# discover Grand Soul Gems in Oblivion Remastered – Destructoid

Soul Gems are the important thing to enchanting your gear in Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion Remastered. Whereas Petty and Lesser Soul Gems will recharge your gear a small quantity, Grand Soul Gems are the place you’ll see the best enhance. You may even use them to treatment vampirism.

Nonetheless, Grand Soul Gems can tackle two kinds: empty and stuffed gems. Whilst you want stuffed Soul Gems for enchanting, the Vampire Treatment quest requires empty ones. Let’s dive into the best way to discover empty and stuffed Grand Soul Gems in Oblivion Remastered.

You’ll find Grand Soul Gems by buying them from Mage Guild members, exploring ruins round Cyrodiil, and defeating mages in battle. You can too purchase them from the Mystic Emporium within the Imperial Metropolis’s Market District.

As you play by means of Oblivion Remastered, you’ll sometimes discover Grand Soul Gems as uncommon drops from mage enemies, together with necromancers. Whereas it’s a lot rarer than petty, lesser, and customary variants, you may nonetheless get fortunate and procure them sometimes. If any assault you, defeat them and examine their our bodies first in case there’s a Soul Gem to seize.

You’ll additionally discover further Grand Soul Gems within the following places:

• There are three Grand Soul Gems within the Imperial Metropolis’s Arcane College. Within the Arch-Mage Foyer is a show case behind a Very Exhausting lock. There are two stuffed gems and one empty one.
• You’ll discover a number of inside show circumstances round Cyrodiil’s Mage Guilds, significantly Chorrol’s.
• Nornal Smash, a dungeon west of the Imperial Metropolis.
• Inside Drakelowe, you meet Melisande to treatment vampirism. Inside one among its fireplaces is a trapdoor you may enter to entry the home’s basement and seize a Grand Soul Gem, amongst others, off a desk.

A number of of those strategies require lockpicking into tough containers to steal these gems. Be certain to brush up in your abilities and convey some further lockpicks or the Skeleton Key alongside.

One other constant approach to get Soul Gems, significantly Grand Soul Gems, is to go to the Mystic Emporium within the Imperial Metropolis’s Market District. Aurelinwae and Calindill have an opportunity to promote them, so examine their inventories earlier than heading out. They normally price below 100 gold in the event that they’re empty and round 300 in the event that they’re stuffed, however you may haggle it down barely should you’re low on money. You can too purchase them from mage retailers in Mage Guilds across the map.

Whereas empty Grand Soul Gems are essential for curing vampirism, you may also use stuffed ones to enchant weapons and armor or recharge your gear. You may fill Soul Gems by casting Soul Entice on enemies simply earlier than you get rid of them.

Utilizing Soul Entice requires acquiring a scroll or weapon with this means. When you’ve but to get accepted into Arcane College, you may full the start of the Mage Guild questline and request a wand with Soup Entice on it. In any other case, you should buy scrolls and weapons with Soul Entice from retailers round Cyrodiil or discover them across the map as random loot.