ESO Enchanting guide

ESO Enchanter has an important role to discover Runes and use them to create Glyphs which add enchantments to weapons, armor, and jewelry. Once applied, Glyphs increase items efficacy in combination with the traits added by blacksmiths, clothiers and woodworkers.

How to create a Glyph?

Before you can create a Glyph, you have to collect Runestones. There are 3 different types of runestones and you need one of each type to create a glyph. Once you collect Runestones from rune-nodes, go to Enchanting Table and select Creation tab, then select the runestone of each type by double clicking it, and it will appear in the appropriate “rune phrase” slot. When all 3 slots at the bottom of the screen are filled you can create a Glyph. When a glyph is created, a translation will be revealed for each of the runes used in process.

If you have some glyphs that you can’t use or sell, just extract them, and you’ll get back some of the runes you used to create them. Both Creating and Extracting glyphs processes will contribute in leveling up Enchanting profession.

 

How to apply Glyph on an item

When you select an item in your inventory, or equipped item, right click on it and from a drop down menu select Enchant. In a new window select Enchantment option to apply the Glyph on that item, and press E to enchant. The Glyph used for enchantment will be destroyed.
 

What are Runestones?

Runestones are stones that can be collected from stone-nodes scattered throughout the world of Tamriel, with characteristic appearance. They are categorized as Aspect Runestones, Essence Runestones and Potency Runestones. When you use a Runestone for the first time, its translation will be unknown to you, and during the creation process the glyph’s effects will be unknown as well.

Aspect Runestones List

Aspect Runestones are round-shaped stones, gathered from red stone-nodes. They determined Glyph’s quality level: Base (white), Fine (green), Superior (blue), Artifact (Purple), or Legendary (orange).

Essence Runestones

Essence Runestones are trapezoid-shaped stones, gathered from yellow stone-nodes. They determine Glyph’s type of enchantment.

Potency Runestones

Potency Runestones are square-shaped stones gathered from blue stone-nodes. They either have additive effects or subtractive effects, like a Glyph that raises elemental damage on a weapon or a Glyph that reduces the amount of damage taken from attacks.
 

Additive Runes

Subtractive Runes

List of ESO Glyphs

Below you can find a list of Glyphs that can be created in the Elder Scrolls Online, categorized by armor pieces they are compatible with. In order to create a Glyph just replace “Additive” with an additive Potency Rune or replace “Subtractive” with a subtractive Potency Rune, chose the desired Essence Rune and set the quality of the Glyph using an Aspect Rune. Once you create a Glyph, read the description, as it specifically says what piece of armor it is compatible with.
 

ESO Weapon Glyphs

ESO Armor Glyphs

ESO Jewelry Glyphs

Enchanting passive skills

• Potency Improvement – Allows the use of Potency Runestones to make Glyphs of higher levels
• Aspect Improvement – Allows the use of Base (White), Fine (Green), Superior (Blue), Artifact (Purple), Legendary (Orange) Aspect Runestones.
• Keen Eye– Runes can be spot easier
• Hireling – Ability to gather Runestones even if the player is offline, usable once per day
• Aspect Extraction – Increases the chance of extracted Aspect Runestones from Glyphs

 
We would like to thank SirAndy from the official beta forum for testing and collecting all information regarding runestones and glyphs.