What to do with Aivu?

[Rhawkas]

Just started down the Azata mythic path and got this little purple dragon. It doesn't seem that strong and doesn't seem to have any fancy abilities either. What do people do with it?

[anfindel13]

Aivu levels up as you gain mythic levels - stat increases, additional feats, spell casting ability and stronger breath weapons - She also grows bigger and will serve as a mount eventually. And she has her own plot line once you hit chapter 4, as well.

[Schlumpsha]

Aivu? A emergency ration on four legs. Everyone loves dragon steak.

[Yannir]

Aivu is a bit weak at first but she gets pretty strong later on. Particularly when she gets large enough to mount. Just treat her like you would an animal companion.

[ajfusch]

Make her attack when it's her turn? I mean it's not as if you can put her away.
She has 5 attacks per turn right from the start which really isn't bad. It's enough to kill an enemy in a single turn often enough.

You have equipped her, right? Unlike regular animal companions she auto-levels, but equipment is stil a thing you have to do yourself.

[forkofspite]

Equipment + buffs + turn on power attack. Alternatively, particularly against enemies that can hit her easily, you can have her demoralize.

As a head's up, there's a bug involving the saddle up ability. Later, if Aivu happens to be missing, make sure you take the saddle up ability off your various hot bars. Obviously, you can't saddle up when your mount is missing, but it remains "darkened" (and unusable) even after Aivu returns. Unfortunately, removing saddle up from your hot bar after she returns is too late - my character has completely lost the saddle up ability from the menu of actions.

Same thing happens to Bismuth, but at least you can remove the saddle up icon and unequip the actual statuette. After resting, you can reactivate the statue, and saddle up will work normally.

[Super Cosmic Space Magnet]

Aivu grows in size and power along with your Mythic abilities. The nice thing is that even if Aivu dies all you need to do is rest and she comes back - same as an Animal Companion. This makes her an amazing expendable body in combat, and her breath attack is a reliable little extra bit of damage.

[Rhawkas]

Thanks for the replies.

[RedwoodElf]

Originally posted by Schlumpsha:

Aivu? A emergency ration on four legs. Everyone loves dragon steak.

And, as Kirito says in SAO Abridged, Dragon leather is suprisingly comfortable.

[lemurs2]

Aivu is the greatest companion and some of you should be ashamed of yourself for not realizing that fact.