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Greatly increases the damage of Vampiric Drain

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In an attempt at keeping with the spirit of being modular, I decided to make a simple mod that modifies only the Vampiric Drain spell for vampires. I've noticed several mods that do this, but they don't quite do enough damage for the higher levels (80+) or they modify other things, which would interfere with other vampire mods that I'm using.

I have no idea how to scale magic based on player levels at the moment, so I simply increased the effects to something more suitable for me.

The changes for Vampiric Drain are as follows:

Single-Handed:

Stage 1: 15 (from 2)
Stage 2: 25 (from 3)
Stage 3: 35 (from 4)
Stage 4: 45 (from 5)

If these changes still seem a bit low, it's because I'm using the "True Vampire Lord" mod ( http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/21723 ) and I feel that the power increase when playing as a Vampire Lord should feel much greater than that of the lesser form.

I'm also using the "Inverted Vampirism" mod, ( http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/23205 ), which makes the vampire stronger as they feed. These changes should be compatible with both

I've added stronger and weaker versions that differ from the other mods I've seen just to give people choice, until I can learn how to scale the effects based on player level or Destruction skill or w/e is more appropriate. (I'm open to any advice on this)

The two other variations of this mod have the following changes:

Weaker version:

Stage 1: 10
Stage 2: 15
Stage 3: 20
Stage 4: 25

Stronger Version:
Stage 1: 25
Stage 2: 35
Stage 3: 45
Stage 4: 55

update 7/12/2014: I've adjusted the mana cost for Strong Vampiric Drain and uploaded 2 versions (one for people that have Dawnguard and one for people that do not) to play with.

The mana cost for Vampiric Drain now changes depending on what stage of vampirism you're currently at. Being at Stage 1 vampirism, where a vampire's powers are at their weakest, will mean that Vampiric Drain will cost a lot more to sustain, compared to when they're at Stage 4 and their vampriric powers are at their greatest.

Stage 1: 15 damage - 40 mana cost
Stage 2: 25 damage - 30 mana cost
Stage 3: 35 damage - 20 mana cost
Stage 4: 45 damage - 10 mana cost

update 12/27/2012: Added Strong Vampiric Drain for players without Dawnguard or any DLC

update 10/26/2012: Added an Immensely Powerful version for higher tiered combat with the following Vampiric Drain changes:

Stage 1: 100
Stage 2: 120
Stage 3: 135
Stage 4: 150
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Notice: If you do not use Dawnguard please use one of the Strong Vampiric Drain mods labeled "without Dawnguard".

I created this mod with Dawnguard assets loaded into the creation kit. Merchant720 mentioned that with 16 mods running, something is causing the game to crash. I've only modified the damage values for each rank of vampirism, nothing more. The crashes might be caused by unknown/missing spell IDs when this mod is applied to a non-Dawnguard copy of Skyrim, since various spells and items have had their IDs changed with the Dawnguard DLC update.