Increased Equipment Enhancement - DFT

Description:

This mod uses what ESO gave to us, but this is a simpler-lightweight file that only focuses on smithing upgrades for weapons and armor, requiring only 1 lua file.

Weapons & Shields:

Each weapon is pushed toward a stat ceiling based on the best-in-slot weapon for that vocation, then scaled by whichever smithing style you use:

• []Vermundian — balanced STR and MAG boost, slight KND (knockdown) power increase[/]

  []Battahli — heavy STR focus, moderate MAG, no KND change[/]

  []Elven — heavy MAG focus, moderate STR, slight KND reduction[/]

  []Dwarven — moderate STR and MAG, strong KND power boost[/]

  []Wyrmfire — unique; takes ~10% of the average across all other styles plus a bonus on top, and adds flat elemental/bash/debilitation effect power instead of scaling it per level[/]

Weapons that already have elemental, blunt, or status effects take a small penalty to their main attack stat to compensate.

Early/weaker weapons are also given a slightly lower ceiling than endgame weapons so upgrading starter gear never catches up to a fully upgraded endgame piece.

Gains are split unevenly across the 3 upgrade levels weighted by cost — Level 1 gives the smallest stat boost and Level 3 gives the biggest stat boost.

Vermundian and Elven upgrades reduce weapon weight; Battahli and Dwarven increase it.

Special Elven Feature:

Only Elven smithing improves armor elemental resistances.

• []2x multiplier on elemental resistance on Chest and Leg armor that come with any elemental resistances[/]

  []Helmets get special treatment, a much larger boost (currently set to 16x), making headgear the best slot to stack elemental resistance through Elven upgrades[/]

  []Debilitation resistances (Poison, Sleep, Burn, Freeze, Silence, Petrify, etc.) — ~0. 33x multiplier on all armor pieces[/]

  []Armor with a negative resistance (a weakness) is also improved — the upgrade chips away at the penalty rather than adding to a positive[/]

  Config:

  Config values at the top of the .lua file lets you tune everything to your own preferences for your own playstyle/balance —

  How much weaker weapons fall short of the endgame ceiling

  The STR/MAG penalty on special weapons

  The helmet elemental multiplier

  Open the .lua and look at the top for

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  -- CONFIG - tweak these values to your preference

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  The specific lines and what they do:

  Line 8 MAX_GAP <