Hello what you think of merging alchemy and enchantment both into a bigger crafting smithing tree , so inside it there coudl be multiple branche diramations ... and this woudl free two perk trees in magic that coudl be used for other stuff like , a magical combination tree
or another thing ...

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Inside the trees, just right click on a perk to remove it.

? I was not a question but a solution possibly by merging alchemy , enchantment and smithing into one single crafting tree....

You wouldn't get everyone to agree on this and I know I for one am making a mod which relies on smithing and enchanting both being skills, soooo...

a better bet would be to merge pickpocket and lockpick (the 2 skills with the most pointless trees) into sneak (where those crappy perks really should have been in the first place)

Enchanting and alchemy don't really seem that similar at all. Now, if you were going to expand alchemy to deal with gastronomy, that would make some sense.

That too makes sense and may be add a new perk tree of?

Can you even change pickpocket/lockpick actions so that they increase the sneak skill instead of their corresponding skill? That's the main problem I see here.

I'd love to be able to make new perk trees for stuff to keep the vanilla trees from being overly cluttered, but it doesn't look like thats going to be an option


no, I'm not really sure how the skill requirements listed under the perk work either...it must be hard coded to read the number from the getactorvalue-skill condition in the perk
so even if you did hijack a skill tree, it probably wouldn't display correctly

For spells you can at least select the magic school which is increased (non-magic skills aren't listed). For any weapon you can select any skill to be increased by using the weapon. Sadly the other skills all have hardcoded action<->skill connections, which is a sad and regretable design-choice in my view. Since they rewrote the engine around the Gamebryo renderer this would have been the perfect moment to change this to allow for more flexible mods this time around.

So only way I see is to life with the reality that only one skill tree can be freed up and allow for exclusive and new use of the freed skill, which is by merging "one-handed" and "two-handed" into a single "weaponed combat" tree and skill. Or if you want to create new magic skills collapse two of the existing magic schools.

I can imagine this splitting into Weaponed Combat, and Bruce Lee style unarmed combat.
Low damage, sweet status effect perks.

A great new tree would be for unarmed and unarmored combat. Improved fist attacks, high jump, dodging, etc.