Magic Guard - Vanilla and Requiem

Overhauled wards to make them useful in melee combat. Requiem compatible.

Room maintenance.

-Wards now block most incoming health damage with your magic - Wards

Very likely to stagger enemies within melee range

-Wards now protect you from stagger effects while active

This mod uses some light scripting that will hit a ward when thrown. If you're already experiencing low framerates in combat and/or scripting lag, you may want to skip this.

Requiem users:

This mod is made for version 1.9.4. I'm not quite sure what's changed with the new version regarding wards, but this mod might work fine. The Novice Ward (Level 1) has been renamed the Anti-Magic Ward and will function like a vanilla ward, but with better capacity. It will remain useful throughout the game. The next three ward levels will function as described. They can be subdued later on, but probably not as well as most spells.

Vanilla users:

This model is based on the Requiem Overhaul and may be subdued in vanilla Skyrim. Please report any heavy balance issues.

This mod does not change the visual effects. To make your ward look like the screenshot, you will need the following mods:

Strange runes  by powerofthree

Holy Ward  by Banjobunny

This mod is mainly inspired by Dynamic Ward by FalloutGamer and Better Ward by renketsu0. If you don't like parts of this mod, please check them out as it's pretty much a combination of both. Additionally, this mod has a shoutout for a more relaxing magic bubble effect.