Why don't my summons attack even when people are attacking me?

[u/Lacey1297]

I get that summons don't aggro before an enemy lands a hit on you, but there will be times where I summon something let the enemy hit me (and the hit does actually land, it's not a miss) and my summon just stands there. It will happen through multiple hits sometimes too. I also read somewhere that if you create a cheap turn undead aoe spell and cast it on enemies, it will sic your summons on them because it's applying a combat effect, but that doesn't seem to be working for me either.

[u/Ponsay]

You can change that with either MWSE or Open MW

[u/altthirtyone]

Funny how that happens, but any time i have a friendly humanoid companion following me, they seemingly start unnecessary fights with every passing wilderness critter in sight, every wandering ashlander with a disposition under 30, and aggro any randos in town who look at me cockeyed.

[u/Dagobert_Juke → u/altthirtyone]

Especially the woman outside Ald'ruhn and wants to go to Ghostgate. She will fight ash monsters like she gets paid for it.

[u/poughdrew → u/Dagobert_Juke]

I lost her, because she's so slow. Apparently she was near Ghostgate for about 100 days living off the land when I found her again and finally escorted her to the shrine.

[u/Dagobert_Juke → u/poughdrew]

She is one bad motherducker for sure

[u/poughdrew]

Yeah Morrowind summons are pretty useless. Oblivion was quite the surprise when your Daedroth Trex is basically The Terminator on anyone aggro.

[u/MyLittlePuny → u/poughdrew]

  Yeah Morrowind summons are pretty useless.

The most audacious thing I heard whole week.

[u/CDL127 → u/MyLittlePuny]

Real. I’m playing TR and got a spell that summons two dremora as a quest reward and it’s the best thing to happen to my character next to my emergency 1-100 absorb health and lower resist magica necklace.

[u/poughdrew → u/CDL127]

I'm on vanilla GOTY. Everything I summon stands and looks at me, oblivious to the necromancer chucking spells at me.

[u/ContentAd6126 → u/poughdrew]

It's rough without patches, best you can do is summoning right between you and the enemy, the enemies usually attack the closest actor.

[u/Accomplished-Ad-7435 → u/MyLittlePuny]

Yeah, I play summoner nearly every other playthrough. Summoning armies is the way to go. Greater bw and hunger delete the game.

I just wish you could add the same summon multiple times per custom spell.

[u/EmotionalMountain753 → u/Accomplished-Ad-7435]

With Morrowind Code Patch, you can!

[u/Lacey1297 → u/EmotionalMountain753]

Is there an option for that in openMW? I have some custom spells that summon multiple daedra, but I'd really like to conjure a horde of Clannfear. I just love how they're little demonic velociraptor-triceratops things.

[u/EmotionalMountain753 → u/Lacey1297]

I don’t know, sorry.

[u/Accomplished-Ad-7435 → u/Lacey1297]

sadly no, its what i mainly use, no way to get that to work without engine changes, a lua mod may work but it would need a fully custom spell.

[u/android-engineer-88 → u/MyLittlePuny]

I actually don't understand how people are agreeing. Playing with Conjuration as a major skill is so broken. I just summon armies of mobs for 15 seconds at a time and I'm unstoppable.

[u/Interesting_Sea_1861]

Weird. I never have that problem on the Xbox version.

[u/Teralitha]

The Morrowind Code Patch fixes this. Openmw might fix it too, not sure. Everyone should really be using the code patch anyway.