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Extending Skyrim's difficulty curve so enemies and loot remain relevant longer with smaller and highly compatible skill adjustments.

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Skyrim's difficulty curve is actually quite good, from level 10 to level 30. The exact levels may vary depending on your preferences, difficulty settings, and mods, but the fact is you'll end up scaling up your enemies and crushing them below your original numbers.

This mod doesn't fix the problem, but it at least extends the difficulty curve into the later stages of the game while fixing some pretty silly mechanics.

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Increases late-game difficulty without relying on new creatures, scripts, or AI adjustments

Make non-mastery perks more interesting and relevant

Tighter integration of player-discovered enchantments and other late-game enchanted items found in the world with player-created enchantments

Give various skills smoother progression curves and fix vanilla bugs

Reduces the importance of the drag cap by making it difficult to reach

You may also find that this mod highlights the difference between light and heavy armor and brings weapon classes closer to magic.

compatibility

This mod is not compatible with Extra Overhaul, which removes mastery perks like Ordinator and Perkus Maximus.

This mod should be loaded after an overhaul that will keep exclusive perks like Vokrii, Adamant, and TreeBalance intact.

Mods that modify a single perk that you want to override this mod should be loaded after this mod.

Install

Download and install using your Mod Manager, or place Subtle Scaling.esp in your data folder. Uninstall by disabling Subtle Scaling in the module manager or deleting Subtle Scaling.esp from the data folder.

Subtle Scaling.esp is ESP-FE and does not occupy plug-in slots.

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Description

The Skyrim difficulty curve is actually pretty good from about level 10 to level 30. The exact levels may vary depending on your preference, difficulty setting and mods, but the fact remains that you will eventually out-scale your enemies and crush them under your raw numbers.

This mod does not fix the issue, but it at least extends the difficulty curve later into the game, while fixing some rather silly mechanics.

Subtle Scaling...

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Increases late-game difficulty without relying on new creatures, scripts or AI tweaks

Makes non-mastery perks more interesting and relevant options

Brings daedric artifacts and other late game enchanted items found in the world closer in-line with player created enchantments

Gives a variety of skills a smoother progression curve and fixes vanilla bugs

Reduces the importance of resistance caps by making them harder to reach

You will also likely find that this mod accentuates the difference between light and heavy armour and brings the weapon classes closer in line with magic.

Compatibility

This mod is not compatible with perk overhauls that remove the mastery perks like Ordinator and Perkus Maximus.

This mod should be loaded after perk overhauls that leave the mastery perks intact like Vokrii, Adamant and TreeBalance.

Mods that modify single perks that you would like to overwrite this mod should be loaded after this mod.

Installation

Download and install with your mod manager of choice or place Subtle Scaling.esp in your data folder. Uninstall by disabling Subtle Scaling in your mod manager or deleting Subtle Scaling.esp from your data folder.

Subtle Scaling.esp is an ESP-FE and will not take up a plugin slot.

Installing into an old save...

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