What type of soul you use when enchanting an item matters depending on what enchantment you want to use. Soul Trap is a Mysticism spell which is sold by many different merchants in the game. In order to bind a soul to a soul gem you will need a soul gem powerful enough to hold your targets soul and to cast Soul Trap on them before killing them. With the amount of Intelligence you see me with in the screenshot above (it's over 9000!) you'll never fail to enchant an item.Īside from needing a high Intelligence to successfully enchant an item you'll also need a powerful soul bound to a soul gem. Otherwise you'll have a very low chance of successfully enchanting every item that you try to in the game. In order to Enchant items yourself with a 100% success rate you'll need to use the Morrowind Alchemy Exploit to raise your Intelligence into the thousands. There are two methods of enchanting an item, you can visit an NPC who will apply the Enchant for you for a steep price or you can Enchant items yourself.
Those of you who like to min/max your characters will most likely want to pick up Enchanting since the best set of armor will be one you make yourself. Enchanting Beginner's Guide - Elder Scrolls: MorrowindĮnchanting is one of the two tradeskill professions in Morrowind and much like Alchemy, if you know what you're doing you can make yourself very powerful with Enchanting.