Enemy Releveler

The Enemy Releveler is a configurable zEdit patcher that lets you edit the levels of NPCs. By default it makes different enemy classes (e.g. bandits and draugr) more distinct, but it makes different ranks of the same class (e.g. draugr scourge and wight) more similar. This greatly amplifies the difficulty difference between different kinds of dungeons, while making the experience within each dungeon more consistent. Certain dungeons will now be off limits to low level characters, while mid and high level characters will find other dungeons easy. It is highly configurable and almost any outcome can be achieved.

Whenever you would encounter, for instance, a level 13 draugr scourge, you'll now encounter a level X draugr scourge, where you can adjust the value of X. The Releveler does not change which enemies appear so you'll get the same diversity of enemies as usual. Where the Releveler raises enemy levels, the game will be harder; where it lowers enemy levels, the game will be easier. By default, the Releveler squashes the levels of bandits and forsworn down making high ranking NPCs easier, but the levels of falmer and dwarven automata are pulled up making them harder. Other enemies, like draugr, have their levels "compressed" without moving much, so low ranking draugr are significantly tougher but high ranking draugr are similar to vanilla. The end result is a natural progression across enemy types: low level characters fight wild animals, bandits and the forsworn; mid level characters can additionally manage warlocks, monsters and magical beasts; while only high level characters can hope to defeat dwarven automata, vampires and dragons. But all this is configurable, so the user can set things up to their heart's content.

For a full list of all affected NPCs and the default changes to their levels open the spoiler below, but here's a summary:

Very low: skeevers, wolves, spiders

Low: bandits, bears, ice wraiths, saber cats, skeletons, spriggans, forsworn

Moderate: draugr, trolls, mages, thalmor, soldiers

High: dwarven machines, falmer, hagravens, giants, werewolves, vampires

Very high: dragon priests, dragons

The following list describes how NPC levels are changed according to their faction. For each faction it first shows the vanilla level range followed by the default level range created by the Enemy Releveler. So, to illustrate, "Bandits: -> ", means "Vanilla bandits range in level from 1 to 28, by default the Releveler rescales their levels to range from 2 to 15". You can change these values in the patcher to produce your own level distributions (see the configuration section below).

In addition note that the