Elemental Archery

8 summoning element themed bows.

Well, I'm playing Skyrim and starting the Academy of Winterhold quest line in my sneaky marksman character. I kind of decided to play around with it by using magic horns... when my backend was handed to me. Surprisingly, if you don't point your character out for the mage stuff...you'll get a lackluster mage. Then I tried the bound bow and things got better. Still, that made my character a trick pony, and here I wanted to get more of that mage feel. Therefore, this little model...

This mod adds 8 elemental themes and summoning bows to the game. They each have unique textures that give them an elemental appearance, and each bow has different damage types and effects.

Fire Bow deals fire damage and temporarily staggers enemies. There is also an explosive version of this bow that does a little fire damage to the AOE.

Ice Bow deals frost damage and temporarily slows enemies. There is also an explosive version of this bow that prevents AOE frost.

The Shock Bow deals shock damage and temporarily paralyzes enemies. There is also an explosive version of this bow that does a bit of AOE impact damage.

The Sun Bow is a slightly more powerful elemental bow, it's basically a cross between Dawnbreaker and Auriel's bow, with a burst of AOE sun damage.

The Shadow Bow is another slightly more powerful bow that is basically a cross between the Ebony Blade and Mehrune's Razor. This bow has the additional poison target effect instead of the explosive ability, similar to Mora's Pain.

Enhanced Mystic Binding:

These bows are no longer affected by the Mystic Binding perk. This was removed because there are some mods that change this perk and it's impossible for me to make this mod compatible with every mod that changes that perk weapon. What I did was create the Enhanced Mystic Binding Spell/Power Spell, which would give you the Enhanced Mystic Binding skill for 24 hours. This does not affect Presator and similar mods, but the Mystic Binding perk from those mods does not affect my bow. When you activate the spell, the bow and arrow gain increased power. They will benefit from the damage scaling I discuss below, and their elemental damage and effects will be buffed. Likewise, the bow will be summoned for 3 minutes instead of 2 minutes.

Damage scaling:

I've created a new damage scaling system that will hopefully make these bows competitive and usable in later levels of competition. When Mystic Binding Cast is enhanced, all bows will gain additional damage based on your Archery and Summoning skills. Likewise, Fire/Ice/Shock bows will receive an additional bonus damage based on your Destruction skill level. The Sun Bow will gain an additional damage bonus based on your Regeneration skill, and the Shadow Bow will gain an additional damage bonus based on your Stealth skill.

Spelling location:

The Fire/Ice/Shock Bow can be found in Fellglow Keep in Caller's room. Explosive versions of these bows can be found in Labyrinthian, in the room with the troll. The Sun Bow can be found in the ruins of Kilkreath, in the same area as Malkoran. The Shadow Bow can be found in Irkngthand, in the same area where you saw Mercer through the gate. The enhanced Mystic Binding spell can be found in Broken Tower Redoubt. All spells can be found inside the small chest in each location. For those of you who have a lot of gold, and don't care about accessing these locations... I've added three specific vendors in the game for these spells, and they will cost you a cent or two.

Farengar in Dragonsreach has fire/shock/ice bows and enhanced mystical binding spells.

Mistveil Keep's Wylandriah has an explosive bow version.

Sybille Stentor in the Blue Palace has sun and shadow bows.

If you want a druid/ranger themed model with more spells, weapons, armor, summons and transformations...please check out my other model, Noiral =)

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Alright, there I was playing Skyrim, starting the Colleg …