Elemental Archery
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📋 About This Mod
8 summon-able elemental themed bows.
Alright, there I was playing Skyrim, starting the College of Winterhold quest lines with my sneaky archer character. I kind of decided I wanted to play through using the magic angle...when I got my rear end handed to me. Surprisingly, if you don't spec out your character for mage stuff...you get a lackluster mage. Then I tried the bound bow, and things got better. Still though, that made my character a one trick pony, and here I am wanting to get more of that mage feel. Hence, this little mod...
This mod adds 8 elemental themed and summon-able bows to the game. They each have unique textures to give them their elemental looks, and each bow has a different damage type and effects.
The fire bow deals fire damage and staggers foes temporarily. There is also an explosive version of this bow for a little AOE fire damage.
The ice bow deals frost damage and slows foes temporarily. There is also an explosive version of this bow for a little AOE frost damage.
The shock bow deals shock damage and paralyzes foes temporarily. There is also an explosive version of this bow for a little AOE shock damage.
The sun bow is a slightly more powerful elemental bow, which is basically a cross between Dawnbreaker and Auriel's Bow, and can burst for a little AOE sun damage.
The shadow bow is another slightly more powerful bow, which is basically a cross between the Ebony Blade and Mehrune's Razor. Instead of an explosive ability, this bow has the added effect of poisoning targets, similar to Mora's Agony.
Enhanced Mystic Binding:
These bows are no longer affected by the Mystic Binding perk. This was removed, since there are a few mods that alter that perk, and I cannot possibly make this mod compatible with every single mod that alters that perk and bound weapons. What I have done is to create the Enhanced Mystic Binding spell/lesser power, which will give you the Enhanced Mystic Binding perk for 24 hours. This will not affect Ordinator and similar mods, but the Mystic Binding perks from those mods will not affect my bows. When you activate the spell, the bows will increase in power. They will benefit from Damage Scaling, which I discuss below, and their elemental damage and effects will be enhanced. As well, the bows will stay summoned for 3 minutes instead of 2 minutes.
Damage Scaling:
I have created a new damage scaling system, to hopefully make these bows competitive and usable in later levels of the game. When Enhanced Mystic Binding has been cast, all of the bows will gain a bonus to damage based on your Archery and Conjuration skills. As well, the Fire/Ice/Shock bows will gain a small additional damage bonus based on your Destruction skill level. The Sun bow, will gain a small additional damage bonus based on you
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Skyrim Mods
- Author
- Wyldsong
- Version
- v2.1
- Downloads
- 14,724
- Endorsements
- 548
- Category
- Magic - Spells & Enchantments
- Created
- 5/12/2018
- Updated
- 1/7/2019
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