06-11-2012, 05:10 PM
(06-11-2012, 02:53 PM)vor_lord Wrote: One part of the game I have yet to figure out are followers. I enjoy the dialogue from them (except for the repeated non-situational blather) so I'm playing through each of the first three difficulty levels with a different follower.
In my limited experience, they provide occasional marginally useful abilities (CC/healing), they rarely die, and do damage that is completely insignificant. Since they seem plenty hardy (so far) and do no damage even with a good weapon, the only gear I've been putting on them is magic find or gold find.
I read other posts talking about "excellently designed" followers, and I know I must be missing something.
What do we know about follower theorycraft? Is there something I should be doing with them that will make them more useful?
The real value IMO of followers are the buffs. The enchantress provides a 15% armor buff and a 3% IAS buff. The templar provides a resource regen buff. The enchantress is a must for melee characters IMO due to the extra armor.