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| Useful Bound Armor |
| A Morrowind Mod, Version 1.0 |
| by Necrolesian |
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Description |
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This mod causes bound armor to use the normal formula for armor rating (taking
light armor skill into account) instead of just providing the base rating
regardless of skill.

In vanilla Morrowind, most armor provides an armor rating that depends on your
relevant armor skill. However, if the armor is weightless (i.e. bound armor),
your armor skill is not taken into account and the armor just provides its base
AR regardless of skill.

Due to how the vanilla formula works, this basically means your effective armor
skill is 30 when you equip bound armor. This is fine at low skill, but with
high armor skill you're much better off using regular armor as long as it has a
remotely decent base AR.

With this mod, armor being weightless is no longer a special case; bound armor
will use the exact same AR formula as any other armor, using your light armor
skill to determine the AR it grants. With a light armor skill below 30, bound
armor provides less protection than it does in vanilla, but with high light
armor skill, it is potentially much better than in vanilla.

Now bound armor will remain useful throughout the game.

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Installation |
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Use a mod management tool such as Wrye Mash, or just copy the MWSE directory to
your Data Files directory.

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Requirements |
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This mod requires MGE XE and the latest version of MWSE 2.1. Just install MGE
XE and run MWSE-Update.exe to download the latest build.

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Compatibility |
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Useful Bound Armor should be compatible with just about everything, except for
mods that change how armor rating is calculated.

In particular, it is not compatible with the Armor Rating mod, which also
causes bound armor to take armor skill into account, along with changing the AR
formula generally. If you want to overhaul how the game calculates AR, use
Armor Rating. If you want to keep the vanilla calculation and just want bound
armor to take armor skill into account, use this mod.

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Version History |
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Version 1.0 - 2021-05-22
- Initial release.

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Thanks |
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This mod was inspired by Archimag's excellent Armor Rating mod.

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Contact |
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Feel free to contact me on the Nexus with any comments or suggestions. You can
also find me on Discord as Necrolesian#9692.

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Usage |
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You can use this however you want.