Overview:

NPCs now have access to tempered/enchanted items that were previously only available to you. Tempered items no longer retain their tempered state forever. All features can be adjusted using http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/3863/?'s MCM.

Loot:

• NPCs can now be found equipped with tempered/enchanted weapons and armor from any mod as long as they have been added to the leveled lists.
• Temper chance/quality and enchantment chance increases with NPC level. For a level 1 NPC, enchanted items will be very rare and untempered items will be most common followed by "Fine", "Superior", "Exquisite", "Flawless", "Epic" then "Legendary".
• NPCs will now also automatically obtain the loot of their dead targets if they are killed within melee range.

Degradation:

• Tempered weapons and armor will now eventually degrade back to their original, untempered states upon use/hit. Continuously blocking with a weapon will significantly increase the rate at which the weapon degrades.
• If a hit is blocked with a shield, your armor will be protected from degradation for that hit and instead, your shield may degrade. Getting hit by power attacks can significantly degrade armor.
• This feature can also be enabled for followers.

Services:

• To help with the degradation aspect, blacksmiths and fletchers will now temper your (non-artifact) items for a price. Blacksmiths are more expensive but can temper everything. Fletchers are cheaper but are limited to light armor, bows and one-handed weapons.
• All will be randomly sorted into Apprentices or Journeymen and will only able to temper items into (Fine) and (Superior) respectively except Eorlund Gray-Mane who begins the game as an Adept. Their skill levels will progress through Journeyman (Superior), Adept (Exquisite), Expert (Flawless), Artisan (Epic) and then Master (Legendary) as they temper items. Although more expensive tempering will result in faster progression, experience is calculated before discounts via Speech, fletcher, etc. are applied so you aren't penalized for looking for cheaper options.
• In addition, blacksmiths and fletchers will gain two skill levels (i.e. Adept to Artisan) over the course of about 6 in-game months without your aid. This experience over time feature will automatically adjust to your game if this mod is installed during a mid-playthrough.
• You can also enable an option to have blacksmiths/fletchers take X hours to temper items instead of immediate repairs. After the X hours, a courier will deliver your improved items to you.

More info and download at the link: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/55677/?

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This sounds great. I have two questions.

I take it the damage done by weapons and the damage blocked by armor does not decrease permanently as weapon and armor degrades? From your description it sounds as though the effects last only for a few seconds. Is this correct?

Also, what happens when degradation reaches 0? Does the equipment become non-functional?

This is going to be a real must-have for a lot of players, I predict. Congratulations on getting this idea to work.

I would like this to be configurable. My main wish would be that armor (not boots or gloves) taken from dead enemies would reflect some level of damage until repaired.

As of 1.10, weapon base damage and armor rating will now scale with the percentages. Once degradation reaches 0, weapons do no damage and armor has no armor rating. There's also an option to have them break permanently.

I'll see about that. At the moment, you find all pieces of armor in a degraded state on enemies.

I downloaded with the nexus mod manager and activated it,went in game and threw all my weapon,armor and clothes down and picked em back up and equipped em but how do you know what the degrade value is?

Im using this on an existing game and when i go into the inventory theres no degrade numbers....shouldnt it say 100%

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I started a new game and it all worked like its suppossed to.

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With the way the SKSE scripts and various game load events work, did you try loading your existing save for the first time with the mod active, saving, and then loading the game again?

Why file disappeared from Nexus?

Also could you please add option in MCM to remove percentages and make items loose their dmg/armor values by degrade stages?

I'm reworking the mod to simply use the tempering states so improved items will degrade from legendary to epic to flawless, etc.. Should be less of a headache for me and less problems for you.

Didn't want people downloading the current version and didn't want to take up a slot as a hot file when it was hidden.

@qwert

You should probably just wait for me to reupload.

I definitely like the idea of using the tempering states, but I'm guessing once you get to normal, the only way you can go from there is broken?

Bah. I really liked the idea of items needing repairing or eventually breaking

I'm still ironing out the details but I'd like to combine the two systems if possible.

ok thanks for the info....yes i saved and then loaded that save.

EDIT: I should learn to read before asking

I don't know if it is already implemented but it would be great if degradation rate depended on material rather than heavy or light armor. Same for weapons.

Two questions;

Would it at all be possible to have NCP weapons degrade as well?

And would it also be possible that then you find weapons in the world they are already in a degraded state?

Think I can imagine what the answers are going to be but thought I'd ask anyway.

It would be great if you could find weapons in a tempered state in enemies, I would like to get rid of some outdated mod that was covering that subject, but Iknow that I am asking too much and maybe a little out of the scope of the OP.

Followers, maybe. We'll see. Finding weapons in various tempered states is what I'm currently working on. The method to do so should be much easier with SKSE 1.7.0.

If your going to use a system that works with the tempering system then why not have something like:

A = Armor W = Weapon

Broken (Item is now unusable)

Damaged A-10 / W-7

Worn A-5 / W-3

[Base] A+0 / W+0

Also I think it would be nice to be able to fix a broken item. But it would require a Blacksmith and a fee. If your item had enchantments then only highly skilled blacksmiths should be able to fix the weapon and at a extra fee. Or if it is broken and enchanted have the enchantment lost.

Sweet

Couple more ideas I just wanna throw out there;

Would you consider adding an option that when and if a weapon state reaches zero or in charon711's case broken (now unstable), that the weapon or armor actually breaks and simply becomes unrepairable. If a sword shatters you can't just go repair it, you have to reforged the whole thing.

And if it came to a unique weapon, having broken pieces of it in your inventory then having to take those along with some kinda topup to whoever the best blacksmith is in hopes they can fix it. Maybe adding a timescale to it as well, just simply fix as quick as possible (worn state) take something like two days but if ya got the time and septims let them do the job properly (fix to legendary status) could take a week to ten days.

ANy of this sound good at all?

I like it! I would choose degradation through several simple stages over percentage degradation any day. It frees player from "omg my weapon is 98%, its dmg value lowered. Need repair now!!" mentality. And I also like stages you listed.

Some more ideas:

-Enemy power attacks degrade armor much faster.

-Small chance that weapon or shield will break from enemy's powerattack when you succesfully parry. Only happens to weapons with less then Flawless tempering. Could be also the case with armor. This will make player pay more attention to powerattacks.

-Visual representation of damaged equipment. Cracks, dents, etc. Should work with any modded items.

with all the changes i dont know if im gonna use this....any way to make most of it optional?

Just found out about this, but I can't wait! Let us know if you hit any snags, we might be able to think of something, and Skyrim really needs a solid degradation mod so don't give up!

Looking forward to this. It'd be neat if there was a bar asside each item that showed how degraded each weapon was like Fallout (for example) or number like (oblivion). I don't however know if the engine supports it. I personally want the repair prices to be very high (though I don't mind a MCM optional pricing). I don't love the idea of items going from (legendary -> epic) and the like. I personally don't mind it alongside the bar however.

If done the way I suggested above only three new improvement levels would have to be created and you would just read it like you would it's improvement quality. (Broken, Damaged, Worn, [Base], Fine, Superior, Exquisite, Flawless, Epic, Legendary)