my followers won't do any damage.

[Juicy Lime]

i'm not joking. i watched cicero hit a cave bear with his sword for 3 minutes straight before i stepped in and killed it. any help?
EDIT: does difficulty affect a followers damage? because i am playing on legendary. (so sue me)

[SomeMMORPGplayer]

its called mercs, or in other word..useless waste of pixels

[Maverick]

On legendary everything except you takes a quarter damage from all sources, both yourself and other mobs. So your followers will only inflict 1/4 damage against enemies but will also only take 1/4 damage from said enemies. Healing is not affected by difficulty however, so healing enemies like trolls and vampires are extra dangerous on higher difficulties since they effectively heal at a x4 rate.

[Juicy Lime]

Originally posted by WanderingJarlPuncher:

its called mercs, or in other word..useless waste of pixels

no need to be sarcastic.

[Faustrecht ت]

If i remember right is NPC damage equalized.
As example:
The difficulty Adept is Player damage dealt x1 and 1x damage taken.

[stcaFylnO]

The wikis have all the facts about scaling with diffiuclty settings and buffs/debuffs, good reading.

Not only is there difficulty scaling, but if you look on an NPCs page, say for instance "Orchendor", down on the right frame, you will see some links to perks. In some cases, these are NPC only perks which are applied as buffs and debuffs. That is why an NPC like him, can seem ubber while fighting our characters, then a daffodil while fighting for our side.

I have an external memory mod for my head:
http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Portal:Skyrim
http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Skyrim