Why is my Horse being Attacked

[Skorne Tet'Zu]

I have the horse given to me (or maybe loaned) by the Friar. It wasn't happening at first, but now it seems everyone is going after my horse, and ignoring me. (Which, for the record, is a little hurtful... I'd like to think I'm more of a Threat than my horse).

In any case... in an attempt to keep my horse out of a fight, I dismounted a little ways away from a Boar; moved in close (to the boar) and attacked with a Fire Ball; and Nailed him twice. The boar ran around a tree, then around me, then around a boulder in order to get to and attack my horse. And the same thing happened with a Hedge Mage and 3 Imps.

Is this a Bug or just a horse that nobody likes :(.

[White Rabbit Alice]

They target your horse becuase its an easier kill, and becuase i think maybe they know you use it for travel.

if you need it to heal, just wait about an hour,if you can beat off whatever is trying to kill it and save it.

if the game was Unchanged, you probably want the DB Horse, and want to skip the unicorn, as when it dies, it dosent respawn. ever.

and it has a psychotic tendancy to attack anything that starts fights, even imperial guards.

[[SCZ]Celestrian]

always go for the easy targets first

surely there´s a mod that (drastically) increases the horses HP so in the worst case, it doesnt really matter.

[[SCZ]Celestrian]

Originally posted by White Rabbit Alice:

, and want to skip the unicorn, as when it dies, it dosent respawn. ever.

if you fast-travel with it next to a guard, it will go hostile and become unmountable.
i didnt really test it, but i´d say the guard would´ve won easily, so i just finished it and the quest.

it even became hostile to me (unmountable) after i dismounted and i walked off into the woods and aggroed a spriggan (against which it definitely would´ve lost). even after finishing the spriggan, the unicorn used its pointless attack on me bc... i guess i had a weapon in hand.

actually "keeping" the unicorn means to me to get another horse, so the unicorn doesnt fast-travel with you or (the way worse option) immediatly enter a location after fast-travel so the unicorn does disappear instead of aggroeing everything.
... might as well put it down at that point.

[PostalGibbon]

Horses drop like flies. I just fast travel or just run to target location i refuse to buy new horse every time i go out of city gate because 2mins. later they drop dead.
It gets worse when you are over level 20 and country side casually stroll high level trolls, will o wisps spriggans and other high level monsters your horse dies faster than you get out of the saddle.

[Marfig]

Yeah, one of the most annoying enemy behaviour. And it is fully consistent with the original game.

Over the years it has been attributed to the fact that the Gamebryo combat AI tends to prioritise lower personality scores. But I never thought this to be right. The enemy AI doesn't seem to prioritise other NPC horses, only the player's.

So to me it always felt instead that it tends to prioritise the HorsePC faction, which is the faction that is attributed to your horse once you own it.

[Hidden Gunman]

Yep, noticed it the last few hours of play, after I hit lvl 5. The horse is a s**t magnet.

It was a ploy to get players to buy the horse armour dlc. Don't overthink it.

[ScripterRon]

I stopped using horses because of this.

[Scraps]

Don't let them get caught while they're doing horse crimes.

[Yian Yan]

I bless my horse with the power of the nine divines and just zip past anything that threatens it :)

[Skorne Tet'Zu]

Thanx Mates... This is Good to Know. At least I know it's not just me.

Originally posted by Hidden Gunman:

Yep, noticed it the last few hours of play, after I hit lvl 5. The horse is a s**t magnet....*SNIP*

That explains why it just started happening. I'm currently Lvl 9.

Originally posted by White Rabbit Alice:

They target your horse becuase its an easier kill, and becuase i think maybe they know you use it for travel.

if you need it to heal, just wait about an hour,if you can beat off whatever is trying to kill it and save it....*SNIP*

Yeah... and this feels like exactly what's happening.

I was actually considering to start running everywhere anyways for the Athletic Skill.

Again... Thanx All for the Info!!