Patch vs removal

[Ogham]

So, I was wondering, now that I'm getting a better understanding of TES5,

other then that you risk the chance to having to do it over again due to an update, is there any harm in chosing to delete an entry from a mod.

1st ofcourse to save on the esp load,

2nd to give a more specific example.

Weapons and Armor Fixes Remade vs Guard Dialogue overhaul. There is a patch available , but all it does is forward the values from WAF armor in front GDO again.

The only difference in the entry is the armor rating. Couldn't I just as easily just remove the armor entries in GDO and save myself a patch ? 

 

... I understand that I can just recreate the work into an esp of my own if I have more to adjust in my loadorder, and drop any patches like mentioned above.

It is more a question concerning the results of removing an entry.

[EssArrBee]

Use one of the STEP Patches and trade all your patches in for just one patch you load before any bashed patch or Skyproc patch.

[rootsrat]

To answer your question more specifically, no you cannot. If you remove (delete) that entry, it will still overwrite WAF entry (with a blank value). I am not sure what would happen, you may get a CTD on Main Menu load or the armor rating for that item would be 0 in game.

[Neovalen]

I think he means do a full remove of the record. Not empty the values.

 

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[EssArrBee]

Deleting the whole record probably isn't a good idea. You don't want to go changing your plugins when you could have multiple profiles.