Simple and dynamic skills (Improved Standing Stone)

A more flexible and refined skill specialization system for Skyrim.

Overview

In previous Elder Scrolls titles, your skill choices at character creation would determine how quickly your skills increased. Skyrim removes the character creation aspect and instead gives you "Guardian Stones" to choose a set of skills to speed things up. The great thing about the new system is that it's simple and allows you to change your character's focus over time. However, it also sucks because it lacks flexibility, and having those guardian stones coexist with 10 other standing stones means you're forced to choose between skill advancement and gameplay ability. Skill specialization in Skyrim is primarily done through the Perk system, and that model should remain. This mod solves this problem and implements a new skill learning system, which is inspired by Morrowind's old system, but now skill selection is related to Perks rather than character creation or Standing Stones. Additionally, Guardian Stones have been redesigned, and various adjustments have been made to standing stones to improve them.

Dynamic skill specialization

Skill learning modifiers are determined by a combination of skill level and investment in the corresponding tree's primary Perks. Therefore, each skill is classified as Major (35% XP bonus), Minor (normal XP), or Assist (20% XP penalty*). At lower levels, the main skill only requires the first Perk, but at higher levels, further investment is required.

*If you prefer secondary skills without gaining XP, set DSS_HardcoreMode to 1 in the in-game console or in the plugin itself.

These conversions work as follows:

Getting Started: Primary Skill Requires First Perk

Skill level 40+: Main skills require the second skill, minor skills require the first skill

Skill level 60+: The main skill requires the 3rd skill, the secondary skill requires the 2nd skill

Skill level 80+: The main skill requires the 4th skill, the secondary skill requires the 3rd skill

Note that for Smithing trees, the Perks on both sides of the tree count as the main Perks.

standing stone

warrior

Those under the Warrior symbol deal more attack damage and block more damage.

Weapon damage, 3 points

Enhanced unarmed damage, 3 points

Blocks incoming damage, 10%

mage

Those under the mage sign can cast spells more easily.

Spell cost reduced by 15% for all 5 schools

Thief

Those under the thief sign are better at sneaking, pickpocketing and kicking.

Fortify Sneak, 15 points

Fortify Pickpocket，15％

Enhanced lock picking, 15%

snake

Those under the sign of the snake can use ranged penetrating poison at the cost of stamina.

Damage endurance, self 50 points

Weakness to poison, 50% for 5 seconds (does not hit automata/ash spawn)

Damage health, 5 points, lasts 5 seconds (does not hit automaton/ash spawn)

this lady

Those with Lady as their sign recover faster but take less damage.

Restore health, 2 minutes per second

Reduce weapon damage by 15%

Attenuated destruction, 15%

horse

Those under the Horse symbol can carry more and do not suffer the armor's movement penalty.

All types of worn armor are lightweight and have no speed penalty

Enhanced carrying weight, 100 points (50 points in survival mode)

host

Those under the sign of the Lord are more resistant to both magical and physical damage:

Enhanced armor level, 100 points

Resist magic, 15%

apprentice

Those under the sign of the Apprentice have more magic and recover faster, but are more vulnerable to magic damage.

Fortify Magicka, 50 points

Regenerate Magicka at 100% speed

Weakness to magic, 50%

Atronach

Those under the sign of Atronach absorb a portion of damage from spells and have a larger mana pool, but cannot recover naturally.

Spell Absorption, 50%

Damage magic regeneration, 1000%

Fortify Magicka, 100 points

ceremony

Once per day, those under The Ritual symbol can raise nearby corpses to fight for them.

Dead Thrall, 80 points, 200 seconds duration, 75 feet

lover

Those under the sign of Lover always feel the co …