Valdacil's Spell Tweaks v1.2.0 by Valdacil
May 8, 2006

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Description
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Tweaks many of the spell effects. Most notably Conjuration costs cut in half, All summons duration set to 45 sec, Restore Health cut in half, Fortify Skill increased by x10. Tweaks a few skill progressions. Tweaks Journeyman and higher sneak attack bonus. Makes all summoned creatures scale to the player until they reach a hard cap per creature type.


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History
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1.2.2 - Tweaked summoned minions to be leveled 4 levels below the PC. Caps unadjusted from 1.2.0.
1.2.1 - Tweaked summoned minions to be leveled 2 levels below the PC. Caps unadjusted from 1.2.0.
1.2.0 - Tweaked all summoned minions to be leveled to the PC with a cap placed on each minion to force upgrades periodically.
1.01 - Tweaked skill progression on some skills. Mercantile, Acrobatics, Restoration, Heavy Armor (Up), Conjuration (Dn)
1.0 - First Release


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Installation
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Install into Oblivion Mod Manager and activate.


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Notes
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I felt that some effects from spells were too high to be efficient. All summoned creatures costs were cut in half while increasing the duration of the summon to 45 seconds (seemed a good length for a battle). Most of the time this resulted in a net change of 0 to the spell cost and level. A few creatures did change however (first I can think of is Scamp which used to be Novice and is now Apprentice).

I also changed the cost of bound items. Weapons still seem to be pretty decent, however i was able to successfully make a single spell (at the spell making bench) which summoned a full suit of armor for 20 seconds that was castable at Journeyman level. This could be a bit unbalanced.

Restore Health felt too heavy to cast, especially considering it's still a good school even if you are a fighter with little magicka. I cut it in half.

Because I was using Oblivion Enhanced - Races Edition I was granted access to Fortify Skill at the spellmaking/enchanting benches (OE - Races takes the skill bonuses and tacks them on as a constant buff). Due to this, I was easily able to make things like Fortify Mercantile 100 pts for 2 seconds (just long enough to click on the NPC). This spell was castable at Apprentice level and gave me a 80+% sell rate to nearly everywhere. Felt very imbalancing, therefore changed it to cost 10x as much. Now I get more like Fortify Mercantile 20 pts for 5 seconds, which isn't overpowering and doesn't eliminate the skill altogether.

Tweaked on skill progression because some skills seemed to take too long to advance. Restoration in particular had an advancement rate along the lines of destruction, but was cast way less often. A standard healing spell seems to be cast more often than say a summon (conjuration) or a battle buff (alteration), but definately more often than an attack (destruction). I think I ended up balancing it pretty well. On my character it seems to advance at a rate comperable to my other skills. (ie. when mysticism, alteration and conjuration are all around 50, so is restoration).

For the summons, I went through the list of summonable creatures and sorted them so I would know what was the best thing to cast. However, what I noticed was that all of the best summons were undead, which is necromancy. Since the mage's guild line has you fight against necromancy, I felt that was strange to use it to fight it. Besides what if you wanted to roleplay a "good/light side" mage who only summoned daedra (they are called conjurers)? You would be stuck with a subpar summon due to the limitations placed on summoning undead. Finally, I noticed that the highest level summon out of the box was 20ish, while the standard max level was 40-50 with most alternative leveling systems hard-capping at 50. So I made all summons leveled with an individual level cap on each (so you don't want to summon skeleton at level 20). This should also allow a "less expensive" summon to be viable up until that specific monster's level cap. (ie. hard cap on Scamp is 12, so even though you could cast Flame Atronach, Scamp will be cheaper to cast and will continue to scale up to 12... but after 12, Flame Atronach will continue to scale for 3 more levels so switch to him until you can cast Dremora or switch to Skell Hero which scales to 18)


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Details
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Globals -
fPerkSneakAttackMeleeExpertMult (Old - 6) (New - 10)
fPerkSneakAttackMeleeJourneymanMult (Old - 6) (New - 8)
fPerkSneakAttackMeleeMasterMult (Old - 6) (New - 12)
fPerkSneakAttackMarksmanJourneymanMult (Old - 3) (New - 4)
fPerkSneakAttackMarksmanExpertMult (Old - 3) (New - 5)
fPerkSneakAttackMarksmanMasterMult (Old - 3) (New - 6)
Skills -
SkillAcrobatics - Use Value (Jump) (Old - 0.3000) (New - 0.6000)
SkillArmorer - Use Value (Repair) (Old - 1.5000) (New - 2.2500)
SkillConjuration - Use Value (Hit Target) (Old - 6.0000) (New - 5.0000)
SkillHeavyArmor - Use Value (Hit on armor) (Old - 1.2500) (New - 1.5000)
SkillMercantile - Use Value (Barter) (Old - 0.4000) (New - 1.0000)
SkillRestoration - Use Value (Hit Target) (Old - 0.6000) (New - 2.0000)
MagicEffects -
Summon Ancestor Guardian - Base Cost (Old - 33.3000) (New - 16.6500)
Summon Spiderling - Base Cost (Old - 45.0000) (New - 22.5000)
Summon Black Bear - Base Cost (Old - 47.3000) (New - 23.6500)
Summon Clannfear - Base Cost (Old - 75.5600) (New - 37.7800)
Summon Deadroth - Base Cost (Old - 123.3300) (New - 61.6650)
Summon Dremora - Base Cost (Old - 72.5000) (New - 36.2500)
Summon Dremora Lord - Base Cost (Old - 157.1400) (New - 78.5700)
Summon Flame Atronach - Base Cost (Old - 45.0000) (New - 22.5000)
Summon Frost Atronach - Base Cost (Old - 102.8600) (New - 51.4250)
Summon Ghost - Base Cost (Old - 22.0000) (New - 11.0000)
Summon Headless Zombie - Base Cost (Old - 56.0000) (New - 28.0000)
Summon Lich - Base Cost (Old - 350.0000) (New - 175.0000)
Summon Scamp - Base Cost (Old - 30.0000) (New - 15.0000)
Summon Skeleton Guardian - Base Cost (Old - 32.5000) (New - 16.2500)
Summon Skeleton Champion - Base Cost (Old - 152.0000) (New - 76.0000)
Summon Skeleton - Base Cost (Old - 11.2500) (New - 5.6250)
Summon Skeleton Hero - Base Cost (Old - 66.0000) (New - 33.0000)
Summon Spider Daedra - Base Cost (Old - 195.0000) (New - 97.5000)
Summon Storm Atronach - Base Cost (Old - 125.0000) (New - 62.5000)
Summon Faded Wraith - Base Cost (Old - 87.5000) (New - 43.7500)
Summon Gloom Wraith - Base Cost (Old - 260.0000) (New - 130.0000)
Summon Xivilai - Base Cost (Old - 200.0000) (New - 100.0000)
Summon Zombie - Base Cost (Old - 16.6700) (New - 8.3350)
Absorb Health - Base Cost (Old - 16.0000) (New - 12.0000)
Bound Boots - Base Cost (Old - 12.0000) (New - 6.0000)
Bound Cuirass - Base Cost (Old - 12.0000) (New - 6.0000)
Bound Gauntlets - Base Cost (Old - 8.0000) (New - 4.0000)
Bound Greaves - Base Cost (Old - 12.0000) (New - 6.0000)
Bound Helmet - Base Cost (Old - 12.0000) (New - 6.0000)
Bound Shield - Base Cost (Old - 18.0000) (New - 9.0000)
Bound Axe - Base Cost (Old - 39.0000) (New - 13.0000)
Bound Bow - Base Cost (Old - 95.0000) (New - 31.6666)
Bound Dagger - Base Cost (Old - 14.0000) (New - 4.6666)
Bound Mace - Base Cost (Old - 91.0000) (New - 30.3333)
Bound Sword - Base Cost (Old - 235.0000) (New - 78.3333)
Damage Attribute - Base Cost (Old - 100.0000) (New - 33.0000)
Fortify Skill - Base Cost (Old - 0.6000) (New - 6.0000)
Paralyze - Base Cost (Old - 475.0000) (New - 158.3000); Enchanting (Old - No) (New - Yes)
Restore Health - Base Cost (Old - 10.0000) (New - 8.5000)
Spell Absorption - Enchanting (Old - No) (New - Yes)
Spells -
New -
Valdacil's Blending, aaValChameleonApp, xx003904, Chameleon 15% 30s, Cost 60, Skill Apprentice
Restore Attributes: All, aaValRestoreStats, xx001b9b, Restore Attribute 2 pts (all attributes), Cost 72,
Skill Journeyman
Modified -
Finger of the Mountain - Set to auto-calc cost; high level versions were insane costing
Bound Boots - Duration (Old - 20s) (New - 45s)
Bound Cuirass - Duration (Old - 60s) (New - 45s)
Bound Gauntlets - Duration (Old - 20s) (New - 45s)
Bound Helmet - Duration (Old - 20s) (New - 45s)
Bound Shield - Duration (Old - 120s) (New - 45s)
Bound War Axe - Duration (Old - 15s) (New - 45s)
Bound Bow - Duration (Old - 15s) (New - 45s)
Bound Dagger - Duration (Old - 15s) (New - 45s)
Bound Mace - Duration (Old - 15s) (New - 45s)
Bound Sword - Duration (Old - 15s) (New - 45s)
Summon Flame Atronach - Duration (Old - 30s) (New - 45s)
Summon Frost Atronach - Duration (Old - 35s) (New - 45s)
Summon Storm Atronach - Duration (Old - 40s) (New - 45s)
Summon Daedroth - Duration (Old - 30s) (New - 45s)
Summon Dremora - Duration (Old - 20s) (New - 45s)
Summon Dremora Lord - Duration (Old - 35s) (New - 45s)
Summon Ghost - Duration (Old - 25s) (New - 45s)
Summon Lich - Duration (Old -20s) (New - 45s)
Summon Scamp - Duration (Old - 20s) (New - 45s)
Summon Skeleton - Duration (Old - 40s) (New - 45s)
Summon Skeleton Champion - Duration (Old - 25s) (New - 45s)
Summon Skeleton Guardian - Duration (Old - 40s) (New - 45s)
Summon Skeleton Hero - Duration (Old - 50s) (New - 45s)
Summon Spider Deadra - Duration (Old - 20s) (New - 45s)
Summon Faded Wraith - Duration (Old - 40s) (New - 45s)
Summon Gloom Wraith - Duration (Old - 25s) (New - 45s)
Summon Xivilai - Duration (Old - 30s) (New - 45s)
Summon Zombie - Duration (Old - 30s) (New - 45s)
Summon Headless Zombie - Duration (Old - 25s) (New - 45s)
Creatures -
SummonAncestorGuardian - Level 0/-5; Calc Max 4/50
SummonAtronachFlame - PC Offset X, Level 7/-4, Calc Max 15
SummonAtronachFrost - PC Offset X, Level 13/-4, Calc Max 26
SummonAtronachStorm - PC Offset X, Level 17/-4, Calc Max 29
SummonClannfear - PC Offset X, Level 11/-4, Calc max 19
SummonDeadroth - PC Offset X, Level 12/-4, Calc Max 29
SummonGhost - Calc Max 4/10, Level 0/-4
SummonLich - PC Offset X, Level 23/-4, Calc Max 50
SummonScamp - Level 1/-4, Calc Max 5/12
SummonSkeleton - PC Offset X, Level 1/-4, Calc Max 4
SummonSkeletonGuardian - PC Offset X, Level 6/-4, Calc Max 12
SummonSkeletonHero - PC Offset X, Level 10/-4, Calc Max 18
SummonSkeletonChampion - PC Offset X, Level 15/-4, Calc Max 32
SummonSpiderDeadra - PC Offset X, Level 16/-4, Calc Max 38
SummonWraith0Faded - PC Offset X, Level 12/-4, Calc Max 20
SummonWraith2Gloom - PC Offset X, Level 21/-4, Calc Max 42
SummonXivilai - PC Offset X, Level 20/-4, Calc Max 50
SummonZombie - PC Offset X, Level 2/-4, Calc Max 7
SummonZombieHeadless - PC Offset X, Level 8/-4, Calc Max 16
NPCs -
SummonDremora1CaitiffMale1 - PC Offset X, Level 6/-4, Calc Max 19
SummonDremora5MarkynazMale1 - PC Offset X, Level 19/-4, Calc Max 32