LE Creating Magical Items for my Unique Loot Mod.

[dalsio]

The problem i see with ethereal is that it prevents both dealing and receiving damage, so the missing will be mutual when it shouldn't. Setting as ghost probably has a similar effect to ethereal archetype. In other words, you can't hit an npc that just missed or viceversa.

That's mostly irrelevant since you're recalculating and re-applying all damage anyway, so an individual doesn't need to deal damage the normal way. If you want to disable the effect for a single person one would only need to set their chance to hit at 100%. That being said I don't know if hit events work while ethereal/ghost, which AFAIK would be the only way to detect a hit ever happens.

 

The best option if neither ethereal nor ghost works is probably to just use some sort of 100% damage reduction and have a sound effect play when a miss happens to help it stand out from a hit.

Edited August 31, 2016 by dalsio

[MisterB1969]

It took a while, but I decided to go a completely different route with what I was trying to do. I simply increased the crit chance by 10%, and i doulbled the critical damage bonus. When I realized that technically you always hit using skyrim, it seemed alterating crit chance was the best choice.

Edited August 31, 2016 by MisterB1969

[dalsio]

Yea, that's a fair route to take. You might be able to do better with a SKSE plugin but that would require a lot more work and knowledge of programming in C++.