What is the best/fastest way to fill soul gems?

[Neil Young]

I'm playing as a sword and board nord, with a lot into archery and sneak too.

[Awesome_Al360]

Give them to your follower along with a weapon that has soul trap. They fill up quick.

Edit: make sure they equip the weapon.

[Уuкɪ Cεℓεstε ♈]

and the gems too.

[Eriane]

Originally posted by Awesome_Al360:

Give them to your follower along with a weapon that has soul trap. They fill up quick.

Edit: make sure they equip the weapon.

I think for this to work is that you have to have them pick up the item from the ground or is that just for spells?

[Awesome_Al360]

Originally posted by Hedgie:

Originally posted by Awesome_Al360:

Give them to your follower along with a weapon that has soul trap. They fill up quick.

Edit: make sure they equip the weapon.

I think for this to work is that you have to have them pick up the item from the ground or is that just for spells?

No just trade the items with them.

I didn't know you could teach your followers spells though.

[Linguistically Inept]

conjuration; bound weapons get soultrap perk, load up on black soul gems and just go kill a bandit camp

also a side note; conjuration is stupidly easy to get to 100 (just find a place where enemies a hostile to you but cant reach you - such as the dome at silent moon camp forge -, double cast bound sword, sheathe, repeat), and legendary (reset it and get the perk points back) so you shouldnt feel too bad about missing out of perk points

[Eriane]

Originally posted by Awesome_Al360:

Originally posted by Hedgie:

I think for this to work is that you have to have them pick up the item from the ground or is that just for spells?

No just trade the items with them.

I didn't know you could teach your followers spells though.

I don't know if it's part of vanilla skyrim or not, but you could at least with follower related mods. The trick was to let them pick up the spell book instead of just handing it to them. You could also do the same with a giant's club. Quite amusing!