CaptainChaos Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 I had a Mace of Fatigue it never came close to running out of charges. I bought a new mace of Absorb Health, thinking awesome, but after 20 hits it ran out of charges. Is there anyway to tell how many charges something has before I buy it and how many are remaining? Thanks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draco856 Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 There is a bar that shows on screen the charge level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainChaos Posted November 25, 2011 Author Share Posted November 25, 2011 I appreciate you mentioning that and I apologize for not being more specific in my question. When a weapon is fully charged, it appears to me that the bar is the same length for any charged weapon - a few inches long. One weapon had like 1000 charges it seemed, another had 10, but the bar started at the same length. So, I have no idea where in between that is. Any additional thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draco856 Posted November 26, 2011 Share Posted November 26, 2011 The amount of charge will also depend on your skill in the school of magic that governs that spell, so say you have 100 in destruction, but only 10 in alteration/illusion/etc, any destruction based enchantments will last much longer then any other schools enchantments. There's no real hard number I could give you, because it's all skill based, the higher your skill, the more charges you'll get out of a given item. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarKirby3333 Posted November 26, 2011 Share Posted November 26, 2011 it shows the exact number of charges when you're doing the enchanting. i'm not sure if you can see it at any other time thugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainChaos Posted November 26, 2011 Author Share Posted November 26, 2011 Ohh... that is very helpful thank you. But I bought the item, I did not enchant it. Anyway to figure that out? Thanks again, that was helpful even though it didn't quite apply here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agno Posted November 26, 2011 Share Posted November 26, 2011 Yo, I have something to add. the other night I was enchanting masses of things and finally tested things out. enchanting an item that has %fire resistance among other stats will visiblyshow you that using a common gem is better than a petty gem.(for ex, 2% fire res vs 5% fire res) HOWEVER. what is not displayed is how many more charges an itemhas with a better soul gem. I enchanted 2 identical steal daggers back to backone with a petty soul and one with a greater soul. both appeared to have exact same stats, one ha a higher value. I slashed left then right then left then right and so on against a retardednpc.... anyway the petty dagger ran out first, and when it did the greaterdagger had 75% charge remaining.... HUGE undoccumented difference. enchant charged items with top lvl souls, I enchanted an ebony bow with a black soul gem and saved, then i proceededto kill everyone in whiterun eccept for like 3 or 4 unkillable npcs and all thechildren..... still had a fair amount of charge after over a hundred arrows loosed. compared to a petty ebony bow which had a dozen charges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palpenious Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 Well you are able to adjust how many uses vs. how effective each use is before creating the item too. Meaning a bigger soul will give you more to work with, but you can still decide to make something like 5 damage over 10 seconds with 30 uses, or 25 damage over 1 second with 10 uses. So if you get an enchantment you like consider learning it and making your own weapon to customize it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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