King-Priest - Enhanced Dragon Priests

Dragon Priests are some of my favorite enemies to fight in Skyrim, but unfortunately, they become laughably easy encounters at higher levels. Even the mighty masked priests fall with little effort against a high-level character...

No more!

I've taken it upon myself to improve Dragon Priests in a manner that expands upon the vanilla system and makes it more interesting and engaging. This mod is balanced around Simonrim, the series of gameplay overhaul mods that I personally use. I'm sure that my level of balancing will still be easily dispatched with the insane power you can get with Enairim, given I can't really balance around the crazy stuff you can do with that setup.

Generally, you'll want to have some decent resistances and good damage output in order to deal with Dragon Priests. More powerful priests typically have quests associated with them, and will be formidable foes to take down. These aren't encounters designed for you to take on at super low levels (unless you're a masochist or just very, very good at the game in general), but will provide a fair and engaging challenge as long as you're prepared, even into the late-game.

With that out of the way, let's get onto the stats!

Generic Dragon Priests

Named Dragon Priests inherit the basic stats and spells from these.

Level Mult: 1x

Mage Priests - Fire | Frost | Shock | Fire/Frost/Shock

Unenchanted Dragon Priest Mask (Light/Heavy Armor)

Leveled Destruction Staff

Level: 25-100

Health: 1500

Magicka: 500

Abilities: 50% Weakness to Fire, 50% Resist Frost, 25% Resist Magic, 25% Spell Absorption, Health Regeneration

Perks: Staff Recharge, Mage Armor, Stability, Augmented Flames (if fire priest), Augmented Frost (if frost priest), Augmented Shock (if shock priest), Atromancy, Summoner

Spells: Fireball, Incinerate (Player Level 30+), Flame Cloak, Conjure Flame Atronach (Fire Priest) | Ice Storm, Icy Spear (Player Level 30+), Frost Cloak, Conjure Frost Atronach (Frost Priest), Chain Lightning, Thunderbolt (Player Level 30+) | Lightning Cloak, Conjure Storm Atronach (Shock Priest) | Ironflesh, Steadfast Ward, Ebonyflesh, Greater Ward, Vampiric Bolt, Drain Life, Drain Magicka, Drain Stamina, Vampiric Blast (Player Level 30+)

Melee Priests - 1H | 1H + Shield | 1H + Magic (Fire/Frost/Shock) | 2H

Unenchanted Dragon Priest Mask (Light/Heavy Armor)

Leveled Dragon Priest weapons and shields

Health: 1500

Magicka: 0 (500 for spellswords)

Stamina: 500

Perks: Magic Resistance, Extra Damage 3 (Non-spellswords) | Recovery 2, Regeneration, Respite, Stability, Mage Armor, Ward Absorb, Au