Description

Better Dragon Shouts aims to make shouting an actually useful thing to do when fighting or wandering about Skyrim. Most shouts have reduced cooldowns (not Disarm because it's the worst), and some have increased or re-balanced magnitudes. Some shouts may be weaker now with one word only, but definitely stronger with all three (except Disarm, blame the draugr for that), closing a bit the gap between you and actual dragons:

Animal Allegiance
Cooldown: 50, 60, 70 --> 40, 50, 60
Level: 20 --> 15, 25, 35

Aura Whisper
Cooldown: 30, 40, 50 --> 20, 30, 40

Battle Fury
Cooldown: 20, 30, 40 --> 55, 115, 170 (I know, I know... but this is a shout for you to rely on your friends)
Magnitude (weapon speed multiplier): 1.3, 1.5, 1.7 --> 1.5, 1.75, 2.0

Become Ethereal
Cooldown: 20, 30, 40 --> 20, 25, 30
Duration: 8, 13, 18 --> 10, 15, 20

Bend Will
Cooldown: 10, 90, 120 --> 10, 60, 90

Call Dragon (Odahviing)
Cooldown: 5, 5, 300 --> 5, 5, 30

Call of Valor
Cooldown: 180, 180, 180 --> 120, 120, 120
Duration: 60 --> 90

Clear Skies
Duration: 25, 40, 60 --> 20, 50, 90

Cyclone
Cooldown: 30, 45, 60 --> 30, 40, 50
Damage: 50, 75, 100 --> 100, 150, 200
Changed Miraak's version as well (same damage with 30% less cooldown time)

Disarm
Cooldown: 30, 35, 40 --> 30, 45, 60
Level: 12, 20, 30 --> 10, 15, 20

Dismay
Level: 7, 15, 24 --> 15, 35, 65; affects undead, undead/daedra, undead/daedra/automatons (never affects dragons)

Dragon Aspect
Cooldown: 1/day --> 5, 7, 10
Duration: 300 --> 180, 240, 300
Changed the Ancient Dragonborn summon to a 50% shock resistance (75% with 3 words); since I added the shock resist to the existing damage resist shout effect, Miraak also has it

Dragonrend
Cooldown: 10, 12, 15 --> 10, 15, 20
Duration: 15, 18, 22 --> 15, 25, 35

Drain Vitality
Cooldown: 30, 60, 90 --> 30, 45, 60
Magnitude: 5 Stamina, 5 Stamina/Magicka, 5 Stamina/Magicka/Health --> 5 Stamina, 6 Stamina/5 Magicka, 7 Stamina/6 Magicka/5 Health

Elemental Fury
Cooldown: 30, 40, 50 --> 15, 20, 25
Magnitude (weapon speed multiplier): 1.3, 1.5, 1.7 --> 1.5, 1.75, 2.0
Duration: 15 --> 10, 15, 20
Changed Miraak's version as well (same values but with 30% less cooldown time)

Fire Breath
Cooldown: 30, 50, 100 --> 25, 40, 50
Damage: 50, 70, 90 --> 50, 100, 150
Changed Miraak's version as well (same damage with 30% less cooldown time)

Frost Breath
Cooldown: 30, 50, 100 --> 25, 40, 50
Damage/sec (5 seconds): 10, 14, 18 --> 10, 20, 30
Changed Miraak's version as well (same damage with 30% less cooldown time)

Ice Form
Cooldown: 60, 90, 120 --> 50, 60, 70
Duration: 15, 30, 60 --> 30, 45, 60

Kyne's Peace
Cooldown: 40, 50, 60 --> 30, 35, 40
Level: 20 --> 15, 20, 25

Marked for Death
Cooldown: 20, 30, 40 --> 25, 40, 60
Duration: 60 --> 60, 90, 120

Slow Time
Cooldown: 30, 45, 60 --> 40, 60, 80
Duration: 8, 12, 16 --> 10, 15, 20

Soul Tear
No changes.

Storm Call
Damage (per lightning strike): 40, 60, 80 --> 50, 100, 150

Summon Durnehviir
Cooldown: 5, 5, 300 --> 5, 5, 60

Throw Voice
No changes.

Unrelenting Force
Cooldown: 15, 20, 45 --> 10, 15, 20
Damage (in brackets the damage if you have the Dragonborn Force ability from a Black Book): 2(8), 5(20), 10(40) --> 5(10), 10(20), 20(40)
Changed the draugr version as well (same cooldown); the draugr version and Miraak's both use the regular player version effects (damage and stagger)

Whirlwind Sprint
Cooldown: 20, 25, 35 --> 6, 8, 10


Requirements and compatibility

This mod requires USSEP.
It's obviously not compatible with other mods that alter dragon shouts.

I welcome feedback on the balance of the mod.