No option to retrain/ respec companions at Oleg's Inn

[Chris]

Act 1, I've just killed the bandits and rested. How do I respec my companions? They've left the party and are standing around at different points of the map. When I talk to the elf lady at the tavern I only have the option of retraining my main character (which makes sense since the others won't join again until I leave the map). What am I missing here?

[asame_akio]

Are you over level 1? You can’t retrain your companions’ initial builds (that is to say, the way they’re built up till the point at which you first encounter them), so if they’re still level 1, there’s nothing you can actually do to them via retraining yet.

If you want to customize them more than those limitations allow, there is a mod that enables you to rebuild them from the ground up.

[Chris]

Originally posted by asame_akio:

Are you over level 1? You can’t retrain your companions’ initial builds (that is to say, the way they’re built up till the point at which you first encounter them), so if they’re still level 1, there’s nothing you can actually do to them via retraining yet.

If you want to customize them more than those limitations allow, there is a mod that enables you to rebuild them from the ground up.

Ah that's what it was. I'd put off levelling up to get a cheaper price on mercenaries. Thanks!

[Duder]

Originally posted by Chris:

Originally posted by asame_akio:

Are you over level 1? You can’t retrain your companions’ initial builds (that is to say, the way they’re built up till the point at which you first encounter them), so if they’re still level 1, there’s nothing you can actually do to them via retraining yet.

If you want to customize them more than those limitations allow, there is a mod that enables you to rebuild them from the ground up.

Ah that's what it was. I'd put off levelling up to get a cheaper price on mercenaries. Thanks!

You get the first 3 respecs free, obviously also have to switch it in difficulty to enable character retrain.
After the first 3, it gets exponentially more expensive with each respec
I wasted them with a couple builds I decided not to use anyway.
Please note as well, you can't respec companions before the level you found them at. I think their levels are always the same when you find them, but not 100 percent on that. Anything past those early levels you can still respec