How To Perform The Fortify Restoration Loop

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This Guide Describes How To Perform The Oh-So Popular Fortify Resto Loop. Why Am I Making This? Because The Fandom Wiki Is WRONG! Yep. Wronge. Or Hard To Understand Idk

Prerequisites

To Start From The Very Beginning, Escape Helgen, Do All The Things You Normally Would In Riverwood Or Whatever, And Go To Dawnstar (Preferably With Bjorlam's Cart At Whiterun Stables). Go To The Mine, Look To The Left And Search The 3 Rocks For An Invisible Chest.

This Chest Is The Not-So-Well Hidden Merchant Inventory For The Trader In The Nearby Khajit Caravan. You Will Need To '''Steal''' (You Won't Get A Bounty As This Is Not Technically Pickpocketing) From The Chest. Grab:

• Any Ingredients
  
• Whatever Enchanted Items Tickle Your Fancy (And Fortify Alchemy If It's Available)
  
• All Soul Gems, Preferably Filled.

After That, If You Are Not Satisfied (Or Don't Have Fortify Alc) Wait For The Caravan To Arrive. Quicksave, Punch The Trader, And Load Back The Save. This, For Some Reason, Resets Their Inventory, So Open Up Their Shop To Refresh The Chest.

Alternatively, If You Don't Feel Like Waiting For Fortify Alchemy, Go To The Mortar And Pestle, Speak To The Old Lady Who Owns The Shop And Receive The Radiant Quest To Get The Ring Of Pure Mixtures For Her. Go And Get It, Then Give It To Her (You Can't Disenchant It Before This). After This, She'll Have It As A Shop Item, So Buy It, Or, Alternatively, Steal It From Her. Either Way, Get The Ring Back.

Prerequisites, Continued

After That, Head Back To Whiterun, And Into Arcadia's Cauldron. You Will Need These Ingredients:

Fortify Restoration (10 Should Be More Than Enough)

• Abecean Longfin
  
• Cyrodilic Spadetail
  
• Salt Pile
  
• Small Antlers
  
• Small Pearl
  
• (Dawnguard DLC) Yellow Mountain Flower

Fortify Enchanting (1/2 Is Fine)

• (Dawnguard DLC) Ancestor Moth Wing
  
• Blue Butterfly Wing
  
• (Dawnguard DLC) Chaurus Hunter Antennae
  
• Hagraven Claw
  
• (Dragonborn DLC) Spawn Ash
  
• Spriggan Sap
  
• *Snowberries

If She Runs Out Of These Ingredients, Quicksave, Punch, Load.
Repeat Until You Have All The Necessary Ingredients.

Then, Train Up Your Alchemy To 40+. This Can Be Through Training Or Making Potions (Salt Pile + Moon Sugar Works Well). Then, Get Alchemist (3/5 +), Physician And Benefactor. Now You're Ready To Start!

The Loop

Now, Disenchant The Ring Of Pure Mixtures, And Re-enchant The Following Armour Pieces With Fortify Alchemy:

• Helmet
  
• Gauntlets
  
• Ring
  
• Necklace

Those Are All The Possible Fortify Alchemy Pieces. Armour Quality Doesn't Matter, Be It Leather Or Daedric, It'll Work.

Now, Get To Work.

Repeat These Steps Until You Have The Level Of Overpoweredness That Suits Your Needs.

• Make A Fortify Restoration Potion
  
• Take Off Alchemy Gear
  
• Drink The Potion
  
• Put The Gear Back On

After You Have Reached Your Desired Amount Of Utter Cheese, Make A Fortify Enchanting Potion, Throw Down A Save And Enchant A Piece Of Armour With Fortify Alchemy. This Means You Won't Need 20+ Fortify Alc Ingredients In Future. Then, Enchant Away!

Warning: Insane Levels Can And Will Crash Your Game. It Is Also Worth Noting That Weapons That Can Destroy The Entire Fabric Of Reality Will Likely Be Unable To Be Charged With Soul Gems.

[Dirt Block ||PAI||]

Ik this is an old post but could you make the perks you need in bold? I didn't realized I needed benefactor until afterwards, at least I made a save before I started

[Prince of Darkness]

Idk id like to think somone was trolling people who use this glitch on the wiki. this glitch is cleary not a intended feature sure. Its a feature considering its in the game but i dout its intended. Rather im prity sure its just the result of a bunch of mechanics snowballing over eachother if done right. Its why i never use it u might aswell just use console commands in my openion. Wich i do use to a extent but never use it to break the game nor do i use any godmode cheats.

[DragonAssassinJ]

I Remember using this and enchanting a bow and anything i shot with it would start glowing a fine shade of purple furniture would glow too

[Kingkit]

It Just Isn't Working For Me :(

[CarpioKey]

The chest between rocks will be patched if you have installed USSEP. If you want to get it anyway, you can open the console with "º" key and enter "tcl". That will allow you to walk through the floor and open the chest under it.

[=DOGOVORNYAK=]

any info about these 3 rocks? Or they were patched?

[ThaTylar]

Question, which rocks are you talking about? The tall one, the small rocks near the cliff or the stacked rocks near the tree?

[The True Nord]

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[madola]

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[jaredashe23]

favorited ty