Act 1 Best Companions with a Ranger Main Player class...?

[Kilo_60]

Finding my party quite lacking in the "Tank" area with a Cleric, rouge and Spellcaster as my NPC party members in Act 1.

I don't want to lose the "thief" skills but feel like swapping out the rouge for a fighter to act as a tank and deal heavy DPS...

What do you all recommend and/or should I respec my main to a Paladin for a better rounded party?

[Kilo_60]

Anyone?

Thanks!

[DraloX ツ]

You dont need a "tank" in this game. As in tank as known from MMO's and other games.

Everyone can be build to have higher AC values and be "tanky". For example my warlock had 19 or 20 AC in act 1 with medium armor and a shield. Plenty to "tank" hits. Same with my cleric just with heavy armor.

If you dont want to lose your thief skills and also want to swap out a companion you could multiclass your main char in a ranger/rogue multiclass and keep the lockpicking, stealth and such and also opening a slot for a fighter/paladin or something like that.

A balanced comp would probably include a melee (barb, fighter, paladin, ...), a support (cleric, bard, druid, ...), a spell caster for CC and aoe dmg (sorcerer, wizard, ...) and the last spot should bring utility like stealth, lockpicking, high charisma for dialogs, whatever your are still missing at that point.

but in the end you can go with whatever you want. Even go ham with like 4 Paladins should work good enough i'd guess - or just stick with what you got right now if you liked it so far

[Alucard]

I would just take the companions you like and respec them. No need to be forced to a companion you dont like.

[Recjawjind]

Just go abju wizard on gale. Best tank build in the game.

[Rainnd]

you can just multiclass your rogue with some fighter levels. 1 level of rogue to pick up skills then 6 levels of fighter, followed by 3 more rogue levels and you have powerfull dual wielder that can also lockpick or scout out areas.

[DonGonzalito]

Im playing ranged explorer with lockpick. At first I used shadowhearth, gale and wyll, then switched gale to karlach.

[Curath]

Even without respecing anyone, you can easily level-up and equip your current party to work well. Cleric (assuming Shadowheart) with DEX 14, good medium armor and a shield can stand decently for a tank while buffing/healilng/supporting (and occasionally using damaging AOE like Spirit Guardians).

Ranger is fine for damage, either dual-wielding or using archery, depends on what you want. Rogue does good enough damage as well with scaling sneak damage, and can survive pretty well especially with Arcane Trickster and Shield spell.

Mages can use a combinations of Mage Armor, Mirror Image, Shield etc. to stay alive while either using cantrips to deal with lesser threats or disabling/nuking bigger threats.

There's not really nothing wrong with your current setup, of course you could lean more heavily on melee damage but I really doubt that party composition is limiting you right now. Unless you're familiar with D&D 5th edition, it's mostly about learning how to utilize every ability and spell while reserving limited resources like spell slots.

I'd be very careful with multiclassing unless you know what you're doing or follow some online guide. Everyone in your current party will do just fine going pure single class.

[Kilo_60]

OK Thanks!

[MachineGod]

You don’t even need a rogue in this game, just use shadow heart.

[Rainnd]

Originally posted by Synysterpillow:

You don’t even need a rogue in this game, just use shadow heart.

Shadowheart no longer has sleight of hand skill, as they changed her background from urchin to acolyte.