About this mod
This mod balances and enhances the bound weapons of Skyrim. All bound weapons now have a 10 minute duration, magicka costs are slightly adjusted, and the bound weapon perks have been redone to allow for damage scaling equivalent to legendary Smithing weapons.
- Requirements
- Permissions and credits
The attached images should explain what this mod does in full. Here's the rundown:
- Get the perks that allow your bound weapons to scale with Conjuration and Enchanting.
- Find Malyn Varens' corpse to get
a ringan object, replacing the need for the old 'Soul Stealer' perk. - Level your Conjuration and Enchanting to 100 for much better bound weapon damage.
- Your combat skills/perks and your fortify enchantments also help greatly.
The fully-powered bound weapons are equivalent to having four 'Fortify Smithing' pieces on, with 100 Smithing, using a Blacksmith' Elixir, and then tempering a Daedric weapon. For this to be true, I had to limit the bow (which was already scaling better than the other weapons) to only scale from one of the two skills (Enchanting).
New in 2.1:
Conjuring bound weapons no longer breaks invisibility.
Bound Bow damage was slightly increased, and draw speed was changed from 0.5 to 0.75.
2.2:
The Soul Cairn Conduit ring is no longer a ring, and does not interfere with equipping a ring. It is now just an object that can be held (slot 59).
2.3:
The Soul Cairn Conduit item no longer shows up when selling to a vendor. It also no longer takes up any equipment slot, and should be equippable with anything else that can be equipped.