The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Game Add-Ons (DLC) Hints

New Crafting Options

• There are eleven new ingredient items that you can make potions with. However, there are no new potion effects, so the new ingredient items can only be used to make potions with the same old effects. I list them and their potion effects below for reference.
  
  * Ash Creep Cluster => Damage Stamina, Invisibility, Resist Fire, Fortify Destruction
  * Ashen Grass Pod => Resist Fire, Weakness to Shock, Fortify Lockpicking, Fortify Sneak
  * Ash Hopper Jelly => Restore Health, Fortify Light Armor, Resist Shock, Weakness to Frost
  * Boar Tusk => Fortify Stamina, Fortify Health, Fortify Block, Frenzy
  * Burnt Spriggan Wood => Weakness to Fire, Fortify Alteration, Damage Magicka Regeneration, Slow
  * Emperor Parasol Moss => Damage Health, Fortify Magicka, Regenerate Health, Fortify Two-Handed
  * Felsaad Tern Feathers => Restore Health, Fortify Light Armor, Cure Disease, Resist Magic
  * Netch Jelly => Paralysis, Fortify Carry Weight, Restore Stamina, Fear
  * Scathecraw => Ravage Health, Ravage Stamina, Ravage Magicka, Lingering Damage Health
  * Spawn Ash => Ravage Stamina, Resist Fire, Fortify Enchanting, Ravage Magicka
  * Trama Root => Weakness to Shock, Fortify Carry Weight, Damage Magicka, Slow
  
  NOTES: Boar Tusks make Fortify Stamina potions with a greater magnitude and a much greater duration, plus Fortify Health potions with a much greater duration. Emperor Parasol Moss makes slightly superior Damage Health poisons, equivalent to using Deathbell. Netch Jelly makes Restore Stamina potions that are twice as strong. Ashen Grass Pods make Resist Fire potions with a greater magnitude.
  
  
  For enchanting, there are two neat new things. One is the Chaos Damage enchantment that you can get by disenchanting the unique Champion's Cudgel weapon (which you can get on the "March of the Dead" side quest) or an "of Chaos" weapon (which you can randomly find in merchants' inventories on rare occasions). Weapons enchanted with it have a 50% chance per element (fire, frost, shock) of doing a certain amount of damage of that element's type. The amount of damage depends on your enchanting potential, and can be considerably higher with maxed-out enchanting potential than it is on the original weapon.
  
  The other neat new enchanting thing is the ability to boost your maxed-out enchanting potential (and other item-crafting potential) considerably beyond what it used to be. Do the "Unearthed" side quest to get all of the Ahzidal-brand artifacts, and the "Black Book: The Sallow Regent" side quest to gain access to three "seeker" effects that will boost skill effectiveness. Now whenever you enchant items, you'll want to wear Ahzidal's Boots of Waterwalking with three other Ahzidal-brand items and get the Seeker of Sorcery effect from the black book, in addition to using your best enchant-enhancing potions. With potion-making and smithing, use the usual enhancers plus the appropriate effect from the book (Seeker of Shadows for potion-making and Seeker of Might for smithing). If you use these new enhancements with the back-and-forth routine described in the item-crafting tips in the main Skyrim hint file, you can make apparel items that boost potion strength and smithing improvements by 35% each (the old limit was 29%). Also, your top-quality Enchant-fortifying potions will have a magnitude of 40% (old max: 32%), and your Smithing-enhancing potions will be up to 158% (old max: 130%).
  
  
  There's also quite a bit of new stuff you can smith up at forges. If you have the Smithing skill's Steel Smithing perk and some netch leather, you can make sets of bonemold armor, which is a new type of heavy armor. After you do the "Recover the Bonemold Formula for Glover Mallory" miscellaneous quest (or find and read the formula on your own), you'll also be able to forge improved bonemold armor items. If you have the Advanced Armors perk, you can make nordic carved armor, plus nordic weapons and arrows. Note that the nordic armor is all heavy armor, despite the fact that the required perk is on the light armor side of the perk tree.
  
  The Elven Smithing perk will allow you to make both light and heavy versions of chitin armor, provided you have some netch leather and chitin plate. After you finish the "A New Source of Stalhrim" side quest, you'll also be able to make stalhrim armor and weapons if you have the Ebony Smithing perk and some stalhrim ore. Stalhrim armor can be made in light or heavy versions, and has the special property of enhancing any Resist Frost enchantment that you put on it by 25%. Stalhrim weapons likewise enhance Frost Damage enchantments.
  
  
  Besides all that, there's a new staff enchanter device that can be used to create magic staffs with a spell of your choosing on them. The only staff enchanter device in the game is in Neloth's area in the Tel Mithryn tower, and you won't have access to it until you finish the "Reluctant Steward" side quest. You can then use the staff enchanter to create a magic staff for a certain spell, provided you know the spell, have an unenchanted staff that's of that spell's type, and have the required number of heart stones. You can buy unenchanted staffs from Neloth, and you can mine heart stones from the many heart stone deposits that are scattered all over Solstheim.
  

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