11-29-2011, 04:43 PM
(11-29-2011, 03:25 AM)kandrathe Wrote: I had Lydia then, and the way I controlled her, was to take away her sword when I only wanted her bow skills. And, tell her to wait, well back from you (whereas you can always run back to her dragging your mobs to her if you like), or outside the dungeon if you don't want her breaking your stealth (I do this just for the extra loot carrying capacity).
Yeah, you can do this with Lydia, but you cannot make Aela or Farkas wait. You have no control on their behavior at all and they can really get in the way. In one of the Silver Hand missions, I wanted to use a door as a choke point but kept getting "pushed" through the door by Aela. (Speaking of "pushing" companions, none is worse than the dog in the Lord Vile daedric quest). My sword and shield warrior has finally come into his own, largely because I spent some time improving his blocking skill. Just as in Oblivion, upping your blocking skill is really time consuming. You have to let a wolf beat on you at low levels. Finally, my character can use giants to up his blocking skill. I do not know why blocking is so much harder to skill than other combat skills. It has to be the single slowest combat skill to level.