Hey Guys,well,I have a doubt about the shouts added by dawnguard and Dragonborn.


What are their uses?What they do?What purpose do they serve?


Please,answer,what are the uses of all these new shouts?


Thanks.



Lok,thu'um.

Most of the shouts are pretty good, some are not. You have to use them and decide for yourself which ones are the best for what you want your character to do.

By the way. I just love your pic. Beautiful female sorceress, just like mine.

I never really use them extensively, except for Bend Will. That shout is absolutely amazing. Dragon appear when you're about to fast travel? Bend dat will! A group of bandits? Bend dat will! I love it.

I cant say I really use the Dawnguard shouts too much, summon Durhneviir can be useful on solshiem I guess, Soul tear if you want a minion but your not a mage/have no soul trap. Drain vitality is pretty meh ( although is very cool) but is dangerous when used by the dragons introduced in dawnguard.

Dragonborn ones however
Dragon Aspect I use whenever a Legendary dragon or similar 'boss' appears ( when I play on master)
Bend will is great as Necrovamp said but I tend to only use it fly dragons
Cyclone is AMAZING I use it almost exclusvily within dungeons.
Battle fury I dont use.

Forgot about Dragon Aspect. That's useful if you wish to use your transformation. Outta curiosity, do you know if battle fury works on summons? And does it work on enchanted weapons? I'm imaging dremora and Wrathmen killing things in fast foward.

Dunno dont use it

"How can you be so obtuse?"

Soul Tear, Cyclone, Dragon Aspect, Summon Dunheviir and Bend Will are pretty much the best shouts in the game aside from Unrelenting Force and Storm Call... in my opinion anyway

how exactly does "Soul Tear" work?

My question is the same as this ^^

Like, in the game? If you have all 3 shouts, it deals powerful damage and can essentially rip out the persons soul. After you kill the target, it is your thrall.

Does it make that thrall sound, "Uuuuugggghhhh" like regular thralls do? I don't know if Verena would be able to listen to that disturbing sound for too long.

I hate it when they do that. When in the DG quests, and you have to have Serena, I always kill her zombies. Very, very annoying.

Oh,I understand a little more now,but...What purpose does Cyclone serve?

Soul Tear soul trap an enemies and make him your undead minions for a time. You should only use Soul Tear when the enemy is at the brink of death, so you don't have to wait a minute for it to recharge. It also works on any enemies except of course, Dragons and Dragon Priests.

Cyclone is like Unrelenting Force, but it sends enemies flying in random directions and also deal damage. With a quick recharge rate, it is a pretty overpowered shout, IMO.

I DO THE SAME THING. There are ash piles cluttering up my game, ALL OVER. Everytime we got in a fight, literally, she'd bring someone to life. I would immediately turn around and kill it, then look at her and say. "Really, Serana. This is getting real old. I'm going to break your legs and drop you off the Throat of the World. We'll see how immortal you are then."

Soul tear ( with three words, doesnt have any/much effect with two) deals out 300 damage, soul traps the opponent and if they die from the damage they get re-animated.

Serana and Aela are my main followers, Serana uses magic and Aela uses a dragobone bow.

No, the correct answer was: "I'm going to throw you in solitary for a month."

It kills or Injures your Emeny and reanimates them.

I find Dragonaspect incredibly useful if you ever get into a totally outmatched situation but at level 81 that does not happen often even on Master but it is very powerful.

On PC I have shouts with no cool down and on Xbox I use the fortify restore glitch to get shouts with no cool down so my perspective might be a bit different:


-Soul Tear: Pretty good way to spam and at lower-level enemies and rapidly fill up soul gems, or if you just want to do an added 300 damage to whatever you're fighting.

-Drain Vitality: Pretty good way to chunk an enemy down to size, its drain effects are quicker than Marked for Death but not as effective. If you use it alongside marked for death an enemy can quickly be cut down to size.

Summon Durnehviir: I'll compare this to "Call Dragon" for the sake of clarity. Durn can be summoned indoors unlike Odahviing, although this can cause a LOT of lag, mainly on the Xbox. Durn uses the Drain Vitality/frost breath shouts, and he can summon 3 bone/wraith men, so you can add in some bonus muscle to your fight. However, Odahviing uses fire breath, and you can use the "Bend Will" shout to ride him, which you can't do with Durn. So use either according to the situation.



-Battle Fury: I've only used it a few times and it's pretty straight forward. Helps your guys cut the enemy to ribbons in little to no time. No idea if it works if they have enchanted weapons.


-Dragon Aspect: 24 hour limitation/5 minute span use is a bit of a bummer, but the animation is awesome. Use it when you want to get a good 25% one handed damage bonus, or you want to get some added frost/fire/shock resistance.

-Bend Will: Awesome shout, and even more awesome with no cool down. Word one controls animals, word two controls mortals, and word 3 controls dragons. Use it to help turn the tide in a fight, calm aggressive NPC's you may have accidentally hit, or just to keep the town guard off your back at least for a moment. It also of courses allows for dragon riding which is a pretty fun experience. You can also use it in place of Dragonrend to score a few free hits on a dragon that has landed.

-Cyclone: Unrelenting Force is better for range, or just propelling enemies in one direction. But this shout is awesome if you want to send enemies flying all around, and do a decent amount of damage. There's nothing like luring a group of bandits to a narrow walkway and then spamming this shout to see them rocket all over the place.



Overall, the shouts are all pretty useful and definitely added to the game. I hope to see even more in the future; I can't get enough.

Basically if you use shouts.. get the DLC's

Are we overlooking that, that's a picture of Miraak? Unless that was a joke.
Or he changed it.
I don't know.