So, Skyrim's out 11/11/11

[Kevin]

Is it just me or do the weapons you make have lower charge than weapons you find or buy? I swear, even with making the Elven stuff right now (I'm close to glass though!), I can't enchant any of them. Rings and ammys I make can be enchanted, but not the others for some reason.

The number of charges and strength of a fortify enchant varies depending on the vessel you are enchanting, your enchanting skill and the soul you are using. Until you get to 100 Enchanting (Which I just did last night - It's pretty ridiculous), you'll find weapons in the world that outweigh what you can make.

-Z

I'm pretty sure what you are enchanting doesn't matter. I think you can put the same number of charges on a steel battle axe as you can on a daedric one. The quality of the soul gem and the soul do matter and your skill and perks of course matter too.

This may be what you meant but the term vessel felt a big ambiguous in this context. It's only your skill, the soul gem and the quality of soul in the (which only matters if the soul is not as powerful as the gem can hold).

So a silver ring or a golden ruby ring will end up with the same level of bonus. Since the enchant works as a multiplier on item value the value of enchanted items matters as to what you are enchanting, but you can also make an iron dagger using just a petty soul gem and the damage stamina enchant that will sell for over 600 gold early on in the game. This can of course be combined with smithing to skill up some crafts fast and work as a massive gold pump. Banishment enchants might sell for more, but it's much harder to get than damage stamina (and I think you need to be L20+ for it start spawning).

Of course I've found gold to not be an issue. Early on as a caster buying the spells can be a bit of a sink, but I haven't even tried to make gold and if I want I can get a second house and fully furnish it too. I've even bought some weapons and armor instead of just finding/crafting it.

Money is a lot easier in this game for me than previous TES games. It's not I couldn't make money in those games but in this one I don't have to think about it and I'm still fine. Which is another thing that is good about this one.