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Enchantable Armor Rating

This addon allows Experts in Alteration to craft Mage Armor necklaces, which can be disenchanted to learn the Armor enchant which you can place onto boots, shield, amulet, or ring.

The enchants go onto the same locations as Resist enchants. A 100 in Enchanting will give you 100 armor per enchant. You must have 75 or greater Alteration to be able to craft the necklace, so you in essence have to "do your time" casting armor spells before you can qualify. The ingredients are the same as a regular gemmed silver necklace with the addition of an Ebonyflesh Spell Tome.

As mages are not likely to be using shields, you will max out at 300 armor just from enchants, which is still far from the physical damage reduction cap, making the armor spells still useful in tough situations. Non-mages, on the other hand, can sacrifice enchanting slots for armor as an alternative to smithing armor if they so choose, but they give up other potentially useful enchants.

A different solution for the tediousness of recasting armor spells can be found at my other addon, Maintained Armor Spells:
http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=9806