Skyrim Tips - Spells Cost Zero Magicka To Cast and Infinite Enchantment Charge

Yeah, a nice little trick pretty obvious to some, but whatever. Through enchanting you can make it so a certain spell of school costs zero to cast. If you do this with DESTRUCTION it makes your weapons (not staves), have unlimited charges as well which is amazing.

All you need is either the enchantment for the school you wish to have cost 0 magicka, or have an item that you can disenchant to give you that enchantment. Next you need to have 4 Soul Gems filled with Grand Souls. You need an unenchanted Helm, Necklace, Chest, and Ring of your choice. Then you need to be at 100 Enchanting.

The easiest way to get fortify destruction enchantment is off "Thalmor Robes" and "Hodded Thalmor Robes". Just go to any location where Thalmor are and murder those bigots.

You can do this for two schools if you have the dual enchantment perk.

Example
Helm - 25 percent Destruction and 25 percent Illusion

Neck - 25 Percent Destruction and 25 percent Illusion

Chest - 25 Percent Destruction and 25 percent Illusion

Ring - 25 Percent Destruction and 25 percent Illusion

Brief Soul Gem Explanation
For this to work you must be using Grand Soul. Grand Souls come from high leveled creatures, or humans. An example of a high leveled creature would be a Mammoth. All "human" souls are grand but they can only reside within a Black Soul Gem, or the Black Star (acquired from a Deadric Quest).

Here is a list of are the gems you can use. Grand Soul Gem, Azura's Star, Black Star, or Black Soul Gem.

All of these Gems CAN contain a lesser Soul in them. That is a Grand Soul Gem could house a Petty Soul for example. This is not what you need. You need to have a Soul Gem that holds a GRAND Soul in it. The item tooltip will say "Azura's Star (Grand)", or "Grand Soul Gem (Grand)". If it says "Grand Soul Gem (Lesser)" this will NOT work.

TIP: Getting to 100 Enchanting
This isn't really that hard. You can use Alchemy to boost your Enchanting, but it isn't hard to do it on your own. Go to the College of Winterhold. Wait till 1 A.M. Now go to the tower were all the "instructors" sleep. There will be three people in there that sell a vast array of Soul Gems. Both Filled and Not. If you are rich, buy them all. Personally I just bought unfilled petty and lesser. Wait 2 days, and then buy again. Repeat this till you have 50 soul gems or so. Then run around and kill foxes or wolves or anything till you fill them all up. It only took me about 45 minutes. Finally go and enchant a bunch of useless gear with useless enchantments. That's how I did it.

[DarkSignal]

this is the exact reason i decided to wear armor on my mage character. now i just need to level up my enchanting and hello infinite mass destruction. since i play with spells only, my magicka (despite being currently at 630 with 2 enchanted pieces) drains pretty fast especially when using destruction spells. the only thing i regret is not remembering this trick faster(as i saw it a year ago too but i wasn't playing as a mage back then) so that i wouldn't waste all those levels to boost my magicka instead of health. and the best part about this is that it's legit gameplay, no glitches or anything, just smart use of enchanting

[Helltech]

That is how alchemy works, it boosts your enchanting level, since I was already at 100 alchemy made it go over that.

[CrIstnELITE]

Thanks! Just got back on Skyrim and this helped me remember what I was missing for the 0% cost. I'm looking forward to my first power leveled character :D

[reformedzoomer]

Another thing you can do is use the dual enchanting to do 2 schools of magic. One fun thing to do is get max illusion and constantly use mass paralysis.

[grm]

You can have two schools of magic with using enchanted necklace ring, boots, helmet, and havs two armour left over

[Helltech]

Depends on the school you want. Destruction you get from Thalmor Robes, some you just have to get lucky and find in a dungeon.

[NoSkreets]

Thank you so much for the alchemy part, my enchantments only come in at 23% less to cast and I have all the perks, thanks dude

[farcastk]

you either have to invest points into conjuration or enchant separate gear that fortifies magicka. combine that with the atronach stone + blessing of julianos and you might get there. the cost of dead thrall is 618 magicka.

[Helltech]

You can get them during the main story quest "Diplomatic Immunity", but they are on most Thalmor, you should find them pretty easy.

[Helltech]

The robes the Thalmor have drop them; "Thalmor Robes". Just find out where the Thalmor are and annihilate their prejudiced asses! :)

[vkishibatv]

Wasn't obvious to me. Thanks man.

[Helltech]

I didn't notice it until I uploaded the video (or I would have remade it), and some other user commented that one of the enemies I was fighting drains magicka, I assure you this works 100 percent. I have ran through the game on multiple times using infinite mana including the DLC.

[Helltech]

@TheAngelofThrash As LancerNation said, its lightning storm. One of the three master level destruction spells. You must get to 100 destro and then talk to Fraylada (i know i spelt that wrong, the destruction trainer at the college), and she will give you a quest. Finish the quest and you can buy it form her.

[ROCKSTAR]

this isn't a broken system, the developer made the game like that. On Master or Legendary difficulty, destruction spells don't do much damage so you should be able to spam them.

[kobelevesque]

Lol my armor lets me fortify two schools each piece 40% off. I’ve hacked enchanting to the max. Not only potions helps but so does:
-Necromage perk and being a vampire buffs enchantments further
-Seeker of sorcery +10% enchanting
-Wearing All If azhidals armor when enchanting
-maxed enchanting
-potions obviously
And boom op enchanting, because of my enchanting whatever armor I wear decides my build. I feel like Erza 😂

[Helltech]

@Silverormen No it costs none what so ever. 100 percent reduction. 25+25+25+25. I played through the entire game on master and never once lost magicka spamming the highest magicka costing spell there is.

[Helltech]

@Ludlium Make sure your soul gem has a grand soul INSIDE it, a grand soul gem could hold a petty soul for example. Make sure you have no debuffs. Make sure you have 5 points into enchanter. Make sure you have Corpus enchanter. Make sure you have 100 enchanting. That is all there is to it.

[Jerkingmyswag]

so if you level up 100 enchantment do you automaticly get fortify magicka and destruction

[Helltech]

If you notice my video mine starts at 8 percent also, thats the base of it. As soon as you go to enchant it will show the actual percent.

[Helltech]

@EquinoxShane You don't need 100 destruction, you only need 100 desturction to get the spell shown in the video. You do need 100 enchanting (which only takes an hour a two of your time to get to 100).