Supreme Magicka + Enchanting + Poison

[teklanika]

I recently tried out the magic overhaul Supreme Magicka, and it's pretty amazing... after toying around with all the changes, I found that the maximum values for enchanting are increased to 300%, due to the magic system being somewhat harder.

 

After realizing this, I got the bright idea of enchanting a sword/dagger with Weakness to Fire/Frost/Poison 300%, all in one, for 3 seconds (15 total uses only). Because I am a master Alchemist, I made a poison that does Damage Health/Fire/Frost all in one.

 

I bumped the difficulty from 50% to 100%, and turned the AI off so I could test this new discovery, and man...

 

Find a guard in IC, hit him once with the sword without a poison, then immediately poison your next swing and hit again. Give it about 5 seconds and the poor guy crumples to the ground. This is on 100% difficulty mind you, so they take 1/6th the damage from a player, and deal 6 times more.

 

My current poison does:

 

Damage Health 9 points for 35 seconds

Fire Damage 10 points for 41 seconds

Frost Damage 10 points for 41 seconds

 

So if my math is correct, with all weaknesses applied, the total damage of this poison is...

 

Fire Damage = 10 dmg x 3 (300% weakness) = 30 dmg x 41 seconds = 1230 damage

Frost Damage = 10 dmg x 3 (300% weakness) = 30 dmg x 41 seconds = 1230 damage

Damage Health = 9 dmg x 3 (300% weakness) = 27 dmg x 35 seconds = 945 damage

Now take all of this damage and amplify it another 3 times (due to 300% more poison damage, which all of this damage counts as)

All damage together = 3405, multiplied by 3 (300% weakness to poison) for a grand total of 10215 damage over 41 seconds. Wow.

 

Just to clarify with people who don't know how weakness works... although the weakness only lasts 3 seconds on my sword, if the poison is applied during that weakness period, it will retain its 300% more damage, despite the debuff no longer being active. Amazing, right?

 

I've yet to try this poison on any REAL tough opponent, but something tells me... they won't last 41 seconds. I'm wondering if anyone else has tried this, even with Vanilla Oblivion. I have a feeling that even with 100% weakness on your weapon, it's still a godly way to trample through the game. Most guides I read say that Conjuration and Mysticism are about the only way to full-clear 100% difficulty, but I beg to differ...

[razorpony]

Yes it can make for some devastating enchantments. In addition to SM I also run Grandmaster of Alchemy which, in addition to Elys Skill uncapper, lets you push your lchemy skills to 200 or so and build custom alchemy equipment. I have an alchemy skill of about 132 right now with ancient Dirinni equipment so the effects are even more brutal. On top of THAT I also use Adrenaline Fueled Combat which has a powerattack called Virulent Delivery, basically an automatic weakness to poison built in to your sword depending on the type of attack you use.

 

Here's something to do for fun. Get some bonemeal or mort flesh, make a damage fatigue potion and put it on your blade. Hit a guard with it then run backwards til he collapses. The effects are often funny. Guards turning flips, flying through the air. I can make a potion that damages fatigue 17 points for 48 secs. With the dagger you have, it will effectively paralyze anything, even vamps or cratures with an immunity to paralysis for over 30 seconds. All for 1 sample of bonemeal. :)

 

-Razorpony

[teklanika]

Oh I didn't even know Damage Fatigue could do that! That sounds interesting... I was having trouble with a vampire in Lipsand Tarn, mainly because my Paralyze poisons were completely resisted. It seems like completely destroying his fatigue will produce similar effects to paralysis while I bash his skull in with other effects :P Thanks for the tip! I'm going to take a look at that skill uncapper as well, that seems fun. I got to 100 Alchemy and figured I was already strong enough, but it doesn't hurt to have more hehe.

 

Here's a vid of my poison in action, btw. (this isn't against forum policy is it?)