Learn enchanting and use a bow or melee weapon enchanted with shock damage. Shock enchantments and spells break wards and drains magicka. An arrow in itself will go through a ward easily. Also all dragons I have run into are susceptible to shock as they can't even shout while being fired upon with something that shocks them. A ward is about the only thing the player character can block shouts with since other shouters like the greybeards, ulfric, some mods use the greybeard version of the unrelenting voice shout and can spam you to death with it since it does actual damage instead of just flinging you which is why i also consoled in the greybeard version of the shout because it is only fair that if they don't have to wait to shout neither do I against them. Seriously in a battle against ulfric he hit me three times in a row with UF while mine was still halfway charging and his shout did major damage while mine did little to no damage. The greybeards know two versions of UF, when they meditate and shout off the mountain they use words, When they battle they just make thunder sounds that does greater damage and throws the opponent much further. In fact all greybeard shouts have a +effect over the player version. Ulfric also uses +greybeard version of disarm since he uses no words either. If I use the regular disarm it rarely disarms anything but, if I use the greybeard version it disarms everyone.With the greybeard shout you have an instant recharge of the that shout.
I just bitterly hate how mages can click the ward spell once and take no damage from my spells as well becoming immune to magic damage while they stagger.....
I just hate how my ward eats all my magicka in a split second....doesn't block s#*! before breaking and during the stagger i take any magic damage...
Wheres the enemies ward doesn't seem to drain there magicka fast.....blocks a crazy amount and they don't take damage while they are staggering after i break their shield... :/
say im using a ward and a wizard using flames breaks my ward.....while staggering im also taking the damage from flames but when an enemy is using the same ward and i break their ward they don't seem take take damage while staggering.....and of course when their stagger ends they instantly throw up another insanely tough ward spell.. :/
@TheWinTree I noticed this too, but since I was using things like Dynamic Ward and Knockback Ward effecs as well, it took me a while to pin it down to this. If you still want to use this mod, the spell to teach yourself in the console is like this: help "lesser ward" gives four results: 0000xxxx (vanilla entry) 0000xxxx (vanilla entry) XX000d69 <- This is the one you want to use the player.addspell command on. XX000d6b
This mod seems to cause an issue with my game, wherein it causes all spell tomes that teach wards (Lesser, Steadfast, Greater, etc.) to only teach me Greater Ward. This wouldn't be a problem, but when I try to teach my character any other ward through console commands it causes my game to lock up if I even scroll over the non-Greater ward spells in my spells menu.
I've run this mod both with and without any of my other mods, and have confirmed that the problem seems to be with this mod alone though why that is I haven't a clue. Just thought I'd point this out in case anyone else had this problem.
@ Kaylo, just read up on your response and thanks for clearing that up with me. Truth be told, I mostly use Unrelenting Force on mages as opposed to Fire Breath/Frost Breath to knock them down so I can close in; since it kept being blocked with ease, I assumed that higher level ward spells were able to repel most dragon shouts as well.
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I just bitterly hate how mages can click the ward spell once and take no damage from my spells as well becoming immune to magic damage while they stagger.....
just wrecks my head...
I just hate how my ward eats all my magicka in a split second....doesn't block s#*! before breaking and during the stagger i take any magic damage...
Wheres the enemies ward doesn't seem to drain there magicka fast.....blocks a crazy amount and they don't take damage while they are staggering after i break their shield... :/
say im using a ward and a wizard using flames breaks my ward.....while staggering im also taking the damage from flames
but
when an enemy is using the same ward and i break their ward they don't seem take take damage while staggering.....and of course when their stagger ends they instantly throw up another insanely tough ward spell.. :/
I noticed this too, but since I was using things like Dynamic Ward and Knockback Ward effecs as well, it took me a while to pin it down to this. If you still want to use this mod, the spell to teach yourself in the console is like this:
help "lesser ward" gives four results:
0000xxxx (vanilla entry)
0000xxxx (vanilla entry)
XX000d69 <- This is the one you want to use the player.addspell command on.
XX000d6b
I've run this mod both with and without any of my other mods, and have confirmed that the problem seems to be with this mod alone though why that is I haven't a clue. Just thought I'd point this out in case anyone else had this problem.