Companion classes?

[St_Toha]

So if i understand right how companions in this game will work, there are only like 6 of them who has actual backstory with unique quests? And they also have classes and some even subclasses tied to them? So its impossible to have a real companion of any subclass of cleric other than trickery domain? And no bard, no druid, no paladin, no monk... like, considering how big of a difference companions with backstories made in divinity os 2, i feel kinda robbed about that now. Because if i want to make a party of classes and subclasses that i want, i am forced to pick characters with no personal backstories. May be the reason is that those characters are not as unique and tied to the world as in divinity and playing with party of mercenaries actually doesnt feel any worse in this game?

[Ghost]

There are a number of companions called "Origins" which have their own stories and preset designs. You can recruit others along the way, and hire mercenaries. They can be altered.

You can also make 4 custom characters at the start, but you might have to workaround the system.

[Senyaak]

You can respec you companions
You can hire mercs and respect them as you wish also

[frowningmirror]

It seems you can respect anyone to whatever you want them to be

[St_Toha]

Originally posted by Senyaak:

You can respec you companions
You can hire mercs and respect them as you wish also

you mean i can change class and subclass even for origin companion? But dont they have like some story connections with their classes? Like a warlock one with his devil patron?

[Bijat]

Originally posted by St_Toha:

Originally posted by Senyaak:

You can respec you companions
You can hire mercs and respect them as you wish also

you mean i can change class and subclass even for origin companion? But dont they have like some story connections with their classes? Like a warlock one with his devil patron?

seems some part of ther story/quests is inactivated if you change some stuff about it. not 100% sure tho.

[KingOfFriedChicken]

Originally posted by St_Toha:

Originally posted by Senyaak:

You can respec you companions
You can hire mercs and respect them as you wish also

you mean i can change class and subclass even for origin companion? But dont they have like some story connections with their classes? Like a warlock one with his devil patron?

With multiple class you can also just leave 1 point in it and go ther other 11 levels in another class if you wanna see their story I imagine. We can't know how it fully functions yet though.

[Jack the Roamer]

Originally posted by frowningmirror:

It seems you can respect anyone to whatever you want them to be

You can respec stats, but their class and race is locked if it's an origin character