Shield of Solitude - Can't Disenchant?

Post » Sun May 18, 2014 1:31 pm

I have no idea if this is the right place for a thread like this or not, but I've been Google-fu-ing for the past while and apparently I'm the only person this seems to be happening to.

I can't seem to disenchant the Shield of Solitude, despite every single resource I find about the Shield and the Resist Magic effects saying that I should be able to to get the slightly different version of the Resist Magic effect from this shield without having to use a mod.

Has anyone ever experienced a similar issue, and if so, how did they go about managing to get this other effect off of the shield?

Thanks very much for your time.

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Gavin boyce
 
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Post » Sun May 18, 2014 6:33 pm

I think you need the extra effect enchantment perk ( level 100 ) to disenchant this unique item.

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Batricia Alele
 
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Post » Sun May 18, 2014 10:15 am

I just checked, and the shield is still greyed out in the disenchant window. Whenever I try to disenchant it, it's telling me that I already know the enchantment, which isn't true if the enchantment is indeed different from the standard Resist Magic enchant. I'm wondering if this might have been fixed in a recent patch, but I haven't seen any mention of it at all.

Edit: So, I just tried a little experiment. I went into my mod loader and disabled the Unofficial Skyrim Patch and ran the game, and then took the shield to a disenchanting table. Lo and behold, the Shield was available for disenchanting. I'm guessing that there's something in the USKP (most likely the fix to one of its leveled variants displaying the incorrect resist magic amount) that for whatever reason also changes the enchantment on the shield to one that isn't 'different'. Hopefully the temporary disabling of the mod and then re-enabling won't cause any issues with the game, but I do have a separate file that's before I did this, so I'll keep an eye out for any problems.

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