Another useless enchanting thread

[Siefer]

I want to raise my enchanting ability. I'm thinking of dropping AS, MIU, and HP down to 1x. That would let me boost wizard ranks to 50 total. I'm a runestaff user. Would the DS I gain from the higher wizard ranks offset the loss I receive from dropping those magic ranks? I'm also toying with the idea of dropping 10 ranks each from MnE and MjE and going up to a total of 70 wizard ranks. Any opinions?

Name: Khajiit Skyrim Race: Halfling Profession: Wizard (shown as: Wizard)
Gender: Male Age: 123 Expr: 2375960 Level: 47
Normal (Bonus) ... Enhanced (Bonus)
Strength (STR): 81 (0) ... 81 (0)
Constitution (CON): 53 (11) ... 53 (11)
Dexterity (DEX): 88 (34) ... 88 (34)
Agility (AGI): 82 (26) ... 82 (26)
Discipline (DIS): 51 (-5) ... 51 (-5)
Aura (AUR): 100 (20) ... 100 (20)
Logic (LOG): 100 (30) ... 100 (30)
Intuition (INT): 100 (35) ... 100 (35)
Wisdom (WIS): 84 (17) ... 84 (17)
Influence (INF): 84 (12) ... 84 (12)
Mana: 199 Silver: 0


Khajiit (at level 47), your current skill bonuses and ranks (including all modifiers) are:
Skill Name | Current Current
| Bonus Ranks
Armor Use..........................| 20 4
Physical Fitness...................| 102 24
Arcane Symbols.....................| 198 98
Magic Item Use.....................| 198 98
Spell Aiming.......................| 198 98
Harness Power......................| 198 98
Elemental Mana Control.............| 149 49
Elemental Lore - Fire..............| 99 23
Perception.........................| 102 24
Climbing...........................| 58 12
Swimming...........................| 58 12

Spell Lists
Major Elemental....................| 44

Spell Lists
Minor Elemental....................| 46

Spell Lists
Wizard.............................| 30

[Things2Come]

Drop your fire lore for more wizard ranks

[StrayRogue]

MIU is one of the fundamental enchanting skills. I'd keep it 2x.

[Siefer]

The fire lore is currently being migrated to 0 ranks.

[Things2Come]

I would also drop AS and HP down to 1x.

[Siefer]

Whats the opinion on 50 wizard ranks vs 70? I know more is better, but I dont want to waste points if I dont have to.

[Things2Come]

The more wizard ranks the greater chance of success you'll have. You can still do it with 50, it will just be easier with less potential failure with 70.

[Siefer]

How's this look?


Khajiit (at level 47), your current skill bonuses and ranks (including all modifiers) are:
Skill Name | Current Current
| Bonus Ranks
Armor Use..........................| 20 4
Physical Fitness...................| 102 24
Arcane Symbols.....................| 198 98
Magic Item Use.....................| 198 98
Spell Aiming.......................| 198 98
Harness Power......................| 198 98
Elemental Mana Control.............| 149 49
Perception.........................| 102 24
Climbing...........................| 102 24
Swimming...........................| 102 24

Spell Lists
Major Elemental....................| 49

Spell Lists
Minor Elemental....................| 25

Spell Lists
Wizard.............................| 49

[Things2Come]

Theres nothing really wrong with it, although I would have kept 430 for the DS. Are you going to hunt, or just enchant?

[mgoddess]

If you're going to hunt at all, drop your Harness power down to at least 1.5x, if not 1x, and put the points you get back from that into getting back to 430.

If you're purely enchanting, drop your Harness Power down to 1x and get your Elemental Mana control up to 2x'ing with your MIU and AS... (or leave the mana control where it is and get more Wizard or Major Elemental spells.)

[Siefer]

I want the ability to enchant 7x without crippling my hunting ability. How much mana would I lose if I were to drop it down to 1x? 1.5x?

[Things2Come]

47 or 48, but thats why you have 516.

I went to level 57 on 1x HP and many others have gone much higher

[AestheticDeath]

In GS3, all you had was 3 mana per lvl. Nothing over unless you had friends/slaves send you mana. So you should be able to get along with 1x harness power as far as that goes. 516 helps wizards alot with mana. Major elemental spell ranks help with 516, Elemental mana control helps with 516.

Going after 430, will only net you 15 AC, unless you go above 430 in minor. If you were to put 5 spell ranks in 500's rather than 400's you'll only have a difference of 12 AC... Someone correct me if I am wrong. If AC is still a problem... get started enchanting your gear ASAP!! :P

I would drop harness power down to 47 ranks... 48th and above will only net 1 mana per rank. This will take you down to 141 mana from HP, plus your base mana, which I dont know how to figure. Most likely somewhere around 10-15 mana.(Edit: Apparantly its your starting mana stat bonus divided by 2, and doesn't change as the stat goes up, if it does.)

Take the points from the 51 HP ranks you just lost, and toss them into elemental mana control, any left over into major elemental spells.

Also, Im not sure why you put perception, climb/swim at 24 ranks. But personally I go for as little as I can for climb/swim. If you can get by with less, I would free up the points for something else. I havent been around for a while, but I would assume you can Gate past certain points if the need arises.

[Siefer]

I usually injure myself when I gate. 24 ranks is what I need to get into the rift or OTF I think. I might drop HP down to 1x, get 70 total wizard ranks and leave it there and just pour everything into 400s and 500s from now on.

[MrFeature]

Wizards are stupid. Cept for Saberwolf, he was awesome.

and maybe Alfador.

[Askip]

<< Wizards are stupid. >>

I think you forgot the smilely face in your brilliant post. :D