Did you use enchanted weapons in Oblivion? : V

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 10:50 am

Just curious to see what people feel about this, since Beth said they were happy with it.

I was quite disappointed that they use a similar system to Oblivion in Skyrim. I personally never used enchanted blades and such because of the silly battery-like recharge system.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 8:30 am

I use them a lot (I'm not going to turn down a god/goddess-created weapon with a cool history and appearance of its own and there's no harm in using the enchanted version of any non-godly weapon that has an un-enchanted form... simply a lack of benefits if not recharged.), but they were often out of charge (except for my beloved Dawnfang/Duskfang... it kind of naturally recharges) and I hated the requirement to manually recharge to get any enchanted use out of enchanted weaponry. I hope Skyrim doesn't have it, but according to the Q and A, it will. What I want to know is where they got the idea that it worked well from.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 10:12 am

yes but I was often out of charge I guess the manual recharging was ok because they did so much damage
maybe there should be more options to recharge them with

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 2:35 pm

What about recharging the sword of the crusader?

» Fri Jul 08, 2011 11:13 pm

always used enchanted weapons with soul trap, and carried Azuras star. recharging them seemed clunky. can't you just have something like soultrap that keeps the weapon full?

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 9:08 am

I feel like some artifact weapons shouldn't lose their charge.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 6:50 am

I did use enchanted weapons in Oblivion on occassion, but less often than I did in Morrowind, due to how annoying the recharging mechanic of Oblivion was, of course, I didn't use enchantments at all except in clothing and jewelry for the most part until I had at least 50 in armorer, for reasons I probably don't have to explain, but that's a subject for another discussion.

Obviously, I did not like Oblivion's approach to enchantment recharges, I'd have much rather gone back to Morrowind's system, but such is life.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 9:53 am

Well, I would like to see some enchanting perk allowing some slow, automatic recharging of enchanted items. Possibly draining your magicka (while an upper level-perk could reduce or suppress this feature). Souls gems could be used to fasten the recharging. A higher level in enchanting school could make items recharging at a faster pace.

Also, sompe legendary weapons could simply never get out of charge. But they should be very rare and costy.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 8:41 am

Used enchanted weapons very rarely because I found the recharge mechanic extremely tedious.

Would like to see a recharge over time mechanic, or for weapons to have passive enchantments like Armour, as standard. I'd rather not have waste perks just to render enchanted weapons usable.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 2:45 pm

how about this as an enchanting perk?

"soul reaper:

when a weapon is enchanted with a soul gem it acquires the power of the enchantment and when depleted of charges that enchanted weapon becomes a soul trap weapon that recharges bit by bit with each kill, when the charges are full again the weapon becomes enchanted once more. "

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 12:55 pm

how about this as an enchanting perk?

"soul reaper:

when a weapon is enchanted with a soul gem it acquires the power of the enchantment and when depleted of charges that enchanted weapon becomes a soul trap weapon that recharges bit by bit with each kill, when the charges are full again the weapon becomes enchanted once more. "

Or this one,

Old Timer:

You remember how things used to work back when TES was good and fun. Your enchantments recharge, classes are back, the creatures aren't all generic, and attributes haven't been removed.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 9:23 am

Yes I used the all the time, I bought all sort of soul gems from vendors, different levels and had a sword with a 1 second soul trap enchantment, in addition to 8 damage health enchantment for 1 second. If I killed a rat, I got the soul back and refilled it with a petty soul gem. A stronger enchantment would have left me out of use, so it's merely a solid buff than a super sword and that's how I like it.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 1:02 am

Never really used em, because of the terribad system

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 2:18 pm

I usually carried one around for those enemies that were immune to normal weapons, or for enemies that are more difficult. Most of the time I used a regular weapon.

Or just use them until they are depleted and then sell them.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 4:56 am

I think I never bothered to use them, mainly because the charges often ran out during/after a single fight. So instead I just used an unenchanted silver weapon (I believe most guards in the IC had a silver longsword so I staged 'accidents' and picked up any stray silver arrows). Later on in the game I used Daedric weapons.

Personally I would have rather liked weapon enchantments to provide a solid bonuses (and weaknesses, depending on the soul that was used in its creation) instead of charges; but that's just me.

EDIT: Can't recall ever to have used Soul Trap either in Oblivion. I did use it a lot in Morrowind though.

Greetz,

Milt

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 10:24 am

Never used soul trap, seemed to find filled gems everywhere, didn't have a problem with recharging, but then I used fairly weak enchantments, rather than expecting the very best enchantments and loads of charges.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 2:28 am

Never used soul trap, seemed to find filled gems everywhere, didn't have a problem with recharging, but then I used fairly weak enchantments, rather than expecting the very best enchantments and loads of charges.

Also this. Varla stones and filled gems are all over the place.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 8:21 am

Basically all my weapons were enchanted. However, I had considerable luck finding both filled soul gems and Varla stones, and I had a recharge over time mod, so it wasn't that bad.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 1:22 am

No i uninstalled the game way before i found one

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 12:25 pm

Personally I hated it, the weapons had to be recharged all the time and that just resulted in that I used them without the charge.
I didn't like effects that much or that plastic glow, so I usually just preffered ordinary weapons.
I did use those fancy artifacts but they aswell were always out of charge.
I hope that the weapons in Skyrim deal more damage but have weaker enchantments.(Actually I think they already said that weapons deal more damage, so I think I will be satisfied)

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 2:10 am

Best weapons in the game... until they ran out of juice and/or you couldn't repair them because you weren't skilled* enough.

I hope that in Skyrim you can set them onto an automatic charge. I'm going to have to hunt down Azura's star either way. On OB I just hotkeyed it to the d-pad.

» Fri Jul 08, 2011 11:31 pm

Also this. Varla stones and filled gems are all over the place.

Especially with the nifty arrow jupe.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 4:47 am

Especially with the nifty arrow jupe.

Nifty arrow jupe?

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 6:33 am

I loved enchanting, but I did hate having to recharge, especially since I didn't know what soul gems were for when I got Azura's Star.

Unfortunately they're using the same recharge system, but maybe a perk will help or something. That would be awesome. I definitely intend to look through that perk tree, even if I don't put any perks into enchanting.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 1:50 am

Nifty arrow jupe?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGEQ16-Ezx0&feature=related

Stupidly I spelt Dupe wrong...I also like licking windows.