Hi! The Staff of Magnus, hyped item as it is, could be made much better and interesting. I feel the vanilla version boring and underpowered, and te only mods I saw to exist were either ~doubling its power or just model redesign. "My" idea (I put together parts from other people's ideas on the net) is that it be more similar to the Staff of Magius, which they probably originally copied the idea from. http://www.forgottenlance.com/artifacts/magius.htm - useful for spell ideas as well. The point is, it should be able to shoot many different spells. Maybe it could recharge part of its max charges daily (like 1/5?) automatically. I thought the technicalities over as much as I could, and I believe I saw every necessary function in existence in other mods, so it should be possible. I have no scripting and rather minimal programming experience, that's why I post this here instead of creating it - it needs scripts as far as I can tell. The core idea in a bit more detail: - staff recharges daily for a small amount - different spells can be used with the staff - spells available depend on magic levels (and max magicka?), like you need 75 in destruction for some spells in the staff - (?) MCM to set shortcut for spells (better spell-management idea someone?) - possible execution: different staffs which are changed-equipped by script - script initiated on pickup and drop, making sure no accidental duplicates are created (I saw check for similar in other mods, should be possible to do properly). I assume charge can be transfered somehow as well. The original staff-efect would be in the mix, thus not breaking quest compatibility. - another possibility: haven't seen this yet, but if possible to simply change the effect of an item, then that could be done as well. maybe having a script as an effect of an item and the script deciding the effects afterwards? doesn't feel like a good solution, feels like it would be more script-heavy this way. Other, miscellaneous / less important ideas to add later / if not too complicated: - apocalypse spell package is both popular and the one I use. even if there is a vanilla version of the magnus mod I think there should be an apocalypse version - different color of light emanating from staff depending on equipped staff-spell - low chance to defend user with burst of magic onhit(?) - like pushing enemies away, or negating a magical attack - if possible to do, cooldown/delay time on bigger spells (is it possible?) - so for example if the staff is capable of summoning a meteor, it should not be able to summon another meteor for say one minute, and should not be able to cast any spells for 5-10 sec? would be a nice thing for balance reasons if it could be implemented. - if someone can do it a staff exclusive barrier spell could be added, sustained like a ward, but all around the caster as a bubble, similarly how the eye of magnus barricaded the college It would be nice if someone could pick this up. I appreciate any recommendations / ideas as well, both as an addition and to recommend practical ways of execution for the existing ideas, in case I decide to try making it at a later date. Thanks anyway and have fun!
