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Enemy poisons last significantly longer and are thus more dangerous to the player. They are made more varied and diverse.
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What does it do?
This mod greatly increases the duration of enemy poisons, giving them significantly more time to deal damage.
All poison effects applied by enemies have had their duration increased and damage adjusted. Universally, the total damage a poison deals is greatly increased, though in most cases per-second damage is reduced.
Some poisons have been tweaked.
Poisons applied by both bites and spit attacks have been altered.
A vanilla bug where spit-attack poisons such as those from Frostbite Spiders could not be cured by Cure Poison effects has been fixed as of version 1.2!
As of version 1.2, the specific poison changes are:
Hidden by spoiler to avoid clutter.
What effect does this have on gameplay?
Enemy poisons now do significantly more total damage. The vanilla frostbite spider poison spit did a total of 9 damage over 3 seconds. Now it does 90 over 90. It is now much more dangerous if ignored for its full duration. This also encourages the player to invest in poison resistance and curing effects, which I often felt were useless clutter in vanilla. With this mod, cure poison potions become a much better gameplay option, even more so since the vanilla bugfix made in version 1.2 now allows spit attack poisons to be cured. Somewhat outdated details here.
Why make this mod?
While playing with ideas for an alchemy mod, I gave some thought to effects that I never really use. This led to me thinking about the general impotence of vanilla enemy poisons. I decided to work on this little fragment to fix that.
In vanilla Skyrim, I have never found myself particularly concerned about being poisoned. In most cases, by the time I noticed I had been poisoned and decided whether or not I needed to do something about it the poison had expired. Furthermore, my experience is that vanilla poison will usually not kill you or do significant damage if ignored. Basically, I feel that vanilla poison does not pose a threat, and when it does that it does not meaningfully differentiate itself from flat damage.
I settled on increasing duration as increasing per-second damage still felt no different than flat damage, and the increase in duration gives more time for the player to react to being poisoned and rewards you for dealing with it early.
Future plans?
Continue to iterate based on play experience and user feedback.
Feedback of any kind is appreciated.
Mods that edit those things will conflict.
No other mods should conflict.
My Other Mods
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Dunmeri Ghosts - Dunmeri Gear To make sure Barenziah's Crown was escorted by true dunmeri warriors.
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Faction Specific Loot - Eagles of Alinor Handcrafted overhaul of Thalmor item pools.
Faction Specific Loot - Children of the All-Maker Handcrafted overhaul of Skaal item pools.
Fletching - Craft Arrows Anywhere New power to craft arrows wherever you please.
College Ghosts - College Robes The College Ghosts in Labyrinthian now wear College robes.
Faction Specific Loot - Blades of Mephala Handcrafted overhaul of Morag Tong item pools.
This mod greatly increases the duration of enemy poisons, giving them significantly more time to deal damage.
All poison effects applied by enemies have had their duration increased and damage adjusted. Universally, the total damage a poison deals is greatly increased, though in most cases per-second damage is reduced.
Some poisons have been tweaked.
- Spriggan poison now targets magicka in addition to health.
- A new poison effect has been created for Solstheim albino spiders that now targets only health instead of reusing frostbite's health and stamina poison.
Poisons applied by both bites and spit attacks have been altered.
- Bite poisons are fast-acting. They deal more per-second damage, but have lower duration.
- Spit poisons are slow-acting. They deal less per-second damage, but have higher duration.
A vanilla bug where spit-attack poisons such as those from Frostbite Spiders could not be cured by Cure Poison effects has been fixed as of version 1.2!
As of version 1.2, the specific poison changes are:
Hidden by spoiler to avoid clutter.
Spoiler:
Spriggan (Magic Effects):
Used for the poison applied by Spriggan melee attacks.
crSprigganClawFFContact:
Vanilla: Value Modifier targeting Health. -> MDEP: Dual Value Modifier targeting Health and Magicka.
Generic Spider (Magic Effects):
New effect created for non-frostbite spider spiders. Used by Solstheim albino spiders.
MDEPcrSpiderBiteFFContactNotFrostbite:
MDEP: Value Modifier targeting Health.
Chaurus (Spells):
01 is used for normal Chaurus(Chauruses? Chaurusi?), 02 is for Chaurus reaper, and 03 is used by the flying Chaurus in Dawnguard.
crChaurusPoisonBite01:
Vanilla: Chaurus poison 5 points of Health damage for 5 seconds. -> MDEP: Chaurus poison 6 points of Health damage for 45 seconds.
crChaurusPoisonSpit01:
Vanilla: Chaurus poison 5 points of Health damage for 5 seconds. -> MDEP: Chaurus poison 3 points of Health damage for 90 seconds.
crChaurusPoisonBite02:
Vanilla: Chaurus poison 7 points of Health damage for 7 seconds. -> MDEP: Chaurus poison 10 points of Health damage for 45 seconds.
crChaurusPoisonSpit02:
Vanilla: Chaurus poison 7 points of Health damage for 7 seconds. -> MDEP: Chaurus poison 5 points of Health damage for 90 seconds.
DLC1crChaurusPoisonBite03:
Vanilla: Chaurus poison 10 points of Health damage for 7 seconds. -> MDEP: Chaurus poison 16 points of Health damage for 45 seconds.
DLC1crChaurusPoisonSpit03:
Vanilla: Chaurus poison 10 points of Health damage for 7 seconds. -> MDEP: Chaurus poison 8 points of Health damage for 90 seconds.
DLC1_BF_ChaurusPoisonSpit:
Vanilla: Chaurus poison 1 points of Health damage for 2 seconds. -> MDEP: Chaurus poison 3 points of Health damage for 90 seconds.
Falmer (Spells):
These are applied to Falmer via respective perks, depending on level.
crFalmerPoisonedWeapon01:
Vanilla: Falmer poison 5 points of Health damage for 3 seconds. -> MDEP: Falmer poison 2 points of Health damage for 60 seconds.
crFalmerPoisonedWeapon02:
Vanilla: Falmer poison 6 points of Health damage for 3 seconds. -> MDEP: Falmer poison 3 points of Health damage for 60 seconds.
crFalmerPoisonedWeapon03:
Vanilla: Falmer poison 7 points of Health damage for 3 seconds. -> MDEP: Falmer poison 4 points of Health damage for 60 seconds.
crFalmerPoisonedWeapon04:
Vanilla: Falmer poison 9 points of Health damage for 3 seconds. -> MDEP: Falmer poison 5 points of Health damage for 60 seconds.
crFalmerPoisonedWeapon05:
Vanilla: Falmer poison 12 points of Health damage for 3 seconds. -> MDEP: Falmer poison 6 points of Health damage for 60 seconds.
DLC1crFalmerPoisonedWeapon06:
Vanilla: Falmer poison 12 points of Health damage for 4 seconds. -> MDEP: Falmer poison 7 points of Health damage for 60 seconds.
Frostbite Spider (Spells):
01 is used by small Frostbite Spiders, 02 is used by the larger ones, and 03 is used by Giant Frostbite Spiders.
crSpider01PoisonBite:
Vanilla: Frostbite poison 3 points of Health and Stamina damage for 3 seconds. -> MDEP: Frostbite poison 2 points of Health and Stamina damage for 45 seconds.
crSpider01PoisonSpit:
Vanilla: Frostbite poison 3 points of Health and Stamina damage for 3 seconds. -> MDEP: Frostbite poison 1 points of Health and Stamina damage for 90 seconds.
crSpider02PoisonBite:
Vanilla: Frostbite poison 5 points of Health and Stamina damage for 3 seconds. -> MDEP: Frostbite poison 4 points of Health and Stamina damage for 45 seconds.
crSpider02PoisonSpit:
Vanilla: Frostbite poison 5 points of Health and Stamina damage for 3 seconds. -> MDEP: Frostbite poison 2 points of Health and Stamina damage for 90 seconds.
crSpider03PoisonBite:
Vanilla: Frostbite poison 10 points of Health and Stamina damage for 3 seconds. -> MDEP: Frostbite poison 6 points of Health and Stamina damage for 45 seconds.
crSpider03PoisonSpit:
Vanilla: Frostbite poison 10 points of Health and Stamina damage for 3 seconds. -> MDEP: Frostbite poison 3 points of Health and Stamina damage for 90 seconds.
Spriggan (Spells):
Applied by Spriggan melee attacks.
crSprigganPoisonClaw:
Vanilla: Spriggan poison 2 points of Health damage for 10 seconds. -> MDEP: Spriggan poison 4 points of Health and Magicka damage for 45 seconds.
Lurker (Spells):
Applied by Lurker attacks.
DLC2crLurkerSpit01:
Vanilla: Lurker acid 10 points of Health damage for 5 seconds. -> MDEP: Lurker acid 2 points of Health damage for 60 seconds.
DLC2crLurkerSpit02:
Vanilla: Lurker acid 13 points of Health damage for 5 seconds. -> MDEP: Lurker acid 3 points of Health damage for 60 seconds.
DLC2crLurkerSpit03:
Vanilla: Lurker acid 16 points of Health damage for 5 seconds. -> MDEP: Lurker acid 4 points of Health damage for 60 seconds.
DLC2crLurkerSpit04:
Vanilla: Lurker acid 20 points of Health damage for 5 seconds. -> MDEP: Lurker acid 5 points of Health damage for 60 seconds.
Scrib (Spells):
Unused. Probably was for the Ash Hopper, who is basically an off-brand Scrib and is called Scrib internally. Not currently reintroduced in this mod, but maybe in a later update?
DLC2crScribPoisonBite:
Vanilla: Chaurus poison 2 points of Health damage for 10 seconds. 2 second paralysis -> MDEP: Chaurus poison 1 points of Health damage for 120 seconds. 2 second paralysis.
Solstheim Spider (Spells):
The generic Solstheim spiders use these. New non-frostbite poison effect created for the bite.
DLC2ExpSpiderAlbinoPoisonBite:
Vanilla: Frostbite poison 3 points of Health and Stamina damage for 3 seconds. -> MDEP: Spider poison 2 points of Health damage for 45 seconds.
DLC2ExpSpiderPoisonHazardSpell:
Vanilla: Hazard poison 3 points of Health and Stamina damage for 3 seconds. -> MDEP: Hazard poison 1 points of Health damage for 90 seconds.
Venomfang Skeever (Spells):
Used by the Skeevers in Honningbrew.
dunHonningbrewSkeeverPoison:
Vanilla: Skeever poison 5 points of Health damage for 5 seconds. -> MDEP: Skeever poison 2 points of Health damage for 120 seconds.
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Spriggan (Magic Effects):
Used for the poison applied by Spriggan melee attacks.
crSprigganClawFFContact:
Vanilla: Value Modifier targeting Health. -> MDEP: Dual Value Modifier targeting Health and Magicka.
Generic Spider (Magic Effects):
New effect created for non-frostbite spider spiders. Used by Solstheim albino spiders.
MDEPcrSpiderBiteFFContactNotFrostbite:
MDEP: Value Modifier targeting Health.
Chaurus (Spells):
01 is used for normal Chaurus(Chauruses? Chaurusi?), 02 is for Chaurus reaper, and 03 is used by the flying Chaurus in Dawnguard.
crChaurusPoisonBite01:
Vanilla: Chaurus poison 5 points of Health damage for 5 seconds. -> MDEP: Chaurus poison 6 points of Health damage for 45 seconds.
crChaurusPoisonSpit01:
Vanilla: Chaurus poison 5 points of Health damage for 5 seconds. -> MDEP: Chaurus poison 3 points of Health damage for 90 seconds.
crChaurusPoisonBite02:
Vanilla: Chaurus poison 7 points of Health damage for 7 seconds. -> MDEP: Chaurus poison 10 points of Health damage for 45 seconds.
crChaurusPoisonSpit02:
Vanilla: Chaurus poison 7 points of Health damage for 7 seconds. -> MDEP: Chaurus poison 5 points of Health damage for 90 seconds.
DLC1crChaurusPoisonBite03:
Vanilla: Chaurus poison 10 points of Health damage for 7 seconds. -> MDEP: Chaurus poison 16 points of Health damage for 45 seconds.
DLC1crChaurusPoisonSpit03:
Vanilla: Chaurus poison 10 points of Health damage for 7 seconds. -> MDEP: Chaurus poison 8 points of Health damage for 90 seconds.
DLC1_BF_ChaurusPoisonSpit:
Vanilla: Chaurus poison 1 points of Health damage for 2 seconds. -> MDEP: Chaurus poison 3 points of Health damage for 90 seconds.
Falmer (Spells):
These are applied to Falmer via respective perks, depending on level.
crFalmerPoisonedWeapon01:
Vanilla: Falmer poison 5 points of Health damage for 3 seconds. -> MDEP: Falmer poison 2 points of Health damage for 60 seconds.
crFalmerPoisonedWeapon02:
Vanilla: Falmer poison 6 points of Health damage for 3 seconds. -> MDEP: Falmer poison 3 points of Health damage for 60 seconds.
crFalmerPoisonedWeapon03:
Vanilla: Falmer poison 7 points of Health damage for 3 seconds. -> MDEP: Falmer poison 4 points of Health damage for 60 seconds.
crFalmerPoisonedWeapon04:
Vanilla: Falmer poison 9 points of Health damage for 3 seconds. -> MDEP: Falmer poison 5 points of Health damage for 60 seconds.
crFalmerPoisonedWeapon05:
Vanilla: Falmer poison 12 points of Health damage for 3 seconds. -> MDEP: Falmer poison 6 points of Health damage for 60 seconds.
DLC1crFalmerPoisonedWeapon06:
Vanilla: Falmer poison 12 points of Health damage for 4 seconds. -> MDEP: Falmer poison 7 points of Health damage for 60 seconds.
Frostbite Spider (Spells):
01 is used by small Frostbite Spiders, 02 is used by the larger ones, and 03 is used by Giant Frostbite Spiders.
crSpider01PoisonBite:
Vanilla: Frostbite poison 3 points of Health and Stamina damage for 3 seconds. -> MDEP: Frostbite poison 2 points of Health and Stamina damage for 45 seconds.
crSpider01PoisonSpit:
Vanilla: Frostbite poison 3 points of Health and Stamina damage for 3 seconds. -> MDEP: Frostbite poison 1 points of Health and Stamina damage for 90 seconds.
crSpider02PoisonBite:
Vanilla: Frostbite poison 5 points of Health and Stamina damage for 3 seconds. -> MDEP: Frostbite poison 4 points of Health and Stamina damage for 45 seconds.
crSpider02PoisonSpit:
Vanilla: Frostbite poison 5 points of Health and Stamina damage for 3 seconds. -> MDEP: Frostbite poison 2 points of Health and Stamina damage for 90 seconds.
crSpider03PoisonBite:
Vanilla: Frostbite poison 10 points of Health and Stamina damage for 3 seconds. -> MDEP: Frostbite poison 6 points of Health and Stamina damage for 45 seconds.
crSpider03PoisonSpit:
Vanilla: Frostbite poison 10 points of Health and Stamina damage for 3 seconds. -> MDEP: Frostbite poison 3 points of Health and Stamina damage for 90 seconds.
Spriggan (Spells):
Applied by Spriggan melee attacks.
crSprigganPoisonClaw:
Vanilla: Spriggan poison 2 points of Health damage for 10 seconds. -> MDEP: Spriggan poison 4 points of Health and Magicka damage for 45 seconds.
Lurker (Spells):
Applied by Lurker attacks.
DLC2crLurkerSpit01:
Vanilla: Lurker acid 10 points of Health damage for 5 seconds. -> MDEP: Lurker acid 2 points of Health damage for 60 seconds.
DLC2crLurkerSpit02:
Vanilla: Lurker acid 13 points of Health damage for 5 seconds. -> MDEP: Lurker acid 3 points of Health damage for 60 seconds.
DLC2crLurkerSpit03:
Vanilla: Lurker acid 16 points of Health damage for 5 seconds. -> MDEP: Lurker acid 4 points of Health damage for 60 seconds.
DLC2crLurkerSpit04:
Vanilla: Lurker acid 20 points of Health damage for 5 seconds. -> MDEP: Lurker acid 5 points of Health damage for 60 seconds.
Scrib (Spells):
Unused. Probably was for the Ash Hopper, who is basically an off-brand Scrib and is called Scrib internally. Not currently reintroduced in this mod, but maybe in a later update?
DLC2crScribPoisonBite:
Vanilla: Chaurus poison 2 points of Health damage for 10 seconds. 2 second paralysis -> MDEP: Chaurus poison 1 points of Health damage for 120 seconds. 2 second paralysis.
Solstheim Spider (Spells):
The generic Solstheim spiders use these. New non-frostbite poison effect created for the bite.
DLC2ExpSpiderAlbinoPoisonBite:
Vanilla: Frostbite poison 3 points of Health and Stamina damage for 3 seconds. -> MDEP: Spider poison 2 points of Health damage for 45 seconds.
DLC2ExpSpiderPoisonHazardSpell:
Vanilla: Hazard poison 3 points of Health and Stamina damage for 3 seconds. -> MDEP: Hazard poison 1 points of Health damage for 90 seconds.
Venomfang Skeever (Spells):
Used by the Skeevers in Honningbrew.
dunHonningbrewSkeeverPoison:
Vanilla: Skeever poison 5 points of Health damage for 5 seconds. -> MDEP: Skeever poison 2 points of Health damage for 120 seconds.
What effect does this have on gameplay?
Enemy poisons now do significantly more total damage. The vanilla frostbite spider poison spit did a total of 9 damage over 3 seconds. Now it does 90 over 90. It is now much more dangerous if ignored for its full duration. This also encourages the player to invest in poison resistance and curing effects, which I often felt were useless clutter in vanilla. With this mod, cure poison potions become a much better gameplay option, even more so since the vanilla bugfix made in version 1.2 now allows spit attack poisons to be cured. Somewhat outdated details here.
Why make this mod?
While playing with ideas for an alchemy mod, I gave some thought to effects that I never really use. This led to me thinking about the general impotence of vanilla enemy poisons. I decided to work on this little fragment to fix that.
In vanilla Skyrim, I have never found myself particularly concerned about being poisoned. In most cases, by the time I noticed I had been poisoned and decided whether or not I needed to do something about it the poison had expired. Furthermore, my experience is that vanilla poison will usually not kill you or do significant damage if ignored. Basically, I feel that vanilla poison does not pose a threat, and when it does that it does not meaningfully differentiate itself from flat damage.
I settled on increasing duration as increasing per-second damage still felt no different than flat damage, and the increase in duration gives more time for the player to react to being poisoned and rewards you for dealing with it early.
Future plans?
Continue to iterate based on play experience and user feedback.
Feedback of any kind is appreciated.
Compatibility:
This mod's edits are those covered in the specific changes section.Mods that edit those things will conflict.
No other mods should conflict.
My Other Mods
If you like this one, perhaps check out:
Thalmor Use Elven The Thalmor use elven weapons at minimum.
Jenassa in Chitin or Jenassa in Chitin - SPID To give our mercenary armor that suits her.
Irileth in Chitin puts Irileth in chitin armor.
Aranea of the Temple or Aranea of the Temple - SPID Dunmer priestess wears the robes of the dunmer priesthood.
Aela in Wolven puts Aela in the wolven armor of the Companions' Circle.
Dunmeri Ghosts - Dunmeri Gear To make sure Barenziah's Crown was escorted by true dunmeri warriors.
Civil War F Off - No Season Unending Makes the Civil War, um, "fly" off.
Elementalist's Fletching If you'd like some elemental arrows in your life.
The Jarl's Household Guards To give the Jarl's personal guards a more unique feel.
Imperial Honor Guard Gives Tullius some proper protection.
Waymark - A Road Signs Mod Adds more signposts and road signs to Skyrim.
The Redoran Council Guard Gives the Councilor of Raven Rock's personal guards a more unique feel.
Climate-Aware Stormcloaks Reintroduces the cut sleeved Stormcloak Cuirass by giving it to Stormcloaks in cold locations.
Necromancy is Taboo Upstanding members of society no longer sell spells from the reviled and feared school of Necromancy.
Stones of the Stars A Morrowind and Oblivion inspired Standing Stones overhaul.
Children of Nirn A Morrowind and Oblivion inspired Race overhaul.
Jailors and Turnkeys Differentiates the jail guards from the generic guards.
Civil War Officer Corps Adds Stormcloak and Imperial Officers to lead patrols.
Gold is Septim and Has Weight Gold is Septim and has a weight based on historical currency like a big nerd.
Faction Specific Loot - Eagles of Alinor Handcrafted overhaul of Thalmor item pools.
Faction Specific Loot - Children of the All-Maker Handcrafted overhaul of Skaal item pools.
Fletching - Craft Arrows Anywhere New power to craft arrows wherever you please.
College Ghosts - College Robes The College Ghosts in Labyrinthian now wear College robes.
Faction Specific Loot - Blades of Mephala Handcrafted overhaul of Morag Tong item pools.