To address the issue of respawning bandits, the Silverhand are recycled bandits. If you hold off on doing the Dustman Cairn's quest until a pretty high level, you may find quite a few anchorable marauders. Beyond that, I am unsure. I think that group of forsworn found outside of markarth fighting the orc hunters might be anchorable.
A side note, has anyone ever actually encountered an archer based dremora? I have never encountered one in my near 3,000 hours of Skyrim, yet the Wiki sais they exist.
Currently rolling with an anchored melee dremora Markynaz summoned using the autronach forge and another mage from the Azura's Star questline. After the mage type hitting the melee type with his incinerate spell countless times, I have come to think that NPCs of the same faction may be more lenient, even after "rehabilitation".
These two make a great team on master difficulty, the melee often tanking quite well (the extra 100hp from the perk is invaluable) for the mage. Against higher leveled enemies like legendary dragons or groups of falmer (the higher leveled ones) and enemies similar to those they have trouble, and will likely need revival. For my current character, that isn't much of a problem with custom enchanted muffled boots, maxed illusion tree (aside from the perks that make em cost half as much) for dual cast invisibility, coupled with a high sneak level, I am rarely ever noticed during fights. I also have custom enchanted gear to lower the cost of illusion and conjuration spells to zero. Needless to say, my two dremora (The melee one being called Maximus) rarely stay down for more than 4 seconds. Eventhough there are better thralls out there, I just never get tired of dremora.
Edit: Dremora refuse to use their offhand for anything, except hold a 2h weapon or the mage types for wards and healing, and occasionally (uber rare) dual casting. Note that mage types refuse to use melee weapons or shields in combat, as the one I have seems to never use weapons I give to him.
A side note, has anyone ever actually encountered an archer based dremora? I have never encountered one in my near 3,000 hours of Skyrim, yet the Wiki sais they exist.
Currently rolling with an anchored melee dremora Markynaz summoned using the autronach forge and another mage from the Azura's Star questline. After the mage type hitting the melee type with his incinerate spell countless times, I have come to think that NPCs of the same faction may be more lenient, even after "rehabilitation".
These two make a great team on master difficulty, the melee often tanking quite well (the extra 100hp from the perk is invaluable) for the mage. Against higher leveled enemies like legendary dragons or groups of falmer (the higher leveled ones) and enemies similar to those they have trouble, and will likely need revival. For my current character, that isn't much of a problem with custom enchanted muffled boots, maxed illusion tree (aside from the perks that make em cost half as much) for dual cast invisibility, coupled with a high sneak level, I am rarely ever noticed during fights. I also have custom enchanted gear to lower the cost of illusion and conjuration spells to zero. Needless to say, my two dremora (The melee one being called Maximus) rarely stay down for more than 4 seconds. Eventhough there are better thralls out there, I just never get tired of dremora.
Edit: Dremora refuse to use their offhand for anything, except hold a 2h weapon or the mage types for wards and healing, and occasionally (uber rare) dual casting. Note that mage types refuse to use melee weapons or shields in combat, as the one I have seems to never use weapons I give to him.
