Where to purchase soul gems

They are available both filled and empty. I have never bought soul gems unless I just wanted to dump more gear on the current merchant I was dealing with, as I get tired of traveling to multiple places to sell off loot.

You can generally find plenty of gems in game, especially if you go to dungeons with mages or go to Dwemer ruins, the automatons have a high percentage of soul gems inside them, and so you really don't have to buy them, unless you are just trying to level up enchanting quickly. If there are no empty gems you will not be able to trap the soul. There are several ways to capture soul of the enemy:. Every enchanted weapon has special effects.

For example it deals frost or flame damage, grants damage shield and so on. These effects only work if the weapon is charged. If there is no power, extra effects will not work. All you need to charge the weapon is to have a filled soul gem.

Right click on the weapon, select "Charge" from dropdown menu and you will see following window:. Different gems can provide your weapon with different amount of power. If you have high level weapon Petty and Lesser gems are useless because they will not give enough power. High level weapon require Greater or Grand types. They will charge the pool fully and you will be able to use the weapon without recharging for relatively long time.

Watch the video guide below to find out how to farm grand gems at very low cost! Used for enchanting weapons and armor at an arcane enchanter or for recharging previously enchanted weapons, soul gems come in various sizes and strengths: petty , lesser , common , greater , grand and black. Capturing souls in soul gems is typically done with the Soul Trap spell of the Conjuration school of Magicka , or with a weapon that has received such an enchantment.

Soul gems can be obtained by slaying mages, magically-affiliated enemies , by purchasing them from magic shops and court wizards , mining geode veins or found as randomized loot in containers.

In Blackreach , the Dwemer underground realm, there are geode deposits. These yield soul gems with random values ranging from petty to black soul gems. Filled and empty soul gems can be purchased from general goods merchants , court magicians and some members of the College of Winterhold. Filled gems are three to four times the price of empty ones. Trapping souls in soul gems requires the conjuration spell Soul Trap or a soul trap enchanted weapon. Killing an enemy with the spell cast upon them or using the enchantment draws their soul into one gem of the appropriate size.

If no gem of the appropriate size exists in the inventory , the soul is captured by a higher-capacity gem. If there is no empty gem large enough, the soul is lost. An example of a weapon enchanted with the ability to capture souls is the Mace of Molag Bal.

In Dawnguard , souls can be captured by activating a soul fissure in the Soul Cairn , so long as an empty soul gem is in the inventory. Activating a soul fissure will fill the highest level blank soul gem available. Bound weapons such as the bound sword or bow can automatically soul trap attacked enemies if the Conjuration perk Soul Stealer has been taken.

The mined soul gems are level-dependent; at level 16 grand and black soul gems will start to appear, and the probability for either will max out at level If you get a message saying that you do not have a large enough soul gem to capture a soul, even though you have an empty grand soul gem in your inventory, it means that you are trying to catch a humanoid soul, which requires a black soul gem.

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