Ascended Gameplay Tweaks

Ascended Gameplay Tweaks

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Description

Ascended Gameplay Tweaks is a set of modular plugins containing various gameplay tweaks from the larger Ascension and Ascension Remastered mods. This allows you to pick individual features to use alongside whatever gameplay mod you use, such as Descension. The individual plugins are described below and are available in the optional files section. An "All-in-One" main file is provided that includes all the plugins merged into one file.

Balanced Alchemy

Reduced the value of brewed potions to between 1 and 15 gold to preserve the game's economy.

Reduced the effect of all apparatus on brewed potion effects by half. This helps preserve the balance of the alchemy system.

Modified the magnitude and duration of brewed potions to favour magnitude slightly more than in the vanilla game. Brewed potions should now be less effective and more balanced overall for those not skilled in alchemy.

Balanced Apparel Enchantments

Overhauled the added value of apparel enchantments, as generic enchanted loot was perhaps the most economy breaking part of the vanilla game (some items could be found in common loot and worth up to 12,000 gold). Enchantment values are much lower now, and the overall spread has been decreased. The value of some heavily undervalued effects, such as Nighteye, have also been increased. These changes also affect enchanting, and makes apparal enchantment costs more comparable to weapons.

Increased the magnitude of some effects when making custom enchantments, so that they are more in line with what is available from generic loot. For example, the maximum custom enchantment for Fortify Health was only 10 when using a grand soul gem, whereas you could find items with up to 30. Affected enchantments: Detect Life, Fortify Fatigue, Fortify Health, Fortify Magicka.

Balanced Armorer

Removed the skill influence on the chance of a Repair Hammer breaking. Skill still affects the item condition restored per use.

Decreased the base chance of a Repair Hammer breaking from 30% to 20%. The changes to repairing makes using repair hammers harder than vanilla at higher Armorer skill so that merchant repairs don't become redundant.

Balanced Bribery

Removed the influence of NPC level from bribery costs. This was a dumb inclusion in the first place, as it meant h