[ Mod Description ]

Requiem - Magic Redone overhauls Requiem's Magic, adding hundreds of spells and new perks.

All spells in the five schools of magic are balanced under shared rules to offer natural progression and gameplay. Spells that were considered overpowered have been adjusted, and new spells are balanced with existing spells in mind. Some spells that were available only at higher tier have weaker variant at lower tiers and vice versa, so that each spell effects can be accessed/remain useful throughout the game. Most spells are categorized by spell effects with respective perks in each skill, allowing deeper and immersive character building.

Spells are designed to be lore-friendly, many being returning spell effects from previous Elder Scrolls games modified to fit into Requiem world, or assumed possible by lore. Spells with too complex mechanics are avoided to keep magic simple and straightforward, while still being fun and interesting. Spells using Requiem's naming convention are reverted back to vanilla-style.

Changes are also made in overall magic. Requiem's Illusion mechanics have been completely reworked so that Illusion fits into the game more naturally. Scrolls and Staves will use Magic Redone's rules for magnitudes and costs. Vanilla/Requiem enchantments are changed to better fit gameplay balance.




[ Main Features ]

• Spell strength, costs, casting times rebalanced with universal rules for more natural progression and balance between each schools of magic, as well as multipliers for each casting type (e.g. touch, concentration, aimed explosion).
• Scrolls and staves rebalanced based on base spells and tier multipliers, staff/scroll crafting mechanic associated with Enchanting skill.
• Returning spell effects from previous Elder Scrolls games, balanced and modified to fit into Requiem world.
• Lore-friendly new spells, most of which can be seen in Elder Scrolls games and lore.
• Mix of lore-friendly names and generic names for spells.
• Cast on self/target variant of spells (e.g. Oakflesh on Self/Target), taught together when reading one spell tome.
• New perks to flesh out character builds based on specific set of skills and spells.
• Vanilla enchantments adjusted and changed for better gameplay balance.
• Various balance changes regarding magic.
  

Detailed List of Universal Changes




Full List of Spells / Perks / Enchantments

[ Google Spreadsheet Link ]




[ Installation & Compatibility ]

Installation

• A new game is required for initial install, and you must run the Reqtificator to make the mechanics work.
• Load after Requiem.esp and Fozars_Dragonborn_-_Requiem_Patch.esp (optional DLC patch)
• Load Requiem - MR Bound Armor Fix.esp right below Requiem for the Indifferent.esp
  

Compatibility

• Requires matching version of Requiem - check file description for each version.
• Incompatible with major Requiem-based overhauls such as 3Tweaks
• Incompatible with other magic mods for Requiem, such as Requiem - Expanded Grimoire
• Audio Overhaul (with Requiem patch) : Load Magic Redone after Requiem - Audio Overhaul Skyrim patch
• Requiem - Alchemy Redone : Load Magic Redone after (below) Alchemy Redone
• Requiem - Unarmed Combat Enhancer : Load Magic Redone after (below) Unarmed Combat Enhancer
• Better Telekinesis, Cutting Room Floor, Frostfall, Requiem - Small Tweaks, Requiem - Special Feats : Patches available in fomod installer NOTE: Patch for Requiem - Small Tweaks will no longer be hosted here, but in Small Tweaks modpage.
• Honed Metal : Needs a manual edit for HonedMetal.ini. Write below line under [BLACKLIST] (right above [DUALENCH])
  

|Requiem - Magic Redone.esp|
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Recommended Mods

• Forget Spell : Magic Redone has a lot of spells, so you'll want to forget some spells after learning new ones.
• Requiem - Improved Spell Learning : Fixes Requiem's spell learning mechanics
  

[ Credits ]

• MihailMods for Scamps and Banekins (models and textures), Magic Redone version 0.5 and higher
• PrivateEye for Heavy Armory (Daedric Quarterstaff), Magic Redone 0.9 and higher
  

[ Alteration ]

The School of Alteration involves the manipulation of the physical world and its natural properties.

Alteration provides the most wide variety of effects, providing powerful boost to all kinds of characters. Includes buffs/debuffs, direct damage spells, and unique utility spells to allow Alteration to be powerful even as its own.


School Features

• Wide range of resistance spells and weakness spells for self, allies, and enemies
• Damage spells such as Wind and Telekinetic with dedicated perks
• Returning spell effects from previous Elder Scrolls games, such as Feather, Open, and Reflect Damage
• Utility spells such as Featherfall, Water Walking, and Jump
• Unique new spell effects such as Enlarge/Shrink, Dimension Door, and Control Weather
  

Additional Notes

• Crowd control effects such as Paralysis are resisted by Magic Resistance thresholds improving with spell tiers
• Resistance and weakness effects that modify armor rating and elemental resistances cannot stack with themselves or each other to prevent overpowered spell stacking
• Transmutation spells have green casting art (affected by transmutation perks) and Weakness spells have red casting art (formerly Destruction effects in previous elder scrolls games)
• Open spells no longer create scripted noise added by Requiem. They can silently open locks now as long as the spell is silenced (by improved Dampen spells in Illusion for example)
  

Spell List



Perk List

[ Conjuration ]

The School of Conjuration governs both Necromancy and summoning entities from the realms of Oblivion.

Conjuration is the school of summoning powerful entities to aid in combat, but with higher costs compared to other schools of magic. New summons are added, as well as direct damage spells for self defense of conjurers.


School Features

• Three groups of summons with respective perk branch and expanded variations : Daedra, Spirit, Undead
• Rebalanced Reanimation spells with level threshold and perk progression
• Direct damage spells associated to each perk branch
• Reworked Bound spells, featuring full set of weapons, shield, and armor, with perks offering choice of effects to bind
• Expanded support & utility spells such as Banish, Necromantic Healing, and Teleport
  

Additional Notes

• Adept & Expert Spirit summons have their tiers changed with rebalanced stats, but npcs will use default Requiem's summons for compatibility with npcs using the spells
  

Spell List



Perk List

[ Destruction ]

The School of Destruction involves harnessing of fire, frost, shock and other forces that undo creation.

Destruction offers the strongest direct damage spells with extensive casting types across multiple tiers. Each damage type has respective perk branch with unique bonus effects.


School Features

• Strongest direct damage spells with rebalanced magnitudes and costs for natural progression
• Casting types distributed to multiple ranks for supporting various builds and playstyle
• New spells for existing damage types to fill in missing casting type variants
• New Arcane and Entropic spells dealing irresistible & magical damage
• New spells with unique effects to expand versatility of Destruction magic
  

Additional Notes

• Cremation (Fire) adds extra damage over time to Fire spells
• Deep Freeze (Frost) adds freeze effect chance and weakness to frost effect to Frost spells
• Electrostatic Discharge (Shock) adds magicka damage and stagger chance to Shock spells
• Consume Life (Absorb Health) absorbs more health from living targets
• Arcane Disruption (Arcane) adds extra damage to targets with low magic resistance
• Entropic Discharge (Entropic) adds magicka and stamina damage to Entropic spells
  

Spell List



Perk List

[ Illusion ]

The School of Illusion involves manipulating the mind of the enemy, as well as the dark arts not known to many.

Illusion offers very wide variety of buff and debuff spells for tactical gameplay. Expanded group of spells with unique effects added with perks can build up a powerful master Illusionist, even capable of defeating all types of enemies with Illusion alone.


School Features

• Four groups of spells improved with respective perk branch : Emotional, Delusive, Perceptive, and Shadow
• Returning spell effects from previous Elder Scrolls games, such as Blind, Silence, and Sanctuary
• New Illusion break mechanic involving resistance formula based on both target and caster conditions.
• Keep-up cost of buff spells removed, and spells no longer require perks to be dual-casted and work properly
• Extensive list of spells with various casting type and tier distribution
  

Additional Notes

• Requiem's Illusion mechanics have been completely reworked, removing unique calculations, dual-casting (empowering) mechanic, and keep-up cost of buff spells
• Illusion break mechanic is rewritten. Now checks for break chance only once at the start of the spell, otherwise run until the end of the duration.
• At the end of each perk branch there are perks that unlock bonus effects for spells, which are referred to as 'Improved effects'. Spells have description for Improved effect by saying 'If improved, ~'.
• Nightmare spells have Illusion weakness effect that increase the chance of spell success, allowing Whispers of Death (formerly Phantasmal Killer) to work on end-game enemies, with enforced minimal chance in case the target's stats are absurdly high
• Invisibility-Muffle mutual exclusion is removed which caused constant dispelling of spells involving multiple effects
• If you want to disable alpha/transparency change of Blend/Chameleon/Blur/Shadow Shield/Shadow Sanctuary spells (which causes 1st person camera hands to be invisible), delete Nox_Illusion_SetAlpha.pex file in scripts folder.
  

Spell List



Perk List

[ Restoration ]

The School of Restoration involves both healing and protecting spells, as well as those that undo the undead.

Restoration offers both passive and active healing and protection spells, as well as fortify attribute spells for self and allies. Offensives spells including Poison, Sun and Turn can be highly effective to targets susceptible to them.


School Features

• Passive and instant healing spells for increased survivality as well as protection from poison
• Improved Ward spells providing protection from both magic and physical attacks
• Poison and Sun spells with their own perk branch offering more source of offense for Restoration
• Divine Banishment, Purify, and Turn spells for countering the Daedra and the Undead
• Fortify Attribute spells for self and allies
  

Additional Notes

• Sun spells do magical damage (resisted by magic resistance) instead of doing irresistable damage.
• Ward spell in this game is simply broken by game mechanics, so their costs are greatly reduced instead
  

Spell List



Perk List

[ Enchanting ]

Enchanting is the arcane art of infusing matter permanently with magic energy.

Features improvements for Scrolls and Staves, making them more stronger and more efficient. Vanilla enchantments are rebalanced to make each more useful.


School Features

• Rebalanced and redesigned vanilla enchantments to make them more useful
• Magic perks (e.g. Pyromancy, Respite) improve staves and scrolls, just like spells
• Staff and Scroll crafting mechanic based on Enchanting skill
  

Additional Notes

• Enchanter's Insight rank 1 increases power of staves and scrolls up to +50% at 100 Enchanting skill level.
• Scrambled Bugs with 'Multiple Enchantment Effects' fix is required for some enchantments to give proper scaling bonuses.
• Detailed magnitude and scaling for enchantments are included in the spreadsheet.
• Fortify Magic enchantments are capped to 90% cost reduction.
  

Staff/Scroll Crafting Mechanics



Enchantment Changes



Perk List