No Fortify Magicka Effect

[FaceinThesand]

I've recently started a game with my first spellcaster - a female Breton with 60 Intelligence (starting) and the Apprentice Birthsign. All in all, this should give me 270 Magicka as a level one character - 120 (2xint) + 50 (Breton) + 100 (Apprentice) - however, I am only receiving the 120 for my intelligence.

 

Thinking it might be a combination of race, class and birthsign, I started a new game as a High Elf with the Atronach birthsign. Similar effect, with only 130 magicka instead of the 370 it should start off with. I started trying every combination of race and birthsign I could think of - High Elf and Breton with all combinations of the Mage, Apprentice and Atronach birthsigns. Thinking that the glitch might be caused by having two Fortify Magicka effects, I even tried Dark Elves and Redguards - who did not receive the buff either.

 

I had all of the negative abilities of the race and birthsign (For instance, 100% weakness to magic, and 25% weakness to elemental attacks) but was receiving no Fortify Magicka Effect.

I thought that it might need jolting by my shifting about my intelligence stat - so I started to level up my alchemy, conjuration and mysticism, but the buffs did not start - my magicka only increased in line with my intelligence increase.

 

 

Anyway, I am not using any mods which affect Magicka, Intelligence, or Birthsigns - and have tried rejigging the buffs the abilities give me to more or less in the Construction Set, but they still do not work.

 

I'm using a fully patched version of Oblivion and Shivering Isles, with the majority of the DLCs. I do run the newest versions of OBMM and OBSE, and a lot of armour/weapon mods, but not many gameplay mods that should affect this part of the game.

 

Has anyone else had this problem? If so, how do I fix it?

 

If not, is there a cheat that I can use to set my magicka in accordance with the rules - like there are the modpca cheats - so that I can at least play a balanced game?

 

 

Thanks in advance,

FaceInTheSand.

[Abramul]

Do Fortify Magicka spells and potions work properly? Enchantments?

Does this happen with no mods whatsoever?

 

If you need FormIDs for AddItem and AddSpell, the template links on UESP's page will lead you to them.

[FaceinThesand]

Thanks - it's working now.

 

Turns out all I needed to do was de- and then re-activate all my mods in stages.

 

What caused it will remain one of life's great mysteries.