fancy a deadric bow that weighs nothing and behaves like any normal (weighted) bow? or maybe a mace, or, axe etc

well, this procedure was taught to me and its worth passing on....

you need access to the arcane uni and 100% conjuration skill.

first buy some of the conjuring spells for bound items, say an axe a bow and a mace. go to the university and create a 'bound weapons' spell that conjures ALL of the bound items in one go.
fire the spell - one of the spell's bound conjurations will appear 'in hand' as normal, BUT, the other bound items will also appear in your inventory. whilst the spell is in effect, select the required item, 'say the bow' in the inventory and choose to drop it. you'll see the bow drop to the floor as a solid non-bound item which can then be picked up, like any item. you now have a weightless deadric bow that can be used as a regular bow or enchanted with special qualities. it will not vanish, or time expire and you can rinse and repeat to get a huge arsenal of weightless weapons which can then be given different enchantments.

this works on vanilla ps3 oblivion - i guess you'd class it as a programme glitch.

apologies to those wise owls to whom this may be old hat..............

Very old news but I'm sure someone will benift from it.

I am gonna benefit from it , i had no idea that could be done.....

This is old news. But I should point out that you cannot drop the weapon, unless it is damaged, you have repaired it and THEN drop it on the ground. Then wait for the timer to be over, and go get your weightless stuff. My son does this, much to my chagrin.

thanks for the heads up , i was wondering why it wasn't working.

Big Daddy has raised some additional procedure to accomplish - all i can say is that on ps3 it works exactly as i described, maybe the additional requirement is to peculiar to xbox versions????

You also may want to note that once you drop the bound item. Wait for the spell timer to finish/ reach zero before picking up the bound item. If you pick it up before the timer runs out, it will disappear once the timer does run out, even if you dropped it and picked it up once already.
If your conjuration skill isn't good enough, try hitting some Rune/ Doom Stones. The Reman and Hestra rune/ doom stones I think.


It is like mpls Big Daddy mentioned, on PC as well. You can't drop a bound weapon until it's been repaired.

I can do exactly that at level 1 with a renan stone, and bypass the arcane uni and conj skill requirements

Exactly, the reman stone north of Haynote cave, southwest of Fort Nikel and west of the IC can net you a Daedric Cuirras and Claymore. It gives you a long duration for which to execute the exploit also.