RPGfun's Equipment Overhaul

This mod drastically overhauls the values associated with armor, how they scale / relate to each other, while rebalancing cost and enchant values.

Raise Price in the early game, Reduce Costs in the late game, scale accordingly:

All weapons/armor pieces, even enchanted ones, should at least be sellable to the Mudcrab Merchant. With that as a baseline, all other late-game items below the most expensive can be scaled down accordingly.

Early game, gold can be hard to come by. An iron weapon can still be valuable enough to purchase, and hauling back weaponry shouldn't broadly be unnecessary for what any one of them can do, so they, and items like them, get to have a bit of a higher price.

And scaling everything smoothly in between makes sense for how most other values (Health, Damage) are also scaled in that way.

Standardizes Armor and Weapon stats, removes most of the variance between armor pieces' stats.

The armor and weapons are grouped as such:

Starting (Iron, Chitin, etc.):

• []Gear that you can acquire immediately at minimal cost, but are easily identifiable as the weakest types of gear available

  Early Game (Steel, Bonemold, etc.)

  • []Gear that can be bought for a decent price as the first and cheapest advancements from Starting gear, but are common enough to not surpass them greatly in expense or effectiveness.

    Mid Game (Orcish, Dwemer, etc.)

    • []Gear that is rare or difficult to find for new adventurers, but not so much so that a seasoned adventurer wouldn’t have access to it after stabbing the right characters, opening the right chest, or saving up enough coin.

      End Game (Ebony, etc.)

      • []Gear that is, while present, still difficult and especially rare to find. While they can have qualities that contend them to be used by high-level characters, they are not strictly the best that you can find, granted that they are close to it.

        Exemplar / Expansion (Daedric, Glass, Adamantium)

        • []The best gear that you can find, but is incredibly rare. Often, only one set is available, and much of it will be worn by important, powerful characters, or guarded by an equally formidable series of foes. Perfection, however, is worth this heavy price.

          Weapons HP Curve:

          Non-Metal (Dreugh, Glass, Chitin): 300-400

          • []Unrefined, unconventional, or delicate materials that find themselves brittle and difficult to maintain due to their construction.

            Standard Metals (Iron, Steel, Silver): 400 - 500

            • []Common, and found in a variety of weapons, but holding no special quality to allow them to last longer through combat.

              Durable Metals (Dwarven, Ebony, Orcish): 500-600

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