Temper Service SE

The blacksmith provides training services, enemies drop tempered items, and the temper levels of weapons and armor decrease with use.

feature

+Blacksmith provides tempering and repair services

Talk to the blacksmith to forge or repair equipped weapons and armor. The price of tempers is affected by the standard things that affect price, and is based on the base cost of the weapon. The level at which the blacksmith can be trained is based on your level, but scales slowly enough so that the smith doesn't become irrelevant.

+ NPCs have exercise equipment

Equipment equipped by NPCs has a chance to be tempered. This is done in a way that doesn't render Smith completely useless. However, you will occasionally see some very high temper level items drop from high level enemies. This makes fighting these enemies more valuable. There was no chest-touching robbery. Currently the only way to provide temper equipment is as an equipped item, but I'm working on a hack to provide this effect in chests in the future.

+Weapons and armor degrade with use.

The amount of weapon and armor downgrade is based on their weapon type/armor type (immaterial), whether you attack/attack power, or your associated skill or skill. Using a warhammer to attack an NPC's attack power will cause more damage than using a bow to attack your enemies. Your weapons only degrade, they don't break with use.

Provides +MCM to adjust settings to your liking

All features can be disabled as well as zoom if desired.

+Performance

Scripts are very lightweight and can only be run on event triggers. Scripts can only be run on actors other than the player to moderate their loot. This does mean that only the player's items will degrade, weapons will degrade when used rather than when hit. This quirk makes sense for ranged weapons, and ultimately supports things like weapon degradation when bashing boxes and practicing on training dummies.

compatibility

Known incompatibilities

Predation and degradation.

generally

Should be compatible with Loot Overhaul and similar mods. This mod does not touch level lists in any way.

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Features

+ Blacksmiths offer tempering and repair services

Talk to a blacksmith to temper or repair your equipped weapons and armor. The price of tempering is affected by the standard things that affect price and is based off of the weapon's base cost. The level that blacksmith's can temper to is based on your level, but scales slowly enough so that Smithing is not rendered irrelevant.

+ NPCs have tempered equipment

Equipment that NPCs equip has a chance to be tempered. This is done in a way that doesn't render leveling Smithing completely useless. However, you will occasionally see some very high temper level items drop from high level enemies. This makes fighting those enemies much more rewarding. Loot in chests hasn't been touched. Currently the only way provided to temper equipment is on items that are equipped, but I am looking into hacks to provide this effect to items in chests in the future.

+ Weapons and Armor degrade with use.

The amount weapons and armor degrade is based on their weapon type / armor type (not material), whether you're power attacking / being power attacked, and your skill in the related skill or skills. Taking hits from a NPC power attacking with a War Hammer will do much more temper damage than an enemy hitting you with a bow. Your weapons simply degrade, they will not break with use.

+ MCM provided to tune settings to your liking

All features can be disabled as well as scaled as needed.

+ Performance

Scripts are very lightweight and only run on event triggers. Scripts are only run on actors other than the player to temper their loot. This does mean that only the player's items degrade and weapons degrade on use rather than on hit. This quirk made sense for ranged weapons and ultimately supports things like weapon degradation when bashing chests and when pract …