Horse Healing

Yan Gotoxy · Post by **Yan Gotoxy** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 4:31 pm

Is there any chance that when your horse gets wounded, that you can heal him? (ive tried to use potions when riding the horse and nothing...)
Worst of all, what about if the horse dies? what to do? buy another?? lol
Sorry im still a noob at this game lol

TheDeadShadow · Post by **TheDeadShadow** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 6:31 pm

if you are good with restoration you could just cast a heal other *heal on target* spell on the horse.as for dead horse...dont let it die.

Yan Gotoxy · Post by **Yan Gotoxy** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 7:21 pm

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ye right... thanks
anyway ive spent 10000 gold, just cause ive let a my black horse die 2 times...
now its the 3º horse i buy (15000 gold now) :S lol

Marik333 · Post by **Marik333** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 7:57 pm

That's why you park your horse in a nice neighborhood, remember to put change in the meter, and check up on it every hour or so, no matter how ridiculous you look in a speedo in public (they're laughing WITH you, not AT you).

Seriously, though, don't take your horse somewhere stupid. If you're getting the black horse, or white horse, than it's a serious investment, and you should treat it as such by hopping on it and running like crud when something really big and scary that you can't take out before it eats your horse starts chasing you. Stick to the roads, and, if you're lucky, there'll be a guard nearby that will slow it down just long enough for you to make a quick getaway, not to mention fill it up so that it's all full and bloated and won't want dessert, just yet.

That, and if you're making enough money to blow on black horses like that, you should probably get some training in Restoration so that you can cast even a low level heal-other type spell on it if things get just a little too close.

Master David · Post by **Master David** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 10:01 pm

Or just get

Spoiler

Shadowmere

, it's as fast as the Black Horse, and it cannot die, because it is forever an essential character.

Spoiler:

Spoiler

You can get it by completing the Dark Brotherhood quest: Purification.

End of spoiler

Fljotsdale · Post by **Fljotsdale** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 6:21 am

I never found 'heal' spells worked om my horses - and yes, I use ranged 'heal other' or touch 'heal other' type spells. Only thing that works for me is 'wait' for an hour, beside the animal, and then it is ok.

And yes, always leave your horse in a safe location. I generally fast-travel the horse to a city and walk/run/fast sneak from there. I do take the horse to other locations I have been to previously, but I always scout round to kill anything aggressive nearby before I leave it there.
But there will always be the odd times when you can't prevent your horse getting involved. I have twice had a horse get killed; at least I think they were killed. I'm not sure, because both times the injured horse ran off, badly injured, with a will-o-wisp following it. I followed in hot pursuit, killed the wisp, both times, but there was no sign of the horse (easily identifiable because armoured) even though I checked all around and even back at the place I got 'em from. I checked there several times, to give 'em chance to get back home, and at the stables outside Imperial City. I have a feeling that they just vanish when they die.

I also wonder what happens to the horse you WERE riding when you get the DB quest horse. I tried saving game and riding my old horse back to stables, but DB horse was gone when I walked back. I reloaded save and rode DB horse to stables, walked back to location and old horse still there. What to do? You can't LEAD a horse, you can't ride it and retain the new horse (yes, I tried, and the DB horse had vanished). So, does your old horse stay there forever - or at least for the rest of the game? I don't like leaving it there...

I'm not playing that particular char any more, but I still wonder...

Master David · Post by **Master David** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 6:42 am

When

Spoiler

Shadowmere

isn't your active mount, he will go back to

Spoiler

Fort Farragut

,
But you can take him again (of course, he's yours)

You can't heal your horses? Then it must be (or very likely) a bug, do a troubleshoot or two

Fljotsdale · Post by **Fljotsdale** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 2:36 pm

So it doesn't just vanish? Ok.

Thanks. That means I could reload the char, collect my old horse and put it in a stable, then go back to collect from given location. I know it's silly, but I would feel much happier with the poor old thing in a safe location! (Sheesh! What a fus to make over a set of pixels! But I'm quite fond of Maborel's paint horse!

)

I have never been able to heal my horse with spells, though obviously I have tried. I came to the conclusion it was just one of those things; but if eveyone else can do it, it must be a glitch. Come to think of it, I haven't tried since I got the latest expansion: the warrior fort/castle/whatever near Chorrol. Maybe I should see if it fixed it. After all, it locked the door of the Mystic Emporium and made all the contents of the store look like free pickings!

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 4:50 pm

Some people would probably see this as cheating.. but another option is to download Alien Slof's horse mod. In addition to giving all the horses gorgeous new textures, she had made them essential so that they only become unconscious.
You can get the mod [url="http://www.slofshive.co.uk/index.php?page=modarticle&modarticle/id=598q2mbi9zs"]here[/url]. (warning: this site contains adult material)

Yan Gotoxy · Post by **Yan Gotoxy** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 5:27 pm

wow... im on level 12 and i got more than 30000 gold...
if someone thinks this is too much, then this game is far more easy than i thought (i don't use cheats!! those are for noobs who wanna stay like that! lol)

anyway, its realist that a horse dies if you let it nearby a whole bunch of carnivorous men (lol) but its just a thing that im not used to...

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 6:38 pm

Yan Gotoxy wrote:wow... im on level 12 and i got more than 30000 gold...
if someone thinks this is too much, then this game is far more easy than i thought (i don't use cheats!! those are for noobs who wanna stay like that! lol)

anyway, its realist that a horse dies if you let it nearby a whole bunch of carnivorous men (lol) but its just a thing that im not used to...

It's not difficult to make gold in Oblivion, that's why I use a mod that makes the economy a bit more realistic.

Oh please, cut the the term "noobs" this isn't a forum where it will earn you any respect.

On topic though, I suppose it really depends on how you define cheating. I view making horses unkillable to be more of an "ease-of-use" thing, and it gets around Bethsoft's greedy and moronic policy of charging for horse armour...which should have been included in the game when it originally shipped.
As far as realism goes, no it isn't realistic for horses to be invulnerable, I agree. However, dead eyes and purple-black coats aren't realistic either, so instead I'll go with Alien Slof's retextures, and some mods that make the economy more challenging.

Master David · Post by **Master David** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 4:05 am

Fljotsdale wrote:So it doesn't just vanish? Ok. Thanks. That means I could reload the char, collect my old horse and put it in a stable, then go back to collect from given location. I know it's silly, but I would feel much happier with the poor old thing in a safe location! (Sheesh! What a fus to make over a set of pixels! But I'm quite fond of Maborel's paint horse! )

You are welcome,
Did you just say you can now use

Spoiler

Shadowmere

conveniently?

Fljotsdale · Post by **Fljotsdale** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 1:08 pm

Oh, yes. I did that whole horrible Dark Brotherhood questline with that particular character. Never again.

I just didn't like leaving Prior Maborel's paint horse behind in the wild...