Talk:Pawns/@comment-84.181.213.22-20160701080453

Goddammit... pawns have just such a bad AI. I only hire Mages and Sorcerers, because healing, buffing and to stay at one place are the only thing they are good for.

They run around the enemies with a dagger for 10 seconds, aren't attacking them and then decide to go back and shoot at them! Or one of my pawns died and he's lying 5 meters away from me. We are surrounded by 10 Bandits. What does the other pawn do? He grabs him and carries him 2 meters in my direction. What an absolute moron.

At close range they are also absolute garbage. Swinging their sword one or two times... the enemy is staggered already and only needs one more hit... what does this intelligent being? It decides to back off, wait 3 seconds so that the enemy can recover from the stagger and hit him an additional time. And that happens every goddamn fight.

When I am in danger, and a wolf bites or a zombie holds me... they just don't care and fight other enemies, or they decide to help me after a couple of seconds when i'm already half dead.

Skyrim has pretty shitty followers, but the enemies have also a trash AI so it doesn't stand out that much there.

I can only say that (in my personal experience) 3 Mage/Sorcerer Pawns are the best bet. But Sorcerers shouldn't equip those spells that need to be cast like 10+ seconds, like Maelstrom, Gicel etc. The only thing they are good for is buffing with Affinity's/Pacts, Healing and inflicing debilitations to enemies. The short casting time spells are also good. I had the best results with Comestion, they can place it very precise and fast.