FINALLY someone does a good wark system god i love you

Does this work on SE?

@JohnJSal that just means that spell hits will both drain and recharge your magicka. In other words, you're countering the hit with your magicka and absorbing the spell, which offsets the cost to mantain the ward up (but not all of it). If you don't take the Atronach perk, they'll just drain without recharging..

How does the Ward Absorb perk work with the way that wards have been changed in this mod? It doesn't make sense that wards would both drain (from this mod) and restore (from the perk) your magicka when they are hit.

"You can no longer enchant away spell costs completely. Soft cap is 50%, hard cap is 72% (depending on strength of enchantments and order in which you equip items.)"

Can anyone explain what this means? What's the difference between the soft and hard cap? And why does it matter in what order you equip the items? What order should it be? How can you tell you are getting the full effect of your enchantments?

This isn't clear at all.

Great mod. It makes magic not just viable but powerful.

The only downside is the nerf to enchanting. Why was this even done? That should be an option for those who want to do it, and others can simply choose not to. It's ridiculous to force that limitation on everyone.

Also, does Mage Armor affect the elemental resistances from the *skin spells, or just the physical armor?

Does this mod change the amount that Mage Armor affects the skin spells (i.e. 2x/2.5x/3x)?

its great other than the enchanting nerf :) that's the entirety of the reason i dont use this mod

it broked for some reason after endgame; it was fine before, but im guessing its either my mods or the mod itself idk

Are the *skin spells buyable and intergrated into the loot system or are they just dropped somewhere to pick up?

Thanks to this mod, I felt safe trying to play Skyrim Magic only, and i have to say that it really has made it so much more viable.
Some small things:
-The wards look kinda bugged up, maybe it was your intention but, just look at it
-I think you might aswell do the elemental ward-thingy like you did with the flesh spells, or just make lesser ward, steadfast ward, and greater ward have just a little bit more variety between so you have to pick more
-Some audio and visual bugs have the tendecny to appear around the elemental skin effects, like fireskin audio still playing through menus, and casting fireskin causes some visual defragmentation or something.
TL;DR i like this mod, hope you can bring us more :D

This mod seems pretty useful, but I noticed one bug. I have 100% reduced destruction cost on my armor, buttt it only reduces the cost of destruction spells by what looks like 30-ish percent. I tried this with illution magic as well, and same bug. I feel like this would be an easy fix, as I suspect skyrim is just calculating the spell cost reduction based off vanilla skyrim (when the spells were weaker, but cost less) It would be awesome if you could fix this! Thanks and keep up the hard work :)

best magic mod ever, but rune master doesn't seem to allow more runes...

Yes, i rarely give recomentations or rating, but this mode is really amazing, can make u really enjoy the mage gameplay! Gratzzz mate thats was a really great job!!!
I completely recoment this mod if u like mages!!!

Dude, this mod is PERFECT ! I love it, really. It makes the magic like it was supposed to be : powerful, dangereous, but balanced. It is lore friendly, it improves the gameplay...

Seriously, awesome job you did there. Thank you for sharing it.

@sukho204
read the description. The author states that wards don't cost magicka to cast. They only cost magicka when they block a spell.

i used wards and it didn't cost any magicka. is this normal?

I dont usually give praise, but this mod definitely deserves it. It fixes and rebalances many of the problems i had with magic. The only problem i have is that i feel that incinerate, icy spear, and thunderbolt are a tad overpowered, even outclassing lightning storm in single target damage.

I really use to enjoy this mod. It definitely made being a mage the most balancing. Unfortunately with some of my new mods (the unofficial skyrim legendary patch I'm guessing) it no longer works without the game crashing when in combat. Maybe it would have always crashed for me once I got to a certain level, but I can no longer use it.

Does anyone know if this works with other spell mods that add spells to the game

Awesome Mod. Makes life as a Mag (#Forever!) much easier,yet,it's still as challenging as before. This Mod does what Bet wasn't able to,giving 'Pure Mages' a chance at higher content and especially on M/-Legendary Difficulty.

how did it take so long for some one as awesome as you to come along. you are my savior

yeahhhhhhhhh
I love this mod (boring with 0 mana cost)

Can you please teach me how you did this?

I cant seem to find the stormskin spell on any vendors in or out of the mages college, is there an item code for the spell book or some triack to getting it? My skill in alteration is currently 50.

Where can I buy Adept and above level Alteration spells? All Tolfdir and Farengar have are stone skin and flame skin (both novice). I can't find frost skin and storm skin and it's annoying trying to level up alteration with only novice spells.

Also wards have the distorted effect but lost their glow. Only a minor gripe.

Lesser Ward is only draining when hit by magical attacks; it doesn't drain at all through physical attacks.

Intentional? Seems a little OP, but not much.

If you want to play a mage, subscribe to this mod.

The Greats:
-At first I didn't like it, but now I get why you included the enchanting cap. It really helps balance everything out, and still lets you feel incredibly powerful, but you still need to be smart about what you're doing.
-Wards. I had almost never used a ward before (outside of my first ever experimentation with them and then when Tolfdir makes you use them in the college intro), but wow are they great in this mod. I made heavy use of them this time around, and they were excellent. Approaching overpowered, but still very good.
-Dual Casting. Simple and elegant solution
-The best for last: Spell scaling. Excellent job with this

9.5/10, would (and will) recommend to anyone and everyone.

I like all the balance changes you made, but I don't like the cap you placed on enchanting away mana costs. Are free spells broken and stupidly over powered? Sure, but I grinded enchanting to 100 specifically for that reason. I knew what I was doing.

Als can you tell me what you mean whith the soft/hard cap on enchanting? I ssoftcap like maximum in single and hard total? Also how does the cost reduction perks affect this? Still loving this mod :)

Love this mod. My only problem is a smull bug with the kill cam. It seems to trigger even when the attack that is going to be used isn't going to kill the enemy. I had it trigger only for the enmiy to continue to attack many times. If you could fix this this mod would be perfect :)

One thing I would really really love is to have a small mod that just modifies Wards like you have done; in particular I love the zero mana cost to hold them up and quicker charging.
It means that dual casting detro spells isn't the most OP thing any more... which is great!

So for how does the damage output of Destruction and Bound weapons calculate out to as a percentage of their initial damage before and after vanilla perks? And how do the bound weapons compare to fully upgraded dragonbone and daedric counterparts? Also, would I be able to mod this mod to work with another mod that added some of the "missing" bound weapons? DB Support?

@Friday the Thirteenth I don't use impact and I keel things just fine.

That aside now all I need is a mod to make normal zombie spells and powers don't fizzel corpses when they die. Also, I've spoted what might be a bug with the Dragonborn DLC, skin spells seem to dispel the Dragon Aspect gear and buffs.

I like it, but I DON'T like your changes to "impact". That skill is CRUCIAL, you fool.

Great mod, but ward visuals seem broken. The heat-like distortion is there, but there are no glowing edges.

Is there a way to make this work with SPERG? Sperg seems to not let Balanced Magic changes work :L

Is it possible to make it so that leveled illusion spells (the ones that affect enemies up to a certain level) can affect enemies higher than that level but at a reduced duration?

For example, an illusion spell affects enemies up to level 10 for 30 seconds - a level 20 enemy would be affected for 15 seconds and a level 5 enemy would be affected for 60 seconds.

This could also apply to leveled potions.

I've noticed that with this mod, Conjuration does not seem to work like it should. I cannot raise dead bodies, and neither can any other NPC or followers. I don'thave any other mods that would conflict with this mod, only houses and Bandoliers. Any idea of what would cause this?

Wards are broke for me they cost no mana and never break is this happening to anyone else
Otherwise great mod

Will these effects work on spells added by other mods? I can never tell, some magic mods are compatible some aren't... I'll give it a try either way.

I wish stand alone mod, that increases conjuration, illusion, alteration and some regeneration spell (level they act)
Like dead trall can summon XXX level dead man.

This is an excellent mod! There is just one thing that is bugging me. Given how magicka cost/armor works, it makes Diadem of the Servant take a huge dip in terms of usefulness; I did expect that you would hold this item outside the equation of cost/armor since the mod is supposed to give mages more freedom. I hope you consider changing this in the future, I shall continue to play with this mod regardless :)

Great Mod No Problems at all for me. :)

While it solved the problem i had with illusions, it created a problem with conjuration, i cant summon anything. the animation is there, but as soon as its summoned, it goes away.

Finally, this is just what i needed. I play as an assassin, and i like useing illusion spells, but they were so weak, i could barely use them at all, even with many perks and buffs i have. My fury only worked on level 6 animals and creatures, now it can be used agianst level 19, with this i can have more freedom with the way i deal with enemies. Thanks a ton

does this mod add any new perk id's?

I appear to be running into an issue - As of the new update my Stormskin has reverted to Ebonyflesh, but it has kept the shock resistance, the paralysis spells have returned to the old duration, and my Conjuration mastery perks work like vanilla Skyrim.