Zim's Fortify Enchantments

This mod aims to prevent the player from creating over-powered, game-breaking enchantments

by replacing the Fortify Enchanting effect with a useful, powerful, balanced, and lore-friendly alternative.

No More Exploitable Enchanting

Replaces the Fortify Enchanting effect with a new, unexploitable

magical effect that fortifies your existing weapon enchantments.

Requirements and Compatibility

No mod requirements. Dawnguard and Dragonborn required.

Fully compatible with i) all my mods, ii) mods that change potion/armor/ingredient appearance, e.g. SMIM.

May clash with mods that change i) the effects of enchanting potions and ingredients, ii) Silent Moon Camp's interior.

What problems does this mod address?

There are two issues this mod aims to fix:

1) The most powerful enchantments in the game are player-made

This requires the player to invest in Alchemy and Enchanting to get

the best gear and undermines the value of quest-rewarded weapons.

2) The infamous Enchanting/Alchemy exploit loop

This lets you use overpowered Fortify Enchanting potions to craft overpowered enchantments.

These can be game-breaking and lore-breaking in their extremeness, far surpassing the

Aedric and Daedric weapons which I believe should be the most powerful in the game.

What does this mod do?

This mod removes the Fortify Enchanting effect

and replaces it with the new effect:

Fortify Enchantments: "Weapon enchantments are (e.g. 20)% more powerful."

This fixes the two issues above by 1) adding a way to power-up all enchanted weapons so

they are more useful, and 2) preventing the player from creating overpowered enchantments.

For full details of how this new effect

works, press the spoiler button below

Mechanics

The Fortify Enchantments effect increases the power of Destruction enchantments, the duration of Alteration and Restoration enchantments, and the power/duration of Conjuration and Illusion enchantments on all equipped weapons, including staves.

It does not affect armor enchantments because A) these are often based on percentages and so even small increased can cause over-powered effects, and B) this could lead to an exploit of enchantment stacking.

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