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+ Amazing Race Tweaks! Dark Elf

Now Dark Elves are more powerful destruction mages and assassins! Adds new abilities to the Dark Elf and Dark Elf Vampire races. Completely safe, as no new scripts are used and no changes are permanent. If you unsubscribe, your character's abilities and powers return to what they were before.

New and improved abilities and powers: Fire cloak is now a lesser power, which also protects against frost. Fire resistance is increased and fire destruction spells hitting you RESTORE your magicka--makes fighting Hagravens and fire-breathing dragons is a blast! Destruction skill improves much faster and other magic skills improve slightly faster. Fire destruction spells cost less to cast and do more damage. One-handed weapons do more damage, more critical damage and have a greater criticl hit chance. You are also harder to detect when sneaking.

If you like this mod, or would like to see mods for other races, please consider rating it, even if you don't want to subscribe right now. It's the third mod in the A.R.T. (Amazing Race Tweaks!) series. The others are HERE. No DLC is required. It's compatible with all mods in the Sp0ckrates workshop and many others. You do NOT have to unsubscribe from other mods in this series to use this mod.

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1. Description
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The goal of this series of mods is to make each race amazing. If a mod doesn't give a race powers and abilities you can't get from any other race, then it shouldn't be called Amazing Race Tweaks! Right? I've always wanted to play a Dark Elf mage-assassin, but others told me it's not easy increasing the destruction skill, and other races make better assassins. Well, not any more! Now Dark Elves truly excel at Destruction magic--mastering it faster, casting the spells longer and doing more damage. The mod also stays true to Dark Elf lore by making them better at stealth and one-handed combat.

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2. Features of the Mod
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Ancestor's Wrath. The fire cloak is now a lesser power, which may be used more than once a day. Damage is increased from 8 to 10 points a second to foes in melee range. It also resists 25% of frost damage a second, which negates the frost weakness. (See Weakness to Frost, below.)

Ancestor's Resistance. Fire resistance is increased from 50% to 75%. In addition, all fire spells hitting you RESTORE your magicka. The amount restored equals half the amount of damage the spell does to the health of those not resistant to fire. (For example, a flame spell doing 8 points of damage a second to other races will affect a Dark Elf by doing only 2 points of damage a second and restoring 4 points of magicka a second.) For fun, try challenging a Hagraven or group of fire mages to a magic duel!

Weakness to Frost. The race's higher resistance to fire comes at a price--they are 25% weaker to frost (but see Ancestor's Wrath, above).

Ancestor's Knowledge. Destruction magic skills improve 20% faster. Other magic skills--Alteration, Conjuration, Enchanting, Illusion and Restoration--improve 10% faster. This is in addition to other bonuses. (For example, if you have the Mage Standing Stone blessing, your destruction skill will improve 40% (20%+20%) faster, and other magic skills 30% (20%+10%) faster.)

Ancestor's Power. All destruction spells now cost 20% less to cast. Fire spells do 40% more damage, Shock spells do 30% more damage and Frost spells do 20% more damage.

Ancestor's Stealth. You are harder to detect when sneaking. Sneak skill is +10 when you sneak.

Ancestor's Fighting Style. One-handed combat is more deadly, and makes for more effective assassins. All one-handed weapons--daggers, maces, swords and war axes--do 10% more damage and have a 20% better chance to get a critical hit doing double critical hit damage.

Starting stats and spells for new characters. Beginning stats for characters are increased as follows. Destruction: +20. One-Handed and Sneaking: +10. Alteration, Conjuration, Illusion and Restoration: +5. Starting magicka is now 75, instead of the normal 50. The total skill bonus is increased from +35 to +60. Starting spells: Flames, Fire Bolt, Fire Rune and Healing.

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3. New Fire Spell Effects on Dark Elves
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Since they live inside a volcano in their homeland, Dark Elves are now nearly impervious to fire. Not only are they 75% resistant to fire spells, they also have their magicka restored when they are hit by the spells. To do this, a magic effect was added to each fire destruction spell in the vanilla game, which affects only Dark Elves and Dark Elf Vampires--both the player race and NPCs. So it's recommended you don't use fire spells on a Dark Elf foe, as you will likely make them harder to defeat!

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4. Playing as a Vampire
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If you become a vampire, you won't be weak to frost but will resist fire. Adjusted resistances to fire will be +75% (Dark Elf) -50% (Vampire), or +25%. Resistance to frost will be +50% (Vampire) -25% (Dark Elf), or +25%. The Vampire muffle ability will be in addition to the Dark Elf Sneak skill bonus. Add the bonuses for Destruction magic, and the Dark Elf is a good option for those wanting to play as a Vampire.

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5. Safe for Existing Characters
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The mod was tested, in game with an existing Dark Elf character downloaded as a saved game from NexusMods. In all tests, removing the mod was safe, as none of the new abilities and powers were permanent. You may subscribe to try it out. If you decide not to keep it, simply unsubscribe. Abilities and powers will return to what they were. For a new character, stat bonuses will remain.


This mod is completely free. But it takes a lot of time, effort and expense to make it and mods like it. If you appreciate the fun they provide and want to give a little back, log into PayPal[www.paypal.com] and make a donation to sp0ckrates@outlook.com. No amount is too small to help! If you give a donation, let me know. If you want, ask me to add a feature to a mod or upload a mod to Nexus for you.


The Sp0ckrates Steam Skyrim Workshop currently has more than a million subscribers and more than 4,000 followers. Many thanks to all who've tried out our mods over the last two years. Dudes! You're the best!


To make sure this mod loads, after subscribing, launch Skyrim, wait for the launch screen to display a message that all mods finished synchronizing, then exit Skyrim to the desktop. Relaunch Skyrim. The mod should now be loaded.


There are no known bugs. Please report any you think you find. Mods changing races might be incompatible.


There's no need to unsubscribe. After subscribing, you may easily disable the mod at anytime:

1. Start the Skyrim launcher
   
2. Wait for it to display a message that mods finished synchronizing
   
3. Select Data Files
   
4. Remove the checkmark next to this mod
   
5. Select OK and Play

See the Change Notes.