PSA - Your unused camp companions can still help you!

[Kraig]

Just make all your non-used companions Clerics with one wizard. There are 3 very useful spells that companions can cast on you and keep up even after you boot them from your party. So remove one your core members, add a chump companion, cast his spells, and then re-add your core companion. Repeat as needed once per long rest.

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Cleric - Aid (each level after 2 adds an additional 5hp.) This can be a game changer for your weaker caster classes. When you add your chump, group up and leave camp to cast the spell. Then go back to camp.
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Cleric - Warding Bond - Resistance to all damage! +1 AC. Insane buff but know that the damage still carries through so they can die if you take a lot of damage in a single fight. Really good for both front line mitigation and back line survival.
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Wizard - Longstrider - extra movement for your whole party. Extremely useful for your front line.
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All of these will last until your next long rest and can be immensely helpful if you are having a tough time.

Enjoy!


Bonus: Magic weapon enhancements stack with weapon enhancements and even though the spell says it doesn't scale, the level 4 version adds +2. So you can walk around with a +4/+5 weapon early in the game.

[FlashXAron ☕ (Alex)]

Doing that, since you could buy hirelings ...

Darkview and that Bardinspiration, Daylight and some others work also , but you need one hireling per concentration spell and he could only hold up one per rest.

Now I am at Lev 10 and too lazy to do it with all that swapping, but was a great help in Act 1
and of course before a boss fight it helps a lot

[Kraig]

Yeah, it's more of an early game helper. The game has a strange bell curve difficulty with Chapter 2 being the most difficult I think.

[Kraig]

Doesn't seem like full concentration spells work. But at least these still last until you decide to long rest. Which, depending on your party composition, can be a long time.