Before I get into the specifics, let me show you how poisons with positive effects are useful in combat. Let's say you're playing a Healer, a Summoner or a Necromancer, yet you're not very fond of using Illusion to buff followers / atronachs / undead minions. Or you're playing a Necromancer and spells like Heal Undead are not available because you don't have Dawnguard installed. The answer to your problems lies in one skill: Alchemy! Through Alchemy, you can create poisons with positive effects that restore and fortify Health or Stamina and increase Magic Resistance!
How to do it
Equip a dagger and apply the poison with positive effects on it;
Hit your follower or conjured / undead minion with the dagger to apply the positive effects;
Observations & Restrictions
Poisons with positive effects can be applied to undead minions only if the npcs were NOT immune to poisons when they were alive. So, if you kill a bandit and raise it, the poisons with positive effects will work on it. If you kill a vampire and raise it, the poisons won't work because vampires have 100% resistance to poisons;
Poisons with positive effects work on conjured Atronachs, Dremora Lords, Seekers and Atronach Thralls;
Poisons with positive effects work on followers;
Poisons with positive effects don't work on Mistman, Boneman and Wrathman;
Some of the more beneficial positive effects that can be applied through poisons are: Restore Health, Fortify Health, Restore Stamina, Fortify Stamina, Resist Fire, Resist Frost and Resist Magic. Effects like Fortify One-Handed Do Not Work even if poisons with these positive effects can be brewed;
Before I get into the specifics, let me show you how poisons with positive effects are useful in combat. Let's say you're playing a Healer, a Summoner or a Necromancer, yet you're not very fond of using Illusion to buff followers / atronachs / undead minions. Or you're playing a Necromancer and spells like Heal Undead are not available because you don't have Dawnguard installed. The answer to your problems lies in one skill: Alchemy! Through Alchemy, you can create poisons with positive effects that restore and fortify Health or Stamina and increase Magic Resistance!
How to do it
Equip a dagger and apply the poison with positive effects on it;
Hit your follower or conjured / undead minion with the dagger to apply the positive effects;
Observations & Restrictions
Poisons with positive effects can be applied to undead minions only if the npcs were NOT immune to poisons when they were alive. So, if you kill a bandit and raise it, the poisons with positive effects will work on it. If you kill a vampire and raise it, the poisons won't work because vampires have 100% resistance to poisons;
Poisons with positive effects work on conjured Atronachs, Dremora Lords, Seekers and Atronach Thralls;
Poisons with positive effects work on followers;
Poisons with positive effects don't work on Mistman, Boneman and Wrathman;
Some of the more beneficial positive effects that can be applied through poisons are: Restore Health, Fortify Health, Restore Stamina, Fortify Stamina, Resist Fire, Resist Frost and Resist Magic. Effects like Fortify One-Handed Do Not Work even if poisons with these positive effects can be brewed;
Thanks! Based on enchanting, here is the full list of effects that work. Sadly, some of them are not that useful, or you just can't make poisons with them.
Fortify Health
Fortify Health Regeneration—only works during recovery phase/out of combat
Fortify Heavy Armor
Fortify Light Armor
Fortify Magicka
Fortify Magicka Regeneration
Fortify Stamina
Fortify Stamina Regeneration
Resist Fire
Resist Frost
Resist Magic
Resist Poison
Resist Shock
Restore Health
Restore Magicka
Restore Stamina
Waterbreathing
Thanks! Based on enchanting, here is the full list of effects that work. Sadly, some of them are not that useful, or you just can't make poisons with them.
Fortify Health
Fortify Health Regeneration—only works during recovery phase/out of combat
