Skyrim:Shock Damage

	Shock Damage
School	Destruction
Type	Offensive
Enchanting
ID	0004605c
Base Cost	14
Items	Weapons
Availability (Click on any item for details)
Weapons

Enchanting description: Target takes <mag> points of shock damage, and half as much Magicka damage.

Shock Damage is one of the three elemental types of damage available from the School of Destruction, the other two being Frost and Fire Damage. Shock Damage produces a bolt of lightning that can, in higher level spells, arc from the original target to other opponents. In addition to damaging health, Shock Damage also drains the target's magicka--usually 50% of the Health damage dealt.

Enchanting

The following items use this effect. You can learn how to enchant custom items with Shock Damage if you find one of the following items and disenchant it:

• All weapons of Sparks
• All weapons of Arcing
• All weapons of Shocks
• All weapons of Thunderbolts
• All weapons of Lightning
• All weapons of Storms

Artifacts and unique items that use the effect but cannot be disenchanted include:

• Nightingale Bow

Weapons that inflict shock damage but use a different variant of the effect include:

• Dragon Priest Staff (Wall of Storms)
• Dragonbane (Dragon Damage)
• Hevnoraak's Staff (Wall of Storms)
• Staff of Chain Lightning (Chain Lightning)
• Staff of Jyrik Gauldurson (Lightning Bolt Call)
• Staff of Lightning Bolts (Lightning Bolt)
• Staff of Sparks (Sparks)
• Staff of the Storm Wall (Wall of Storms)
• Staff of Thunderbolts (Lightning Bolt)

Spells

The following spells use the Shock Damage group of effects. Following each spell is the specific variant of the effect that it uses:

• Chain Lightning : Chain Lightning (0005dbae; ShockDamageFFAimedArea)
• Lightning Bolt: Lightning Bolt (0001cea8; ShockDamageFFAimed)
• Lightning Cloak: Shock Cloak (0003aea1; ShockCloakFFSelf)
• Lightning Rune: Shock Rune (0006796e; RuneShockFFLocation)
• Lightning Storm: Lightning Storm (000d22fa; ShockDamageMassConcAimed)
• Sparks: Sparks (00013cab; ShockDamageConcAimed)
• Storm Call Lightning Bolt: Lightning Bolt Call Storm (000e4cb6; ShockDamageBoltStormAimed)
• Thunderbolt: Thunderbolt (0010f7ef; ShockDamageFFAimed75)
• Wall of Storms:
  • Wall of Storms (001034c0; MS06PotemaBarrierShockConcAimed)
  • Wall of Storms (000bb96f; BarrierShockConcAimed)

Notes

• Shock spells have little to no travel time, as they jump instantly from the caster to the target. This gives them an advantage over Fire and Frost spells, which create a projectile that must hit the enemy to deal damage.

See Also

This effect is related to:

• Weakness to Shock and Resist Shock
• Damage Health, Fire Damage and Frost Damage