The setting for dragon born is cool except for apocrypha. Plus there are a lot more items/weapons/armor you can get. There's stahlrim weapons/armor and shit. Pretty much the only think you get in dawn guard is a super cool cross bow, the option to have a better looking dog follow you and an elder scroll. Plus a couple new locations but thats about it.

forsworn killed my dog meeko and 3 saber cats killed vigilance

Vigilance sucks. He died the first battle I took him to. If you get the dragon born DLC you can have the option for a riekling to be your pet. the riekling can use weapons and wear armor. It can also carry stuff for you. so its really another follower but its marked as a pet. The only thing is in order to get one you need to dismiss your follower, have the riekling follow you, then get your follower back

dragonborn is badass new enimies... Stalhrim armor... deathbrand...

F-U-C-K FOLLOWERS good for nothin pieces of shit always die when they are around me "i'll come with you for 500 gold" "consider yourself dead" i only get a new follower to go throw dungeons to take on spiders before i have to see them A GOOD FOLLOWER SHOULD BE ABLE TO HANDLE THAT SIMPLE TASK but NOOOOOOOOO i use lydia to go fight Nimhe and lydia dies i shoot Nimhe twice and she's dead

Plus the new alcohol (I collect the shit for fun) the guy with the staff enchanter, bone mold, all mirak's stuff, plus the perks you get from the black books even though they're a pain in the ass

Rieklings are free, give them some nice armor and a giants club and they wreck shit. Or you could get dawn guard and have serana as your follower. She can't die

dragon born it is then

Not the housecarls from the dlc heathfire the one from the dawnguard hold hes a mutha fucking tank dragon plate armor and a giants club he fucked up a elder dragon whilst i played with dragur

maybe i give my followers a bad rap.... i tend to want to "test" their combat abilities at times