Even when I altered their behaviors, bought them the best weapons and gave them good accessories they just constantly died. If you give them a page worth of potions they will literally burn through it one boss fight.
I tried to actually use them for combat but I'm just going to use them as distractions again. Seems to work more efficiently for me.
Same here - they die all the time. Every now and then when he can, dolan cures me but otherwise it's just me against the world.
That's fine though. I hate it when the other two are fighting an enemy I'm trying to kill and I can't lay a fucking hit on the enemy cos the other two are pushing against him. So I go up to the enemy, hit X but at that point they've moved the damn enemy like a meter away from me so my hit doesn't register.
Annoying shites.