I disliked the followers. I used the templar through the game the very first play through but after that, I started rolling solo. The great thing about the PS3 is you can actually play up to 4 characters on screen at once so I built me up a demon hunter, a wizard, and a barbarian to run with the monk. I would just set the controllers on a little table next to my recliner and pick em up one at a time if I needed something. I mostly controlled the demon hunter with the turrets and long range shooting and would use the monk for heals, the barb for his weird AE fire looking thing and the wizard to drop big bombs if needed.