Daggerfall:Enchanting Items

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Contents 1 Common Magical Items 2 Item Making 2.1 Advantages 2.2 Disadvantages 3 Creating Items with Bound Souls 4 Item Enchantment Points 5 Tips

This page gives information and tips on how to best enchant items, from loopholes to tons of statistics. It also contains the most commonly found magical items in the game as well as some tips and hints for successful item making and some items which would make your adventuring life much much more enjoyable.

[edit] Common Magical Items

Following table lists the most commonly found magical items in the game. These items can be found as loot, can be a quest reward, or can be found at the magic item merchants of the Mages Guild and the School of Julianos.

Name	Applied	Range	Enchantment
Blazing Item of Fireballs	when used	Area at Range	Fireball
Cursing Item	when used	Area around Caster	Toxic Cloud
Deadman's Item	when used	Area around Caster	Fire Storm
Frosty Item of Ice Storms	when used	Area at Range	Ice Storm
Healing Item	when used	Caster only	Restore Health
Item of Far Silence	when used	Target at Range	Far Silence
Item of Featherweight	when used	Caster only	Slowfalling
Item of Force Bolts	when used	Target at Range	Force Bolt
Item of Fortitude	when equipped	Caster only	Fortitude
Item of Friendship	when equipped	Caster only	Charisma
Item of Nimbleness	when equipped	Caster only	Nimbleness
Item of Good Luck	when equipped	Caster only	Jack of Trades
Item of Iron Will	when equipped	Caster only	Iron Will
Item of Life Stealing	when strikes	On Target	Vampiric effect
Item of Lightning	when used	Target at Range	Lightning
Item of Magicka	when equipped and a hostile spell is at hand	Caster only	Absorbs spell
Item of Oblivion	when strikes	On Target	Sphere of Negation
Item of Paralysis	when used	Target at Range	Medusa's Gaze
Item of Shocking	when used	On Touch	Shock
Item of the Orc Lord	when equipped	Caster only	Orc Strength
Item of the Sealed Door	when used	Caster only	Wizard Lock
Item of the Wise	when equipped	Caster only	Wisdom
Item of Toxic Clouds	when used	Area around Caster	Toxic Cloud
Item of Undeniable Access	when used	Caster only	Open
Item of Venom Antidote	when used	Caster only	Cure Poison
Item of Venom Spitting	when used	Caster only	Leviatate
Item of Water Breathing	when equipped	Caster only	Water Breathing
Item of Water-walking	when equipped	Caster only	Water-walking
Item of Wild Fire	when used	Area at Range	Wildfire
Item of Wizard's Fire	when used	Target at Range	Wizard's Fire
Item, the Protector	when used	Caster only	Shield
Leaping Item	when equipped	Caster only	Enhance Dragonish
Never Tiring Item	when used	Caster only	Restore Stamina
Shining Item	when used	Caster only	Light
Silent Item	when used	On Touch	Silence
Torgo's Item	when equipped	Caster only	Feet of Notorgo
Unrestrainable Item	when used	Caster only	Free Action

Notes:

• Any enchantment which is applied "when used" is equivalent to a spell. Using it will train the skill in the respective school where the effect is resident. The magnitude and duration of the effect depend on the player's level, as it is the case when it comes to spells.
• Enchantments that are applied "when strikes" can only be found on weapons.
• Sometimes enchantments that are applied "when equipped" can also be found on wands. Since wands can not be equipped such a magical item is useless and is only of some value when sold. The enchantments "Water-walking" and "Enhance Dragonish" are often found on wands.
• "Enhance Dragonish" is the only language-relevant enchantment which can be found, all other languages apparently can not be found as enchantments.
• The "Leaping" and "Venom Spitting" items were very likely misnamed by the developers.

[edit] Item Making

Characters must be 5th rank in the Mages Guild or Temple of Julianos to access the Item Maker.

Find the person with the "Make Magic Items" option and activate him. The process is fairly simple. Choose an item you wish to enchant, add the appropriate effect(s) and pay the fee. You may choose a total of 10 advantages or disadvantages. The cost of the item is 10 GP per Enchantment Point of the effect(s) you choose, plus any additional cost for certain advantages or disadvantages.

[edit] Advantages

Advantages provide benefits to the user of the item.

• "Cast when Used" effects are used much like spell-casting, except they use the item's power instead of the character's magicka. When a spell effect is aborted (Destruction-based effects and targeted effects), the aborted points go into the characters magicka, so these items can also be used to refill depleted magicka.
• "Cast when Held" advantages are always in effect whenever they are equipped.
• "Cast when Strikes" is applied to weapons so that when they strike, the enemy has the enchantment cast upon it. "Cast when Strikes" enchantments are useless on armor.
• "Repair Items" will repair any damaged items in the character's inventory, including other enchanted items and artifacts. You must add the line "magicrepair 1" to the z.cfg file for this effect to work.
• "Strengthens Armor" adds +5 to your armor class, but does not stack with other items with the "Strengthens Armor" effect.

An entire list of all advantages and their enchantment power can be found here.

[edit] Disadvantages

Disadvantages hinder the carrier of the item, but will increase the number of available Enchantment Points for the item.

• "Soul Bound" will be explained in the next section.
• "Item Deteriorates" effect causes the item to wear out faster.
• "User takes damage" effect can be dangerous, but is inconsequential to vampires, as they will take damage in sunlight and holy places anyway.
• "Bad Reactions" lowers the to-hit chance and armor class of the character while fighting the type of creature indicated.
• "Bad Reputation with" effects lower the character's reputation with a certain class (or all of them), but be aware that effect continues even if this item is in your pack or in your wagon.

An entire list of all disadvantages and their enchantment power can be found here.

[edit] Creating Items with Bound Souls

Bound Souls are technical disadvantages caused by having the item be bound to a creature. The more powerful of a creature, the more powerful the item can be. Certain creatures have extra advantages and disadvantages forced upon you for using them to enchant your items. If your item breaks, then the creature is released, and will attack you. To soul trap a monster, you must buy soul gems and have a spell with the effect "Soul Trap". Cast the spell on a monster and kill it before the duration runs out. If you are successful, one of your soul gems should say it has monster in it when you info it. An easier way is to have Azura's Star. Whenever you kill a monster, its soul is trapped inside Azura's Star. Make sure that it is empty before you kill the monster you want to trap (use it to ditch the old monster). A table of monster values is here, along with the gold piece value of soul gems with the monster.

[edit] Item Enchantment Points

Ever wanted to know exactly how much you could enchant that Orcish bow you found? The following list gives the enchantment points for most of the items found in Daggerfall, sorted by item type and alphabetically.

• Weapons - List of all weapons with the different material types.
• Armor - List of armor with material types where applicable.
• Clothes - All non-armor related apparel, shirts, pants etc..
• Misc - Gem stones, bracers, rings and other items.

[edit] Tips

• Items that increase your skills are good, but they should be removed before rest and before seeking training in those skills.
  • Weapons that boost the skill to use that weapon are a natural choice. Adding increased skill in "Critical Strike" adds even more leverage.
• Have a set of "dungeon" items and a set of "town/diplomacy" items.
• A useful item is a "Cast when used" Recall item. This item can get you out of a dangerous situation quickly without using native magicka, assuming an anchor has already been set.
• Any item with "Extra Spell Points near ___" serves as a handy monster detector, but has little practical value otherwise unless combined with a "Spell Absorption" or similar effect. If a creature is close enough to trigger the effect, rest will be impossible, meaning those spell points cannot usually be gained.
• Beware that "home made" magic clothes tend to break easily, as they can carry only a small magicka load. Some skill-based enchantments, however, have a low enough cost to make the investment worthwhile.
• Another very useful enchantment is the "Repair" ability. If you have such an enchanted item equipped, the health status of a damaged item increases by one level after about 8 hours of rest (example Almost New → New and so on). Sadly, this doesn't work while loitering or during fast travel. Items with the "Repair" ability work additively, meaning that by equipping two items the repair time is halved and so on. This form of repair is very useful to mend magic items (including artifacts), because these can't be repaired in other ways and get worn out after some time of use. The magic repair effect was removed from the game during a later patch, but it was provided again since patch 2.12. However, you must add the line magicrepair 1 to the Z.CFG file in your Daggerfall game directory to make it work. The repair modus starts with the items you have already equipped and works then from the top of your inventory stack (wagon included) downwards. So, if you want a specific item repaired, position it at the top of your inventory or wagon stack. Drop all other items to the ground if necessary, until you only have the item you want repaired in your stack.