Yeah Bairdotr for a lot of reasons is not the NPC I bring along on my quest. I like that she is an archer and her voice-acting is good(probably the best of the 4 I think, I really hate Madora and Jahan's voices they sound like sy-fy channel actors)... but Wolgraff can be made an archer as well and seems to be a better choice in so many ways. The fact he doesnt talk bothers me not at all.
Too bad Valraven got blindsided, hope when he/she plays through again its better, probably will be better since his characters were kind of stunted ( my first party was poorly built a mostly inevitable result of lack of experience and system knowledge), which makes a frustrating unfulfilling game, but he was doing a lot of stuff right since he got that far with those characters and made it to 14th level.
But that encounter even with a defecting Bairdotr was brief, bloody and final for me first time and every time.
