Gent's Vanilla Spell Rebalance - Spell Costs - Vendor Spells - Starting Spells

Gent's Vanilla Spell Rebalance

by SandGentleman

Description

Many spell effects in Morrowind are unusable due to high magicka costs. Even weak effects like Sound or Burden cost huge sums of magicka. The opposite is also true - strong effects like Paralyze and Absorb Health are too cheap. This mod balances the magic effect costs to match the power of their effect so that all spell effects are viable. This mod does 3 things:

1.) Fixes default magic effect costs.

A 150 point Burden spell lasting 30 seconds (for context, this wouldn't even over-encumber a low-level bandit) used to cost 225 magicka! Now it costs only 23 magicka - much fairer. See more examples below:

Reflect

Reflect 50% for 30s on Self

Spell Cost: 775 magicka ➝ 68 magicka

Reflect cost so much that you couldn't use a duration above 10s or magnitudes above 10%. Now mid-level characters can utilize it.

Disintegrate Weapon

Disintegrate Weapon 100 pts on Touch

Spell Cost: 30 magicka ➝ 5 magicka

Maybe the weakest Destruction effect. Low-level weapons tend to have 700+ durability. 100 Disintegrate is almost useless... for 30 magicka!

Feather

Feather 100 pts for 120s on Self

Spell Cost: 605 magicka ➝ 48 magicka

Feather is mainly a utility effect. Previously, it was unusable and could only be properly utilized as an enchantment. Now it's viable.

Sound

Sound 50 pts for 30s on Touch

Spell Cost: 232 magicka ➝ 20 magicka

Maybe the weakest Illusion effect. Even 100 Sound doesn't fully stop enemies from casting spells. 20 magicka still might be too expensive...

Resist Magicka

Resist Magicka 50 pts for 30s on Self

Spell Cost: 155 magicka ➝ 38 magicka

Resist Magicka does not protect against fire/frost/shock damage, only other spell effects. It's been changed from unviable to mid expensive.

Summon Winged Twilight

Summon Winged Twilight for 30s on Self

Spell Cost: 80 magicka ➝ 48 magicka

Twilights are comparable to Dremora in power, so 80 magicka was exorbitant compared to a Dremora's cost of 42. 48 is much better.

See the full list of changes here: Gent's Vanilla Spell Rebalance

2.) Rebalances all 331 default vendor spells.