Mysticism and Soul Gem Tweaks

Mysticism and Soul Gem Tweaks

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Description

This is another attempt at balancing the enchanted item system and making Mysticism more worthwhile. The features are described below.

Your Mysticism skill will now increase the amount of weapon charge restored by soul gems, up to +50% at a Mysticism skill of 100.

This makes it easier to keep items charged without resorting to adding an automatic recharge feature, which just breaks the game balance in my opinion. The game seems to be balanced around enchanted items costing a premium, that premium being soul gems, which are fairly common in loot and on merchants.

The increased soul gem level only affects recharging, not enchanting.

Azura's Star no longer acts as a refillable soul gem, and instead grants an ability that increases Mysticism by 40 points, like the Skeleton Key. This contributes to the increased soul gem potency above.

The vanilla Azura's Star pretty much broke the recharge feature, as it meant there was no limit to how much you could recharge your weapons if you had a soul trap spell and a summon.

This feature can be toggled in the mod's INI file. There is also the option to replace the Skeleton Key with a version that doesn't act as an unbreakable lockpick, but still grants the increased Security skill ability. I recommend enabling this option, as the Skeleton Key breaks the balance of the Security skill in the vanilla game.

Soul Gem Conversion

Whenever you trap a soul, the filled soul gem will automatically be converted into a stackable version with increased value. (In the vanilla game, all player-filled soul gems were listed individually in your inventory, and their value did not increase to match pre-filled soul gems.)

Ayleid Well Bonus

The Ayleid Well ability will now grant an extra 20 Mysticism skill so that your recharges are more powerful when the spell is active.

Alternatively, there is an optional file that makes Ayleid Wells fully recharge all your enchanted items like a Varla Stone, but I think this is too overpowered personally.

(Optional) Scrolls of Enchanting

Scrolls that allow you to enchant items when cast have been added to enchanting merchant inventories. In the vanilla game, there are only thr