Hi everyone out there in Skyrim land. When I was trying to increase my smithing skills, I made a bunch of iron daggers. Everywhere I went, I was grabbing iron ingots and leather strips so I could make daggers. Now, I'm having to find a magic skill that is complimentary to my build which is: one hand, archery, sneak, smithing, light armor. What magic skill and item could I craft that is easy and has plentiful ingredients. Assuming that adding a magic skill would be a good thing for my character.

I keep hearing about enchanting, but I know nothing about magic, maybe I should choose alteration or destruction, that's why I'm asking you fine folks. /smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':smile:' /> After I choose something, I'm guessing that I should get to work on crafting a certain magic item: the way I started making iron daggers like crazy.

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They say the Banish enchantment is the best for grinding your Enchanting. To date though I have not found a weapon with this on it.

I'm not sure I understand the question...

Are you asking for tips in increasing Enchanting?

If so, the schools of magic have nothing to do with Enchanting.

...clarify?

What are you trying to achieve with your character, extra perks or a higher level? Your character sounds like a warrior type build so adding magic skills may not be the way to go if you're role playing that way.

I'm not asking on tips on increasing enchanting, per se. I'm asking first, what would be a good magic category to choose that would compliment my Nord warrior character, and second what would be a good item to craft to raise my skill level quickly in said magic category.



Both, higher level and extra perks. You're correct on my character type, but I've heard that there are some magic skill trees that might be useful.

Hope that clarifies...

The school of Illusion complements a sneaky character. With spells like Muffle, Quiet Casting and Invisibility.

You raise a given school of magic by casting the spells associated with that school. Like hitting with a sword to raise 1H. The school is not raised by crafting anything.

Some spells only grant XPs when cast in combat. Illusion can be raised by outside of combat by casting Muffle over and over.

Alteration is a another choice, because of spells like Detect Life.

It really comes down to your playstyle.

I would suggest going with enchanting, it's a crafting skill and will help you with your weapons. Fairly easy to learn and doesn't take long to move up the perk tree whilst also increasing your level.

I understand the mechanics of using skills to increase points in a certain skill area, but I don't understand why I wouldn't get xp by crafting potions, if I got xp by crafting daggers, stands to reason, I could do the same in the realm of magic. I mean, it's like this: everytime time I made x amount of daggers, I would get a skill bump in smithing AND a skill bump in my overall level. Are you saying that crafting doesn't work the same in the magic areas?

Thanks for your help btw, I'm just trying to understand. And those magic trees you recommended seem pretty sweet and useful.

I would go with fortify one handed or fortify archery on your armor plus muffle and fire/frost or shock damage on your dagger. As others have said, enchanting things won't increase any school of magic. In Skyrim, enchanting is divorced from your magical skills. You have to find an item with the enchantment you want and disenchant it to learn the enchantment.

Only the crafting schools advance from "crafting".

Smithing, by crafting weapons and armor.

Enchanting, by creating items with enchantments
A particular magic enchantment is learned by disenchanting an existing item.

Alchemy, by making potiuons...any potion or poison.

You will get Enchant xp for enchanting daggers, but no xp for a magic school. You can only get xp in a magical school by casting spells in that school. As your Enchant skill increases you can make more powerful enchantments.

A couple of people have used the term "Magic School". While I know there are schools that specialize in magic, like the College of Winterhold, the way it's being used in this thread.....well I don't understand the context....my bad. What is meant by magic school? Thanks.

The different types of magic (alteration, destruction, conjuration, illision and restoration) are often referred to as the different "schools" of magic.

Magic schools is a means to categorize different spells, like Soul Trap which belongs to the school of Conjuration or Muffle which belongs in the school of Illusion.

There are 5 magic schools, these are Illusion, Conjuration, Destruction, Restoration and Alteration. Enchanting is a magic skill, crafting skill to be precise, but not a school. Enchanting items can grant you effects from the 5 schools of magic instead of actually casting the spell, like enchanting a dagger with the Fear effect instead of casting the Fear spell which would require some investment in magicka and perks in Illusion.

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I didn't use it for grinding my enchanting, but when I was about 81 Enchanting I started using Banish, and I now can't sell it to mot vendors. So what I do is I dump 'em all in a chest and I calculate their worth+the gold I'm carrying.

Anyways, to answer OP's question, Stamina damage and Banish get the most gold for me. You can use the invisible chest glitch for soul gems (which is what I do) or you can get them by using soul trap or bound weapons (with the perk that allows you to trap souls), it doesn't matter.

go with alchemy... just walk around main roads all over the map and harvest everything you come across with the steed stone equipped. It doesn't take that long... two or three hours of just walking around from one side of the map to the other, making sure to get every blue butterfly wing and blue mountain flower you come across and this is for starters.... Go online and get alchemy potion recipes that are most profitable to use as a guide.

Raise the base alchemy skill with perks as soon as you hit the requirements for best results... the higher alchemy skill, the more money you get.. alchemy give you cash flow, so you don't have to go around filling soul gems, you can just buy already filled ones to speed up the enchanting process. For best results you need speech skill up so you can sell any item to any vendor, and you need to invest in every vendor you visit so they have more cash. Honesly I just used the riften glitch for this. Also buy an item to give you better prices, and enchant a better one if you have high enchanting. That will pay for itself fast.

You can smith leather boots or other leather items and enchant fortify sneak on them, or smith daggers and fortify banish on them... you can also smith jewelry with silver and gold ore to raise smithing. Once your enchanting and alchemy are high you can fortify smithing, then improve your items.. improving raises the smithing skill when you have powerful enchanted gear/potions for smithing.

These 3 at 100 are a powergamer's essential mixture...