Dragonborn Ascendant

Author: MadCat221 (MadCat221@gmail.com)

NOTICE: It goes without saying, I hope, that this mod will conflict with any other mods that alter Shouts, such as other Shout--rebalancing mods.

Version: 1. 2. 1

May 13, 2012

1. Introduction 2: List of Alterations 3: Installation and Setup Instructions 4. Version History

=============== 1. INTRODUCTION ===============

Shouts... are kinda lackluster. A lot of them are outright obviated by magic effects, or just plain become useless once the level thresholds are passed. Also... why don't you ever get better? The only skill advancement you get is more shouts and shout tiers.

Dragonborn Ascendant aims to correct this, and make the Thu'um something truly powerful: Leveled shouts, more practical cooldowns, even a couple outright replaced in function.

====================== 2. LIST OF ALTERATIONS ====================== For the base game: []Added special ability spell "Dragonborn Ascendant", which will give a Dragonsoul Boost, giving 3% shout cooldown reduction for every 5 dragon souls you absorb, up to 50 souls (meaning 30% reduction). Why not more? Because it can stack with the two vanilla cooldown reduction sources (Amulet or Blessing of Talos) for a total of 70%. If you want to belt off shouts every half-second, break your game balance on your own. :P []Fire and Frost Breath shouts now have 25/35/45 second cooldowns. []Ice Form also has shorter cooldowns, at 40/50/60. []Fire and frost breath now have tiered damage increments every 10 levels, starting at level 20. Each shout word level has a tiered damage. Additionally, Destruction special perk effects (burn panic, freeze paralysis) might be applied. Ice Form is still a more guaranteed way to get freeze paralysis (excluding Hermy's perks in Dragonborn). []Unrelenting Force, at full power, can stagger a dragon. Other than that, it's already quite well-balanced. []Dismay has a similar leveled-tiered system as Fire/Frost Breath. At all three words of power and at level 50+, you can scare anything that isn't already immune to Fear effects. []Disarm also has a level-tiered system. At level 50+, you can disarm anything with all three words. Drop that sword like it's hot, deathlord! []Become Ethereal is rejigged as well. Cooldown is now much like Throw Voice, where more Words of Power mean shorter cooldown, while duration is leveled. []Animal Allegiance now, instead of calling for animals that may or may not be there and may or may not arrive on time to be of any use, now instead summons spectral animals. Tier 1 is a wolf, tier 2 a sabrecat, tier 3 a BEAR. Cooldown is considerably shorter than the other Summon shout, Call of Valor. []Callling for Odahviing is now a "