LycosDevanos wrote

OmitZz wrote

LycosDevanos wrote

OmitZz wrote

LycosDevanos wrote

OmitZz wrote

joshpeaty1 wrote No horse beats Arvak!!! it is simply amazing

Shadowmere > Arvak ;) Arvak is better if you actually want to use a horse but you can boost several of your skill trees to 100 with Shadowmere.

You can do that with Arvak as well, every time you summon him your conjuration goes up, and then just like with any conjured being you can attack them and get your skills up then just summon a friendly one again. So Arvak would be better then Shadowmere.

You're crazy! You can boost your conjuration with Shadowmere to 100 by dual casting soul trap on him in like 20 minutes. You don't have to keep summoning him so you never have to stop boosting. What is better? Holding down dual casted flames until your destruction to 100 or stopping every 60 seconds to summon Arvak back? Attacking Shadowmere until your One-handed, Two-handed or Archery are to 100? Or having to stop every 60 seconds to summon Arvak?

Hmm which is better indeed? Having an undying creature start attacking you or having it so when the creature turns hostile you can replace it with a friendly one?

I'm afraid I don't understand what you are getting at. If you are implying that Shadowmere will turn against you for attacking him, he does not. If that is not what you are meaning, please elaborate.

Not only that angle, but Shadowmere can die thus meaning a 10 day wait to get him back, provided one is lucky enough to not get the no respawn glitch.

It is true that he is glitch but it is so incredibly easy not to kill him that I would consider you a little stupid if you do. I can hit him 3-4 times with my Stahlrim dagger that does 140 damage before he is close to dying. It's not hard to switch to a weaker weapon that does less damage making it virtually impossible to kill him. It would be great if Shadowmere wasn't glitchy for every save you start. My GF's character has glitched it so she can't use him either. My save has glitched out Adrianne in Whiterun so she is just completely gone and I never found her body lying around anywhere. Assuming you can get Shadowmere, it is far better to level your stats with than any other horse. However, when it comes to being used as a horse to ride instead of leveling, Arvak is much better because you don't have to ever worry about losing him and he is so convenient.