I love the idea of making these arrows useful, but I'm not going to get it unfortunately. Unless I can pinpoint an issue in my load order installing this mod would just be me committing seppuku. Bandits using these arrows royally beat my ass into the ground all the time already
That's awesome! Get some elemental resistance, more followers and/or summons. =) I wasn't going to download this, but now I will. I love some challenge. Especially over level 40 something.
To be Honest I hadn't even considered the enemy re-using the Arrows! There is a great Mod available which makes dodging Arrows and Spells a thing, I cant remember what it is called I shall look it up.
This info goes back to the early days of Skyrim's release so I do not know if it is still relevant, I think it is, but this is the issue with arrows and mods.
A game mechanic is that if you shoot someone with an arrow it could go into their inventory as an item. Once that happens that arrow might become the highest straight damage arrow in that NPC's inventory, and they will start to shoot those arrows at you.
One way that old modders dealt with this is to lower the damage of the arrow (lower than iron arrows) and raise the elemental "effect" as the way to deliver the damage. The DOT was the way to make the arrows powerful and not the straight damage of the arrow. There was a wonderful old mod called Arrows Of Magicka that absolutely nailed this. Now you can deliver powerful DOT and not have the enemy return the arrows on you.
For example, if the normal DOT for fire is 5 damage for 4 seconds, he may have 20 damage for 5 seconds and lower the straight damage to 6. Good luck with the mod.
Interesting! I wasn't so much bothered by the damage as the insane amount of resources to craft just 10 Arrows. The actual damage from Fire, Ice, etc was set at 2 which I have not increased. The Damage from the arrow itself was 8 and I upped it to 12. I did actually create my own Fire/Ice/Lightning Arrows back in the day under my old Username of SoulMasterII and I'm pretty sure from memory they were much more OP than these! Thank you for taking the time to comment, I appreciate it.
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A game mechanic is that if you shoot someone with an arrow it could go into their inventory as an item. Once that happens that arrow might become the highest straight damage arrow in that NPC's inventory, and they will start to shoot those arrows at you.
One way that old modders dealt with this is to lower the damage of the arrow (lower than iron arrows) and raise the elemental "effect" as the way to deliver the damage. The DOT was the way to make the arrows powerful and not the straight damage of the arrow. There was a wonderful old mod called Arrows Of Magicka that absolutely nailed this. Now you can deliver powerful DOT and not have the enemy return the arrows on you.
For example, if the normal DOT for fire is 5 damage for 4 seconds, he may have 20 damage for 5 seconds and lower the straight damage to 6. Good luck with the mod.
The actual damage from Fire, Ice, etc was set at 2 which I have not increased. The Damage from the arrow itself was 8 and I upped it to 12.
I did actually create my own Fire/Ice/Lightning Arrows back in the day under my old Username of SoulMasterII and I'm pretty sure from memory they were much more OP than these!
Thank you for taking the time to comment, I appreciate it.