Know Your Element - Know Your Enemies and Elemental Destruction Magic Patch

Know Your Element enables compatibility between assets added in Elemental Destruction Magic and the Know Your Enemy resistance and weakness system. Armor and NPCs with existing KYE traits are modified to interact with water, wind, and earth effects; NPCs added by Elemental Destruction Magic also have KYE traits

Know Your Element - Know Your Enemy and Elemental Destruction's patch magic was created to extend KYE's excellent, trait-based resistance and vulnerability system to include additional assets from Elemental Destruction Magic.

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New abilities are added to Earth, Water and Wind atronachs so that they gain KYE traits.

These new features unique to atronachs have been added, similar to the original KYE ​​Fire/Frost/Shock implementation.

KYE Armor trait now has vulnerability and resistance to Earth, Water and Wind.

KYE biofeatures now have vulnerability and resistance to Earth, Water, and Wind.

The mechanism to implement these changes is the zEdit patch, which has recently been updated to scan for this patch and add applicable extras for element destruction assets.

Install

Install KYE ​​- found here

Install Elemental Destruction Magic - found here

Install the latest version of zEdit and the fixes linked on the KYE page

Install this mod and use LOOT or your preferred utility to make sure it is lower than other mods on the load order

Running KYE armor and enemy patches in zEdit

During the run, you should see the usual "perk added" messages as well as other messages related to Elemental Destruction Magic casts and traits

Make sure to save the patch and then launch Skyrim

You can verify that the effect has been applied by jumping into the inventory screen and checking the equipped armor

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For easier reading of additional text on project cards, I recommend using MoreHUD and MoreHUD Stock Edition - found here and here respectively

Acknowledgments/Permissions

Many thanks to reaperix, the creators of Elemental Destruction Magic for allowing their resources to be used for other mods.

Special thanks to tjhm4, the creator of Know Your Enemy, for allowing the creation of this patch, for the technical details about the mod itself and zEdit's implementation, for feedback on element/trait balancing, and more stuff I may have forgotten.

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This is the first mod I've released to the public, so any feedback is welcome - especially in terms of issues/conflicts, but if there are any assets you feel I've missed or might need tweaking.

Keep in mind that the latest KYE and zEdit versions feature Intensity sliders that allow you to adjust the effectiveness of strengths and weaknesses.

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Know Your Elements - A Patch for Know Your Enemy and Elemental Destruction Magic was created to expand KYE's excellent, trait-based resistance and vulnerability system to include additional assets from Elemental Destruction Magic.

Details

New abilities have been added to the earth, water, and wind atronachs so that they receive KYE traits.

New traits unique to these atronachs have been added, similar to the original KYE implementation of fire/frost/shock.

KYE armor traits now have vulnerabilities and resistances to earth, water, and wind.

KYE creature traits now have vulnerabilities and resistances to earth, water, and wind.

The mechanism for implementing these changes is the zEdit patcher which has been recently updated to scan for this patch, and add applicable perks to the Elemental Destruction Assets.

Installation

Install KYE - found here

Install Elemental Destruction Magic - found here

Install the latest version of zEdit and the patchers linked on the KYE page

Install this mod and ensure that it is lower than both other mods on the load order, using LOOT or your preferred utility

Run the KYE armor and enemy patchers in zEdit

During runtime you should see the usual "perk added" messages and additional messages pertaining to the Elemental Destruction Magic actors and traits …