Better Drain Vitality -Drain Vitality Redesign
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 4.2% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #9 of 11 Shouts mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
This mod makes Drain Vitality the powerful and scary shout it should always have been; both for the dragons and the dragonborn. It is now a breath type attack that absorbs health, magicka, and stamina and staggers enemies.
UPDATE 1. 10:
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[] Removed the no absorb-reflect tag from all Drain Vitality spells (now you can resist it and use wards, atronach perk, etc against it). [/]
[] Made the shout resistable by magic resistance.[/]
[]Fixed a vanilla Skyrim bug that had marked for death words of power being used in all dragon drain vitality shouts. This caused several problems when learning both shouts from words of power and has been fixed in other mods like USSEP, but was brought back by editing vanilla records here. Now this mod fixes this bug as well. [/]
THE MOD:
Let's face it: the original Drain Vitality is dissapointing. It deals very little damage over a long time period and also it looks quite unimpressive.
Most of the time, both the dragons or the dragonborn would be better off using different shouts or different attack types. It is particularly worthless when used by you, the dragonborn.
This mod fixes that:
Now Drain Vitality won't be a purple projectile that deals extremely low damage, but instead be a bloddy red breath stream that will not only damage, but also absorb the helth, magicka and stamina of the victims.
The shout will affect a 15 ft area, meaning you can hit several enemies if they stand close to one another.
A proper legendary shout that fits the vampiric, edgy, and gothic theme of the Dawnguard expansion.
I made a custom mesh, custom textures, and custom particles effects for the shout. Here it is how it looks like:
I tried to make it worthwhile while still not overpowered. (It has a long cooldown when used by you, and the damage isn't excessive).
Both the dragons and the dragonborn will benefit from this change. Have fun!
HOW TO INSTALL:
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[]Extract the contents of the 7zip folder in your game's installation directory data folder.[/]
[]Use the option "Download with manager" using a mod manager like Vortex or Mod Organizer 2.[/]
¡Voice powers should be scary! If you want to improve more shouts, be sure to check this one too.
Some images of the redesigned shout:
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Skyrim Mods
- Author
- Lucaoys
- Version
- 1.20
- Downloads
- 3,220
- Endorsements
- 135
- Category
- Shouts
- Created
- 8/28/2025
- Updated
- 1/7/2026
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