Quote Originally Posted by Calemyr View Post
Unarmed attacks are not considered at all in the vanilla game, near as I know.

Warning: This exploit can literally destroy the balance of the game if you don't control yourself.

The cause: All Fortify effects have the same base id, which is conveniently the id for Fortify Restoration Potion effect. As a result, Fortify Restoration effects will be applied to other effects as well.

1) Gather as much salt, river betty (fish), and cyrodilic spadetail (fish) as you can. Salt is pretty easy to find if you keep an eye open, fish can be tricky. Also collect blue butterfly wings and snowberries.

2) Collect/craft as many concurrent Fortify Alchemy items as you can get (head, amulet, ring, glove). Equip them.

3) Craft a potion using the ingredients from 1). Just one.

4) Drink potion. Unequip alchemy gear. Leave menu.

5) Re-enter menu, re-equip alchemy gear. Why? Because this applies the boost from your potion to the effectiveness of your equipment. The new numbers are just window dressing until you do this.

6) Cycle through steps 3-5 until you have your alchemy up to the level you want.

7) Combine blue butterfly wings and snowberries to create Fortify Enchanting potions.

8) Use potions from 7) to create unnaturally powerful gear.

You can get this up to insane levels quite quickly if your starting alchemy is any good.

Fun applications for console users:
1) Fortify Health rings for companions. Effective immortality!
2) Fortify Unarmed rings for yourself. Kill dragons with one punch!
3) Fortify Smithing potions (Blisterwort and Glowing Mushroom). Temper weapons to one-shot Alduin himself.
4) Fortify Barter potions to max out speech in a couple transactions.
hmm... yeah that's a bit absurd, almost reminds me of a pun-pun setup where something gives infinite of everything, not an option... this build sounds like it wouldn't be worth the effort.