Dragon War - A Dragon Overhaul

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About this mod

Complete overhaul for Dragons made with the help of a SKSE plugin. Improved AI, unpredictable fights, new shouts and more.

Requirements

Nexus requirements

Mod name	Notes
Address Library for SKSE Plugins
Andrealphus' Papyrus Functions
ConsoleUtilSSE NG

Mods requiring this file

Mod name	Notes
(FR - DSD) Dragon War - A Dragon Overhaul	Obligatoire
A Clever Ruse Patchapalooza	for the elSopa Potions, NARC patches
Action Based Projectiles - Assorted Patches	not required but there's a patch for it
Deadly Dragon Lairs - Patch Collection	for patch
Dragon Models Modernized and Redesigned - DIverse Dragons	For Dragon War models
Dragon War - A Dragon Overhaul (PTBR)
Dragon War - A Dragon Overhaul - CHS - Skn	不需要
Dragon War - A Dragon Overhaul - German Translation
Dragon War - A Dragon Overhaul - Russian Translation	Оригинал
Dragon War - A Dragon Overhaul - Spanish
Dragon War - A Dragon Overhaul - Turkish Translation	Ana mod dosyası.
Dragon War - A Dragon Overhaul PTBR	Tradução PTBR
Dragon War - A Dragon Overhaul Simplified Chinese Translation	The original mod.
Dragon War - A Dragon Overhaul Spanish
Dragon War - Lower Health patch	Hard requirement
Dragon War - Rescaled	Hard Requirement
Dragon War NG dll	4.0.0 and above, need all files/requirements; let this mod ovewrite DLL only.
Dragons or Dragon Priests are Protected	For the Patch
Edmond's Alduin the World-Eater FR	Optionnel
Experience - Dragon War - Kill XP Compatibility	Otherwise this would be kind of pointless.
GoT HotD - Diverse Dragons	Required if using B
lilebonymace's patches and xEdit scripts
Miscellaneous Patch Hub	Required for Dragon War - Easier Health Modifiers
Mo's Ongoing Patches	Skyrim Arrow Overhaul Patch
NFF No Team Magic Damage Patches for Vanilla Plus Magic And Shout Overhauls	For the relevant patch
Play as a Dragon and Dragonwar compatibility patch	this patch was made for these mods lol
Skyrim Revamped - Loot and Encounter Zones - Some Patches	(For a related patch)
There Is No Umbra Chapter III - Dragon War Patch
Tiny Little Patches	GoT HotD - Skeletal Dragon

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Mandarin Author:PickerR	Dragon War - A Dragon Overhaul - CHS - Skn
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Russian Author:Nocturn	Dragon War - A Dragon Overhaul - Russian Translation
Spanish Author:Discotutoss	Dragon War - A Dragon Overhaul Spanish
German Author:DeltaRider translated by ww13	Dragon War - A Dragon Overhaul - German Translation
Portuguese Author:Granhadd	Dragon War - A Dragon Overhaul (PTBR)
Portuguese Author:Ninu-Rakaels	Dragon War - A Dragon Overhaul PTBR
French Author:Delta - Traduis par Irwine	(FR - DSD) Dragon War - A Dragon Overhaul
Mandarin Author:Delta Translated by PickerR	Dragon War - A Dragon Overhaul - CHS
Mandarin Author:PickerR	Dragon War - A Dragon Overhaul Simplified Chinese Translation
Spanish Author:Carlos	Dragon War - A Dragon Overhaul - Spanish

Changelogs

Version 4.1.5
- Fixed a crash when using Arctic - Frost Effects Redux patch.
Version 4.1.4
- Fixed Durnehviir Resurrected and Wyrmstooth patches.
- Made Deadly Spell Impacts patch load order independent.
Version 4.1.3
- Replaced the few shout words dragons used with a generic inhale sound.
- Fixed a mistake that made player's Frost Breath to not play the correct sound.
Version 4.1.2
- Added ConsoleUtilSSE as requirement to improve unique dragons script.
- Fixed crashes while fighting a dragon.
- Updated Deadly Spells Impact textures, using the latest update as base.
- Updated Dragon Breath VFX Edit patch to fix shock impacts.
Version 4.1.1
- Removed unused assets.
- Removed unused records.
- Improved decal and gradient textures quality.
Version 4.1.0
- Most dragons you encounter in questlines are now based on leveled lists and are no more static encounters. Vulthuryol, Naaslaarum and Voslaarum are excluded as they are optional encounters.
- Tail elemental damage has been removed.
- Tail physical damage has been increased.
- Bites physical damage has been increased.
- Stamina injury has been changed. Now dragons physical damage is reduced by 50% when their Stamina falls below 25%.
- Unrelenting Force magic damage is now resisted by Magic Resistance.
- Sun shouts don't deal extra damage to undead anymore.
- Lightning Breath sound is now played correctly.
- Storm Call and Time Stop script has been improved to be more reliable.
- Shouts with a faulty collision have been fixed, thus they are more accurate.
- Shock, Poison and Sun assets have been remade from scratch.
- Fixed unintended higher chance to get enchanted armor pieces from dragons.
- General improvements to shout projectiles and explosions.
- General improvements to shout impacts and hazards.
- Updated Dragon Breath VFX Edit patch with latest shock assets.
- Updated Audio Overhaul for Skyrim, Deadly Spells Impact, Parallax Spells Impact, Durnehviir Resurrected and Wyrmstooth patches.
Version 4.0.3
- Uploaded the right dll to fix Miraak fight.
Version 4.0.2
- Dragon Bite damage has been reduced.
- Dragon Bite can now deal extra bleeding damage.
- Dragon Tail Slam damage has been reduced.
- Dragon Tail Slam can now deal extra elemental damage.
- Poison Cloud and Storm Call (Poison) now deal damage over time. Their magnitude has also been increased.
- Fixed a crash occurred when fighting Miraak.
- Fixed poison shouts not having an inhale sound.
- Fixed Alduin not landing during the intro, causing the game to get stuck.
- Added Inferno Patch.
- Added Arctic Patch.
- Added Dragon Breath VFX Edit Patch.
Version 4.0.1
- Fixed fomod not auto-installing a few patches.
- Added a patch for GoT HotD Skeletal Dragon.
Version 4.0
- Andrealphus' Papyrus Functions is now required.
- Dragons AI has been improved thanks to Colinswrath and his skse plugin made for Dragon War. Dragons can now use shouts when it's more suitable for them, and are more unpredictable than before. The plugin has been only tested on Skyrim Special Edition 1.6+.
- Dragons health, magicka and stamina have been increased.
- Dragons have now Dragonkind. Incoming damage is reduced by 25%. They have up to 300 Armor Rating and Unarmed damage.
- Dragons Magic Resistance has been removed.
- Fire Dragons have now 50% Fire Resistance and 25% Frost Weakness.
- Frost Dragons have now 50% Frost Resistance and 25% Fire Weakness.
- Shock Dragons have now 50% Shock Resistance.
- Poison Dragons have now 50% Poison Resistance and -100 Armor Rating.
- Alduin has now 50% Fire and Frost Resistance.
- Skeletal Dragon has now 100% Poison Resistance, 50% Frost Resistance, -100 Armor Rating and 25% Fire Weakness.
- Durnehviir has now 100% Poison Resistance, 50% Frost Resistance, 25% Fire Weakness.
- Dragons damage has been slightly increased.
- Rasp disease has been removed.
- Dragons can use more shouts, such as Ice Form, Marked for Death and Time Stop.
- Storm Call shouts have been improved.
- Hazard assets have been remade from scratch.
- Shouts like Fire Breath and Fireball leave a hazard that deals 10 elemental damage per second.
- Storm Call shouts leave a hazard that deals 20 elemental damage per second, and has a chance to reduce elemental resistance by 25% for 30 seconds.
- Magicka and Stamina injuries have been reimplemented. You can now reduce their attributes to make the weaker.
- Fiery, Storm, Snow, Sting, Mystic, Glacial, Icewing, Radiance, Frostscale, Miasma and Supreme dragons have been removed.
- Sun and Coldfire dragons have been removed from world encounters. Both elements are now exclusive to Naaslaarum, Voslaarum and Durnehviir.
- Revered dragons have been removed from world encounters. It is now exclusive to Naaslaarum and Voslaarum.
- Serpentine dragons have been removed from world encounters. It is now exclusive to Miraak's dragons.
- World Encounters have been slightly adjusted.
- Vanilla blood visual effect has been restored.
- Many more things I don't remember as the update is quite huge.
  tl;dr 2dragon2war
Version 3.2.1
- Fixed an issue where Dragons could obtain shouts they shouldn't have.
Version 3.2
- Fixed an issue where Dragons continued to use the same shout over and over. Doing that, I've also made Dragons have individual cooldowns for each shout.
- Alduin and Skeletal Dragons don't trigger Health Injury anymore.
Version 3.1.4
- Fixed Storm Shouts ignoring resistances.
Version 3.1.3
- Hazards have been reworked. They now deal 3 damage per 10 seconds, doubled if the it's spawned from long range Shouts (i.e. Fireball). Fire, Poison, Sun and Coldfire hazards deal take extra damage over time.
- Coldfire assets and shader have been slightly changed.
- Storm Shouts area of effects has been slightly increased.
- Tooltips have been improved.
- Renamed Plague Breath into Poison Breath.
- Fixed a few keywords on hazards and Storm Shouts.
- Fixed Solar Breath dealing way more damage than intended.
- Poison Shouts have been reworked, excluding Poison Breath. They now instantly deal damage instead of putting a DoT on the player.
Version 3.1.2
- Hazards limit has been reduced.
- Hazards damage has been reduced, but now will be applied every time you step on them.
- Fixed Shock Hazards instant kill the player.
Version 3.1.1
- Fixed an oversight on Dragon Combat Styles.
Version 3.1.0
- In preparation for an add-on that I’m planning to release, the following changes have been made:
- Removed Health and Magicka Injuries.
- Removed Damage Magicka Weakness.
- Dragons are again getting forced to stay on land at 25% or less Health.
- Dragons are more likely to land and stay longer on ground.
- Changed a few Game Settings.
- In preparation for Dragon Hunting, a mod that I’m gonna release later today, the following changes have been made:
- Removed Esbern’s Potion changes
- Removed Dragonslayer’s Blessing changes
- The following changes have been made to Dragons:
- Alduin again uses Fire and Frost Shouts, as vanilla.
- Alduin now has 100% Fire and Frost Resistance.
- Vulthuryol again uses Fire Shouts, as vanilla.
- Fixed a vanilla issue where Dragons were not using the correct animation when using certain Shouts.
Version 3.0.6
- Fixed Stagger not working with Blade and Blunt installed.
Version 3.0.5
- Fixed a bug where Dragons could cast Storm Shouts in interiors.
- Fixed Dragon Infusion tooltip.
- Rasp now correctly reduces Stormcrown's Shouts effectiveness.
- Lowered min. level of Dragons. As a consequence, Main Quest is easier than before.
- Increased min. level to encounter highest level Dragons.
- Reduced Unarmed Damage of Dragons.
- Removed Stagger Resistance (it was useless).
Version 3.0.4
- Storm Shouts Explosion AoE is reduced to vanilla values.
- Storm Shouts Explosion visuals for Bilious Blight, Cold Storm, Meteor Storm and Radiant Storm have been changed.
- Radiant Storm now gets correctly dispelled when Clear Skies is used.
Version 3.0.3
- Fixed Intro, again.
- Landing and Takeoff Stagger has been reduced. If an ally Dragon is nearby, the player will be unaffected, and no longer triggers followers.
- Armor Rating has been reduced to 300.
- Added 25% Magic Resistance.
- Increased Dragon attributes to help dragons not die faster than they should against a high level character.
- Increased Hovering Time, Perch Time and Min. Ground Time.
- Reduced Max. Ground Time.
- Made tweaks to Shouts Damage.
- Made some tweak to Drain Vitality visual effects.
- Unrelenting Force now deals 50 Magic Damage and no longer ragdoll the player.
- Reduced Explosion AoE and removed Stagger from Storm Shouts projectiles.
- Reduced Hazard Lifetime, added a limit and increased damage.
- Hazards no longer attach to the player at impact.
- Dragon Lairs difficulty has been slightly reduced.
- Removed unused records.
Version 3.0.2
- Fixed Meteor Storm dealing damage during the intro at Helgen.
- Reworded the text of a loading screen to be more consistent with vanilla.
Version 3.0.1
- Fixed missing a few missing gradients for Poison shouts.
Version 3.0
- Reworked almost the whole mod, including abilities, effects, meshes etc. Please re-read the description.
- A FOMOD with all the patches is now available.
- LOTD Patch has been added.
Version 2.1.9
- Removed injected records to fix a bug with latest Infinite Dragon Variants version.
Version 2.1.8
- Fixed incorrect description for Esbern's Potion.
- Added support for Infinite Dragon Variants.
- Variants plugin is now obsolete. If you want more dragon variants, check my new mod, Infinite Dragon Variants!
- Updated Wyrmstooth Patch for 2.1.8.
- Updated Reduced Difficulty for 2.1.8.
Version 2.1.7
- Fixed Durnehviir Stagger values.
- Fixed missing No Absorb flag to landing damage and tail stagger.
- When dragons fly off, nearby actors are staggered.
- When jumping, landing damage and tail stagger don't affect you anymore.
Version 2.1.6
- Fixed Blizzard, Bilious Blight and Glacial Storm duration, now they correctly last 30 seconds.
Version 2.1.5
- Reduced Meteor Storm, Blizzard, Storm Call, Bilious Blight, Auriel Punishment and Glacial Storm duration to 30 seconds.
- Fixed Blizzard, Bilious Blight and Glacial Storm area of effect.
- Improved Marked for Death hit shader.
Version 2.1.4
- Changed how land damage works. Now it has less range and scales with the level of the dragon, and is resisted by your Armor Rating.
Version 2.1.3
- Fixed missing stagger record to Blizzard, Bilious Blight and Glacial Storm.
- Fixed missing lightning bolt to Storm Call.
- Reduced area of Blizzard, Bilious Blight and Glacial Storm.
- Increased area of Auriel Punishment, Meteor Storm and Storm Call.
Version 2.1.2
- Bilious Blight was changed to work like Blizzard and Glacial Storm. Duration increased to 60 seconds.
- Reverted Skeletal Dragon speed to vanilla value.
- Dragons’ flight radius was reduced. This may prevent being ignored by dragons too often. Alduin was left vanilla to avoid problems with the main quest.
- Fixed bite bleeding not working.
- Reverted stagger to vanilla. This is done to let Blade & Blunt 2 manage it, so if you have it installed, the stagger has 5 seconds of cooldown.
- Stagger values are rebalanced.
Version 2.1.1
- Improved Chaos, Cold and Sun gradients.
- Improved Audio Overhaul for Skyrim patch.
Version 2.1
- Dragons’ stats are changed. They now have only one immunity and one weakness. Armor Rating and Unarmed damage scale with their level. Health was also rebalanced.
- Dragons receive 25% less damage from every source. This bonus is doubled if they are not in combat. This can be negated by Dragonrend.
- Removed both Injuries added in previous updates. You can’t force a dragon to land or to not shout if they have no stamina\magicka anymore.
- Two new types of dragon are introduced: Chaos and Cold. Chaos is exclusive to Alduin, and his shouts have a 50% chance to deal Fire, Frost or Shock damage. Cold Dragons instead, deal frost damage that burns and slows the target.
- Four new dragons were added.
- New shouts were made available for dragons, such as Meteor Storm, Storm Call, Blizzard and so on.
- Cyclone and Disarm were removed.
- Hazards from breaths and shouts like Fireball are different. The former are smaller and last longer, dealing less damage, the latter instead, are bigger and last shorter, dealing more damage.
- Marked for Death reduces Armor Rating by 300 and Magic Resistance by 50%, for 30 seconds. It’s now possible to absorb it but not to resist.
- It’s now possible to resist, with Magic Resist, and absorb Drain Vitality.
- Unrelenting Force ragdoll is resisted if you have Force without Effort meditation.
- Vanilla Blood FX was restored.
- Dragons don’t see you from another world anymore.
- Shock and Poison dragon sounds reverted to previous version, as the new ones were not that good.
- Projectiles of shouts like Fireball are now much bigger than before.
- Dragon Infusion and Dragonslayer’s Blessing were improved. The former gives a permanent 25% damage reduction from every dragon attack and the latter gives 25% extra critical chance vs. dragons.
- Wards were fixed. To protect from dragon breaths, you now need to use a ward of appropriate level.
- Death Items were improved to make the rewards a bit more interesting.
- Dragon movements were improved by 25%.
- Dragons can only be staggered if they are shouting, if you use Dragonrend or Unrelenting Force, or if you have Force without Effort meditation.
- Animation files were removed.
- Dragon Animation Replace patch was removed.
- Dragons’ tail stagger has more range.
- Dragons inflict bleed damage if they hit you with a bite. It's blockable with a shield or a weapon.
- Dragons deal damage to nearby actors when they land.
- Durnehviir enhances his summons with extra Armor Rating, Magic Resistance and Health, Magicka and Stamina.
- Durnehviir summons were made stronger like ones you can summon using Mysticism - A Magic Overhaul.
- Updated Audio Overhaul for Skyrim patch.
- Updated Deadly Spells Impact patch.
- Updated Deiform Alduin Particle Light patch.
- Updated Durnehviir Resurrected patch.
- Updated Wyrmstooth patch.
Version 2.0
- Encounters, Stats and Damage have been adjusted to be much more balanced, but still difficult.
- Wards Effectiveness bonus has been removed.
- NPCs' damage has been reverted to vanilla value.
- A Loading Screen text has been edited for consistency.
- Dragonrend reduces stats by 50% instead of 25%, again.
- Dragons Spawn Time has been reverted to vanilla value.
- Shock and Poison Breath have now a proper "breath sound".
- Tail and Wings Attacks don't deplete Stamina anymore. This caused the Alduin’s Bane bug, which has now been fixed.
- Wyrmstooth patch has been rewritten. Suggested level to start the quest is now around 15~20.
- Other patches has been updated too, except for Audio Overhaul for Skyrim, which will be done as soon as possible.
- Encounter Tweaks plugin is discontinued.
Version 1.3.1
- Fixed an issue with new injuries. Now they work as intended.
Version 1.3
- Dragons spawn every 7 days instead of 3.
- Fixed some wrong values in Race records.
- Health, Magicka and Stamina rebalanced to reflect new changes.
- Tail and Wing attacks are flagged as Power Attack. This means that both use Stamina.
- Reverted range changes to Breaths.
- Removed Mouth VFX, as it randomly removes itself in combat.
- When Dragon's Magicka depletes, they can’t use their Voice until they recover at least 50% of their points.
- When Dragon's Stamina falls under 10%, they can't fly until they recover at least 50% of their points. Flying uses 5 Stamina per second.
- Frost and Shock Shouts damage Stamina and Magicka by 100% instead of 50%.
- Extra damage to Skuldafn Dragons removed.
- Made some changes to the AI.
Version 1.2
- Fixed invincible Vuljotnaak.
- Raised Level Modifier of Water Stone's Dragon fight to Hard.
- A VFX is added to dragons' mouth when they use a shout. Serpentine Dragon excluded, for now.
- Bites deal always 100% damage, even while affected by Dragonrend.
- Dragonrend's weaken effect lowered to 25% from 50%.
- Dragon Breaths have 33% more range.
- Improved Sun Breath mesh.
- Fixed missing slow effect on Ice Storm shout.
- Wards effectivness on shouts lowered by 50%.
- Removed MQKillDragonScript. Now it's natively compatible with everything that edits it.
- Dragon War - Encounter Tweaks 1.0.1
- Forwarded an USSEP fix.
- Raised Level Modifier of Water Stone's Dragon fight to Very Hard.
Version 1.1.1
- Improved AI.
- Fixed Dragons using only bomb-shouts.
Version 1.1
- Increased all dragons' statistics.
- Removed Disarm from Ancient Dragons and unique ones. Instead, it is exclusive of Shock Dragons (Revered+).
- Added Cyclone to Poison Dragons (Serpentine+).
- Renamed the Radiant Dragon in Radiance Dragon.
- Removed Hornless Skeleton.
- Patches updated, and FOMOD removed.
Version 1.0.6
- NPCs spells deal 75% less damage, same as physical damage.
- Inhale Animation speed increased by 30%.
- Ground Attack Chance increased.
- Dragons can easily detect you if you don't invest in Sneak.
- Changed path for blood shaders, now compatible with Dirt & Blood Retextures.
- Mound Dragons are immune to damage while resurrecting.
Version 1.0.5
- Improved Radiant Dragon model.
- Dragons bleed again, and it's now visually pleasant to see. Thanks to jayserpa for their textures!
- Fixed an issue with Alduin at Helgen, where he could kill the player if it stayed too much outside Helgen Keep.
Version 1.0.4
- Fixed an issue with Mirmulnir, introduced in the previous version.
- Skyrim Unbound Reborn patch updated.
Version 1.0.3
- Fixed wrong Magicka value in Race records.
- Fixed fomod installer, Deiform Alduin was missing. Thanks Umgak!
- Dragons now hover less, but attacks will last more. Raised ground attack chance.
- Wyrmstooth patch merged into main fomod.
- Updated dragonactorscript to be as much as compatible, to avoid unintended effects with other mods. Version unchanged.
Version 1.0.2
- Radiant (Sun) Dragon added. It will appear from Level 40.
- Tweaked shouts explosions and projectiles.
- Patch for Durnehviir Resurrected and Deiform Alduin (Eyes Light) now available.
- Deadly Spell Impacts and Audio Overhaul for Skyrim patches updated.
- Wyrmstooth Patch available.
Version 1.0.1
- Fixed Blood (Shock) Dragon damage, was lower than expected.
- Patch for Skyrim Unbound Reborn now available.
Version 1.0
- Initial release.

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Dragon War has always been a mod I wanted to make, something that let me still being surprised when I fight a dragon. Working on creatures, especially on dragons, has been very, very difficult because very little can be done, not to mention how easy is to breaking stuff or to make them insanely strong. So I hope Dragon War can be of your liking, and that you can enjoy it.

• Skyrim Special Edition 1.6+
• SKSE
• Address Library for SKSE Plugins
• Dragon War NG DLL by alandtse if using Skyrim 1.5.97 or VR
• Backported Extended ESL Support if not using Skyrim 1.6.1330+
• Andrealphus' Papyrus Functions

• New dragons with Shock, Poison, Sun and Coldfire based shouts
• Each dragon fights in its own, unpredictable but sensible way
• Dragons have more shouts they can use
• Higher level dragons come before than vanilla thanks to the improved progression
• Consistent difficulty across all dragon lairs and dragon mounds
• Slowed main quest pace with unleveled dragons
• More injuries you can take advantage of to decrease their power
• Better loot for more satisfying dragon hunting
• Several bug fixes, dragon stalking fix included

Progression has been adjusted so that the player will encounter high level dragons earlier than usual. Accordingly, the pace of the main quest pace has also been adjusted, and it is suggested to start Dragon Rising at least at level 5. To make it feel consistent, "Frost Dragon" has been renamed into "Mystic Dragon", and Revered and Serpentine dragons have been removed from world encounters, as now they are respectively unique to Forgotten Vale and Apocrypha.

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World Encounters
Dragons regularly start to appear after Dragon Rising is completed, and will become stronger as the player levels up.

Dragon - Starting from Dragon Rising completion
Blood Dragon - Starting from level 10
Mystic Dragon - Starting from level 20
Elder Dragon - Starting from level 30
Ancient Dragon - Starting from level 40
Legendary Dragon - Starting from level 50

Dragon Lairs & Mounds
Despite using the same list as the world encounters, dragons spawned from lairs and mounds work a bit differently, as they are affected by Encounter Zones, so the encounters can easily get more difficult.

Unlike vanilla, it's possible to encounter dragons of four different elements, such as Fire, Frost, Shock and Poison, and very few can come with two of them. Two extra elements — Sun and Coldfire — are only available to unique dragons. Each dragon type has unique resistance and weakness, but still share some properties between them, and their strength and shouts variety is determined by their level and appearance. Dragons are very hard foes, and the improved AI and their new attacks make them a real and consistent threat — both in flight and on ground — to not underestimate and to adequately prepare against. Their breaths are capable of creating elemental walls which can be a problem for your mobility, and their unarmed attacks can both inflict bleeding and huge physical damage.

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Dragonkind: Dragons resist 25% of incoming damage. Dragons armor rating and unarmed damage are increased up to 300.

Fire Dragons
50% Fire Resistance, 25% Frost Weakness
Fire Breath, Fireball, Unrelenting Force

Frost Dragons
50% Frost Resistance, 25% Fire Weakness
Frost Breath, Ice Storm, Unrelenting Force

Shock Dragons
50% Shock Resistance
Lightning Breath, Chain Lightning, Unrelenting Force

Poison Dragons
50% Poison Resistance, -100 Armor Rating
Poison Breath, Poison Cloud, Unrelenting Force

Sun Dragons
50% Fire Resistance, 25% Frost Weakness
Sun Breath, Vampire's Bane, Unrelenting Force

Coldfire Dragons
50% Frost Resistance, 25% Fire Weakness
Coldfire Breath, Cold Fireball, Unrelenting Force

Skeletal Dragons
100% Poison Resistance, -100 Armor Rating

Undead Dragons
100% Poison Resistance

In addition to the shouts each dragon has by default, more get added depending on their strength.

Storm Call - Available to Blood Dragons and up
Ice Form - Available to Mystic Dragons and up
Drain Vitality - Available to Elder Dragons and up
Marked for Death - Available to Ancient Dragons and up
Time Stop - Available to Legendary Dragons

Main Quest

Mirmulnir - Fire Dragon

Sahloknir - Frost Dragon

Vuljotnaak - Poison & Frost Dragon

Nahagliiv - Frost & Shock Dragon

Viinturuth - Shock & Fire Dragon

Paarthurnax - Fire Dragon

Odahviing - Fire Dragon

Alduin - Fire & Frost Dragon

Blackreach

Vulthuryol (75) - Fire & Shock Dragon

Labyrinthian

Skeletal Dragon - Skeletal Frost Dragon

Dawnguard

Naaslaarum (50) - Sun & Frost Dragon

Voslaarum (50) - Sun & Shock Dragon

Durnehviir - Undead Coldfire Dragon

Dragonborn

Krosulhah - Shock Dragon

Kruziikrel - Fire Dragon

Relonikiv - Frost Dragon

Sahrotaar - Poison Dragon

Wyrmstooth

Nehfrinqeth - Fire Dragon

Nehkrahqeth - Frost Dragon

Skeletal Dragon - Skeletal Shock Dragon

Vulthurkrah - Coldfire Dragon

Most of players find fighting a dragon frustrating at best, so to limit this, dragon injury system has been improved, and two more injuries got added.

• Health Injury - Dragons are forced to stay on ground when their Health falls below 25%.
• Magicka Injury - Dragons Shouts Cooldown is increased by 50% when their Magicka falls below 25%.
• Stamina Injury - Dragons physical damage is reduced by 50% when their Stamina falls below 25%.

When it comes to kill a dragon, the most exciting part is the reward. Taken the difficulty, improving the loot with some good addition is the right choice. If this is still not enough, I suggest to take a look at Dragon Hunting.

• Guaranteed Enchanted Jewelry
• up to 500 Gold
• up to 12 Dragon Bone
• up to 12 Dragon Scales
• 25% Chance for a piece of Enchanted Armor
• 25% Chance for a piece of Enchanted Weapon
• 25% Chance for up to 6 Gems

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• Arctic - Frost Effects Redux
• Audio Overhaul for Skyrim
• Book Covers Skyrim Updated
• Deadly Spell Impacts
• Dragon Breath VFX Edit
• Deiform Alduin - Particle Lights
• Durnehviir Resurrected
• GoT HotD - Skeletal Dragon and Underskin
• Inferno - Fire Effects Redux
• Legacy of the Dragonborn
• Parallax Spell Impacts
• Wyrmstooth

• Compatible with any mesh and texture replacers
• Compatible with Immersive Dragons
• Incompatible with any other dragon overhaul
• Incompatible with Splendor - Dragon Variants. Use Infinite Dragon Variants instead

• Colinswrath for the SKSE Plugin. Without him, the update 4.0 wouldn't have been possible. Source

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