my memory is gone - enchanting is crap or?

[Death Approaches]

So years go by and things get forgotten...

How come we can't enchant as well as the things we can buy? Oblivion enchanting can't be perked up like Skyrim right, we don't make alchemical brews for enchanting armor suits and vice versa, nor do our levels of magic affect our brews or enchants, right?

So take the misspelled Akavari Sunderblade, with it's 100 disintegrate armor / 100 disintegrate weapon / 3000/3000 (15)... say whhhhaaat?! Granted it's prohibitively expensive, but it shouldn't even exist.

If I throw an akaviri katana and a grand soul gem (1600) on an enchanting altar, I get EIGHTY FIVE points... just putting those two on @ 100 would be *450* for one smack, let alone 15 smacks. How is this possible? I can't do it with a grand soul, and I've never seen a sigil stone over transcendent, and those are 50 (30) for disintegrate. (and singular, anyway.)

So if these uber weaponry we can buy at stores exist just willy-nilly but yet there's no backstory, no long 20-page dialogue explaining why whatever god gave them to us mortals and now you can have them without a massive quest over hours or killing 10000 opponents just exchange coin with this merchant? When those of the nine's "crusader" crap has us read / listen to dozens / hundreds of bits of dialogue from all these weak dumb ghosts that sent us all over the province? I really want to banish or at least soultrap them, all that work for something you use so little?

ARGH. I annoyed myself. Anyway.
Am I missing something I used to know but forgot?

[-=Ðﮐ=- Arctic Howler]

First off... Azure Star.... second... if you REALLY want to make a enchanted weapon without the Azure Star, construction kit and make your item.... that's really how it goes... also knights of the nine is the biggest let down gear wise.... 1 crime and you can't use any of it anymore till you do a fresh pilgrimage...

[Death Approaches]

dude I'm forgetful not stupid, first off it's Aurua's Star not and it's not blue :-) and 2nd it's just a reusable grand soul gem, so thanks but not helpful and you're either dumber and / or more forgetful than me, so we're not the ones to answer this.

How about a direct challenge, since it's obvious if you skimmed it, others will too?

With NO MODS, make a weapon at an enchanting altar as strong as or better than the Akaviri Sunderblade, and post how you did it.

[Von Faustien]

100% chameleon or damage reduction says hi. oblvion enchanting is broken if you use it right. you might not be able to replicate premade items but you can do broken combos

[Death Approaches]

Von Faustien, so do you or don't you know? Am I speaking a foreign language here? I'm sorry I know it sounds confrontational, I do apologize. And yes not cheating, not taking advantage of any exploit, and clearly no mod... straight, off-the-shelf vanilla Oblivion GOTY Deluxe.

I feel like I had a stroke. It should be a simple question, I thought, for current players. Can we or can we not create items as strong as the ones we can just arbitrarily purchase from generic random merchants? And if not, how does the game rectify their creation? They simply exist, deal with it? Argh I hate that. So unsatisfying.

AFAICG (as far as I can google) I am right about the no-boosting thing, enchants are what they are, as soon as you can afford the candles for frostcrag spire or can collect all the mage guild recommendations to get in and use the mage tower, even if that's 5th or 6th level, you will make the same destruction enchantment at 6th lvl and 55th journeyman destruction as you will at 50th lvl and 100th master destruction, which seems very weird to me but that's probably a lifetime spent in skyrim, which brings back why I was asking in the first place, I can't remember.

Oh well, it is what it is.

[crimsyn76]

Originally posted by Death Approaches:

Can we or can we not create items as strong as the ones we can just arbitrarily purchase from generic random merchants?

We can not.

Originally posted by Death Approaches:

And if not, how does the game rectify their creation?

It does not.

Originally posted by Death Approaches:

They simply exist, deal with it?

Yes.

[-=Ðﮐ=- Arctic Howler]

Originally posted by crimsyn76:

Originally posted by Death Approaches:

Can we or can we not create items as strong as the ones we can just arbitrarily purchase from generic random merchants?

We can not.

Actually you can with alchemy tbh, Azure Star helps for not using that exploit...

[Death Approaches]

sigh could you please stop staying azure star, it's not blue it's kind of a coppery-metallic looking thing, it's Azura's Star, as in the Daedric lord Azura who's been in every elder scrolls game, who's totem the Star has been in every game too, and no it's no better, it's just a reusable Soul Gem... who told you it was better? Why do you think it's better? Where do you get your terrible information and obsession with calling it blue?