I can not deal damage to ghosts in Skyrim. Arrows are flying right through them. Spells too. Does anyone know if this is some kind of effect from SkyRe or any other mod?
I have unofficial patches, SkyRe, Apocalypse, Frostfall, Alternate Start and a bunch of visual mods installed.
I tried turning off all the mods in the nexus mod manager except for Update, Dawnguard, HearthFires and Dragonborn. Still can't deal damage to ghosts.
Also I've found a workaround: Apocalypse has two spells: phantom image and feint warfare. First one creates a dummy that is supposed to distract everyone. Second one makes this dummy cast a fake destruction spell. Turns out that fake destruction spell does damage to ghosts.
The question here is how can I troubleshoot it, what might be the cause and how to fix it.
Best Answer
This is caused by SkyRe, it makes the ghosts invulnerable when you are not attacking them. That the fake destruction spell can damage them sounds like a bug to me. Might want to mention it to the creator of skyre.
You can read more about the changes Skyre makes in the skyre guide. Ignore the silly description of the mod, the guide is actually pretty clear in what skyre changes.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
One important note on disabling mods in skyrim. Skyrim is not oblivion or fallout. Mods are hard to disable on a running game. Any scripts that a mod includes and attaches to objects is saved inside the savefile. So in a lot of cases disabling the mods has little effect. (At least not until the objects respawn).
It is very easy to bloat and eventually wreck your savefile by installing and then disabling mods. When using new major mods, always use a clean safe, or, a clean game start.
There are a few 'tricks' you can use to more safely disable mods. First, if you are using SKSE, you can create a SKSE.ini file in the "my documents/skyrim/SKSE/" directory. (location of this dir may vary, it is the same one as the skyrim.ini dir). Add the following line to the ini file:
This should remove invalid scripts.
And always follow this guide when installing new mods.