Companion builds

[Morpheus305]

What attribute points did you give your companions and what talents? I just got Verse and Lantry.

[Cutlass Jack]

Its hard to go too wrong with companion builds. Pick whatever sounds fun to you and/or works best with whatever your main character is.

The singular exception is that you should avoid an unarmed build on Kills-in-Shadows (likely the last companion you'll pick up.) She's currently bugged: her AI doen't work without a weapon equipped, so you have to manually handle every one of her actions if you go unarmed. Its a shame since her damage is incredible unarmed. Until they patch her bug, you'll probably want to give her a two handed weapon and stick to her melee weapon tree.

On Verse I love her 'Unbound' ability on her Skirmisher tree. Highly reccomended. For Landry you should grab his 'Voice of Ages' ability on his Sage Tree. Its the only way to read certain bits of magical knowledge in the game.

And I'd probably reccomend a tank build on Barik if you dont tank yourself.

[Morpheus305]

What about attribute points for both of them?

[Cutlass Jack]

Originally posted by Morpheus305:

What about attribute points for both of them?

Get them up to 10 points in everything to remove any penalties. Then (unless you're doing something weird with their builds) I'd focus Verse on Quickness/Finesse and Landry on Wits/Resolve. Might/Endurance on Barik.

19 points is fine on those main stats. It costs 2pts after that to upgrade so probably not worth it.

[Climhazzard]

On Barik if you take every rank of "Art of the blade", "Engagement attack", and "Seasoned veteran", then give him a huge two handed hammer, he'll blow up anything that gets remotely close to him. Put all his attribute points in might then whatever.

[Codester]

Eh.penaltys don't matter absolutely don't waste your points in them to get them to 10. All of the stats under 10 are not important to that character to begin with as much as their two primarys. Immediately for lantry I got my spell power stat to 19, then the ability cool down stat the same. Barik I got vitality to 19 first then might to 19. I'm not a fan of getting them to 20 and beyond due to needing two points. Same goes for your main character. If at least 2 of your stats aren't 8 you're not making an effective build to play for your major strengths.

[VladK02]

Barik, as tank and dps in one. upgrade his armor to purple and he becomes a walking tank. give him a 2-hander, pump his strength, he does 100-200 damage per swing. All you gotta do is buff him up, and he will demolish any encounter in the game by himself in less then a minute.

Sirin, the archon of song. best AoE DPS character in the game. Fight starts,watch the damage ticks fo 10-12 damage every second on every enemy in sight until they die. Fully passive too. And she buffs as well, also fully passive. Cant be engaged, has damage shield, terror...fantastic.

Lantry in bronze breastplate and ultra-light shield, fully upgraded of course. He is your cleric in basically medium armor. Nuff said.

Everyone else sucks.

Verse with her bow - garbage, lowest dps in the game, and relies on crappy light armor.

Kill-in-Shadow. More like Dies-in-Second. No armor? Melee? Bye bye.

Erb - generic caster. Can spec her for a 2-hander to deal serious melee damage with her necro, im sorry, gravelight abilities...but meh.

[Morpheus305]

Originally posted by VladK02:

Barik, as tank and dps in one. upgrade his armor to purple and he becomes a walking tank. give him a 2-hander, pump his strength, he does 100-200 damage per swing. All you gotta do is buff him up, and he will demolish any encounter in the game by himself in less then a minute.

Sirin, the archon of song. best AoE DPS character in the game. Fight starts,watch the damage ticks fo 10-12 damage every second on every enemy in sight until they die. Fully passive too. And she buffs as well, also fully passive. Cant be engaged, has damage shield, terror...fantastic.

Lantry in bronze breastplate and ultra-light shield, fully upgraded of course. He is your cleric in basically medium armor. Nuff said.

Everyone else sucks.

Verse with her bow - garbage, lowest dps in the game, and relies on crappy light armor.

Kill-in-Shadow. More like Dies-in-Second. No armor? Melee? Bye bye.

Erb - generic caster. Can spec her for a 2-hander to deal serious melee damage with her necro, im sorry, gravelight abilities...but meh.

For those 3 companions do you got specific talents i should take for them?

[VladK02]

by the end game you will max out the trees, or come close to it anyways. Myself, I went 50/50 split on barik, 50/50 on sirin, and sage with a dash of preservation for lantry. of the 50/50 splits, its fairly obvious what the junk is, and what talents are good, you really cant make a mistake.

[yaguero]

VERSE BUILD:
hi its been a long time, and after several plays lets get it to the point:
Verse is OP and can brake the game:
step 1: play normaly, leave verse outside your party. Play with your usual crew.
step 2: Once you reach level 12 or above give her all crit items and these leather clothes that increase damage and crit damage/multi
step 3: block all skills except dodge, dual, and maybe athletics. Attributes all in damage and accuracy. leftover in ability cool down.
step 4: put all perks in dual tree except increase team skills and get the dodge instead of parry from ranged.
step 4: use a mage with illusion and vigor to buff dodge and weapon + strenght.
step 4: send her out and watch her kill everything in seconds. The rest of the team can sit and have fun.

she will be doing above 100 damage and tank everything. Its crazy

[Doombringer]

Eh, it's faster to just use Eb+Lantry+Siren and 4x meteor shower everything.
(Damage+Radius+Concentrated Rain)

[yaguero]

In this build you jast sen her out and watch. I like mage play as well, in my opinion most fun part of the game.