I think it should be an illusion spell then, since no sane individual would kill their buddy over a sweet roll. It'd be like Magelight, except instead of a light that you stick to the floor, it's an illusion of a delicious sweet roll that bewitches onlookers. Kind of like Mayhem, except on a small scale and bound to an object.

so will this mod still be supported now that your with the Tytanis team? please say yes that mod is so full of stuff I don't need or want, and I don't want to have to learn how to extract your spells from it for personal use.

Have you thought about adding some classic spells from D&D? I'd love to see properly made Isaac's Greater Missile Storm, Melf's Acid Arrow, Horrid Wilting, etc. I don't mean exact copies, just something that feels and looks similiar. You know - mechanics.

what are your thoughts on making you spells scale with there respective skills?

Certainly. Midas will continue to be it's own mod. Although I admire what Tytanis is doing, I understand that a mod of that magnitude doesn't appeal to everyone. I plan to maintain Midas with the same "non intrusive" approach I used in oblivion.



I had a facsimile of IGMS and Melf's in Oblivion. Very simple to do the same in Skyrim. Elemental Bolt is essentially an elemental version of the Acid arrow. I will probably get around to putting these in Skyrim.


Many should already take advantage of the existing perks. Beyond that, I plan to have some "Greater" and "Grand" versions of some spells like Heat Beam or Holy Ray.



Also, here's a pic of the upcoming Aurum Reactor for Skyrim (The thing used to create Midas Spells) http://www.skyrimnexus.com/imageshare/image.php?id=20551

Given that Skyrim is the birthplace of the archmage Shalidor, will we be seeing spells from him that Midas has found?

I glad that you went with what is in my opinion the best option.


what I meant by scaling is something like what the mod Balanced Magic does, as in having the spells scale somewhat like weapons.

Bug report (probably well-known by now); When I conjure a pickaxe, it shows up as "bound pickaxe" in my inventory without problems, but when I mouse over it, the description text is messed up and my game crashes. The same happens with the dagger.

I'm using version .04 on windows XP. Some installed mods that may be related: SkyUI, http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=2804, http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=3132, http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=3352.

Also, blasting an npc with Force Push doesn't seem to count as assault. And the magicka cost is ridiculously low, but you know that already.

(by the way, I love the daedric pickaxe skin : P)

Wail of the banshee and timestop ?

I love DnD spells But i played a cleric most of the time..

which criteria do you use in order to convert D&D spells to skyrim? Damage amount, for example..

I still can't get the destruction spells to work.

You should work with mysty on a magic mod.

This is good to hear, I loved the D&D spells you translated into Oblivion with the original Midas Magic and it'd be cool to see more.

Hey Xilver,

I've had your mod for a while now, but I just started my first mage character, so I hadn't had a chance to use it yet. Are you planning on adding any sort of spell that unlocks chests and doors?

I like a lot how your beam spells work. but if you want and can, could you improve a bit the fx of the beam itself? to me looks still a bit undefined, especially the margin where the beam looks like it overflows its margin

I liked your mod back in Oblivion, and I like what I'm seeing now, but there's just one issue and it's really a matter of aesthetics...

...being the names.

This wasn't really a problem in Oblivion due to the vast spell variety (although it did make me wonder why the prized book of the realm of undeath awarded to you by the king of undeath would have all its spells named after Midas), but it sorely breaks my immersion to see more than half my spell list is named by some guy called Midas.

Maybe the quest spells and the thematic spells should just have their names listed (i.e Death Ray instead of Midas Death Ray)? Otherwise, it does seem sort of strange that Midas would have his name on grimoires awarded by quests and whatnot.

That was part of the charm of the Oblivion version for me.

I have one request for a new kind of spell (if this spell is already in the mod I'm sorry, I don't have time to play atm):
The spell is a fire flame that you hold in your hand. What's special about it is that it also emitts light, even if you don't cast it. So, just as long as you have rhe fire flame equipped in your hand, it emitts light as a real fire would.
When you hold down the buttons to charge the spell, the light becomes stronger. When you release the charge, you shoot a big, bright firelight ball (or a "firelight wall" as in being more broad and horizontal). I would call the spell "Firelight".

So what would be unique about it would be that the spell both acts as a passive light source (and can thus replace the torch), and you can charge it to increase the light and then do "firelight" damage as a big charge.
if this would be too overpowering, then perhaps a very slowly decrease in mana regen could be applied when holding the spell passive and non-charged.

really looking forwad to seeing this mod expand (finish the CS already!!!! =p). started playing a mage yesterday and i must say it is disappointing... i feel like skyrim removed most of the utility spells from the game and left us with nothing but "kill, kill, burn, burn!!" type spells. also the lack of spell making is killing me, that was my fav part about being a mage in TES games

Like how this is going so far, but I have one minor suggestion, about the transmute lockpick spell.

Personally I find I never use it for it's intended purpose, making lockpicks. Nonetheless I do find it extremely useful (for making steel ingots cheeply) I can see what you were trying to do with it (make a way for mages to have an open lock thingy without having to scavenge for lockpicks) but personally I think that it's better severed simply as a "ingot transmutation spell" and that a separate spell should be made for opening locks (like in oblivion/morrowind)

Its also annoying how i have to go into the menu and drop the steel ingots I've always made just to prevent them from turning into lockpicks (which by the way isn't a very good payout, either.)

So here's what I'd like to suggest: Take the "transmute lockpick" part out of it and simply call it "transmute ingot", and instead of just going from iron->Steel, it also goes from Iron->Steel->Dwemer->Quicksilver->Moonstone->Malachite Ingot->Corundrom Ingot->Orichalcum Ingot->Ebony Ingot->Iron ingot.

Oh and make it so it priorities the lower ones on the list over the higher ones (if you have 20 iron ignots and 1 steel ingot, it'll turn the other 20 ingots into steel before giving you dwemer ingots)

Like I said, with the wealth of spells in Oblivion, a few Midas named spells didn't really look out of place. But with the dearth of spells in Skyrim, so many Midas names really do look out of place.

I'll put it this way; imagine in your weapon list you have something like Ancient Sword of Frost, Daedric Longsword, Ebony Bow, maybe Ulfric's Sword. Yeah, that's fine.

Now imagine if you had John's Sword, John's Staff, John's Dagger, John's Longbow, John's Greatsword, John's Battleaxe, all of which were created by you yourself - obviously not named John - while following a manual acquired from an ancient undead king. It really kills the immersion.

Thanks for going into more detail. I understand your point better now.

Hi! I use this mod now for some days and here are two things I found out so far, that you may or may not know:

1. The Polymorph to rabbit spell does most of the time work as intended. Trying it on a Whiterun guard though the guard did not vanish. So there was a rabbit AND the guard. The "wrong" guard vanished when the rabbit turned back to the original form. So there is no duplication but I guess this is not intended .
2. The Elemental bolt does work great. I just don't know if the enemies killed with it should vanish? There is no corpse.

I will go on testing the Polymorph Hare spell (I love this one ) and see if I can find some pattern behind this.
Great job so far, I really enjoy playing a mage now!

Edit: After some more testing on people around Skyrim (), only the guards seem to be affected by this.

New Release

0.06 http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=3413

Added some of the basics that were requested frequently.

Midas Mass Reanimate
Midas Resurrect
Midas Open Lock (5 levels)
Midas Haste
Midas Feather
Midas Imagine Sabercat


I think I found the problem with the Reactor as well. It's the old autosave problem from oblivion. When entering areas with modded content, the game may crash. I'm recommending turning off "Save on Travel" for now.

Enjoy

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