Smithing Enchant Not Working?

I have Smithing to level 100, but only up to Arcane in perks. I have four pieces of +25% smithing enchanted gear.

I noticed sometimes the enchant doesn't show up so I have to re-equip and then it appears under active effects. While wearing all four pieces I could only improve a daedric bow to 51 damage. This seemed off to me, so as an experiment I took off one of the +25% smithing items and tried improving a iron dagger.

To my disappointment I noticed not wearing one of the enchanted pieces resulted in the same improvement. Anyone else having this issue and know how to get around it? If no one has advice I guess I could enchant four more items, but I'd rather not.

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1 Answer

It looks to me like your game is working correctly.

Experiment:

I just tried your Iron Dagger experiment and saw similar results. The problem is that the Iron Dagger base numbers are so small a 25% difference was within 1 damage point. I tried the same experiment on an Ebony Sword (for which I do not have the Ebony Smithing perk) and I saw a difference of 5 damage points from the extra +25% Smithing gear.

Solution:

If you really want to improve that Daedric Bow, you need the Daedric Smithing perk. Or... you know, a game-breaking level of +Smithing gear/potions.