Binding equipment overhaul

With the introduction of Bound Shields come changes to bound weapons and related perks. Now has support for mages and spell paths.

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After getting tired of dumping my bound weapons as I progressed through the game, I decided to give myself an overhaul of the system. My main aim was to remove the Soul Trap which felt unnecessary, as well as the frankly annoying Turn Undead effect. I offer you, the community, my personal mod solution to use/edit/throw into the trash as you see fit.

List of bound equipment overhaul functions:

Introducing Bound Shield as an Apprentice level skill (left hand only), with appropriate ward upgrades from perks.

Changed base perk requirements to make them more balanced for new effects. Details below.

Trying to make a bound device advance with the player without actually editing the intrinsic damage value.

An attempt is made to touch the system as little as possible to provide as much compatibility as possible, however, other effects modes affecting the 3 vanilla bound weapon perks will conflict. "Version" and "Spellpath" (different download) versions are now available, details can be found at the bottom of the page.

detail:

Bind shield

*Armor rating - 22

*Heavy armor

Mystic Shield

*Armor rating - 36

*Heavy armor

mysterious bondage

"Bound weapons deal more damage. Bound shields provide stronger defense."

Requires summoning 30 (was 20)

Soul Stealer - renamed Soul Assault to better suit the new effect (EditorID unchanged)

soul attacks me

"Bound weapons tear the target's connection to the nion, causing them to burn on impact. Bound shields increase magic resistance."

Requires 40 summons (was 30)

Sword - Fire resistance against enemies reduces damage by 15s by 2s (including taper, which is the same as the standard 15pt fire enchantment, I believe)

Tomahawk - Enemy fire resistance reduced by 15s, causing 3 points of damage

Bow and Arrow - Enemy's fire resistance is reduced by 15 seconds, causing damage for 2 seconds

Shield - 10% magic resistance

Soul Assault II

"Bound weapons cut deeply into the connection between the target and Nirn, dealing unstoppable burning damage on hits. Bound shields increase magic resistance, enhancing protection against fire, frost, and shock."

Need to summon 70

Dagger - 1 damage for 15s not reduced by enemy fire resistance

Sword - 2 points of damage for 15s not reduced by enemy fire resistance (including taper, which is the same as the standard 15pt fire enchantment, I believe)

Tomahawk - 15 points of damage for 3s is not reduced by enemy fire resistance

Bow - 2 points of damage for 15s is not reduced by enemy fire resistance

Shield - 10% magic resistance + 10% resistance to fire, frost and shock

Forgot binding

Forgot to bind me

"Bound weapons bind the target to oblivion, causing their magical defenses to be reduced. The bound shield projects into a ward when raised."

Requires 55 summons (was 40)

Weapons - Reduces the target's magic resistance by 15% for 2 seconds

Shield - Guard for 40 seconds when blocking

Forgotten Binding II

"Binding weapons bind the target to oblivion, causing its physical and magical defenses to be reduced. Binding shields highlight powerful wards when raised and are more effective at blocking."

Need to summon 90

Weapon - Reduces the target's magic and physical resistance by 15% for 2 seconds

Shield - Blocks guards for 80 seconds, strengthens blocking by 10%

Permissions and thanks:

Feel free to use anything from my mod as long as no money is involved, if you use any shield art/models please thank warreko.

Shield assets were collected from warreko's aptly named "Bound Shield with FX" mod, many thanks to them for permission to use their assets. Additionally, here is a link supporting their work:

Binding Shield with FX

Regular version:

As a note, this version hasn't been thoroughly tested yet as I'm making the mod for an ongoing modlist and I'd rather not get frustrated. I believe my perks will work, but the functionality of the Presator …