I keep killing my companions and keep having to reload my saves because I keep killing them.

Here is a run down of a situation:

-Death Scourge chases Deimos because both of my companions are down

-I shoot lightning and fire at Death Scourge away from radius of my down companions so I don't kill them

-Meeko comes to my rescue right into my flaming fireball and died

Have to restart

Same situation

-Death scourge chases me away from companions that are down

-I shoot away from my companions

-Stenvar comes to my rescue, I notice he starts fighting scourge

-Scourge is in no way near or close to Stenvar I shoot lightning

-Scourge moves in a radius where lighting hits Stenvar, Stenvar dies

-Reload

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Why for the love of god did Bethseda put Friendly Fire in this game? It's absolutely the single most frustrating thing in the world to deal with.

Friendly Fire toggle would be so easy and so desirable...

Try a different approach to taking down this Scourge

It is an issue I have run across myself a good dozen or so times. Would be nice if there were a friendly fire tab but sadly I don't think Bethesda will actually ever put one in the game

I often just stand back, wait for my companion to fall to their knees and then shoot arrows above them with a careful shot. Other than that the only suggestion I can give is just spam quicksave while in battle. But I feel your pain

Usually I run Deimos like this:

-Support when Stenvar and Meeko are up and fighting [Generally using Courage and Rally and some other Illusion spells Healing them when need be]

-When they go down Deimos goes on the offensive and uses Destruction magic [I learned magic runes are bad because when Stenvar is running to cut the Draugr or whatever enemy they trigger my ice rune or my rune and Stenvar dies with them]

I cannot keep Deimos support when his companions are down. Actually leveling with Deimos is slow for that reason. Most combat is done by Meeko and Stenvar. Deimos is only offensive when Scourges are after him. What am I suppose to do? Not fight back and let them poke me with swords. Honestly.

The only cure for this irritating aspect of the game is to not have followers. Destruction is already weak and is made almost completely impotent when you can't use Area-Effect spells due to the potential of wiping out your followers. The best way to make it through the game without followers is by maxing Conjuration and taking the Twin Souls perk. Then you can cast everything you want and not have to worry about killing anything that matters. But usually by then it's not even needed because two Dramaura Lords will pretty much destroy every single opponent/group of opponents before your area spell can do anything meaningful anyway, which basically makes you a bystander in your own game.

I just either don't use followers (they also get in the way of my block leveling) or sprint into battle, killing the opponent before my follower even gets close.

For balance mainly. If you could use your biggest, most destructive spells while your companions acted like meat puppets and distracted the enemy, without being able to be harmed by your spells, the game would be far too easy.

Yes, it's a single player game, but it should still be a challenge.

Deimos uses followers because he is blind. His own combat abilities only go so far when it comes to battle. So I have companions for that aspect.

It was also a roleplay thing. As I wondered with my journey without fast traveling I met with Meeko. And in my own roleplay story Stenvar decides to aid Deimos.

I always lead with destruction magic.....and then when Kharjo gets in the way, I pull out the two-handed banger and get busy

I have been unable to use followers in any build that involves magic. It's just that simple. As an archer, I can slow time and really place my shots. If I happen to kill a follower doing that, then I deserved to lose that follower. I only killed 2 in my entire play through as a master archer. RIP Mjoll.

Magic though? Nothing doing. Your spells just wash over the followers with too much ease. Mages in this game have to be loners.

I'm only use

Sparks and Flames

Sooooo.....yeah. Friendly Fire with my weaker spell....err....

And some of the "master" spells like Guardian Circle take way to long to charge. This guy was Fus Ro DA ing me and I had to keep recharging and recharging until I finally had it