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Weapon Specialization Perks Fix (1.1) -- Light Armor works with Fists of Steel!

This mod attempts to address a few issues with special perks in the vanilla game. Namely, the sword, axe, and mace specialization perks didn't have enough "umph" to them. This is a preliminary crack at making them useful, but I am new to modding, so I need help testing and making sure they are implemented properly.

Compatibility: This mod changes perk values for the listed perks and modifies the bleed damage for each material type. Most mods shouldn't interfere with these changes, unless they rework or edit the specified perks. This mod should be safe to add/remove as needed because of how it works. Let me know if it isn't.

Here is a list of changes:

Bladesman:
Adds 35% of your One-Handed skill as extra damage on critical hits. Upped the base crit multiplier at all ranks.
I don't yet know if this applies before or after the other calculations for critical hits for this perk.

Deep Wounds:
Same as above, but does 50% of Two-Handed skill.

Critical Shot:
Same as above, but does 50% of Archery skill.

Bone-Breaker (1H) and Skullcrusher (2H):
Rank 1: Deals 5 / 10 Stamina damage per hit.
Rank 2: Deals 10 / 20 Stamina damage per hit.
Rank 3: Deals 15 / 30 Stamina damage per hit.

Hack-and-Slash (1H) and Limb-Splitter (2H):
Bleed lasts for 3 seconds at all ranks.
Adjusted bleed damage according to base material.
Rank 1 - 50% of base weapon damage per second.
Rank 2 - 100% of base weapon damage per second.
Rank 3 - 150% of base weapon damage per second.
Applied rounding where appropriate to make upgrading to better materials more rewarding. Also, calculated an extra 2 base weapon damage for daedric axes since they should not be the same as ebony. Here are a few samples:
An iron axe with 1/3 of this perk will do 4 dmg/sec for 3 seconds.
An elven axe with 2/3 of this perk will do 12dmg/sec for 3 seconds.
A daedric axe with 3/3 of this perk will do 27 dmg/sec for 3 seconds.

Fists of Steel (Unarmed):
Added 20% critical hit chance for 3x damage. Also, adds 1% attack damage for each 1 point in the Smithing skill while unarmed. Due to limitations in the Creation Kit, this requires your right hand to be unarmed, but the other hand can be anything that isn't a 1h weapon (spells are fine).
Light Armor gauntlets now work with this perk!
The primary reason for this is that while it will make unarmed OP in the early game, it already is anyway, but it falls off hard late game because you can only attain 68 unarmed damage as a Khajiit through normal means. This will help unarmed characters to scale better into late/end game.

These numbers will likely need some tweaking, but the mod has two goals in mind. (A) Make all the specialization perks useful, and (B) help those perks scale into late game. To be completely fair, I'm still not totally satisfied with how the mace type weapons are, but I don't yet know how to give them the effects I would like to.

Update 1.1: "I think you'll appreciate this."

• Fists of Steel: Reduced crit multiplier from 5 to 3, but added scaling attack damage based on Smithing skill. The idea was to compensate for the fact that the game only looks at the gloves' base defense value and doesn't account for any smithing you actually do to them.
  
• Fists of Steel update: Light Armor gauntlets now work with this perk.
  Since their base defense values were so low, I added 5 base unarmed damage to each material:
  
  |Material| -- |Base Armor| -- |Unarmed Damage Bonus|
  Hide: 5 -- 10
  Fur: 6 -- 11
  Leather: 7 -- 12
  Elven: 8 -- 13
  Scaled: 9 -- 14
  Glass: 11 -- 16
  Dragonscale: 12 -- 17
  
  
• Bladesman/Deep Wounds/Critical Shot: Optimized (hopefully) how crit chance is calculated to be smoother and work with other similar effects more predictably.

Anyway, I appreciate any help/feedback/testing you guys can provide, so this mod can bring meaning to perks that otherwise get looked over.

Don't forget to try my Race Rebalance mod. I am designing both to work together, but each should be sufficient on their own: http://steamoss.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=319674512&tscn=1412592476