edbgarcia Posted November 13, 2015 Posted November 13, 2015 Hi: I do not know how it happened, but after getting a real sweet drop "Goldbrand" a beautiful looking sword, I decided to enchant it and make it my main weapon for it looked so cool. When I went to the Arcane Table, I noted I was getting some pretty wacky values, and checked my value for Fortify Enchanting, instead of being the 25% I normally have it showed 2,285,898; obviously the data became corrupted yet have no idea when or how it happened. With that in the background, I thought ok, lets use the console command and remove all the enchanting perks and drop my enchanting skill to 0; thus hoping it would force the game to recalculate my fortify enchanting and thus fix the bad data value. To make sure the change took, I even exited the game and returned after of course doing an ESC, followed by save, new save. When I came back, my enchanting skill was still 2,285,898. I had no crafting gear on me, but still to be sure, I unequipped everything I was wearing and once more tried the Arcane table, still 2,285,898. Now I am beginning to feel challenged beyond my game experience, and I figured, if I drink a fortifying enchanting potion it would raise my fortify enchanting and thus force the game to recomputed my ability and then once more after it wore out, it would recalculate my new fortify enchanting, once again nothing changed and received the 2,285,898 value. Then it occurred to me, ok, console command time for the win, I knew that player.setav is used to set values, such as player.setav dragonsouls 20, which sets my characters available dragonsouls to 20 for use to unlock shouts, so far so good. But to be sure I would not really break the game, although I had made a special save as a precaution, I did the player.getav command to get a value while looking for the infamous 2,285,898. To my annoyance, I tried player.getav fortify_enchanting - did not work, tried player.getav "fortify enchanting" - no luck, tried player.getav "fortify_enchanting" - yeah no luck. So I figure the code name for fortify enchanting is some weird mystic name that I could not possibly guess in a million years. Perhaps someone knows how and tell me how to querry the system to get the name I need for the setav command, or easier for me: just give it to me. Or perhaps there is another way to fix it, besides dumping the alt and starting all over. I thank you all for any help on this Ed
Perraine Posted November 14, 2015 Posted November 14, 2015 First, have a look at your active effects screen and see if anything is unnaturally boosting your Enchanting skill. Second, use "player.modav" with a negative number (i.e player.modav -1000000) and see what happens.
edbgarcia Posted November 14, 2015 Author Posted November 14, 2015 Perraine, thank you for the observation, ironically I never thought to check for some kind of standing effect that may be spinning my fortify enchanting out of orbit, so I rushed to the game and looked, to my sadness there were no effects present that could impact the performance of fortify enchanting. With regards to player.modav I got a syntax error, I need an "AV" to go with it, such as the word enchanting, which would modify my value for my crafting skill in this example; what I do not know what is the word I need for fortify enchanting, any ideas? Thank you, very much, I learned another thing to do when checking when things go bump in the night...he he he Ed
Perraine Posted November 17, 2015 Posted November 17, 2015 Well, looks like "something" has screwed with your stats ... as for the console command = "player.modav Enchanting -xxx" (without the quotes and with xxx replaced with your desired number, either positive or negative) should do.the trick. The 'modav' command works very much like a buff from a potion or scroll, (except it is permanent) so it doesn't actually modify the base stat and is therefore a little bit 'safer' to use, because it's less likely to mess with perks and/or leveling scripts. The only 'AV' variable that is quirky is the Archery skill, which is known internally as "Marksman" so you have to use that to to change the Archery skill.
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