Pacifist Serana?

[gooser]

Playing through Dawnguard quests and gotten to a point where Serana is a complete pacifist and anytime an enemy shows up, she yells her "no, no, not again!" (iirc) statement, goes inviso, and then runs away.

 

I'm at the point where we are just following side quests, collecting recipes for crossbow bolt perks, etc.

 

I'm using the latest Defeat, so I thought that she might have a magic effect still on her for fear, so I hit [clean] in MCM, but that didn't change anything apparently...

 

any ideas? thx!

[aqqh]

set her combat behaviour manually - via puppetmaster for example

[gooser]

I am using AFT, so there's a menu option to "Manage with AFT". But I wonder if I should hold off until the main DG quest is finished to do that?

 

What do you think?

[aqqh]

I've never been using AFT but it obviously changed her vanila behaviour since she should charge at any enemy that would aggro you.

Shes quite annoying actually - when i sneak and i'am partially detected Serana charges in with her spellcasts announcing "WE'RE HERE, COME GET US!"

[Shadowhawk827]

I've used ATF thru a few playthrus and never had this issue with Serana.  It sounds like a hidden conflict that's keeping her traumatized about being raped.  What though?  Good question.

 

As for holding off, it almost would be a blessing to do so given what an aggro monster she is normally, lol.

[gooser]

Yes, but I think she's capped at 80, so once my PC gets into the range of 90-100, pretty much she is getting instantly knocked down, and knocked-up.

[Shadowhawk827]

Well the other option there would be to go into the CK and uncap her potential level limit.  That'll keep her usable at higher levels.  Again though as much as I like Serana as a character, I *hate* having her along side me in a fight because of her delusions of tank-hood.

 

I'm wondering more and more if this also couldn't be a hidden mod error or a mod conflict also.  My Dawnguard Sentries mod has a RARE conflict that causes the Sentries to react hostile to the PC for no reason.  Adjusting the mod order has fixed it in the couple of reported cases but nobody has been able to tell me what mod causes the conflict.  Likewise on the single mod error, I have the BTRH Waifu mod installed that beautifies a dozen key NPCs.  For a while there was a bug in it that made Ysolda turn into Mack the Knife and go after everyone in Whiterun.  Obvious troubleshooting advice here would be to try and remember if this behavior started right after you installed a mod or made a change to a mod you're personally working on.