Wait are people giving Tadpoles to companions?

[Selvokaz]

I always hoard them for my MC do you really get that many that everyone can have some? Every last one that I can find in act one goes to my MC.

[hamilcar602]

Most of them are saved for my MC. I do hold back enough to give Favorable Beginnings and Luck of the Far Realms to each companion though.

SPOILER:




By Act 3, you will have enough tadpoles to give Luck of the Far Realms to three companions, plus take every available power for your MC, unless you choose to go half-illithid. Then you would probably need to save all tadpoles for you MC if you wanted to fill the outer ring powers.

[Harukage]

Nope. Only for a crit power to my main party, when i have some spare tadpoles after maxing out all of the powers on my MC.
there can only be one person with an evolved parasite who can cast illithid powers as a bonus action anyway. So there is no point to unlock many powers on others.

[❃ Galiäna Krüger ❃]

If you don't get enough for even your Avatar to unlock all nodes (half Illithid or full ceremorphasis) - you're playing this game wrong.

[6h0$t942]

So far only to astarion for fav beginnins.

[Aîze]

Originally posted by ❃ Galiäna Krüger ❃:

If you don't get enough for even your Avatar to unlock all nodes (half Illithid or full ceremorphasis) - you're playing this game wrong.

I finished the game without half illithid, there is no right or wrong on playing the game on your own terms...

[Silyon]

Once you or Astarion (he has no issue with leveraging a bit of grossness into more power), eat the first tadpole, you gain a dialogue option with everyone where you can try to persuade them to use them as well. If you succeed, that person also gains access to tadpole powers.

There's a couple of oddball ones scattered around, mainly in labs, but the majority of tadpoles you get are from True Soul bodies, either ones you've personally killed or have recently died to some off-screen event. There's not enough to fill out the full tree for more than one person, but you can comfortably go fairly deep on the tree with two people and have a few spare.

My personal suggestion is to hoard most of them until you get to the city in Act 3, then put them to use. That way you're not over-depending on them to cover for build weaknesses and have a solid grasp of what each character is good at to get the most mileage out of the limited supply.

[Harukage]

Oh. Also Free Cast for casters. If you can talk them into partial ceretomorphosis. Free Flight as a bonus is nice too.

[❃ Galiäna Krüger ❃]

Originally posted by Aize:

Originally posted by ❃ Galiäna Krüger ❃:

If you don't get enough for even your Avatar to unlock all nodes (half Illithid or full ceremorphasis) - you're playing this game wrong.

I finished the game without half illithid, there is no right or wrong on playing the game on your own terms...

Nobody is talking about choosing half or full ceremorphasis. I'm responding to OP wondering why people giving tadpoles to companions as he seems struggling to find enough for even Avatar.

[Silyon]

Originally posted by ❃ Galiäna Krüger ❃:

Nobody is talking about choosing half or full ceremorphasis. I'm responding to OP wondering why people giving tadpoles to companions as he seems struggling to find enough for even Avatar.

Tbf, nothing in OP's question implies they're beyond Act 1 yet. You simply don't run into that many until the late stages of Act 1, and most of them in Act 2 and 3.

[Forblaze]

Most of the abilities aren't that good. Having multiple sources of black hole, for example, is going to be better than giving your main character one of the many, infinitely more niche options.

[SoloQ]

I'll get some of my dmg dealers the execute splash passive. It's not much dmg but it does add up over the course of the game. And the psychic damage when you cause fall damage on Strength characters.
But the rest of them are all mine! I love how fun it gets later in the game with Illithid powers. Especially how easy conversations became on my Bard.

[|Sith|Galvanized Iron Raptor]

Originally posted by Selvokaz:

I always hoard them for my MC do you really get that many that everyone can have some? Every last one that I can find in act one goes to my MC.

Yes. I was doing a pure run, but once I recruited Minthara she was full of the little creepers, so at that point I just said **** it and fulfilled Astarion's wish of having his brain full of worms. So currently, Minthara and Astarion split all the brainbugs I had between themselves. Which turned out quite well. Astarion had been the MVP in act 1, but his sneak attacks were yielding diminishing returns in act 2. Putting his head full of worms brought him back into relevance again lol

[+Hyp.r]

Originally posted by hamilcar602:

Most of them are saved for my MC. I do hold back enough to give Favorable Beginnings and Luck of the Far Realms to each companion though.

SPOILER:




By Act 3, you will have enough tadpoles to give Luck of the Far Realms to three companions, plus take every available power for your MC, unless you choose to go half-illithid. Then you would probably need to save all tadpoles for you MC if you wanted to fill the outer ring powers.

If you weren't aware, you can add the tag [spoiIer] to the start of a message, and close it out with [/sp0iler]
It will give the text black bars that only reveals the message when you hover your mouse over it.

[hamilcar602]

Originally posted by +Hyp.r:

Originally posted by hamilcar602:

Most of them are saved for my MC. I do hold back enough to give Favorable Beginnings and Luck of the Far Realms to each companion though.

SPOILER:




By Act 3, you will have enough tadpoles to give Luck of the Far Realms to three companions, plus take every available power for your MC, unless you choose to go half-illithid. Then you would probably need to save all tadpoles for you MC if you wanted to fill the outer ring powers.

If you weren't aware, you can add the tag [spoiIer] to the start of a message, and close it out with [/sp0iler]
It will give the text black bars that only reveals the message when you hover your mouse over it.

Ah, so that's how that's done. Thank you.

[GARFIELF]

Just enough to give my main team the free crit, the reaction when an enemy casts spells and perilous stakes. Every other power is kinda mid.