I just love Lydia she is awesome and helpful! I am very careful when fighting i would just hate it if she died

I swapped lydia for my trusty assassin initiates. My current assassin helper has 110% flame resistance, so I can use fire all I want in melee and ranged without worrying about killing my companion.

I had her with me for a while, but I had to send her home since it was getting to be annoying always having to tell her to wait behind while I snuck ahead and killed everything. If I played as a big warrior or mage she would have been better, but as a sneaker I work better alone.

But, i was able to give her a new sword and a rings that she equipped, but can you change her armor? I gave her some new armor, but it's not equipped and her cloths never changed. It didn't even list any armor for her when I was looking at her inventory beforehand