and bugs it's not harming anyone else, so it does not matter, but since this is being shared in public, I personally do not admire or resepct it.

I would on the other hand, highly value players who worked out the game and how things work, then design your character and items to support your playstyle.

To be that powerful right from the start, you can missing out some of the excitment and challege that game has on offer, further more, you can be godlike in the game just by playing legit anyway.

Can someone explain step by step how to do this restoration glitch please?

I have read about it but I havent found an explanation as to how it works or what to do to make it work.
Thanks

Google.com or uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Skyrim
Always trust in your wiki. Just look up resto glitch or exploit.

I don't understand. Why didn't you just buy it for pc, and use the console? That would seem a lot easier and less time consuming to me.

Well, to each his own of course. I don't like cheating, as it makes everything dull and boring imho. No challenging fights or anything, and Skyrim's strongest point certainly doesn't consist of the story. Don't get me wrong, I do understand the attraction of being able to play like a god (I did it too in Oblivion once), but it tires out fast.

Easier, yes. Although its kind of a waste of hard earned money for some of us console users. It would only be for a few games. Personally, I'm content with my 360 for games and a laptop for work and such. Besides, I would so much rather dump my money into my car. This is why console users love glitches, exploits, and even some bugs. It's all we got.

Couldnt find it on the UESP though it is mentioned under alchemy, how it works is not.
Aside from that, the UESP has really fallen in favour with me recently, due to block-headed editors deciding that their own fantasies are more important than quoted lore, and who refuse to allow people pointing this out.
Print half an essay complete with sources on a talk page and it gets deleted under 'this is going nowhere', while the wrong information keeps being displayed on the page... Im done with those [bad word].

Here it is... It's under "Enchanting"... It's a long one...

Optimizing

When getting into end-game situations, or simply wishing to maximize your damage outputs,one can use Enchanting, Alchemy, and Smithing to do incredible things for both melee and ranged users.

1. Get enchanting, alchemy, and smithing to 100. Smithing is the easiest to power-level, with enchanting close behind. Use your 5 training sessions on Alchemy, as it takes the longest. If you can, grab any necessary smithing perks for your armor/weapon choices. If you have the perks to spend, grab all levels of the pure power perks (the first one) for alchemy and enchanting, and the insightful enchanter perk. 2. Buy or make a bunch of cheap sets of clothes or armor of any kind for: Hands, Feet, Body, Necklace, Ring, and helm. 3. Stock up on grand soul gems and certain ingredients by any means necessary. 1. Ingredients for Fortify Enchanting (Choose any two of the four): Blue Butterfly Wing, Hagraven's Claw, Snowberries, and Spriggan Sap. 2. Ingredients for Fortify Smithing (Choose any two of the four): Blisterwort, Glowing Mushroom, Sabre Cat Tooth and Spriggan Sap. 3. Ingredients for Fortify Restoration (if you want to use the stackable Restoration 'glitch') (Choose any two of the five): Abecean Longfin, Cyrodilic Spadetail, SaltPile, Small Antlers and Small Pearl 4. Make sure you know the enchanting effects you want on your final armor,as well as Fortify Alchemy and Fortify Smithing 5. At the enchanter enchant one full set of Fortify Alchemy apparel. A set of alchemyapparel will have one item for head, neck, arm and hand. e.g. Circlet, necklace, bracers, and ring. (Alternatively, if you don't mind using the Falmer helmet glitch, you can wear one together with the mask Krosis or an alchemy enchanted circlet, giving you five alchemy buff slots instead of four.) 6. Then, wear the alchemy clothes, and verify using Active Effects that the enchanting effects are active. There seems to be a bug where sometimes enchanted items' effects are not active upon wearing. To correct just remove and then re-equip enchanted items. (At this point, you can also use the Fortify Restoration exploit, see notes below). 7. Now make some Fortify Enchanting potions using combinations of: Blue Butterfly Wings, Hagraven's Claws, Snowberries, and the Spriggan sap. Alternatively, there are two respawning Enchanter's Philters in the Archmage's Quarters at the College of Winterhold; these increase the strengthofenchantmentsby 20% for 60 seconds. 8. At the enchanter, drink the strongest enchanting potion you made orfound, and enchant a new set of items with Fortify Alchemy. 9. This works twice, but after two iterations the Fortify Enchanting potion will not increase the item's enchantment strength (xbox tested). You can also drink 'Fortify Restoration' potions and re-equip each set of Alchemy clothes before you make the next round of potions. 10. Make some final Fortify Enchanting potions, and some Fortify Smithing potions (using Blisterwort, Glowing Mushrooms, Sabre Cat Tooth, and Spriggan Sap) to get your enchanting back up to max, and enchant your used weapons and armor as you please. 11. Also, at the enchanter (and while your enchant potion is on) enchant a final set of cheap items with Fortify Smithing. Then, head to a smithy with a grindstone and workbench. 12. Finally, wear your smithing items and equip the Notched Pickaxe, drink your smithing potion, and improve any weapons and armor you have. You will, of course, need materials todoit,but most should be fairly easy to come by. You will probably reach the armor cap with any armor you're wearing, and increase your weapons to massive heights (more than 500), especially with any offensive skill enchants.

Notes on optimizing enchanting:

You can use these methods to increase your stats at any point, for any skill level, using this same method. However, you will benefit even more at higher levels, and should focus on leveling it,andyour other skills up, before optimizing. Even more powerful enchantments can be achieved by using an exploit connected to Fortify Restoration potions. The potions will increase any Restoration effect on an item, including Fortify Skill enchantments. By taking a Fortify Restoration potion prior to equipping Fortify Alchemy and Fortify Smithing items (or by taking several Fortify Restoration potions, since this exploit works on potions as well) you can increase the Fortify Smithing and Fortify Alchemy enchantment strengthonitems. Because the effect stacks with each potion taken (by un-equipping and reequipping the apparel after each potion taken), you can increase these enchantments exponentially and make exponentially more powerful Fortify Enchant potions with the Fortify Alchemy apparel.

All straight off of uesp.

Oh ok, I get it.
Its just normal enchantment/ alchemy looping but with the added bonus that a fortify restoration potion will affect those.
But normal looping is hardcapped at the third iteration, it does not go up beyond that.
Using the fortify restoration glitch you can get above this cap?
Must try this

Thanks for the info

The game dont need mods...

After making the second set of alchemy clothes just do the potion loop until you get some to a % your satisfied with, make some new alchemy/smithing gear and go to work on your actual armor and weapons. However... Any bumped up enchantment charges, when you first enchant weapons, will reset after turning off your console but all apparel enchantments will stick.

I used restoration to put more points in alchemy, enchantment and smithing. But not too high.

Remember Morrowind, you could wear a lot of enchanted items, even with invisibility and chameleon. Here you can only wear 4 gears, 1 ring and 1 necklace. So why not take benefit of the restoration "glitch". Are you sure it's a glitch??

I use a glitch with 2 trolls to increase my archery skill and I'm proud and happy to use it... Why? Because Beth gives master training in archery only to the thiefs. I don't want to become a thief so I'm soooooo happy to train with that glitch. And don't tell me it's normal... No it's not as archery is essential against dragon. If they put dragons they must allow full archery skill to all the players. For me it's a nonsense.

Anyway I was really strong already at the start as I worked hard on alchemy, smithing and enchanting (used restoration effect only at level 70). So if someone wants to start the game in a strong way. Gooood. It's like putting the difficulty level very low.

I like this post.

Can the fortify restoration glitch let you get over the damage resistance caps? I might just do that to get full resistance to magic.

Nope. It is 80% physical damage resist and 85% magicka resist. Set in stone as far as I know. Although I have read somewhere that there is a way to get magicka resist up to 97.something%.

Hit the 85% magicka resist and then add the 85% cap on elemental resist to it

if thats the way you like to play the game then thats fine but just reminds me of being a 14 year old kid and geting GTA and using the cheats just takes all the fun and point out of the game its self and turns it into a easy mode sandbox

I have never used the resto glitch, nor the invisible chests, and not even alchemy helmet stacking. I prefer to make myself as powerful as possible within the intended limits of the game.

At which level are you? And at what difficulty level?

Because when you'll reach 60 and more, you'll have to face Shadowmaster Falmers (many in a single den). Death Lord and specially Death Overlord Draugr (many). Once 8 together with other kind of draugrs. And powerful necromancers and evokers. But as many do, lower the diff. level. But in a certain sense it looks playing like someone more powerful but at high diff. level.

Fortify restoration loop allows many things. . Craft a 334% fortify destruction potion and drink it before getting the atronach perk and your spell absorption will be become 100% permanently (which means complete immunity to magic/poisons and no need to bother about your resists anymore). Use a 500% restoration potion before equipping an amulet of Talos in order to get shouts with no cooldown. Enchant your equipment with 100% fortify destruction, alteration, etc. for free spells and infinite charges for your weapons. Instead of boosting your weapon damage use enchantments with something like 10000% fortify one handed, marksman, etc in order to be able to use whatever cool weapon you want.

Oh noes, how could you, I disapprove, and your cheating is affecting my personal gameplay.
J/K

Yeah, I love that glitch too.

I don't care about the glitch one way or the other, but I think that the Mage's College instructor in Restoration has some HILARIOUS dialog when considered in the light of that glitch. Its enough to make you wonder if maybe its less "glitch" and more "easter egg god mode". Especially since it hasn't been changed now with what, 4 patches out? And is strikingly similar in method and results to similar exploits in previous games?