Balance Changes/Tweaks

Birthsigns

• The Shadow Stone: Invoke Invisibility is replaced with Invoke Darkness. Invoke Darkness costs 70 stamina, completely blinds a target for 10 seconds, and makes you invisible for 1 second.

• The Apprentice: Also increases the chance that enemies will resist your illusion spells.

• The Serpent: increase spit damage by 50%.

Magic schools

Alteration

• Knock II can only open locks up to adept level when empowered.

• Knock III tomes have been replaced with Knock II tomes, effectively removing Knock III from the game.

• Telekinetic Execution only works on targets with less than 1500 health.

• Transmute: Corpus only works on targets with less than 750 health.

• Reduce casting time on Telekinetic Execution and Transmute: Corpus.

• Featherfalling’s duration increases when it’s empowered.

• The Magic Resistance perks only function when you are under the effects of a mage armor spell.

• The Magic Resistance perks grant 10/15/20 MR.

Illusion

• Change Fog of Shadows to be a master level spell with an appropriately higher casting cost.

• The illusion version of Shalidor’s Insight scrolls increases your illusion skill by 25.

• Hibernation Touch, Hibernation Spray, and empowered Blackout completely blind the target to mimic the target being asleep.

• Targets knocked unconscious with empowered Blackout can be killed by empowered Nightmare.

• Empowered Arcane Resonance now causes a small amount of damage to enemies.

• Shadow Simulacrum melee attacks reduce enemy armor.

• Mistress of the Dark melee attacks reduce enemy MR.

• Empowering invisibility spells no longer increases their duration.

• Empowering Phantasmal Miasma no longer increases its magnitude.

• Phantasmal Killer no longer works on undead, constructs, non-fleshy daedra, or anything that is immune to sneak attacks.

• Mind Maelstrom no longer has the long ritual casting animation. The unempowered version always enrage enemies and the empowered version always calms enemies.

• If an enemy has less than a 1% chance to resist an illusion spell, they will always fail to resist it.

Restoration

• Rename the Improved Wards perk to Ward Mastery. It has Expert Restoration as a prerequisite and requires you to know Arcane Wards 1-4. Grants the spell Arcane Ward 5, reduces the cost of all wards by 15%, and allows all wards to absorb magicka from spells.

• The Redemption perk cures Skooma addiction.

• Adjust the magnitudes of wards.

• Give Arcane Disjunction I a proper projectile so it’s easier to aim.

• Arcane Wards now mention the damage reduction they give in their descriptions.

• Reduce the damage reduction from wards: 33% for rank 1, 50% for rank 2, 66% for rank 3, and 75% for rank 4 and 5.

• All non-aura healing spells have a higher magnitude.

• Ward spells give less armor.

Conjuration

• Reduce the duration penalty on Conjuration spells from not having the appropriate perk.

Destruction

• The fear effect from the Cremation perk has a much shorter duration and can be resisted with either 50% fire resistance or 25% MR.

• Damage runes now do their damage instantly rather than over time.

• Arcane Vortex only affects targets with less than 75% MR.

• Reduce casting time on most destruction spells.

• Arcane Volley does more damage.

• Arcane Vortex does less damage.

• The spell bonuses from the Ritual Stone or being a Dunmer only apply to spells that you cast directly.

• Novice and Apprentice level destruction spells have the same scaling as all other spells.

• Destruction perks no longer affect the damage of shouts.

• Reduce the skill requirement of the first rank of the -mancy perks to 25.

• Reduce the magnitude penalty of Destruction spells from not having the appropriate -mancy perk.

• Reduce the magnitude on scrolls for adept level destruction spells.

• Wall spells no longer do damage when cast directly on an enemy and the hazards they leave do less damage.

• Expert level concentration destruction spells have about twice the range of the novice level ones.

NPCs and Creatures

• Enemies can now track you during power attacks.

• Giant stomp and club slam attacks stagger you and reduce your movement speed.

• Bandits no longer spawn with alcohol so they no longer use it as a sudden health increase in combat.

• The disarm shout used by dragons can be resisted by having over 600 stamina or 51% MR.

• Immunity to the knockdown from Unrelenting Force comes at 41% MR.

• Increase the illusion resistance of ebony vampires.

• (From Requiem 4.0) High-level falmer are now normal sized so they don’t get stuck in their huts.

• Dragons only take 2.5 times more damage from spells rather than 4 times.

• Reduce silver damage bonus against undead to 50%.

• Centurions and enchanted spheres have less damage reduction against slashing and ranged weapons.

• Reduce the damage reduction on ghosts against non-silver/daedric weapons to 50%.

• Humanoid NPCs wielding breakable bows do less damage.

• Reduce Miraak’s MR.

• Dragons and dragon priests have more armor.

General Items and Loot

• All items cost 50% more to buy.

• Reduce damage on dwarven weapons.

• Adjust the cost of all food items to be more appropriate for the strength of their effects.

• Reduce the stamina regeneration on bestial stew to 2 per second.

• Display the magnitude of pre-made stat regeneration potions in their descriptions.

• Boost the strength of potions of magicka

• Generic fortify lockpicking enchantments give at most 10 expertise. The enchantments on unique items/artifacts are not changed.

• Add boss chests to the Dainty Sload and Mistwatch. Unlock the chest on the roof of Traitor’s Post.

• Replace the peerless resist and fortify health/stamina jewelry sold by merchants with lower quality ones. The peerless ones are now handplaced in appropriately troll locations (e.g. Thunder guards the peerless shock resist necklace).

• Reduce the loot in hidden treasure chests.

• The chest containing Dravin’s bow can be bashed open.

• Add a handplaced ring of peerless alteration to a certain merchant.

• Adjust the locations of some handplaced peerless items.

• Bandit boss chests now always have at least 2 insight potions.

• Somewhat reduce the number of insight potions found in dwemer ruins.

• Adjust the cost of all enchantments to make more useful ones more valuable and less useful ones less valuable.

• Reduce gold drops from vampires.

• Increase the supply of knock scrolls at court wizards.

• Reduce the strength of the slow time effect from skooma.

Quest Rewards and Artifacts

• Remove the fortify health and stamina effects from the Savior’s Hide.

• Ill Met by Moonlight cannot be started until level 20 or until you become a werewolf.

• Reduce the strength of the ward on Spellbreaker

• Improve the rewards for completing Civil War quests.

• Reduce the gold reward from dragon bounties to 2500.

• Agent of Mara now increases the magnitude of spells that heal someone else by 25%.

• Add a Bag of Holding that can be found as part of the Dark Brotherhood questline.

• The Agent of Dibella bonus only applies to humanoids.

• Bounty quests reward 1 insight potion.

• Bags of Holding grant 40 carry weight each.

Skill System

• Add MCM options to allow you to configure skill increase rates.

• Rename Potion of Insight to Insight Potion

• Reduce insight potion drops from giants.

• Dragon priests now always drop at least 1 insight potion.

• Opening the skill increase menu automatically uses all insight potions in your inventory.

Miscellaneous

• The stat bonuses from different ranks of Predator’s Might no longer stack.

• Fix the ellipses not displaying properly when learning a new word of power.

• Waterbreathing effects prevent stamina drain from swimming as the description says they should.

• The detection cloak that some high level enemies have works properly, but can be foiled by a fortify sneak effect.

• Gold weighs half as much.

• Lockpicks cost slightly less.

• The giant invisible foxes of Labyrinthian are no more.

• Blocking spells with a shield is a little bit less effective.

• The damage bonus from Vexing Flanker no longer applies to ranged weapons.

• Champions of Dibella are immune to stagger.

• Try to prevent Dunmer with shields from using their innate ward.

• The health regeneration from Eternal Spirit has been reduced significantly.

• Reduce the strength and duration of slow time effects in general.

• The threshold for bashing locks is now 450/550/650 for novice/apprentice/adept.