Smoovly Balanced Enchanting

⭐ — (3 endorsements) 📥 58 downloads 📌 v1 📅 2/28/2026
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By vsmoovs · Gameplay

⬇ Download Mod Source: Nexus Mods ↗ 📅 Updated: 3/3/2026 📅 Created: 2/28/2026
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🔍 Analysis

  • 🏆 #226 of 348 Gameplay mods in this game by downloads

📋 About This Mod

The idea was to balance each item to 10 Armor Rating = 300 Enchant Value, using the exquisite ring as a guiding principle.

Update

I realized I used an old version of the clothing balancing. Hopefully I didnt miss anything when redoing it. If I did I apologize.

How it works

Armors, Clothing, and Weapons have had their available Enchant Values balanced (increased or decreased). In the CS these numbers range from 300 to 6000, this translates in game to 30 to 600 with vanilla GMST squish. From there, Base Cost's for spells have been adjusted to achieve specific results for 150 Enchant Value. Gold cost's have been reduced. Finally, iSoulAmountForConstantEffect has been reduced to 181 to allow for any Grand Souls to work as Constant Effects.

Gold Costs

Gold cost's for the items have been reduced by adjusting GMST: to 24. 26.

Rough Guidelines for Balancing

10 AR = 300 Enchant Value in game.

Ashlander clothing and Great House clothing act as additional tiers between common - exquisite. This results in Common clothing having 30 available points and exquisite clothing having 180 points now available. Tribunal and Bloodmoon clothing go beyond that.

Named Items / Uniques / Other =  600 Enchant Value in game. (highest)

Examples

Processus Vitellius' Ring is a named item and so it has 600 Enchant Value. Galbedir sells a Grand Soul Gem with a Winged Twilight soul. Since all Grand Soul Gems are now Constant Effect eligible, you can have an entourage of daedra for around the cost of around a repair broken glass dagger.

Outside of Kogoruhn is a dead Ordinator. Soul trapping the Dagoth's inside and using his Indoril Pauldrons, I enchanted Bound Boots, Gloves, Cuirass, and Helm on one. Longsword, Shield, Longbow, and Mace on the other.

Installation

vsGMST.esp is optional but recommended. Make sure it is loaded after the BalancedEnchant - ReFuned.esp / merged, etc.

This is something I made to rebalance Morrowind enchanting for consistency and usability (and fun).

Cleaned with EE and tes3cmd. If I missed something, let me know.

📊 Mod Details

Game
Morrowind Mods
Author
vsmoovs
Version
1
Downloads
58
Endorsements
3
Category
Gameplay
Created
2/28/2026
Updated
3/3/2026

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