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Originally Posted by Red October1984
(Post 2005990)
What's not to like?
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Well, first off there's the fact that she's so arrogant about her own abilities, and yet I have to take another follower along for *real* backup (thank Talos for UFO) on any quest that forces her "assistance" on my character. Except for the one time I didn't do them until I was leveled up high enough, with deliberately OPed gear, that I could do all the actual work myself.
Because her SOP in combat seems to be: ram into me from behind when I'm trying to line up a sneak shot, get in my way when I'm trying to cast a spell or engage in melee, block every doorway/tunnel/small space in which I'm trying to maneuver, and then take two hits and drop to one knee leaving me to deal with all the enemies who are still alive because she completely destroyed any chance I had of killing them before we reached that point.
Seriously, people complain about Farkas being useless in Proving Honor, but I haven't found that to be the case. Aela, on the other hand... utterly worthless. Maybe she's better if you take her as a follower later and give her better gear, but the way she is in the faction questline: :down: Words cannot express my horror when I got to the point in Glory of the Dead the first time where Farkas bows out of the mission. I thought I was gonna have some real help on that one, and still ended up with just Aela for the hardest parts of the dungeon. Ugh.
And then there's the fact that she uses what is probably my least favorite voice in the entire game. I hate almost every NPC who uses it and I've given up trying to figure out whether I hate them because of the voice, or hate the voice because of the NPCs who have it. I suspect it's a little of both.
There's also the fact that my own personal perspective on the faction questline itself and the way it plays out make her a very unsympathetic character IMO, in fact it makes her seem to me like a very selfish, manipulative, and underhanded person. Me no likey. I feel much the same way about Skjor in that respect, but at least he gets a bit of a pass because he doesn't have that voice and dies before he has the chance to really get on my nerves. And I'm never forced to have him as quest buddy for anything.
Long story short, I deal with Aela as little as possible and only when necessary, and make "outside arrangements" for a useful follower whenever I'm forced to use her as a shield-sister. Once I finish the questline and have only radiant quests left, I have nothing more to do with her unless I still need her for archery training and that's very rarely the case.