Enchanting Cost Formula Fix



WARNINGWith this mod installed Enchanted Weapons will have fewer charges at higher Enchanting Skill levels. On average there will be from 1. 5 times (on Enchanting 30) up to 3 times (on Enchanting 100) less uses. This is true for all old versions of the mod and the newest 2. 0.

Enchantment Cost is also used to calculate Charge per use for weapons, meaning that increasing prices will reduce the number of charges your weapon could have.

With that said, one could come up with an explanation that as your skill progresses the enchantment gets more powerful, thus consumes more charge, making fewer strikes, but each of them is more notable :P which could be... good enough explanation, in that case please proceed with the download :) Thanks!

Description

Enchantment Cost is designed in a way that makes Enchanting skill negatively affect the final price, so the more you enchant, the less valuable your Enchantments become. On top of this, that formula completely zeroes price at Enchanting = 200. While this isn't a big deal in Vanilla Skyrim, it certainly becomes annoying if you use Skyrim Uncapper (or NIHTweaks for AE players), because you can't really benefit from leveling Enchanting (it makes enchantments 1% stronger for every 4 levels of the skill (according to Skyrim:Enchanting - The Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages (UESP))).

Not to be confused with Enchantment Cost Fix (or Enchantment Reload Fix).

I'd suggest using Enchantment Cost Fix together with Enchantments Cost Formula Fix (this mod) to make the most out of it.

The Fix

Makes prices of enchantments increase with your Enchanting skill level. It is similar to "Reversed" formula from ECFF 1. 0, but uses power of SKSE plugin to replace the entire formula. No perks, no scripts, no edited game settings just the patched formula.

The Math

(totally skippable if you're not into math)

Original formula in question looks like the following:

(fEnchantingSkillCostMult (BaseEffectCost SoulGemUsedCharges / GrandSoulGemCharges) ^ fEnchantingCostExponent) (1 - (skill fEnchantingSkillCostBase) ^ fEnchantingSkillCostScale)

(more detailed description of the values used in the formula can be found here or here)

Blue part of the formula is essentially some constant value depending on what enchantment you're creating and what Soul Gem will be used.