A few more questions. Do your pure melee NPC's ever raise their Strength to their racial maximum or do they just stop at 20? Have you noticed any of them passing racial maximums? For example a dwarf getting a 20 DEX when the racial max is 19.
You're asking about pure melee force? Well,my character isn't pure-he's battlemage and he has ST 17 and DEX 18.But only spells I have are fire(1) and strenght of earth that gives me excellent damage bonus.And if you use that in combination with aligtiy of fire(I think),you'll get awsome killing machine and it cost you only 2 points.
I have to know for sure on this one. So no "I think" answers. I need people with high level characters and NPC's to check their followers character sheets.
To answer if they go up to their racial limits on strength-yes, they do, and no, they don't. Even though the pure melee-dodge autoleveling scheme stops strength and dex. at 20, Sogg will go up to 24 strength, and Chukka will go up to 26 (if you check his character sheet, you will find that he is a pure ogre, not a half-breed). Gar, on the other hand, will stop at 19 strength, when even as a human, he should get up to 20 on the autoleveling scheme. Why is this so? Hell if I know man. Time for another patch!!!
I'm pretty sure there won't be any more patches, and you belive how many people think Chukka is a half-ogre.