Well I figured it out why it was like that.įirst of all, I found this formula. So anyone who knows how magnitude of magic effect of enchantment is calculating by game it will be very useful information. But somehow regular Fortify enchantment's magnitude can be scaled to 25 with 100 enchanting skill, all its perks and black soul gem but my custom enchantment can be scaled to 20 which is most. Its base magnitude is 8 (same as like any other Fortify ) and its magic effect costs 25 (average value if you consider other Fortify magic effects). I have one custom enchantment which is almost same enchantment with Fortify. For now I'm posting this for posterity and so people (including me) can find it in the future. Now that I've got my enchantments working in an acceptable fashion, I may come back and look at the math later to figure out more specific limitations.

This keeps you from creating a weapon with 2 charges or one with 64,000 charges (or whatever the more reasonable range is.)Įffect ordering and flags didn't seem to affect the outcome at all, except for the obvious result of turning off the 'Power determines magnitude' flag. I think if the calculated # of charges falls outside some 'reasonable' range then it falls back to your hard-coded magnitude/duration values, and uses the base cost for the enchantment cost. I created one-offs of all three magic effects and set the base costs to 7, 8, and 9, and now they all scale, even with soul trap on the same weapon. I went digging through the magic effects, and the base cost for shock was 14, and fire and frost were both low, like 1.5 and 0.9 low. I noticed that with a fixed soul trap duration, the shock would scale up, but not the fire or frost. I was trying to create 3 different combo enchantments: fire, frost, and shock each combined with a soul trap. It's somehow related to cost calculations, I think. Not sure what, exactly, but I have a direction.

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