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How can be weapon spells charged?

Or is the weapon almost useless, when the charges end?

weapons can be charged either by specific mages in the mages guild (or magic shops) or by using soul gems which you can find on your travels and trap souls of monsters you defeat inside. the soul gem route is the cheap but tedious way to recharge your weapons, the paying to get them recharged is quick but very very expensive.

or u can get varla stones...they recharge everything in your inventory...they are rare though , and they are always in elvish ruins..and weapons arent useless when there charge runs out...htey just become normal weapons that can still damage undead

Keep the Varla's for emergencies. Like if you are smack in a middle of a Fort or something and you need, must, have it recharged because they are very rare. I have 8 so far and I've crawled around a lot.

Best go for soul gems, unless you are overloading with cash, it's expensive that way. I have a staff with 3200 so to fill it up I have to pay 3200 (I do it at the Arcane Univercity).

I only have one varla stone in which I stole from the Chorrel castle. That's the only time I've seen the thing. I've explored many caves and dungeons but have never come across any of them. So they are in elvish ruins? can you give me a name of one or tell me what the icon looks like or where to find one? Maybe I have been to one but didn't find it or something.

They are in the A. Ruins - looks like, well almost like a sun on the marker. One is right diagonally from the Imperial Prison Sewers, that's Vilverin, then there's Sercen, Piukanda, Belda ... I don't even remember any more, got them written down but I've found more than a dozen I believe so far. I do think that they are in a way level related too (ie finding them).

I got the Varla stones from Sercen for sure but not in Vilverin. Don't remember about the others. Oh and there are some nasty red Varla stones there but those you cannot get, they are like traps/guardians. ~ it's not marked as a spoiler thread, so highlight to see

thanx everybody...

Another useful tactic to always have enough charges is to enchant a weapon with the effects you want, and add a 1sec soul trap to the enchantment. Since it is cast on hit, 1 sec is enough and so will be next to no additional cost in charges. If you have Azura's Star, you won't even need to bother with carrying enough soulgems, for the most part.