Legendary Vendors

It's generally not worth bothering to check vendors' stock of weapons and armor. They don't sell randomized legendary items, so outside of a few uniques, you find far better items as loot. This makes many shops mostly pointless and thus limits the usefulness of money.

With Legendary Vendors, shops now have a chance to carry rare, epic, and legendary weapons and/or armors. The types of items they offer will be what they already offered, just with these effects added. The only exception is that the Emporium will now carry a single legendary weapon or armor every shop refresh. In addition to weapon and armor types being limited to match what shops already sell, you can expect shops that specialize (in weapons, armor, or specific brands) to be more likely to have legendary items. Even radiant shops and ship traders can sometimes carry legendary items now. This makes money much more important and gives you a reason to visit all the stores.

This mod is built without editing any records, so it's 100% conflict-free. If DLC or another mod adds new legendary effects or new weapons, expect this mod to still apply to them. I will need to create patches for future DLC to affect newly-added shops, but this should otherwise be mostly future-proof. Because this took more effort to build, this is my first mod I'm adding to the marketplace, but I have set the price as the lowest Bethesda allows. This guarantees that I will keep this updated as needed, which I don't promise with my other, free work.