Daggerfall:Items

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Miscellaneous Items

There are many items in Daggerfall which either appear to have a purpose but don't, or don't appear to have a purpose but do.

• Light type objects, candles, lanterns, torches etc... are useless and can be sold at a general store or pawn shop.
• Holy tomes, holy daggers, and other objects don't appear to have any value other than for selling.

These items, although they cannot be equipped, will sometimes carry enchantments. When this is the case, they can be used directly from your inventory.

• Bandages don't appear to have any real use, but apparently if you sleep with one in your inventory when you wake up it will be gone. Not sure if it actually helps heal you or not.
• Paintings don't appear to have any other use than aesthetics, and when you click on one with info selected, you will see a random image with a random title rather than information.

See here for a more complete list.

Some quests require finding a particular object in a dungeon.

• Auriel's Shield - A dull metal plate floating in air.
• Finger - A large object which looks more like a bedroll. Was evidence in a missing persons case.
• Ingredients - These will look just like they do in your inventory except perhaps a bit bigger and brighter. Usually hard to miss.
• Small Statue Sitting on Dungeon Floor: If you click on it, it makes a strange noise and opens one of the red teleport doors.

Shields and Helms

Shields and helms in Daggerfall aren't labeled with their component materials. All helms are universally referred to as helms, while shields are named for their shape rather than their material.

Because armor and weapons tend to have different colors based on their material, some shields and helms can be identified this way; however, certain types of helm and shield will be visually indistinguishable from items of other tiers. Leather, chain, silver, and elven shields share the same appearance, and some types of helm always appear to have a golden coloration. The material a helm is made of can always be identified from its armor rating; a higher-tier helm will have a higher armor rating than one of a lower material, even though they may be identical. The armor rating of a shield is determined by its shape, not its material, but the weight of a shield may still vary between material tiers, and higher-tier shields have higher enchantment capacity.

The material an item is made of can be estimated by attempting to sell it; items made of higher-tier materials will be worth more to any given store.

• In Daggerfall Unity, the material of a shield or helm can be displayed alongside its name through an optional setting.

Cheap Items

Pre-enchanted items, such as those purchased from Mages Guilds, may be much cheaper than the value of that item's unenchanted equivalent. This is because the value of a magical item is determined by its enchantments, rather than by any qualities of the item itself. High-tier items can therefore be acquired at a significant bargain, but because the items are already enchanted, their enchantments cannot be customized, and cheaper magical items will always be weaker than more expensive and more thoroughly-enchanted items.

Good Places to Sell Items

Several shops may offer different prices for the same item; influences of mercantile skill and reputation aside, this will vary mainly based on the quality of the store, which can be determined from the message that appears when entering, but can also vary by location.

In general, the best prices will be offered by shops of the lowest quality, which will be introduced by the following description:

Rusty relics lie wherever they were last tossed. All the wares show the cracks and chips of shoddy workmanship. A mouse scampers over your feet before burrowing into a nearby sack.

These shops will naturally offer much less to buy as well, so their usefulness extends primarily to offering good prices while selling.

Shops of any given quality may also offer different prices than each other based purely on location; one shop may offer more money than a shop of the same quality the next region over, or even in another town in the same region. Exploration will be required to locate the shops offering the best deals on offloading dungeon treasure.

Computing Item Prices

Around the Iliac Bay, the price of an item will vary based on several factors, including what type of item it is, whether or not it's enchanted, and what material it's made of.

Material Price Modifiers

First, the price modifications of the various materials for armor and weapons. It works like this:

Non-Magical Item Price = (Base Item Price) * (Material Modifier)

The (Base Item Price) here would be the price of the leather version of the item (for weapons the leather and chain versions obviously don't exist but for the sake of simplicity we'll assume they do). The material modifiers are as follows.

Material	Price Multiplier	Color
Leather	1	Brown
Chain	2	Textured Silver
Iron	3	Dark Grey
Steel	6	Medium Grey
Silver	12	Bright Silver
Elven	24	Cold Silver
Dwarven	48	Yellow
Mithril	96	Dark Blue
Adamantium	192	Very Dark Grey
Ebony	384	Black
Orcish	768	Green
Daedric	1536	Red

Notes on Material Multipliers:

These values computed by basic trial method by selling/buying various items at a variety of stores. Prices used are the ones displayed in the upper left corner above your character portrait.

The prices of items vary by as much as 20% depending on an unknown variable (reputation relative to storekeeper?). The price fluctuates independently of store quality (stores of same quality can have vastly different prices) and item quality. One can assume this is a random fluctuation and not worry about it too much (ex: the range of the daedric multiplier could actually range anywhere from around 1000-2000). Take the above values to be the average multiplier.

Base Item Prices

In order for one to calculate the price of any armor/weapon one needs to know not only the material multiplier (above), but the base price of the item. This base price is simply the price of the leather item. For weapons, which don't have a leather material we take the price of the iron weapon and divide by three to get the base price.

Notes on Base Prices:

The base price of items fluctuates as much as 20% from store to store. The price also fluctuates according to which region you're in. As such, the above values are _mostly_ average item prices from a large variety of stores (where possible). They probably won't be 100% the same as the prices you get with your character since the price most likely depends on the mercantile skill (mine's at around 70%) and reputation with merchants.

The prices here are the ones seen above your character's picture at the left when you're selling/buying. The actual selling price will of course be much less but with a good reputation, the worst quality store, personality and mercantile skill you can get up to 70% of this price when you sell items. On the contrary, if you pick your store poorly the selling price may drop to as little as 25% (or so).

Magical Properties Modifiers

The cost of a magical item will be the sum of all magical properties on the item, the object's base price is not considered. For example, an enchanted daedric cuirass will only cost the price of its enchantment divided by 10.

Magical Item Price = (Bound Souls) + (Magic #1) + (Magic #2) + ....

The price of bound souls can be found above on this page. The magical properties prices can be found below and are deduced from visiting the mages guilds a few times. The values appear to remain constant and are not affected by rep, Personality, etc... There are no prices for adding any of the disadvantages to an item (other than the cost of buying a bound soul). One may also note that the required enchantment points for a spell/effect is equal to the price of the enchantment divided by 10.

Spell Enchanting Costs

Spell Name	Enchant Cost (gp)		Spell Name	Enchant Cost (gp)
Balyna's Antidote	9300		Chameleon	2100
Charisma	12000		Cure Poison	10200
Energy Leech	12600		Far Silence	22900
Fireball	4700		Fire Storm	8400
Force Bolt	30300		Fortitude	12000
Free Action	16500		God's Fire	17500
Hand of Decay	18300		Hand of Sleep	7800
Heal	3600		Ice Bolt	9900
Ice Storm	14200		Invisibility	5400
Iron Will	12000		Jack of Trades	12000
Levitate	3300		Light	2500
Lightning	7600		Magica Leech	9300
Medusa's Gaze	21400		Nimbleness	12000
Open	9000		Orc Strength	12000
Paralysis	16200		Recall	4800
Resist Cold	15600		Resist Fire	15600
Resist Poison	16500		Resist Shock	15600
Shadow Form	1500		Shalidor's Mirror	19300
Shield	10400		Shock	3800
Silence	15300		Slowfalling	2400
Spell Drain	13000		Spell Reflection	17200
Spell Resistance	12300		Spell Shield	19800
Sphere of Negation	42300		Stamina	1300
Strength Leech	4800		Tongues	15900
Toxic Cloud	10200		Troll's Blood	9200
Vampiric Touch	13800		Water Breathing	1700
Water Walking	1700		Wildfire	10200
Wisdom	12000		Wizard's Fire	4800
Wizard Lock	17400		Wizard Rend	16100

Notes on Spells:

The enchanting cost for spells is the same regardless of the type of spell, i.e. whether cast when strikes, held, or used (although most spells are available only in one category).

Other Enchanting Costs

Enchantment Name		Enchant Cost (gp)
Extra Spell Points	Per Season	5000
	Per Moon Phase	2000
	Near Undead	7000
	Near Daedra	8000
	Near Humanoids	9000
	Near Animals	10000
Regenerate Health	All the Time	40000
	In Sunlight	30000
	In Darkness	30000
Potent vs.	Undead	9000
	Daedra	9000
	Humanoids	10000
	Animals	12000
Vampiric Effect	at Range	20000
	When Strikes	10000
Increased Weight Allowance	+25%	4000
	+50%	6000
Improves Talents	Hearing	5000
	Athleticism	6000
	Adrenaline Rush	6000
Good Rep With	Each Groups	10000
	All	50000
Repair	-	9000
Absorbs Spells	-	15000
Enhances Skill	All Skills	9000
Feather Weight	-	1000
Strengthens Armor	-	7000

More Notes on Item Prices

Sometimes, you just have more items than you can carry, even if you have a wagon. This is especially true when you are fighting inside a big dungeon like Castle Daggerfall, Wayrest, Sentinel, etc. You just can not go outside to unload stuff onto your ship. Then, what items do you put on the wagon: the elven mace, leather pauldron, daedra's heart, or book? If you have space left for the wagon, pick up all loot, by all means. But, when you have more than you can carry, which item should you take, and which should you discard? From a mathematics point of view, if all you care is to sell all these items, you should put items having the highest cost (in Gold Piece - GP) per kilogram (kg) on your wagon. In other words, put the most expensive items pound-for-pound on your wagon. You should take two 1 kg items, each having a cost of 15, instead of one 2 kg item with a cost of 20. Obviously, you must carry your Quest items and powerful weapons. If you wish to use one item, always carry it. If you just wish to sell it for Gold, you can use the tables below for guidance. Books, clothes, and potion ingredients already have their weight and cost descriptions displayed in game. But weapons and armors only display their weight. So, how do you decide what to take?

	Cost	Weight	Cost/Weight Ratio
Leather	X 1	X 1	X 1 (X 1.4 ?)
Chain	X 2	X 2	X 1 (X 1.4 ?)
Iron	X 3	X 2	X 1.5
Steel	X 6	X 3	X 2
Silver	X 12	X 2	X 6
Elven	X 24	X 2	X 12
Dwarven	X 48	X 1.5	X 32
Mithril	X 96	X 2	X 48
Adamantium	X 192	X 2	X 96
Ebony	X 384	X 1	X 384
Orcish	X 768	X 2	X 384
Daedric	X 1536	X 3	X 512

Below is a table listing the base price in cost (GP) per weight (kg) of all weapons and armors. Use it in conjunction with the table above to determine the cost per kg of items made from other materials. The formula is :

item price (in GP/kg) = (Base price in GP/kg) * (material cost ratio) / (material weight ratio)

For example, you wish to know how much a Dwarven Saber is worth. First, you reference the table below, and find an Iron Saber is worth 9.6 GP/kg. You then reference the table above, and find the material cost modifier of Dwarven is 48 and that of Iron is 3, giving 48 / 3 = 16 for the material cost ratio. You next again reference the table above, and find the weight modifier of Dwarven is 1.5 and that of Iron is 2, giving 1.5 / 2 for the material weight ratio. With that information, you can calculate the cost for a Dwarven Saber as follows: 9.6 * 16 / (1.5 / 2) = 563.2 GP/kg. You might then similarly determine the value of an Elven Helm, resulting in 96 * 8 / 1 = 768 GP/kg. You thus find, by weight, an Elven Helm is worth much more than a Dwarven Saber. Similarly, you will find that a Leather Pauldron (90 * (1 / 3) / (1 / 2) = 60) is worth more than an Elven Mace ( 6.7 * 8 / 1 = 53.6 ), kilogram for kilogram.

If you don't have the time to perform all the tedious calculations, here are some rules of thumb :

• Armors of one material, in general, are worth more than most weapons of the next two higher materials.
• Cuirasses are worth considerably less than other armor pieces of the same material.
• Katanas and Bows are worth much more than other weapons of the same material.
• Tower Shields and Kite Shields are the cheapest metal items per kilogram. Unless they are made from special material, take anything else to fill up your wagon. Round Shields and Bucklers fare slightly better, being on the order of a Mace, but are still not very cost-effective.
• Daggerfall has a classic supply-and-demand pricing structure. Very rare items (e.g. those made from Silver or Orcish materials) can sometimes fetch up to 10 times their value as calculated from these tables. As you sell more items, the price of similar armors and weapons will drop. The tables describe more or less the average price. Moreover, the money you receive depends on many factors (merchant skill, shop quality, region, reputation, etc.), but the relative costs between weapons change little. As a result of all this, all prices shown here are necessarily estimates. Errors of 50% on prices for each individual sale are common, considering all the conditions above. Nevertheless, if you've proven a more useful pricing formula, please propose the formula in the "discussion" section of this page.

The following table shows the price in GP per kilogram for non-enchanted iron armors and iron weapons.

Item	Value (GP/kg)
Boots	75
Buckler	15
Cuirass	24
Gauntlets	120
Greaves	96
Helm	96
Kite Shield	12.9
Pauldron	90
Round Shield	13.3
Tower Shield	12
Battle Axe	10
Broadsword	6
Claymore	12
Dagger	6
Dai-Katana	43
Flail	6.4
Katana	30
Longbow	40
Longsword	10
Mace	6.7
Saber	9.6
Shortbow	30
Shortsword	6
Staff	7.5
Tanto	12
Wakizashi	12
War Axe	8
Warhammer	8.6

Base Price of non-enchanted Armors and Weapons

All values are given in gold pieces.

Armors

	Leather	Chain	Iron	Steel	Silver	Elven	Dwarven	Mithril	Adamantium	Ebony	Orcish	Daedric
Boots	50	100	150	300	600	1200	2400	4800	9600	19200	38400	76800
Buckler	10	20	30	60	120	240	480	960	1920	3840	7680	15360
Cuirass	100	200	300	600	1200	2400	4800	9600	19200	38400	76800	153600
Gauntlets	50	100	150	300	600	1200	2400	4800	9600	19200	38400	76800
Greaves	80	160	240	480	960	1920	3840	7680	15360	30720	61440	122880
Helm	80	160	240	480	960	1920	3840	7680	15360	30720	61440	122880
Kite Shield	30	60	90	180	360	720	1440	2880	5760	11520	23040	46080
Pauldron	60	120	180	360	720	1440	2880	5760	11520	23040	46080	92160
Round Shield	20	40	60	120	240	480	960	1920	3840	7680	15360	30720
Tower Shield	50	100	150	300	600	1200	2400	4800	9600	19200	38400	76800

Weapons

	Iron	Steel	Silver	Elven	Dwarven	Mithril	Adamantium	Ebony	Orcish	Daedric
Battle Axe	60	120	240	480	960	1920	3840	7680	15360	30720
Broadsword	30	60	120	240	480	960	1920	3840	7680	15360
Claymore	90	180	360	720	1440	2880	5760	11520	23040	46080
Dagger	3	6	12	24	48	96	192	384	768	1536
Dai-Katana	150	300	600	1200	2400	4800	9600	19200	38400	76800
Flail	45	90	180	360	720	1440	2880	5760	11520	23040
Katana	75	150	300	600	1200	2400	4800	9600	19200	38400
Longbow	60	120	240	480	960	1920	3840	7680	15360	30720
Longsword	45	90	180	360	720	1440	2880	5760	11520	23040
Mace	30	60	120	240	480	960	1920	3840	7680	15360
Saber	36	72	144	288	576	1152	2304	4608	9216	18432
Shortbow	30	60	120	240	480	960	1920	3840	7680	15360
Shortsword	15	30	60	120	240	480	960	1920	3840	7680
Staff	15	30	60	120	240	480	960	1920	3840	7680
Tanto	9	18	36	72	144	288	576	1152	2304	4608
Wakizashi	24	48	96	192	384	768	1536	3072	6144	12288
War Axe	60	120	240	480	960	1920	3840	7680	15360	30720
Warhammer	60	120	240	480	960	1920	3840	7680	15360	30720

Weight of non-enchanted Armor and Weapons

All values are given in kg.

Armor

	Leather	Chain	Iron	Steel	Silver	Elven	Dwarven	Mithril	Adamantium	Ebony	Orcish	Daedric
Boots	1.00	2.00	2.00	2.50	2.00	2.00	1.50	2.00	2.00	1.00	2.00	2.50
Buckler	1.00	2.00	2.00	2.50	2.00	2.00	1.50	2.00	2.00	1.00	2.00	2.50
Cuirass	6.25	12.50	12.50	15.50	12.50	12.50	9.25	12.50	12.50	6.25	12.50	15.50
Gauntlets	0.50	1.25	1.25	1.50	1.25	1.25	0.75	1.25	1.25	0.50	1.25	1.50
Greaves	1.25	2.50	2.50	3.00	2.50	2.50	1.50	2.50	2.50	1.25	2.50	3.00
Helm	1.25	2.50	2.50	3.00	2.50	2.50	1.50	2.50	2.50	1.25	2.50	3.00
Kite Shield	3.75	7.50	7.50	9.25	7.50	7.50	5.50	7.50	7.50	3.75	7.50	9.25
Pauldron	1.00	2.00	2.00	2.50	2.00	2.00	1.50	2.00	2.00	1.00	2.00	2.50
Round Shield	2.25	4.50	4.50	5.50	4.50	4.50	3.25	4.50	4.50	2.25	4.50	5.50
Tower Shield	6.25	12.50	12.50	15.50	12.50	12.50	9.25	12.50	12.50	6.25	12.50	15.50

Weapons

	Iron	Steel	Silver	Elven	Dwarven	Mithril	Adamantium	Ebony	Orcish	Daedric
Battle Axe	6.00	7.50	6.00	6.00	4.50	6.00	6.00	3.00	6.00	7.50
Broadsword	5.00	6.25	5.00	5.00	3.75	5.00	5.00	2.50	5.00	6.25
Claymore	7.50	9.25	7.50	7.50	5.75	7.50	7.50	3.75	7.50	9.25
Dagger	0.50	0.50	0.50	0.50	0.25	0.50	0.50	0.25	0.50	0.50
Dai-Katana	3.50	4.25	3.50	3.50	2.75	3.50	3.50	1.75	3.50	4.25
Flail	7.00	8.75	7.00	7.00	5.25	7.00	7.00	3.50	7.00	8.75
Katana	2.50	3.00	2.50	2.50	1.75	2.50	2.50	1.25	2.50	3.00
Longbow	1.50	1.75	1.50	1.50	1.00	1.50	1.50	0.75	1.50	1.75
Longsword	4.50	5.50	4.50	4.50	3.25	4.50	4.50	2.25	4.50	5.50
Mace	4.50	5.50	4.50	4.50	3.25	4.50	4.50	2.25	4.50	5.50
Saber	3.75	4.50	3.75	3.75	2.75	3.75	3.75	1.75	3.75	4.50
Shortbow	1.00	1.25	1.00	1.00	0.75	1.00	1.00	0.50	1.00	1.25
Shortsword	2.50	3.00	2.50	2.50	1.75	2.50	2.50	1.25	2.50	3.00
Staff	2.00	2.50	2.00	2.00	1.50	2.00	2.00	1.00	2.00	2.50
Tanto	0.75	0.75	0.75	0.75	0.50	0.75	0.75	0.50	0.75	0.75
Wakizashi	2.00	2.50	2.00	2.00	1.50	2.00	2.00	1.00	2.00	2.50
War Axe	7.50	9.25	7.50	7.50	5.75	7.50	7.50	3.75	7.50	9.25
Warhammer	7.00	8.75	7.00	7.00	5.25	7.00	7.00	3.50	7.00	8.75

Value to Weight Ratios of non-enchanted Weapons and Armor

All values are given in gold pieces per kilogram. (Gold itself is 400 pieces per kilogram.)

	Leather	Chain	Iron	Steel	Silver	Elven	Dwarven	Mithril	Adamantium	Ebony	Orcish	Daedric
Boots	50	50	75	120	300	600	1600	2400	4800	19200	19200	30720
Buckler	10	10	15	24	60	120	320	480	960	3840	3840	6144
Cuirass	16	16	24	38.7	96	192	518.9	768	1536	6144	6144	9909.7
Gauntlets	100	80	120	200	480	960	3200	3840	7680	38400	30720	51200
Greaves	64	64	96	160	384	768	2560	3072	6144	24576	24576	40960
Helm	64	64	96	160	384	768	2560	3072	6144	24576	24576	40960
Kite Shield	8.6	8.6	12.9	19.5	51.4	102.9	274.3	411.4	822.9	3291.4	3291.4	4981.6
Pauldron	60	60	90	144	360	720	1920	2880	5760	23040	23040	36864
Round Shield	8.9	8.9	13.3	17.8	53.3	106.7	295.4	426.7	853.3	3413.3	3413.3	4551.1
Tower Shield	8	8	12	19.4	48	96	259.5	384	768	3072	3072	4954.8
Battle Axe			10	16	40	80	213.3	320	640	2560	2560	4096
Broadsword			6	9.6	24	48	128	192	384	1536	1536	2457.6
Claymore			12	19.5	48	96	250.4	384	768	3072	3072	4981.6
Dagger			6	12	24	48	192	192	384	1536	1536	3072
Dai-Katana			42.9	70.6	171.4	342.9	872.7	1371.4	2742.9	10971.4	10971.4	18070.6
Flail			6.4	10.3	25.7	51.4	137.1	205.7	411.4	1645.7	1645.7	2633.1
Katana			30	50	120	240	685.7	960	1920	7680	7680	12800
Longbow			40	68.6	160	320	960	1280	2560	10240	10240	17554.3
Longsword			10	16.4	40	80	221.5	320	640	2560	2560	4189.1
Mace			6.7	10.9	26.7	53.3	147.7	213.3	426.7	1706.7	1706.7	2792.7
Saber			9.6	16	38.4	76.8	209.5	307.2	614.4	2633.1	2457.6	4096
Shortbow			30	48	120	240	640	960	1920	7680	7680	12288
Shortsword			6	10	24	48	137.1	192	384	1536	1536	2560
Staff			7.5	12	30	60	160	240	480	1920	1920	3072
Tanto			12	24	48	96	288	384	768	2304	3072	6144
Wakizashi			12	19.2	48	96	256	384	768	3072	3072	4915.2
War Axe			8	13	32	64	167	256	512	2048	2048	3321.1
Warhammer			8.6	13.7	34.3	68.6	182.9	274.3	548.6	2194.3	2194.3	3510.9