Hirelings are still trash.

[The Real Fragamemnon]

Why don't just give is the option to create a hireling from scratch? Can't even have a male dwarf fighter. Best you can do is have a premade female dwarf who identifies as male.

[Metrod125]

No Dwarf Companion?
Become the Dwarf

[deadsanta]

Originally posted by Metrod125:

No Dwarf Companion?
Become the Dwarf

Exactly, be Durge or Tav.

[kingonads]

Originally posted by The Real Fragamemnon:

Why don't just give is the option to create a hireling from scratch? Can't even have a male dwarf fighter. Best you can do is have a premade female dwarf who identifies as male.

Uh... even in D&D lore female dwarves can grow beards... so she may not identify as a male. It has been a LONG LONG LONG LONG standing joke in the D&D community about dwarves and beards. Even the term among the gay community for having a female wife while very much being gay is called having a "beard"....



I would love to have more companion options from Withers, like if I want an all Tiefling party I cant without have 2 or 3 real life friends who can play with me or by cheesing the multi-player system and taking hours to do anything simple.

[Aldain]

At this point it seems like they're purposely avoiding the easy solution and doing everything BUT adding fully custom hirelings out of spite.

[Ereghor the Enigmatic]

Originally posted by Aldain:

At this point it seems like they're purposely avoiding the easy solution and doing everything BUT adding fully custom hirelings out of spite.

But you wouldn't want to miss out on those backstories, why ever would you?

They aren't mostly idiotic at all.

[kingonads]

Originally posted by Ereghor the Enigmatic:

Originally posted by Aldain:

At this point it seems like they're purposely avoiding the easy solution and doing everything BUT adding fully custom hirelings out of spite.

But you wouldn't want to miss out on those backstories, why ever would you?

They aren't mostly idiotic at all.

After one play through with Gale whining every five minutes about Mystra or trying to sleep with me... I can do without ANY companions that have stories in my second playthrough.

[ChrisPharmD]

It's unreal that you can't make a 4 character party without using four accounts.

[Ereghor the Enigmatic]

Originally posted by kingonads:

After one play through with Gale whining every five minutes about Mystra or trying to sleep with me... I can do without ANY companions that have stories in my second playthrough.

The game is easy enough to solo with a sociopathic homicidal Dark Urge, so at least that's an option.

[Twistendale]

Magic mirror update will fix your disgruntled thoughts.
I personally liked the hireling model. I killed my entire party and was (more or less) forced to hire hirelings and felt the pain of my decisions/actions even further, because of the hirelings options.

[kingonads]

Originally posted by Ereghor the Enigmatic:

Originally posted by kingonads:

After one play through with Gale whining every five minutes about Mystra or trying to sleep with me... I can do without ANY companions that have stories in my second playthrough.

The game is easy enough to solo with a sociopathic homicidal Dark Urge, so at least that's an option.

LOL if you min/max on Story mode sure... maybe balanced, but on Tactician no way.

[The 13th Ghost Bunny]

Originally posted by The Real Fragamemnon:

Why don't just give is the option to create a hireling from scratch? Can't even have a male dwarf fighter. Best you can do is have a premade female dwarf who identifies as male.

While you can't create custom hirelings without doing that lan multiplayer work around, you should be able to edit how the hirelings look now using the magic mirror in camp. At least, according to the latest patch notes you should be able to edit their appearances. Still can't change sex or anything, though.

[DYNIA]

the only thing is that they can't use parasite

[Ereghor the Enigmatic]

Originally posted by kingonads:

Originally posted by Ereghor the Enigmatic:

The game is easy enough to solo with a sociopathic homicidal Dark Urge, so at least that's an option.

LOL if you min/max on Story mode sure... maybe balanced, but on Tactician no way.

Given the practically unlimited rests, a 9 caster / 3 rogue (Thief) abusing stealth, haste, and invisibility potions as well as using an occasional summon can easily dismantle things even on Tactician.

The vision cone mechanic instead of a proper detection radius makes any class that can hide with a bonus action (gloomstalker ranger, shadow monk, rogue) ever so slightly busted.

[kingonads]

Originally posted by Ereghor the Enigmatic:

Originally posted by kingonads:

LOL if you min/max on Story mode sure... maybe balanced, but on Tactician no way.

Given the practically unlimited rests, a 9 caster / 3 rogue (Thief) abusing stealth, haste, and invisibility potions as well as using an occasional summon can easily dismantle things even on Tactician.

The vision cone mechanic instead of a proper detection radius makes any class that can hide with a bonus action (gloomstalker ranger, shadow monk, rogue) ever so slightly busted.

It seems you do not understand what min/max is. Because what you just described is a min/max build.

[Xrystus]

Originally posted by Twistendale:

Magic mirror update will fix your disgruntled thoughts.

Although the mirror helps, it doesn't really scratch the itch people are talking about. A good example would be if I wanted a dragonborn hireling. There aren't any. We truly just want the option to build a companion from the ground up, even accepting the idea that they won't have any dialogue options. Having the premade ones still around is fine, just still want the OPTION to make one from scratch.