Enchantment Points Overhauled

Requires Bloodmoon and Tribunal

Ever wondered why pauldrons are so universally terrible for enchanting?

Or how some lowlife trader has a pair of leather boots with an enchantment about 7 times more powerful than you could even fit on the most enchantable item in existence?

If, like me, you were a bit annoyed at the inconsistencies in Morrowind's enchanting values, this is the mod for you.

I made this mod for my personal use, but figured other people might enjoy it too. I wanted a mod that made much grander enchantments possible, but wasn't just a quick-and-dirty edit to fEnchantMult making everything bigger, or the extremely cheaty solution of giving everything 9999 points.

WHAT DOES THE MOD DO?

THE QUICK OVERVIEW

If you just want to see what the new enchantment values are, here's a spreadsheet which shows the old and new enchanting values for (almost) every armor piece and set in the game (a few pieces are missing, but all the major changes are listed on the chart. The only thing worth mentioning that the chart leaves out is that the Ancient Steel Armor from Bloodmoon has double the enchanting capacity of regular steel armor to make up for the halved health)

THE LONG-WINDED EXPLANATIONS

Practically every piece of armor has been giving a new enchantment capacity. The higher tier armors of each weight class have been given huge bonuses to their enchanting capacity, whereas the low level armors have only received minor balancing tweaks, usually to the greaves and pauldrons.

Most armors keep their enchanting rank relative to each other, but the bonuses in capacity get increasingly bigger with each armor tier. For example, iron armor is lower than steel, which is lower than dwemer, which is lower than ebony, which is lower than daedric. However, steel is now about twice as good as iron, dwemer about three times better than steel, ebony is about four times better than dwemer, and daedric armor is a whopping ten times better than ebony. If you're lucky enough to find a piece of daedric armor, you can pretty much make something to rival the power of daedric artifacts. Of course, you're still going to need a gallon of fortify intelligence potions or a truly monumental amount of gold to create those enchantments successfully, as this mod doesn't do anything to make the enchanting process itself any easier.

The other thing this mod does is standardise enchanting capacities of armor sets. It kind of annoyed me how in some armor sets, the helmet was the best enchanting piece, and in others they were pretty much worthless. Or how daedric armor has some of the highest capacities in the game, yet the pauldrons are somehow only a pathetic six points.

All armor sets now conform to the same format. Arranged highest capacity to lowest, armor pieces in a set now go:

1 - Tower Shields

2 - Shields

3 - Helmets