Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-101.163.101.88-20150620052008/@comment-27887518-20161003185214

Erandur is not much different thn many other mage follower. The mages aren't DPS dealers. I've said this on probably 100 other YT comments:

If you want to keep your mage follower alive then take away their melee weapon. Mages come in two types: low mana and high mana. Both are designed to use up magic then switch to physical weapons. Mage followers with low mana will get into melee more often because they run out of quickly. Give them a bow and arrows. Once they run out of mana they will resort to attacking from long-range. You can also give them the staves you collect while adventuring (along with the bow and arrows). Once depleted you can simply sell them. As with all the mage followers you'll want to focus on Fortify Health and Magic, Magic Resistance, and Recharge Health and Magic. You ESPECIALLY want to have your mage followers avoid hand-to-hand combat with Draugrs or Forsworn. I give my mage followers the Zephyr and all the spare arrows

Erandur is priest/cleric and his stats and powers reflect how he is supposed to work... sorta. If any complaint it should be that he does not actually do his job of healing. He was not a chatty-patty and had some interesting backstory at least. If you like playing Dress-up Barbie then you should know he wears one of the cheapest robes in the game by default. You can replace his gear with just about anything worth 5 septims or better without having to resort to reverse pickpocketing. I brought Katria along as extra muscle since I already knew he was not going to be cranking out much damage. The staff is meh. Once you have played with them both you will pick Erandur each time. At the very least he will make a decent sacrifice to Boethiah.