darkdill Posted September 4, 2012 Share Posted September 4, 2012 (edited) One spell effect I really wish Bethesda had put into Skyrim's Illusion school was the Silence effect. In Oblivion, it was so useful for shutting down Necromancers and the like, who in Skyrim are a lot more dangerous if you don't have resists. Since Paralyze was shifted into Alteration, Illusionists lost 2 of their best combat tools, one which all players lost access to. IMO, this needs to be fixed. I did see one mod in the past that added a kind of silence effect for poisons, but I can't remember which one it was. I do remember, though, that it worked by applying a very strong Drain Magicka effect for a limited time (i.e. draining something like 10K mana for X seconds), making it so enemy casters would basically be silenced by having no magicka. The author did it like this because there is no Silence code in Skyrim (AFAIK), so he had to improvise. Unfortunately, said mod was bugged for me, so I'm hoping that someone could try to make a mod that gives us access to Silencing spells. Giving us the means to shut down enemy spell-casters with Illusion magic would be such a helpful boost, and would make Illusion far more worthwhile to level. A couple of things, though: 1. This spell needs to not work against Dragons. When Dragons lose all their magicka (which is what the above would do), they stop using their breath attacks. (I found this out with high-power shock spells.) 2. This spell needs to be ineffective against Dragon Priests. It can be made to work, but its duration should be shortened against them, at least. Edited September 4, 2012 by darkdill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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