best soulgem uses

[Tackon D'wall]

Ok, I started yet another character VERY close to the last one but with 2 major/minor differences. Well anyways, in the starting town when you break in the house right across from where you come out I found a greater soulgem. I don't want to waste it on something that is wuss so I'd like to know about what range of mob is good for which soul gems.

Soulgems don't seem like an EZ thing to come across and definately not the one I got so I've set it at my house and don't plan to use it till I find out on which mobs to use which one on.

I know that each one holds only a limited amount of enchantment points but can someone tell me about how many for each type?

BTW, this game is GREAT but there's SOOOOO many ways to twist things to cheat without really have to code/console cheat.

The only thing I don't like is that a level 1 can take out a whole group of 5-9 as long as u're properly prepared. I know cause I've done it a few times and got really GREAT items.

I'm going to try VERY hard this time to only kill quest kills and the pawnbroker cause of all the room to store things and the alchemy/armorer items Her fault though... you lay stuff like that in the open and u're just asking to die

[Sirius_Sam]

I've gotten a lot of mileage out of the Petty-to-Common soulgems, but I still don't know what I'm going to do with the Greater and Grand gems my character *ahem* "acquires"

The best creature, IMO (so far at least) to fill the Petty and Lesser gems seems to be that annoying bird/lizard thing that attacks you near Balmora (sorry, can't remember the name of the things). The ancestral ghost spirit is far and away the best soul to trap in a Common soulgem (4,000 gp value and 100 charges).

I'm still not sure what to put into higher quality soulgems...if you find out, let us know too

S_S

[madmarcos]

NOTE: DO NOT USE YOUR GRAND SOUL GEMS!!!
save them for soultrapping GOLDEN SAINTs ONLY
golden saint soulgems will allow you to enchant items with a CONSTANT effect (thereby creating permanent stat raises)

winged twilight gives about 300 charges
skeleton champs give about 200 charges
bonelords give about 100 or 105 charges
i think frost and storm atronachs give about 100 or so

[Tackon D'wall]

Thanks for the quick response guys. You both have taught me ALOT . I knew that trapping ghosts was good but now I know to save the BIG gems for saints.