Blood’s Honor is the first ‘add-on’ to Dragon Rising. It is designed to seamlessly fit in with a full Dragon Rising install – simply add the new mods to your list in the relevant sections, recreate your Bashed Patch, and go. My intention is to create a series of add-ons to effectively create a modular mod guide – install the base, then add ‘packs’ based on the kind of playthrough you’re intending to do.
Blood’s Honor is named after a quest in the Companions’ storyline, which should tell you everything you need to know about it. This pack is all about combat. My intention is not to overhaul Skyrim’s combat completely – however hard people try, you just can’t recreate a system like Dark Souls or The Witcher 3 in Skyrim’s engine. So, as with Dragon Rising, the idea behind Blood’s Honor is to enhance what’s already there, not try to change or replace it.
With these mods installed, combat will be quicker, more dynamic, more rewarding of both skilled play and prior preparation, and a lot more lethal. You’ll deal and take more damage, but you’ll have tools to deal with that – timed blocking, the ability to actually get out of the way of a big power attack, being able to block while dual wielding, and the possibility of limited, cost-free training to get you going. But you will still have to think about your opponent. Draugr, undead, and dragons are now the feared creatures they always should have been, and you won’t want to venture into one of Skyrim’s many Nordic tombs without the right equipment, or at least some magical knowledge.
In addition, Blood’s Honor contains a two entirely optional sections. The first is my recommendations for the best weapons and armor mods, giving you more things to kill your enemies with, and more ways to look cool doing it. The second is a small collection of mods to enhance your experience with the Companions in-game – because if you’ve installed Blood’s Honor, you might well find yourself taking up residence in the halls of Jorrvaskr.
So pick up your weapon of choice, Dragonborn. Can you live up the legends of Ysgramor?
Note: Blood’s Honor assumes that the user has already followed the Dragon Rising guide. Of course, you can simply look at the below mods and install them onto any load order, but they have been selected with Dragon Rising in mind. If you have not already done so, please consider reading and completing a Dragon Rising install.
Last Update: December 10th, 2017 (History)
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