Where Are Wolfgraff And Bairdotr ?

[Hammir]

I would like to add one more party member, so I would went looking for Wolfgraff and Bairdotr. Well, neither one is where they are supposed to be. Most of my party is level 8 - did those characters move on? Did I lose the opportunity to add them?

Thanks for any input.

[Zangetsu]

Bairdotr is next to the legion commanders office in a cage. You cant miss it they are being loud about how she bit her in the face and dont stfu even if you dont pick up bairdotr.

Wolfgraff, i forget where exactly but in the undead fighting area section not far from town, there is an unground well with a mini dungeon. He is the first thing you see at the bottom of the well.

[Raze_Larian]

If you recruited them earlier and asked them to leave the party, they should be in the Hall of Heroes.

If you started this game before the companion DLC was released (mid September), they would not have been added.

[ForevaNoob Wonemorturn]

You don't really need a thief in that game anyway, unless you're playing one yourself.
Same goes for a ranger.

[Wazat1]

I actually would have liked a ranger in my party for the charm skill and the ranged physical attacks, but it looks like I started my game before the DLC was released (I'll have to catch them in a 2nd playthrough). That said, the wizard does well enough for now. It's handy to have a second caster kicking around.

[Hammir]

Originally posted by Raze:

If you recruited them earlier and asked them to leave the party, they should be in the Hall of Heroes.

If you started this game before the companion DLC was released (mid September), they would not have been added.

That makes sense to me - I did not think about that - I did start before the DLC. I currently have 4 in my party, can I add a 5th at this point? I am stuck at Braccus Rex and I was looking to add a 5th member as a meat shield/distration.

Thank you for the reply!

[Raze_Larian]

You can change a companion for a henchman (hired in the Hall of Heroes), but you can not get more than 4 characters in your party at the same time.

Summons are good as meat shields and distractions, though. Each character can have one summon active at a time, if they use scrolls or learn an appropriate summon spell.

[Wazat1]

I've found summons tend to have a slightly higher priority than normal characters (so the AI targets them more readily... unless it's my imagination that this happens). This turns them into natural meat shields. Though the best ones can take a few hits (IMO earth elemental, swarm, and skeleton are best for this). Large summons like spider and earth elemental are also good for physically blocking arrows and ray spells, so they take the hit instead of you.

It's interesting to think that your party could have up to 8 characters in a single battle -- 4 characters and 4 summons... Though summons are delicate and temporal, and don't work anywhere near as well as your normal characters, they're still really useful.

Even better than a summon though? By possibly an order of magnitude? A charmed enemy. Suddenly your 4 vs 4 battle (for example) becomes 5 vs 3, and the charmed target is in the middle of the foes so he draws most of the attacks. And if you charm a foe at the front of the turn order, he will get an attack in before dying horribly. And if has the charm skill too, he might use it to charm yet another enemy!

Plus if you hold CTRL to attack the charmed enemy, that doesn't break the charm, so you can still kill him or weaken him. The big advantage of a ranger with a level or two in scoundrel is he has two charm skills he can use in rapid succession.

[Lord Gorzul]

I quit playing a while back. Started again, about 40hours in, I have the hall of heroes unlocked, but cannot find wolfgraff and dont remember what happened to him ( I did have him at some point in my party), he isnt in cyseal nor in the hall.
any ideas?