Poisebreaker - A Poise Mod Addon

• []Supports AE & SE[/]

  []Reworked Poise Formulas[/]

  []Poise scaling with level and perks[/]

  []All player builds have a way to interact with Poise.[/]

Loki’s Base mod:

-poise max calculation is actor equipped weight + 20% of heavy armor skill.

-poise damage is weapon weight

-blocking reduces poise damage by 50%.

-poise regen every 3. 5 second.

-beast creatures have hardcoded poise values.

The Problem: generic calculations are not adequate in Skyrim because the game systems don't really account for weight. In actual game balance it can be somewhat arbitrary: high level enemies might have low poise because of their armor value, and lowlevel players might already have high poise because they don heavy armor. In Dark Souls, weight is an actual mechanic; poise is affected by player stat and enemies have hardcoded poise values. So we need to make further calculations to influence poise with respect to the game systems.

The limitations: the vanilla game systems are somewhat incoherent, making it hard to calculate Poise universally. This is inherent to the open nature of Skyrim.  Suppose that we have an enemy mob type of say, a "Bandit Stabman”. In another game, every bandit stabman mob can be treated the same.. In Skyrim however, each “Bandit Stabman” instance is expected to be unique. The openness of Skyrim's makes its rpg systems very messy and not pliable for poise scaling - we cannot scale NPCs by their SkillAVs because vanilla doesnt have any coherent rule for NPC skill AVs.

I decided to scale Poise withActor Level - in my opinion it is the best enemy scaling factor because it is universal: across modded games, enemy stats and leveled lists can diverge widely, but an enemy's level will always reflect how strong they should be in relation to the player.

Poisebreaker is a rebalance and partial rework of Loki’s Poise mod to better integrate into the rest of Skyrim. This mod is intended for players using modern ARPG combat frameworks such as MCO: in conjunction with such mods, the Poise system serves as a punishment for missing attacks. Poisebreaker respects Skyrim's RPG systems and creates meaningful character decisions:

Heavy Armor increases Max Poise and enables players to ta