Synergy - Skills and Perks Reimagined - Unofficial Patch Collection

After trying many perk overhauls, I can confidently say that my favorite one is IronDusk33's Synergy - Skills and Perks Reimagined. IMO, it balances the Choose-Wisely of Master of One (they both prevent generalist builds) and the Power Fantasy of Ordinator (they both offer 400+ perks in total). A TLDR explanation of Synergy: you start with a rank of 1 in all skills, you cannot level a skill until you unlock its respective perk tree, and once unlocked perk trees have no skill level requirements.

So why don't more people use it?

- It touches a lot of vanilla records. It edits the Player reference, it edits Races, it edits Creatures, it affects the Economy, and spells, etc. Anyone with a large load order would have needed considerable manually patching before tools like SkyPatcher, SPID, etc.

- It can be quite difficult. I've uploaded some patches to make it slightly more forgiving.

Available Files:

Synergy - Race and Player Patch - Skypatcher

- Fixes a bug where WeaponSpeedMult didn't work correctly on player vampires

- Makes Synergy compatible with any Race overhauls (load them after Synergy).

- Makes Synergy more compatible with anything editing the player record (load them after Synergy). A good example would be the many alternate start mods that change your starting inventory or remove starting spells, etc. Honestly, I think most alternate starts would need this patch.

Synergy - Keywords

- SPID and KID files that distribute necessary weapon and armor material keywords, race keywords, and spell keywords

Synergy - MCO Patch

- Light ESP that changes power attack perks to make more sense for an MCO play through

- Removed left, right, forward, directional requirements from power attack perks

- Removed backward power attack perks and replaced with perks that require full health instead (e.g. First Strike)

- Halved the dual wield "speed" buffs so they don't look too ridiculous with your MCO animations

Synergy - Speech

- Light ESP that nerfs the insanely difficult buy/sell price penalties when you don't enroll in the Speech tree. There's still a penalty, but it's more reasonable. For example, you can still buy Health Potions for like 80 gold instead of 200+. This makes it so you no longer feel forced to enroll in Speech every play through.

- Removes the price penalties entirely by merely possessing a Speech Skill Book. This makes it possible to buy/sell at normal prices without accumulating levels of experience in Speech.

Synergy - Aspiring

- Light ESP. Instead of only allowing new Perk Trees at level 1, it allows new Perk Trees up to level 3.

- You can still enroll in new Perk Trees, at any level, if you have a skill book.

Synergy - Vanilla Tome Sorting

- Light ESP. If you use a mod that re