What are the best dead thralls?

[ALV]

I'm playing a modded necromancer and am able to get up to 5 thralls, so far the people I'm planning to kill and make into thralls is Orchendor for a mage, Ingjard as a archer, the Ebony Warrior as you guessed it a warrior(shield and mace) and Yamarz another warrior (2 handed) don't know what I'm gonna do with the 5th as I kinda only know remembered about the creation club elite necro set that adds an extra minion slot. So thats what I have right now any suggestions or replacements?

[Lunatic]

I would recommend another archer if possible, though I don't know of any super powerful ones (aside from unnamed Forsworn and Draugr).

[ALV]

Originally posted by Lunatic:

I would recommend another archer if possible, though I don't know of any super powerful ones (aside from unnamed Forsworn and Draugr).

Oh yeah I forgot how powerful archers can be! I'll google to see if theres any good archers to "recruit"

[Skumboni]

I would suggest one of the archery trainers as they should be talented with a bow.

[Heimdall313]

Archers are for the weak.
This homicidal psychopath has already died once, and she's one of, possibly even the best mage in the game. She will solo nearly anything. She will evaporate all hope of something actually managing to kill you.
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Ildari_Sarothril

She might also might blow you up with Thunderbolt and such. In the event of manslaughter, she will personally demand the charges be elevated to first degree murder.

[jonnin]

I believe it has to be vampires because you can raise higher level ones with the necromancy perk over in restoration.
I find thralls to be mostly an aggravation, they get stuck or lost and moan and groan constantly. Ive mostly stuck to a pair of dremorra who work as an alarm if something aggros (they yell, loudly, every single time, and also yell loudly again when combat ends if you were unsure whether they got them all). This works if you can get a dragon to land so they can hit it, but if you can't do that yet, the skeleton archers are good for both dragons and other enemy if you like having archery support.
So basically that gives you melee dremorra, skeleton archers, and vampire mage thralls as the major options. You can mix in the skeleton warriors (don't hit quite as hard but are tougher) to tank for you if need be. If you don't want to keep a pair of vampire mage bodies around, you can also use the thralled atronachs as 'mages' and they do fair.

This is just an in-general setup though. If you want to dig in, there are online lists of NPCs you can kill and thrall who are the 'best of the best'. I haven't felt the need to max min this deep, because of the getting lost/stuck issues.

[ALV]

Originally posted by Heimdall313:

Archers are for the weak.
This homicidal psychopath has already died once, and she's one of, possibly even the best mage in the game. She will solo nearly anything. She will evaporate all hope of something actually managing to kill you.
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Ildari_Sarothril

She might also might blow you up with Thunderbolt and such. In the event of manslaughter, she will personally demand the charges be elevated to first degree murder.

does she use aoe spells? Last thing I want is another Serana who keep hitting my other thralls

[alexander_dougherty]

Originally posted by ALV:

Originally posted by Heimdall313:

Archers are for the weak.
This homicidal psychopath has already died once, and she's one of, possibly even the best mage in the game. She will solo nearly anything. She will evaporate all hope of something actually managing to kill you.
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Ildari_Sarothril

She might also might blow you up with Thunderbolt and such. In the event of manslaughter, she will personally demand the charges be elevated to first degree murder.

does she use aoe spells? Last thing I want is another Serana who keep hitting my other thralls

According to the wiki she uses Icestorm which is a cone of ice between her and her target, could harm sword and shield types, and thunderbolt which shouldn't harm unless she is careless with aim.
She also uses summon spells (surely a dead thrall can't summon so a wasted spell) and some defensive spells....

Icestorm would be an issue, and the Dead thrall status should prevent her using summon spells, so not the best choice, even if she does have a decent spell staff....

[ALV]

Originally posted by alexander_dougherty:

Originally posted by ALV:

does she use aoe spells? Last thing I want is another Serana who keep hitting my other thralls

According to the wiki she uses Icestorm which is a cone of ice between her and her target, could harm sword and shield types, and thunderbolt which shouldn't harm unless she is careless with aim.
She also uses summon spells (surely a dead thrall can't summon so a wasted spell) and some defensive spells....

Icestorm would be an issue, and the Dead thrall status should prevent her using summon spells, so not the best choice, even if she does have a decent spell staff....

Yeah that ice storm is gonna be a real pain for my 2 warrior thralls but I guess I can just buy muffle and power level to lvl 100 to get the skill that allows illusion to affect undead that way if she hits anyone I can just use a calm spell to stop any infighting