Better Balance Spells - Magicka Restoration Spells 1.0

Other content has been added to the game, such as the original rewrite spell, the Law of Balance. Better Balanced spells restore the caster's magic at the expense of health and stamina points. A slightly more balanced version, a hard version or a cheat version is available.

I never liked Skyrim's original Balance spell. It's found in remote areas and is nearly lethal early game, and useless late game, when you're more likely to find it. The original spell converts 25 health points into Magicka points per second and can kill the caster if their health is completely depleted. I actually like that it kills you, so I didn't go out of my way to find a workaround.

My original version lowered the life cost per second, increased the stamina cost, and lowered the Magicka gained to be more in line with the cost. Then I decided to make a second version and then a harder version and a cheat version.

This mod also fixes an issue I had with the original balance spell, which was that the sound that the balance spell originally had, was actually a sound that the spell didn't have, my game's original spell had no sound. But now it does, and if you want to use both, you can still find it in the game.

Flavor

The original version of the "Better Balance" spell costs 15 health points, 5 stamina points and regenerates 20 Magicka points per second. This spell will kill the caster if the caster's health is completely exhausted.

The alternative version of the better balanced spell will cost 10 health points, 10 stamina points and restore 20 magicka points per second. This spell will kill the caster if the caster's health is completely exhausted.

The second alternate version is the "hard" version. The caster's health is reduced by 50 points, and his stamina is reduced by 10 points, but he can only recover 30 magic points per second. This spell will kill the caster if the caster's health is completely exhausted.

The cheat version only restores 50 magicka points per second at no cost to the caster. But when you do, some poor souls in Tamriel will run out of their magic. Not entirely true, but it's an interesting interpretation and one I had in mind for semi-lore-friendly interpretations when I was writing the spell description.

Location

Better balanced spells can be obtained at two locations in the game.

Purchased from Falunga in Dragon Land.

Found in Whiterun's Hall of the Dead. It's on the table where Andur dropped the Amulet of Arkay. This is the first place that comes to mind that isn't usually touched by other mods.

Install

Please use the Mod Manager of your choice to install spells of only one spell. If there are multiple versions installed, the lowest plugin will win because they add and edit the same files. FOMOD has started.