Altered Spell Costs
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📋 About This Mod
Altered Spell Costs tweaks the way spell costs are calculated by editing the Magicka Cost formula.The result is lower spell costs. There are a few variants, some with flat reductions (-33%, -50%, -66%, -90%), and one with a custom scaling
This mod is a very simple edit to the base spell cost scaling formula, multiple versions available -33%, -50%, -66%, -90% raw reduction and another one with a more personal scaling change.
As for the changed 'New Scaling' version:
From the UESP Wiki, the Vanilla base spell cost scaling is around the following depending on the skill of the cast spell's school.
Vanilla cost scaling:
- At 0 skill level : 140% of the base spell cost
- At ~33 skill level : ~100% of the base spell cost
- At 80 skill level : ~44% of the base spell cost
- At 100 skill level : 20% of the base spell cost
The 'New Scaling' version instead is:
- At 0 skill level : 140% of the base spell cost
- At ~33 skill level : ~97% of the base spell cost
- At 80 skill level : ~36% of the base spell cost
- At 100 skill level : 10% of the base spell cost
Slightly lowered overall and at max level costs are reduced by 50%, greatly rewarding maxing out the school without trivializing the journey too much.
Editing the .ini
fMagicCasterSkillCostBase = 0. 2000
fMagicCasterSkillCostMult = 1. 2000
fMagicCasterSkillCostBase = 0. 1700
fMagicCasterSkillCostMult = 1. 0200
Changing them independantly would completely change the skill scaling, alternatively setting both to 0 should be free casts for everyone (yay).
How to Install
Otherwise it's an esp so just drop it in OblivionRemastered/Content/Dev/ObvData/Data and add the filename to Plugins.txt
If it's the Game Settings Loader version, extract it at the root folder and hope the .ini is where it should be.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Oblivion Remastered Mods
- Author
- Lunikc
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Downloads
- 18,846
- Endorsements
- 345
- Category
- Gameplay
- Created
- 4/26/2025
- Updated
- 5/4/2025
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