nomorepork
That was a left at Dragonbridge, right?
Early on Lydia was pretty effective for me...almost TOO good since I wanted some of that action for my character to build up fighting skills. But then it was like she hit a wall; going up against Forsworn and Falmer she'd do her usual commando/ninja maniacal charges, then have her head handed to her on a dirty, filthy platter. Any draugr 'Wight' level and up....forgeddaboutit. I'd end up busy trying to cast heal others spells more than fighting, and typically all that resulted in was getting my character whacked as a result of trying to save poor Lydia instead and not going postal on the bad guy(s).
Erandur was brutally effective for a while; used him ruthlessly with grand results. But then we hit a location that was loaded with vampires and in the middle of an engagement he managed to get himself offed. 'Dude, I thought you were great at making yourself all healthy and chit...guess not'. Missed how exactly it happened but as I finally killed off the vampires that I was fighting, I came across his corpse as I was looting the chamber. Thought about replaying the quest, but ultimately decided that I'd go it lone wolf and work on my sniper skills instead. Reaching out and touching my foes at distance was--at the time--a heck of a lot safer. And I liked that I didn't always have underlings consistently disobeying my commands during a time of battle.
Still, it would've been NICE had Bethesda given us the capability to order a follower to rain arrows onto the field of combat from a safe distance while I was going all CQB up close and personal like on a group of irate adversaries. Also would've been convenient if I had a SCAR Heavy as well, but I suppose that wouldn't be storyline-appropriate...
Erandur was brutally effective for a while; used him ruthlessly with grand results. But then we hit a location that was loaded with vampires and in the middle of an engagement he managed to get himself offed. 'Dude, I thought you were great at making yourself all healthy and chit...guess not'. Missed how exactly it happened but as I finally killed off the vampires that I was fighting, I came across his corpse as I was looting the chamber. Thought about replaying the quest, but ultimately decided that I'd go it lone wolf and work on my sniper skills instead. Reaching out and touching my foes at distance was--at the time--a heck of a lot safer. And I liked that I didn't always have underlings consistently disobeying my commands during a time of battle.
Still, it would've been NICE had Bethesda given us the capability to order a follower to rain arrows onto the field of combat from a safe distance while I was going all CQB up close and personal like on a group of irate adversaries. Also would've been convenient if I had a SCAR Heavy as well, but I suppose that wouldn't be storyline-appropriate...