For the past few years I ' ve been responding with sorry , I ' m busy birthing a dissertation , but that ' s done now so the few folks still daring enough to try it are doubling down . <| sep |> Thanks for proving his point . A support main <| sep |> Thank you for your recommendation . I ' ve heard some good things about Rossignol so I ' ll definitely consider them . They are a bit on the pricier side at least where I am , so I may try to find something similar to them . <| sep |> Very hard to say as far as the combat AI is concerned . The difference from vanilla is noticeable on both though . Smilodon does add a lot more stuff other than AI though , so that in itself makes it different . I was using BCAI for most of my playthrough , and now I ' m using Smilodon ' s mods the main mod and the damage patch that makes the damage modifier the same for you and the enemies . I am enjoying Smilodon ' s more for the fact that it increases mana regen during combat to be the same as out of combat so it makes mages more viable . I ' m not quite sure how I feel about the damage increases from enemies though , since I ' m running this with several difficultyaltering mods and it ' s becoming a bit hard to balance the mods to be difficult but smooth .