Making Follower a Spellsword/Nightblade GUIDE

[Sukha]

== All you need to know about making your Follower a Spellsword/Nightblade Onehanded in one hand Magick in the other..... GUIDE ==

 

This is work in progress, going to finish up when I get home lol

 

Ok lets start by saying that this is pretty simple to do and in some cases leviates some of the problems you might be having with companions like their stats not leveling up with you.

First roadblock is to make sure your companion uses spells only in left hand, that makes him use his right hand eqipped weapon which is totally awesome. We do this by adding special spells that are only left handed...

 

You can find them by getting all spells with "psb" command, then use "help <spellname> 0" and find all spelld ID within "SPEL:" section (I will try and list most I could find)

You might notice that some of the left handed spells require much more mana than usuall counterparts, fear not... followers don't seem to be paying much attention to manacost, they cast spells at significant discount. I checked this with "getav magicka" before and after follower casts whatever he is casting.

 

Another thing you will have to decide is whether you want your companion to sometimes block or just spam spells like a madman. I am using a mod for improved magic, the mod sets "magickarate" to 3 which is 3 times higher than normal I think. With "Magickarate 3" I found that setting magicka of your follower to 30 will ensure that he will not have enough magicka to spam spells for long time and will start using his sword for blocking(or shield if you wish, looks silly so I let him use sword... more badass!) after the mana runs out. Then since magickarate is set to 30 after a couple of swings and blocks he will use a spell or two again. You will have to tweak this to your liking for best results, I would assume that with standard "magickarate 1" the follower would spam shitlots of lightningbolts and then go silent for a long time and use weapon and block.

(remember, do not give your companion any + magicka or +magickaregen items... if you absolutely must then use "forceav magicka <actorvalue>" to override followers magicka.

 

Class ID's and onehanded Spell ID's will be listed at the end of this guide...

 

Open console, click on your follower. (you will get his ID on the screen)

 

* 1. setclass <class ID> (you can use this instead of Enable/Disable to fix stats, its much more convinient just enter the command and stats will update... need to reset magicka attribute though)

* 2. addspell <spell ID>

* 3. setmagicka <actorvalue>

 

(optional)

* 4. resetai

 

(general follower console commands to make them use equipment we want them to use)

showinventory (lists all items in inventory)

removeitem <item ID> <amount> (removes item of choice and quantity)

 

CLASS ID's

 

Spellsword

Two versions of Spellswords can be found, Heavy armor and Light armor skill oriented.

* 00013177(Heavy armor, less HP)

* 0010F7F9(Light armor, more HP)

 

Nightblade

There is only one Nightblade ID and it is Sneak oriented, so if you are a stealth character you might consider this as an option

 

* 0001317c

 

SPELL ID's for left hand

 

* 0010ee3b(Lightning Bolt)

* 0007d98f(Fire Bolt)

* 00040000(Ice Spike)

* 0007231c(Fast Healing)

 

SPELL ID's the rest can be found here

 

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Spells

Edited December 5, 2011 by Sukha

[Blocky]

I'm gonna try this. Faendal is better as melee than with a bow sometimes, and I wanted his skills to actually focus on that.

[cbbbluedevils]

I'm not sure why I can't get this to work. I can never get the game to show me my followers stats or let me change them. I've tried clicking on them, facing them and clicking on them, entering in number that shows up after you click on them and entering the NPC's baseID. Nothing works. What exactly do you type to view their stats (i.e. Health)?

[HadToRegister]

I'm not sure why I can't get this to work. I can never get the game to show me my followers stats or let me change them. I've tried clicking on them, facing them and clicking on them, entering in number that shows up after you click on them and entering the NPC's baseID. Nothing works. What exactly do you type to view their stats (i.e. Health)?

 

The number you're getting when you click on them is their Reference ID, that's why it's not working.

To get their BaseID, type

 

help <character's name> 4

leave out the < and >

 

That should give you a list of stuff, and in there should be the character's BaseID

[Syeeb]

Question, if I am understanding what this will do...

 

If I set Lydia to use a one hand sword in her right hand, I can then set her to use a spell in the left hand (That's what it seems this does) so if that is correct, can you set her to use a "heal other" spell and then will she use it on you? essentially making her your personal healer.

[msbodhy]

there is a problem with link for spell id's since the id's for left handed spells are not listed there only for right hand.

[msbodhy]

There is a problem with the link for spells id since it contains id's for right handed spells only.