Disintegrate Weapon on Tienius Delitian

[kerry.yakish]

I'm trying to get Tienius Delitian's weapon without killing him. I've created a custom disintegrate weapon spell that's 100 points for 3 seconds on touch. I enter combat with him and cast it over and over again, but after so many dozens of casts, I get fed up and kill him just to see how much progress I'd made and it's hardly any. The amount of damage to his weapon seems consistent with him attacking me with no added effect from my spell. I can only conclude he's immune to it? Is there something about the Disintegrate Weapon effect I'm not getting?

He also seems to block spells more than half the time. I'm guessing he was born under The Atronach?

[kerry.yakish]

I just tried my Disintegrate Armor spell on Divayth Fyr and it didn't work either. I have no idea what's going on.

[Ghost]

Disintegrate only works on hostiles whose weapons are both equipped and drawn, so the first casting should make him hostile, but won't actually do anything.

However, the Gravedigger has 7200 health, so that's going to take a while.

NPC's don't get birth signs, but he does have 2 special abilities:

Royal Resistance
Resist Fire 100%, Resist Poison, Frost, Paralysis and Shock 50%, Reflect 50 pts.

Royal Blood
Fortify Attack, Long Blade, Heavy Armor and Block 50 pts.

[Ghost]

As for Fyr, he naturally has Sanctuary which resists Disintegrate, and Spell Absorption in addition to the health of the Daedric armor.

Your spell will also only affect 1 piece at a time, in the following order: Shield, Cuirass, Left Pauldron, Right Pauldron, Left Gauntlet, Right Gauntlet, Helm, Greaves, and finally Boots.

[kerry.yakish]

I'm casting the spells literally dozens of times. I'm even paying attention to the animation to see if it hits or if he's resisting it. I count over 70 legit hits then get fed up and kill him only to see his weapon is hardly damaged. I did the same thing with Fyr. None of his armor fell off after dozens of hits. A Daedric Cuirass only has a third the durability of Gravedigger.

Apparently there's a glitch that makes the spell ineffective if it has any duration, so I crafted a spell with a one second duration only. It still won't work. I still have no idea what's going on.

[Ghost]

Indeed, an issue with not doing anything if there is any duration. There are also issues with it not affecting anything with full durability and not applying the proper amount.

Looks like you may need to get the Morrowind Code Patch to fix that.
https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/19510

[kerry.yakish]

The lines in the patch notes don't seem to explain the issue though:

- Disintegrate fix. Fixes the Disintegrate Weapon magic effect, which was causing no damage to weapons in full condition.

The Gravedigger does have some damage on it though due to him attacking me the whole time. After I count over 70 legit hits from my spell (I count the number of times an orange explosion appears around his body), I get fed up and kill him and there's about 2k damage on it. If the glitch doesn't also apply to disintegrate armor, it wouldn't explain my issue with Divayth Fyr.

Fixes disintegrate over time effects applying a reduced amount due to rounding errors, by silently converting all disintegrate effects into instant effects.

My initial spell was 100 points over 3 seconds. I don't see how a rounding error could account for it being completely ineffective. I then created a 100 points for 1 second spell and it still didn't work.