If i respec all companions will it break their story?

[Bastila Shan]

Im not clear on what it says in community update. If i respec them is it still going to play out as if they are their original classes and just break the immersion or will their stories be broken in some way?

[DeadBeat61]

Community update seems to fly in the face of what they said previously, so we don't know atm

[Yojo0o]

From what we've been told, the companion personal journeys will treat them as their original class, regardless of if you change their build.

[CDI Mario]

if what Sven is to be believed, No, the game will still think they are their original class.

[mutantbeth]

no their story will still see them as their starting class. just break immersion for the sake of gameplay

[solaris32]

Originally posted by Yojo0o:

From what we've been told, the companion personal journeys will treat them as their original class, regardless of if you change their build.

"Keep in mind that certain Origin stories are closely intertwined with their characters' respective classes. If you’re opting for a non-cleric Shadowheart or a Wyll without his warlock pact, this will undoubtedly influence your roleplay options in dialogues and the overall narrative for these characters. But their stories will instead be yours to create."

What does this mean exactly? We have no idea yet. I gather that dialogue dealing with said deity or pact will no longer be present because they don't have it anymore, but they will still be treated as a cleric or warlock.

[LinkToReality.ttv]

Swen Vincke said in an interview that even if you change the Origin character's class it won't affect the narrative, they'll still have their stories and their backgrounds and quests.

[His Divine Shadow]

Originally posted by solaris32:

Originally posted by Yojo0o:

From what we've been told, the companion personal journeys will treat them as their original class, regardless of if you change their build.

"Keep in mind that certain Origin stories are closely intertwined with their characters' respective classes. If you’re opting for a non-cleric Shadowheart or a Wyll without his warlock pact, this will undoubtedly influence your roleplay options in dialogues and the overall narrative for these characters. But their stories will instead be yours to create."

What does this mean exactly? We have no idea yet.

"Roleplay options" it means it'll break immersion

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by ⎛⎝Link⎠⎞:

Swen Vincke said in an interview that even if you change the Origin character's class it won't affect the narrative, they'll still have their stories and their backgrounds and quests.

Yes. But it might seem odd when Shadowheart for example, mentions her training as a cleric, if you respec her to a warlock. :P

[LinkToReality.ttv]

Originally posted by wtiger27:

Originally posted by ⎛⎝Link⎠⎞:

Swen Vincke said in an interview that even if you change the Origin character's class it won't affect the narrative, they'll still have their stories and their backgrounds and quests.

Yes. But it might seem odd when Shadowheart for example, mentions her training as a cleric, if you respec her to a warlock. :P

Yeah, but that's exactly what "not change the narrative" means. She's only a warlock mechanically in your example. In the story she's still a Cleric. But she won't have the option to use Cleric responses in conversations I guess since that's bound to the class.

[ahsanford]

What are people hoping for here? That Larian wrote a lovingly thought through narrative that has (at times) sprinkled in [CLERIC] options in dialogue...

...and they will magically flip that narrative to seamlessly drop in any one of the other 11 classes you might respect her to?

Does that make one bit of sense?!

I see this much more simply. Larian is letting you de-couple an origin character story from her 'role' in that story for the purposes of you (the human behind a computer) having more fun jigsaw puzzling your party to maximize your experience through the game.

You realize how absurd it would be to expect Larian to do backflips to cover for all the ways you *might* respec an origin character. Instead, they'll 99% likely just stick with their main story as if you never changed their class.

If Larian NOT doing those backflips breaks immersion for you, I'll tip my cap to how high your expectations are. In that case, just don't respec that character.

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[FunkyMonkey]

Originally posted by Bastila Shan:

Im not clear on what it says in community update. If i respec them is it still going to play out as if they are their original classes and just break the immersion or will their stories be broken in some way?

The way I understand it is, for example, if you respec Wyll from warlock to sorcerer, you will still get a visit from his warlock patron. So you can respec companions, but it can seem weird at times in dialog, cutscenes, etc

[Ronin Gamer]

They have a story that was set a long time ago, and most of those are tied heavily to their class. Wyll isn't going to make sense if he's not a Warlock, Gale not a Wizard, etc.
The game gives you the option to break that if you wish and either multiclass them as something else on top of it or possibly respec them, but their story isn't going to magically change with that.
This is kind of what I was saying many months ago. You can't tie a story so close to what a character is, then give players the option to alter what they are and not having it come off weird to some people. I know it's a video game and won't freak out crying about "MY IMMERSION!!!!!" so I honestly don't care, but the mechanic is basically what I expected it to be given where we started.

[free6lackpanther]

If I change Wyll to let’s say a fighter or a rouge, is it confirmed that he is still going to have his Warlock storyline? I want a tempest domain cleric, but I’m afraid to even touch Shadowheart’s subclass based on the way Larion worded that paragraph.