should you play Dark Urge with custom companions?

[Vakula]

cuz it seems otherwise basically everyone leaves you, and you lose out on companions you invest into. thoughts? playing with custom companions seems lame though tbf since they get no story

[IceBorg]

only 2 leave you

[Deep Blue cheat]

It depends if you go evil durge or good durge. I’ve done both evil you can keep laezel astarion and shadowheart (you can have Minthara if you do not kill her). If you play good durge you keep everyone

[victorvnv]

You gain a companion Minthara who is also romancable, you lose Wyll Karlach and Halsin and you can keep Gale if you pass a check and Astarion and Shadowheart and Laezel stays.

I only need Shadowheart, Astarion and Minthara to be honest , the 2 hottest chicks in the game and the coolest companion in Astarion plus myself.

I don’t even use Gale or Laezel on D urge evil playthrough my 3 favorites are more than enough

[IceBorg]

Originally posted by Yoshikage Kira:

It depends if you go evil durge or good durge. I’ve done both evil you can keep laezel astarion and shadowheart (you can have Minthara if you do not kill her). If you play good durge you keep everyone

being good is lame

[Vakula]

Originally posted by victorvnv:

You gain a companion Minthara who is also romancable, you lose Wyll Karlach and Halsin and you can keep Gale if you pass a check and Astarion and Shadowheart and Laezel stays.

I only need Shadowheart, Astarion and Minthara to be honest , the 2 hottest chicks in the game and the coolest companion in Astarion plus myself.

I don’t even use Gale or Laezel on D urge evil playthrough my 3 favorites are more than enough

honestly this is so true. I hated Astarion at first cuz of the weird flamboyant overdelivery, but over time he just grows on you. Same with laezel. I hated Laezel at first. By the end of the game I found my least favorite companions were Gale and Wyll. Both were kinda bland... Main party was still me (custom), shadowheart, gale/laezel, ast

Wyll for me is honestly bottom tier companion - better than Halsin, but just cuz he actually has a story line, the most interesting part of which is a different character - Mizora.

[victorvnv]

Originally posted by Vakula:

Originally posted by victorvnv:

You gain a companion Minthara who is also romancable, you lose Wyll Karlach and Halsin and you can keep Gale if you pass a check and Astarion and Shadowheart and Laezel stays.

I only need Shadowheart, Astarion and Minthara to be honest , the 2 hottest chicks in the game and the coolest companion in Astarion plus myself.

I don’t even use Gale or Laezel on D urge evil playthrough my 3 favorites are more than enough

honestly this is so true. I hated Astarion at first cuz of the weird flamboyant overdelivery, but over time he just grows on you. Same with laezel. I hated Laezel at first. By the end of the game I found my least favorite companions were Gale and Wyll. Both were kinda bland... Main party was still me (custom), shadowheart, gale/laezel, ast

Wyll for me is honestly bottom tier companion - better than Halsin, but just cuz he actually has a story line, the most interesting part of which is a different character - Mizora.

Gale becomes interesting at the very end when if you feed his ego with the right lines he defies Mystra and decides he wants to dominate the crown to become a God.

So again he is well suited for a D Urge game.

Wyll and Karlach are both goody two shoes and super boring and even if you keep them they aren’t really useful in an evil playthrough. Better to kill Karlach at the start to get the fire shield robe as it’s super powerful in AcT1 then sacrifice Wyll to booal and get a party wide buff that permanently gives advantage to bleeding targets ( in act 3 you get amulet of baaal that makes everyone you hit with full HP to bleed so you can abuse this a lot end game)

And Astarion is great yea he is kinda gay lol but he is evil , ambitious and is super powerful with his vampire skills especially when ascended .

Laezel is great too and will back you as dark urge too.

So really you only lose the most boring characters if you go dark urge but you end up with a party full of ambitious baddies who can kill anyone and none of them will judge you lol

It’s really fun when you always answer in the most evil ways in dialogues and you get approval from your entire party lol

[IceBorg]

Originally posted by victorvnv:

Originally posted by Vakula:

honestly this is so true. I hated Astarion at first cuz of the weird flamboyant overdelivery, but over time he just grows on you. Same with laezel. I hated Laezel at first. By the end of the game I found my least favorite companions were Gale and Wyll. Both were kinda bland... Main party was still me (custom), shadowheart, gale/laezel, ast

Wyll for me is honestly bottom tier companion - better than Halsin, but just cuz he actually has a story line, the most interesting part of which is a different character - Mizora.

Gale becomes interesting at the very end when if you feed his ego with the right lines he defies Mystra and decides he wants to dominate the crown to become a God.

So again he is well suited for a D Urge game.

Wyll and Karlach are both goody two shoes and super boring and even if you keep them they aren’t really useful in an evil playthrough. Better to kill Karlach at the start to get the fire shield robe as it’s super powerful in AcT1 then sacrifice Wyll to booal and get a party wide buff that permanently gives advantage to bleeding targets ( in act 3 you get amulet of baaal that makes everyone you hit with full HP to bleed so you can abuse this a lot end game)

And Astarion is great yea he is kinda gay lol but he is evil , ambitious and is super powerful with his vampire skills especially when ascended .

Laezel is great too and will back you as dark urge too.

So really you only lose the most boring characters if you go dark urge but you end up with a party full of ambitious baddies who can kill anyone and none of them will judge you lol

It’s really fun when you always answer in the most evil ways in dialogues and you get approval from your entire party lol

why would you spoil that

[victorvnv]

Originally posted by IceBorg:

Originally posted by victorvnv:

Gale becomes interesting at the very end when if you feed his ego with the right lines he defies Mystra and decides he wants to dominate the crown to become a God.

So again he is well suited for a D Urge game.

Wyll and Karlach are both goody two shoes and super boring and even if you keep them they aren’t really useful in an evil playthrough. Better to kill Karlach at the start to get the fire shield robe as it’s super powerful in AcT1 then sacrifice Wyll to booal and get a party wide buff that permanently gives advantage to bleeding targets ( in act 3 you get amulet of baaal that makes everyone you hit with full HP to bleed so you can abuse this a lot end game)

And Astarion is great yea he is kinda gay lol but he is evil , ambitious and is super powerful with his vampire skills especially when ascended .

Laezel is great too and will back you as dark urge too.

So really you only lose the most boring characters if you go dark urge but you end up with a party full of ambitious baddies who can kill anyone and none of them will judge you lol

It’s really fun when you always answer in the most evil ways in dialogues and you get approval from your entire party lol

why would you spoil that

It’s a forum and the game is like 4-5 months old so if you don’t want spoilers you shoudnt be on the forums to begin with

[Maze]

As others have said, I think it's how you want to play the Durge.
I've been playing them taking from the introduction of the character as they *Don't* want to be a murderhobo (at least not anymore since they have 0 memories) and are fighting the impulse at every opportunity, which has been pretty fun for me.
On the flipside, I can also see myself being a giggling maniac murderhoboing throughout the land, but it probably won't win me any friends in that playthrough hahahaha!

[Toaster Maximus]

Depends on how you play the goblin thing out, evil or not siding with goblins cost you 3 outright and you can still be evil urge since the urge is happy with bloodshed either way does not matter who gets slaughtered I like setting up the drow and goblins to charge the grove, the real evil act for the urge is in act 2 anyhow

[Toaster Maximus]

Just remember the urge is sly and play it more akin to balanced evil myself then chaotic is how I handle that dark side since his pops was NE

[Haru]

I can't think of any companions that 100% leave just as a result of taking the dark urge custom character option.

[Chaosolous]

You should play Dark Urge as a murderous bloodthirsty psychopath who kills everything.

That's what I do.

[Toaster Maximus]

Originally posted by Haru:

I can't think of any companions that 100% leave just as a result of taking the dark urge custom character option.

Only two late game ones will turn on you depending on your dark urge choices, the rest of dark urge choices can be worked with smartly really or roll and pray in one case or two depending on things

[Raphayela]

Originally posted by Chaosolous:

You should play Dark Urge as a murderous bloodthirsty psychopath who kills everything.

That's what I do.

I do, and sometimes I lie to the others about it and they fall for it and hang around anyway.... haha