Empowered Magic is a lite magic overhaul, with the intent of being used by anyone who wants a stronger magic system in Skyrim. I see many melee characters and archers using it just to make enemy spellcasters more interesting, and that's great. It can also work as a base for other mods that insert new spells to the game, and then I see people using this with Midas Magic, which is awesome.

With that said, my goal is to only change what is not great, keeping the vanilla feel to spellcasting. I don't want the mod to suffer from the famous feature creep. So, the base is set, and what I'm doing now is just trying to tweak a few mechanics and spells to create a more balanced experience.

Here's the upcoming tweaks in next version. If you guys have any suggestion or bug report, now is the time

- Destruction expert bolts damage will be decreased to 65. They are already powerful enough triggering special effects quite often and causing knockback with Impact.

- Regeneration perk will increase magicka cost by 15% in exchange for the healing power. This increased healing stacks with level scaling, so it was too powerful with no drawback.

- Haunt will also cause slow while in effect. So it'll be a DoT plus slow, which can go well with your minions.

- Quiet Casting perk will require the caster to be sneaking and completely hidden. So, after the enemies start searching for you, spells will no longer be quiet until the eye is closed again.

- Mystic Binding will also highly decrease the cost of bound weapons. Players that use bound weapons all the time already enjoy the higher duration, but being pretty cheap will also motivate players to summon them just to, say, banish an atronach or trap a soul.

- Staff of Thunderbolts will be fixed to cast Thunderbolts instead of Lightning Bolts as in vanilla.

- All staves scale with level, the same way as spells. They are great because they don't consume magicka, but on the other hand they don't trigger special effects and can't be dual cast.