Dragonling soul doesn't add enchantment points

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Girlysprite
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Dragonling soul doesn't add enchantment points

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According to the daggerfall wiki, dragonling souls should add 8000 EP when enchanting items. When I tried, it added nothing. I have tried adding it, but it added no EP.
I can share a savegame with a few dragonling soulgems.

In case it's needed: I have one of the latest versions of the game (downloaded in august after the last big release), and I play on a mac.

gimble
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Re: Dragonling soul doesn't add enchantment points

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There are two variants of dragonlings and only one of them provides enchantment points when soul bound. That variant spawns only during a knightly order quest and is the target of that quest.

If you trapped the soul from that quest spawn and it doesn't provide 5000 EP (not 8000), then it is a bug, else it is working as intended.

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When will the Dragonling Soul bug get fixed?

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AFAIK, as the game stands currently there are two versions of the Dragonling that can be soul trapped - the non-quest version and the Quest Version. Only the Quest version actually gives Enchantment Points from soul trapping.
I am actually surprised that this bug hasn't been fixed already. This can't be intended to be part of the Complete Unity Daggerfall right?

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(I merged your post to this existing topic on the same matter)
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Interkarma
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Re: Dragonling soul doesn't add enchantment points

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The question is which variant is correct? Is the standard version being worth 0 EP actually the issue, or is it the quest variant being worth 5000EP?

Without better information, I rolled with the classic settings. If you guys want to talk it out here, it's a very easy thing to change and I'll go with whatever consensus decides is the correct value.

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Post by Hurricane Otter »

Sorry for the necro, but I wanted to chime in that I wasn't aware of this strange peculiarity with Dragonlings, and as a result I just blew two soul gems on useless Dragonling souls. :( I genuinely thought it was a bug and was going to report it here before I searched up this topic.

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I'd prefer not to necro topics older than a year or so. But yeah, this one does catch out people from time to time. :)

I like some of these weird quirks of classic. It's probably an oversight, but feels weirdly intentional based on there being a specific enemy type just for the quest dragonling. I'd love to know how that came about back in the day.

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Post by Regnier »

ya i found this out the long way.

It was too good to be true lol.

A great mod would be to add boss enemies with high EP and low negatives

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