Alchemists don't sell Fortify Enchanting potions?

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Well may it be possible that achemists don't sell potions like Enchanter's Elixir or Enchanter's Draught? I have tried 7 in a row now and neither of them had any. May this be so because the name of these potions begins with the skill and not with "potion of" or "draught of" etc.? And anyother potion's name begins with e. g. "Solution of Pickpocketing" etc.?

[Urgh]

They do, but they're almost as rare as deadra hearts.

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Originally posted by BloodFireIce:

They do, but they're almost as rare as deadra hearts.

Oh ok thanks for the answer :) But all the other potions don't seem to be that rare so why did they pick the enchanting potions to be that rare?

[Urgh]

I dont know. Just speaking from personal experience.
You could make your own if alchemy is a skill you want for your character. http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Fortify_Enchanting

[Avatar1971]

I made a ring to fortify enchanting as part of my mod you can check out if you want. It can even be disenchanted to learn it, if you want to put it on special crafting gear with Smithing or Alchemy that your character uses.

Dragonborn Crafting Hall (It has a DLC version and a no DLC version to choose from)
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/49888/

I also have it on Steam but it is version 1.9 and the current version is now 2.1. I have not updated the file on Steam because I added Hearthfire support and made a new ESP file to not break peoples games that don't have that DLC. You may not know that Steam auto updates mods when new versions are available. The Steam version includes the ring however if you do not like Nexus for whatever reason. Here is a Steam link to the DLC version, if you don't have the DLC there is a link to that version at the end of the description for the mod.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=216423817

[Roscaria]

There are four potions of Enchanting in the game besides the ones you make yourself.
They are:
Enchanter's Potion +10%
Enchanter's Draught +15%
Encanter;s Philter +20%
Enchanter's Elixir +25% All potions last for 60 secs.

As BloodFireIce stated they are pretty rare. They may also be Lvl dependent like weapons/armour.

It's really a catch 22 situation. You have to raise your lvl in Alchemy to make Fortify Enchanting and Smithing potions stronger. You have to raise your level and use said potions to enchant an item to increase Alchemy/Smithing skills and repeat.

[Bomb Bloke]

If you're at the stage where you can't make better enchanting potions than the pre-mixed ones, then you're at the stage where they're really not going to produce that big of a boost anyways.

Better to spend your time improving your base skill stats than worrying what you can currently do with them.

[Tochi]

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[Shrapnel]

that looping trick is so...lol too much work to be a 'trick'
By the time you do all that silly encahting, creating, reenchating, creating...might as well make it a skill you put so much time into it

[EbonHawk]

On a side note: I always thought it was a little strange that some shopkeeper's sold Potions of Haggling.

Shopkeeper: "Ok, lemme see here, sir. Ah, here we are, my latest creation: a Potion of Haggling. That'll be 150 gold."
*character drinks potion, and saves 1000 gold on all his subsequent purchases*
Shopkeeper: "Have a nice day, friend!! Pleasure doin' business with ya!"
Character: "Right back atcha, pal."

Oh well, who am I to argue game logic though. (And I just made those numbers up; I have no idea how much you really save by using those potions ahead of time. It's just the whole concept that's weird to me.)

[Brandybuck]

Originally posted by Shrapnel:

that looping trick is so...lol too much work to be a 'trick'
By the time you do all that silly encahting, creating, reenchating, creating...might as well make it a skill you put so much time into it

The looping trick has also been "fixed", so that it has diminishing returns and you quickly hit the limit after only three or four loops.