
Alternatively a mod to make my mage followers less thick and useless would be helpful. I've taught a bunch of them with spell tomes, and they're usually maxed out in their respective schools, but 99% of the time they will just use sparks or the low level flames spell and do sod-all damage to an enemy. I have also never been able to get the mages in the game to heal or use staves, and I couldn't find a solution to this - no matter which mage follower I try. I can remove every weapon but staves from their inventory and no dice, but literally any other non-mage follower I use will use staves all the time, which makes no sense. Is there a skill needed to use them I don't know about?
It's been like this the whole way through the game, and now that I'm hitting tougher enemies in Dragonborn, having useless mages following me is getting to be a pain.
I have tried J'zargho, Erandur, Illia, Marcurio, the priestess of Azura and some others I don't recall. All behave exactly like the above. No staves, crap spells. Even if I could check/fix this in console I'd be delighted.