This is the first time I've had Smithing, Enchanting, and Alchemy up to 100 and took a stab at making Restoration Potions. Using Restoration, I made a ~6000% Fortify Enachting Potion, which made a ~60,000% Fortify Smithing Enchantment. Wow! I wanted a single piece of gear with a high Smithing Enchantment that I would wear all the time so I could smith well at will. Success!

I smithed my favorite bow, the long bow. After smithing and with Kyne's Token and 100 Archery Skill it says the damage is 300 (282 I think without Kyne's equipped). Great I thought! I have lower health and don't use armor so I get killed rather easy. With the higher hitting power of the bow I thought I'd have a play through with a hard hitting, but weak character. Thing is, even on Master Difficulty where I should be dishing out only 150 damage I can one hit things like Giants, Mammoths, and Deathlords. That isn't right is it? I thought their health was up near 1000.

Edit: Now that I'm home and looked I see the Fortify Smithing Enchantment is actually 20,745%, not the 60k I had remembered. Still a lot, but not as much as I thought.

It's not displaying the rest of the number. You're likely dealing 30,000 damage since you used a smithing potion like that.

Must be limited to three numbers?

Probably this. There's no way that you're only getting a 300 damage bow with +60,000% to smithing. Even the 500 damage crossbow I once made for fun couldn't kill a giant in one hit (on master) and I used a fortify smithing potion below 200%.

That's because the system is only able to display the first 4 digits of the weapon damage or so, I would say it's closer to the 30,000 damage range

I'll try making a Fortify Smithing potion with a little less punch! I think only cycled 5 or 6 Restoration Potions as it is. It builds quick

If you are using more then one piece of crating equipment ( 4-6 enchanted with smithing and alchemy ) try removing one piece at a time, this will give you different %'s.

Anymore than 200% is complete overkill. 60,000% is beyond ridiculous. Just a little more and you'll start hitting negatives.

That's a great tip, thanks. I was using four pieces with 20% Fortify Alchemy. I'll try using just two or three and see if I can hit a more reasonable number without it jumping from the hundreds into the thousands in one step.

It sure makes a one hit monster, which is somewhat ok for the play through I want. But I'd like the strongest opponents to be a little more dangerous than one hit. A sort of "whoever lands the first hit" is going to win play through. At least from like a saber cat on up level; I don't want skeevers killing me. Then Deathlords and Mammoths take two shots for me to kill where they can easily one hit me. On Master I need to dish out just a little under 2000 damage. Only the biggest will survive one hit from me, but not two. And anything big can one hit me. Mages destroy me and are a real challenge to fight even though I can easily one hit them.

I had no idea the 6k enchanting potion was going to make a 60k smithing enchantment. It's my first time playing with potions. A little trial and error is ok. I'm relieved the save isn't glitched, though, which was my concern because the numbers didn't seem right.. It would svck to start over.

The actual damage of the weapon is shown at the bottom of the screen next to where it shows carry weight when you are in the weapon category in items.
It shows a maximum of 3 numbers in the big box with the weapon damage, weight and value.

That's it! It shows 3012 at the bottom. Even on Master it's enough to one hit a Deathlord. And it's actually not too far off from where I want it to be. I need about a 3.5K Fortify Enchanting potion to put the Long Bow right where I want it. Well, I think anyway. I don't know how linear it is.

Thanks!!