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An update to the effects of the Ebony Mail
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Overview:
This mod is part of a "series" with the goal of making the deadric artifacts a bit more interesting. I'm starting with just releasing them individually as a sort of Beta (should be perfectly playable though) with the intention of possibly tweaking them for a final grouped release.
Overall I thought the ebony mail was one of the most disappointing artifacts since it looked soo cool, but was soo lame to use.
The original design of the effect was more or less completely abandoned and replaced with one a little closer to its roots as an ultimate shield against damage, but with a twist in line with Boethiah's pertinence towards treachery.
So What Does it Do?
So, upon equipping the ebony mail you will granted with the Ebony Shroud lesser power. This power will be lost upon unequipping the armor.
This power lasts 5 mins and upon activation will grant the player 90%!! damage reduction (10% more than max armor even!) from ALL sources (magic damage included) HOWEVER, only while the player is above 75% health (Boethiah only supports the strong of course).
Dropping below 75% health will trigger Boethiah's treachery (that damned two-faced prince) at which point you will take TWICE AS MUCH DAMAGE from all sources instead.
It is important to note that this effect acts as a tetter-totter, meaning that during the five minutes the spell is active, whenever you're above 75% youll take reduced damage, and whenever youre below youll take increased damage.
Also, Unequipping the Ebony Mail WHILE the ebony shroud is still active will cause it to rip apart you life essence, or something, and will cause your health to drop to 1%.
The video below will hopefully make it all clear.
Other Notes:
The artifact is also now unable to be upgraded by smithing, but has had its armor stat raised accordingly.
Also it has some pretty cool visual effects added to it as well.
As of v 1.1 this will also not stack with Dragonhide and will instead just cancel the dragonhide effect if cast.
Some Appreciated Feedback:
The implementation of the effect was a bit of a debate for me, right now its a lesser power that can be used as many time as you want per day. It would be very easy to change this to a once a day power, or once every 5 hours or so, or even as a constant effect. I think it has a interesting enough drawback to allow it to have unlimited uses, plus I feel like it makes the artifact feel more powerful/game changing (it is a deadric artifact after all), but I am super open to other opinion. Also any other feedback you have is always appreciated.
Compatibility:
Only alters the effects of the Ebony Mail, meaning feel free to use any mesh or texture replacer.
Other Mods in the series:
(so far there's only 1, sorry!)
The Daedric Artifact Series - Volendrung
Next up should be Dawnbreaker (soon), then maybe the oghma infinium sometime after.
Change Log:
v1.1: Just a small change to make it so that the effect won't stack with Dragonhide. Should be safe to update whenever. (Note this adds an edit to the dragonhide spell and effect, if this causes you compatibility issues for whatever reason just use v1.0, its still perfectly safe.)
ps. I hate writing mod descriptions so sorry if this is sucky, if anyone want to take over my descriptions for my mods feel free to offer! (though i dont know how easy that is to safely do haha)
This mod is part of a "series" with the goal of making the deadric artifacts a bit more interesting. I'm starting with just releasing them individually as a sort of Beta (should be perfectly playable though) with the intention of possibly tweaking them for a final grouped release.
Overall I thought the ebony mail was one of the most disappointing artifacts since it looked soo cool, but was soo lame to use.
The original design of the effect was more or less completely abandoned and replaced with one a little closer to its roots as an ultimate shield against damage, but with a twist in line with Boethiah's pertinence towards treachery.
So What Does it Do?
So, upon equipping the ebony mail you will granted with the Ebony Shroud lesser power. This power will be lost upon unequipping the armor.
This power lasts 5 mins and upon activation will grant the player 90%!! damage reduction (10% more than max armor even!) from ALL sources (magic damage included) HOWEVER, only while the player is above 75% health (Boethiah only supports the strong of course).
Dropping below 75% health will trigger Boethiah's treachery (that damned two-faced prince) at which point you will take TWICE AS MUCH DAMAGE from all sources instead.
It is important to note that this effect acts as a tetter-totter, meaning that during the five minutes the spell is active, whenever you're above 75% youll take reduced damage, and whenever youre below youll take increased damage.
Also, Unequipping the Ebony Mail WHILE the ebony shroud is still active will cause it to rip apart you life essence, or something, and will cause your health to drop to 1%.
The video below will hopefully make it all clear.
Other Notes:
The artifact is also now unable to be upgraded by smithing, but has had its armor stat raised accordingly.
Also it has some pretty cool visual effects added to it as well.
As of v 1.1 this will also not stack with Dragonhide and will instead just cancel the dragonhide effect if cast.
Some Appreciated Feedback:
The implementation of the effect was a bit of a debate for me, right now its a lesser power that can be used as many time as you want per day. It would be very easy to change this to a once a day power, or once every 5 hours or so, or even as a constant effect. I think it has a interesting enough drawback to allow it to have unlimited uses, plus I feel like it makes the artifact feel more powerful/game changing (it is a deadric artifact after all), but I am super open to other opinion. Also any other feedback you have is always appreciated.
Compatibility:
Only alters the effects of the Ebony Mail, meaning feel free to use any mesh or texture replacer.
Other Mods in the series:
(so far there's only 1, sorry!)
The Daedric Artifact Series - Volendrung
Next up should be Dawnbreaker (soon), then maybe the oghma infinium sometime after.
Change Log:
v1.1: Just a small change to make it so that the effect won't stack with Dragonhide. Should be safe to update whenever. (Note this adds an edit to the dragonhide spell and effect, if this causes you compatibility issues for whatever reason just use v1.0, its still perfectly safe.)
ps. I hate writing mod descriptions so sorry if this is sucky, if anyone want to take over my descriptions for my mods feel free to offer! (though i dont know how easy that is to safely do haha)