I have one on a clicky. They are surprisingly effective. They immediately start baking jester cookies--then its a flurry of meteor swarms, disintegrates, and bee's breath everywhere. If the mobs have any daughter-in-laws, the Grandma's lay down some severe level 9 passive/aggressive "compliments" that do wonders against any mob with a will save lower than 40. I will warn you though--if you take them to a bar after the quest and they get a little tipsy--they swear like sailors and become a little--how shall I say it? . . . inappropriate.