Being a stealth focused character I've found companions to be absolutely useless. I mean my one-hand, block, and light armor are high enough that I can tank up some damage in a head-to-head fight, using th'um's to give me an advantage, but my strength lies in getting behind an opponent and then slitting their throat with my Superior Glass Dagger. Companions with less points in stealth than me will just get in my way, alert the enemy, and make me use up more health potions or mana healing myself than I need. Poor Lydia has been sitting Whiterun ever since I kind of helped take down a dragon at the beginning of the game. There's also a khajiit caravan bodyguard who said he'd help me, as well as Mjoll in Riften who are all waiting for me to take them adventuring.
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