Enchanting is the perfect way to improve your weapons and armor – but how do you improve the enchantments themselves?
Training yourself to apply better enchantments is essential, but if you want to take your Enchanting to the next level, you’ll need some mods.
From purely aesthetic changes to profound transformations of Skyrim’s enchantment system, the following mods will breathe new life into your enchanting table.
The only way to level your Enchanting skill in vanilla Skyrim is to produce a continuous stream of mediocre enchanted items, gaining a little bit of experience each time.
It’s a waste of time and resources – which, by the way, includes the souls of living beings. That’s plain disrespectful!
Passive Enchanting Experience makes leveling a lot easier by granting experience for the time spent wearing enchanted apparel in combat.
The more powerful the spell, the faster you gain experience. You need to keep updating your equipment if you wish to keep leveling!
Take even more work off your shoulders with the Passive Weapon Enchantment Recharging mod.
As its name suggests, this mod allows your enchanted weapons to slowly absorb magical energy from the environment over time.
This way, you don’t need to go into your inventory and recharge them manually every time. It’s especially crucial when wielding weapons that run out of energy in just a few uses.
Plus you won’t be spending as many Soul Gems. It’s spiritually eco-friendly!
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Learning the really worthwhile enchantments in vanilla Skyrim takes a long time.
Moreover, you must sacrifice powerful items and can only get their bonuses back by spending large Soul Gems (assuming you have the required skill).
All Enchantments Unlocked gives you access to every enchantment right from the beginning of the game.
This way, you can start building the character you want a lot faster – and any powerful enchanted artifacts you find can be wielded or sold for a high price.
Summermyst is one of the most essential enchanting mods ever created, introducing 120 new enchantments to try on your weapons and armor.
Some of my favorites include Steal Weapons, which can disarm your opponent and put their weapon in your inventory, and Spurs, which makes mounts 30% faster.
These enchantments are correctly integrated into the game, meaning you’ll find them in looted items, and enemies might use them against you.
Vanilla enchantments have relatively basic visual effects that leave much to be desired in the “epic” department.
Sure, I can apply Frost or heal on hit, but why does it all look so… normal?
With Visual Animated Enchantments, enchanted weapons look like magical energy is just bursting out of them. Tongues of flame and gusts of wind wrap around your weapons for a genuinely awe-inspiring effect.
Another incredible option to make your enchanted weapons flashy and cool is Enchanted Arsenal.
Enchanted Arsenal is unique because it lets you customize your enchantment effects through an in-game menu to create something truly different.
Not only do you control the effects on your weapon and surrounding it, but also on the victims you burn, freeze, electrocute, and poison.
This add-on features animations and effects from over a dozen Legendary Edition mods, so you’ll have plenty of material to play around with and create your perfect enchanted weapon.
There are two ways to improve an aspect of your game: you either collect several minor mods or choose one comprehensive overhaul.
While the first option allows for greater control, you’ll often end up with a terribly unbalanced game.
Thaumaturgy offers a complete overhaul of Skyrim enchantments more focused on improving what’s already there than adding 100% new enchantments – though those are definitely present. It does this mainly through re-balancing damage, duration, and trigger conditions, among other things.
My favorite changes include a stable 25% trigger chance for Turn Undead, Banish, and other Illusion spells and the addition of Jump Boots that increase your jump height fivefold.
Nelson Chitty is a Venezuelan expat living in Argentina. He’s a writer and translator passionate about history and foreign cultures. His ideal weekend is spent between leisurely playing games of Civilization VI and looking for the next seinen anime to marathon.
