Whats with the glowing green pillars near the spiked gates with loot behind them? Does altering them in some way open the gate? And if so then how would someone do this.

I assume you mean the ones in the Soul Cairn? Use a destruction spell or staff and see what happens.

Nothing happend :L

If you shoot both pillars with a spell/bolt/arrow, the gates go down allowing access to the loot

Shoot the orbs with arrows. They are the locks to the gates.

Are you hitting the greenish fire looking stuff in the middle? You also need to be close enough that you're actually hitting it. And you have to hit 2, there are always 2 and they aren't always easy to spot right away

Haven't been hitting them like that, just out of rage. But I will try it.

It worked, thanks for the help.

Yeah shoot the fire looking stuff. don't rage =p oh I hope you know about the little teleporters as well...

Took me forever to figure out the little buggers teleported you to certain areas.