Enchant Effects by Slot

One thing that Enchanters may have noticed is that certain effects can only be added to certain equipment slots. For example, the Muffle effect can only ever be added to a set of footwear. The problem with this is that those who rely on a particular enchantment (such as Mages and Magicka Regen) can't get it anywhere near as high as they'd like. This also means they have extra slots that they don't know what to do with. This list shows what enchantments can be applied to which items, allowing you to simply look at a list of what enchantments can go in that slot and choose one that works for your character.

So, without further ado, here's the list.

HEAD
Fortify Alchemy
Fortify Alteration
Fortify Archery
Fortify Conjuration
Fortify Destruction
Fortify Illusion
Fortify Lockpicking
Fortify Magicka
Fortify Magicka Regen
Fortify Restoration
Waterbreathing

CHEST
Fortify Alteration
Fortify Conjuration
Fortify Destruction
Fortify Health Regen
Fortify Health
Fortify Heavy Armor
Fortify Illusion
Fortify Light Armor
Fortify Magicka Regen
Fortify Restoration
Fortify Smithing
Fortify Stamina
Fortify Stamina Regen
Resist Disease
Resist Poison

HANDS
Fortify Alchemy
Fortify Archery
Fortify Block
Fortify Carry Weight
Fortify Heavy Armor
Fortify Light Armor
Fortify Lockpicking
Fortify Magicka
Fortify One-Handed
Fortify Pickpocket
Fortify Smithing
Fortify Sneak
Fortify Two-Handed

FEET
Fortify Carry Weight
Fortify One-Handed
Fortify Pickpocket
Fortify Sneak
Fortify Stamina
Fortify Stamina Regen
Fortify Two-Handed
Muffle
Resist Fire
Resist Frost
Resist Shock

SHIELD
Fortify Block
Fortify Health
Resist Disease
Resist Fire
Resist Frost
Resist Magic
Resist Poison
Resist Shock

RING
Fortify Alchemy
Fortify Alteration
Fortify Archery
Fortify Block
Fortify Carry Weight
Fortify Conjuration
Fortify Destruction
Fortify Health Regen
Fortify Health
Fortify Heavy Armor
Fortify Illusion
Fortify Light Armor
Fortify Lockpicking
Fortify Magicka
Fortify Magicka Regen
Fortify One-Handed
Fortify Pickpocket
Fortify Restoration
Fortify Smithing
Fortify Sneak
Fortify Stamina
Fortify Two-Handed
Resist Disease
Resist Fire
Resist Frost
Resist Magic
Resist Poison
Resist Shock
Waterbreathing

AMULET
Fortify Alchemy
Fortify Alteration
Fortify Archery
Fortify Block
Fortify Carry Weight
Fortify Conjuration
Fortify Destruction
Fortify Health Regen
Fortify Health
Fortify Heavy Armor
Fortify Illusion
Fortify Light Armor
Fortify Lockpicking
Fortify Magicka
Fortify One-Handed
Fortify Pickpocket
Fortify Restoration
Fortify Smithing
Fortify Sneak
Fortify Speech
Fortify Stamina
Fortify Stamina Regen
Fortify Two-Handed
Resist Disease
Resist Fire
Resist Frost
Resist Magic
Resist Poison
Resist Shock
Waterbreathing

As an example, I've been trying to figure out what to enchant my Hands, Feet, and Amulet with for my Mage. Now that I've typed out this list, I'm going with Fortify Magicka for my Hands and Amulet, and probably one of the elemental resistances for my feet (I'm leaning towards Resist Shock).

Anyway, I hope this proves useful to someone.

This is a great list! If you spend the points to get to dual enchanting you can create some VERY nice items.

don't forget the [fortify [mage school] + fortify magicka regen] enchantments, which can only be enchanted on chest parts... But great list!

Just a side note, Ebony Armour is the only chest piece that grants muffle enchantment... Which means muffle on footwear can be stacked with Ebony Armour.... though I don't know what the use of stacking muffle would be!

quote battousai

Man, I haven't found anything with muffle except the Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood footwear, which I think I can't disenchant

I think I bought my "muffle" item from the traveling Khajit that puts up tent outside the towns.

quote Starfury

This is a great list! If you spend the points to get to dual enchanting you can create some VERY nice items.

yea I put alot of increase one handed on my armor plus i have a deadric mace,sword,war axe that I use mace does 159 damage and also has chance to paralyze for 5 second then 20 points of health drain, the sword does 147 has soul trap for 3 secs and 46 points of frost damage half to stam, the war axe does 153 damage and 46 shock half to mag and burns for 58

quote mrjmalone

Weapons list?

Basically. Any enchantment that does damage.

i believe it is possible to find items in the game that defy these enchanting rules.

i once found a cool helmet with resist fire on it. i think it was called the helm of the unburned. it had about 40% or 50% resist fire damage on it. i disenchanted it because i wanted to apply the effect to a different helmet but i discovered that i could not enchant resist fire to hemlets.

so in the game i think there are pre-enchanted items that break this rule.

i think the new enchanting limits suck by the way. we should be able to enchant any wearable item with whatever we want.

Sneak and Pickpocket go well together on some shoes 47% 47% better dual enchant.

Worth 3525 gold - not bad for shoes that were 5.