Descension - Vanilla-Plus Loot Balance

The Glory of Cyrodiil

Requirements:

None

Description

Light armor is made from fur, leather, chainmail, mithril, elven or glass. Mithril, elven and glass are exceedingly rare and are only found in ancient ruins and remote tombs... Blacksmiths can forge heavy armor from iron, steel, dwarven, orcish, ebony or daedric. Iron and steel plate mail can be found in most any blacksmith's shop. The other materials are rare and armor made from them is only found in ancient treasure hoards hidden deep underground.

Manual of Armor

Descension is a vanilla-friendly mod that fixes Oblivion's immersion-breaking leveled loot distribution system. It is a heavily reduced version of Ascension made specifically for the remaster that aims to fix the worst aspects of the loot system without overhauling it.

[]Removed higher tier weapons and armour from NPCs common. This includes Mithril, Elven, Glass, Dwarven, Orcish, Ebony, and Daedric.

[]Removed Glass and Daedric armour and Daedric weapons from boss NPCs. The boss NPC leveled lists are no longer 'leveled', so that their equipment is randomised amongst the available tiers instead of always being the highest level. This means that boss NPCs use higher-tier gear, but not always the same tier.

[]Repeated similar changes to the two above for staves and scrolls. NPCs now do not carry the highest level of either unless they are a boss, which means you must now find them in dungeon chest loot.

[]Added more items to dungeon chests to offset the lack of valuable armour loot from NPCs. This addresses the very low amount of loot in the vanilla game, which often goes unnoticed as NPCs dropped more than enough gear. Care was taken to ensure that these new item additions match the vanilla loot distribution for each dungeon type as closely as possible.

[]Added enchanted arrows to dungeon loot where logical. They were completely missing in the vanilla game and could only be found on a select few NPCs and creatures.

[]Increased the level range for creatures from 8 to 15. This allows more low-level creatures to spawn when you are a higher

level, meaning that you won't always be fighting the top three highest level creatures all the time.[*]Decreased item drop rates for NPC potions, scrolls, and enchanted jewelery. This is to preserve the game's economy and make chest loot more valuable compared to NPCs