Decided to try my hand at enchanting and how it works with DV and found a surprise, the Damage Stamina/Magicka enchantments are not affected by difficulty setting either.
Made a bow with DamageStamina+Frost and it was doing the following on Legendary:
- 160 Stamina damage (Damage Stamina is boosted by Augmented Flames)
- 14 Frost Damage
- 2s slow every shot
With 1 word of Drain Vitality I was able to absolutely destroy anything that was using melee since they could barely move faster than a slow crawl. Made a Bow that used Magicka Damage and shock and with 2 words of DV I was able to render dragons useless. The bow was doing something around 65 magicka damage per shot so it only took ~3 arrows to drain a dragon's magicka.
The amazing advantage to this is that unlike with poisons, undead and automatons are not immune to enchantment damage so I was able to run through a Nordic crypt and basically slaughter all of the draugr with ease. Deathlords are not as scary when they can only move as fast as a geriatric! I imagine this bow would slaughter Vampires.
Mason's 'Arcane Archer' using these enchantments (Damage Stamina/Magicka) combined with Drain Vitality takes on a whole new interesting twist, I think I might finally try a new character and have some fun with this and not have to worry about making poisons!
P.S.
Thinking about this more I guess this could make the 'Mace of Molag Bal' a beast. With 2/2 Augmented flames the mace does 37 Stamin & Magicka damage per swing. Combined with Drain Vitality and your enhanced vampiric drain (blood of ancients) you could be a walking plague that cripples everything in your way...plus it steals the soul of your victims, the ultimate evil weapon.
Decided to try my hand at enchanting and how it works with DV and found a surprise, the Damage Stamina/Magicka enchantments are not affected by difficulty setting either.
Made a bow with DamageStamina+Frost and it was doing the following on Legendary:
- 160 Stamina damage (Damage Stamina is boosted by Augmented Flames)
- 14 Frost Damage
- 2s slow every shot
With 1 word of Drain Vitality I was able to absolutely destroy anything that was using melee since they could barely move faster than a slow crawl. Made a Bow that used Magicka Damage and shock and with 2 words of DV I was able to render dragons useless. The bow was doing something around 65 magicka damage per shot so it only took ~3 arrows to drain a dragon's magicka.
The amazing advantage to this is that unlike with poisons, undead and automatons are not immune to enchantment damage so I was able to run through a Nordic crypt and basically slaughter all of the draugr with ease. Deathlords are not as scary when they can only move as fast as a geriatric! I imagine this bow would slaughter Vampires.
Mason's 'Arcane Archer' using these enchantments (Damage Stamina/Magicka) combined with Drain Vitality takes on a whole new interesting twist, I think I might finally try a new character and have some fun with this and not have to worry about making poisons!
P.S.
Thinking about this more I guess this could make the 'Mace of Molag Bal' a beast. With 2/2 Augmented flames the mace does 37 Stamin & Magicka damage per swing. Combined with Drain Vitality and your enhanced vampiric drain (blood of ancients) you could be a walking plague that cripples everything in your way...plus it steals the soul of your victims, the ultimate evil weapon.
