Is there any way to shout more often?

Question

I'm a Dohvakiin. I can shout people to death, and it's awesome.

I lament, however, that my voice can only shout every so often, usually requiring a cooldown of 30 seconds (or more!) before I can shout again.

Is there any way to reduce the cooldown of the Thu'um? I discovered that activating a shrine of Talos offers a Blessing of Talos effect that reduces the time between shouts by 0%. I assume this is a bug (supposed to be 10%, perhaps?), but it makes me hopeful that other such shout reduction effects exist elsewhere in the game.

Is there anything that help me shout more often?

Answer 1

An Amulet of Talos will reduce the time between shouts by 20%. I believe this stacks with the +20% to shout recovery from shrines to Talos, which will knock a whopping 40% off your recovery time.

Sadly, you cannot disenchant the amulet and learn to make your own +Shout Recovery items.

Also the dragon mask Morokei add another 20% getting you to 60%

Answer 2

There is also the Amulet of Talos, which reduces shout cooldown by 20%. One is found on the body of Roggvir who is executed the first time you visit Solitude, but you might lose it due to a quest.

Another occasion where you might find this Amulet is when you exit Ironbind Barrow after clearing it, look around at the mountain peak. It should be lying around on a statue between two chests.

A third one is Ogmund's Amulet Of Talos in Understone Keep, Markarth, The Reach. This is one of the items you can use to blackmail Ogmund during the Miscellaneous Objective 'Triumph Over Talos'.

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This forum thread shows similar behavior; are you already wearing the Amulet of Talos by accident? It might be the case that if you wear the Amulet of Talos, that the Blessing of Talos no longer has effect to prevent you from stacking both. Given that they list a reducement, it sounds like a bug...

Answer 3

The help given above - amulet and blessing of Talos plus the dragon mask Morokei for 20% reduction each.

The best reduction can be gotten if you do not use your fire breath on Paarthurnax during the quest "The throat of the world". Until you continue the quest (breath fire on the old dragon) all your shouts will have a cooldown of approx 5 secs.

Answer 4

If we're going into outright cheat methods (such as tgm), you can also use the console command

player.setav shoutrecoverymult 0

to make all shout cooldowns instantaneous.

Answer 5

I'm not sure about the blessing but if you go to solitude, right when you enter you will witness an execution. After the execution is over, you can go to the dead body to pick up a Amulet Of Talos, which reduces shout time by 20%. That is probably the only other think that I have been able to find so far which reduces shout recharge. I'll post again if I find anything more. Cheers!

Answer 6

You can use tgm to toggle God mode, giving you unlimited shouts (no cooldown whatsoever).

The only problem with this is that, there is unlimited hp, mp, and sp, making gaming a little "too easy". but if you want to try out "demo" of unlimited shouting (only cooldown it has is that you use your shout, the animation has to continue, and the effects has to finish in order to cast your shout again), before mods or something else pops up, there you go.

Answer 7

If you are familiar with the fortify restoration potion bug you can completely take away the cooldown time also. The bug is if you have 100's of both alchemy and Smith you can basically create God like armor, weapons and potions.

• Gain the skill arcane enchanting in smithing, the first five plus extra effect in enchanting. The first five and benefactor and physician in alchemy.
• Create 4 fortify alchemy and smithing items. If you don't have the double skill perk do one of each.
• Then get the recipes for fortify enchanting, restoration, and smithing if you don't already know them.
• Then make a fortify restoration potion drink it make another stronger one.
• Then before creating your new Smith /alchemy wear take that powerful potion it will increase the strength of the the enchantment and so on then create your God like armor and weapons. As a plus, if you take the fortify restoration potion while wearing the Amulet of Talos you can negate the cool down entirely. You will not need archane enchanter unless you want to smith improved enchanted items

Answer 8

I found an amulet of talos on a stormcloak body during the civil war questline (sided with imperials) and i also found various other god amulets like stendarr and that. Also only saying the first or second word of your shout usually means it will recharge faster so if you dont need the full power of a shout then dont use all of it. For example if fighting dragons and it is flying and breathing fire at you so you use the etheral shout until it lands only use the first word because you may not need the others, so be wise in your use of shouts. Other than that there is no way apart from cheating or glitching that i know of.

Answer 9

Any amulet of Talos, the blessing of Talos from a shrine and the Dragon aspect shout give -60% shout timer, in the standalone with Dragonborn for that shout. I'm not sure if Morokie does give another 20% but it's meant to and mods fix that. some other mods give ways, like Cloaks of SKyrim has Greybeards Mantles you can find up in their monestary that give another -20; thats the 100 right there, and Skilltree: Speech the mod ads a perk that further reduces times, assuming you play PC, If not, 60 is still ridiculaous for Fus, and for Wuld.