The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition - Restoration Loop Glitch
Emily Schmidt
Updated on April 08, 2026
When you have an armour set with 'Created potion are XX% better' you can drink a Fortify Restoration potion to increase the potency of the buff on the armour. This is becuase the buff is part of the Restoration skill. When you keep repeating the process, you will eventually notice that the buff reaches the 10,000's which will make the Restoartion potions more effective. It will keep increasing. When you have a high number buff, you will then create multiple Fortify Restoration, Fortify Smithing and Fortify Enchanting to have as back up when needed.
When you drink the Fortify Enchanting potion (which will have enchantments are XX% better) you can enchant your armour with whatever buff you want. I would suggest the Fortify Smithign Echantment on your armour so we could get to the high numbers.
When you have your new Armour set with the Smithing buff, you can create an iron dagger and improve it to its max. It will have some insane number. Like 9k+ combat rating which can 1 shot anything. This will take your Smithing from 1-100 in a few repairs or creations.
With Deadra unlocked, you can get the armour to have some crazy buffs like 1mil+ fortify stamina, health and magicka. You will never run out of the said buffs. You could also then use your smithing gear again and improve the deadra armour and weapons to have like 50k+ combat and armour rating. This will make you a GOD with all the buffs and stats.
I will now tell you how to go about doing this. This is aimed mainly for new players. So if you have most of the items/skills then skip to step 3.
Required Skills:
Alchemy 40 or 60 - Aclhemist 2/5 or 3/5, Physician and Benefactor (NECESSARY)
Enchanting 40 - Enchanter 3/5 (Recommended but not necessary)
Smithing 90 - Deadric Smithing (Necessary)
Required items:
Smithing set - Necklace, armour, gauntlet and ring
Alchemy set - Helmet or Hood or Circlet, Amulet or Necklace, Gauntlet or Bracers or Gloves, Ring. (Pick one for head, one for neck and one for hands)
Deadra armour - 30 Ebony ingots and 6 Deadra Hearts
A lot of Iron to increase your Smithing to 90 if needed
Ingredients required:
Restoration Potion - Abeceran Longfin or Cyrodilic Spade Tail, Salt Pile
Fortify Smithing - Blisterwort, Glowing Mushroom, Spirggan Sap
Fortify Echanting - Blue Butterfly Wing, Snowberries, Spriggan Sap
Fortify Health - Creep Cluster, Giants Toe, Wheat
Gand Soul Gems (Grand)
Required Enchantments:
Fortify Health
Fortify Stamina
Fortify Magicka
Fortify Alchemy
Fortify Smithing
1a) Gathering the Enchantments:
I suggest you use the Dawnstar Secret Chest. When you open the chest, pillage it for all the armour and weapons with enchantments on them. We are looking for the enchantments mentioned in the earlier list. Also make sure you get the Grand Soul Gems (Grand) if there are any. You will need at least 8. Also get the Ebony Ingots too for the Deadra armour
When you have gathered everything you can, go to White Hall in Dawnstar. It should be close by. Go in and use the Enchantment table to DISENCHANT all the enchanted gear.
Your overall objective here is to get the enchanted gear, disenchant them to get some Echanting exp while working towards the enchantments we need.
When you have done all that and you cant DISENCHANT anythign else, take the loot to a KHAJIT who you should be able to sell it too. Its the one who is sitting under a tent near the entrance to Dawnstar. When you have done that, Quicksave, kill the khajit then load the save. This will refresh the stock of the khajit and the chest too as she is the owner.
If you still need the Fortify Smithing echantment, then do the quest for the NPC Frida in Mortar and Pestle in Dawnstar. She will task you with retrieving her ring. The ring will have the enchantment we need. When you give the ring to her and complete the quest, you can then pickpocket it from her or kill her and loot it from her body.
1b) Gathering the ingredients:
Also in Dawnstar, there is a Mortar and Pestle store run by Frida. You will need the ingredients listed in the earlier list. Go through her stock and see if she has any. If you can at least get 1 of each, then you can do the dupe glitch to get the reqquired amount needed. Once you buy everything, do a Quicksave in front of her, kill her then load the quicksave. This will refresh her stock with new items rather than waiting 1-2 days.
2) Duplicating the ingredients:
Once you have at least one of each ingredient, get a companion and tell them to follow you. I used Faendal from Riverwood. Hsi quest is easy to do. Just give the letter to the women and lie about it. When you do his quest, make him follow you.
- Go to Whiterun. As soon as you enter go to the alcove to the right.
- Drop the items you want duped
- Have Faendal pick them up by talkign to him and selecting 'I want you to do something'
- Go back to the main gate and leave Whiterun through it
- When outside, FAST TRAVEL back to Whtierun
- Go to the place where you dropped your items and pick them up
- Talk to Faendal and trade items with him
- Take your items back from him
- Now you have twice as many items
- Repeat until satisfied
I would make at least 40- 50 of each item.
3) Increasing Alchemy level:
Go to Dragonsreach and go to the Alchemy table. Save before doing anything. Use the alchemy table and make fortify health potions by using a Creep Cluster, Giants Toe and Wheat. Make as many as needed to get to Alchemy Level 40 so you can have access to the skills necessary.
4) Creating Alchemy gear:
Go to the enchanting table next to the alchemy table and enchant 4 pieces of gear with Fortify Alchemy. you will use up 1 Grand Soul Gem in the process.
5) Resto Pot Loop:
Save again beofre doing anything.
- Put on your Aclhemy set
- Create a Fortfy Restoration pot using Abeceran Longfin or Cyrodilic Spade Tail, and Salt Pile
- Back out of the table
- Go to inventory and unequip the set
- Drink the potion you just made
- Put the set back on (the stats will increase)
- Repeat until you have a restoartion potion in the 100k or 500k category
- Make more (Maybe 20 or 30) of the Fortify Resto Pot with the same stats for back up
- Make a few (10 maybe) Enchanting potion using Blue Butterfly Wing, Snowberries, Spriggan Sap
- Make a few (10 maybe) Smithing potions using Blisterwort, Glowing Mushroom, Spirggan Sap
6) Creating smithing gear:
Save in a different slot if needed for another back up. Drink the Fortify Smithing potion you just made. Use the enchantment table quickly to enchant 4 pieces of gear with Fortify Smithing.
7) Creating Daedra armour:
- Go to a blacksmith, preferablly the one near Whiterun entrance.
- If youre not 90 Smithing then make an Iron Armour
- Put on your Smithing Gear we just made and drink a Fortify Smithing Potion
- Improve the iron armour until its legendary. (Should get you to 100)
- Make deadra Armour and Weapons
- Inprove the Armour and Weapons until they are legendary
8) Enchanting Deadra Armour:
Go back to the enchantment table and save. You might need 2 Fortify enchanting potion as theyre only active for 30 seconds which isnt enough time to enchant everything unless youre super fast.
- Drink a Fortify Enchanting Potion
- Enchant Fortify Health on Deadra armour
- Enchant Fortify Magicka on Deadra Gauntelts
- Enchant Fortify Stamina on Deadra Boots
Now you have Deadra armour with a VERY HIGH combat and armour rating buffed with 1mil+ Health, stamina and magicka. You can spint forever and use magicka forever without running out. Plus you are invincible and cant die due to your health.
9) Increasing Speech to 100 instantly:
go to any store that buys potions (theres on in Whiterun) and sell a few of you Fortify Restoration Potions. Dont worry about not getting any gold. You will egt your speech to 100 instantly.
10) You can even get your Smithing to 100 and make the skill legendary and keep doing it using the smithing gear with smithing pots.
11) You can dupe the pots if needed using the dupe glitch i mentioned earlier.
12) You can also equip your infinte magicka gear, go kill an animal and keep using Soul Trap on it to increase you conjuration.
13) You can also put the difficulty to Legendary, go to any strong monster and have them hit you to increase your Heavy armour.
14) You can also use infinite destruction magicka to increase you Destruction skill. Make sure to have the difficulty on Legendary so the enemies have a lot of health.
Here are some Videos showing you what i have done for refernce.
