Wintersun - Tweaks and Enhancements
⚪ Last updated 2023⚠️ Install Order · 5 steps
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 0.1% endorsement rate
- 🏆 #16 of 279 Patches mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Enhances and rebalances key elements of Wintersun for a more engaging gameplay experience.
Power levels of the strongest and weakest elements have been adjusted based on extensive feedback from my Discord community, ensuring a
fairer and more enjoyable game for all players.
Full Changelog:
- Follower of Talos/Shor abilities now applies to falmers, since they're also elves
- Talos/Shor/St. Alessia favor now increases when killing falmers
- Increased the favor gain of specific Daedra tenets (e.g. Meridia Undead kills, Azura Soul trapping, Sanguine drinking, etc.)
- Baan'Dar no longer decreases buy prices with other races, instead increases sell prices with fences
- Mara now grants 2 health regeneration out of combat
- Morwha fruits now restore hunger if Survival Mode is used, increased the magnitude/duration of fruit buffs, reworked Pineapple effect
- Jephre Devotee ability now grants half the stamina regeneration while in combat, improved description
- Nocturnal devotee ability increases pickpocket chance and sneak during the night
- The HoonDing devotee ability now grants immunity to stagger rather than resistance based on favor
- The HoonDing follower ability now also works out of combat, duration increased from 5 to 30
- Riddle'Thar devotee boons duration from 30 minutes to 60 minutes, rebalanced the boon magnitude (up to 100% increases)
- Talos no longer increases critical hit damage, now increases damage against non-elves by half the bonus, devotee ability range from 40 to 50
- Vaermina follower ability only works out of combat but also reduces the manacost of mind-altering spells by 50%, devotee ability favor drain from 10% to 5%
- Tall Papa devotee ability favor drain from 10% to 5%
- Removed the Hermaeus Mora activator during the Miraak boss fight
- Magnus spell mana reduction from 75% to 60%
- Meridia devotee ability damage multiplier based on favor from x5 to x3
- Stendarr devotee ability no longer increases attack damage
- Hermaeus Mora devotee ability favor drain from 5% to 10%
- Z'en potion/food duration bonus from 100% to 50%
- The Hist follower ability no longer increases health
- Auriel skill increases now only work during the day, favor gain for completing quests from 25 to 20
- Molag Bal favor gain from being a vampire from 5 to 3, killing a person from 0. 75 to 1. 5, trapping a soul from 0. 75 to 1
This mod was made for my modlist Constellations - A True RPG
Wintersun - Tweaks and Enhancements is a patch mod that enhances and rebalances key elements of the Wintersun mod for a more engaging gameplay experience. With 531 endorsements and nearly half a million downloads, it's a popular choice for players seeking refined balance.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Community-approved with 531 endorsements and 470k downloads — clearly a go-to for Wintersun players.
- Focused on balance and engagement, so it's a solid pick if you want a more polished experience.
- Last updated December 2023, so it's recent enough to likely work with current setups.
⚠️ Cons
- No specific details on what exactly is tweaked or rebalanced — you'll have to test it yourself.
- Requires the base Wintersun mod, which isn't listed in the requirements — you'll need to grab that separately.
- As a patch, it's not standalone; if you don't use Wintersun, this is useless.
For Skyrim players who already use Wintersun and want a more balanced, engaging experience without overhauling the mod entirely. Skip if you don't use Wintersun or prefer the original balance.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Make sure you have the base Wintersun mod installed first, as this patch modifies it.
- Load this patch after Wintersun in your mod manager to ensure it overrides correctly.
- If you're using a mod manager like Vortex or MO2, let it handle the file placement to avoid conflicts.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Skyrim Mods
- Author
- Ixion XVII
- Version
- 1.00
- Downloads
- 470,757
- Endorsements
- 531
- Category
- Patches
- Created
- 12/24/2023
- Updated
- 12/24/2023
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