Completely random question, but d'you folks have any tips for getting followers to stop dying? I'm currently doing a main-quest only run since I've never actually completed it, light armor two-hander dude, and as a consequence of that I kinda keep getting all my companions I bring with me killed. All the time. There's been Lydia, at least two mercenary guys, that lady who accidentally killed someone while trying to join the Companions, and at least one other. I'm only like level 14 or 15 at most at this point, they just keep dying. Their corpses lie all over Skyrim. So many hopes and dreams snuffed out because the dumb loot holders keep dying.
So, uh. Any tips for getting them to not to the dumb?
Are you fighting some kind of explosive monster, or on top of a mountain or something? Once a follower gets on one knee, enemies will ignore them until they have all their health back, and they'll be totally fine barring accidents or you killing them yourself.
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I've come to the conclusion that I'm an unrepentant murderer, seeing as all my companions so far have died in frenzied melees with either frost trolls (those are a fucking bitch to fight when you don't have any good fire weapons and you're level 9) or various bandit enemy people. I kinda lose track of what I'm doing and I'm very free with how I swing around my greatswords and warhammers.
Welp, guess I'll just have to pump stamina.