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  Ranique

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  Just putting down my explanation, in the hope it makes it even more clear.
  
  Weapons don't break down like armor.
  Weapons can be enchanted with a weaponenchantments that increases it damage (or simular effect like decrease the targets armor). These enchantments are charged and this charge runs out. That is visable with the blue bar. As soon as the bar is empty, the weapon looses that effect.
  You can fix this in two ways
  1: put a new enchantment on it. A new enchantment comes with a new fresh charge. You do this by selecting the weapon and choosing "enchant"
  2: use a filled soulgem to charge the enchantment again. If the soulgem is for the level of the weapon (and so also for the level of the enchantment) it will fully fill it. If it is below the level of the weapon it will partially fill it.
  
  What method to choose?
  This depends on a few things.
  At lower levels you will be running mostly with relative cheap white enchantments. They drop a lot and have little value compared to soulgems.
  At higher levels you likely will put on more lasting chants (e.g. blues). These are considerable more expensive so it is cheaper to not replace it all the time, but use a soulgem.
  Even at lower levels, if you want to level enchantment, it can be better to deconstruct the enchantments that drop. Specially cause the runes that come from it are pretty valueable at the traders.
  further to add, once you level up, you often have a good amount of soulgems left that you can't use anymore to ressurect yourself or others, but are still good to use to charge (eventhough you need more then one to fully charge the weapon).
  
  So use the understanding of the above and your own inventory to judge what is most profitable for you

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  PC player - EU

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  July 2015

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