Lydia seems to have become invulnerable

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A while ago I used the enable/disable command on Lydia to level her up to my current level, as I wanted to keep using her throughout the game. However, and I'm not sure if it happened after that leveling or after the Thalmor Embassy quest, she seems to have become almost invulnerable. No matter what hits her, her health bar drops almost nothing.

She actually managed to defeat Orchendor on her own, as well as a randomly-encountered dragon, without effort and without any intervention from me.

Is there any way to detect, through console commands, what is something wrong with her, such as excessively high health regen or armor rating? And if so, how can I get her back to normal? I don't complain about having a powerful follower, but having a too powerful one, well, makes the game a bit boring.

Thanks!

Best Answer

Target Lydia in the console, then use getav x where x is an actor value indice like health or CombatHealthRegenMult. Try using resurrect on her, it should reset her stats to what is appropriate.

Related Solutions

Lydia gone after Containment quest

I suspect Lydia wasn't 'controlled' by a Mage: She was probably killed and reanimated as an undead. If this is the case all her stuff should reside in a dust pile, as she would die again when you killed the mage. If this is the case then the only way to get her back is to use console commands to bring her back to life.

I just read over the Containment Quest in detail: You don't fight any mages in it, just a bunch of Magical Anomalies. Are you sure this is the quest you are referring to?

Why have I become invisible

Edit: None of these seemed to work for the OP, but I'll leave them here as suggestions for those experiencing similar issues.

For the why, well, I have no idea (aside from "oh, Bethesda"). But I had a similar issue with a spell effect being permanently attached to my feet. It generated smoke, so my sneaky little thief looked something like Smoke from Mortal Kombat. I gamboled about until it finally resolved, I believe due to transformation into a werewolf. Your problem is due to either opacity (most likely) being set to 0 or your character model being non-existent (unlikely IMO).

There are several solutions I'll suggest:

Become Ethereal:
The Become Ethereal shout should fix any opacity issues when it ends. Here's a YouTube video from a user with a similar issue. Although it ends with the person just reloading a save and exacting revenge, the user claims that the suggestion to use Become Ethereal repaired the problem.

Become Ethereal's Words can be found in Lost Valley Redoubt, Ironbind Barrow and Ustengrav. If you can handle Hagravens and a few Forsworn, Lost Valley Redoubt's Word Wall is outside and probably the quickest.

There are also unique potions that let you become ethereal, called Philters of the Phantom. You can find them in a quest in Shroud Hearth Barrow, near Ivarstead. It's possible that an invisibility spell or potion will have the same effect, but I haven't tried that or seen it done.

Console (PC only):
Open the console (~ or whatever's above tab and left of 1) and type

player.setactoralpha 100

If that doesn't work, there's

sexchange
sexchange

It should force your character model to, uh, rebuild.

Werewolf:
Transforming to a Werewolf and back will also force rebuilding.