Talk:Fortify Restoration

The trick or glitch with Fortify Restoration potions is very cool, but just like the various ways to jack up your smithing ability, it will very easily makes the game zero fun if not used with caution. I'm sure I sound like a buzz kill, but once I had the Dragonscale Armor, I felt a bit cheated over how it was just barely stronger than the Glass Armor, and not really at that much better than the Ancient Shrouded, Thieve's Guild (I actually used the TG armor with the Dark Brotherhood gloves, cowl, and gloves for quite a while), or the Nightingale Armor (especially the Nightingale Armor--I'm still not sure if it is!), so I used a superpowered Fortify Smithing potion to improve it...and it was one of the first things that I used the Extra Effect perk from Enchanting on.

Oh God...what a mistake...

I had 70 something light armor, archery, and One-handed, level 45 or something, and I added a jacked up F Archery and F One-Handed to the gauntlets (both 48%), F archery to the helmet (same), F Light Armor (added 29 points...) to the armor, and F Carry weight/F Archery to the boots. The armor's rating was like 270, my shield had like 160 something, and my gauntlets and boots were both something like 160!

With high archery and high one-handed skill, along with my idiotic choice of jacked up enchantments, Legendary level Ebony and Daedric weapons all did like 270 damage, as did the freaking NIGHTINGALE BOW. NOTHING HURT MY CHARACTER. It was ridiculous.

I'm not at all saying don't try the exploits or even that they aren't fun--I'm just saying to pay attention to how ridiculous things can get, cause I didn't, and something like four suits of Dragonscale armor later, I finally got it right (of course, I have 150+ Dragon Bones but only 60 something Dragon Scales...I ended up jacking everything up, after being broken in, to 160/armor, 60 something for the boots and gauntlets, like 70 or 80 something for the helmet and 100 for the shield).

You will not truly appreciate some facets of the game until you've ruined them by overdoing it with exploits. 76.121.163.168 03:04, February 8, 2012 (UTC)'''