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Changelogs
Version 5.02
- Fixed Shadowform visuals
- Sear distance has been halved (longer distance was a bug actually).
- Other minor bugfixes.
Version 5.01
- All perks have been removed from the perk trees. Compatibility patches are now not needed. Previously learned perks will still work.
- Added Dark Arts tomes to certain locations in the world. You gain permanent shadow perks after reading them.
- Curses were moved to Alteration school.
- Sear spell has been redone. Sear does not siphon life and stacks up to 4 times if you continue channeling.
- New concentration spell: Drain Soul. Drain Soul deals magic damage to the target and additionally drains health (like Sear did earlier). Has a chance to trap the target's soul.
- Crushing Darkness always has a chance to trap the target's soul.
- Sear enchantment has been replaced with Drain Soul enchantment. Drain component has been buffed (25% -> 50%).
- Hex enchantment does not deal damage. Base curse chance has been increased (15% -> 20%) and made scalable.
- Devour perk modifies Drain Soul only.
- Doom perk is renamed to Agony. Agony perk makes your Sear stack up to 5 times.
- Devour perk has been renamed to Essence Drain.
- Shadowflame effect is now darker.
Version 4.10
- Implemented the MCM menu.
- You may now configure Life Tap conversion percentages, Shadowbolt notifications, Shadowform healing, Crushing Darkness stagger and Creeping Terror slay conditions.
- Changed default Life Tap conversion values (20-40 -> 20-25).
- Increased and tweaked Illusion experience gain for casting Curses.
- Replaced SendAnimationEvent with KnockAreaEffect for all stagger effects. Should be much more reliable.
- Shadow Atronach now has shadowflame melee attacks.
- Life Tap will never absorb or reflect.
- Fixed the Curse of Exhaustion reversed description.
- Fixed the Curse of Fragility tooltip. It now correctly shows the armor reduction value (50%, not 25%).
- Fixed the Curse of Exhaustion tooltip. It now correctly shows the speed reduction value (60%, not 30%).
- Fixed the double Shadow Atronach bug.
Version 4.00
- Added a new Alteration (100) power: Dark Sun (requires Dawnguard).
- Conjure Shadow Atronach spell is now upgraded when Conjuration reaches 50 and 75.
- Shadow Atronach now uses a simplified version of Shadowbolt.
- Multiple tweaks to the Shadow Atronach NPC and the Shadow Atronach Shadowbolt spell.
- Conjure Darkness spell now works in interiors only.
- Added Legendary versions to the installer.
Version 3.11
- Added "Ignore Resistances" and "Disallow spell absorb/reflect" flags to all summoning spells.
Version 3.10
- Added a new Conjuration (25) spell: Conjure Shadow Atronach.
- Shadow Atronach has 30% magic and physical resistance and shoots Shadowbolts.
- Added a Conjure Shadow Atronach scroll.
- Sear target shader has been replaced.
- Hex Rune now correctly scales with shadow perks.
- Choke damage cone range has been reduced by 2 points, angle is unchanged. Further corrections may be needed.
Version 3.00
- Crushing Darkness shader and visual effect has been redone. It looks more like SWTOR force ability of the same name (damn I love that visual).
- Shadowform shader has been redone. It's now more misty with occasional dark lightning discharges.
- Shadowbolt explosion effect has been changed.
- Shadow Rend cast particle effect now won't block your view in first person mode. The effect will appear only in 3rd person view mode and fade out when switching to 1st person view mode (much like
Shadowform).
- Creeping Terror now has a persistent shader effect on a target.
- Creeping Terror hands, beam inventory mesh and casting light are now more blue to correspond the shader and hit effects.
- Added a new spell (Destruction 75): Choke.
- Choke pulls the target and chokes it while you concentrate, dealing massive damage over time.
- Creeping Terror cooldown has been removed.
- Creeping Terror control and slay effects cannot be reapplied to targets affected by the Creeping Terror damage over time effect. But damage over time effects may stack (if you have enough magicka to cast a lot of Creeping Terrors, that is).
- Creeping Terror magicka cost has been increased (310 -> 420) to compensate DoT stacking.
- Shadowbolt now does not have a chance to stagger a target affected by Crushing Darkness. Shadow spells have enough conditional effects (shadowform healing, light level modifiers, etc) and it makes life easier for the scripting engine. Shadowbolt was cluttered by THREE conditional effects.
- Crushing Darkness stagger chance has been increased (40% -> 50%).
- Crushing Darkness now does not deal initial damage to prevent damage/stagger spam.
- Added SKSE detection (and a warning message if SKSE is missing) on mod init/upgrade.
- Removed unused forms.
Version 2.82
- Fixed the Umbra' Keth "rainbow" texture on medium and low texture settings.
Version 2.81
- Shadowbolt should now instantly deal initial damage even in environments with heavy script lag.
- Fixed the shadowflame projectile not showing on medium and low texture settings.
- Fixed the Consuming Shadows staff enchantment cast time (0.5 -> 0.0).
Version 2.80
- Added Conjure Darkness spell (Conjuration). Conjure Darkness allows the caster to cover surroundings in shadows for some time to improve stealth and fully empower Shadowbolt spell.
- Added Conjure Umbra' Keth spell (Conjuration).
- Added toggleable Nighteye spell (Alteration). The spell drains 80% of caster's magicka when cast and does not increase Alteration skill.
- Added Shadow Enchantments ability (Alteration). It teaches you all shadow weapon enchantments without the need to disenchant anything (well, because there's nothing to disenchant).
- Added Sear weapon enchantment. Sear enchantment deals base magic damage and drains 25% of the damage done as health.
- Added Hex weapon enchantment. Hex enchantment deals base magic damage and has a chance to apply a random shadow curse on hit.
- Mind Control scrolls now correctly appear in 100 leveled list (was 50) and Mind Blast scrolls in 50 lvli (was 100). Unfortunately the change will only work in a new game. Anyway this bug is not that critical.
- Shadowform now drains 80% of caster's magicka when cast instead of flat 500.
- More creepy Mind Control background sound.
Version 2.70
- Added two new spells: Mind Blast (Illusion Adept) and Mind Control (Illusion Master).
- Mind Blast completely disables a target's mind for some time, but works only out of combat.
- Mind Control allows you to control a target for some time.
- Wither *placeholder* perk is replaced by Mind Shattering, which upgrades your Mind Blast and Mind Control magnitudes and durations.
- Withering Aura spell is now learned via a spell book.
- Added Hex Rune, Mind Blast and Mind Control scrolls to scroll lists.
- Added Withering Aura, Mind Blast and Mind Control spells to spell lists.
- Shadowbolt scrolls damage is reduced to reflect the previous Shadowbolt nerf.
- Shadowbolt should now properly heal you while in Shadowform.
- Removed NULL properties from the spell manager quest and script (namely the now-missing Uninstall spell). They won't try to give out missing spells and spam about failures.
Version 2.61
- Fixed Sear and Shadowbolt gradients and meshes. Visual "square particle" artifacts now should not appear.
- Shadowbolt damage has been reduced (Apprentice 24 -> 22, Adept 38 -> 35, Expert 56 -> 52). Peak Shadowbolt damage (with 60% increase) is now 38 -> 35 (Apprentice), 60 -> 56 (Adept), 90 -> 83 (Expert). Still a lot.
Version 2.52
- Added a "No Perks" version to the installer. The version does not contain any changes to the perk trees, perks are given automatically. May be imbalanced in conjunction with some perk overhauls (Path of Sorcery for example). Install only for compatibility reasons (if the patch for your perk overhaul is not present) or if you for any reason dislike/hate changes to perk trees.
- Added the SPERG-Ordinator-Combined compatibility patch.
Version 2.51
Update from 2.5 only if you use Path Of Sorcery patch.
- Reduces the Dark Arts perks shadow damage bonus from 25%/50% to 15%/30% to be on par with the other Path Of Sorcery elemental destruction perks. 25%/50% was somewhat too strong.
- Adds shadow staves enchantment magnitude increase for Path Of Sorcery.
Version 2.6
- Fixed the Shadowbolt effect gradient bug.
- Added the "Path of Sorcery + Elemental Destruction" compatibility patch.
- Added a new spell: Hex Rune (Destruction Apprentice).
- Hex Rune places a rune that explodes dealing damage and afflicting it's targets with a random shadow curse. "Hex Master" perk upgrades the rune curses as well.
- Shadowform now does not affect shadow spell costs. Instead any shadow spell you cast heals you for 10% of the damage dealt.
- Shadowform penalty has been changed. Now it only increases all Restoration spell costs by 75%.
- Shadowform now does not change spell casting sound level.
Version 2.5
- Perkus Maximus patch available.
- Added the Shadowform spell (Yay shadowpriests)
- Shadowform decreases your detection chance while sneaking, casting sound, shadow spells cost and increases damage reduction, but also increases all other spells cost.
- Shadowbolt cast effect retexture, less green, more dark purple.
- Added mipmaps to shadowflame and shadowbolt gradients. Should help with the "rainbow textures" bug? I hope so.
Version 2.4
- NMM Installer!
- Added minor (apprentice) and grand (expert) shadow staves
- Shadow staves now use a custom texture
- Dragonborn patch crafted shadow staves are now not limited to adept enchantment
- Devour, Doom and Despair perks now apply to shadow staves as well
In general shadow staves are actually quite more useful
- Apprentice Shadowbolt AoE range has been reduced (7 -> 5)
- Expert Shadowbolt AoE range has been increased (7 -> 10)
- Creeping Terror charge time has been increased (0.5s -> 1s)
- Creeping Terror may be equipped in either hand (no dual casting though)
- Shadowflame effect visual update
- New Shadow Rend and Creeping Darkness charge sound
- Shadow Rend script has been simplified
- Obsolete Uninstall power has been removed
- Dark Arts damage bonus has been reduced (30%/60% -> 25%/50%). Was too strong
- Ordinator Dark Arts now also buff destruction shadow staff enchantment power by 0.25%/0.5% for each level of Destruction
Version 2.3
- Sear now correctly emits sound while channeled
- Sear now has an impact decal
- Added a sound effect on curse hit
- Added a sound effect on Creeping Terror slay proc
- Scrolls now use darker meshes
- Creeping Terror description has been shortened (still too long)
Version 2.2
- Added shadow spell scrolls to the game (scrolls may contain Shadowbolt, Crushing Darkness, Shadow Rend and all curse spells)
- Added Staff of Exhaustion, Staff of Fragility and Staff of Decay to the game.
- Your spells do not upgrade in combat now
- Replaced the ugly and unstable RegisterForUpdate() with RegisterForSingleUpdate() in all scripts. So uninstalling now does not break your savegame with stuck manager script and still-ticking dot scripts
- Completely reworked the leveled list processing system. Now I can easily add new spells to leveled lists without messing up everything. That was a tricky one
- Reworked the manager scripts to reflect these leveled list changes. They now also auto-fix themselves (RegisterForUpdate -> RegisterForSingleUpdate) when updating from lower versions
Version 2.1
- Disabled dual casting for all curses. It didn't work anyway
Version 2.0
- Sound effect tweaks
- Shadow Rend new visual
- Added a Consuming Shadows spell
- Added a Staff of Consuming Shadows
- Three new spells with debuff effects has been added to Illusion school
- Withering Aura is now an Illusion Master spell
- Withering Aura now additionally affects armor, magic resistance and magicka regen rate
- Withering Aura duration has been decreased (1m -> 20s), physical damage reduction component has been decreased (40% -> 30%), regen rate reduction has been decreased (70% -> 50%)
- Withering Aura is now better if you need to AoE debuff all stats at once, but the specialized expert single-target curses are stronger
- Torment and Hex Master perks has been moved to Illusion tree
- Torment now affects all curses
- Hex Master perk now grants expert-level Curse of Exhaustion and Curse of Fragility
- Added a Wither perk (Illusion 100) that grants you the Withering Aura spell
- Shadow Rend initial damage has been increased (100->120), dot damage has been increased (45->72), magic resistance reduction has been decreased (75% -> 50%)
- Crushing Darkness stagger chance has been reduced (66% -> 40%)
- Shadowbolt may now stagger a target affected by Crushing Darkness (50%)
- Crushing Darkness damage has been increased (6/s -> 7/s) on Adept Destruction and (7.5/s -> 9/s) on Expert Destruction
- Apprentice Destruction Sear damage component has been decreased (14/s -> 12/s)
Version 1.1
- Fixed missing Shadow Rend scripts
- Darkened Sear flames FX
- Replaced Shadowbolt/Crushing Darkness explosion green mist with a dark blue one
- Shadow Rend damage calculation optimization
- Shadow Rend magic resistance debuff has been reduced from 100% to 75%
- Crushing Darkness now cannot stagger on initial hit to prevent stun locks
- Creeping Terror paralyze effect duration has been reduced from 3 seconds to 2 seconds. 3 second stun is a bit overkill
- Fixed Creeping Terror proc calculations
