About this mod
The idea of this patch is to reward exploration and to open more ways to advance in character building. Artefakes made unique uniques, but also overpowered. This patch tries to nerf Artefakes stats --according to WAFR standards-- without punishing rewards.
IN 2.0 WAFR IS NOT A HARD-REQUIREMENT.
- Requirements
- Permissions and credits
- WAFR IS NOT A HARD-REQUIREMENT. This patch uses WAFR keywords that can improve your gameplay in some ways; also, all buffs and nerfs have been made taking in consideration a game balanced through WAFR lens. If you don't use WAFR, this patch will not break your game, but you will get the dwarven-elven-orcish stat asynchronicity (for instance, Ghorbash and Gharol's weaponry will be 2 tiers stronger than your average orcish weaponry). Nonetheless, I believe that even if you don't use --nor like-- WAFR, the tweaks in this patch will make Artefakes more appealing to your gameplay and consistent with your playthrough progresion.
- This patch does not buff or tweak uniques not included in Artefakes (as the 1.0 patch did).
- If you use RoM or ZIA, load this patch before any of these.
RESUME
- The idea of this patch is to reward exploration and to open more ways to advance in character building. Artefakes made unique uniques, but also overpowered. This patch tries to nerf Artefakes stats --according to WAFR standards-- without punishing rewards.
- DETAILED INFORMATION HERE.
- No bow faster than Zephyr. (Most of Artefakes bows had 1.5 speed and Zephyr's speed is 1.0564).
- Non-ranged weaponry speed and reach rectified according to WAFR standards. (No more 1.3 speed axes, 1.1 speed maces, etc.).
- Leveled rewards always best stats.
- Free items inside cities = dwarven tier.
- Free items far away cities = orcish tier.
- Small dungeon rewards (includes uniques encountered in the middle of long caves) = orcish tier.
- Large dungeon rewards = ebony.
- All leveled rewards are static = always best stats according to WAFR. (Gauldur's Blackbow and Blackblade were buffed to match ebony tier).
- Old ebony/glass tiers uniques were buffed to match daedric/dragon tiers.
- Quest and faction rewards buffed accordingly.
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CREDITS
I want to thank Registrant for making ArteFakes and Deletepch for bringing it to Nexus. Also thanks to Kryptopyr, I'm sure you already know how much we appreciate it and all the mental attrition and time that you have saved us.
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