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[SOLDIER First]

serana is such obvious waifu bait that i can't bring her along without puking

good thing she isn't marriable unless you have literally no shame and mod it to be so. i like serana's sass, and hate that she has a titty window on her dress, which makes no sense whatsoever

[edit] piper wright doesn't deserve this kind of treatment from you

[itisnotlogical]

Doing that thing in the Blades questline where you have to walk on the pressure plates with the right symbols on them or fire cannons activate
Lydia pushes me onto wrong pressure plate
Get blown to smithereens by fire cannons
Talos dammit Lydia.

I usually leave Lydia at home if I know that I'm going to a dungeon. Narrow corridors, hidden traps, wild power attacks and cone-of-effect spells do not mix well with companions.

[Blaze]

I never understood the appeal of companions other than as loot mules. They can't sneak, they get in the way of my attacks, they're practically limited to melee/ranged as their spells don't increase in power, their equipment doesn't level with them, most enchantments don't work on them, and the pathing problems are endless.

Whenever I get followers I end up having to babysit them, and I absolutely despise escort missions.

[itisnotlogical]

I'm one of those people that loots absolutely everything so a pack mule is nice.

[SOLDIER First]

Not every companion has high Stealth, and using the wrong companion for that is sorta your fault (); they can't die from your attacks except when winded, so misplacing a few swings isn't a super big deal if you're paying attention to where they are; pick mage companions for spells; give them better equipment yourself if it's such a big factor; that's because you're usually supposed to use the enchantments yourself, I assume; that is actually a legitimate complaint, if one I never notice.

[Rolan7]

Playing as a weak and/or sneaky character early on, a companion is flipping vital.  It's invincible and tanks all the hits, distracting the enemies and allowing for tactics/recovery.

I traveled with the Altmer mage for a long while, because ranged attacks are nice and he's as invincible as anyone else.  Also he's sorta cute...  And it's nice ordering an altmer around.  Different from a thalmor, but still.  (I was Bosmer of course).

My Breton magess mainly hung with that Khajiit who joins you in exchange for a sidequest.

[Darkmere]

There's a mod that fixes all the dumb scaling issues with companions, lets you specialize them as you wish, equip them as you wish, all of that. It's almost as mandatory as the one that fixes horses and makes them useful.

That said, I played a necromancer/conjurer and having a tanky companion to lead my minions at the front was insanely helpful. One of my favorite characters, actually, apart from the minor lack of direct damage (only really hurts in a couple places, believe it or not).

Re: Serana, the second I figured out she was nerfing my vampire powers through that bug, I sent her away and forgot her existence.

[BFEL]

I never understood the appeal of companions other than as loot mules.

I like to play with 4 or so of them and feel like an actual party of grave robbersadventurers instead of "that guy who has to do everything in the world and the one person who he's allowed to associate with"

I mean shit, everyone ELSE in the world has the sense to group up, why not the Dragonborn?

Also I would REALLY like if the next TES game actually allowed this natively and balanced for it. And not just in the "now there are THIRTY bandits instead of 10" way.

[Oneir]

Also I would REALLY like if the next TES game actually allowed this natively and balanced for it. And not just in the "now there are THIRTY bandits instead of 10" way.

I wonder how that would work with level design? You'd either need weird, shifting dungeons, or layouts that let you either Rambo it up yourself or leave room for 4-5 bodies depending on your party composition. That could be really interesting.

[miauw62]

i'd rather scaling give me 30 bandits rather than 10 bandits with a million health tbh

[SOLDIER First]

Scaling doesn't really up the amount of enemies, as far as I can tell?

[Putnam]

it doesn't, which is why miauw is saying he'd rather it does

[SOLDIER First]

lame

[Rose]

Hundreds of giant rats.

[KingofstarrySkies]

Thirty seven point four dragons, anyone?