Followers and enchanted equipment.

[Angel]

Do followers, Serana in particular, get the boosts from enchanted gear? I want to stack her with as much carry capacity as possible.

[ReallyMeanGoldfish]

yes, if they eqipt it. If you give a minion an iron armour or some cheap enchanted gear, they will not use it. Improve the item first with a smithy then enchant, then give it to them.

[Ilja]

Followers benefit from these enchantments:
Fortify Carry Weight [1]
Fortify Health
Fortify Health Regeneration
Fortify Heavy Armor
Fortify Light Armor
Fortify Magicka
Fortify Magicka Regeneration
Fortify Stamina
Fortify Stamina Regeneration
Fortify Unarmed Damage
Muffle [2]
Resist Fire
Resist Frost
Resist Magic
Resist Poison
Resist Shock
Waterbreathing [3]

1 = Requires refreshing follower inventory each time you give something to them. Simply asking them to open it again should re-apply the effect. This can be a little tedious, but game does not always detect the enchantment effect otherwise.

2 = To my understanding, muffled items with NPCs should suffer/benefit from same magnitudes than PC would. I am not 100 % sure about this though.

3 = NPCs can not actually drown. This will prevent them from catching air while underwater. Useful for sneak characters.

[Angel]

ah thanks for the list Ilja

[ballpoint202]

I feel like an idiot now for giving Lydia all that "fortify one-handed" gear. Next time, it'll be fortity health regen and resist magic.

[[AJSA]MeloDeath]

Origineel geplaatst door ballpoint202:

I feel like an idiot now for giving Lydia all that "fortify one-handed" gear. Next time, it'll be fortity health regen and resist magic.

Well... that makes atleast 2 of us.... Such a failure. Atleast she gained the heavy armor enchantements....

[Sternrake]

I have Serana as a follower and the only "armor" I have been able to get her to equip are an enchanted amulet and an enchanted ring. She will also wear an enchanted circlet when indoors, but she takes that off when she wears her hood outside. I have tried giving her armor and other items of clothing without success. She carries the amor, but does not seem to ever equip it - I think her vampire armor must be pretty good stuff.

Serana will use improved one-handed weapons, but I have never seen her use a ranged wepaon - her ranged destruction magic seems to work well for her. I have never given her a two-handed melee weapon.

I let her carry an enchanted sword and some soul gems for awhile and the sword charge would go down after combat, but she never seemed to use the soul gems to recharge the weapon, so I had to do that manually for her. After awhile I took away all enchanted weapons from her and just gave her some ebony weapons. She seems to only ever equip the one-handed weapon that deals the most damage.

[Ilja]

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I have tried giving her armor and other items of clothing without success. She carries the amor, but does not seem to ever equip it - I think her vampire armor must be pretty good stuff.

She is wearing Vampire Royal Armor. It is a light armor and Serana has Light Armor as one of her primary skills + Custom Fit perk.

With armor class 30, Vampire Royal Armor it is placed between Elven Gilded (27) and Stalhrim (35). It also allows magicka to regenerate 125% faster.

Pretty good stuff. :)

[martin.apps]

Try this one:

Find (or make) the best unenchnted main weapon for your character then enchant it with Soul Trap and give it to them. You may find that they already have good items ('I need to trsde some things with you')

Do the same for the secondary weapon (usually a bow)

Give them the enchanted waepons and un-enchanted gems

As the game progresses you need to check on their kit they will fill the Soul Gems but _not_ charge their equipment (alwyas found that strange) you have to do it - but at the same time you may want to change their eqipment as the game progresses

Found you can build on this the longer you play the game. Especially when Enchantment reaches 100 and you can place two enchantments on an item

[Sternrake]

Origineel geplaatst door Ilja:

Origineel geplaatst door Galactus:

I have tried giving her armor and other items of clothing without success. She carries the amor, but does not seem to ever equip it - I think her vampire armor must be pretty good stuff.

She is wearing Vampire Royal Armor. It is a light armor and Serana has Light Armor as one of her primary skills + Custom Fit perk.

With armor class 30, Vampire Royal Armor it is placed between Elven Gilded (27) and Stalhrim (35). It also allows magicka to regenerate 125% faster.

Pretty good stuff. :)

Wow! I have given her the Ring of Resurgence which she does equip. That gives an 80% increase in magika regenertaion. I wonder if the percentages are additive or a percent of a percent type of thing.

[ballpoint202]

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Origineel geplaatst door Ilja:

She is wearing Vampire Royal Armor. It is a light armor and Serana has Light Armor as one of her primary skills + Custom Fit perk.

With armor class 30, Vampire Royal Armor it is placed between Elven Gilded (27) and Stalhrim (35). It also allows magicka to regenerate 125% faster.

Pretty good stuff. :)

Wow! I have given her the Ring of Resurgence which she does equip. That gives an 80% increase in magika regenertaion. I wonder if the percentages are additive or a percent of a percent type of thing.

Pretty sure they are additive.

If I'm playing a light armor character, royal vampire is my armor of choice until I get dragon amor.

[Angel]

I gave Serana some improved enchanted light armor and she did wear that. I also gave her Mehrune's Razor, because it just looks like something a vampire would carry around, unlike that elven dagger she starts with. She still sticks with magic though.

[Ilja]

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I gave Serana some improved enchanted light armor and she did wear that. I also gave her Mehrune's Razor, because it just looks like something a vampire would carry around, unlike that elven dagger she starts with. She still sticks with magic though.

Conjuration is one of her primary skills (Sneak, Conjuration, Light Armor and One-handed) so she will allways favor conjurations spells above other combat skills. She does not have Acrhery as progressive skill, so her Destruction keep being more stronger than her bow would be.