i giver it to her and she equips it and even pulls it out if i pull my weapon out but if we go into a battle she switches to a wooden bow

i got her to equip some dwemer arrows but she still unequips the bow

Can you not take away the wooden bow?

Companions come equipped with default weapons that you cannot remove from their inventory. Lydia's wooden bow is one of those, I believe.

In regards to OP, she should be using the daedric one, so this is a bug.

Ah ok, never made use of a companion so far (an assassin doesn't need anyone else) , in which case it must be a bug like you said.

dang, that's what i was afraid of

she was using an ebony bow fine earlier i think, must be specific to the daedric bow

on a side note, i noticed when she kills stuff with dwemer or glass arrows that the bodies will have a bunch in them. easy free glass arrows!

I'm playing on PC and I have not found a way to give stuff to Lydia I didn't think it was possible, if u are nice then tell me here how or I will find out the hard way

I'm having general trouble with the interface on how to do things, takes a while to get used to this I guess.

Talk to them and select trade stuff. They will automatically equip weapons and armor with ratings higher than their defaults. They will only equip armor of their "type" however. Lydia will not use light armor, for example.

I actually had a similar situation today, but it was just plain weird.

I have been doing fine with having her use the gear I want her to. She should be using Superior Steel Plate, Superior Dwarven Shield, Exquisite Elven Sword, Superior Orcish Boots, Exquisite Elven Bow and Dwarven Gloves with +30% One-Handed damage. All good... until now. I have been giving her items to carry for me so I don't get encumbered, and one of those was a Staff with the lowest level Raise Undead spell. Where she got the Staff of Fire that she suddenly started dual-wielding with her sword I do not know. That didn't bother me. What bothered me was when she stopped using her sword and used the undead staff with the fire one. I took it off her. Then she suddenly stopped using her Exquisite Elven Sword in favour of a Honed Ancient Nordic Sword. Then she stopped using her Elven Bow in favour of her default Hunter's Bow.

The only thing I can think of that might have caused this is that some of the Draugr we had been fighting before this happened have the Disarm Shout. The problem with this theory is that the one time I was positive she had been disarmed I found the relevant item in her inventory. I suppose it's possible she was disarmed and then picked up her weapon, but that wouldn't explain the dual-wielding staves when she had two perfectly good swords, and a shield, in her inventory and there had not been any combat for a while.

grr this is ticking me off

i want her to use her Daedric Bow! or at least the Ebony one...

hopefully the can fix this with a patch or something soon

they should just give us control what our follower wears instead of leaving it up to them

Daedric just doesn't match her outfit.

well it should, she's wearing a full suit of Daedric armor XD

i guess tomorrow i'll try using a different follower and see if they wear what i tell them to >:|

She's a woman, what do you expect...

"trade stuff"? I don't even have that option :S I can select to give her a order what to do, but I haven't seen a trading option. Maybe I have to strain my eyes more to find that option.

anyone have any other input?

nevermind..