Does Eternal Bond really guarantee your "beloved"?

[Arthur Morrigan]

Or does it just max out their affinity? Debating on whether to gift this to someone with already maxed out affinity, or just sell it.

[Morphic]

AFAIK it just maxes affinity and DOES NOT guarantee beloved status.

For me, I gave the bond to Ulrika yet my beloved was that one blacksmith girl since I had given her 2 wyrm crystals to get affinity for the discount since I was using her a lot. So the dragon had that girl instead of Ulrika. On the plus side, you can "buyback" the bond from the forgery guy for like 200k gold.

So it seems your "beloved" works the same way as it did in the first game... whoever has the highest affinity and, in the event of multiple max affinities, it is whoever gained affinity last.

[Arthur Morrigan]

Good to know. I guess I will just sell this thing and make sure I keep Beren's affinity topped off.

[Vlka-Fenryka-7th]

Originally posted by Morphic:

AFAIK it just maxes affinity and DOES NOT guarantee beloved status.

For me, I gave the bond to Ulrika yet my beloved was that one blacksmith girl since I had given her 2 wyrm crystals to get affinity for the discount since I was using her a lot. So the dragon had that girl instead of Ulrika. On the plus side, you can "buyback" the bond from the forgery guy for like 200k gold.

So it seems your "beloved" works the same way as it did in the first game... whoever has the highest affinity and, in the event of multiple max affinities, it is whoever gained affinity last.

That isn't entirely accurate because your beloved is actually the last person you spoke to when you're about to turn in The Guardian Gigantus, the same thing happens when your about to end your playthrough and move onto NG+.

To make sure you get a specific NPC is your beloved talk to them before completing both of these events and avoid every other NPC.

[Keldrath]

I think the beloved thing has a recency bias. Seems to be whoever u affinity maxed last that gets it.

[Arthur Morrigan]

Originally posted by Vlka-Fenryka-7th:

That isn't entirely accurate because your beloved is actually the last person you spoke to when you're about to turn in The Guardian Gigantus, the same thing happens when your about to end your playthrough and move onto NG+.

To make sure you get a specific NPC is your beloved talk to them before completing both of these events and avoid every other NPC.

Last highest affinity person you talked to, or last person you talked to period?

[Vlka-Fenryka-7th]

Originally posted by Mayhap:

Originally posted by Vlka-Fenryka-7th:

That isn't entirely accurate because your beloved is actually the last person you spoke to when you're about to turn in The Guardian Gigantus, the same thing happens when your about to end your playthrough and move onto NG+.

To make sure you get a specific NPC is your beloved talk to them before completing both of these events and avoid every other NPC.

Last highest affinity person you talked to, or last person you talked to period?

The former

[Zeel Ara]

An interesting bit is that your beloved isn't fully locked in once you enter post game. You can have one person kidnapped by the dragon and another staring wistfully into the distance during the credit roll sequence after finishing post game.

[JHarlequin]

In the first one, the ring would make sure that person was instantly at the top of the list, and if no other npc gained affinity after you gave it, they would be your beloved.

This game's affinity system is slightly different and it does seem like they are all tied for the top rank. And just talking to someone is basically one point, though if they are all at max, then that one you talk to is the most recent to hit max affinity again.

So as said, the most likely way to be sure is to figure out which person hit max affinity most recently, or the one that gained a point most recently before the important moment of choosing.

[Vlka-Fenryka-7th]

Originally posted by Ratley:

An interesting bit is that your beloved isn't fully locked in once you enter post game. You can have one person kidnapped by the dragon and another staring wistfully into the distance during the credit roll sequence after finishing post game.

In other words it's no different from the first game, which is why you should always make sure to speak with your beloved before finishing the game.

[Keldrath]

Originally posted by Ratley:

An interesting bit is that your beloved isn't fully locked in once you enter post game. You can have one person kidnapped by the dragon and another staring wistfully into the distance during the credit roll sequence after finishing post game.

For me it like got the right person as the one the dragon took, and got a nice little cutscene in the end video, but in the end credits it put her at number 2 for the npc's that like you most list and put the elf boy number 1. That guy really is just the adoring fan 2.0

[Zeel Ara]

Originally posted by Vlka-Fenryka-7th:

Originally posted by Ratley:

An interesting bit is that your beloved isn't fully locked in once you enter post game. You can have one person kidnapped by the dragon and another staring wistfully into the distance during the credit roll sequence after finishing post game.

In other words it's no different from the first game, which is why you should always make sure to speak with your beloved before finishing the game.

You might have replied to the wrong comment because that has nothing to do with what I wrote. In the first game there wasn't two cut-off points. Whoever the dragon took was locked in and moved into your house.

[Cheerows]

I think affinity goes down on it's own over time in this game because despite maxing Ulrika in my first playthrough early on, I visited her before finishing the game and she wasn't in love with me anymore ;(

[Vlka-Fenryka-7th]

Originally posted by JHarlequin:

In the first one, the ring would make sure that person was instantly at the top of the list, and if no other npc gained affinity after you gave it, they would be your beloved.

This game's affinity system is slightly different and it does seem like they are all tied for the top rank. And just talking to someone is basically one point, though if they are all at max, then that one you talk to is the most recent to hit max affinity again.

So as said, the most likely way to be sure is to figure out which person hit max affinity most recently, or the one that gained a point most recently before the important moment of choosing.

The Arisen's Bond didn't guarantee who'd be your beloved, although it did let you know the Dragon grabbed the right person because it dropped the ring.

[Vlka-Fenryka-7th]

Originally posted by Ratley:

Originally posted by Vlka-Fenryka-7th:

In other words it's no different from the first game, which is why you should always make sure to speak with your beloved before finishing the game.

You might have replied to the wrong comment because that has nothing to do with what I wrote. In the first game there wasn't two cut-off points. Whoever the dragon took was locked in and moved into your house.

The beloved the dragon took might have moved into your house, but it doesn't automatically mean they will be the one who meets you pawn after they wash up on the beach and you can end up with a different npc being your postgame beloved if you spoke to another max affinity npc before handing over the wakestones.

[M]

bro i gave ulrika many items to try and make her beloved but somehow the elf archer guy was