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Anyone here have ever made followers with perks added to them? Anyone know if lockpick perks have any beneficial use towards followers? A friend is making his third follower for public release and asked me to help him with it. But frankly I can't help him with that because I never was interested in followers using perks. Some are necessary like Light Food perk so followers don't set off traps and get you or themselves killed. However, I use a mod that does that to any follower I have so I never use that perk. I went ahead and tested lock picking on one of my own followers who's a warrior class with lock picking skills set to 15 and I had her open a novice locked chest, and then a master locked chest with ease. The novice one I had her just take everytyhing in it and the master locked chest I had her just unlock it, I saw no disadvantages from it for followers and I was using the vanilla dialogue "I need you to do something." So at this point I just don't see the purpose of even giving your follower any traits and skills that benefit for lock picking if they can have weak skills as is and still open any leveled chests with no problem. I can only see a benefit from this if creating a custom follower that uses it's own features and maybe some animation to go and unlock a chest or door. In fact, I believe there is a custom follower that does this, but I can't remember which one it is.