No

It would be nice to have some randomness, but maybe have the souls that you trap have greater effect. Instead of just petty, common, etc... maybe a petty slaughterfish soul would give you one value while a petty wolf soul would give another. Allowing differentiation (?sp) withing a set catagory of souls. Higher level souls give more and more consistant enchantments (grand souls) giving the same stats since it would require being high level to get the soul and high enchantment skill to use the grand soul gem, I'm assuming. Just an idea I'm sure I'm missing something. Edit: A more complicated approach might be that certain souls give bonuses to certain enchants. Like if you were enchanting using an skeleton soul you might get a bonus to frost resistance (frost shield) but it might not be as good for a healing/restore enchant. While a different soul may give a better value for fire damage, but lesser value for shock damage. Would take more study into what souls have what effect bonuses to give more depth to enchanting. Or it could just be too much work.



Just shoot lightning like you can do with your hands? Then why use a staff? If you are using magicka to do it instead of the soul (battery) then it would be just for show with no real difference than using your hands. I would like to see staves having properties you don't have using your hands. Since soul gems have been around and supported by lore I don't see any reason to change it.



If I was training to cook I would probably make mistakes, sure. But I don't know if, as a player, I would want the same applied to a game. At the same time, as a novice I wouldn't be trying to compete with the Iron Chef or the Ace of Cakes either. How much randomness do you put in a fire damage dagger when you have an enchanting skill of 5? I never had a problem though with morrowinds chance of failure. Though I did save before enchanting just incase. Which I think would be the thing players would do if you put randomness into enchanting. Especially if at low levels of enchant the randomness had a wide range. Do you really want to settle for the fire dagger that has only +1 fire damage when it could have been 5 or 10 pts without taking into account the "perfect" success?

Edit: Maybe the randomness could come with the use of the enchanted item dependent on your enchantment skill. Make a dagger that does +5 fire and if your enchantment skill is low it might do only 3 or 4 or you get lucky and it does a crit and does 8pts. The higher your enchant skill the greater the chance for a crit with the enchantment and a less likely chance of doing less damage than the enchantment. Maybe have a critical failure where the enchant fails. Kind of like spell failure in MW.

Or just include it in the perk system with perks that allow for a chance of getting the perfect enchant, but with also the randomness to do less than normal. Take the perk several times could increase the chance for the "perfect" success and minimize the chance of a lower score. Or skip taking the perk and just do normal vanilla enchants.

1. In this game we need much longer charges, in the last game I got 10 hits out of my sword then it was empty

2. Black souls gems need to be here again

3. reuse soul gems

Well low-level perk (lesser power) in enchanting skill can allow channel spell into weapon so there can be temporal enchants thats use Magicka for sustain it
While constant and on use enchantments can require Enchanting Altar.
There is can be also slow enchant regeneration and charge usage depend on enchant skill like in Morrowind

You'd need to work hard to get good enchantments.First,powerful soulgems shouldn't be a common encounter.Second,you need to have the skill to cast a good soultrap spell.Third,you need to be strong enough to do this in front of a strong creature,and kill it in time.
And after all that,if the enchantment isn't making you "invincible"...well,I don't call it "balance"...How are we supposed to become surperior if we need to battle to death with simple bandits or guards...

Maybe if they implemented disenchanting to go with enchanting, you would be able to produce "magic" items that could be used to enchant another weapon.