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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 11:32 pm

Will have to give Marcurio a try since everybody keeps saying he's the [censored]. I always sacrifice him at the Boethia alter so i can has ebony mail. :lmao:
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Post » Fri Jun 08, 2012 1:07 am

Will have to give Marcurio a try since everybody keeps saying he's the [censored]. I always sacrifice him at the Boethia alter so i can has ebony mail. :lmao:

Oh that is a terrible waste. If you're not on PC, though, be very wary of taking him on any adventures where you will have other temporary allies assigned by the game, like the CW battles and some of the dungeon quests where you are helping someone who then tags along. Even having him with a dog or horse is a problem because he uses Chain Lightning a lot and when he casts it at an enemy it will ricochet off onto any person or creature nearby, including your other allies who may be in close to his target. They will then either take damage and go aggro on him as a result, or in the case of weak NPCs they may just be killed outright.

If you're on PC you can look up the ID for the spell and open the console, target him, and use the removespell command to take that spell away from him. That's what I did and he now plays nice with all my other friends.
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 3:52 pm

Mjoll rules all, shes immortal and handles herself nicely in battle. I like aela too because she primarily uses bows so stays out of my way while helping weaken enemies...faendal annoys me
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Post » Fri Jun 08, 2012 12:52 am

Oh that is a terrible waste. If you're not on PC, though, be very wary of taking him on any adventures where you will have other temporary allies assigned by the game, like the CW battles and some of the dungeon quests where you are helping someone who then tags along. Even having him with a dog or horse is a problem because he uses Chain Lightning a lot and when he casts it at an enemy it will ricochet off onto any person or creature nearby, including your other allies who may be in close to his target. They will then either take damage and go aggro on him as a result, or in the case of weak NPCs they may just be killed outright.

If you're on PC you can look up the ID for the spell and open the console, target him, and use the removespell command to take that spell away from him. That's what I did and he now plays nice with all my other friends.

Noted. I'm on the 360 so no console commanding him to play nice. However, I use lightening spells too...so should be epic zap-fest.

Mjoll rules all, shes immortal and handles herself nicely in battle. I like aela too because she primarily uses bows so stays out of my way while helping weaken enemies...faendal annoys me

Mjoll is a beast, no doubt. She just talks too much. After a few hours of it, she becomes annoying. Maybe if Bethesda increased her dialog options it wouldn't be so bad...but after the billionth time hearing about her mother sword training her, or her warnings about dwemer ruins (yes I know, that steam centurion pwnt you...and not me) I start looking for the Tamriellic version of duct tape.
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 7:27 pm

Noted. I'm on the 360 so no console commanding him to play nice. However, I use lightening spells too...so should be epic zap-fest.

I learned the hard way to leave him some distance away if I was going to have any temporary extra help (or to tell the offered extra help just to stay behind if that was an option).

The first time I used him with other allies around was in Korvanjund on the Jagged Crown quest for the Stormcloaks. Galmar got a dose of ricocheted chain lightning and... well... he's essential at that point, so it was not pretty. :P I had to reload and start over with Marcurio standing guard far away on the other side of some snowbank where he couldn't cause any trouble.
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 11:29 am

Word of advice: Don't type "Janessa" into Google.

I myself never use followers. I think I used Lydia once... but found her annoying. I should try to use Janessa once.
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 9:09 pm

Word of advice: Don't type "Janessa" into Google.

Woah! LOL! That's not the Janessa I know! But I bet there's a mod for that... :D
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 12:26 pm

Word of advice: Don't type "Janessa" into Google.

I myself never use followers. I think I used Lydia once... but found her annoying. I should try to use Janessa once.

*Ignores your warning*

Hmm, must more closely study this strange creature...
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 5:25 pm

Yeah, lol. I didn't know who she was and searched for her in Google.

:)
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Post » Fri Jun 08, 2012 12:20 am

Erik the Slayer - adorable personality and attitude, pretty good in a fight for an "untried" warrior. Don't let that crap iron his pop bought him fool you, he's better in the light stuff and with a 2H weapon strapped to his back.

He's a really good archer as well--it's one of his major skills, along with light armor and 2H. Although his aim does need work. I keep finding his arrows stuck in Meeko, Delphine, my character's posterior... :tongue:

Also, when he gets to be about level 35, he has 540 health. (Assuming you've unstuck his stats, if you've been traveling with him for a while, or if you waited until around then to pick him up.) "Untried" he may be, but he's also an enthusiastic wrecking ball of a tank in later levels of the game. Probably helps that in my game, he's got a honed glass warhammer with an absorb health enchantment on it. Honestly, at this point, my mage could just stand back and let him smash all but the toughest enemies to bits if she wanted.

I think by default, his max level is 40. I've got a follower mod that uncaps all followers to level 81, though. Lord knows how high his health'll be by then. He might turn into the Tamriellic equivalent of Thor at this rate. :P
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 12:13 pm

Found this http://www.addfunny.com/funnypictures/skyrimjordissw/30/jordistheswordmaiden.jpg while surfing google. lol
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Post » Fri Jun 08, 2012 2:18 am

Heck yeah, Jenassa! My Dunmer even married her she's so darn awesome. She's not too bad at being stealthy, either. A little macabre and grumpy at times, but I like that in her. :biggrin:

My Argonian, Khan-Ro-Sal, married her. Sure, it may not make much sense in the lore....

But we all need a break from lore every once in a while :P
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Post » Fri Jun 08, 2012 12:15 am


I think by default, his max level is 40. I've got a follower mod that uncaps all followers to level 81, though. Lord knows how high his health'll be by then. He might turn into the Tamriellic equivalent of Thor at this rate. :tongue:

Are you using UFO? I love that, because after I've leveled up a few times I can tell a follower to "train" and they will level up to wherever I'm at, plus they get the appropriate bumps in their individual skill levels. It didn't take long to get Erik to 100 in 2H and Light Armor, and yeah he was getting up there in Archery as well.

I wasn't sure it would still work with "custom" followers but I tried it with Ulfric and it worked. I think he's still at level 50 because I don't think I've bothered to level him up any further, he's already at 100 in everything he needs to do except Sneak and he's got Muffled boots, so...

And his health was something crazy like 640... of course I'm pretty sure he's still essential, so it doesn't really matter in terms of his mortality, except that I'm guessing he's not likely to take a knee anytime soon.
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 7:22 pm

Are you using UFO? I love that, because after I've leveled up a few times I can tell a follower to "train" and they will level up to wherever I'm at, plus they get the appropriate bumps in their individual skill levels. It didn't take long to get Erik to 100 in 2H and Light Armor, and yeah he was getting up there in Archery as well.

Nah, I'm using Fixed Followers Lite. Most of what it does has been fixed in either the USKP and official patches by now, but I don't feel like disturbing my load order and my save by taking it out and replacing it with UFO or something similar. Plus I'm trying to keep things pretty lightweight on the mod side anyway. (Says the lady with almost 200 mods in her current Morrowind install. :blush: ) I'll try UFO out with my next character. :)
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 11:54 am

Found this http://www.addfunny.com/funnypictures/skyrimjordissw/30/jordistheswordmaiden.jpg while surfing google. lol

Where the hell did you find that?!

Jenassa, Erik and Marcurio are the [censored].
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 4:14 pm

Where the hell did you find that?!

Jenassa, Erik and Marcurio are the [censored].

I just typed in "Janessa Skyrim" into google image and it popped up.
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 10:33 pm

If you wait to level 50 to get Aela of the comp[anions, she is great, and essential for some quests I believe....my character is a sneak/archer, and together we wreak havoc. I haven't a need to look elsewhere... Only thing is, she won't take stolen goods.
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Post » Fri Jun 08, 2012 2:51 am

I have had pretty good experiences with both Jenassa and Brelyna Marion from the College of WH. Brelyna ranks number one in my book though because she summons atronachs which really help on higher difficulties.
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 8:20 pm

I simply say any follower who can provide "free" training. You ask them to train you. They do. You ask them to trade equipment, and you take the money that you just spent on training. Let's face it, followers are leveled at the level we meet them on, so with this logic, any follower can be great. It just depends on when you bring them into your service.
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 2:28 pm

Word of advice: Don't type "Janessa" into Google.

I myself never use followers. I think I used Lydia once... but found her annoying. I should try to use Janessa once.

I will NOT name my daughter Janessa... The worlds [censored]tiest name.
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 4:03 pm

I'm surprised no one's mentioned Illia! I've used Lydia, Janessa, J'zargo and three others not worth mentioning. I got tired of Lydia's sarcastic, "I'm sworn to carry your burdens," so I wasn't very sad when she bit the dust. However, I was sad when Janessa died. She was my first and a good companion. :smile:

J'zargo and I went on many jaunts. He's always ready to go: "J'zargo is ready for more adventure!" But - I guess like all followers - I got tired of hearing the same dialog over and over.

I now use Illia and she is one tough cookie! A very powerful mage that can wield one and two-handed weapons as well. I've also seen her use a bow. Her frost spells are fierce! She has 425/50 health/stamina, though I've made her essential, so I don't know how easy she is to kill. However, she doesn't "bleed out" (fall to her knees) much so I'd expect she pretty resilient. I've outfitted her with elven armor and a glass sword with chance of paralyzing, but she mainly uses ice spikes at long distance, so she doesn't get in the way much.
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 10:48 am

Vorstag is very good when i play and Marcurio works fine too i've never had any problems with him but i remember one problem i've had with Jenassa in a quest outside morthal when you help a nord woman battlemage retrieve a journal that link her as descendant to Ysgramor (forgotten quest name) i did the mistake of bringing along Jenassa and yeah she's used lightning AoE spells and hit Jenassa multiple times and i had given her enchanted axes so she killed her and quest failed,bump.
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Post » Fri Jun 08, 2012 1:51 am

I've used:

Marcurio
Jenassa
Annekke
Derkeethus
Stenvar
Erik
Roggi
Faendal
Uthgerd
some Stray Dogs

(I've also suffered once through the companions' questline and their idea of "followers"... :wallbash: )


Jenassa clearly was the best for my purposes indeed. But I have killed her a couple of times because she was strafing around like an idiot between the target and me. She also got me killed a couple of times by strafing around like an idiot between some archer and me (I play rather fragile characters who die from a single arrow, even if that arrow was aimed at the idiot follower while I hadn't been spotted yet). And she has died in a Falmer encounter once or twice.

I liked the Stray Dog very much, even though I don't particularly like dogs normally. Both times, he randomly disappeared after a while though.

Erik is very adorable, and I'd rate him 2nd best after Jenassa.

Stenvar I also liked quite a lot. He was the very first follower I tried (after I had been traumatized by forced followers as in the Companions' questline, I played for a long time without any followers, because I thought that they would be just as bad as Farkass and the other imbecile dogs). Stenvar I recruited because I simple couldn't find a way to Winterhold that wasn't guarded by a deadly snow sabrecat or murderous snow bear or pack of fierce ice wolves, and I really wanted to travel to towns on foot before using the carriages. I thought that a follower might be capable of cleaning the path for me, and so he did. I've been using followers ever since.

Faendal looks creepy, Derkeethus and Annekke didn't manage to show any kind of personality or adorability. Uthgerd alerted the whole population of dungeons as soon as we entered by the front gate, and then she died quickly.

Marcurio was annoying in many ways. He kept one-shotting stuff so that I didn't get any experience at all anymore. And his "I am an apprentice wizard, not a packmule... ah well, but make it quick" line annoyed me really quickly really bad. I think I could cope much better with Lydia's "I'm sworn to carry you burden" than that; but I've never really been tempted to ask a housecarl to travel with me. Their job is to be a guard of my premises and to keep burglars out.
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 1:07 pm

Funny first post, lol.

I don't have followers. They're almost all total and utter morons who walk into every single attack you make.
I killed every single follower I had by their own stupidity.
Vorstag I killed by accident because I thought he was the enemy, lol.

The best one is Vorstag. He says good things, keeps out your way and looks handsome.
I don't care about how he won't change his armour and weapons for better stuff. That he works as he's meant to, that is the most important thing.

The best one is
Vorstag

The good ones(but still moronic)
Marcurio
The witch from dark towers.
Faendel
Stenvor

The absolutely diabolical morons
Lydia
Jondis
Aela
Vilkas
Farkas
All the Companions have moronic AI. I dread doing their quests were they come along.
Meeko
Barbas. The most killable dog I ever saw. So glad you can kill him in the quest.
And all the ones I tried, and died because of their own stupidity.

I don't even try any more followers now. It's just not worth it.
It's like sheperding a drunk, high, easily distracted idiot round.
Like the escort mission from hell.
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 10:52 pm

I've used:

Marcurio
Jenassa
Annekke
Derkeethus
Stenvar
Erik
Roggi
Faendal
Uthgerd
some Stray Dogs

(I've also suffered once through the companions' questline and their idea of "followers"... :wallbash: )


Jenassa clearly was the best for my purposes indeed. But I have killed her a couple of times because she was strafing around like an idiot between the target and me. She also got me killed a couple of times by strafing around like an idiot between some archer and me (I play rather fragile characters who die from a single arrow, even if that arrow was aimed at the idiot follower while I hadn't been spotted yet). And she has died in a Falmer encounter once or twice.

I liked the Stray Dog very much, even though I don't particularly like dogs normally. Both times, he randomly disappeared after a while though.

Erik is very adorable, and I'd rate him 2nd best after Jenassa.

Stenvar I also liked quite a lot. He was the very first follower I tried (after I had been traumatized by forced followers as in the Companions' questline).

Faendal looks creepy, Derkeethus and Annekke didn't manage to show any kind of personality or adorability. Uthgerd alerted the whole population of dungeons as soon as we entered by the front gate, and then she died quickly.

Marcurio was annoying in many ways. He kept one-shotting stuff so that I didn't get any experience at all anymore. And his "I am an apprentice wizard, not a packmule... ah well, but make it quick" line annoyed me really quickly really bad. I think I could cope much better with Lydia's "I'm sworn to carry you burden" than that; but I've never really been tempted to ask a housecarl to travel with me. Their job is to be a guard of my premises and to keep burglars out.

I think the followers give you xp from their kills. I could be wrong. Bethesda are known for clinging onto stupid, useless systems for no reason.
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