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This page gives information and tips on how to best enchant items, from loopholes to tons of statistics.

Item Making
7 February 1999

1. Bad rep with * is active if the object is in your posession, even in your wagon. I made an item with "bad rep with all" and nobody wandering around in the town would talk to me. When I dropped it on the ground they would talk to me again. Note that you can add multiple bad rep disadvantages of the same type (at least in v2.13) which makes making powerful items real easy.
2. Only one "when strikes" property seems to work. I enchanted a daedric warhammer with "casts ice storm when strikes" and "vampiric effect when strikes", and only the vampiric effect seems to be working.
3. Crystal with Extra Spellpoints in each of the 4 seasons is nice. +INT spell-points all the time. This enabled me to cast the standard Banish Daedra spell, and do that quest, earlier than I otherwise could've.
4. Multiple Strengthen-Armor items seem to have no effect. One (or more) gives +5 to all armor. A definite win!
5. Same with +Carrying Capacity. (A great thing to have, but no multiple benefits from more than one such item.)
6. Bad Rep from... seem like great disadvantages. Do the disadvantages only occur while the item is equipped? If so, great --- Who cares if your rep with Merchants is poor while you're in a dungeon.
7. Items that increase your skills are good, but take them off before you try to train (if the item pushes that skill from below-50% to over-50%).
8. I have a set of "dungeon" items and a set of "town/diplomacy" items. Examples of the former, that I like include: a gem that gives all three Talents (hearing, atheleticism, and adrenaline rush); a gem that increases my backstab, stealth, and critical strike abilities. Examples of the latter, that I like, include +Charisma and (surprisingly useful) +Running.
9. An extraordinarily useful item, and relatively cheap to make, is one which, when Used, casts Recall. This has gotten me out of many tight places in dungeons, and also helps a lot in town (partly because I have darkness-powered magery).
10. As others have mentioned, having a couple Repairs Objects items is all it takes to keep your magic weapon in New condition; sometimes I find I need to Rest for several hours, with the weapon unequipped.
11. One final note: pay attention to the item weights. It doesn't bother to me to carry a dozen 0.25 items, but if they were 0.75 in weight I'd notice 'em a lot more. And of course, anything over a couple pounds gets Featherweight.
12. Using a trinket which gives extra spell points around undead [A handy monster detector! When your mana dips, there's one around...], I found that Sorcerors trigger the extra spell points, meaning that the game considers them undead, I suppose. Sorcerors also cannot be snared by a Soul Gem or Azura's Star. When you are a vampire, you do not get extra spell points out of an item that grants extra points around undead just by being yourself.
13. When enchanting items, certain items have a very small magical store (so you can't enchant them with powerful spells.) However, if you add BAD REP WITH ALL as a disadvantage, your magical points for that item drops to -5000! This means that you can create some VERY powerful items.... Also, this doesn't actually seem to affect the way people treat you...(?)
14. Using the above tip on an item, give it EXTRA SPELL POINTS for ALL FOUR SEASONS, and for ALL THREE MOON PHASES. Note you will have enough magical store to do this if you use the BAD REP WITH ALL option on the item. Now, if you do this for say, two rings, when you wear them, your magicka level has shot up to about double it's normal value!
15. A have discovered also that you can add a BAD REACTION disadvantage to an item as many times as you like (on the same item!). This might exist only in certain versions.

Creating Items with Bound Souls
23 November 1998

Here's some step-by-step instructions on creating items with bound souls (original text written by Davis Guilbert - pronase@inconnect.com).

1. Buy the soul binding spell, or better yet make your own.
2. Buy an empty soul gem from a magic item salesman in your local mage's guild. (There may be other places to get them as well.)
3. Find a nasty monster whose soul you would like attached to some inanimate object.
4. Make sure the soul gem is still in your inventory, not in your wagon, ship, or house.
5. You may need to draw blood BEFORE casting the spell...at least that's what the books say
6. Cast your soul binding spell upon the nasty beastie. You will see a message "trap active" if you are successful, else "Save vs spell made." If you are not successful, repeat until you are.
7. Once you get "trap active" slay the shmeg out of the beastie. Be sure to do it quickly, for the soul trap spell has a limited duration.
8. The beast is dead, you get it's soul! Info the soul gem in your inventory to convince yourself of this.
9. Now go to anyplace you have access to an item-maker, select an item you want the soul bound to, and choose the "soul bound" option. Easy as that.
10. Please note though, that when an item enchanted with a soul (or many souls) breaks, the souls are released in the form of the monster which then attacks you. Just a warning before you put those 5 daedra lord souls in one item.
11. I've made a few soul-bound items, and I've noticed something very interesting. If you don't want the disadvantages that come with a soul-bound Daedra Lord, then add, say, a soul-bound Mummy, Imp, or something with no drawbacks, then add the Daedra Lord, then remove the Mummy. So far, in every case I've seen, that will remove all the secondary negative effects, allowing you to add 4 Daedra Lords to one item, with no deterioration in sunlight or damage in holy places or what have you. (I think this removes secondary benefits, as well, but with the amount of EP you get, who cares?)

1. I usually purchase a soul trap spell with a "chance of success" as high as I can manage.
2. I generally save just before I cast the spell, because I can't cast it a second time (see 1).

Some of the more powerful souls have interesting good and bad side-effects. Please E-Mail the Webmaster any more stats on souls to put here.

Item Enchantment Points
6 April 1997

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.

1. Weapons - List of all weapons with the different material types.
2. Armour - List of armour with material types where applicable.
3. Clothes - All non-armour related apparel, shirts, pants etc..
4. Misc - Gem stones, bracers, rings and other items.

Guilds With Item Makers
November 1996

Many people have asked how one can get access to the item maker, a very powerful feature in Daggerfall, when they can't become a member of the mages guild (due to lack to spell casting skills). To get access simply become a member to the temple of Julianos. To get access to either one, you need level 5 rank, that requires one of the guild's skills at 62 and another at 24. Also, at level 3: skills 46 & 16, you can buy items. (note that your rep with that guild must be at least 10 * rank for you to advance) quests usually give 5pts reputation. The skills for the Mages Guild are any of the Six Magic branches. The skills for Julianos are: Short Blade, Lockpicking, daedric, impish, mysticism, alteration, and thaumaturgy.

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