I have Smithing to level 100, but only up to Arcane in perks. I have four pieces of +25% smithing enchanted gear.
I noticed sometimes the enchant doesn't show up so I have to re-equip and then it appears under active effects. While wearing all four pieces I could only improve a daedric bow to 51 damage. This seemed off to me, so as an experiment I took off one of the +25% smithing items and tried improving a iron dagger.
To my disappointment I noticed not wearing one of the enchanted pieces resulted in the same improvement. Anyone else having this issue and know how to get around it? If no one has advice I guess I could enchant four more items, but I'd rather not.
Best Answer
It looks to me like your game is working correctly.
Experiment:
I just tried your
Iron Dagger
experiment and saw similar results. The problem is that theIron Dagger
base numbers are so small a 25% difference was within 1 damage point. I tried the same experiment on anEbony Sword
(for which I do not have the Ebony Smithing perk) and I saw a difference of 5 damage points from the extra +25% Smithing gear.Solution:
If you really want to improve that
Daedric Bow
, you need the Daedric Smithing perk. Or... you know, a game-breaking level of +Smithing gear/potions.