There's a bug with at least some of the followers where their level increases but their stats and skills don't. This is the case with Lydia, unfortunately.

Open the console, click on them, and type "getav health"; substitute health for stamina, twohanded, marksman, heavyarmor etc to see other stats and skills. They can be increased by using the modav command, e.g. "modav health 100" will add 100 to whatever their current HP is. You can also use "player.getav whatever" to compare while you're at it.

Thank you!

Good to know this is on the buglist. Hopefully this is part of the next patch.

Thanks to this thread I found the enable/disable workaround at

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

I was wondering why my tank follower decked out pretty well was kneeling after 1-2 hits. I found that guy at like level 4-5. I would imagine that level scaling the members of the Companions will make them all strong followers.

The fact that your followers are soon left in the dust, stats-wise, would help explain the issues mage players are having. Hard to be an effective mage if your "tank" can't, well, tank.



By the by, the console is opened with the "` ~" key. On most keyboards its the one left of the "1 !" key.

Oh nice! Good to know it's an official bug -- and even better to know how to fix it with the disable/enable trick! Faendal is about to get one serious upgrade! :biggrin:

GetLevel for level (obviously, works on all NPCs and creatures)

and GetAV http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Tes5Mod:Actor_Value_Indices for the rest.

More commands here: http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Console

I don't use followers to often cause they steal my kills

Cheers

Follows will only use gear you give them if:

1. It is actually better than what they currently use

2. If the gear fits with their "class"

All NPC's are given a class (such as farmer, spellsword, blacksmith, mage, etc). Certain NPC's will only use certain weapon/armor combos if it fits with their class. This is why if you give a suit of heavy armor to Derkeethus, who normally just wears clothes or light armor you give him, he won't equip it even if it is "better". Same reason why some NPC's will always use sword/shield but never dual wield - their class playstyle that was set for them doesn't mesh with it. If you are on PC, theres a console command to force certain classes on NPC's. Spellsword is a nice all-around class to pick if you want your follower to use both magic and weapons (they'll even dual cast from time to time) for example.

I tried the disable / enable command an my one follower is still stuck at level 30 ( i am level 44 ). Follower in question is Eola
Any idea how to fix this? Can you change a NPCs level and by doing that would it raise their stats accordingly?

She has a level cap of 30, so I'm afraid not, at least not until the CK is release (it may be possible to change with a console command, though I'm not aware of one.) You can still use modav to alter her skills and stats, though...

^ Well that is just stupid


Any idea where to find the level caps for all companions?

At present, just in the master file. FNVedit will open it after a fashion, others are using TESsnip, but overall it'd be better to wait until the Construction Kit comes out.

After seeing the train wreck of a 1.2 patch, i dont know if the CK will be out any time soon lol.
I just wanted to see a list so i can go out and get anotehr companion

Quick question, please don't laugh, but is the CK only for PC users or will something be available for consoles?

I'm afraid there isn't anywhere that I know of; though it just struck me that I may as well contribute the level info that I've just gleaned to UESP: I can be a bit slow, sometimes...

PC. Its something the console users throw in our face when we voice our opinion of being a little let down by the game

Thanks for the reply. I figured it was for modding on PC, but one can never give up hope.

I remember seeing a page with the info but i can't figure out what site. I tried UESP but i can't find anything on there